Dublin City Council to declare climate emergency
October 14th, 2019
Dublin City Council
will declare a climate emergency, the Lord Mayor has said.
Lord Mayor Paul
McAuliffe made the commitment on Saturday afternoon during a...
Extinction Rebellion brings fracking concerns to Climate Minister’s front door
October 11th, 2019
Extinction Rebellion activists plastered the Department of Climate Action with scientific research on fracking in protest against the State’s support of a...
Convictions in Mayo and Wexford for illegal hare hunting
October 11th, 2019
An Garda Siochana and the National Parks and Wildlife Service
(NPWS) have secured successful convictions relating to illegal hare lurching in
countries Wexford and...
Extinction Rebellion activists arrested after locking themselves to Dail gate
October 11th, 2019
Five Extinction Rebellion activists were
arrested last night in Dublin after locking themselves to the gates of the
Dail.
Extinction Rebellion Ireland (XRI) members...
Extinction Rebellion disrupts ‘business as usual’ across the globe
October 10th, 2019
Extinction Rebellion, arguably one of the most prominent and radical
climate action groups of our time, owes its ascent to tree felling protestors,
at...
US gas support would see Ireland ‘complicit’ in harm from fracking industry
October 10th, 2019
Irish support for US liquefied natural gas imports would make us complicit in harm caused to communities living near the fracking fields...
EU court confirms strict rules to halt killing of endangered species
October 10th, 2019
The EU’s top court today upheld strict species protection rules in a case brought to try and stop the capture and killing...
Coal imports and fast fashion in Extinction Rebellion sightlines
October 10th, 2019
Protests against
imported coal and fast fashion rounded up the mid-point of a week-long series
of action by Extinction Rebellion Ireland as the group...
Gas imports from US worse than coal, climate expert
October 9th, 2019
A US climate expert has called on the Irish Government to ban the importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from his...
Budget 2020: Urgency for climate & biodiversity emergency?
October 9th, 2019
The climate movement has seen a meteoric rise over the year, with the school strikes and Extinction Rebellion cranking up the pressure...
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