We are nowhere near accepting the kind of radical policies required to halt the degradation of our planet. Almost certainly much further damage will be caused before there is a public realisation of what is required.
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Planning & Environment
Climate change: we must act now
- 10 September 2007
- George Monbiot
George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the UK and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. Here he advises Britain on how to reduce their carbon emissions, as well as issues such as climate change censorship, and climate change solutions.
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Review of Waste Policy needed
- 08 September 2007
- Malachy Browne
Local authorities are unfairly advantaged over private operators in the waste management sector as a result of several shortcomings in government policy in the sector. By Malachy Browne
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Dublin Port controversy continues
- 18 July 2007
- Aisling O'Rourke and Malachy Browne
A deal reached between Bertie Ahern and Finian McGrath, Independent TD for Dublin North Central following the general election included assurances to McGrath that no further infilling of the bay would occur in return for McGrath's support for Fianna Fail in government. Add a comment
'Signifigant' site faces destruction
- 15 June 2007
- Emma Browne
A large site on the Tara motorway route is unlikely to be saved, despite it having been declared a national monument. By Emma Browne Add a comment
Lismullin part of a greater national monument
- 15 June 2007
The defining archaeological feature associated with the major prehistoric royal centres of Navan Fort, Co Armagh, Knockaulin, Co Kildare, Rathcroghan, Co Roscommon and the pre-eminent royal site of Tara, Co Meath, is the concentration of large-scale, high-status and unusual monument types, many of which are of a funerary, ritual or ceremonial nature. It has long been recognised that each monument within the Tara landscape is an integral part of Tara.
Controversial billboard deal with Dublin City Council
- 05 June 2007
- Eoin Bassett
Dublin City Council has struck a controversial deal with JC Decaux that grants the outdoor advertising company a 15-year lease on billboards on public property, mainly in the Dublin's northside. Eoin Bassett reports. Add a comment
English, Irish, Scots: They're All One, Genes Suggest
- 07 March 2007
- NICHOLAS WADE
Geneticists who have tested DNA throughout Britain and Ireland are struck by the overall genetic similarities between Irish, English, Wesh and Scottish people, leading some to claim that both Britain and Ireland have been inhabited for thousands of years by a single people that have remained in the majority, with only minor additions from later invaders like Celts, Romans, Angles , Saxons, Vikings and Normans.
Shell to Sea protest at Shell headquarters
- 01 February 2007
- Malachy Browne
The Shell to Sea campaign staged a protest today at Shell headquarters in Dublin "to show solidarity with the peoples around the world who are paying the price of Shell's profits, including the people of Erris, County Mayo" where a natural gas refinery and pipeline is being constructed. The Anglo-Dutch energy company today announced profits of approximately €19bn, up nearly 33% on 2005 profits.
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