from the record: 23 pqs from donna mcgettigan on citizen science or citizen-generated data, 3 on 7 july, 7 on 28 july and 13 on 7 sept. 19 went to the higher ed minister, 2 to climate (pq 126 of 7 july names openlittermap) and 2 to education. main asks: a presidency plan, who leads policy, and how research ireland classifies and funds it.

For those moaning about the triple lock. Don’t worry, it will only be the poor kids sent to war.

Just in case it wasn't absolutely, 100 per cent, crystal clear... . The @NCCAie is not fit for purpose. In its current form, its work should be subjected to external enquiry and review, and the Education Act amended to abolish it in its current form. #edchatie

Introducing terrio: geospatial data I/O in pure Rust! terrio reads, writes, converts and reprojects geospatial rasters, vector data and point clouds, with no C dependencies. No GDAL or PROJ to install, nothing to compile: it builds anywhere Rust does, including WebAssembly, so the same engine runs on the command line, in Python, and in your web browser. What it does - Rasters: GeoTIFF and COG, Zarr and GeoZarr, netCDF, HDF5, PMTiles, MBTiles and more, read in place from the cloud, so only the bytes needed are fetched. - Vectors: GeoPackage, Shapefile, GeoJSON, FlatGeobuf, GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap PBF and vector tiles, with filters, field selection and reprojection. - Point clouds: LAS, LAZ, COPC, EPT, PLY and E57, with PDAL-style filters (ground classification, noise, heights above ground) and gridding into DSMs and DTMs. Files larger than memory are converted in chunks. - GDAL-style processing: translate, warp, mosaic, rasterize, polygonize, terrain analysis, raster calculator, proximity and sieve. - Remote data: http(s), S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, zip archives and STAC searches as inputs. - Accurate: coordinate transformations agree with GDAL's within a centimetre for all 6,354 EPSG CRSs GDAL transforms, and outputs are tested against GDAL on real-world data. - Fast: in our benchmarks, warping, mosaicking and writing COGs run several times faster than the GDAL utilities. - For AI agents: terrio mcp is an MCP server, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code can run terrio's commands on your data. Get it - Command line (Linux, macOS): curl -LsSf terrio.opengeos.org/install.… | sh - Python: pip install terrio (with rasterio- and xarray-style APIs) - JavaScript/WebAssembly: npm install terrio-js - Rust: cargo add terrio Try it out - Playground in your browser: terrio.opengeos.org/playgrou… - Documentation: terrio.opengeos.org - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/terrio #GIS #Rust #OpenSource #Geospatial #Python #LiDAR #CloudNative

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Most children (and adults) can identify 100+ logos and nearly 0 native plant species This is not healthy for society Native wildlife roots us in our place and we should treat it with such reverence If we do not root ourselves in the land it is very easy to lose our ourselves

The rights to free assembly and association are essential for the full enjoyment of human rights by all. This morning at #3C, 🇮🇪 expressed concern about the impact of excessive restrictions and repression, in particular young people’s engagement on social and political issues.

Leinster House cannot remain an accountability-free zone. #aontú rte.ie/news/politics/2026/10…

Today, EU Education Ministers will meet in Dublin Castle for Day 1 of the EYCS (Education) Informal Meeting 👇 Take a look at the Agenda below or find out more at irish-presidency.consilium.e…

Minister Michael Moynihan, has highlighted the vital contribution of ETBs in delivering inclusion education nationwide. The Minister's remarks come at the opening of the Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) Annual Congress 2026 which opens today in Tralee, Co. Kerry

Europe has what it takes to lead in AI: talent, research, startups, and ambition. Now we must focus on scaling. This is what I talked about at the AI Summit in Dublin. Our goal: make Europe the best place to build, grow and invest in trustworthy artificial intelligence. (1/2)

📸Moments from this morning's sessions at the International AI Summit in Dublin With addresses from Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD and EU Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security & Democracy @HennaVirkkunen discussions focused on Applied AI and Sectoral Value Creation