
Caroline O'Doherty
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Environment Correspondent at the Irish Independent. Views personal. DMs open. [email protected]
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27-08-2010 00:00:43
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The anti-whaling ship used by Captain Paul Watson Foundation 🐋🏴☠️ is docked in Dublin for the next few weeks. Public welcome to call by for a tour and to talk to the crew m.independent.ie/irish-news/fro…

Friends of the Irish Environment FIE News Service are taking judicial review proceedings against An Bord Pleanála's granting of planning permission to Shannon LNG for a power plant m.independent.ie/irish-news/sha…

56% of septic tanks inspected last year were faulty. If the statistic from the sample applies generally, that would mean 250,000 tanks releasing untreated or poorly treated sewage into gardens, streams, ditches & rivers EPA Ireland is concerned m.independent.ie/irish-news/pub…


🚗💸 Looking to speak to people who face long daily commutes — not out of choice, but because they’ve been priced out of living near where they work. 📩 Contact: [email protected] RTs appreciated. DMs are open #JournalistRequest #journorequest #HousingCrisis #CommuteLife



"Instead of 'drill, baby, drill', it's 'dig, drain and destroy'. Roderic O'Gorman Roderic O’Gorman TD takes junior minister Michael Healy-Rae to task over his planting on peatlands plan m.independent.ie/irish-news/gre…

Energy expert Hannah Daly of UCC Ireland unpicks the 'myths and blindspots' underpinning Govt championing of data centres m.independent.ie/irish-news/ene…

Plans are being made to take down Derrybrien & Arklow Bank, the 1st of many wind farms due to be decommissioned in the coming years. But what will they leave behind & are there alternatives to removing them? Thnx to Jerry Mac Evilly Friends of the Earth for input m.independent.ie/irish-news/the…



Prof Celeste Saulo, head of World Meteorological Organization, was in Ireland this week. She speaks here about improving forecasts, climate change, corporate hypocrisy and the motivating power of love m.independent.ie/irish-news/its…

Govt wants to exempt 466 Irish rivers from having to meet standards high enough to support healthy natural habitats. Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) FIE News Service The Rivers Trust Pádraic Fogarty are pleading for the plan to be stalled m.independent.ie/irish-news/pla…

Dublin Canvas - Summer 2025 1 Week to submission deadline - Bank Holiday Monday 2nd June 2025 Dublin City Council Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Fingal County Council SDCC


Going backwards: government departments reassessed how they're doing in getting rid of fossil fuels from our lives and EPA Ireland has had to revise down the emissions cuts we're likely to achieve by 2030 #climate m.independent.ie/irish-news/ire…

'Impossible just a few years ago' Latest from World Meteorological Organization & Met Office - UK shows record or near-record heat to continue and there's a tiny but alarming chance of hitting 2C of warming before 2030 m.independent.ie/world-news/afr…

More on those disappointing emissions forecasts with reaction from Stop Climate Chaos Friends of the Earth Social Democrats Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland Community Law & Mediation (CLM) Hannah Daly m.independent.ie/irish-news/exp…
