Eamon Ryan resigns before the General Election.

I didn't realise that. Whoever runs in her place could literally be the only Green TD after the next election. They got councilors elected to all 6 LEAs in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown county council last week so plenty of options to choose from there.

i don't think he has any chance of retaining his seat. Last time he only had to beat Ruth Coppinger (PBP), but in the next GE he will likely get fewer votes and the other parties with seats (FF, FG, SF) may have more candidates running in order to grab that 4th seat.

Choice between Pippa, the unelected minister no one has ever heard of or a Minister who ballsed up what should have been straight forward referendums.

His constituency is gaining a seat so maybe.

Ryan is such a horrible politician and Martin not far behind.
Yeh yeh we know they ‘are different’ self sacrificers for the good of the planet?’

Basically he has jumped leaving any new leader the poison chalice of getting a tanking in the GE.
Why didn’t he stay on and take the brick bat for saving the planet himself?

God I’d be livid if I was a member

SF on the brain.

I made a comment on a Green politician on a thread about the Greens and you want to talk about SF.

Ryan was absolutely hated (and feared) for years by many within the GP.

He's the epitome of a street angel.

This came from a conversation years ago with an old Greenie on the inside.

I don't believe that this is actually true. The Irish Times Inside Politics Podcast explicitly said that although she was not going for the leadership position but that she will be contesting the next election. Someone on there actually theorised that she might be biding her time until after the inevitable whalloping at the election - Green Party rules have it that there is a leadership contest soon after a general election.

Whomever gets elected now - it seems their main task is simply to lead the party through the election - attend the TV debates etc. Actually winning a seat would be a bonus.

There are five seats now.

O'Gorman has a significant personal vote. If Varadkar steps down, I can see Chambers, Donnelly, Emer Currie (FG), O-Gorman being elected, with the last seat between Aontu and Coppinger.

FF and SF won't run second candidates, FG will only do so if Varadkar is running, which I very much doubt.

"Jumped ship" is such nonsense. The man is in his sixties, has been in public life more than 30 years and has significant domestic responsibilities with a son who has additional needs.

Firstly, asking what methodology do IPCC, friends of the earth, just stop oil, extinction rebellion etc. follow is simply not a silly question. These organisations, which make up a very small minority of the overall population, have huge sway in government policy which affects all of us to a huge degree. You saying that this is "silly" flies in the face of the most basics of scientific principles. If they are not following basic science, then they are no more than a cult.

Your points about burning stored carbon are purely anecdotal with no numbers to support it. Firstly, can you tell me what is a "normal" CO2 level and can you show that the current CO2 level is "not normal"?

CO2 levels have gone up and down for as long as the earth existed. When CO2 levels go up, the proportion of other gases i.e. oxygen in the atmosphere naturally must come down. When you have lower levels of oxygen in the atmosphere, you have less natural forest fires (which I can assure you, release more CO2 into the atmosphere than the entirety human existence ever could). Less forest fires means that the plant life can then extract more CO2 and restore the O2 levels.

The eco system is not a fragile little flower that all the environmentalist zealots will lead you to believe. It is a very robust system that fluctuates within a range. There is no "Normal" in the real world.

Saying that humans are the cause of, or solution to "a problem" with a system of such expansive natural wonder is the height of arrogance.

Really, I understand your response to the poster who cited the 'McMansion' in the back-arse of wherever, or words to that effect. I live rurally - because my husband is from the area and works in the area. Regardless of how or why I live where I do, as opposed to living in leafy D4 (where I grew up incidentally) or any of the smaller regional towns around Ireland, I don't understand why folks love to beat each up over what are actually irrelevant small details. In the grand scheme of things, if I drive my (very economical) SUV around all year but never take a flight out of the country, am I not doing better? There is so much finger pointing at how others live their lives, when in reality it is the consumption out of our everyday control that does the most damage. If flights around the world, large fossil fuel-guzzling industry and other such large scale operations that the great unwashed have absolutely nothing to do with and no control over were to be scaled down/ceased, then we would see meaningful changes. I'm not advocating that everyone do nothing and just give up - generally, most folks are doing their best within their personal and financial circumstances - but it's the lack of perspective and then wholesale greenwashing to pull the wool over our eyes that drives me mad!

All a matter of opinion Seth. I just gave mine and imagined myself as a member.

Every politician I follow gets abuse on social media and I follow quite a few across many parties.

I am most certainly an advocate of green ambitions but I would not agree that he has been a good representative of them. He has divided more than he has sought consensus. I think they pay the price for that.