Eamon Ryan resigns before the General Election.

We need to rewild barren hillsides stripped bare by sheep (sheep are almost worthless btw)

We also need to urgently get more farmers growing fruit and veg for food security

@Strumms "considering it will be starting it’s route several kilometres away and originating and transiting through majorly populated areas "

What a terrible idea, running bus through major population areas.

Up to recently, three years ago, we had a very bad rural bus service with only occasional buses and which ended at about 7pm. We now have a service which runs at almost hourly intervals and runs until 11pm. Those changes make taking the bus a much more viable option for people and has been a real benefit for the local population.

Is the production solar panels or wind turbines environmentally friendly ? . I've worked on Windfarms and I can confirm that 800m3 of concrete goes into each base plus 300 tonne of steel. You'd be a long time driving an SUV before you burn that much Carbon thats used up in concrete and steel prodicuzoijp.

Actually quite surprising ROG has announced this - his first move at the faintest whiff of trouble is to go to ground, not a peep out of him after any of his many mishaps. Well he did one interview in the RDS after the referendum. That's hardly party leader material is it? Where you're in the spotlight constantly. No need to pass much comment on the well known trail of destruction he has left behind him in his portfolio too..

Will O'Gorman even retain his seat in Dublin West next time he got in by the skin of his teeth in 2020?

Maybe a 2nd FF candidate running there too next time.

You seem to be an expert, maybe you should update all us "charlatan"?

He'll do well with the urban liberals. And that's the Green vote now. So you'll have FG, Labour, SDs and Greens all chasing this vote.

Burning wood under the pretense it is carbon neutral is a con. It suits the big boys and girls in the E.U. to label it as such for calculating carbon emissions as 60% of the E.U. energy is from burning biomass. The single largest emitter in the U.K. is the Drax wood burning power plant, and is the second largest emitter in Europe.

Even green advocacy think tanks such as Ember and the NRDC have vilified the practice and shown that at the smoke stack it is the same or greater than burning coal. Not that it has stopped our geniuses joining in on the pretence. We are burning wood shipped from Brazil in a former peat burning factory in Offaly and we are going to be burning 200,000 tonne annually in a new plant in Killala in Mayo that will be shipped to Killybegs in Donegal to be then transported by road to Killala and all that is somehow a carbon neutral exercise. It`s horse manure.

Are you a young earth creationist now or something, because this question makes no sense whatsoever.

Anyone have any theories on why Catherine Martin isn't going for leader (considering she went for it after the last election)? Is she running at the next election? She's the only Green TD that I think is guaranteed to get re-elected. I see Pippa Hackett being considered for it…she couldn't even win a seat at the last election so she hasn't a prayer of winning one next time round.

Neither Paddy Power nor Boyle sports even have a market for it.

Oisin Smyth is the guy who decided instead of putting our plastic bottles in the recycling bin we need to travel 20 miles into a town and search every shop for the nearest machine that accepts plastic bottles so that twats name should not be in the running. He's even worse than Eamonn Ryan, he's a complete disaster. Because of that can and bottle disaster,( I always cleaned my cans and bottles before and popped them in my own blue bin and) now I'm expected to get a bus 20 miles into town and find a machine. No, greens out, all they did was tax people, punish people and try their best to make people's lives a misery and add as much impractical nuisances since they got in.

No shifting of goalposts. Just pointing out the reality of wood burning when it comes to it being classified by the E.U. for carbon emissions counting as being carbon neutral.

The U.K. no longer being an E.U. member state doesn`t negate that. Nor does it change the facts that it was green advocacy think tanks such as Ember and the NRDC that pointed out that doing so is generating the same, or even more, carbon emissions than using the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, coal. Unless you believe that for some reason burning wood in a E.U. state will give a different result I really do not see your point.

The nameplate capacity of that Killala plant is 42.5 MW. The capacity factor of wood burning at its optimum moisture level is 61%. That plant would generate 26 MW burning 200,000 tons of wood Our present average needs are 5 GW, projected by Eirgrid to rise to between 13.5 and 14.5 GW by 2050. I`ll leave the maths to you as to the tonnage of timber that would have to be burned to make even a slight meaningful dint in our present or projected demand.

As to importing the wood. The moisture content of Irish grown timber is high and to get it down to the optimum level to get that 61% capacity factor the energy to do so doing would most likely not be far off the energy generated burning it.

It`s a nothing for here other than a pretence that it is carbon neutral for the sake of bookkeeping, and a Green Party " Hey look at us, we really are doing something to reduce carbon admissions". Whatever way you look at it it`s a con.