Sunday, June 03, 2018

How climate change, conflicts could wipe out humans by 2100.

I don't know how many times I have stated, stop polluting greenhouse gases, NOW! I don't know how many different words and approaches I have used, so now I will let someone else say it and maybe people will finally hear the message.

STOP POLLUTING GREENHOUSE GASES NOW!

This is not a new message. The USA military has been saying this for over a decade. It has sought every measure possible within it's jurisdiction to do so to scale back any military GHG pollution. However, the trash burning has to stop. That is a big offense and it is frequently an answer overseas. Enough. The military can do better.


*Phenomena drive hunger as millions of children at risk from malnutrition
*New UN report predicts famine in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, others
If urgent steps were not taken (click here) to counter the threat, the human race could be wiped out, before 2100, by catastrophic climate change and rising cases of violent conflicts globally.
According to a study published Sunday in the journal PNAS and first reported by DailyMailUK Online, there is a one in 20 chance humans would be wiped out in the next 100 years as a result of “low-probability high-impact” events.
The researchers said an increase greater than 3°C could lead to “catastrophic” effects. However an increase of more than 5°C will ‘unknown’ consequences which could lead to the end of life as it is known....

Ireland has to stop the corruption of possibly adding egregious amounts of Greenhouse Gases.

Greenhouse gas emissions (click here) arise from many different activities.  The EPA has responsibility for the compilation of GHG emission figures for Ireland. The figures below show the breakdown of greenhouse gas emission per sector in Ireland for 2009. The most recent emissions figures compiled show that in Ireland agriculture is the single largest contributor to the overall emissions, at 29.2% of the national total, followed by energy (power generation & oil refining) at 21% and transport at 21%. The remainder is made up by the residential sector at 12%, industry and commercial at 14.8%, and waste at 2%.

Irish goals are golden, however, there are elements that circumvent the climate commitments to sell another company on coming to Ireland.

March 21, 2018
By Kevin O'Sullivan

The Government (click here) should set an ambitious target for Ireland of producing 70 per cent renewable electricity by 2030, which would help transform the energy sector and benefit consumers, according to the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA).

The call by the IWEA, which represents the wind industry – including the majority of windfarm operators in Ireland – is based on the findings of a study it commissioned which shows such a target was technically possible and, if achieved, would be cost neutral for consumers.

The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment should set this 70 per cent challenge for the renewable energy industry, said newly-appointed IWEA chief executive Dr David Connolly.

Ireland had the required expertise built up over the past two decades “across academia, system operators, regulators, and the entire renewable industry to meet the target”, he told the IWEA spring conference in Dublin....

All that hard work and investment only to have some corrupt politician give it all away again and defeating the greenhouse emissions targets for Ireland. Stop them!

Every country's government and every company's leadership should be expecting demands for environmental studies to adhere to the publics' right for a safe and sane climate. This is crazy. Apple is simply walking into Ireland as if it is above the law. Well, there is one law that no one is above and that is the law of nature and the climates of Earth.

Wall Street needs to respect the planet. They should not moan and groan over environmental statements demanded by the people. Wall Street should be walking into investment opportunities with plans to improve the greenhouse gas emissions target for every country. Wall Street has the resources and now it is time to stop asking for handouts and giveaways, so much as presenting investment WITH pre-determined climate enhancements that far exceed government demands.

Enough of this immoral behavior by Wall Street because they have money to spend. Wall Street CANNOT AFFORD to seek concessions on Climate. Absolutely not. If Wall Street wants to invest in Ireland, it should be above speculation and ridicule by anyone else, in planning for climate actions within it's investment that exceed expectations of law. 

Get it done! Stop harassing governments to end their pledges to their people.

February 9, 2018
By Mary Carolon

An Bord Pleanála’s approval for the first phase (click here) of tech giant Apple’s planned €850 million data centre in Co Galway “turned European law on its head” and took no account of Ireland’s climate change obligations, the Supreme Court has been told.

