Article Category: Fowl Emissions

REBELS AND REACTIONARIES

May 2, 2019

THE Extinction Rebellion movement brought civil disobedience on to streets across the world last month in a furious, but carefully planned, response to... Read more »

IFA VS DR WHO

April 18, 2019

When you find yourself picking a fight with schoolkids, chances are you’re going to end up on the losing side, as the Irish... Read more »

REVOLVING DOORS

April 4, 2019

As the saga of Brid Smith’s Climate Emergency Measures Bill – to ban new oil and gas exploration licences – drags on, Goldhawk... Read more »

RICHARD BRUTON’S TO DO LIST

April 4, 2019

When Enda Kenny set up the Citizens’ Assembly in 2016, it was to be an exercise in democracy, or perhaps in can-kicking. It... Read more »

KIDDING YOU NOT

March 21, 2019

The kids are all right. Last Friday, an estimated 1.4 million schoolchildren worldwide walked out of school and took to the streets to... Read more »

BURN, BABY BURN

February 7, 2019

AS IRELAND’S disastrous record on forestry comes under the spotlight again, the relevant junior minister, Andrew Doyle, seems a bit lost in the... Read more »

RTÉ BALANCING ACT

January 24, 2019

IT’S NOT every day you get to find out what the taoiseach had for dinner, but Leo Varadkar recently fessed up to putting... Read more »

RICHARD BRUTON’S OIL SLICK

January 24, 2019

IS SOMEONE trying to hobble new climate action and environment minister Richard Bruton? He has taken to his new portfolio with gusto, including... Read more »

DECARBONISING CARBON

January 10, 2019

AS TIME is called on fossil fuels, increasingly desperate tactics are being used by those who sell them. This ranges from the ridiculous... Read more »

IRELAND’S CLIMATE WOODEN SPOON

December 13, 2018

AS A metaphor for the state of the global ‘response’ to climate change, the choice of Katowice as the venue for the UN’s... Read more »

MORE HOT AIR

December 13, 2018

While the young have done the least to cause the ecological crisis, their generation will suffer grievously as the climate hits the fan.... Read more »

BRUTON REVOLUTION?

November 29, 2018

IF EARNEST speeches by politicians promising radical, courageous action on the climate crisis were the measure of real achievement, Ireland would by now... Read more »

LEO’S CLIMATE ADVISOR

November 1, 2018

Recent statements by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and many of his Cabinet colleagues regarding climate change have been so completely out of touch with... Read more »

MICHAEL D STANDS ALONE

November 1, 2018

The recent presidential campaign was remarkable for many reasons, not least of which was the extraordinary extent to which five of the six... Read more »

BRUTON THE SAVIOUR?

October 18, 2018

“I’ve never seen such quiet panic about climate change. It finally hit the political class last week that this isn’t our grandchildren’s problem;... Read more »

HOT AIR BROADCASTERS

October 18, 2018

While reaction to the IPCC’s dire latest report has been notably strong in some of the newspapers, what of the broadcast media? Virgin’s... Read more »

COVENEY BINS CLIMATE DENIAL

October 4, 2018

Ireland’s chronic inaction on tackling climate change is inflicting acute reputational damage internationally. And while Taoiseach Leo Varadkar still thinks ‘climate action’ has... Read more »

FOR THE BIRDS

September 20, 2018

Being a Kerry politician can’t be easy, competing for attention in an airspace dominated by the din of the Healy-Raes. But Fianna Fáil... Read more »

BLUESHIRTS GO ALL GREEN

September 6, 2018

They say it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Fine Gael’s silence... Read more »

TRUMP SAVES GAS TERMINAL

August 23, 2018

DONALD TRUMP is the latest addition to the list of entities conspiring to help bring to life Tralee businessman Paddy Power’s dream of... Read more »