Notices tagged with ireland, page 5

@thomasfuchs Looks like the US is actually ahead of Europe on this one. Still only going to be available for over 50s only at some point in #ireland

Dear governments,

The “clinical risk group” for the Covid booster is anyone at risk of long Covid.

So, yes, that’s everyone.

#covid #longCovid #autumn #booster #ireland

Looks like #Ireland is limiting its #covid booster program (when it’s ready) to over 50s? I don’t get it. Surely the goal should be to limit spread as much as possible and it’s not only over 50s who are spreading this airborne virus…

(Interesting footnote about speaking to your GP if you’re not eligible. I wonder if you can get it via referral even if you’re under 50 or something.)

https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/get-the-vaccine/covid-19-vaccine-booster-dose/

Props to the Lord Mayor of Cork for showing you how it’s done: you don’t engage fascists in conversation.

(These are the handful of bigots trying to get LGBTQ+ books banned from Cork Library.)

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/lord-mayor-cork-hilarious-response-27601567

#cork #library #ireland #farRight #fascism #bigotry

#Ireland #COVID19 update: Now is a good time to take a little more care and put the mask back on in crowds. (No one will, but good advice is good advice, whether someone acts on it or not.)

The positive rate of testing is higher than it's been since January. It's risen from 4.6% to 14% in one month.

Hospitalizations, which is a lagging indicator, are also up from 58 to 285 COVID patients in a month.

Trends point to more increases ahead! Be careful.

https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu--testing

Ben, faut l’écrire aussi en anglais alors ! c’est mieux. 🙂

Daughter flying to Cork, Ireland on Sunday, for her 3rd year of college. She hasn't found any affordable accommodation yet.

She's looking for a room in Cork at 650 euros a month maximum. If you have any leads, please send a direct message to @DominiqueV

boosts welcomed!

#cork #ireland #studentaccomodation

⚡️ALL OUT ON 16 SEPT⚡️ - in solidarity with our trans, intersex & nb siblings

There are plans for a TERF "Let Women Speak" event in #Dublin on that date, led by Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker)

This is the same person who last year was supported by neo-Nazis in Australia, run out of New Zealand, and who cancelled her tour date in Dublin

And so, we go again. Save the date. Details TBC. TERFs OUT.

#DubTrans #TERFsOut #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Solidarity #Ireland #MastoDaoine

There's a nice round number: There are now 1000 documents in the Irish Left Archive!

That includes newspapers, magazines, posters, leaflets and pamphlets from hundreds of left organisations in Ireland's history.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/

#Ireland #History #Politics

Ooh intro, yes.
Gay, cis fella.
Live quite high up a hill in Wales with husband and rescue dog.
Passions include:
#Cymru #wales #ireland #writing #reading #dogs #flowers #queer #inclusion #quakers #cake #gardening #folkmusic #americana #academic #bread #views

Me, clearly an idiot: “Well, there’s a housing crisis in #Ireland so maybe one idea is to try to buy some land and erect an energy-efficient modular home on it; should also be minimally invasive…”

Ireland: Well, here’s the thing, this is local land for local people (in many places you can only buy land if you’re a local – and we’re talking “been here a few generations” local… EU freedom of establishment… feck that…) Oh, also, if you want a modular home, good luck securing a mortgage for it…

🤬

Interestingly – and given my increasing and yet still rather limited sample size – it seems radon levels are higher during rain.

(I got a real-time radon sensor a little while back to see what the levels are like in our 70-year-old rental house. Spoiler: they’re not great but they’re within Irish safety limits. Not that there’s any safe level of radon, from what I’ve read.)

#radon #ireland #rain

Data centres gobble up 18% of Ireland’s electricity as country struggles with climate targets

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/13/data-centres-gobble-up-18-of-irelands-electricity-as-country-struggles-with-climate-target

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #Ireland

Since the weather is so beautiful and we've a long weekend in Ireland, I've made the #kindle edition of Elysian #free for the next few days. Normally it costs around $7 - for the seven years it took to write 😅.

This novel also takes place over a very long weekend in Cork city in 2016.

Support emerging Irish writing by grabbing a copy here for free: https://amzn.eu/d/euRxiLT

#mastodaoine #ireland #CorkCity #amreading #amwriting #bookstodon #writingcommunity

Did you know lung #cancer caused by #Radon exposure kills twice as many people in #Ireland than road accidents every year?

(I didn’t until I stumbled onto it this week.)

Anyway, so I got one of these little Ecoblu sensors that gives real-time readings and the levels were fine in the bedroom on Tuesday until we got woken up at 4AM with an alarm when it exceeded 200 becquerels (Bq/m³). Cracked open a window last night and levels were ok this morning.

Learn more:

https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/

So Doonbeg is one part of Ireland I won’t ever be visiting then.

#doonbeg #ireland #trump

@aral @EU_Commission #Husing in #Ireland is just absurdly overpriced.

A friend of mine pays like €1.500 p.m. for a room in a suburb.

For comparison: You might get 2 vedroom rooftop apartment in the Center of Cologne for that.

On the one hand we have douchebag billionaires…

On the other, teachers who cannot afford to house themselves and are forced to leave teaching.

This is capitalism functioning exactly as designed.

https://m.independent.ie/videos/teacher-who-faces-eviction-may-have-to-leave-profession-42431212.html

#capitalism #ireland #housingCrisis

And here’s one of her own songs.

https://vimeo.com/815916609

#DubhLee #kilkenny #ireland

Listening to Dubh Lee at the Hole in the Wall.

https://vimeo.com/815912103

#kilkenny #ireland