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JOHN MCGUIRK’S U-TURN

May 16, 2019

As the climate crisis has finally gone politically mainstream, the reaction within the Irish media has been instructive. On the one hand, figures... Read more »

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 »

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TREE TOPPLING TIME

May 2, 2019

In case you needed another reason to believe insurers are sucking the life out of us, the industry has been identified as the... 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 »

PAT SMYTH’S SOLAR PANELS

April 18, 2019

“The collapse of civilization is… on the horizon as a result of climate change.” So goes the blurb promoting Solar Power Ltd. It... 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 »

LEO VARADKAR’S FARM FAN

March 21, 2019
Just days before the schools climate strike, another street-based show of strength took place in Dublin, this time in the leafy environs of Lansdowne... Read more »

MANNERLY VARADKAR

March 7, 2019
We may be in for another torrid year – meteorologically and politically. The UK’s all-time record for the warmest winter’s day was broken several... Read more »

GARRETT SIMONS’S RULING

March 7, 2019

Where the government is pally with big oil, the courts continue to be friends of the planet. The beleaguered Shannon LNG project was... Read more »

KIDS 4 CLIMATE

February 21, 2019
MINISTERS HAVE been talking a good fight on tackling climate change recently. On the other hand, actual policies to make this happen are as... Read more »

OIL PAINTINGS

February 21, 2019

An interesting sidebar to the ongoing debacle over the National Children’s Hospital has been the state’s decision to turn down giving naming rights... 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 »

NOW THAT’S GAS!

February 7, 2019

Last month Goldhawk warned of the gas industry’s attempts to bamboozle us with an evermore elaborate mix of gas types, as ad campaigns... 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 »

COLD FRONT AT THE IRISH TIMES

January 10, 2019

When will the Irish Times stop providing a platform for climate denial? Its climate coverage has improved lately, but its Letters page continues... 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 »

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 »

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 »

RTE’S CONFUSING CLIMATE

November 29, 2018

The Irish media’s performance on climate change came under an unflattering spotlight with the recent launch of a book by former Indo scribe... 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 »

JOHN FITZGERALD’S HOT AIR

October 4, 2018

There are worrying signs that government Climate Change Advisory Council chair Prof John FitzGerald has fallen hook, line and sinker for agri-industrial spinning... 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 »

GREENWASHING GAS

September 20, 2018

In the post-truth age, it’s getting harder to tell satire from straight news. Take this recent story that began, “For the first time,... 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 »

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S QUICK DASH

September 6, 2018

‘Climate action’ minister Denis Naughten recently fessed up in an Irish Times interview that the government’s abject failure to make even a dent... 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 »

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... 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... Read more »