🎄✨ A Heartfelt Thank You from Dark Sky Ireland! ✨🌟 As we look back on an incredible year of supporting and preserving the beauty of our dark skies, we want to extend a huge thank you to all our amazing supporters, partners, and communities. Your passion and dedication help us make every starry night brighter. 🎅🏼🌙 Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with wonder, peace, and the magic of the night sky. ✨ Let's continue to protect the beauty of the cosmos and share the awe of the dark skies in 2024. 🌌💫 #DarkSkies #DarkSkyIreland #EndLightPollution #UnderOneSky #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear #Stargazing #DarkSkyConservation #StarryNights #ThankYou #newyearwishes
Dark Sky Ireland
Environmental Quality Programs
Dark Sky Ireland is a voluntary group established to raise awareness of light pollution on the island of Ireland.
About us
We are a voluntary organisation working to ensure Ireland's night skyscapes are celebrated, restored and protected for present and future generations of all living things
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https://www.darksky.ie/
External link for Dark Sky Ireland
- Industry
- Environmental Quality Programs
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Newport
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2019
- Specialties
- Dark Skies, Light Pollution, Astronomy, Environmental Awareness, Biodiversity, and Dark Sky Ireland
Locations
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Primary
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Newport, IE
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Newport, IE
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✨Natural darkness is so important to our health & wellbeing and to the natural world around us. Read the wonderful blog post below from Megan Eaves, Nightscape Editor as she discuses darkness for wellbeing. #darksky #endlightpollution #alan2025
Natural darkness plays a vital role in ensuring quality sleep! Exposure to artificial light at night can disrupt your body's production of melatonin, the hormone that helps regulate sleep. Embracing the natural rhythm of darkness not only improves sleep but also supports your overall health and wellbeing. Check out our blog post by Nightscape Editor Megan Eaves that discusses darkness for wellbeing. https://bit.ly/3Avczyc #DarkSky #ProtectTheNight #DiscoverTheNight #DarkSkyInternational #SaveTheNight #NightMatters #LightPollution #DarkSkyAdvocate #Nightscape
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💫Please join us in congratulating our fellow Dark Sky Ireland Committee Member Kate McAney on receiving the Aoibheann Gaughran Award. This award is so well deserved for all of Kates’s incredible hard work and dedication in conservation!
AOIBHEANN GAUGHRAN AWARD WINNER We are delighted to announce the winner of the award is...... Dr Kate McAney 🎉 Congratulations and thanks for everything you have done and continue to do for Irish bats 👏🦇 Kate McAney Vincent Wildlife Trust Dark Sky Ireland
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✨We are honoured to be attending our first Carmichael Ireland Good Governance Awards on Thursday evening! 🍾Good luck to all of our fellow nominees, we can't wait for the celebrations! #GoodGovernance #darkskyireland #darksky
🏆Don't forget to book your ticket for the Good Governance Awards this Thursday ✨ 📆 November 21st ⏰5.30-8.00pm 📍Chartered Accountants Ireland House, Pearse St. Dublin 2 D02 YN40 . Tickets are free but registration is required 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/eJHhxTQQ #GGA2024 #goodgovernanceawards
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Don't miss this online Dark Sky Event from The EUROPARC Federation this week. Register via the post below✨
🔉Upcoming EUROPARC Webinar - Living Dark Landscapes: Dark sky initatives across Europe 📅 21st of November ⏰ 11:00 CET Dark Sky Parks offer a unique blend of environmental, educational, and cultural value. They serve as crucial habitats for wildlife, fostering biodiversity by preserving natural rhythms that are disrupted by artificial light. This webinar provides pragmatic solutions to improve lighting as well as inspirations for joint activities, that can be implemented in any other Protected Area or Park. Join this webinar to learn more on existing initiatives and the International Dark Sky Certifications.👉 Registration is free, but required so sign up now! Link: https://lnkd.in/ewq9GvWE #EUROPARC #ProtectedAreas #DarkSkyParks DarkSky
