Article Category: Fowl Emissions

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

FAKE METHANE

August 26, 2021

The recent publication by the Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) of its hard-hitting Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) has sent Irish lobbyists into a tailspin of... Read more »

GREEN LIGHT FOR ENNIS’S ‘CODE RED’ DATA CENTRE?

August 12, 2021

“THE SAME as having a goldmine,” was how former Fianna Fáil councillor Tom McNamara described the vast data centre Clare County Council wants... Read more »

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE REPORTAGE

July 29, 2021

IT’S BEEN an unusually bruising time for RTÉ managing director of news Jon Williams, culminating in his online mea culpa this week over... Read more »

MCDOWELL RANTS

July 15, 2021

WAS MICHAEL McDowell feeling a bit left out as the media frenzy grew around last week’s byelection in his old stomping ground? A... Read more »

AN TAISCE ‘TREASON’

July 1, 2021

“WE WOULD like to acknowledge your important intervention on the matter of the challenge by an Taisce to the planning permission for the proposed cheese plant... Read more »