Eamon Ryan resigns before the General Election.

People shouldn't bad mouth the Greens here. The Greens were always socialist Eco Warriors who manage to keep a suit on on a daily basis. They should bad mouth FG/FF for giving the Greens the keys to drive us into a wall. They have done the political equivalent of glueing themselves to an airport runway and it has baffled me, the amount of votes they got in the locals/EU.

This is proof that we have literally zero alternative outside of independents.

Step forward Catherine Martin Minister for Tourism.

I have to say, there’s more than a grain of truth there- it’s been VERY convenient for FF and FG to allow the Green Party take the brunt of the climate change challenges - if they took this on themselves as a party (which they are legally obliged to do as a government) , they might find that their poll ratings aren’t so high as they were in the recent election.

I’ve been a strong critic of the Greens as all they have known in the past is Tax Tax Tax- we need creative solutions because the climate challenge isn’t going away and countries are obliged to act.

We also need to be responsible as citizens too - I recognise that and we’re probably not where we need to be- but government needs to take this challenge on as one team - it can’t be outsourced to a fall guy Green Party.

I didn’t think Ryan was great as a leader but I’m not expecting any better from that party- politically he probably had to go but we need parties like the greens in government - otherwise we’ll be left with a whole other pack of bat sh1t crazies to choose from. Greens are by far my preference over those.

Hopefully Labour will emerge as a strong party in the next election- guaranteed they’ll get the environment portfolio 🤪

Care to remind us how much "thinking for a bit" the Irish Greens (and, in particular, the Minister for Energy) did about nuclear energy?

A three word response will suffice - the first word is "sweet" and the third is "all".

We have a housing crisis as well, do you expect mass hysteria over that?

Plus a lot of people are more than happy to deny the climate has changed at all and think it will all just sort itself out

Probably the right time for Eamon Ryan to go, the party could do with a change of leadership and get back to basics with their policies ahead of the next GE.

I never understood this bizarre online hatred for Eamon and the GP in general.

Loss of the MEPs was the final nail in his political career.

Unsustainable and entirely predictable that his position was untenable.

The problem isn't the Green Party. The problem is the general publics push back on Green Policies. It's happening worldwide and its a shame. The risks of climate change are very real but lets kick the bucket down the road.

How will we cope with him gone....

Ah don’t worry -we can still slag off Mary Lou in the SF thread

I remember I asked another poster on a different green (small-g) thread if he was doing things like making his own clothes etc. He was appalled.

There is no voluntary low-consumption movement of people living a very modest low energy lifestyle, setting an example, in general.

Instead you get a political movement harassing other people, dismantling other people's way of life including e.g. restricting farmers on the other side of the country all the way from the Green base of wealthy high-consumption people in South Dublin.

Green (big-G) politics are purely negativist, 100% a response to catastrophising and in effect wholly about impinging on people with rules laid down by a centralised government.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/housing-grants-and-schemes/grants-for-home-renovations-and-improvements/warmer-homes-scheme/

Greens getting this through has been huge, and has meant thousands of folk can now retrofit their home for free. Things like the Carbon tax have made this possible.