This article was published in the Irish Times on the 27th of April 2023 here It might not feel like it yet, but there’s an election in the offing. The first of many shiny newsletters arrived in my letterbox recently. It was an impressive list of small jobs that, taken together, show that my local …
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This article was published in the Irish Times here under the title “Rapid expansion of solar power capacity gives us grounds to be hopeful” on the 23rd of March 2023. There is hardly ever any good news on the climate front. However, a recent report by the think tank Ember found that the energy price …
This article was published in the Irish Times here on the 23rd February 2023. Former speaker of the US House of Representatives Tip O’ Neill is famous for quipping that all politics are local: he said, “everything starts at your back yard”. How to square this political maxim with robust decision-making in respect of Ireland’s …
All climate politics are local, but are local politicians up to the challenge? Read More »
This article was published in the Irish Times on the 26th January 2023 and is available here The National Retrofit Plan has already been branded as a failure by opposition politicians despite being just a year old. Is that a fair assessment? Despite the best efforts of politicians, public servants and various social actors, sometimes …
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