Environment
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Save your beautiful town.
By Hayley Farrell. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay”, Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’ is a portrait of life in his native countryside, once a thriving community, but then destroyed by the effects of the industrial revolution. We hear much about Dublin in terms of parks, […]
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Planetary death by extractivism.
________________________ This Changes Everything Naomi Klein Simon & Schuster 2014 _______________________ Review by John Gibbons. I finished reading Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ just as a major study by the WWF confirmed that, in a mere four decades, more than half of the wild animals on Earth had been wiped out. From the time I […]
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Parklife.
By Aidan J ffrench. Parks are vital contributors to urban life. But, with notable exceptions (eg Dublin County Council’s acquisitions of demesne landscapes: Marlay, Malahide, Ardgillan etc.), provision and management of parks in Ireland is haphazard, due to inadequate policy, law and resources, and political inertia. In 2006 Minister Roche’s responses to Dáil questions from […]
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Things to do in fields.
By Shirley Clerkin. There is something innately satisfying about a good field. Maybe it is the sense of enclosure, or a golden ratio of open pasture to hedge or stone wall. Perhaps it is the clatter of the gate as you climb up and over and the decent feeling of arrival as you land with […]
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Cowspiracy
A DOCUMENTARY called ‘Cowspiracy’ is currently doing the social-media rounds
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Loafing heroism
Mystical poetry to enrich the workaday. Review
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Agri-culture
Simon Coveney has been suckered by the IFA and Teagasc’s anti-scientific gloss on emissions