Nature education here has been described by one expert as ‘dismal’. What could be done better?

Kentucky farmer and author Wendell Berry spent six decades arguing that agriculture is an act of stewardship, community and care

One councillor said earier this year that erosion is happening at an ‘alarming’ rate

Water is arriving in ways our infrastructure and modified landscape can no longer cope with

Imposing bird of prey can make Ireland home if plankton thrive

Nature absorbs the impact of polluters because the political will isn’t there to make the consequences serious enough to stop them

Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good

Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good

You know what walking on a bog should sound like but that's not what could be heard underfoot at Slieve Beagh following a wildfire last week. Ella McSweeney joined Philip Boucher Hayes to talk more.

Nature restoration isn’t a luxury. It’s one of the highest-return investments available to the State

In the 1980s about 500 Irish rivers were classed as the very best of the best but, today, there are about 20

Seán’s guest has decided to take deer culling into her own hands.Ella McSweeney has bought a ...

Seán’s guest has decided to take deer culling into her own hands.Ella McSweeney has bought a ...

For that flare of yellow to appear, the plant must spread its seeds, and it is that seed head which is a design marvel

YouTube video by Abbeyleix Bog Project

Siting wind infrastructure on the Shannon bogs is too high a price to pay for renewable energy

Ella McSweeney is not a natural-born killer but she will shoot deer next month for the first time. It’s for the woodlands

Ella McSweeney is not a natural-born killer but she will shoot deer next month for the first time. It’s for the woodlands

Ella McSweeney: A recent verdict showed climate law can’t fix what politics won’t

Losing routine contact with the living world results in less concern, less protection and less access. The antidote is evidence that conservation works

The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one

Within seconds of handing it over to an expert, it was clear quartz discovery was very special

Absence of real political leadership leaves Ireland at risk of becoming hostile to wildlife

Absence of real political leadership leaves Ireland at risk of becoming hostile to wildlife

If 14 countries can come together to understand the Danube, surely Ireland can do the same for a far shorter river?

Ella McSweeney: Is a once-common species returning to the Irish Sea thanks to overspill from marine protected areas elsewhere?

Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…

In 2021, Nick and Cass McCarthy set up Lúnasa Farm on 30 acres of land in Co. Clare. Neither of them comes from a farming background. Nick’s an engineer by trade, and he met Cass while working in her ...

Lough Derg has been so reshaped by pollution that its original character is almost impossible to discern

Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing

25 years ago, 37 locals protested to save Abbeyleix Bog, now a local centre for locals, tourists and nature.

Ballymacraven river may never recover from pollution that killed thousands of fish, an incident that highlights an even wider problem as the State’s water treatment infrastructure creaks under growing...