Even as they are finishing the counts in Election 2019, it’s clear there’s been a major shift in IrishShould we really be surprised? Our kids are marching in the streets, David Attenborough – at 93 years of age – is reaching countless millions with his impassioned pleas and warnings.
Here in Cork, the Office of Public Works wants to combat rising sea levels by burying our glorious open river quays under thousands of tonnes of concrete – ugly walls that will turn our river into a giant concrete drain and do, according to experts, precisely nothing to stop flooding.If you work in the agri-food sector – and one in 10 of us do – this is a massive issue.
What’s the one thing everybody around the world knows about Ireland? That we are Green. We’re a big green farm in the middle of the rich blue Atlantic.