Garry Walsh
Campaigns Manager with Oxfam Ireland
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- For those secretly happy that climate change was going to make Ireland toasty & give us more ice cream days, this week's floods should be a wake-up call. Meanwhile our govt is advancing plans for new LNG gas terminals. No new fossil fuel infrastructure please! www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
- Absolutely outrageous that organisations like Oxfam and ActionAid are going to be forced out of Gaza by Israel, preventing the delivery of life saving aid to hundreds of thousands of people
- What a crazy and exciting way to start a new job - only 2 weeks in my new position at Oxfam Ireland and somehow I find myself dressed up as an evil billionaire on national television! What do you think, would you tax me?
- Reposted by Garry WalshTelling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
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- Do you have 2 mins for Palestine? We need to put huge pressure on new Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee to show that public support for the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill is huge, and that passing it in full needs to be her top priority as she takes office. www.trocaire.org/petitions/mi...
- As Helen McEntee takes up her new role as Minister for Foreign Affairs, the most urgent item in her in-tray must be passing the Occupied Territories Bill. This must be passed as a priority, urgently & in full. Spain passed their legislation in four weeks. Why has it taken Ireland over 7 years?
- If you're unsure of whether to come join the climate march today in Dublin, and whether marching even makes any difference, please have a read of my article in the Journal today. (Oh and the rain is due to ease off by noon! 😎) www.thejournal.ie/readme/clima...
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- Reposted by Garry Walsh🔊One day to go until the National Climate March! Will you join us tomorrow to march for climate justice?🌍✊ www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
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- Tomorrow's the day! Hope to see you on the streets tomorrow for the Climate March in Dublin. This is shaping up to be the biggest climate demo in years, but we need everyone to come out, to spread the word, to bring a friend or two. Where: Garden of Remembrance, Dublin 1 When: 1pm
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- The climate march in Dublin on Sat November 15th is shaping up to be the biggest climate march that we've seen in Ireland this decade. Will you be joining us?
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- If anyone needs me for the next few weeks, I'll be out and about putting these posters and leaflets up around the city! Hope to see you all out on the streets on November 15th for the Climate March 🪧 📣 🌎
- Delighted to see the @irishtimes.com published a letter I wrote on the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill this morning. The Occupied Territories Bill must not fall victim to Trump-style transaction politics!
- 📣 Urgent Action - Occupied Territories Bill 📣 TDs return to the Dáil today - please take this online action to urge them to pass the Occupied Territories Bill in full, without delay. What could be more urgent than genocide, famine & ethnic cleansing? www.trocaire.org/petitions/ac...
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- Reposted by Garry WalshThis is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- 87% of Irish people consider climate change a serious problem - yet we're way off track still to meet our climate targets
- 2025 Eurobarometer shows strong support for EU climate goals, renewables, & energy efficiency. Concern is rising about climate impacts, especially in Southern Europe. Ireland shows above-average support, however there is a strong need for reliable information. europa.eu/eurobaromete...
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- Reposted by Garry WalshMark the date: an incredible landmark as #solar power becomes EU's number one source of electricity in June 2025. Everything is impossible – until it's done. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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- Yes, it took a genocide for our government to finally act & yes, it is disappointingly watered down. Yet this is still historic. Thanks to relentless campaign pressure, Ireland is now poised to be the first Western country to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements www.rte.ie/news/2025/05...
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- Exciting new climate video project on the way... watch this space! Was delighted to get to interview the inspirational Malawian climate advocate Martha Phiri from JCED Malawi today for this project
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- ICYMI - powerful letter this weekend in the Irish Times from @caoimhedebarra.bsky.social on the government's failure to pass the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill within its first 100 days
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- Ireland has a 'dirty fossil fuel secret' While Ireland may not produce many fossil fuels, "Ireland has become a tax-friendly financial gateway for some of the most destructive industries on the planet, making us complicit in fuelling the global climate emergency" www.thejournal.ie/prev/6689745...
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- Come work with the Stop Climate Chaos network! Fantastic role at the centre of a vibrant coalition. Please share and help spread the word
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- Really interesting - the rural ireland vs dublin eco-warriors narrative of recent years doesn't seem to be grounded in terms of actual rural and urban attitudes to climate. Have vested interests being making outsized noises to drum up a culture war issue?
- Thousands and thousands marched today on the streets of Dublin in solidarity with #Palestine. Amazing energy! All parties promised to pass the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill before the election but nothing has happened. Why the delay? Don't break your promises! @trocaire.bsky.social @ipsc.bsky.social
- The UN’s top expert on Palestine has made it crystal clear on her visit to Ireland this week - the Occupied Territories Bill is a *minimum requirement* to comply with international law. I hope the Taoiseach & Tánaiste were watching PrimeTime last night www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
- This is what I needed this week. When oligarchs & authoritarian bullies are dominating the airwaves. When a brutal war on Gaza is resumed. Hearing directly from Francesca Albanese (UN special rapporteur on Palestine) speaking truth to power in Dublin today was inspiring and helps renew my activism.
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- Reposted by Garry WalshThe viral Czech beaver story is terrific because it’s a perfect distillation of the grand beaver narrative: the world’s most ingenious rodents, acting without our awareness or authorization, engineering wetlands whose ecological value far exceeds anything humans could dream up. We don’t deserve ‘em.
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- Really excellent points here from Frances Black and the drafters of the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill There's no constitutional reason to water down the bill and exclude services. Excluding services would be "an entirely political and policy choice.” #PassTheOTB m.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
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- Is the new Irish government going to water down, delay or even shelve the Occupied Territories Bill? Please take action to tell your newly elected TDs to prioritise justice for Palestine in the first 100 days of this new government. No delays, no half measures! www.trocaire.org/petitions/yo...
- I hope all our newly elected TDs were listening to the people demonstrating on the streets of Dublin today. They were calling to pass the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill within the first 100 days of govt - no delays, no watering down.
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- Great to see this positive news - we certainly need it this week. However, Ireland is still yet to phase out of coal. Will 2025 be the year we finally stop burning coal at Moneypoint?
- NEW – EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/4hfcKhk
- The noisy antics inside Leinster House dominated headlines in the last 24 hours, but there was also a noisy crowd outside - demanding the Occupied Territories Bill be passed. Will the govt break its pre-election promise? We're calling on the govt to pass the bill within its first 100 days of govt
- Will our new govt water down the Occupied Territories Bill? Or even kill it? “A ban on just imports would be a significant step back. It would be totally out of step with what the Intl Court of Justice has said is required, which is a full ban on all trade" m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
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- The devil is always in the detail. Great that Simon Harris is standing firm in the face of Israeli & US pressure, but qualifiers around 'a version of the bill' are worrying. Watering down the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill would be letting down the people of Palestine www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Garry Walsh17-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of: • early death • hospitalisation for any reason • cardiovascular disease • cancer mortality • treatment for mental health problems. Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying.
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- Strong call from the Climate Change Advisory Council for Ireland to phase out fossil fuels by 2039. However they fail to mention that we also have a responsibility to do this as a matter of climate justice - countries in the global south are being affected the most, by a problem not of their making
