Environment
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Good Badgers and Cattle TB
New research shows that Irish badgers avoid farmyards and cattle
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Salmon eile
Government, IFA and multinational fish-farmers deny reality that typical farmed smoked salmon contained 10 chemical residues.
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Party climate poopers
To say that environmental issues didn’t have much of an impact on Election 2016 would be a bit like observing that feminism hasn’t exactly been the defining feature of Donald Trump’s exciting US presidential run. The topic was completely ignored in the botched opening Leaders’ Debate on TV3, and again, on RTÉ’s seven-way debate the […]
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(Good)gers and Cattle TB
Sometimes farmers find difficulty sleeping at nights. Random, gnawing thoughts drift into our heads as we doze off. Are badgers prowling around the farmyard? Are they sniffing the cattle? Is TB being transmitted? New research will allow us to sleep more easily. A project led by district conservation of cer Enda Mullen, with Trinity College […]
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Result: D Two foolish Ministers for the Environment merely went throught the motions The environment isn’t a vested interest so it doesn’t rate in Ireland. Enda Kenny argues for Irish exceptionalism on climate change and prevailed in Europe which has now recognised the special position of Irish agriculture in European climate-change policy. We’re not and […]
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Hedgemony
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was beavering away looking for ways to ensure that no creature was stirring. Especially not a mouse. On 23rd December last year, in the political dead of night, the Minister charged with protecting natural heritage announced a plan to make destroying it […]
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Result: D- Little real engagement on climate. Promised little but delivered even less: ‘dog ate my climate policy’ not a valid excuse. Avoided a ‘fail’ by scraping in Climate Act) The Fine Gael/Labour coalition government did manage to pull off one headline act that had eluded the previous FF/Green administration, and that was they managed […]