Fowl Emissions Archives

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 »

PEAT BOG SOLDIERS

August 9, 2018

IT HAS been a cruel summer for Irish agriculture. This follows hot on the heels of what was one of the coldest springs... 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 »

SEAN KYNE AND PUTIN

July 26, 2018

WHEN Donegal Independent TD Thomas Pringle’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill passed its final stage in the Dáil earlier this month, headlines around the... Read more »

PUTIN’S ECO AGENDA

July 26, 2018

DONALD TRUMP said last week he didn’t see “any reason why” Russia would have interfered in the 2016 US presidential election – before... Read more »

VARIABLE EVELYN

July 12, 2018

THE ONGOING heatwave seems to have got people over at Met Éireann HQ in Glasnevin a little hot under the collar. With the... Read more »

‘FAKE MOOS’

July 12, 2018

ASTONISHING progress has been achieved by the Irish dairy sector in the last few years in massively increasing production while simultaneously almost flat-lining... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

June 28, 2018

“PLEASE IGNORE the email you received earlier!” It’s a subject line that’s guaranteed to make you go back and actually read the email... Read more »

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

June 13, 2018

FOR YEARS, whiny environmental types have been warning repeatedly that the Irish state is treating its legally binding international obligations to cut our... Read more »

BORD BIA’S VEGETARIAN MENU

June 13, 2018

IRELAND HAS the lowest percentage of its agricultural land producing vegetables in the entire EU, at barely 1%. As a result, we are... Read more »

PHIL THE FARMER

May 31, 2018

HAS PHIL “The Fixer” Hogan discarded the green jersey of the Irish farming sector for the tie-dyed T-shirt of environmentalism? As Enda Kenny’s... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S PLASTIC PROBLEM

May 31, 2018

PUBLIC ANGER over excessive plastic is matched only by Denis Naughten’s determination to hobble any measures that industry interests find distasteful. The Green... Read more »

BOG STANDARD RTÉ PROGRAMME

May 17, 2018

“THIS IS the story of Ireland’s best kept secret.” So RTÉ’s Derek Mooney began Turf Life – A Day on the Bog. This... Read more »

WHAT SHELL KNEW

May 3, 2018

When Shell took over Corrib Gas in 2002, it surely did not foresee the resistance that would delay the project for more than... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN’S COFFEE BREAK

May 3, 2018

Denis Naughten had a lot on his mind recently, with the fuss over his call with an INM lobbyist, but that doesn’t excuse... Read more »

POOR CHILLY SODDEN FARMERS

April 19, 2018

CRISIS, what crisis? It seems like only yesterday when our media was awash with heart-rending stories of starving cattle and desperate farmers as... Read more »

Agri-bucks

April 19, 2018

WITH the average family farm income in 2016 at a dismal €24,000, and with two in three beef farmers only solvent thanks to... Read more »

PLASTIC PADDIES

April 5, 2018

THE dutiful consumers of Ireland are being enlisted as (polite) eco-warriors for one day this month in the escalating global war against plastic.... Read more »

LEO’S WINDY ‘JOKE’

March 22, 2018

There was much to cringe over in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s lame attempt to curry favour with US president Donald Trump during his Paddy’s... Read more »

WHEN IS A DECISION NOT A DECISION?

March 8, 2018

WHEN IT comes to getting big dirty fossil fuel infrastructure past the various political and regulatory obstacles, the choral harmony of performers at... Read more »

PIPELINE TIMELINE

March 6, 2018

IN 2016, when Enda Kenny’s economic adviser Andrew McDowell became Ireland’s nominee for the €275,000-a-year job of vice-president of the European Investment Bank... Read more »

Sacred Cows

February 22, 2018

The government’s new national development plan had that “one for everyone in the audience” feel, including a lavish commitment to spending €22bn, or... Read more »

MERLIN NAUGHTEN

February 22, 2018

IT’S NO secret that wishful thinking remains the main policy weapon the government deploys when it comes to hitting tough international commitments on... Read more »

O’Reilly digs deep

February 8, 2018

YOU HAVE to feel sorry for those intrepid oil and gas explorers under constant siege from scientists and campaigners. Oil prices are low... Read more »