Article Category: Fowl Emissions

FOR THE BIRDS

September 20, 2018
Being a Kerry politician can’t be easy, competing for attention in an airspace dominated... Read more »

BLUESHIRTS GO ALL GREEN

September 6, 2018
They say it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to... Read more »

TRUMP SAVES GAS TERMINAL

August 23, 2018
DONALD TRUMP is the latest addition to the list of entities conspiring to help... Read more »

SEAN KYNE AND PUTIN

July 26, 2018
WHEN Donegal Independent TD Thomas Pringle’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill passed its final stage... Read more »

VARIABLE EVELYN

July 12, 2018
THE ONGOING heatwave seems to have got people over at Met Éireann HQ in... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

June 28, 2018
“PLEASE IGNORE the email you received earlier!” It’s a subject line that’s guaranteed to... Read more »

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

June 13, 2018
FOR YEARS, whiny environmental types have been warning repeatedly that the Irish state is... Read more »

PHIL THE FARMER

May 31, 2018
HAS PHIL “The Fixer” Hogan discarded the green jersey of the Irish farming sector... Read more »

BOG STANDARD RTÉ PROGRAMME

May 17, 2018
“THIS IS the story of Ireland’s best kept secret.” So RTÉ’s Derek Mooney began... Read more »

WHAT SHELL KNEW

May 3, 2018
When Shell took over Corrib Gas in 2002, it surely did not foresee the... Read more »

POOR CHILLY SODDEN FARMERS

April 19, 2018
CRISIS, what crisis? It seems like only yesterday when our media was awash with... Read more »

PLASTIC PADDIES

April 5, 2018
THE dutiful consumers of Ireland are being enlisted as (polite) eco-warriors for one day... Read more »

LEO’S WINDY ‘JOKE’

March 22, 2018
There was much to cringe over in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s lame attempt to curry... Read more »

WHEN IS A DECISION NOT A DECISION?

March 8, 2018
WHEN IT comes to getting big dirty fossil fuel infrastructure past the various political... Read more »

PIPELINE TIMELINE

March 6, 2018
IN 2016, when Enda Kenny’s economic adviser Andrew McDowell became Ireland’s nominee for the... Read more »

MERLIN NAUGHTEN

February 22, 2018
IT’S NO secret that wishful thinking remains the main policy weapon the government deploys... Read more »

Sacred Cows

February 22, 2018
The government’s new national development plan had that “one for everyone in the audience”... Read more »

O’Reilly digs deep

February 8, 2018
YOU HAVE to feel sorry for those intrepid oil and gas explorers under constant... Read more »

Paddy Power’s gas terminal

February 8, 2018
EU countries can burn gas for just nine more years before exhausting their share... Read more »

CLIMATE: IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK!

January 25, 2018
WHEN IT comes to addressing climate change, the twin buzzwords are mitigation and adaptation.... Read more »

COASTING TO DISASTER

January 11, 2018
AT 1km long, Donald Trump’s Irish wall doesn’t enjoy quite as much global infamy... Read more »

AGRI-PR FAILS TO CONVINCE

December 14, 2017
PHIL HOGAN is about the last person you’d expect to find socking it to... Read more »

IRELAND IS THE WORST IN EUROPE

November 30, 2017
BILLS TO ban fossil fuel exploration are like buses: you wait years for one... Read more »

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE

November 2, 2017
WHEN ALL else fails, take them to court. Yet again, it falls to the... Read more »

IRELAND LEADS FROM REAR

October 19, 2017
When cost to Ireland of Storm Ophelia’s fury is calculated, will that figure feature... Read more »