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This year
2025
Opinion: Why don't we regulate farms like we do pharmaceuticals?
Pádraic Fogarty
Ireland and marine life: 'We should hang our heads in shame at our failure to protect the sea'
Pádraic Fogarty
Forest fires in Ireland: Preparation requires proper enforcement and the end of old practices
Pádraic Fogarty
Opinion: This government is determined to turn its back on sustainable forestry in Ireland
Pádraic Fogarty
Opinion: The Phoenix Park deer might be part of its heritage, but they're bad for biodiversity
Pádraic Fogarty
Opinion: Ireland will not move on climate until we have a truly democratic process
Pádraic Fogarty
Last year
2024
Opinion: Emissions numbers may have improved, but let's not drop the ball
Pádraic Fogarty
Opinion: What's the point of a new national park if we're not preserving nature?
Pádraic Fogarty
Opinion: EU failure to pass the Nature Restoration Law shows a worrying shift to the right
Pádraic Fogarty
Pádraic Fogarty: Ireland's bogs are its rainforests — we have failed them
Pádraic Fogarty
Pádraic Fogarty: Farmers must find a more sophisticated way to be heard than tractor protests
Pádraic Fogarty
All time
Pádraic Fogarty: Next year, we can't afford to be complacent about biodiversity
Pádraic Fogarty
Pádraic Fogarty: This week's budget signals the birth of a new nature economy
Pádraic Fogarty
Pádraic Fogarty: 'Farmers' power has seeped like a smothering fog through Irish politics'
Pádraic Fogarty
Opinion: As half Killarney National Park is lost, we must end the cycle of infernos
Pádraic Fogarty