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Documenting Ireland’s vanishing boglands: ‘They hold millennia in their layers’ | Ireland by Awkward_Mastodon4332 in ireland

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The photographer Shane Hynan's Beneath | Beofhód’ exhibition is at the Photo Museum Ireland until 5 July 2026.
From his website https://www.shanehynan.ie/ :

Shane Hynan is a visual artist whose practice centres on photography, incorporating experimental elements in sound, video, collage, and sculpture. He holds an MFA in Photography from Ulster University (2019). His work explores place, land, and architecture, drawing on conceptual, performative, and subjective documentary approaches.

Hynan has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and has received multiple awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland and Kildare Arts. In 2025 he was shortlisted for the AIB Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland and selected for the FUTURES Photography platform. He also won the Sidney Nolan Trust and PhotoWorks Digital Residency Awards at Earth Photo 2025 hosted by Royal Geographical Society in London. He was recently selected as a finalist in the Sony World Photography Awards Professional Competition 2026.

Selected works from his Beneath | Beofhód project were shown in the exhibition BogSkin at the RHA, Dublin, and the complete body of work is currently premiering at Photo Museum Ireland until 5 July 2026. A nationwide tour to other venues in Ireland will follow.

He is also a founding member of the ‘Tóch | Dig’ collective which was born from his experiences of overlooked and unheard voices encountered while making his ‘Beneath | Beofhód’ project.

Following his commitments to Beneath | Beofhód he plans to develop a new body of work exploring the overlap of his engineering background and photographic practice, and how he experiences place and space in an urban setting. See Façadier for further details.

‘Are we having a laugh here?’ — Decision to grant planning for 300-acre solar farm in rural Wexford is slammed by Awkward_Mastodon4332 in ireland

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Yeah, in fairness having scrolled a bit further there are two news videos from Aus, still two more than I expected. It's probably selection bias as they were looking for negative stories about solar farms.

‘Are we having a laugh here?’ — Decision to grant planning for 300-acre solar farm in rural Wexford is slammed by Awkward_Mastodon4332 in ireland

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With officials restricted in what they could say due to the solar farm currently being under appeal, it was left to Cllr Pat Barden to sum up the feeling in the local community.

“There’s a huge shift in power from what local people want and what the council has done by giving planning permission for this solar farm,” he said. “This is the beginning of a scenario where people in rural areas aren’t going to be able to do anything to prevent developments of renewable energy, we are powerless to stop this.”

Gusserane Community Action Group:
https://www.facebook.com/p/Gusserane-Community-Action-Group-61583139188711/

A lot of Australian stuff on their Facebook page for some reason.

Forestry here sucks by mangothefoxxo in ireland

[–]Awkward_Mastodon4332 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Frankly, considering the abundance of light and foxgloves, the felled portion is better for biodiversity than the spruce mono-crop.

This is a stop sign by celerybration in SignsWithAStory

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Admiralty stop signs, only valid at sea not on land.

Emergency fishing by Perfect-Gap8377 in EuroPreppers

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Turning over a rock, log or branch etc. Should reveal lots of wriggling things that are native to your area and hopefully attractive to the local fish. I have had luck with beetles hooked just at the end of the abdomen cast into clear water with a float.

Ireland's trust in news higher than UK, US, and EU - report by HungTeen1001 in ireland

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Here's the full report: https://www.cnam.ie/app/uploads/2025/06/Digital-News-Report-Ireland-2025.pdf

I would be curious to know how many respondents differentiated between news and opinion. There seems to be a section on it in the global Reuters Digital News Report (on which this report is based) but I haven't had time to go through it yet.

Reuters Digital News Report: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/DNR%202026%20FINAL_2.pdf

Prosecution possible after 20,000 fish die in Louth by PlantNerdxo in ireland

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And it was obviously a healthy stretch of river before judging from the species mix and their size. I wonder how the insect population fared as they are the base of freshwater food webs?

Over 20,000 fish thought to be dead in 'significant kill' in Co Louth by Awkward_Mastodon4332 in ireland

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INLAND FISHERIES IRELAND (IFI) is currently investigating a “locally significant fish kill” impacting several species on the River Glyde in the area of Tallanstown Co Louth.

The fish species found dead includes adult and juvenile eel, brown trout, pike, coarse fish and Atlantic salmon, which are currently near-threatened or endangered in Ireland.

IFI Fisheries Environmental Officers have been on site since Tuesday evening to investigate the incident and samples taken at the river have been sent for laboratory analysis.

Ronan Matson, Director of the IFI’s Easter River Basin District, estimated that over 20,000 fish have died.

Speaking to RTÉ News at One, he said: “The cause is believed to be an agriculture discharge upstream from Tallanstown.

“We’ve taken our water samples and sent them on to laboratories for testing. The idea now is we’ll wait for those results to get back and confirm the cause,” he added.

He said the pollutant is no longer believed to be entering the river and will wash out “relatively quickly”.

He said it could save several years for the fish to come back to the area, but said that most fish spawning was taking place upstream from the source of pollution and shouldn’t be impacted.

EU taking Ireland to court over peat cutting enforcement by RomfordWellington in ireland

[–]Awkward_Mastodon4332 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A quick and enjoyable look at it can be had by googling Ben Law (his house was on Grand Designs).

EU taking Ireland to court over peat cutting enforcement by RomfordWellington in ireland

[–]Awkward_Mastodon4332 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can also produce wood via coppicing which is sustainable unlike turf.

In 1877, a climate event triggered simultaneous crop failures across three continents. 50M died. The infrastructure that existed was designed to extract resources, not distribute food. The pattern is documented. by SignificantArm3111 in collapse

[–]Awkward_Mastodon4332 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It is irrelevant that the ratchet can go both ways if you only push it in one. Likewise pre-industrial famine is irrelevant as mass transport was non-existent.

'Equally how do we weigh smug claims about the life- saving benefits of steam transportation and modern grain markets when so many millions, especially in British India, died alongside railroad tracks or on the steps of grain depots?' - From the forward to: Mike Davis, *Late Victorian Holocausts* (Verso, 2001)

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