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Ireland's Road Safety Authority slammed over 'offensive' ad suggesting non-drivers 'are a burden'
Road Traffic Accidents
Neil Fox, whose sister was killed by a truck, says the campaign is "trivialising what is life and death for people"
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Red-listed Irish bird species up 35 per cent as 250 farmers 'delay grass mowing in attempt to save them'
Biodiversity
Nature minister Malcolm Noonan says efforts are beginning to paying off
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'At Electric Picnic it's hard to see the virtue signalling inside the tents because of the tents abandoned outside'
Electric Picnic
'For all the sustainable energy on stage, there's always people off it who lack energy of any sort to pack up properly once it's all over
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Ireland's deep-sea corals 'probably ingesting microplastics from our clothes', say UCC scientists
Environment
Washing machine wastewater is thought to be partly to blame for microplastic pollution found deep in the North Atlantic
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Alarming glacier melt in Andes sets 'grim new benchmark' in climate crisis says Irish scientist
Climate change
University of Galway scientist, Dr Gordon Bromley, co-authored a study that found they've shrunk to their smallest in 11,700 years
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All Island Rail Review final plan to bring train stations within 5km of 700,000 more homes
Irish Rail
It could take 26 years to complete but the proposals also mean 90 per cent of air passengers could take a train to the airport
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Almost 30,000 Irish households in arrears to electricity firms, new report states
Cost of Living
Some 24 per cent of electricity consumers were behind on their gas bills this April
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Ireland's climate minister supports Brazil's proposal to tax world's billionaires
Climate change
Brazil's proposal for a 2 per cent wealth tax on billionaires was high on the G20 agenda
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University of Limerick team pioneer robot solution for 'hazardous' offshore wind farm inspections
Environment
"The significance of our research should be viewed in the context of Ireland's existing offshore wind strategy"
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Galway the worst affected following rise in E.coli failures in private water supplies
Environment
According to Ireland's environment watchdog, water quality in the likes of schools, creches, sports clubs and nursing homes is falling below public standards
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Irish High Court involves European judiciary in An Taisce case against nitrates plan
An Taisce
As Taisce is taking a judicial review of the State's latest plan to reduce agricultural pollution and protect waterways
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Ireland accused of 'feeding' genocide in Gaza as thousands of cattle exported to Israel since war began
Farming
"To think that we are actually sending in food supplies into Israel to support the economy [and] government of Israel - worse still to feed the soldiers the government are ordering to go in to murder Gazans wholescale"
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested on Japan's orders days after leaving Dublin
Biodiversity
In an exclusive interview with the Irish Mirror, he said he would do everything in his power to frustrate Japan's new monster whaling ship
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Tanaiste says it's 'only a matter of time' before all Irish tractors are electric
Micheal Martin
Micheál Martin made the prediction as he unveiled Africa’s first ever electric tractor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Friday
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'Happy day' for man who caught footage of critically endangered whale in Irish waters
Irish Whale and Dolphin Group
Just 250 of the species are thought to be alive in the world today with Irish Whale and Dolphin group urging people to give it space
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Lough Neagh action plan back before Executive after toxic algae retakes lake
Northern Ireland
A dead swan has surfaced at Reas Wood after huge parts of the lough turned green
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Watch: We took to the skies to see how toxic algae has spread across Ireland's biggest lake
Environment
"The difference even in 24 hours was remarkable"
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Ireland's biggest freshwater lake 'rotten' with toxic blue-green algae again
Environment
"All the images that went out from the emerald isle last year - we weren't the emerald isle for the reason we should be - we were the emerald isle for the big green murky lough"
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Fury as government fails to pass promised Bill to protect Irish seas before summer recess
Biodiversity
Wind Energy Ireland is backing up Fair Seas’ repeated calls to deliver the crucial and long promised legislation
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Beloved Father Ted star Pauline McLynn 'disgusted' by horrors of Ireland's 'cruel' live animal exports
Pauline McLynn
She urged campaigners to make “noise so loud” that “politicians are afraid of us”
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Captain Paul Watson's ship leaves Dublin to take on "most high-stakes mission" yet against Japanese whalers
Biodiversity
"This is the most high-stakes mission in all my years of opposing whaling in the world’s oceans"
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Blue badge holders being 'used as a mask by car park lobby' to fight Dublin transport plan
Transport
"We are just being used as a group of people... so Range Rovers, the Jags and the Aston Martins can go into town and park up"
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Ireland's emissions drop 'encouraging' but greater action needed to meet targets, says leading environmental group
Climate change
2023 emissions fell 6.8 per cent but we now need an 8.3 per cent cut in 2024 and 2025 to hit EU and national targets, says the EPA
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We go behind the scenes with Greenpeace founder Paul Watson aboard his anti-whaling ship docked in Dublin
Environment
Exclusive - The 73-year-old sailed to Ireland so his crew of 28 would be close enough to Iceland to stop plans "to kill fin whales this summer"
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