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🌍✨Dark Sky Ireland’s Board and Committee members are committed to raising awareness about light pollution and the need to protect our precious Dark Skies. Through extensive research both locally and globally, combined with hands-on effort, we're making progress on this vital issue. 📰Check out this insightful article by DSI Director, Georgia MacMillan, published by RTE Brainstorm on November 6th. We’d love your help in spreading the word, so we can push for real action on light pollution legislation in Ireland. 🔗https://lnkd.in/e4QrkJSX #DarkSkyIreland #LightPollution #darkskies #endlightpollution #SDGsIrl #RTEBrainstorm #UnderOneSky #alan2025
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✨DarkSky International have recently announced the DARK SKY AWARD WINNERS FOR 2024 and we’re thrilled to report that not 1, but 2 awards went to Irish Dark Sky Ambassadors. 🏆Mayo Dark Sky Park at Wild Nephin National Park has been awarded DARK SKY PLACE OF THE YEAR for it's outstanding dedication to dark-sky conservation and education, engaging nearly 30,000 visitors annually while collaborating with local communities groups at Friends of Mayo Dark Skies to reduce light pollution. 🥇And our amazing six young friends, the NIGHT OWLS under the leadership of Martina Kilian from Nature Inspires in Sligo have received the RISING STAR AWARD for their remarkable enthusiasm and commitment to dark sky conservation through their innovative ECO-UNESCO education project, "Embracing the Dark". 🤩We are so proud of these amazing Irish Dark Sky Ambassadors for promoting Ireland on the International stage, who have made incredible strides in protecting our Irish Nightscapes and are doing invaluable work in raising awareness about light pollution. 👏Please join us in celebrating their amazing success on the International Stage by sharing their work far and wide and sending them messages of congratulations! 🔗If you would like to read more about all of the 2024 inspiring award recipients and their impactful work around the globe check out the blog post from DarkSky International https://bit.ly/3O44Hrb and let’s continue working together to preserve the beauty of natural darkness! #UniteForTheNight #underonesky2024 #UnderOneSky #darksky #ProtectTheNight #DiscovertheNight #savethenight #nightmatters #lightpollution #DarkSkyAdvocate #alan2025 #halftheparkisafterdark
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Great tips from Leave No Trace Ireland for protecting and restoring our Nocturnal Biodiversity 🌿🪲🦇 #endlightpollution #UnderOneSky
While we are tucked up in our beds, nocturnal pollinators like this November Moth carry on their important work to pollinate crops and plants and keep our ecosystems healthy ✨ Yet more and more are prevented from doing so. Light pollution is becoming one of the big drivers of decline in nocturnal pollinators, with researchers recently finding that the brightness of the sky is increasing by 10% every year! Our #SimpleActions this #WildlifeWednesday to protect our Nocturnal Pollinators are: 🌜 Close blinds or curtains at night 🌜 Minimise outdoor light use 🌜 Increase native plants that provide nectar for nocturnal pollinators Check out this new fantastic Nocturnal Pollinators Guide by National Biodiversity Data Centre, and follow Dark Sky Ireland for more on protecting our night skies 🌌 https://lnkd.in/epcTKYQg #NocturnalPollinators #Biodiversity #LightPollution #PollinatorConservation #NatureConservation
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💫Dark Sky Ireland are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Carmichael Good Governance Awards. Thank you so much to the team at Carmichael , we can’t wait to celebrate with all the nominees on Awards Night🍾 The Heritage Council Community Foundation Ireland DarkSky Leave No Trace Ireland
📣We are delighted to announce the finalists in Category 1 for the Good Governance Awards. ✨This category is for organisations with an annual turnover of less than €100,000. 🙌Congratulations and good luck to CPI Chronic Pain Ireland, Community Connect Ireland, Dark Sky Ireland and Ireland In Arabic. 🏆The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on November 21st 👇 https://lnkd.in/eMJPiW5A #GGA2024 #GoodGovernanceAwards
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Dark Sky Ireland reposted this
🌌 Mayo Dark Sky Festival returns tomorrow for a stellar weekend of events across Newport, Mulranny, and Ballycroy! 🌠✨ 🔭 Highlights include talks on Ireland’s first satellite 🛰️, Carl Sagan’s legacy 🌌, fusion energy, and more. 🎟️ Fun for all ages with planetarium shows, stargazing, and workshops ! More info at Mayo Dark Sky Festival website - www.MayoDarkSkyFestival.ie #darkskyireland #mayodarkskies #leavenotrace #SDGsIRL
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