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BRUTON’S BOMBSHELL

August 22, 2019
With the political focus on urgent climate mitigation, a deep retrofit is probably the most effective single action an average Irish family could take... Read more »

“JUDGEMENTAL” QUINN

August 22, 2019
What is it about articulate females that gets ultra-Catholics into such a lather? Iona Institute director David Quinn has shown an extraordinary interest in... Read more »

NOT SO CANNEY

August 8, 2019
Bono and Mary Robinson are among the famous faces wheeled out as part of Ireland’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council... Read more »

FOR PEAT’S SAKE!

August 8, 2019
When it comes to failing on climate dialogue, it would be hard to beat the mess over Ireland’s peat and coal burning power stations,... Read more »

BIG PHIL’S ‘FAKE NEWS’

July 25, 2019
Since the removal of EU milk quotas in 2015, Ireland’s dairy herd has grown by more than a quarter, sending carbon emissions – as... Read more »

FICKLE FARMERS

July 25, 2019
The howls of outrage from the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) at the recent Mercosur trade deal with South America included its slogan, “One burned... Read more »

‘FREEDOM GAS’

July 11, 2019
When your industry is dirty, it helps to be well connected. Making cement is a filthy business and Irish Cement’s plant in the Limerick... Read more »

MARK MENEZES’S SALES PITCH

July 11, 2019
The decision by Leo Varadkar’s cabinet last week to finally kill off TD Bríd Smith’s bill to halt new exploration licences shows the fossil... Read more »

FOOL’S GOLD

June 27, 2019
Surprisingly, there still seems to be parts of Ireland’s natural environment that have yet to be exploited for monetary gain. But fear not – the... Read more »

NUDGE, NUDGE

June 27, 2019
Richard Bruton’s much-hyped climate action plan will “nudge” us to change our behaviour, according to Leo Varadkar. It’s a word that doesn’t quite convey... Read more »

IBEC’S CHEAP CLIMATE CHANGE

June 12, 2019
While agri interests tend to grab the headlines, the real lobbying muscle in Ireland resides in employers’ group Ibec. For years, it has had... Read more »

MIXED WEATHER AT MONTROSE

June 12, 2019
RTÉ treated us to the very best – and worst – in environmental programming in recent weeks. On the plus side, RTÉ Investigates detailed... Read more »

CLIMATE SPEAK

May 29, 2019
If rhetoric could reduce emissions, Ireland would by now be a world leader rather than laggard. The ‘green wave’ hype of recent days... Read more »

CONOR SKEHAN’S ‘SCIENCE’

May 29, 2019
While climate denial has become a mug’s game, a new variant has emerged, which is to deny that biodiversity loss and ecological collapse is... Read more »

CLIMATE DENIERS RETREAT

May 16, 2019
Ireland this month became only the second country in the world to declare a climate emergency. In fact, we went even further than the... Read more »

JOHN MCGUIRK’S U-TURN

May 16, 2019
As the climate crisis has finally gone politically mainstream, the reaction within the Irish media has been instructive. On the one hand, figures like... Read more »

REBELS AND REACTIONARIES

May 2, 2019
THE Extinction Rebellion movement brought civil disobedience on to streets across the world last month in a furious, but carefully planned, response to the... Read more »

TREE TOPPLING TIME

May 2, 2019
In case you needed another reason to believe insurers are sucking the life out of us, the industry has been identified as the dark... Read more »

IFA VS DR WHO

April 18, 2019
When you find yourself picking a fight with schoolkids, chances are you’re going to end up on the losing side, as the Irish Farmers... Read more »

PAT SMYTH’S SOLAR PANELS

April 18, 2019
“The collapse of civilization is… on the horizon as a result of climate change.” So goes the blurb promoting Solar Power Ltd. It explains... Read more »

REVOLVING DOORS

April 4, 2019
As the saga of Brid Smith’s Climate Emergency Measures Bill – to ban new oil and gas exploration licences – drags on, Goldhawk has... Read more »

RICHARD BRUTON’S TO DO LIST

April 4, 2019
When Enda Kenny set up the Citizens’ Assembly in 2016, it was to be an exercise in democracy, or perhaps in can-kicking. It wasn’t... Read more »

KIDDING YOU NOT

March 21, 2019
The kids are all right. Last Friday, an estimated 1.4 million schoolchildren worldwide walked out of school and took to the streets to demand... Read more »

LEO VARADKAR’S FARM FAN

March 21, 2019
Just days before the schools climate strike, another street-based show of strength took place in Dublin, this time in the leafy environs of Lansdowne... Read more »

MANNERLY VARADKAR

March 7, 2019
We may be in for another torrid year – meteorologically and politically. The UK’s all-time record for the warmest winter’s day was broken several... Read more »

GARRETT SIMONS’S RULING

March 7, 2019
Where the government is pally with big oil, the courts continue to be friends of the planet. The beleaguered Shannon LNG project was given... Read more »

KIDS 4 CLIMATE

February 21, 2019
MINISTERS HAVE been talking a good fight on tackling climate change recently. On the other hand, actual policies to make this happen are as... Read more »

OIL PAINTINGS

February 21, 2019
An interesting sidebar to the ongoing debacle over the National Children’s Hospital has been the state’s decision to turn down giving naming rights to... Read more »

BURN, BABY BURN

February 7, 2019
AS IRELAND’S disastrous record on forestry comes under the spotlight again, the relevant junior minister, Andrew Doyle, seems a bit lost in the woods.... Read more »

NOW THAT’S GAS!

February 7, 2019
Last month Goldhawk warned of the gas industry’s attempts to bamboozle us with an evermore elaborate mix of gas types, as ad campaigns herald... Read more »

RTÉ BALANCING ACT

January 24, 2019
IT’S NOT every day you get to find out what the taoiseach had for dinner, but Leo Varadkar recently fessed up to putting away... Read more »

RICHARD BRUTON’S OIL SLICK

January 24, 2019
IS SOMEONE trying to hobble new climate action and environment minister Richard Bruton? He has taken to his new portfolio with gusto, including a... Read more »

DECARBONISING CARBON

January 10, 2019
AS TIME is called on fossil fuels, increasingly desperate tactics are being used by those who sell them. This ranges from the ridiculous –... Read more »

COLD FRONT AT THE IRISH TIMES

January 10, 2019
When will the Irish Times stop providing a platform for climate denial? Its climate coverage has improved lately, but its Letters page continues to... Read more »

IRELAND’S CLIMATE WOODEN SPOON

December 13, 2018
AS A metaphor for the state of the global ‘response’ to climate change, the choice of Katowice as the venue for the UN’s 24th... Read more »

MORE HOT AIR

December 13, 2018
While the young have done the least to cause the ecological crisis, their generation will suffer grievously as the climate hits the fan. In... Read more »