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ENERGY BRINK

June 17, 2021

IT’S POPULAR to blame renewable energy for electricity blackouts or the threat of same. Last winter the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, said... Read more »

TIM CULLINAN’S MINIMUM TARGET

June 3, 2021

THE COMMON Agriculture Policy “is a tumour in the EU’s body politic”. This is the considered view of the distinctly right-of centre Economist... Read more »

OIL INDUSTRY SURRENDERS?

June 3, 2021

FOR DECADES, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been the de facto voice of the global fossil fuel industry. Just last July, it... Read more »

ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS

May 20, 2021

THE REVELATION that two of our national institutions – Guinness stout and chef Darina Allen – tested positive for glyphosate, the chemical in... Read more »

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AN TAISCE’S MEDIA DETRACTORS

May 20, 2021

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS mostly do a good job of presenting themselves as objective, analysing the political fray from on high. But occasionally it gets... Read more »

ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS

May 20, 2021

THE REVELATION that two of our national institutions – Guinness stout and chef Darina Allen – tested positive for glyphosate, the chemical in... Read more »

AN TAISCE’S MEDIA DETRACTORS

May 20, 2021

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS mostly do a good job of presenting themselves as objective, analysing the political fray from on high. But occasionally it gets... Read more »

‘NATIONAL’ DAIRY COUNCIL’S PR FROTH

May 6, 2021

IS IT a sign of growing confidence or blind panic that Ireland’s dairy industry has just unveiled yet another major marketing blitz to... Read more »

‘EXAMINER’ SEES RED ON GREEN COLUMN

April 22, 2021

IT’S ALWAYS a little embarrassing when a newspaper removes an opinion column from its online edition after publication. Embarrassing both for the journalist... Read more »

WES EDEN’S NEXT ATTEMPT?

April 22, 2021

THE GOVERNMENT is irrelevant. That seemed to be a High Court message recently, when Judge Garrett Simons agreed with barristers for Eamon Ryan’s... Read more »

AN TAISCE TARGETED

April 8, 2021

KILDARE FARMER Thomas Reid has fought a long battle against the proposed €3.6bn extension of the Intel computer facility, including against An Bord... Read more »

VERONA MURPHY LETS FLY

April 8, 2021

COMPETITION to be our whackiest rural TD is intense, with a motley collection of ‘colourful’ characters clamouring for media attention. Independent Wexford TD... Read more »

RYAN BIDENS HIS TIME

March 25, 2021

JOE BIDEN is enjoying a reputation as something of an environmental hero, and to a degree this is merited – in the opening... Read more »

VLAD’S TRAFFIC PLAN

March 25, 2021

IF ANYTHING is guaranteed to arouse the irrational fury of the residents of Dublin’s leafier boroughs, it is proposals to take road space... Read more »

AGRI-ANGER

March 11, 2021

HELL HATH no fury like an agri-committee scorned. The recent decision by the Environmental Pillar (EP), representing 26 eNGOs, to withdraw from the... Read more »

LIFESTYLE CHOICES

March 11, 2021

A NEW round of state grants has been announced totalling almost €500,000 for research titled, “a healthy diet for a healthy lifestyle”. What’s... Read more »

FF GREENER THAN RYAN?

February 25, 2021

“PASSING THIS legislation … means we can now move away from fossil fuels and give our complete focus to our plans to transition... Read more »

MARIE DONNELLY’S BAD START

February 25, 2021

THERE WERE high hopes for Marie Donnelly, the former Brussels bureaucrat recruited by Eamon Ryan as the new chair of the Climate Change... Read more »

CLIMATE COUNCIL CHANGES

February 11, 2021

SWEEPING CHANGES at the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) bode well for future climate action, especially with far fewer economists being involved. In... Read more »

CETA: RYAN RULES

January 28, 2021

BACK IN 2017, when Green Party leader Eamon Ryan was front and centre in the civil society campaign against CETA, the EU-Canada trade... Read more »

NOT SO CUDDLY CANADA

January 28, 2021

CANADA HAS a fairly benign image here, personified by heart-throb prime minister Justin Trudeau, but its corporate sector is far from cuddly. Quite... Read more »

SCIENCE NOT REFEREES

January 14, 2021

NEW YEAR, same old nonsense at the Irish Farmers Journal. In recent years the paper has dabbled in promoting climate denial and junk... Read more »

LUCINDA’S INSIGHT

January 14, 2021

Since when did former politician-turned-lobbyist Lucinda Creighton become a moderate? Speaking from her weekly Business Post soap box, she recently decried “the extreme... Read more »

FISHY EU BUSINESS

December 16, 2020

“EU SUPERTRAWLER hell as dolphins killed!” screamed a Daily Express headline last week. The image of foreigners catching British fish and killing British... Read more »

METHANE MUMBO JUMBO

December 16, 2020

“Methane is a short life cycle gas.” This was just one of several flimsy arguments from IFA president Tim Cullinan that went unchallenged... Read more »

THE MOO CREW

December 3, 2020

GIVE ME a child until seven and I will give you the man. That old Jesuit slogan has been clearly taken to heart... Read more »

DAVID MCMANUS’S CV

December 3, 2020

Growing anger over the nearly €20m in government funding for the embattled greyhound industry spilled over recently on to RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live... Read more »

CAP SELL-OUT

November 5, 2020

“Today the European Parliament will vote on how we produce our food for the next seven years,” tweeted Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan. “The decisions... Read more »

VEGGIE DISTRACTION

November 5, 2020

Veggie discs for dinner, anyone? Vegan tubes for lunch? These are the names we almost got for meat-free burgers and sausages, in an... Read more »

WEAK CLIMATE BILL

October 22, 2020

Earlier this year, the Green Party fought a running battle with its internal dissenters when pushing through its endorsement of the Programme for... Read more »

RTÉ’S NEW SPONSOR

October 22, 2020

These are tough times for broadcasters, with advertising revenue hard to come by. However, there was still a sharp intake of breath at... Read more »

PREDATORY FRACKERS

October 8, 2020

At first glance, John Mullins’s journey from his €400,000-a-year job as head of Bord Gáis to running his own renewable energy company, Amarenco... Read more »

RYAN LEAVES DOOR OPEN

October 8, 2020

A law to ban new oil and gas exploration licences “would be a historic change” and an inspiration “for the rest of the... Read more »

GREEN PARTY TEST

September 24, 2020

AFTER A torrent of negative publicity before and since joining the coalition, the Green Party urgently needs some good news stories if its... Read more »

GREENWASHING PETROL

September 24, 2020

It’s a sign of the changing times when an Irish petrol retailer is promoting its ‘green’ credentials. Applegreen claims that “carbon released from... Read more »

EXTINCTION DENIAL

September 10, 2020

Conor Skehan chooses unlikely scapegoats when pontificating on the crises of our age. In 2018, as chair of the Housing Agency, he said... Read more »