Article Category: Fowl Emissions

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 »

DRILL, BABY, DRILL!

January 9, 2025

Just before Christmas Donald Trump ordered the EU to step up imports of US oil and gas. “Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the... Read more »

TREASONOUS AN TAISCE!

December 12, 2024

Shortly before the election, Independent TD Mattie McGrath introduced a bill in the Dáil aimed at stripping heritage charity An Taisce of its... Read more »

HOW PARTIES RATE ON CLIMATE

November 28, 2024

It’s a political truism that the electorate is far more concerned about the end of the month than the end of the world,... Read more »

HARRIS/FITZMAURICE AGREE ON AGRI

October 31, 2024

With the general election just weeks away, competition is hotting up as to which politician can most cravenly capitulate to special-interest lobbying from... Read more »

GREENS’ AN TAISCE PLANNING BILL

October 17, 2024

“A shameful attack on good work has been massively defeated.” So said Green TD Steven Matthews last week on X, celebrating... Read more »