From time to time, I get asked how to gain employment in the retrofit industry. The Irish Government’s ambitious target through the Climate Action Plan to retrofit 500,000 homes to a minimum of B2 Building Energy Rating (BER) by 2030 is fuelling a sustained demand for a skilled workforce. While […]
Environment
This month, Ian Wild, a member of the Save Murragh Action Group, which is committed to protecting the Bandon River Valley, discusses the responsibility of the decision makers around planning and its implications for future generations. The future is hard to predict, some might say, impossible. So planning for the […]
The communities of the Maughanaclea Hills – including the rural lands of Kealkill, Coomclogh, Cousane and the Mealagh Valley and their neighbours in Gortloughra – have come together to launch a ‘Stop the Spin’ campaign in opposition to a proposed industrial scale wind farm by wind energy giant Enerco, with […]