September 1st, 2017 Swimmers have been warned not to enter waters at Sandycove Harbour due to the presence of high levels of E.coli in the water. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is investigating the matter, and has issued a temporary ‘Do Not Swim’ notice at the harbour, with results “expected back Read more…
September 1st, 2017 Greenpeace campaigners from across Europe have joined protests against illegal logging in Poland’s protected Białowieża Forest in violation of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) interim ban. Activists from 12 European countries arrived in the forest in late August to support Greenpeace Poland activists blocking state-run logging Read more…
September 1st, 2017 The head of Ireland’s environmental watchdog is set to take up a new role as chair of the management board of the European Environment Agency (EEA). Laura Burke will replace the outgoing Austrian chair, Elisabeth Freytag-Rigler. She will retain her position as Director General of the Environmental Read more…
September 1, 2017 One of Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs has called on the Taoiseach to follow through on his pledge to support the establishment of rooftop solar on residential properties across Ireland. According to Friends of the Earth (FoE) Ireland, Leo Varadkar was one of 6,000 to sign a petition Read more…
August 31st, 2017 With Electric Picnic upon us, we consider the actions that festival-goers can take to have a greener festival experience. The summer festival season ushers in a time of quality music, good food and a host of fun activities at events around the country. In recent years, Electric Read more…
August 31st, 2017 As the Irish Government struggles to meet its climate targets, Convergence 2017, a festival celebrating and encouraging community-led sustainability and well-being initiatives across Ireland, is more important than ever. Now in its seventeenth year, Convergence, kicking off this weekend at the Electric Picnic, is Ireland’s longest-running sustainable Read more…
August 31, 2017 Anglers and waterway-enthusiasts have been raising the alarm for decades. Whether we really listened while they talked is a moot point. Either way, it is now official – the quality of Ireland’s rivers has witnessed a “continued and unwelcome decline” since the late 1980s. This is the finding Read more…
August 31st, 2017 Historic trees in Fairview Park due to be cut down by Dublin City Council have been saved following pressure from the local community. The Council planned to fell 64 trees along a roadside in Fairview Park in order to construct the new Clontarf to City Centre cycle Read more…
August 30th, 2017 The Solar Energy Future conference in Cork at the start of 2016 was a roaring success. The event brought together over 350 interested parties, encouraged by the recent drop in solar technology costs and the rise in policymakers’ interest in green energy. “The conference was upbeat and Read more…
August 30th, 2017 The Government’s long-awaited new renewable energy scheme must include support for household solar power, says one of Ireland’s leading climate policy analysts. A new cost-benefit analysis by Joseph Curtin, a research fellow at both the International and European Affairs and University College Cork, finds that solar panels Read more…
