“IT’S OIL OVER!” declared the Irish Daily Mirror’s front-page headline, heralding Leo Varadkar’s ‘historic’ announcement at the UN Climate Summit in New York that Ireland would end oil exploration. It isn’t all over, of course. Scores of licences that companies have been sitting on for years are still valid, some into the 2030s. The “offshore”… Read more »
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