Article Category: Fowl Emissions

POLITICS OF FOOD

June 30, 2022
Political tensions are nearing boiling point as FF and FG close ranks in supporting special pleading from the agri-industrial lobby in its demand for... Read more »

BERTIE’S OLD SPIN DOCTOR

June 16, 2022
OUR PUBLIC sphere is peppered with grumpy old men pontificating inexpertly on climate change, pushing pragmatism and pooh-poohing climate action. Goldhawk fans will be... Read more »

THE LAND OF MILK , MOOLAH AND FITBITS

June 2, 2022
FOR THE dairy industry, Ireland in recent years has been a land of milk and money. The sector has expanded at breakneck speed since... Read more »

EAMON RYAN AND BIG TECH’S FREE PASS

May 19, 2022
THERE WAS a distinctly Churchillian, spirit-of-the-Blitz feel to the unveiling by environment minister Eamon Ryan last month of the Energy Security Emergency Group (ESEG),... Read more »

VARADKAR WINDS UP PARTY TDs

May 5, 2022
WHILE YOU wouldn’t think it based on the tone of the recent public debate, there is, in fact, a solid majority of Irish people... Read more »

GERRY MURPHY’S FORECAST

May 5, 2022
MET ÉIREANN has been doing some media outreach of late, with forecaster Gerry Murphy in studio with Claire Byrne on RTÉ radio to talk... Read more »

OLIGARCH OLEG’S IRISH LOBBYISTS

April 20, 2022
RUSSIAN OLIGARCH Oleg Deripaska, a friend and arms supplier to Vladimir Putin, was playing cat and mouse last weekend in a bid to hold... Read more »

BURN, BABY, BURN

April 7, 2022
“WE HAD to destroy the village in order to save it”. This quote was famously attributed to a US commander during the Vietnam war... Read more »

‘SHOCK DOCTRINE’

March 24, 2022
THIS YEAR’S Census form includes a box in which you can send a message to people 100 years in the future. The question of... Read more »

‘DEMONISING MEAT’

March 10, 2022
IT ISN’T often that a letter published in a specialist medical journal prompts a press release from the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) and two... Read more »

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

February 24, 2022
FOR YEARS oil executive David Horgan has enjoyed a side gig as one of the media’s favourite pundits, thanks in part to a sort... Read more »

JOE DUFFY AND GRETA THUNBERG

February 10, 2022
COMMON SENSE, as Albert Einstein put it, is “the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen”. Joe Duffy, 66, the voice of the people,... Read more »

FITZGERALD LOOKS UP

January 27, 2022
NETFLIX VIEWING records were broken this month by ‘Don’t Look Up’, a meteorite disaster movie that brilliantly satirises political and media indifference to the threat of... Read more »

GAS IS ‘GOOD’ FOR YOU

January 13, 2022
THE CONSERVATIVE International Energy Agency (IEA) created headlines worldwide last May when it effectively signalled the end of the fossil fuel era by stating... Read more »

GREAT GAS

December 16, 2021
“A SHORT-term fix for that technology gap we have that needs to be plugged right at this point in time,” was how Climate Change... Read more »

FOR PEAT’S SAKE, REGINA

December 2, 2021
FOR AT least the last decade, Fine Gael has made little secret of its disdain for climate and environmental issues. Lately, sensing a shift... Read more »

BIG OIL’S COP-OUT

November 4, 2021
SPARE A thought for ‘big oil’. Having sponsored COP climate summits down through the years, they have suddenly lost access to this prime vehicle... Read more »

MEDIA COPS OUT

October 21, 2021
WITH THE crunch COP 26 global climate conference in Glasgow kicking off at the end of the month, various media organisations have been burnishing... Read more »

O’DOWD AND LEDDIN’S DATA FREE DEBATE

October 7, 2021
WHY WASTE good money paying former politicians as lobbyists if serving politicians will make the same case for free? On RTÉ’s Drivetime last week... Read more »