A three-judge court has deferred its ruling on whether two objectors to the centre have met the necessary legal test to bring an appeal to the Supreme Court aimed at quashing the board’s approval.

Having heard arguments on the appeal application today, the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, sitting with Mr Justice John MacMenamin and Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne, said the court would publish a written decision in due course.

Before any appeal can be brought to the Supreme Court, it must find the case raises a legal issue of general public importance or an appeal is desirable in the interests of justice.

The leave application by Sinéad Fitzpatrick, who lives close to the planned development, and Allan Daly, of Athenry, is opposed by the board and Apple. The application follows the High Court’s rejection of their case last October.

Oisín Collins BL, for the objectors, said the board was legally obliged to carry out an environmental impact assessment (EIA) of Apple’s entire “masterplan” for eight data halls, which will increase total demand on the national grid by 6-8 per cent, and not an EIA of just one hall.

The overall grid connection planned at Athenry would have a footprint equal to Dundrum Town Centre but there was no national assessment and no strategic assessment concerning how data centres being built across the country would be supplied with energy, he said.

Something has “gone badly wrong” when the State’s planning board was contending the entire Apple development may not be built until the 2030s so it was therefore not appropriate for the court to look 20 years into the future, he said.

"Solid Science" is being sacrificed for pandering to 'what they will do for the climate.

This graph is outdated by 12 years. It takes time to analyze and publish data to peer reviewed journals. The IPCC needs to publish to the public as soon as possible the loss of breathable oxygen of Earth in recent years. People have a right to know where they stand and make an effort to reverse the crisis.
Ralph Keeling, PI (click here) most probably needs additional qualified staff to move the reporting along. Usually, this kind of stuff is boring and no one really cares if it published ten years after the fact or 1 year after collection, so the staff is probably minimal. But, this is the year 2018, the coral reefs have crashed, the loss of a huge carbon sink, and people have a right to know where they stand with Earth's climate under assault by Human Induced Global Warming.
From 1991 through 2005, (click here) the O2 content of the atmosphere has dropped by 0.00248% (248 per meg) of it's initial amount. The rate is mostly explained by the global combustion of fossil-fuel over this period, although the actual rate is slightly smaller than expected from fossil-fuel alone. The difference evidently reflects a global imballance between photosynthesis and respiration.

The O2/N2 data from flasks collected at Mauna Loa are shown in the plot below. Each point is the average of flasks collected on a given day. A smooth trend consisting of a regular seasonal cycle and a long-term trend is fit to the data. The O2/N2 ratio is expressed in per meg units, which express the relative change in the O2/N2 from a standard ratio, multiplied by 1 million....

Stop pandering to the politicians to try to eek out some kind of climate program. Make the facts clear to the drastic circumstance that continues to build. We lost the coral reefs for god sake, what next?

June 3, 2018
London School of Economics

Policymakers (click here) are being misinformed by the results of economic models that underestimate the future risks of climate change impacts, according to a new journal paper by authors in the United States and the United Kingdom, which is published today (4 June 2018).

The paper in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy calls for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to improve how it analyses the results of economic modelling as it prepares its Sixth Assessment Report, due to be published in 2021 and 2022.

The paper's authors, Thomas Stoerk of the Environmental Defense Fund, Gernot Wagner of the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Bob Ward of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, draw attention to "mounting evidence that current economic models of the aggregate global impacts of climate change are inadequate in their treatment of uncertainty and grossly underestimate potential future risks".

They warn that the "integrated assessment models" used by economists "largely ignore the potential for 'tipping points' beyond which impacts accelerate, become unstoppable, or become irreversible". As a result "they inadequately account for the potential damages from climate change, especially at moderate to high levels of warming", due to rises in global mean temperature of more than 2 Celsius degrees.

