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Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan civilisation. But it doesn’t take an ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to predict the floods which have afflicted Ireland recently,

Feb 6, 2026

Environment

World warming even faster than thought

2010 is now thought to be the warmest year on record. Previously, the accelerated warming of the arctic was insufficiently taken into account by one of the main global temperature records. Now, new data paints a dramatic picture of our warming planet:

Apr 2, 2012

Environment

Oil exploration contracts means another “Great Giveaway” of natural resources

Dublin’s Socialist Party MEP, Paul Murphy, who was assaulted by members of the Garda Siochana last week while taking part in a peaceful sitdown protest in Rossport, Co. Mayo, has called the decision to approve new exploration licenses to gas companies reprehensible.

Aug 31, 2011

Environment·Paul Murphy Column

Paul Murphy MEP victim of Garda Brutality in Rossport

Dublin MEP Paul Murphy was part of a Socialist Party contingent on a peaceful protest organised by the community in Rossport and the Shell to Sea campaign today. At that protest he, and the other peaceful protesters were brutally assaulted by the

Aug 25, 2011

Environment

What the frack?

Hydraulic Fracturing or “fracking” is a technique for extracting gas from deep within shale rock and coal beds. It looks set to become big oil’s newest gold rush and, as usual, their desperation for profit makes them blind to the environmental costs

Jul 19, 2011

Environment

Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe

Climate Change is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says.

Dec 15, 2010

Environment

Lust for Profits caused BP oil disaster

“It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimised by this manmade disaster are made whole”. These words of

Jul 15, 2010

Environment

Government’s new gas field giveaways

At a time when the government continues to implement savage cuts on working people on the one hand it is still in the process of giving away billions of euro worth of our natural gas to private interests. Two onshore gas fields are

Jun 8, 2010

Environment

Release Pat O’Donnell forthwith!

It is an outrage that Pat O'Donnell finds himself in prison at all. He is a victim of the criminalisation of decent people involved in peaceful protest in Erris.

Feb 28, 2010

Environment

Copenhagen climate crisis environment second to profit once again

With Obama’s acceptance that agreeing a legally binding framework on climate change and reductions in emissions will not be possible at the talks in Copenhagen, commentators and participants are now trying to portray this in a positive light.

Dec 7, 2009

Environment

Fianna Fail blame poor planning for Co.Clare floods!

Homeowners and businesses across the Midwest are bracing themselves for the worst as further heavy rainfall is forecast and the tide on the already swollen River Shannon due to rise by a another metre over the course of the next week.

Nov 29, 2009

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Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

World warming even faster than thought

Oil exploration contracts means another “Great Giveaway” of natural resources

Paul Murphy MEP victim of Garda Brutality in Rossport

What the frack?

Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe

Lust for Profits caused BP oil disaster

Government’s new gas field giveaways

Release Pat O’Donnell forthwith!

Copenhagen climate crisis environment second to profit once again

Fianna Fail blame poor planning for Co.Clare floods!

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