5 November 2021 25,000 people marched today in Glasgow as part of a climate youth strike as the first week of COP26 comes to an end. Beginning in Kelvingrove Park, throngs of demonstrators carrying signs and echoing chants for climate justice made their way to George Square for a rally Read more…
1 November 2021 Protesters gathered today in Glasgow to highlight how the Global South is bearing the brunt of the climate crisis as international climate negotiations commenced nearby. Members of Friday for Future International held a rally at Festival Park, which is located right beside the venue hosting the international Read more…
19 March 2021 Climate strikers the world over demanded their governments take immediate and concrete action on the climate crisis today, taking to both the streets and online. Using a “No More Empty Promises” hashtag, Fridays for Future accused politicians of only delivering on vague and empty promises that sit Read more…
15 March 2021 Given what the past year has brought, it almost boggles the mind to remember that thousands of people flooded the streets of Dublin in the name of climate action two years ago today. Even before you made your way over to the assembly point, the city centre Read more…
March 20th, 2020 Last Friday marked over six months of continuous weekly climate striking for me. This week also marked the one year anniversary of my very first climate strike – the March 15th one in Dublin where over 10,000 people marched together in solidarity. With the looming threat of Read more…
December 13th, 2019 Youth activists are currently holding their weekly climate strike inside the UN climate talks in Madrid to highlight the slow progress in setting more ambitious climate targets. As the conference draws to a close this week, negotiators are clamouring to find common ground to ensure emisisons targets Read more…
November 29th, 2019 Students came out in numbers today in the capital to demand once more that the government take greater action on addressing the climate crisis. The lunchtime protest was set to be held before the gates of the Dail, but due to crowd size and road safety, Gardai Read more…
November 29th, 2019 Teenage climate strikers in Cork brought the city’s traffic to a standstill today, demanding the end of support for proposed gas importation projects in Shannon and Cork. The rally was part of the global school strike in which hundreds of thousands of students around the world, anxious Read more…
September 20th, 2019 Thousands of Irish students across the country will mobilise today as part of an international school strike calling for urgent climate action from world leaders. Alongside major rallies in cities such as Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, almost 70 local communities are taking action to support student-led groups Read more…
May 30th, 2019 The #FridaysForFuture movement saw school children from 118 countries across the globe take to the streets on May 24th in order to push governments towards taking serious Climate Action. In the wake of Ireland recently calling a National Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, the Irish fraction of the Read more…