The authors draw attention to "a major discrepancy between scientific and economic estimates of the impacts of unmanaged future climate change". They state: "These discrepancies between the physical and the economic impact estimates are large, and they matter. However, physical impacts are often not translated into monetary terms and they have largely been ignored by climate economists."

The paper states that the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report should "strengthen its focus on decision making under uncertainty" and "focus on estimating how the uncertainty itself affects economic and financial cost estimates of climate change"....
May 31, 2018

AIB has teamed up with Sustainable Nation Ireland (click here) and EU public-private partnership EIT Climate-KIC to fund an accelerator programme in Dublin that aims to fight climate change and decarbonise the economy.

The €400,000 programme will last for 18 months, with €350,000 coming from EIT Climate-KIC. Irish entrepreneurs and startups taking part will be encouraged to develop products and services, specifically breakthrough innovations in climate innovation and finance. Participants will have access to world class business coaches and mentors, plus the EIT Climate-KIC European community network. Previous participants in the accelerator include Hexafly and Mimergy

“Irish-located companies are developing innovations that can solve some of the planet’s most pressing climate-related challenges,” said Stephen Nolan, chief executive of Sustainable Nation Ireland.

The accelerator is part of a year long programme by Sustainable Nation Ireland that involves 50 separate events taking place across Ireland, including Europe’s Climate Innovation Summit.

“This partnership between Sustainable Nation and EIT Climate-KIC highlights AIB’s commitment to the Irish renewable energy sector and our intention to support companies to grow, and the country in its transition to a low carbon economy,” said Colin Hunt, AIB’s Managing Director of Wholesale, Institutional and Corporate Banking....

Fisheries are under attack from human plastic garbage.

June 3, 2018
By Hayley Miller

A whale found in a canal in southern Thailand (click herehas died after eating more than 80 plastic bags, according to officials.

The small male pilot whale was barely alive when he was discovered on Monday in the southern province of Songkhla, Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources said. Rescuers attempted to nurse the whale back to health, but he died on Friday after spitting up five plastic bags.

A necropsy revealed over 17 pounds of plastic, including more than 80 plastic bags, in the whale’s stomach.

Jatuporn Buruspat, director-general of the marine and coastal resources department, told Reuters that the whale likely thought the floating plastic bags were food.

Thailand is one of the largest plastic polluters in the world, dumping over 1 million tons of garbage into the sea annually, according to the country’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The ministry announced in September that it was focused on developing a better way to deal with the massive amounts of waste produced by Thailand each year.

At least 300 marine animals, including whales, dolphins and sea turtles, die in Thai waters annually from ingesting plastic, Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biologist and lecturer at Kasetsart University, told The Guardian....
Ireland's Annual Household Income per Capita (click here) reached 26,389.49 USD in Dec 2016, compared with the previous value of 25,567.11 USD in Dec 2015. Ireland's Annual Household Income per Capita data is updated yearly, available from Dec 2003 to Dec 2016, with an averaged value of 27,733.57 USD. The data reached an all-time high of 36,933.70 USD in Dec 2008 and a record low of 19,452.38 USD in Dec 2003. CEIC calculates Annual Household Income per Capita from annual Weekly Average Household Income multiplied by 52, Number of Households and Number of Individuals and converts it into USD. The Central Statistics Office of Ireland provides Average Household Income in EUR, Number of Households and Number of Individuals. Federal Reserve Board average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions.



