$2,000,000,000! That is the latest fine that Monsanto has been ordered to pay to a couple that got cancer after using its weed killer. A jury ruled against Monsanto, now owned by the German company Bayer. marking the third and the largest verdict against the company over Roundup. The jury […]
Irish Community Rapid Response has welcomed the announcement by the Department of Health on June 14 that a service contract has been signed – and Ireland’s first community Air ambulance will be airborne within weeks. Welcoming the announcement, ICRR said it looked forward to working is strong cooperation with the […]
Blue House Gallery opens its doors during June to an intense month of exhibitions comprising photography, painting, printmaking, ceramics and collage. With Artists Spaces, photographers Geoff Greenham and Melanie Black have toured the studios of resident artists, taking inspiration from the environments these artists have devised to make possible the […]
Irish Bumblebee populations recorded in 2017 are the lowest they’ve been since monitoring began in 2012. The All-Ireland Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme, coordinated by Dr Tomás Murray, Senior Ecologist at the National Biodiversity Data Centre, has revealed marked losses in our native bumblebee species. The bumblebee populations recorded in 2017 were […]
This year The Community Foundation for Ireland has established an Environment and Nature fund of €200,000 and is inviting community groups to apply for grant funding to engage an ecologist and develop a Community Biodiversity Plan (CBP) for their local area. Within the scheme, three levels of grant funding will […]