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All climate politics are local, but are local politicians up to the challenge?

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 …

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