Gerry Crilly

Who do you think comes out better from this? Ps this is really happening

Does Ireland have a "credibility gap" on climate as it takes over EU presidency with important climate business on the agenda? @foeireland @EJNI_Online @IrishEnvNet @CCACIreland have thoughts irishtimes.com/environment/c…

Small drop in emissions - big challenge ahead. Latest greenhouse gas figures for 2025 from @EPAIreland irishtimes.com/environment/c…

İsrail'in, Gazze'yi bombalamasında tüm ailesini ve akrabalarının çoğunu kaybeden 2 minik yavru! Tüm dünya niye susuyor? Kendi çocuğunuz değil mi diye? Susma!! HIZLICA LÜTFEN PAYLAŞ!!

The penny will drop soon. There will be mass panic and the media will be fighting to say they weren’t warned how bad it was. They were. Like here:

“Irish energy prices highest in EU” - they used to be the 2nd cheapest. So what happened? FFG created a largely private sector quasi-monopoly in energy, said quasi-monopoly - energy companies - were by design free to gouge consumers, while media who receive lots of advertising 💰 from several of these energy companies seldom if ever discuss the issue of how exactly the market has been rigged against consumers. Domestic and international crony insiders bribed various FFG politicians over the decades to privatise most of our energy market in a manner that allowed those super-rich crony insiders to rig the market and then print billions in profit over the decades, at the detriment of almost everyone. Here’s a November 2025 economic report by the Nevin Economic Research Institute: “We see in 1980, that electricity prices for this representative consumption band, notwithstanding data gaps, were among the cheapest in the EU15 comparator group. In 1980, only Greek prices were lower than those seen in Ireland” Today, energy costs are the highest in the EU. All that’s happened over time is a bunch of very rich insiders have captured billions in profit to the detriment of consumers and the economy more broadly. To do so they worked with FFG politicians to create a “legally” rigged market. You’ll find this pattern of FFG politicians working with rich cronies to rig other markets - like insurance and health. While the rich insiders and politicians make out like bandits, everyone else gets screwed. And if you protest about being screwed, you’ll be smeared by the media, beaten by the Gardai and called all manner of things. This is how Ireland works. Until that is people realise they have the collective power to change it and turf these FFG cronies and their rich pals out of power for good.

The fridge is on, but there’s no one home.😡 The CSO in Q4 2024 has classified 70,149 dwellings (including holiday homes) as vacant, based on low electricity consumption of around 2 kWh per day (enough to power a medium-sized fridge for a day). It’s crazy that this is tolerated in the middle of a housing crisis, with yet another record of over 17,308 people in emergency accommodation last month, including 5,457 children. Plus, the Simon Community estimate as many as 290,000 people in Ireland are likely to be experiencing hidden homelessness, as friends or family are increasingly relied upon to provide accommodation for others. Hidden homelessness refers to individuals without a secure, permanent home who are not visible on the streets or in official statistics, often "couch-surfing," sharing overcrowded housing, or staying in squats. This is not normal and cannot be accepted. We need urgent action to prevent evictions and expand housing supply, and we can start by utilising these vacant houses. After all, it was called a 'national emergency' by Leo Varadkar back in 2018, when the homeless figure was 10,000. #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Ireland

Been on Tik Tok. People are more outraged by the liberties taken with Wuthering Heights than the fact the richest people on earth are triggering a catastrophe that could kill billions. Don’t tell me people - young or old - understand or are engaged with this. They’re not.

Inside the Dublin data centres consuming an unknown amount of energy irishtimes.com/environment/2…

Government failing to consider how key policies are damaging climate, says UN expert irishtimes.com/environment/c…

And Corks dereliction continues to make international news This week it was Italia 1 TV Our #DerelictIreland media visitors always struggle to understand why there is so much waste and decay accepted in such a lovely city, with so many without a home Photo: @TheNewReview2

Speaking tomorrow evening (Thursday 22nd January) in Shrewsbury. Details here: greenshropshire.org.uk/news/…

A short reflection on William Barbat's 1979 "CO2 Newsletter". allouryesterdays.info/2026/0…

It's 21 years since these 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork were complete They've never been used Shame on owner @dunnesstores & shame on @Corkcoco & Government for allowing this in housing emergency This is why we need compulsory rental & custodian squatting in #DerelictIreland