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KEVIN MCPARTLAN’S LEXICON

February 6, 2025

Lobbyist Kevin McPartlan showed up in this magazine’s Hot Air Brigade in 2017, arguing against a sugar tax. “There is no such thing... Read more »

TRUMP RULES HERE TOO

January 23, 2025

IT HAS long been understood that the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael element of the outgoing coalition Government had to be dragged kicking and screaming... Read more »

END TO BUSINESS AS USUAL

January 23, 2025

A recent landmark High Court judgment has given a huge boost to environmental protection. Justice Richard Humphreys lambasted An Bord Pleanála (ABP) for... Read more »

DRILL, BABY, DRILL!

January 9, 2025

Just before Christmas Donald Trump ordered the EU to step up imports of US oil and gas. “Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the... Read more »

NIGEL’S ‘ENERGY INDEPENDENCE’

January 9, 2025

Last summer Tullamore company Lumcloon Energy drummed up widespread community support in Coolpowra in east Galway for a supposed solar farm but then... Read more »

TREASONOUS AN TAISCE!

December 12, 2024

Shortly before the election, Independent TD Mattie McGrath introduced a bill in the Dáil aimed at stripping heritage charity An Taisce of its... Read more »

HOW PARTIES RATE ON CLIMATE

November 28, 2024

It’s a political truism that the electorate is far more concerned about the end of the month than the end of the world,... Read more »

HARRIS/FITZMAURICE AGREE ON AGRI

October 31, 2024

With the general election just weeks away, competition is hotting up as to which politician can most cravenly capitulate to special-interest lobbying from... Read more »

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DOIREANN BREATHNACH’S ADVICE

October 31, 2024

Congratulations to climate warrior Doireann Breathnach for making quite a splash in her role with consultancy firm Accenture. She recently stood down as... Read more »

GREENS’ AN TAISCE PLANNING BILL

October 17, 2024

“A shameful attack on good work has been massively defeated.” So said Green TD Steven Matthews last week on X, celebrating... Read more »

MATT COOPER’S HOT AIR

October 17, 2024

One of the features of our post-truth, Trumpian world is the increasing confidence of some commentators to disregard science, logic and other boring... Read more »

FARM MEDIA PR FANTASIES

October 3, 2024

Behind the media and marketing façade of Irish agriculture being all about traditional family farming that is uniquely clean, green and sustainable, there... Read more »

PARKED!

October 3, 2024

Months of bitter opposition by city centre business interests, backed by Ibec and junior FG minister Emer Higgins, to extremely modest proposals to... Read more »

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LOUGH NEAGH OWNER

September 19, 2024

The Earl of Shaftesbury, a Dorset aristocrat and former DJ who somehow owns the bed of Lough Neagh, has been enjoying considerable kudos... Read more »

MARIE’S UNUSUAL OUTINGS

September 19, 2024

Marie Donnelly has had some baffling media outings since taking over as Climate Change Advisory Council chair in 2021 but a recent comment... Read more »

McWILLIAMS’S BLUFF

September 5, 2024

HERE’S THE choice: Ireland can either opt for a coherent national climate and energy strategy or we can back the rampant expansion of... Read more »

POST HOT AIR

September 5, 2024

Kudos to the Business Post for once again fearlessly standing up for the right of the highly polluting aviation sector to enjoy untrammelled... Read more »

PSEUDO SOLAR GIFTS

August 22, 2024

It’s not unusual for an energy company to throw a lot of cash at a rural community when trying to build a big... Read more »

WHAT A WIZZ!

August 22, 2024

Last week Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air launched an ‘All you can fly’ annual ticket. “What’s not to love?” asked a BBC online... Read more »

RTÉ’S CLIMATE ‘STRATEGY’

August 8, 2024

FOR YEARS RTÉ’s coverage of the climate emergency has vacillated between lukewarm and non-existent. It reached such a low point that in July... Read more »

MCCONALOGUE’S MANURE

August 8, 2024

Slight reductions in emissions from agriculture in 2023 have been attributed to cuts in the use of chemical nitrogen and was celebrated by... Read more »

MARTIN: SUCK IT UP

July 25, 2024

AI is coming for us and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. That was the message delivered by Micheál Martin in... Read more »

ON YER BIKE!

July 25, 2024

In the recent European election campaign, Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty was ridiculed over her Trumpian claim that the Green Party had turned Dublin... Read more »

EMER HIGGINS’S U-TURN

July 11, 2024

When running in the 2019 Dublin Mid-West by-election, Fine Gael’s Emer Higgins promised: “If elected, I will demand better public transport for our... Read more »

KEVIN MCPARTLAN’S HOT AIR

July 11, 2024

“We stand at a critical juncture where the urgency of our climate crisis demands bold and decisive action”. These were the stirring sentiments... Read more »

TRUMP ‘HATES’ WIND ENERGY

June 27, 2024

The EU elections may have been a bad day for the planet, with climate disinformation helping the far right take seats across Europe,... Read more »

THE EARL AND THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS

June 27, 2024

Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, has never lived in Ireland but has managed to hang on to a colonial inheritance – ownership... Read more »

DAIRY PR PRODUCE

June 13, 2024

On being installed as Taoiseach, one of the first actions by the canny Simon Harris was to reassure the agri lobby that his... Read more »

NIALL BOYLAN’S HOT AIR

June 13, 2024

While the local and European elections have thrown up some real surprises, perhaps the least surprising aspect has been the sheer cluelessness of... Read more »

CARELESS TCD

May 16, 2024

FOR THE embattled dons of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), one PR disaster – being forced by its students to divest from Israeli companies... Read more »

TOM LYONS’S AIRPORT ANXIETY

May 16, 2024

Won’t anyone think of Dublin Airport? Journalist and The Currency CEO Tom Lyons this week bemoaned the “myopic unwillingness” of our lily-livered politicians... Read more »

JUSTIN BARRETT LAYS DOWN THE LAW

May 2, 2024
WHEN THE Registrar of Elections’s Art O’Leary announced in Iris Oifigiúil that he was denying separate applications from both Justin Barrett and James Reynolds... Read more »

DATA CENTRES’ PR WAR

May 2, 2024

A recent entry in the lobbying register illustrates the enchanted realm inhabited by corporate lobbyists when it comes to getting access to those... Read more »

LISA CHAMBERS’S HOT AIR

May 2, 2024

Goldhawk was expecting elevated levels of climate disinformation in the run-up to the European elections in June – considering the number of reactionary... Read more »

FARMERS’ PR CAMPAIGN

April 18, 2024

For decades scientists have warned of the extreme vulnerability of global food production systems to disruption as climate change accelerates. This is now... Read more »

COLOMBIA 3 MINING PROFITEERS

April 4, 2024

“ACTIVIST LUKE Holland has authored this report for Prime Time…” This was the rather odd introduction, read by Sarah McInerney, to an excellent... Read more »