Article Category: Fowl Emissions

MARTIN’S CLIMATE CURVE

October 16, 2025

Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in November 2021 in the starkest possible terms of the gravity of the... Read more »

HEYDON ARGUES FOR EXCEPTIONAL IRISH

October 2, 2025

AT THE UN General Assembly on September 23 Donald Trump took aim at climate regulation, telling over 150 world leaders that climate change... Read more »

DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S FLIGHTS OF FANCY

September 18, 2025

There is something almost nostalgic to see a north Dublin Fianna Fáil TD engaging in the kind of cute hoorism around climate change... Read more »

SDLP MUDDIES WATER

September 4, 2025

LOUGH NEAGH has emerged as the number one late-summer destination for the north’s political leaders, with high-profile visits in recent days by the... Read more »

GAS AND MIRRORS

August 21, 2025

A whopping 40% of global warming to date is due to methane emissions. This gas is extremely potent, with a warming impact per... Read more »

TRUMP ENERGY DEAL

August 7, 2025

Ursula von der Leyen’s recent trade deal capitulation to Donald Trump was humiliating on several grounds but the most farcical element was her... Read more »

MILK WAY

July 24, 2025

Fat-filled milk powder (FFMP) is the biggest Irish export you’ve never heard of. While it can’t be legally described in the EU as... Read more »

BEYOND PR

July 24, 2025

BACK IN 2000, energy giant BP announced that in future its initials would now stand for ‘Beyond Petroleum’, rather than the outdated ‘British... Read more »

ÁRAS CANDIDATES CLIMATE CHECK

July 10, 2025

Environmentalists may have breathed a small sigh of relief at Joe Duffy’s announcement last weekend that he would not be running for the... Read more »

DARRAGH O’BRIEN’S DOPPELGÄNGER

June 26, 2025

These are trying times for climate minister Darragh O’Brien, as his doppelgänger, transport minister Darragh O’Brien, continually tries to undermine his every effort... Read more »

GOVERNMENT DATA BULLIES

June 12, 2025

In a chilling public display of loyalty to our Big Tech overlords, Fianna Fáil heavyweights have been putting the boot into a senior... Read more »

GREAT GAS

May 29, 2025

It must be a head-spinning time to work for Gas Networks Ireland (GNI), the semi-state company responsible for operating Ireland’s fossil gas grid.... Read more »

GOLD MINE PROJECT FOYLED AGAIN

May 15, 2025

In a saga of government department hypocrisy that Strabane man Brian O’Nolan (aka Myles na gCopaleen) may have considered perfect fodder for his... Read more »

CLIMATE NEUTRALITY ‘WISHFUL THINKING’

May 1, 2025

When it comes to Ireland’s energy transition, “wishful thinking needs to be replaced by the realities of engineering, finance and project delivery”. So... Read more »

ESRI BLAMESFARM LOBBY

April 17, 2025

The latest research from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) had some fascinating insights into how climate change is perceived by both... Read more »

‘LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD’

April 3, 2025

“A victory for common sense over ideological dogma,” was Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher’s response to An Bord Pleanála’s recent decision to grant... Read more »

CLIMATE: NEW ERA

March 6, 2025

WITH COLOSSAL EU fines of €26bn coming down the tracks, it is at least comforting to look across the Atlantic at Elon Musk’s... Read more »

HERE COMES SUMMER

February 20, 2025

“What’s summer anymore?” That’s the question posed by one of around 200 farmers who took part in a recent research project run by... Read more »

STORMY WEATHER WE’RE HAVING

February 6, 2025

Storm Éowyn elicited an array of knee-jerk reactions, but Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins’s was in a league of its own. “We need,... Read more »

TRUMP RULES HERE TOO

January 23, 2025

IT HAS long been understood that the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael element of the outgoing coalition Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming... Read more »