patrick bresnihan

Lecturer Geography // climate, land, energy // political ecology, environmental justice // From the Bog to the Cloud (2025)

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Our new book is out and I really hope Robbie McVeigh is right.

'The book is a key tool in the struggle for environmental justice framed by a vision of a better, fairer Ireland in a better, fairer world.’

https://t.co/H8K8XVoTgs

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

I didn't see anyone accuse @SineadOS1 of being a spy.

The issue is transparency and conflict of interest. Sinéad writes for the IT on security issues while providing private advice to investors and policy-makers on defence and security. She also works for a hedge fund.

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

My latest essay: Am I A Spy? And Other Conspiracies.

Inspired by a Twitter exchange last week that left me wondering why people need to believe that there's a bogeymen in the closet...

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Good piece on the deepening links between big tech, finance and militarisation.

'Industry reporting suggests that global AI sales within military markets alone are set to increase nearly five-fold between 2025 and 2034, from $22 billion to $101 billion.'

https://t.co/Vl0NoH6hYf

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

In 2003, 70,000 people died from heatwaves in Europe. This should have been the moment to shock the EU into climate action.

Now it is rolling back on climate obligations in the name of 'competitiveness' and committing 12 x more money to militarisation than civil protection.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Worth considering this in the context of the prolonged heatwaves and wild fires that have already killed thousands across Europe.

Rather than mobilising for climate action, the EU is mobilising for war and driving up emissions at the same time.

[Peoples Forum on Peace and Neutrality @neutralityforum]

New NATO spending will "result in a carbon footprint the size of Brazil."

Co-director of the Transition Security Project Khem Rogaly discusses the severe environmental impacts of a move away from climate and towards military spending.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Facility-level information on data centre water and energy consumption is such a basic and necessary demand. Opposition parties should get behind it.

https://t.co/FEsUgtVX10

[Peoples Forum on Peace and Neutrality @neutralityforum]

"Active neutrality is the only sensible policy for a small country to adopt in the modern world."

Former MEP and international peace campaigner Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL states the simple, clear meaning of neutrality in international law.

[Bernard Mulvany @BernardMulvany]

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?

An important petition. Please sign and share!

#Palestine

https://t.co/bOPPphdkff

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

This is incredibly sad. Sarah was brilliant and always so intellectually generous.

[Climate & Community Institute @cplusci]

On Saturday, our community and the world lost Dr. Sarah Knuth, one of the foremost thinkers on energy, climate, and just transitions. She was the driving intellectual force behind so much of CCI’s research. We will miss her desperately.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

This is laid out most clearly in the Global Ireland Strategy launched in 2018, which has coincided with Govnt efforts to remove the Triple Lock and the persistent undermining of commitments to international law, particularly in relation to Israel.

https://t.co/wLKqsWSBhI

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

@BigPaulieDoyle on the political economy of Ireland's 'diaspora'.

There is more to analyse here about how Ireland's foreign affairs strategy has shifted, particularly in the last decade, from diplomacy & development to trade & foreign investment. 1/2

https://t.co/F8lZJ5AeWs

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Students from Gaza being denied visas to study here because they can't supply original bank statements or account for gaps in their education.

Shameful.

https://t.co/bM3WWzFvDm

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

It is not impossible to imagine a near future when the US would pressure Ireland to withdraw from the ICC.

It is also not hard to imagine a chorus of commentators in Ireland making the 'grown up' case for why this makes economic sense.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

If any still doubted that Venezuela is now entirely under the neocolonial control of the US (beyond merely surrendering the oil) they can now put that doubt to rest. Venezuela’s withdrawal from the ICC days after the US launches its attacks on the ICC reveals that in addition to controlling the country’s resources, the US also controls Venezuela’s foreign policy. (The claim of “bias” is a smokescreen). Watch for more of this as the lawless US lines up more of its vassals against the Court. Let’s hope the free world will finally stand up to oppose this global assault by the US-Israel Axis. (And that the Venezuelan people will restore their sovereignty soon).

https://t.co/WlDdgAqPI5

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Brendan O'Connor is host of a flagship RTÉ show and has a regular column.

He should be asking questions of the EU defence and competitiveness agenda that is reversing climate action or why climate change isn't considered a priority security threat.

https://t.co/e0rAjOat0U

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

I wonder did anyone at the MacGill Summer School speaking on neutrality and the Triple Lock have the honesty to make this glaringly obvious and vitally important point.

[Peoples Forum on Peace and Neutrality @neutralityforum]

"They couldn't utter a word of protest."

Solicitor Stephen Kelly @kelly_79769 at the People's Forum on Peace and Neutrality on why the government's response to Trump's war against Iran shows why the Triple Lock is needed.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

I don't remember Microsoft having to engage a global supply chain auditor over allegations that it provided unlawful data processing for the IDF (facilitating war crimes) through its Irish-based data centres.

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Aughinish Alumina has offered to engage a global supply chain auditor to provide “verifiable evidence” that its raw material “has no connection whatsoever to the Russian military supply chain”. -
✍️ Aisling Moloney

The investigation by the Department of Enterprise came after reporting by The Irish Times and Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project of the potential flow of alumina from Limerick into military supply chains assisting the Russian war in Ukraine.

Aughinish Alumina employs 475 people in Limerick, along with 400 contractors, with hundreds of more indirect jobs supported by the plant.

https://t.co/uScIj6RAfe

[Craic Of The Ash @CraicOfTheAsh]

MidWest Radio meltdown during the last minutes of the Mayo match. Volume DOWN 🤣

[Socialist Voice @VoiceSocialist]

July 26th is to Cubans, as 1916 is to Irish people.

A hopeful, courageous stand for a better life, for sovereignty, dignity and independence. A failure at first but an act that later emboldened a bigger movement of people

#hapennybridge #dublincity #1916rising #26DeJulio

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Arguably the silliest (and most worrying) part of this article is the line that 'Security has displaced climate'.

Written as France faces one of the biggest evacuation operations seen since World War II due to out of control wild fires.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

It is getting beyond a joke that these four speakers are presented as 'for and against' neutrality.

MacGill Summer School, 2026.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Why is there so little Marxian analysis of the EU?

There are so many references for understanding capitalist development and imperialism from the US, UK or most national contexts, but for the EU it just seems to be a black hole.