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JOE DUFFY ‘MAROONED’

December 16, 2021

“WE ARE now global citizens, in it together,” broadcaster Joe Duffy told the Irish Times in a short interview about his Christmas plans.... 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 »

CIARÁN CUFFE’S QUERY

December 2, 2021

NOBODY DIALS up the instant outrage quite as often or as theatrically as the Irish Farmers Association. The lobby outfit turned its latest... 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 »

COP26’S ‘PARTNERS’

November 4, 2021

“EVERYTHING FEELS very last minute.” This was the verdict on the COP26 summit in a joint letter of complaint sent last May to... 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 »

FARMING SUPPLEMENTS

October 21, 2021

WHO WOULD have guessed the Irish Farmers Association would be lobbying for more carbon taxes on road transport and aviation? The lobby group... 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 »

‘GOOD’ GAS CRISIS

October 7, 2021

NOT EVERYBODY is worried about energy blackouts – it’s great news for fossil fuels. Not only are Ireland’s coal and oil-burning power plants getting... Read more »

TRILLIONS WASTED IN CLIMATE ACTION

September 23, 2021

EARLIER THIS year, the European Court of Auditors reported that, despite spending more than €100bn of EU agriculture funds on climate action projects... Read more »

MET ÉIREANN’S NEW FORECAST

September 23, 2021

SOME YEARS back, Met Éireann was regularly in the firing line for its curious reluctance to engage in any way with climate change... Read more »

MCCARTHY’S CLOUDY THINKING

September 9, 2021

DURING HIS only term as a TD for Cork South-West, Labour’s Michael McCarthy was chair of the oireachtas environment committee. When he lost... Read more »

WES EDENS’S GREENWASHING

September 9, 2021

AMID ALL the climate doom and gloom, a sunbeam of hope appeared in the southwest recently with news of a project that “will... 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 »

THE DELANEYS’ DATA CENTRE

August 12, 2021

BUILDING AND running a data centre is a complicated business. So it’s just as well the directors of the company applying to build... 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 »

FARMERS’ “POSITIVE TRENDS”

July 29, 2021

“IT’S THE way I tell ’em!” The famous Frank Carson catch-cry came to mind when reading various versions of a recent Environmental Protection... 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 »

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RTE’S CLIMATE CONCERNS

July 15, 2021

THE REASONS for RTÉ’s failure to accurately cover climate change have long been a mystery, but it’s hard not to conclude that one... 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 »

SINDO’S SF HEADACHE

July 1, 2021

MEDIATION BETWEEN an aggrieved Derry woman and the Sindo over claims that the newspaper published incorrect assertions about her is due to take... Read more »

ZERO AND COUNTING

June 17, 2021

OCCASIONALLY THERE comes along an example of greenwash so ludicrous that satire is redundant. Five oil majors who extract from Canada’s vast environmental... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »