Green Party ministers jetting off for Paddy’s Day.

I agree that the U.S is important for the Irish-American relationship, but do we really need to send 3 "Green" ministers to places such as Dhaka in Bangladesh?

Certainly I would think that no one outside the East coast of the U.S gives a fook about St. Patrick's day and don't we have Diplomats/Ambassadors in the various countries/regions around the world who could attend events globally on behalf of the country?

Just 3 of these "Greens" will be responsible for 11,000kg of Greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention they'll be chauffered around in fossil fuel burning vehicles... Which is absolutely justified because they can just offset the polluting emissions by having the Irish taxpayer pay what I can only assume is €10's of thousands into a tax fund...

What are you on about, a scheduled or charter aircraft still uses Fossil fuels, and the fact is that the "Green" ministers carbon footprint will amount to Tonnes of Co2 for each of them...

Again, what are you on about? "John down the road?" I mentioned sending highly experienced Diplomats already in region to go and represent Ireland..

Not more neutral than say, Ireland.

Silly thing to complain about.

Maybe if they directed the money and energy travelling abroad towards planting more native trees then everyone would benefit.

They are again going to be the whipping boys for FFG. They really are not playing their cards right. History repeats so quickly in Ireland these days.

Having lived in Dublin my whole life and commuted via car, bus, train, bicycle and motorcycle from the suburbs on both sides of the city my whole working life, I can categorically say that it's 100% traffic policy and design that's behind the congestion issue.

In fairness I do not know who's driving the policy (I'd imagine its green focused), but that policy is definitely there to deter people from driving into the City Centre by making it slower/difficult get there, and its definitely working to a degree, there are fewer cars in Dublin City Centre, however now traffic around the suburbs is nuts.

Traffic evaporation is a myth, it just backs up somewhere else.

We're burning more fuel as of Dec 2022 than ever before. (168k barrels, we were are 153k Pre Covid), which implies that Green Policies aren't really working at all.

Green washing polices from the Green Party do not work. There's an awful "that'll do" attitude from them.

Like I'm all for Public Transport, I'd never drive my car into town. I moved close to a rail line having experienced how crap public transport is away from rail. Improving Public transport should be at the very top of any green agenda and with our green party it's not. They're an awful party.

lots of research says traffic evaporation is not a myth. have a look on google scholar, loads of published academic papers on the subject.

often the reason traffic is worse in some places is because more people than ever have cars and are choosing to drive even when they have other options. it's also down to awful planning and FF/FG ignoring public transport since the foundation of the state. vote green if you want this to change, they're at least trying to improve things now. hopefully can count on your vote in '25!

The well off urban elites who vote Green like me don't struggle with these rising costs so they'll still get our vote. It's not like the poor "ruardle Ireland" brigade struggling with not being able to heat their country mansions with turf or oil, or fill up their 3 cars with diesel because of Eamon's taxes were voting for us in the first place. I think you might be surprised in the next election, may get a few seats, may even get in Gov again because we're willing to do business with any party to get in Gov, gives us a chance to get a few things over the line like we're doing now.

So you don't think both are under massive threat from Sinn Féin?

FG, FF and SF have the advantage of the seat bonus that comes with scale. A third large force of approximately equal size is very bad news for the Green, SDs and the rest.

The SDs still have some time for Holly Cairns to impress, to come up with a distinct policy platform and to either align or distance themselves from a talented Labour party representation. As I said before, they can either hang together, or hang separately.

I feel myself that the fate of the Greens has already been decided, by themselves.

You really come out with some proper nonsense

What anti science policies? If you mean nuclear, why haven't FFFG got nuclear sorted? Why are you putting this on the 2% loony green party?