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FICKLE FARMERS

July 25, 2019

The howls of outrage from the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) at the recent Mercosur trade deal with South America included its slogan, “One... Read more »

‘FREEDOM GAS’

July 11, 2019

When your industry is dirty, it helps to be well connected. Making cement is a filthy business and Irish Cement’s plant in the... Read more »

MARK MENEZES’S SALES PITCH

July 11, 2019

The decision by Leo Varadkar’s cabinet last week to finally kill off TD Bríd Smith’s bill to halt new exploration licences shows the... Read more »

FOOL’S GOLD

June 27, 2019

Surprisingly, there still seems to be parts of Ireland’s natural environment that have yet to be exploited for monetary gain. But fear not... Read more »

NUDGE, NUDGE

June 27, 2019

Richard Bruton’s much-hyped climate action plan will “nudge” us to change our behaviour, according to Leo Varadkar. It’s a word that doesn’t quite... Read more »

IBEC’S CHEAP CLIMATE CHANGE

June 12, 2019

While agri interests tend to grab the headlines, the real lobbying muscle in Ireland resides in employers’ group Ibec. For years, it has... Read more »

MIXED WEATHER AT MONTROSE

June 12, 2019

RTÉ treated us to the very best – and worst – in environmental programming in recent weeks. On the plus side, RTÉ Investigates... Read more »

CLIMATE SPEAK

May 29, 2019

If rhetoric could reduce emissions, Ireland would by now be a world leader rather than laggard. The ‘green wave’ hype of recent... Read more »

CONOR SKEHAN’S ‘SCIENCE’

May 29, 2019

While climate denial has become a mug’s game, a new variant has emerged, which is to deny that biodiversity loss and ecological collapse... Read more »

CLIMATE DENIERS RETREAT

May 16, 2019

Ireland this month became only the second country in the world to declare a climate emergency. In fact, we went even further than... Read more »

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 »

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 »