As a small open economy (click here) Ireland’s financial fortunes are largely dependent on international trade and influenced by global markets.
That means it’s important to build overseas partnerships and being part of the European Union enables Ireland to do just that in solidarity with other Member States.
Before joining the EU in 1973, Ireland’s largely agricultural based economy was choked by its dependence on the UK market.
At that time, industrial trade and international co-operation were becoming the norm and EU membership helped Ireland move towards a modern, free market economy.
The EU’s Single Market environment, together with decisions such as the introduction of low corporate taxes and the development of an Industrial Development Agency (IDA Ireland) to promote Ireland abroad, eventually enabled the new Irish economy to flourish.
One of the difficulties with small open economies like Ireland’s is that they can be vulnerable to global factors and Ireland’s strongest period of economic growth, from the mid ‘90s to the mid ‘00s, was followed by a spectacular crash sparked off by a worldwide financial meltdown.
This led to the Irish Government requesting financial assistance from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), collectively called the troika.
After several difficult years, Ireland’s economy is growing again and the European Union has introduced several new, powerful measures to better protect the economies of Ireland and all Member States from future financial shocks....

What do you believe in? Climate is already good business.





equinor (click here)

We believe a low CO2 footprint is a competitive advantage, providing us with attractive business opportunities in a transition to a lower emission economy.

Equinor acknowledges the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) scientific consensus of the influence human activities have on inducing climate change. Equinor aims to be a part of a global energy transformation and continue to turn natural resources into energy for people and progress for society.

Our strategy focuses on three main areas. We are building a high value and low carbon oil and gas portfolio, we are building a material industrial position in renewable energy and low carbon solutions, and we embed climate risk and performance into our decision-making.

Our Climate Roadmap explains how we plan to achieve our goals and how we will develop our business, in support of the ambitions set out in the Paris climate agreement.            

GHG targets must be adhered to and the economics will become an advantage as the new generational horizon comes into view.

The climate is a paradigm shift. It is not temporary and will result in new economic futures that will benefit future generations, not the quick bubble and bust economies the world has gotten used to. 

June 26, 2018
By Paul Melia

Strong waves on the Irish coast during storms earlier this year

THE economic cost (click here) of sea and river flooding (click here) will treble unless climate change is tackled, a European Commission report has warned.

The impacts of river flooding will be most pronounced in Ireland and the UK if a business-as-usual model is adopted and global warming isn't tackled.

The Joint Research Centre's (JRC) 'Climate Impacts in Europe' report says there will be positive impacts, including a rise in tourism as people flee baking summer heat, and a rise in agricultural production – but economic damage from winter storms will cause crippling bills.

Flooding has resulted in insurers paying out almost €750m in claims since 2000.

The Office of Public Works said an extensive flood relief scheme would be ready for construction by the end of next year, but the JRC report suggests that further devastation will occur in other towns and cities if temperatures rise by 3.5C by the end of the century.

Even if policies aimed at mitigating against the worst affects are adapted, which could result in the EU's target of limiting temperature rise to 2C, major economic costs would arise....

It is going to be a very expensive year for French wines.

May 21, 2018
By Nicole Bonaccorso

A picture taken on May 26, 2018 shows a vine damaged and without leaves in a vineyard in Macau, near Bordeaux following a violent storm in the region. The series of storms in the Bordeaux region ruined thousands of acres of vineyards

Hailstorms ravaged parts of France's (click here) Champagne, Bordeaux and Cognac regions this spring, the latest occuring Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27 in the Bordeaux and Champagne regions respecitively. The hailstorms, which also occured in late April and throughout the month of May, have wiped out a reported eight million bottles' worth of grapes that would have been used to make champagne, according to The Telegraph.

Wine connoisseurs lament as the news comes just a week after hail devastated thousands of acres of Bordeaux vineyards. The same storm damaged thousands of acres in the Cognac region as well, Wine Enthusiast reported. Some winegrowers in the region lost their entire crop for the season.

Vins de Bordeaux, the Bordeaux wine counsel, said, according to Wine Enthusiast, that the event was "all the more dramatic as many of the affected winemakers had already suffered the consequences of the spring frost (late April 2017), which had partially or totally destroyed their harvest."

The lastest storm has damaged 40 to 80 percent of some areas' crops in Bordeaux, according to assessments published at Decanter.com. Overall, 17,544 acres of vines were impacted in the region. In Champagne, a reported 4,500 acres were damaged, and three percent of the region's growing area has been completely destroyed.

