Tommy Greene
@tommygreene.bsky.social
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Journalist | ✍️ in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, openDemocracy, The Irish Times, The Detail, Private Eye, WIRED, The Journal.ie, ElDiario.es, Computer Weekly, Prospect Magazine, The Bel Tel, Irish News & others. Reach me: tommy-greene[oneat]protonmail[dot]com
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tommygreene.bsky.social
Great investigation into how a government initiative to force rogue bosses to pay up after tribunal findings against them is still failing workers nearly a decade after its launch 👇
mellino.bsky.social
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
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involveuk.bsky.social
📅 This week: join the conversation on Lough Neagh’s future 🌊

The new report is already live — setting the scene for a Citizens’ Assembly and opening nominations for a co-design group.

💬 On 12 Sept, take part in our launch event to ask questions + discuss what comes next 👇

🔗 lu.ma/zsw0617g
Who speaks for the Lough? · Zoom · Luma
Lough Neagh is in crisis, and without public involvement, its future risks being shaped by short-term political pressures and institutional inertia. We need…
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tommygreene.bsky.social
Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date.

While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens.

My story in today's @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall
Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet
www.theguardian.com
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tonygroves.bsky.social
A Singapore-based coal firm is suing the UK Govt via the type of Investor Courts* that the Irish Govt are rushing to introduce to Ireland via CETA.
*found to be unconstitutional Supreme Court- Costello vs Govt of Ireland
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stephenbaker.bsky.social
“If politicians cannot offer more than gesture politics and get to grips with this area of policy, every indication is that cyanobacterial (or “blue-green algae”) blooms will become a recurrent event for many summers to come.”
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clairemitchell.bsky.social
Bernadette McAliskey: With “water we can’t really drink” and “fish [that] can’t live… We have exploited [Lough Neagh] and ignored it. And now, nature is – quite rightly – taking her revenge.”

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Many thanks, @lpcooley.bsky.social.

More soon, hopefully...
tommygreene.bsky.social
Many thanks, Alicia.
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stephenbaker.bsky.social
“The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.”

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Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG
Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
on.ft.com
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aljazeera.com
Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat aje.io/ylcl1j
tommygreene.bsky.social
Northern Ireland's utility regulator launches investigation into NI Water, the agency confirms...but only after a senior NI Water official "dodged" two MLA questions on the probe at a recent Stormont infrastructure committee session.

In yesterday's @irishnews.com

www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Great piece by @tommygreene.bsky.social investigating tax breaks to big landowners in Northern Ireland - following a thread I've been investigating in England

HMRC needs to urgently review this tax break & reform or abolish it if it's not delivering public value for money

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tommygreene.bsky.social
Many thanks, Guy. Great work re: what's happening on the other side of the Irish Sea, in the first place!