Eamon Ryan resigns before the General Election.

That view is very common - people often say they'd support the Greens if they did x,y,z instead of a,b,c. Which usually means "I support environmental issues, just as long I won't have to do anything about it". When Eamon Ryan goes, there will be a new bogeyman. If Roderic O'Gorman is chosen as the new boss, finding one will be easy.

Recycle Bin at home. Making people drive to do same. A money racket

No there was a perfectly convenient system to recycle said articles and they made it redundant. It didnt take what peolple were already doing into account.

Do you see the problem here while being charged for and inconveniencing people to get money back. Im sorry i dont agree.

Change peoples attitude not punish people already doing there bit.

People buy bottles/can etc away from the home. Did you bring those home and recycle them or throw them into the nearest bin?

The points are at shops, which people drive to when buying the majority of those bottles they use at home.

I don't see the big issue myself

Ultimately political parties take themselves off the field, not supporters of other parties.

There is no onus on them to disband due to others perceptions of their level of support.

It's sort of Politics 101.

A group of people have a political agenda and they group together to try to put their policies before the people.

There's no time limit on their endeavour.

Look if you can’t deal with the point without pointing at others maybe don’t try.
The Greens are in trouble because of how they have done things.
The fight to save the planet will continue just fine without them is my point.

I’m a forester and was at a field day meeting. Various colleagues were talking about the catastrophe Hackett has visited on the industry, and several referred to her threat to resign form government.
Apparently just before the passing of the new Forestry Programme last fall, Minister Pippa Hackett threatened to resign and the Greens to leave government if FF and FG did not adopt he programme as presented. It passed with huge restrictions on the planting of Sitka Spruce, out main lumber tree, and the other coalition partners were not too happy with those same restrictions.
It also appears that senior Forest Service inspectors are attempting with the Minister’s blessing to prohibit any new planting of Sitka Spruce entirely in the coming years.

Some show of support to the farming community.

I actually said a long time ago that a Green party is possibly unnecessary now.

If FG keeps on moving in a more republican direction, does that make SF redundant?

What would you recommend planting instead of Sitka

Your posts seem to change with the wind quicker than a Sinn Fein policy.

If we have done so much on green issues, that is thanks to the Greens, which means they haven't been the "mudguard" you claim them to be, Eamon Ryan has been far more effective than you have claimed, pretty much everything else you have said about them is untrue as a result of that statement.

We will miss the Greens. Mark my word, if a Sinn Fein government next year is "reconsidering" the options for Metrolink, we will be missing them hugely.

I used a lower case 'g' for a reason.
Most of the western world has gone green. Sure the Irish Greens political party had something to do with that but the majority of it is down to our participation in the EU. The Irish Greens are responsible for their own Hari Kari due to their behaviour and willingness to take the fall.

Other parties will be answerable and responsible for themselves and their own survival or success, and that is as it should be.

Would the Greens be missed by an electorate that rejected them in the LE's and the EU elections? I doubt it. We will continue to change towards a more sustainable economy and environment due to being in the EU and due to most people accepting that we have to.

Nobody has claimed the Green political movement has been unsuccessful. You are doing what you always do in debate. Not so subtly altering what is said to give you something to argue against.

Here is my point again: The Green political party in Ireland have been the authors of their own demise. By how they have behaved in coalition. The electorate have ushered in their demise, not me and not some conspiracy against them.
If any other party take a tanking from the electorate then they have to accept that and change course, do better or exit stage left.