Ireland has 3 times more data centres per capita than Britain. Ireland has the highest (by far) electricity bills in Europe. You are financing the data centres that are destroying your environment AND you are paying carbon taxes for cooking your dinner & heating your home. They are robbing us blind.
Two more US Air Force Hercules C130's passed through Shannon today (4th June) - RCH679 & RCH680 (reg: 95-1002 & 96-1006). Both flew from Ramstein to RAF Mildenhall in England to Shannon. And from Shannon they went on to St Johns in Newfoundland. [1/3]
So in 2 days, Shannon has had four C130 Hercules aircraft of the 133rd Airlift Wing of the US Air Force. This unit is based at Minneapolis–Saint Paul Joint Air Reserve Station. The two from yesterday are already back at their base after a refueling stop at St Johns. [2/3]
All four are operational US military flights. Approved by @dfatirl and Minister @HMcEntee.
And all four breach Irish neutrality AND the government's policy with regard to military flights. [3/3]
Must say the Guardian coverage yesterday of Yves Sakila RIP death, which damnifies our entire nation for racism, for which there is not a whit of evidence in this actual tragic incident, has strong echoes of The S*n coverage of Hillsborough.
Error-ridden and a distortion of reality.
Does Liverpool still boycott The S*n?
Honestly this weekend coming looks akin to a script straight out of mid winter! 😪
How have we got to this after having such a stunning finish to May? 🥲🥲🥲
Mother Nature at her most frustrating 🙃🙂🙂🙃🙂🙃
@_fod0@bconin8@rtenews It's like an early March or late Autumn day here today and has been the same all week. I'm wearing the same three layers of clothes at work that I did all winter.
RCH670 and RCH578 leaving @ShannonAirport this evening. Two US Air Force Hercules C130's. Both arrived from a NATO air base in Italy earlier today. And it's clear from the call signs that they are on milirary operations.
@MichealMartinTD@HMcEntee Whats your explanation?
@bconin8@rtenews I thought so too but apparently not. Temps were 1.2 to 1.5 degrees above average according to met eireann report. Didn't feel like it where I am with a wind that would cut you for most of the month
Ireland has the highest electricity prices in the EU. 319,000 homes in arrears. A fifth of the grid feeding data centres that run 24/7. And a government that insists, straight-faced, that none of this is related.
Denial isn’t a policy.