Lifeguards sit in full rain gear. Divers in the water yell happily to those still on the platform that the sea's amazingly warm. Roads are closed due to flooding. Printed council signs with today's date have appeared, warning of bacteria in the coastal water due to excessive rainfall. In Southern Europe, people are warned to stay inside because of the heat. We walk along, literally squelching in the water inside our shoes, talking about the climate crisis, getting nowhere.
I suppose in a city that has imported US automobility values, it's not surprising that the #Galway Advertiser would print a US cartoonist rather than commissioning someone locally, and one that reinforces #motonormativity and the victim blaming that is such a feature of Ireland's #RoadSafety approach. #GalwayCityOfCars
"A number of well-known historians and authors have come together to voice their support to name Galway City’s new bridge after 1916 Cumann na mBan commander Julia Morrissey...Julia Morrisey will be fifty years dead in March of next year. This important anniversary provides an ideal opportunity to correct an historic wrong against one of Galway’s bravest daughters"
EPA are looking for Galway City residents to help measure the traffic-based air pollutant Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) in the city. Want to get involved? It’s as simple as putting a test tube on your window!
Dear people of #Galway, this weekend there will be an Tóstal festival in #Salthill. Please come to see the traditional currach racing and the parade of our beauties, the Galway Hookers. If you participate in #darknessintolight2024, you'll also be able to see the Hookers sailing into the sunrise in support of the cause.
Please see the schedule (it seems like tiny traders market was canceled, but everything is according to the plan.
In Claddagh, #Galway, we are witnessing a unique evolutionary event: #StormDebi has prompted the evolution of boats. Once quiet marine creatures, they are rapidly evolving to walk on land and starting to leave the ocean.
In the natural history of the world, this has only happened once before, 430 million years ago.
Please keep your distance and do not disturb boats if you encounter them on land!
Four women making their way along Long Walk to the fish market in front of the Spanish Arch, or An Póirse Caoch (the Blind Arch) as it was known then, in Galway, Ireland. c1905. The National Library of Ireland. No known copyright restrictions.
Was startled by the size and speed of this caterpillar, which turned out to be an Elephant Hawkmoth. I forgot to add something for scale, but I'd say it was at least 8–9 cm long
The beautiful adult is pictured here in a lovely book I copy-edited years ago, Heather Greer's "On Your Doorstep: Moths and Butterflies of Connemara"