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In this article, I won’t be talking about home energy upgrade solutions. Instead, I would like to relate our family’s experience with switching to an electrical car a year ago. According to statistics published by the SEAI this week, private cars represent 17 per cent of the overall energy consumption […]

I have been writing these articles for over a year now. My first piece was about rubbish that washed up on the nearest beach. Last year I picked about 40kg of litter out of the seaweed and sand, most of it small pieces of degraded plastic drink bottles. I have collected […]

This month we need your help. We have had so many wonderful conversations and started so many initiatives around the town that we now need to build momentum across all our projects in order to reduce food waste, farm to fork, throughout Clonakilty!  Here are five ways you can support […]

As an assessor, I regularly complete assessments for one-stop shop upgrades. There are certainly advantages to the One Stop Shop scheme over the individual grants, but there are also additional requirements and restrictions. So how does it all work? The government launched the One Stop Shop, (OSS) scheme in early […]