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Opinion: What's the point of a new national park if we're not preserving nature?

The environmental campaigner responds to the government’s purchase of 70,000 acres and seas that will be Ireland’s first Marine National Park.

Pádraic Fogarty

In the midst of a biodiversity crisis, the environment has been badly let down by EU politics this week, writes Pádraic Fogarty.

The environmental campaigner says the European legal action against the Irish State over failure to protect bogs has been a long time coming.

The environmental campaigner says public support won’t last forever for farmers in the face of climate change.

The environmental campaigner looks back at a year when some progress was made on biodiversity, but so much more needs to be done.

The environmental campaigner gives a broad welcome to the new climate fund announced in the Budget.