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DECARBONISING CARBON

January 10, 2019
AS TIME is called on fossil fuels, increasingly desperate tactics are being used by... 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... Read more »

MORE HOT AIR

December 13, 2018
While the young have done the least to cause the ecological crisis, their generation... Read more »

IRELAND’S CLIMATE WOODEN SPOON

December 13, 2018
AS A metaphor for the state of the global ‘response’ to climate change, the... Read more »

BRUTON REVOLUTION?

November 29, 2018
IF EARNEST speeches by politicians promising radical, courageous action on the climate crisis were... Read more »

RTE’S CONFUSING CLIMATE

November 29, 2018
The Irish media’s performance on climate change came under an unflattering spotlight with the... Read more »

LEO’S CLIMATE ADVISOR

November 1, 2018
Recent statements by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and many of his Cabinet colleagues regarding climate... Read more »

MICHAEL D STANDS ALONE

November 1, 2018
The recent presidential campaign was remarkable for many reasons, not least of which was... Read more »

BRUTON THE SAVIOUR?

October 18, 2018
“I’ve never seen such quiet panic about climate change. It finally hit the political... Read more »

HOT AIR BROADCASTERS

October 18, 2018
While reaction to the IPCC’s dire latest report has been notably strong in some... Read more »

COVENEY BINS CLIMATE DENIAL

October 4, 2018
Ireland’s chronic inaction on tackling climate change is inflicting acute reputational damage internationally. And... Read more »

JOHN FITZGERALD’S HOT AIR

October 4, 2018
There are worrying signs that government Climate Change Advisory Council chair Prof John FitzGerald... Read more »

FOR THE BIRDS

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

GREENWASHING GAS

September 20, 2018
In the post-truth age, it’s getting harder to tell satire from straight news. Take... 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 »

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S QUICK DASH

September 6, 2018
‘Climate action’ minister Denis Naughten recently fessed up in an Irish Times interview that... 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 »

WEED KILLER BEES

August 23, 2018
IN THE wake of a California court’s ruling that Monsanto should pay school janitor... Read more »

MICHAEL CREED’S COAXING

August 9, 2018
WHILE THE gardens of south Dublin may have been wilting as the hosepipe ban... Read more »

PEAT BOG SOLDIERS

August 9, 2018
IT HAS been a cruel summer for Irish agriculture. This follows hot on the... 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 »

PUTIN’S ECO AGENDA

July 26, 2018
DONALD TRUMP said last week he didn’t see “any reason why” Russia would have... Read more »

‘FAKE MOOS’

July 12, 2018
ASTONISHING progress has been achieved by the Irish dairy sector in the last few... 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 »

BORD BIA’S VEGETARIAN MENU

June 13, 2018
IRELAND HAS the lowest percentage of its agricultural land producing vegetables in the entire... Read more »

PHIL THE FARMER

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

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S PLASTIC PROBLEM

May 31, 2018
PUBLIC ANGER over excessive plastic is matched only by Denis Naughten’s determination to hobble... 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 »

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S COFFEE BREAK

May 3, 2018
Denis Naughten had a lot on his mind recently, with the fuss over his... 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 »

Agri-bucks

April 19, 2018
WITH the average family farm income in 2016 at a dismal €24,000, and 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 »

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