24 September 2020 As I travelled up the quays to Liberty Hall earlier this month (it was the first time I had been in Dublin city centre since March), I was pleasantly surprised by what appeared to be an actual dedicated cycle lane. The Greens are really making an impact, Read more…
3 August 2020 Recently, a new green-left organisation, the Just Transition Greens, took shape and started to accumulate a following. As an affiliate group of the Green Party, it’s open to both members and non-members and in their founding announcement, the signatories stressed that there is a need for the Read more…
23 July 2020 Former Green Party candidate Saoirse McHugh has left the Green Party today, a move she doubts is “a surprise to most people”. In a Twitter thread posted on Thursday morning, Ms McHugh made the announcement and said her reasons for doing so “are obvious”. She referred to Read more…
February 6th, 2020 After a year of climate school strikes and civil disobedience, the Green Party has seen a notable spike in support. The party has its roots in environmental issues, and saw its positions on climate reap electoral benefit last year with gains in local and European elections that Read more…
February 4th, 2020 Green Party leader Eamon Ryan is keeping the option of entering a coalition Government on the table as the election moves into its final week despite his party’s criticism of the climate policies of the three leading parties. Speaking on a panel at a Climate Hustings election Read more…
January 28th, 2020 Energised as a party, as deputy Catherine Martin put it at the launch of the Green’s election campaign earlier this month, spirits were high that the green wave of the local and European elections would continue to crash against the Irish electorate in the brawl for the Read more…
January 27th, 2020 Lack of climate action will cost the state over €7 billion by the end of this year, the Green Party has said in the lead up to the general election. The party’s analysis examined different sectors impacted by the climate crisis, with the costs deemed to be Read more…
May 25th, 2019 The green wave across European and local elections is a clear signal that Irish people want urgent action to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, Ireland’s largest environmental coalition has said. The Environmental Pillar said today that it was a heartening experience for its member organisations to Read more…
December 8th, 2018 While legislation to tackle plastic waste increases globally, microplastic pollution remains an overlooked problem, a new UN report has revealed. The new report Legal Limits on Single-Use Plastics and Microplastics found that, despite a rise in bans on plastic bags, other single-use plastic products such as microbeads Read more…
November 22nd, 2018 Ireland will have to resume the purchase of emissions allowances and renewable credits as we are “far off course” to meet our 2020 target, the Minister for Climate Action has said. Richard Bruton said yesterday that Ireland will fail to meet our 2020 target of reducing emissions by Read more…