February 4th, 2020 Much has been said recently about the need for unity across the wide spectrum of left politics …
An Election Fable: Eamon, the Suckler and the Mislaid Climate
January 28th, 2020 Energised as a party, as deputy Catherine Martin put it at the launch of the Green’s election …
Kill Bill: Access to Justice under threat by planning proposals
January 27th, 2020 During the closing months of its tenure, the outgoing Government proposed a Bill that would have left …
Mitigate, Adapt, or Suffer – the stark choices we face in Election 2020
January 24th, 2020 General Election 2020 must be the ‘Climate Election’. As the global climate and biodiversity emergency deepens, it …
General Election 2020 – a wake-up call for environmentalists
January 23rd, 2020 Voters don’t care about the environment. There, I said it. And I wouldn’t have believed it until …
‘We are all in the same climate boat in stormy seas’
January 14th, 2020 Yesterday, Storm Brendan swept across Ireland. While far from unusual for us West Coast dwellers to be …
The Roaring ‘20s: time to wake up to climate collapse
January 9th, 2020 As the world sat on the edge of a new decade in December, the news of Australian …
COP25: Youth voice the silver lining to a dark cloud
December 16th, 2019 On Thursday, the official penultimate day of COP25, the energy in the conference halls seemed low as …
COP25: Name and shame those holding the world to ransom
December 16th, 2019 And so after two weeks of negotiations, COP25 finally came to a fractious end last night, some …
Deadlock at COP25 – Can the Chilean President deliver progress?
December 12th, 2019 There are many contradictions at COP25 here in Madrid. Since the meeting was originally scheduled for Santiago …