Eamon Ryan announces he is stepping down as Green Party Leader

Would suspect he's a very decent human being and he himself believes passionately in the various ideas he espouses, but as a minister in charge of Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications; and Department of Transport he was a fruit cake….

The frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves have all been increasing. I don't know exactly when hey began.

Of the 31 hottest days on record in Greece, one is from 1921, one is in 1958, six from the 1970s, nine from 2000-2010, and 13 are from 2020-2023. If you can't spot the trend in that then I really don't know what to say.

Yes indeed, I did take the time though and as I wrote, no offence meant.

It just doesn't read well and neither does your subsequent reply. I'm sorry you can't take a bit of constructive criticism.

So youre blaming him for a global economic crisis. And for private companies price gouging. Okay.

To become the next leader of the Greens?

I think Eamonn Ryan is a decent man. I wouldn't say the same for Leo Varadkar, Stephen Donnelly, Roderic O Gorman or Aodhan O Riordain. Eamonn Ryan was an idealist and pushed the green policies too far, too fast. I am sick to death of cycle ways ,green ways and carbon taxes . Meanwhile he spent the last 6 months flying all over the World, he was hardly out of a plane! Not a good look.

Agriculture and the environment are on a collision course in this country and the sooner this is faced up to politically the better. It is a hot potato. We can't reduce our carbon footprint and increase our beef and dairy output at the same time, plus having an ever increasing population! This is going to be the same issue for whoever comes next, even if there is no green party!

I am just hugely relieved that their idiot deputy leader Catherine Martin is also stepping back. I was more worried about her than Eamonn Ryan leaving. Good luck to him. It will be interesting to see how he is written into the history books. He wasn't the worst, his heart was in the right place.

All of them will admit that they cannot make confirmed, successful and precise predictions of the future of the earth's climate. Nor predict exactly what the sun is going to do in the future to influence the earth's climate.

Given this uncertainty and inability to predict climate precisely, how can political actors truthfully claim they will be able to exercise micro-control over the earth's climate with policy-driven initiatives? They can't.

The whole issue is much hazier, in practical terms, than how it is presented.

It is like knee-jerk anti-everything populist bingo.

"The biggest climate deniers are the green party" - Lorna Bogue (former green party member) on Virgin tonight show. She's retaliating against another green member, Marc o chasahaigh on the panel who is shaking his head in disgust accusing others of being "climate deniers" as if they said the 'n" or 'c' word, what a clown.

It's no wonder they are going the way of the dinosaurs. Our grandchildren will be burning the turf of Green party members fossils

Haha.

Do you know how much 1 nuclear plant would cost?

Care to share the data?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/28/seville-cycling-capital-southern-europe-bike-lanes …

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Is she really

No wonder she hasn’t bothered her arse replying to an email I sent her a couple of days ago

Tbf I’d rather stuff myself with ropa vieja and do a few lines with Tony Montana too

Ahh the old balance sheet. The pure indicator of fiscal responsibility.

Easy when you have sectors which skew the actual experience of the ordinary citizen.

Let’s take a few indicators. Retail? Indigenous? Non existent. Wages? For one of the “richest” countries in the world, they aren’t exactly high.

A few other things to take into the long term view, social welfare payments for the “refugees”. Health on its knees and completely dysfunctional. Housing? Probably unaffordable for the majority of individuals who need it most. Competing with state funds for the same housing stock rules most young people out. Groceries? Need I even state the obvious.

funny you ignored the societal changes that have been on display. Having visited home last Christmas, personally was the only “Irish” person on the street at times. Crime through the roof, of course no ethnicity indicators are taken to show who is committing the crime.

All in all, those in the know and who are connected do well, the ordinary joe and Josephine have much more difficult lives than 10 years ago.

https://x.com/RTE_PrimeTime/status/1803173686943326400

Give roisin the gig

Why haven't FF or FG sorted out nuclear then, they've been in power for 100 years?

If you're going to blame the Greens for no nuclear, surely we'll get it after they have no seats after the general election?

It's amazing the power people think the Green party have.

Fair enough but people should demand nuclear from FF FG instead of just blaming the minority green party for not going down that route

Rodric one of the front runners

Haha

Of course there won't be a general election in July. While Martin has ruld herself out of leader she has stated she is running again. Every green TD needs that budget to give themselves the best chance.