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Our chronic dependence on an invented system of growth-based capitalism that is destabilising the global climate system and laying waste to the natural...
Opposition to mining in County Clare grows as prospecting license granted
6 July 2022
Over recent months, local opposition has been building against possible mineral prospecting in east Clare.
Resistance in East Clare
Opposition was largely spurred on...
Opposition to mining in Clare grows as licensing looms
6 July 2022
Over recent months, local opposition has been building against possible mineral prospecting in east Clare.
Resistance in East Clare
Opposition was largely spurred on...
Culture Column: The Saga of the Swamp Thing
6 July 2022
Comic book characters are at the height of popularity right now. The characters created by DC and Marvel in particular have been...
So long from our editor, Kayle Crosson
24 June 2022
As some of you may have seen on Twitter this week, today is my last official day as editor of The...
Putting our bodies on the line to save everything
I contributed the below piece to the Business Post in mid-June looking at the extraordinary phenomenon of climate scientists taking to the streets and...
Feeding the planet without destroying the Earth
My review of ‘Regenesis’ by George Monbiot appeared in The Irish Times in mid-June. The author has, since its publication, been on the...
Culture column: Snowpiercer
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A story set in a dystopian, post-apocalypse world tends to be a creative way to comment on the failures and fears of...
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Biodiversity spotlight: grey and common seals
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