There is No Planet B: an IFSC Walking Tour in a Time of Climate Breakdown (Video)

29 October 2026

As part of Culture Night 2026, Financial Justice Ireland hosted There Is No Planet B: An IFSC Walking Tour in a Time of Climate Breakdown.

Our walking tour was organised by Darragh Deighan-Gregory of Financial Justice Ireland in collaboration with Culture Night Dublin and contributors from the Young Members Committee of Unite the Union, Christian Aid Ireland, Comhlámh, Friends of the Earth Ireland, the European Commission Expert Group on Farmland, Community Action Tenants Union, Global Citizenship Education facilitators and the arts.

After a summer of terrifying heatwaves that brought drought, wildfires and an alarming loss of life, we wanted our walking tour to explore the connections between Dublin's financial district and ecological breakdown. Our speakers invited us to consider how the IFSC plays an outsized role in setting our planet ablaze with wildfires, guzzling fossil fuels with dirty investments and diverting clean energy into limitless data centre expansion. Yet despite the stark theme, those who spoke during our tour showed us how we can resist these interlocking crises by illuminating pathways to a just transition that prioritises human flourishing and well-being over profit, growth-at-all-costs economic thinking, and ecological devastation.

We were delighted to be joined by folk musician Seán McKenna, who accompanied us and performed ballads along the tour's route.

List of sites, topics and speakers:

  1. James Connolly Memorial/Liberty Hall - There is No Planet B - Mair Kelly, Young Members Committee of Unite the Union & Darragh Deighan-Gregory, Financial Justice Ireland
  2. Custom House - Climate Damages & Tax Justice - Seán McLoughlin, Christian Aid Ireland
  3. IFSC House -Who Gets to Decide What Justice Looks Like? Living in the contradictions of climate justice - Bronwyn April, Comhlámh and The Cost of Data Centre Expansion - Rosi Leonard, Data Centre Campaign Lead, Friends of the Earth Ireland
  4. Famine Memorial - Food and Energy Security - Daniel Long, Member of the European Expert Land Advisory Group and artist Neltah Chadamoyo
  5. Mayor Street - Sustainability and Solidarity - Adedotun Adekeye, GCE facilitator
  6. Hibernia REIT - Secure Homes and Sustainable Communities - poet Rafael Mendes and Helen Moynihan, Community Action Tenants Union

This event was co-funded by the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Financial Justice Ireland and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.