"The intensity of the storm is unprecedented," Bourg winemaker Pierre-Henry Cosyns said. "The next day, the ice had still not completely melted."

Champagne Committee communications director Thibault Le Mailloux told The Telegraph that the weekend's hail came at a particularly vulnerable time for the vines, as they were just beginning to flower.

Some experts are comparing this season to the 2013 vintage, which was considered one of the most complicated in the previous 30 years due to a cold, rainy spring that year. 

The Irish are motivated to return dignity and reasonable governance to Ireland.

June 1, 2018
By John Gibbons

Democracy, said George Bernard Shaw (click here), “is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve”. For all its many strengths, democracy suffers some egregious flaws. The ability of powerful interest groups, be they political, economic or ideological to “capture” the democratic process and to drown out genuine deliberation in the white noise of spin and fake news represents a clear threat to the healthy functioning of any democracy.

This is where deliberative democracy comes in. The concept that underpins it is the notion that democracy cannot simply be the process of counting ballots after a shouting match. True democracy requires that people make informed decisions, guided by the best available evidence, freed as far as possible from the bullying and badgering of special interests.

It would be naive in the extreme to imagine that such a utopian democratic process could be applied to entire populations. The mob that howled and jeered throughout the recent Claire Byrne Live television debate would quickly dispel any notion that well informed, calm deliberation of complex and contentious issues occurs spontaneously, or is even easy to create.

Difficult, yes, but not impossible. Then taoiseach Enda Kenny in November 2015 made a fateful pre-election promise to convene a citizen’s convention to tease out a number of thorny social and political issues, and to bring forward recommendations for the Oireachtas to discuss and debate through its committee system....
June 3, 2018
By Brian Donegan

- An EF3 tornado touched down near Gillette, Wyoming, on Friday. (click here)
- Significant damage was observed in the Oriva Hills subdivision, where two were injured.
- The last EF3/F3 or stronger tornado to occur in Wyoming was in 1987.

A rare EF3 tornado touched down in Wyoming Friday afternoon, the first time an EF3/F3 or stronger tornado has been confirmed in the state since 1987.


The twister touched down around 1:44 p.m. MDT some 10 miles west-northwest of Gillette, Wyoming. It was on the ground for approximately eight minutes as it traveled in an east-northeast direction over the Oriva Hills subdivision, the National Weather Service said.


This was only the 10th EF3/F3 or stronger tornado to tear through Wyoming in records dating to 1950, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The last occurrence was nearly 31 years ago on July 21, 1987, when an F4 tornado touched down in Teton County, Wyoming.

The tornado sirens were activated but did not function properly, the Campbell County government wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday....
This is the Irish EPA.

The EPA’s Climate Change Research Programme (click here) carries out relevant and up to date studies on climate change in Ireland.  Analysis of the meteorological records shows that Ireland’s climate is changing in line with global patterns.

Temperature Trend

The clearest trend is evident in the temperature records which show a mean temperature increase of 0.7o C between 1890 and 2008, i.e. an increase of 0.06o C per decade. The increase was 0.4o C during the period 1980-2008, i.e. equivalent to 0.14o C per decade.

Ocean Acidification

In more recent years, another significant issue has emerged. Ocean Acidification will have harmful effects on marine organisms and has the potential to disrupt global marine ecosystems. For more information see the Marine Institute's report "Ocean Acidification: An Emerging Threat to our Marine Environment."

Future Adverse Impacts

Climate change impacts are projected to increase in the coming decades and during the rest of this century. Uncertainties remain in relation to the scale and extent of these impacts, particularly during the second half of the century. The greatest uncertainly lies in how effective global actions will be in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Predicted adverse impacts include:

- sea level rise,

- more intense storms and rainfall events,

- increased likelihood and magnitude of river and coastal flooding and

- water shortages in summer in the east

 - adverse impacts on water quality

- changes in distribution of plant and animal species

- effects on fisheries sensitive to changes in temperature
It's Sunday Night

FG candidate Emma Kiernan center and her pals on Facebook

30 May 2009

The 'Fine Girl' (click here) at the centre of a new picturegate controversy is quickly becoming a worldwide sensation.

