March 10th 2017 Young Irish jobseekers are now being offered the opportunity to up-skill for emerging environmental job opportunities through a free ECO-UNESCO initiative called Green Skills. ECO-UNESCO, an environmental education and youth organisation, will deliver Green Skills programmes beginning on March 27th at ECO-UNESCO, 9 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2, with Read more…
February 24th 2017 Hundreds of cyclists have pedaled from the Department of Transport to Leinster House earlier this week to highlight the issues facing cyclists and call for increased funding. Campaigners were highlighting road fatalities involving people on bicycles and calling for better infrastructure. One cyclist has been killed in Read more…
February 23rd 2017 A new alliance has been formed of over 100 Irish civil society organisations to keep Ireland on track with the Sustainable Development Goals. The group, called Coalition 2030, will work to keep up the pressure on the government to achieve its targets in relation to hunger, climate change Read more…
February 23rd 2017 A White Tailed Sea Eagle has been tracked crossing Ireland from Galway to Wicklow. The Golden Eagle Trust have tracked the movement and posted it today on their facebook page. The eagle, whose name is Star, was born in 2009 and has previously bred in Galway but Read more…
February 22nd 2017 Coca Cola were once the biggest lobbyist against setting up bottle deposit return schemes. But today in a massive turnaround the drinks giant have come out in support of a proposed scheme in Scotland. In a development that could pave the way for a scheme in Ireland, Coca Read more…
February 21st 2017 An ancient Irish bog road, which was built 500 years before any Roman road, is currently being destroyed for potting compost. An Taisce – the National Trust for Ireland have this week hit out at Minster Heather Humphries for doing nothing to preserve this incredible national treasure. The Read more…
February 15th 2017 Without a doubt Ireland’s most crazily named environmental problem was announced today by Fingal County Council. The local authority put out a press release warning locals to beware of ‘Palm Oil Fatbergs’. This bizarre phenomenon is where lumps of palm oil, in some cases as big as boulders, have Read more…
February 10th 2017 Environmental groups have outlined to government the damaging impacts of fracking to health, water and the climate. In a submission the Environmental Pillar, an advocacy coalition of over 28 national environmental NGOs, has made clear the serious impacts of fracking and called for politicians to support a Read more…
February 10th 2017 Leading US newspaper, the Washington Post, has covered the controversy around Donald Trump’s proposed sea wall at Doonbeg. In a piece entitled ‘Trump tried and failed to build a wall in Ireland. That could mean big trouble for Europe’ the newspaper outlines the efforts to stop the sea Read more…
February 9th 2017 Bord na Mona has been accused by environmentalists of ignoring a recent High Court decision by applying for a horticultural processing facility without assessing the impact on the bogs supplying the peat. The claim comes from environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment and relates to the Read more…
