10 February 2022 Comedian Colm O’Regan will be taking to the stage next week in Dublin’s Smock Alley Theatre for his new show, Climate Worrier. We rang him up to find out more, have a read below. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. When did climate become Read more…
8 July 2021 After weeks of campaigning and coverage, voters of the Dublin Bay South constituency are heading to the polls today. Housing, the ongoing pandemic and its rippled-out effects have been issues right at the forefront over the past few weeks. We wanted to dig a little deeper and Read more…
21 October 2020 The recently published Climate Bill doesn’t have a “sense of emergency”, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action heard today. Dr. Andrew Jackson of UCD’s Sutherland School of Law, and who also instigated Climate Case Ireland, told Committee Members that he did not get a sense of Read more…
May 13th, 2019 On 29 April just before four o’clock – and two weeks before the country followed its lead – Wicklow County Council declared a climate emergency. It was the first Irish county to do so, and the push that got it over the line came from all ages. Read more…
Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist Photo: European Union / DAINA LE LARDIC
May 9th, 2019 The Dáil is set to debate a motion this evening calling on the Government to declare a national climate emergency. The motion to accept and endorse the recommendations in the new landmark report from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action was amended by the Green Party Read more…
May 2nd, 2019 Activists from Cork’s Extinction Rebellion movement held a climate vigil outside the Clayton Hotel yesterday evening while the Taoiseach was in a town hall meeting. Protesters stood in silence outside the hotel holding placards and banners to show their dissatisfaction with the State’s lack of climate action. Read more…
December 18th, 2018 A climate Bill to ban any new licenses for oil and gas exploration now looks set to sit in a “procedural cul de sac” at Committee Stage after Fine Gael-led opposition to the Bill. Brought by People Before Profit’s Brid Smith, the Bill seeks to amend the Read more…
July 10th, 2018 The Oireachtas Committee on climate action and the environment concluded its second hearing on the Climate Emergency Measures Bill this afternoon. The Bill seeks to amend the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development Act 1960 to stop the Government from issuing any new licenses for the exploration and extraction of fossil fuels. Read more…