Kildare election hopeful Emma Kiernan now has her own dedicated Facebook fan club and infamous blogger Guido Fawkes has even endorsed the candidate.

Emma shot to national fame after a chain mail featuring her photograph began to circulate in offices around the country.

The photograph, which was taken at a friends 30th birthday party, shows Ms Kiernan and two friends in a more than playful pose.

It was originally posted on a friend's Facebook page but was quickly lifted and emailed around the Republic.

And while Ms Kiernan's friend removed the image when they became aware of the chain mail, others have now set up a new page dedicated solely to the picture.

The new site was an instant hit and already has more than 250 fans.

The Irish don't consider racy photos a serious impediment to a political career.

When were you happiest? (click here)
On June 6 when I found out I had been elected to Newbridge Town Council.

What is your greatest fear?
Snakes, and pigeons. I would cross a road to avoid a pigeon.

What is your earliest memory?
I was three and I made a Humpty Dumpty out of a boiled egg. I left the room and when I came back it was gone. My dad said 'all the king's horses and all the king's men' had taken my egg!

Which living person do you most admire?
Both of my parents, I couldn't pick one of them.

What characteristic do you most dislike in yourself?
A bad temper and a short fuse.

What do you most dislike in others?
I can't stand laziness.

What would your super-power be?
Shapeshifting, so I could become anything I wanted to be, like something from X Men.

What is the part of your body you least like?
My bum, I think it's too big.

What is your favourite smell?
I love the smell of apple shampoo.

What is the greatest insult you've ever had directed at you?
Recently, I was told that I had set back the feminist movement 20 years and that Michael Collins (click here) would be spinning in his grave [when Facebook pictures of Emma appeared in the papers].

Who or what is the love of your life?
He'll kill me for saying this but it's my boyfriend Conor Connolly: he's in the Army.

What living person do you most dislike?
Osama Bin Laden. I was in America when 9/11 happened and it was just so horrific.

What is the biggest lie you've ever told?
That I'm a size 8.

What do you consider the most over-rated virtue?
Patience -- sometimes you can have too much and people take advantage.

If there was a film made of your life, who would play you?
It would have to be a redhead, so someone like Isla Fisher.

What characteristics have you inherited from your parents?
Patience from my dad and my mum can be very passionate so I think I've inherited that from her.

Three people you would invite to your dream dinner party?
Former US President George Bush, I have a lot of questions I'd like to ask him; Michael Collins and Ron Paul, an American senator who works on the campaign for liberty.

When did you last cry?
This morning when I got up too quickly at the copy machine and dropped a box of paper on my toe.

What keeps you awake at night?
Thinking about work. My day job is working in recruitment and it can be quite stressful. My new job as a councillor isn't keeping me awake at night -- yet!

What is the worst job you've done?

Handing out leaflets in the sweltering heat in San Francisco. Because I'm a redhead I just kept getting more and more burned because we were out all day and I couldn't get shelter from the sun.

Ireland National anthem Vocal

The National Anthem of Ireland

"Amhrán na bhFiann"

"The Soldiers' Song"

Seo dhibh a chairde duan Oglaigh, 
Cathreimeach briomhar ceolmhar, 
Ar dtinte cnamh go buacach taid, 
'S an speir go min realtogach 
Is fonnmhar faobhrach sinn chun gleo 
'S go tiunmhar gle roimh thiocht do'n lo 
Fe chiunas chaomh na hoiche ar seol: 
Seo libh canaidh Amhran na bhFiann 

We'll sing song, a soldier's song,
With cheering rousing chorus,
As round our blazing fires we throng,
The starry heavens o'er us; 

Impatient for the coming fight,
And as we wait the morning's light,
Here in the silence of the night,
We'll chant a soldier's song. 


