Most voters, of course, are blissfully unaware of the sheer scale of spending on Green Energy.
Ireland, despite having the longest and strictest Covid lockdown in the EU, still fell short of its 2020 carbon emission targets by a significant margin. Yet the Greens are still doubling down on even more radical climate measures. Under a Green EU agreement called the Effort Sharing Decision, Ireland had agreed to reduce its carbon […]
“Never has so much been spent to achieve so little”, said Pearse Doherty, responding to it. It is very hard to argue that he is wrong.
How does one car making ten journeys emit less carbon than ten cars making one journey each?
Saying “I told you so” is a rather unpleasant trait in a person, but there are times when it cannot be avoided. Last week, on these pages, I wrote that: the Government can live with electricity blackouts if they only affect the hapless citizenry. Such blackouts can be blamed on other factors: Maintenance. The need […]
6 things every rural person should know about climate change
“This proposed ‘energy park’ is just more of the same”
The Green Party believe that the world is facing an existential crisis because people are burning too many fossil fuels. In order to save the world, they say, we must (their words) “keep it in the ground”. They want us to use less energy and electricity. They want us to become “more efficient”. In the […]
What do you call a country that shuts down two of its power stations for ideological reasons, and then has to scramble to avoid the risks of electricity blackouts during the winter? If you do not know the answer to that, let me tell you: Stupid. A Stupid country does that. And it is exactly […]
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan says his party will be supporting Fine Gael’s Simon Coveney in the upcoming no-confidence vote triggered by Sinn Féin. The motion comes amid ongoing controversy surrounding Coveney’s offering of a UN envoy position to former Minister Katherine Zappone, which many have dubbed “cronyism.” #SinnFéin is to table a motion of […]
In all seriousness, and, accepting that there is much competition for the accolade, this might be the stupidest story of the year. Imagine being the Garda who had to take the call from an adult complaining that other adults were mean about her in a whatsapp group: A prominent Green Party TD and Oireachtas committee […]
The Directive also establishes legally binding targets “that will become more stringent from 2026″