February 11th, 2019 No country likes to think of themselves as a villain, but recent news has created difficult questions for Ireland’s environmental credentials. Despite ambitious rhetoric, Ireland is one of the EU’s worst emitters per capita and has been severely criticised for agricultural emissions moving in the wrong direction. Read more…
11 February 2019 Ireland has the third highest rate of overfishing in Europe with quotas coming in at more than 20 per cent above scientific advice, a new EU-wide report has found. The annual Landing the Blame report from the London-based NGO New Economics Foundation (NEF) analyses fishing quotas – Read more…
July 19th, 2018 Almost 15,000 fish are confirmed to have been killed in a suspected chemical poisoning in County Tipperary. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has launched an investigation into the incident which occurred along a 5km stretch of the Ollatrim River last week. Among the estimated 14,749 fish found dead last week, 10,500 were lamprey, a Read more…
