Article Category: Fowl Emissions

‘NATIONAL’ DAIRY COUNCIL’S PR FROTH

May 6, 2021
IS IT a sign of growing confidence or blind panic that Ireland’s dairy industry has just unveiled yet another major marketing blitz to woo... Read more »

‘EXAMINER’ SEES RED ON GREEN COLUMN

April 22, 2021
IT’S ALWAYS a little embarrassing when a newspaper removes an opinion column from its online edition after publication. Embarrassing both for the journalist and... Read more »

AN TAISCE TARGETED

April 8, 2021
KILDARE FARMER Thomas Reid has fought a long battle against the proposed €3.6bn extension of the Intel computer facility, including against An Bord Pleanála’s... Read more »

RYAN BIDENS HIS TIME

March 25, 2021
JOE BIDEN is enjoying a reputation as something of an environmental hero, and to a degree this is merited – in the opening weeks... Read more »

AGRI-ANGER

March 11, 2021
HELL HATH no fury like an agri-committee scorned. The recent decision by the Environmental Pillar (EP), representing 26 eNGOs, to withdraw from the industry-dominated... Read more »

FF GREENER THAN RYAN?

February 25, 2021
“PASSING THIS legislation … means we can now move away from fossil fuels and give our complete focus to our plans to transition to... Read more »

CLIMATE COUNCIL CHANGES

February 11, 2021
SWEEPING CHANGES at the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) bode well for future climate action, especially with far fewer economists being involved. In Ireland... Read more »

CETA: RYAN RULES

January 28, 2021
BACK IN 2017, when Green Party leader Eamon Ryan was front and centre in the civil society campaign against CETA, the EU-Canada trade deal,... Read more »

FISHY EU BUSINESS

December 16, 2020
“EU SUPERTRAWLER hell as dolphins killed!” screamed a Daily Express headline last week. The image of foreigners catching British fish and killing British dolphins... Read more »

THE MOO CREW

December 3, 2020
GIVE ME a child until seven and I will give you the man. That old Jesuit slogan has been clearly taken to heart by... Read more »

CAP SELL-OUT

November 5, 2020
“Today the European Parliament will vote on how we produce our food for the next seven years,” tweeted Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan. “The decisions MEPs... Read more »

WEAK CLIMATE BILL

October 22, 2020
Earlier this year, the Green Party fought a running battle with its internal dissenters when pushing through its endorsement of the Programme for Government.... Read more »

PREDATORY FRACKERS

October 8, 2020
At first glance, John Mullins’s journey from his €400,000-a-year job as head of Bord Gáis to running his own renewable energy company, Amarenco Solar,... Read more »

RYAN LEAVES DOOR OPEN

October 8, 2020
A law to ban new oil and gas exploration licences “would be a historic change” and an inspiration “for the rest of the world”,... Read more »

FLANN O’BRIEN LOGIC

August 27, 2020
Joy was unconfined in dairy circles with the recent exciting news that good old-fashioned cows’ milk was “better for the environment” than those das-tardly... Read more »

COOL COURT CLIMATE

August 13, 2020
Imagine ordinary citizens being able to take the government to court to hold them to account for their climate inaction. That was the appalling... Read more »

FORK OFF CLIMATE DEFENDERS

July 30, 2020
The EU Commission’s recently issued bombshell ‘Food to Fork’ strategy amounted to a radical demand for a complete re-think of how agriculture is to... Read more »

WIND OF CHANGE?

July 16, 2020
For the past six weeks, a socially distanced protest camp has blocked construction of a wind farm at Carrigdangan in Co Cork. It’s one... Read more »