Madeleine Lyes

“But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) 🖼️ The Giant — N. C. Wyeth, 1923.

Ireland has the worst public access to countryside in Europe. How did this happen? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

John Banville has been interviewed but what interviewer will be brave enough to ask him about how he definitely wrote his own Wikipedia page

Wow, this paper feels long overdue "Across climate policy, public health, and economic governance, we demonstrate a consistent pattern: powerful actors reframe structural problems as individual failures, behavioral science supplies the intellectual tool kit,...

During non-pedestrianised times - with the gates folded back - they look and act like regular planter boxes. #PlayStreetsBETA

Brilliant!

Hup the teachers Hup the nurses Hon the workers

iconic

Stocks are running particularly low for O negative blood, with supplies expected to fall below three days by tomorrow www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

"The Just Transition Commission, an independent body set up by the Government in 2024, said it is 'particularly concerned' about the planned fare hikes at a time when €100m a month is being spent on cutting excise duty cuts."

FORTY-TWO BILLION. Anthropic lost FORTY-TWO BILLION dollars in one year. The inevitable world-changing, ultimately efficient technology that everyone wants apparently.

Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023

Join the @dublin_cycling_campaign supported by @ibikedublin for a Harvest #fullmoon cycle to @diasdunsink with Prof. Peter T. Gallagher director of Dunsink Observatory. There will be a tour and talk in the Dunsink Observatory. Along the Royal Canal with moon themed music. Meeting 7pm at Barnados

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Thinking of all the clever, dedicated people pouring their lives into Marie Curie applications with a 7% success rate.

This is all fine.... 'In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection.' noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

My daughter currently reading through the Jacqueline Wilson oeuvre and I keep hearing about the most ludicrous melodrama, poor orphans and abusive stepfathers and exploitative mothers etc. It's increasing her knowledge of Victorian political economy though, so there's benefits?

Oh is it like a townhall meeting kind of thing? Can I speak at it next? Or, shockingly, do they only care what billionaires think, and feck the rest of us?

YEARS of this exact thing in Limerick

Hurray! Benches are little comfy revolutions because they make walking routes possible for those who need a bit of help along the way AND because they are a concrete (or wooden, or steel) manifestation of dignity in public space.

This is what Macklemore has been censored for. Absolutely nothing. They hate free speech, boycott them all.

First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This Birch Shieldbug was on Devil's Bit Scabious, and its beauty took my breath away when I viewed it through the macro lens. Covered in misty dew, his shield shaped back appeared like he was covered in precious jewels. Magical encounter ♥️ @peatlandecr.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

With over 870 school streets in London, 66% of kids are now getting to school by active travel. Every day there are 73,915 fewer cars doing the school run than when we started in 2016 - that’s the equivalent of a traffic jam from London to Newcastle.

1/3 UPDATED INFORMATION HERE FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO TAKE PART IN THE GREAT IRISH UNWELCOME ON 12/13 OF SEPTEMBER IN COUNTY CLARE. Camping is possible at Shannon but people should bring their own equipment and food. Bring NOISE MAKERS, FLAGS AND BANNERS! The louder and bigger the better!

I guess parents will continue to bring their sons out to play with an organisation that clearly doesn’t want their daughters in the same organisation. #SpeirGorm RTÉ News: Dr Mary McAleese 'devastated' after stepping down from Gaelic games integration role www.rte.ie/sport/footba...

Really interesting set of women architects talking this eve at Irish Architecture Foundation session in the Hunt Museum. Ailish Drake, Grainne Shaffrey, Elizabeth Howard, Grainne McMahon and Laura Johnstone. @6:30pm architecturefoundation.clr.events/event/140717...

Gilbert Spencer once said that after witnessing hand-to-hand fighting during WW1 he tried to build about him 'a little globe of ease.' Painting this work of laundry drying gave him great contentment and peace of mind.

less gas, not more. Data centres already use 23% of Irish electricity

So very sorry to hear of the death of Frank McDonald. What a champion for Dublin he was, what an archive of knowledge.

Last night on the way back from juvenile training, we walked ten minutes in pissing rain to get the 11 (every 30mins off-peak). We arrived in time to see the bus that was 'DUE' disappear off the display ... next bus in 29mins. A few people started walking, we had to wait. Bus turns up 5mins later...

Public transport fare hikes - while fossil fuel subsidies remain. Government seem determined to steer us towards car-dependence, if you'll pardon the pun. Cost of living, air pollution, emissions - this is an attack on public health and well-being. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

"They had dreams in mind: Babylon, some called it. Europe, a continent where crushing poverty seemed possible to escape." More excellent reporting from @sallyhayd.bsky.social

The 12 months or so where pushing a pram was my main form of transport and excerise in Dublin City Centre reshaped my mind. It really opened by eyes up to: (1) How important dropped kerbs (2) How much motorists run red lights (3) And park on footpaths etc. (4) How narrow/obstructed footpaths are.

Tonight, we reveal how water use from data centres almost doubled during the summer, peaking in July when the hosepipe ban was introduced for households. The figures show data centres used over 514 million litres of water between May and July this year. Read on thejournal.ie just after midnight 🔜

We have reached the stage of the summer where my children and their pals are just rotating houses to watch tv in. I have decided that the atmosphere inside someone else's living room counts as fresh air.

Devastatingly accurate. I walk my 11 year old in the morning and we regularly witness speeding, distracted driving, red light breaking, pedestrian crossing infringement, driving on footpaths and more. I have been threatened by motorists while still holding her hand. It's out of control.

Any inconvenience or expense that people have experienced as a result of the ULEZ expansion scheme was for the sake of radically improving the lung health of children in London - and totally worth it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leuven 🇧🇪 #adoorableThursday

“And in the cruellest of ironies, on the day that she drowned last month, one of nearly 150 people who died in the illegal mass crossing into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, her mother was told that her daughter had just been granted a visa to go to Spain.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Fair play!

Ooooh this is the real goods

Science students there is a partial solar eclipse happening over Ireland on Wednesday evening. Eclipse26.ie has all the information you need to safely view Wednesdays solar eclipse and times the eclipse will be visible in different parts of Ireland.

The brutally hot summer is set to cost the EU economy €180 billion this year — that’s equivalent to roughly 1 percent of GDP, which is all the growth the bloc was expected to generate in 2026, according to new analysis.