A handsome spear of pheasant or deer May gladly deck my table But bill of fare with species rare?
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Macroom District Environment Group has launched a petition to encourage Minister O'Sullivan to take rare birds off the Open Seasons Order for hunting.
Please support & share this campaign. my.uplift.ie/petitions/unfai…
Open season on Irish red-listed bird species.
Snipe, Naoscach, Gallinago gallinago.
Despite severe decline, hunting still permitted.
Pic. @BirdWatchIE
Thanks for featuring our campaign @AgrilandIreland & Caroline Allen. agriland.ie/farming-news/cal…
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Ireland must not play Israel in the UEFA nations league.
#StopTheGame
RIP Wendell Berry
My favourite farmer poet alongside Paddy Kavanagh, 89 year-old Wendell Berry here narrates the story of agricultural industrialisation. This is a must watch.
It's easy to forget that farmers themselves are among the most endangered of species.
youtube.com/watch?v=Se37BNgq…
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I'm attempting this week to make Don't PLAY Number 1.
The window is from now til next Thursday & including Thursday. 1 Euro or thereabouts
Please Share
STOP THE GAME. DON'T PLAY
Here are the links
amazon.com/Dont-Play-Martin-…
martinleahy.bandcamp.com/tra…
music.apple.com/us/album/don…
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Open season on Irish red-listed bird species.
Snipe, Naoscach, Gallinago gallinago.
Despite severe decline, hunting still permitted.
Pic. @BirdWatchIE
Brilliant local journalism from Tripe & Drisheen. I walked this river many times when I lived in Cork. It was a depressing insistence I had of going back over what appeared lost. But there's still hope for the Glasheen. @TDrisheen tripeanddrisheen.substack.co…
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When I heard about it yesterday I didn’t know he’d already accepted it. Seeing this photo today has sickened me to my core. Thinking of all the protests/gigs/fundraisers we’ve staged here for Palestine then to see him do this while Biden sends a further $8billion to kill more. 🤮
Interesting. Only Monty Don mentions climate change, while today's predictions for 2055 blithely overlook the thing that will most likely impact our geography and our ability to survive on this planet.
Anyway, BBC News assesses the 2025 predictions made by Tomorrow's World (pretty sure they have their maths right).
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdn…
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my @RTERadio1 presenting debut this NYE!!!
Delving into Rick Epping’s world.
Produced by the amazing @WingNutGalway ❤️
have a little listen rte.ie/radio/radio1/
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"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own.
Portrait of Virginia, 1912 by her sister, painter Vanessa Bell #WomensArt
“This was an act of ecological destruction. The damage to this protected spawning habitat is incomprehensible."
Landowner is fined €750, plus €1260 costs.
Hardly an adequate deterrent.
agriland.ie/farming-news/lan…
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I'm sure a lot of hunters don't know snipe and woodcock are on the list.
Also, I had to dig about to find it.
Open season on Irish red-listed bird species.
Snipe, Naoscach, Gallinago gallinago.
Despite severe decline, hunting still permitted.
Pic. @BirdWatchIE
Red Grouse, Cearc fhraoigh, Lagopus lagopus hibernicus.
A colourful upland resident, whose absence is more notable than its presence.
Another red-listed species, free to hunt in Ireland.
Pic. Richard T Mills @BirdWatchIE
