January 17th, 2020 Phil Hogan has come under fire for describing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the US to Europe as a “win-win” for both trading partners. Offering the keynote address at an event in Washington on “refreshing transatlantic relations”, the new European Commissioner for Trade said that the Read more…
January 10th, 2020 A landowner and contractor charged with the destruction of vegetation growing in a hedge during the 2019 bird nesting season plead guilty at Nenagh District Court in December. On 12 December 2019, Judge Cormac Dunne fined the landowner €750 under the Wildlife Acts for offences carried out Read more…
January 10th, 2020 South Dublin residents will protest this Sunday against plans to straighten out the Poddle River for flood defence works that critics argue will negatively impact wildlife in two nearby parks. The plan developed by South Dublin County Council (SDCC), Dublin County Council and the Office of Public Works (OPW) would Read more…
January 6th, 2020 Kilkenny is the cleanest of 40 towns and cities across Ireland for a record fourth time, according to the latest annual anti-litter survey from Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL). The findings from the survey, carried out by An Taisce on behalf of the business group, placed Killarney, Read more…
December 23rd, 2019 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on the Government to consider halting coal purchases from the ESB’s largest supplier in Colombia over human rights concerns. In its latest periodic report on Ireland, the committee said that it was concerned that Cerrejón mine Read more…
December 20th, 2019 Pressure from environmental groups, opposition politicians, and members of the Housing Committee has forced the Minister for Housing to extend public consultation on proposed legislation that critics argue will dramatically curtail citizens’ rights to challenge poor planning decisions. Eoghan Murphy launched a public consultation on the Heads Read more…
December 20th, 2019 Plans from the Minister for Housing to bring in more stringent rules to take legal challenges over planning decisions would see the State backslide on access to justice rights, according to planning and environmental law experts. Speaking at an event held by the Planning, Environmental, and Local Read more…
December 19th, 2019 Climate change is the utmost human rights challenge of our generation, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights told an audience in the capital this morning. Speaking at an event at the Bar of Ireland building in Smithfield today, Professor Philip Alston said that Read more…
December 18th, 2019 EU fisheries Ministers have agreed to set various fisheries quota levels above scientifically suggested levels and will fail to meet their own legal deadline to end overfishing by 2020. The EU AGRIFISH Council meeting closed in Brussels this morning following all-night negotiations as is typical in recent Read more…
December 16th, 2019 The Government’s proposal to bring in more stringent rules for legal challenges over planning decisions poses a serious threat to citizens’ access to justice rights, a community law expert has warned. Speaking during a hearing of the Oireachtas justice committee last week, Rose Wall, the head of Read more…