Sinne Firnna Fail 
A ta fe gheall ag Eirinn, 
buion dar slua 
Thar toinn do rainig chugainn, 
Fe mhoid bheith saor. 
Sean tir ar sinsir feasta 
Ni fhagfar fe'n tioran na fe'n trail 
Anocht a theam sa bhearna bhaoil, 
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun bais no saoil 
Le guna screach fe lamhach na bpilear 
Seo libh canaidh Amhran na bhFiann. 

Soldiers are we 
whose lives are pledged to Ireland; 
Some have come 
from a land beyond the wave. 
Sworn to be free, 
No more our ancient sire land 
Shall shelter the despot or the slave. 
Tonight we man the gap of danger 
In Erin's cause, come woe or weal 
'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, 
We'll chant a soldier's song 

Cois banta reidhe, ar ardaibh sleibhe, 
Ba bhuachach ar sinsir romhainn, 
Ag lamhach go trean fe'n sar-bhrat sein 
Ta thuas sa ghaoith go seolta 
Ba dhuchas riamh d'ar gcine chaidh 
Gan iompail siar o imirt air, 
'S ag siul mar iad i gcoinne namhad 
Seo libh, canaidh Amhran na bhFiann 

In valley green, on towering crag,
Our fathers fought before us,
And conquered 'neath the same old flag
That's proudly floating o'er us.
We're children of a fighting race,
That never yet has known disgrace,
And as we march, the foe to face,
We'll chant a soldier's song 


Sinne Firnna Fail 
A ta fe gheall ag Eirinn, 
buion dar slua 
Thar toinn do rainig chugainn, 
Fe mhoid bheith saor. 
Sean tir ar sinsir feasta 
Ni fhagfar fe'n tioran na fe'n trail 
Anocht a theam sa bhearna bhaoil, 
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun bais no saoil 
Le guna screach fe lamhach na bpilear 
Seo libh canaidh Amhran na bhFiann.

Soldiers are we 
whose lives are pledged to Ireland; 
Some have come 
from a land beyond the wave. 
Sworn to be free, 
No more our ancient sire land 
Shall shelter the despot or the slave. 
Tonight we man the gap of danger 
In Erin's cause, come woe or weal 
'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, 
We'll chant a soldier's song 

A bhuion nach fann d'fhuil Ghaeil is Gall, 
Sin breacadh lae na saoirse, 
Ta sceimhle 's scanradh i gcroithe namhad, 
Roimh ranna laochra ar dtire. 
Ar dtinte is treith gan spreach anois, 
Sin luisne ghle san speir anoir, 
'S an biobha i raon na bpilear agaibh: 
Seo libh, canaidh Amhran na bh Fiann. 

Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale!
The long watched day is breaking;
The serried ranks of Inisfail
Shall set the Tyrant quaking.
Our camp fires now are burning low;
See in the east a silv'ry glow,
Out yonder waits the Saxon foe,
So chant a soldier's song. 


Sinne Firnna Fail 
A ta fe gheall ag Eirinn, 
buion dar slua 
Thar toinn do rainig chugainn, 
Fe mhoid bheith saor. 
Sean tir ar sinsir feasta 
Ni fhagfar fe'n tioran na fe'n trail 
Anocht a theam sa bhearna bhaoil, 
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun bais no saoil 
Le guna screach fe lamhach na bpilear 
Seo libh canaidh Amhran na bhFiann. 

Soldiers are we 
whose lives are pledged to Ireland; 
Some have come 
from a land beyond the wave. 
Sworn to be free, 
No more our ancient sire land 
Shall shelter the despot or the slave. 
Tonight we man the gap of danger 
In Erin's cause, come woe or weal 
'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, 
We'll chant a soldier's song