Article Category: Fowl Emissions

ENGINEERS: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

June 4, 2026

The government has of late been lurching aimlessly in its energy policy, with Micheál Martin’s curious late-career dalliance with nuclear energy being just... Read more »

DATA CENTRE CANNIBALS

May 21, 2026

“Cannibalising” is a word not commonly seen in government-level reports but that’s how the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) has described the impact... Read more »

TRUMP’S GREEN REVOLUTION

May 7, 2026

Ireland’s long-overdue renewable energy revolution is now in full swing, with sales of electric vehicles more than doubling last month compared to April... Read more »

HEALY-RAE’S FOREST FABLES

April 23, 2026

Michael Healy-Rae’s resignation last week as junior minister for forestry came as a blow to his fans in Ireland’s commercial forestry industry. Happily,... Read more »

DATA CENTRE BOOST DEEPENS CRISIS

April 9, 2026

As Ireland hunkers down for long-term energy disruption due to the Iran war, while bracing for ever more severe impacts from climate-fuelled extreme... Read more »

BAR COUNCIL WARNS AGAINST COST CAP

March 26, 2026

LAST MONTH the Law Library held a diplomatic conference for Government members and their advisors on The Accelerating Infrastructure Report and Action Plan.... Read more »

GIBBONS WARNS THE EARTH

March 12, 2026

In March last year, EU preparedness and crisis management commissioner Hadja Lahbib warned all Europeans to ensure they have adequate supplies of critical... Read more »

NIALL CUSSEN HOLDS BACK THE TIDE

February 26, 2026

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) has been busy regulating councillors across the country who seem hell-bent on zoning flood plains for... Read more »

AGRI-LOBBY FRENZY

February 12, 2026

The farmers are revolting. Fresh from strong-arming the Government into securing a new derogation from the EU’s anti-pollution Nitrates Directive, followed by their... Read more »

SOLAR PANEL REBELS

January 29, 2026

Cork’s rebel spirit is being invoked to resist an 800-acre development near Killeagh village in the east of the county. But what’s being... Read more »

TOO MUCH INFORMATION

January 15, 2026

RESEARCH PUBLISHED by University College Cork in early December pointed to the “alarming” climate impact of the glut of data centres being built... Read more »

MARTIN’S PRIORITIES

December 11, 2025

Scientists have for decades speculated about what would happen should the powerful system of submarine ocean currents that keep north-western Europe habitable collapse.... Read more »

PAT KENNY ON CLIMATE CHANGE

November 27, 2025

It’s not that long ago that Pat Kenny’s radio show was a bastion of climate scepticism. As recently as 15 years ago on... Read more »

CONNOLLY’S CLIMATE CURVE

October 30, 2025

Directly after the final TV debate of the presidential campaign, Prime Time presenters Sarah McInerney and Miriam O’Callaghan took part in a live... Read more »

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 »