Antóin Mc Dermott

Tweeting on the environment, climate, social and global justice, with the occasional musical interlude.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

[Irish Examiner @irishexaminer]

Ireland is Israel's second biggest trading partner — we need to look at why https://t.co/4XSLTMSL2J

[Fintan Kelly @FintanKelly_]

🚨MEPs must reject the EU proposal to weaken wolf protections

Experts & citizens agree the proposal is premature, unscientific & threatens biodiversity. 320,000+ voices call for continued strict protection.

Farming & wolves can coexist - with real solutions 🐺#HandsOffNature

[Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland]

Today is #WorldWetlandsDay. Restoring our wetlands will go a long
way towards tackling our biodiversity, climate AND water crises.

The Government must take action.
@COSullivanTD @kevinboxermoran @JamesBrowneTD @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @DarraghOBrienTD
#RestoreNature

[Ciaran Cannon @ciarancannon]

The big picture…….

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

Irish activists in Cork are protesting against the Israeli mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

I'm #Paddystinian, and I'm proud!

[An Taisce @AnTaisce]

Storms will be more powerful and more frequent as the global average temperature continues to climb as a result of human activities. We can vote on Friday for the politicians who are brave enough to do the right things to protect us all, restore nature, and reduce emissions.

[Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland]

There's been plenty of talk from candidates in #GE24 on what they'll do to stop water pollution BUT will they commit to the tough changes that are really needed and save our water species OR are they talking more faeces?

Email them to find out👇

[Antóin Mc Dermott @antoinmcd]

I’m now on Bluesky;

https://t.co/2IS9C4gGoW

[Fintan Kelly @FintanKelly_]

This week I'm in Cali 🇨🇴 representing @IrishEnvNet at CBD #COP16. The Kuming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework gives us a window of opportunity to #RestoreNature. One of the questions world leaders will be grappling with this week is how restoration is funded.

[Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland]

Great cartoon my @turnercartoons today. 👇

More investment in wastewater infrastructure should be in all the parties’ election manifestos.

[Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway]

Ireland unusual in a. having no areas of intact ecosystem and b. having no large-scale project that would do something about this

[Hannah Daly @HannahEDaly]

This massive data centre planned in Co. Kildare would generate most of its electricity using on-site fossil gas turbines, to overcome the constraints in the local power network. It would emit an astonishing *29 million tonnes* of CO2 over its lifetime..

https://t.co/YZyWZ9wuca

[Antóin Mc Dermott @antoinmcd]

@William24897285 @swanireland It’s not purposely misleading at all. It’s the measurement of the % of waters that are healthy agreed & used across the EU. If you don’t include “high” quality waterbodies as healthy then that would be misleading. The trend line shows when cow nos are up healthy waters are down.

[Antóin Mc Dermott @antoinmcd]

@William24897285 @swanireland Yes, but bathing water quality is only measured in the summer months. It isn’t a good measure of overall water quality.

[Antóin Mc Dermott @antoinmcd]

@William24897285 @swanireland So “good status” in water quality is when a waterbody is “good” or above (i.e “high”). So those two %s are added in the graph to show “good status”. But I admit it is confusing I should have but “satisfactory” or “healthy”.

P4 of this explains it better. https://t.co/JMOp0aQvgm

[Antóin Mc Dermott @antoinmcd]

@William24897285 @swanireland Figures from CSO and EPA data (on CSO website)

https://t.co/Xm8QczJw6U

https://t.co/1U57yXWyfq

https://t.co/I9HdGmdNGj

[Antóin Mc Dermott @antoinmcd]

@William24897285 @swanireland Not exactly 45 years ago but you can see that there is a general correlation between cow numbers and river water quality in Ireland over the years.

Also more intensive farms these days.

[Antóin Mc Dermott @antoinmcd]

@kieran_kigr @William24897285 https://t.co/aovmgTAWCr

[Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland]

Myth 2:
All the blame is being put on farming and not wastewater.