Environment
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The heroic but failed champion of Tara is leading the campaign against a motorway near Newgrange Vincent Salafia is back with a “Save Newgrange” campaign. A man with a panache for publicity, the populace associates the 43-year old with the Tara/ M3 and Carrickmines Castle campaigns. Now he is to address plans for a […]
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An Taisce, which screwed up a little itself, documents what systemic corruption and incompetence during a boom look like on the ground An Taisce recently published an independent review of planning-policy implementation in Ireland from its perspective embracing its daily experience of working in the system. It considers there was a catastrophic and systemic failure […]
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Ireland says Hello to the Frankenstein-Potato Genetic modification risks dangerous unintended consequences By Frank Armstrong “Ireland could have its very own Cane-Toad-moment if Teagasc has its way. “The simple equation contained in Leaving Certificate Biology textbooks: Genotype + Environment = Phenotype no longer applies” In 1935 Scientists from Queenland’s Bureau of Sugar Experimental […]
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Village Magazine, June 2011: Despite malpractice and unlawfulness, Carlow planning boss merely shifted sideways. Minister Hogan decides against even appointing inspectors in national planning review. By Michael Smith
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After Durban, delivering a 20 per cent emissions cut moves centre-stage, for Ireland We need to move quickly from the headline figure to a hard-minded sector-by-sector approach. The new climate agreement reached in Durban is bitterly disappointing for its lack of ambition, revealing a world held back by the continued foot-dragging of the United States. […]
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‘The bogs are gone’
[October 2011] Commissioner Potočnik hauled in Minister Deenihan and made it very clear that Ireland would indeed face an eye-watering daily fine if the turf-cutting didn’t stop, writes Tony Lowes In the ongoing turf wars, Ming the Mendacious and his followers were struck what may be a fatal blow last month. Minister for the Environment […]
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An appeal from Friends of the Irish Turf Cutters not to take the fall for Government inaction and incompetence and go jail because successive elected officials and civil servants have undermined their way of life. Why should they punish themselves by going to jail when it is the Ministers of the time and the civil servants – many of them still there – who should be suffering for the lose of their traditional rights? False hope was what they have been given – and up the garden path they have been led.