About 300,000 people made the annual pilgrimage this year to the Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois. Contrary to what the social media trolls would have you believe, I was met with strong, friendly handshakes and passionate voices for the protection of nature and the ecological transformation of modern farming. […]
In recent days, in the wake of the death of Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, I was due to travel to Palestine on a five-day mission to the region as part of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Palestine. We had a packed schedule lined up, and were due […]
When news of the new Retrofitting scheme was announced by the government recently, I was probably one of the few Greens in the country who gave a sigh of mild irritation! Not, I hasten to add, because I have any issue with the scheme, quite the contrary in fact. I […]
Over the course of the recent global week to ACT4SDGs, I addressed the European Assembly at the Global People’s Assembly. It was an event, which was run as part of a three-day programme running parallel to the UN General Assembly. Featuring speakers from 80 countries, it was an incredible showcase […]
I found it hard to sleep last night with the thoughts going around my head. I was thinking, as I lay there in my bed, of the many women, mothers, girls, laying in their own beds or on floors or the ground, or countless other places, in Afghanistan. My daughters were […]
At a local, national and international level, June has been quite the Pride Month. In a year in which, in Ireland and other countries, many of the feted centrepieces of international celebrations, the Pride Parades, were once again largely conducted on-screen, it was a month that saw highs and lows. […]