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WEED KILLER BEES

August 23, 2018
IN THE wake of a California court’s ruling that Monsanto should pay school janitor Dewayne Johnson $289m dollars, on the basis its Roundup weedkiller... Read more »

PEAT BOG SOLDIERS

August 9, 2018
IT HAS been a cruel summer for Irish agriculture. This follows hot on the heels of what was one of the coldest springs in... Read more »

MICHAEL CREED’S COAXING

August 9, 2018
WHILE THE gardens of south Dublin may have been wilting as the hosepipe ban took effect, there is little public awareness of just how... Read more »

SEAN KYNE AND PUTIN

July 26, 2018
WHEN Donegal Independent TD Thomas Pringle’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill passed its final stage in the Dáil earlier this month, headlines around the world... Read more »

PUTIN’S ECO AGENDA

July 26, 2018
DONALD TRUMP said last week he didn’t see “any reason why” Russia would have interfered in the 2016 US presidential election – before clarifying... Read more »

‘FAKE MOOS’

July 12, 2018
ASTONISHING progress has been achieved by the Irish dairy sector in the last few years in massively increasing production while simultaneously almost flat-lining emissions.... Read more »

VARIABLE EVELYN

July 12, 2018
THE ONGOING heatwave seems to have got people over at Met Éireann HQ in Glasnevin a little hot under the collar. With the unflappable... 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 make you go back and actually read the email you... Read more »

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

June 13, 2018
FOR YEARS, whiny environmental types have been warning repeatedly that the Irish state is treating its legally binding international obligations to cut our carbon... Read more »

BORD BIA’S VEGETARIAN MENU

June 13, 2018
IRELAND HAS the lowest percentage of its agricultural land producing vegetables in the entire EU, at barely 1%. As a result, we are a... Read more »

PHIL THE FARMER

May 31, 2018
HAS PHIL “The Fixer” Hogan discarded the green jersey of the Irish farming sector for the tie-dyed T-shirt of environmentalism? As Enda Kenny’s environment... 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 any measures that industry interests find distasteful. The Green Party’s... 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 Turf Life – A Day on the Bog. This statement... Read more »

WHAT SHELL KNEW

May 3, 2018
When Shell took over Corrib Gas in 2002, it surely did not foresee the resistance that would delay the project for more than a... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S COFFEE BREAK

May 3, 2018
Denis Naughten had a lot on his mind recently, with the fuss over his call with an INM lobbyist, but that doesn’t excuse his... Read more »

POOR CHILLY SODDEN FARMERS

April 19, 2018
CRISIS, what crisis? It seems like only yesterday when our media was awash with heart-rending stories of starving cattle and desperate farmers as the... Read more »

Agri-bucks

April 19, 2018
WITH the average family farm income in 2016 at a dismal €24,000, and with two in three beef farmers only solvent thanks to CAP... Read more »

PLASTIC PADDIES

April 5, 2018
THE dutiful consumers of Ireland are being enlisted as (polite) eco-warriors for one day this month in the escalating global war against plastic. Such... Read more »

LEO’S WINDY ‘JOKE’

March 22, 2018
There was much to cringe over in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s lame attempt to curry favour with US president Donald Trump during his Paddy’s Day... Read more »

WHEN IS A DECISION NOT A DECISION?

March 8, 2018
WHEN IT comes to getting big dirty fossil fuel infrastructure past the various political and regulatory obstacles, the choral harmony of performers at local,... Read more »

PIPELINE TIMELINE

March 6, 2018
IN 2016, when Enda Kenny’s economic adviser Andrew McDowell became Ireland’s nominee for the €275,000-a-year job of vice-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB),... Read more »

MERLIN NAUGHTEN

February 22, 2018
IT’S NO secret that wishful thinking remains the main policy weapon the government deploys when it comes to hitting tough international commitments on climate... Read more »

Sacred Cows

February 22, 2018
The government’s new national development plan had that “one for everyone in the audience” feel, including a lavish commitment to spending €22bn, or a... Read more »

Paddy Power’s gas terminal

February 8, 2018
EU countries can burn gas for just nine more years before exhausting their share of the earth’s carbon budget to keep global warming below... Read more »

O’Reilly digs deep

February 8, 2018
YOU HAVE to feel sorry for those intrepid oil and gas explorers under constant siege from scientists and campaigners. Oil prices are low –... Read more »

CLIMATE: IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK!

January 25, 2018
WHEN IT comes to addressing climate change, the twin buzzwords are mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation means doing what the science demands to slow down... Read more »

COASTING TO DISASTER

January 11, 2018
AT 1km long, Donald Trump’s Irish wall doesn’t enjoy quite as much global infamy as his Mexican wall. However, Clare County Council’s decision on... Read more »

AGRI-PR FAILS TO CONVINCE

December 14, 2017
PHIL HOGAN is about the last person you’d expect to find socking it to Ireland’s agri-food industry, but that’s exactly what the EU’s Agriculture... Read more »

IRELAND IS THE WORST IN EUROPE

November 30, 2017
BILLS TO ban fossil fuel exploration are like buses: you wait years for one and then two come along at once. Within a few... Read more »

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE

November 2, 2017
WHEN ALL else fails, take them to court. Yet again, it falls to the poorly supported, barely solvent environmental NGO sector to try to... Read more »

IRELAND LEADS FROM REAR

October 19, 2017
When cost to Ireland of Storm Ophelia’s fury is calculated, will that figure feature in future cost/benefit analyses as the Government considers whether to... Read more »

CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY STRIKES AGAIN

October 5, 2017
WHEN politicians want an issue to go away, a favourite ploy is to bury it alive in a talking shop. If that was the... Read more »

MONSANTO’S FIGHT FOR ‘ROUNDUP’

September 21, 2017
IF YOUR business is managing reputations, it pays to have well-heeled clients. A case in point is Hume Brophy, whose modest HQ in a... Read more »

Fracking : The Irish Way

August 24, 2017
Seán Kelly For Irish problems there are Irish solutions. Women travel abroad for abortions. Neutral Ireland refuels US warplanes at Shannon Airport. And now... Read more »

ROSS TO ELECTRIFY TRANSPORT?

August 10, 2017
Shane Ross IS THERE any part of the environmental agenda that Ireland doesn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming into, to achieve even... Read more »

VARADKAR IS NO MACRON

July 27, 2017
Emmanuel Macron A “fundamental societal transformation”. With these words, on the first page of his Government’s (very) long-awaited National Mitigation Plan (NMP) on climate... Read more »