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2 months ago | 
irishtimes.com | Eamon Ryan
Every day four people, on average, suffer serious injuries on our roads. It’s a shocking statistic. Two of them would typically be passengers in a car, one would likely be a pedestrian and one other a cyclist. They spend on average 10 days in hospital, mending their shattered bodies and only starting to come to terms with the psychological trauma that may stay for life.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Eamon Ryan
It is insane to think there can be another new “golden age” of oil and gas expansion in America. No matter what President Donald Trump may say, we cannot afford to let it happen because it would see us crossing certain tipping points that would bring runaway and calamitous climate change. In the last 20 years, the US almost tripled oil production and doubled natural gas extraction to once again become the world’s biggest fossil fuel supplier.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Eamon Ryan
We’ll know soon enough what the new programme for government has to say about the reform of government departments, after the intense talks of recent weeks. I agree with what Gerard Howlin wrote in these pages recently that our civil servants are “overwhelmingly honourable” and that our system has shown real strength when, for example, managing the economic crash and the Covid pandemic in recent years.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Eamon Ryan
We’ll know soon enough what the new programme for government has to say about the reform of government departments, after the intense talks of recent weeks. I agree with what Gerard Howlin wrote in these pages recently that our civil servants are “overwhelmingly honourable” and that our system has shown real strength when, for example, managing the economic crash and the Covid pandemic in recent years.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Eamon Ryan
Parties negotiating the new programme for government are “open for discussion” on weakening some of the key elements of our existing national climate plan, according to reports in The Irish Times on Monday. Taking such a course would be a terrible mistake. The exit poll after the recent election proves that the silent majority of Irish people, who want us to act on climate, would be rightly appalled. It would not only be morally bankrupt, but would cost us all in the long run.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Eamon Ryan
Ireland’s Green party went into government in 2020 determined to bring Ireland from laggard to leader on the climate crisis. Public opinion was with us, and we won more than 7% of the national vote. This mandate allowed us to negotiate a coalition agreement with Ireland’s two large centrist parties that was recognised by European Green colleagues as one of the greenest deals they had seen. Over the past four and a half years we worked flat out to implement that programme.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Eamon Ryan
Politics can be heartbreaking at times. Last Saturday evening, a short message came through from a Green Party colleague who had given his all over the last five years. His three words, “l’ve been eliminated”, spoke volumes for how we all felt. However, being in a democracy somehow helps you get over that feeling. You accept the majority opinion of your peers but draw strength from those who did vote for you.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
irishexaminer.com | Eamon Ryan
The Cop29 climate negotiations in Baku in Azerbaijan this week were never going to be easy but they got far more difficult after the US elections. How do we get agreement to phase out fossil fuels when the largest polluter wants to drill on from here? How do we deliver a UN agreement when the biggest economy says it wants out? What do we tell our young people when they know we risk crossing climate tipping points, which will leave them living in an unstable, unsafe world?
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
villagemagazine.ie | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |Eamon Ryan
Many in the environmental sector have links to the Green Party so I felt the need to remind them of the failures of that party: “Some of the loose thinking is brought to us by the same people who actually allowed a clause in the reen PartyG’s (2011) Climate Bill that expressly said it would NOT be justiciable (because the AG, who turned out not to be their friend, told them to put it in)!”.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
energycentral.com | Eamon Ryan
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