Israel as a genocidal, racist apartheid state should be shunned at every level - economic, political, cultural and in sport

Aughrim Street has high traffic levels during school hours. There are large groups of pupils crossing at the same times. A new bus route now passes along Aughrim Street, increasing traffic volume and making the crossing busier and more dangerous. The School Warden on Oxmantown Road needs their hours extended to cover the 1:30 p.m. collection, as many younger children finish at that time and require safe crossing support.

It is extremely important because children need social media to contact parents friends and family they also need to keep up with some news  This law going through will push us back from a free country 

 The farmer's involved are getting a tiny proportion of the profit margins involved even though they supply the vital component to make the beer.

There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights given away to corporations.

The government is proceeding with their plans to ratify CETA, with the Investor Court System (ICS) section, which is an infringement on Irish juridical sovereignty. They are amending the Arbitration Act to overcome this, and are in the final stages of doing so(1). The the danger with an ICS is that it could threaten or prevent future government measures to deal with the housing crisis, the health service or the environement /climate crisis. In 2021 Wicklow Co Co passed a Motion calling on the Government not to proceed with CETA, and next week at the February 9th meeting there will be another motion  an Emergency Motion, calling on them to think again and withdraw the Arbitration Amendment. And we are asking you to lobby your Councillors to support it  (1) https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2025/74/

To address climate change and its devastating effects. Climate change causes widespread, rapid, and intensifying impacts, including extreme weather (heatwaves, droughts, floods), rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and severe biodiversity loss. These changes disrupt ecosystems, threaten human health, destroy infrastructure, and endanger food supplies, with significant risks to coastal communities and vulnerable populations. 

No shamrocks for anyone named in the Epstein files and linked to allegations of sexual abuse of minors

Anne’s death occurred as a single event which did not happen in isolation. The situation revealed that Irish roads continue to pose a dangerous threat to horses which results in their injuries. Horses possess both strong physical abilities and delicate emotional nature. The design of these shoes does not provide suitable protection for walking on hard roads while handling urban conditions that include heavy traffic and loud noises and extended physical activity. Horses who fall onto crowded streets experience intense fear while suffering from severe injuries and complete physical exhaustion which endangers the safety of all road users including drivers and bike riders and walking people. The pregnant horse Anne experienced extreme physical exhaustion because she received harsh abuse which caused her to become injured while she stood alone in a busy public street. Despite the efforts of members of the public and animal welfare volunteers, she and her unborn foal died. The national media covered this tragic event which people in the public area observed. The lack of defined rules together with insufficient enforcement and insufficient authority response will keep horses in dangerous circumstances which result in their unavoidable death and suffering. The current situation establishes a dangerous pattern which shows that our community will tolerate animal welfare violations which take place in public spaces. The current initiative protects horses from abuse while it saves their lives and creates safer road conditions for all urban traffic users. Anne’s death must not be in vain. We need to defend all surviving horses from future mistreatment because she endured this horrific experience.

For a breakthrough in addressing the root causes of today’s challenges an ecosystem science-policy interface approach should: 1) define the problems in the core of the “boiling pot”, instead of reducing them to the bubbles on the surface (fragmented issues, reduced academic formats, segmented policies, effects); 2) consider all dimensions of being in the world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), assessing their deficits and assets, as they combine to elicit, maintain or transform the events; 3) promote the singularity of (identity, proper characteristics) and the reciprocity (mutual support) of all dimensions, in view of their complementarity and dynamic equilibrium; 4) be committed to a critical analysis of present paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the political, technological, economic, educational and cultural institutions; 5) in the socio-cultural learning niches, heuristic-hermeneutic processes should generate awareness, interpretation and understanding beyond established stereotypes, from a thematic (“what” is at stake), an epistemic (“how” to understand and define the events) and a strategic (who, when, where) viewpoint. Earth’s and humanity's regeneration, as faces of the same coin, should be addressed simultaneously, for their mutual support. Ref.: PILON, A. F. (2024). The Bubbles or the Boiling Water? A Course on Environmental Capacity Building [ppt presentation] Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381996602_The_Bubbles_or_the_Boiling_Water_A_Course_on_Environmental_Capacity_Building

Flooding causing unnecessary distress, damage and disruption. Have you ever seen drains being cleared ever? They should be cleared regularly to prevent debris building up and preventing them draining water, particularly during heavy rains. 

To get him impreached