St Patrick's week fish massacre
One third of Ireland's fishing fleet slashed as banned supertrawlers raid fish stocks The Super-trawler FV Margiris arrived on Tuesday...
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Pricing out the farmers
The Investor and the State in Irish Forestry “With already strong demand in the agricultural land market and limited supply, the new...
Coillte signs secret deal with British investment fund: Part 2
Public Subsidy, Private Profit At the beginning of this year, news emerged that the Irish Strategic Forestry Fund between Coillte and...
Coillte signs secret deal with British investment fund
"This private investment land-grab deal is an atrocious deal for rural communities, the taxpayer and for farmers. The deal is also an...
Coillte: the mismanagement of Ireland’s forests
This was first published on our website in the Tara Foundation monthly magazine (January 2007 Volume 2, Issue 1). It is relevant to the...
The Death of the Irish Fishing Industry, post Brexit
The Brexit Voluntary Decommissioning Scheme means the Irish fishing industry, and its subsidary industries, will be decimated.
An Taisce Statement on Planning and Development Bill
The Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022, is being rushed through the Oireachtas without proper scrutiny.
Moore Street Traders Offered Public Funds to drop Objections to Dublin Central Plan - T.D.
Aengus Ó Snodaigh raised the issue in the Dáil during An Bord Pleanála debate In April 2021, before the planning applications were...
42 O' Connell Street Dublin 1, Richard Cassel's threatened masterpiece
No.42. O'Connell Street: No 42. O'Connell Street, is a terraced three-bay four-storey Georgian town house. The house was built around...
The Architect of No. 42. O'Connell Street
No 42. O'Connell Street, Dublin 1, is a terraced three-bay four-storey Georgian town house. The house was built around 1752, a very...
The Carlton Development and Upper O'Connell Street
Upper O’Connell Street: The doorway of 42 O'Connell Street, Dublin 1. The last surviving Georgian House on O'Connell Street (Catholic...
Threat to O’Connell Street Heritage
Dublin Central and O'Connell Street: 43 O'Connell Street, Dublin 1 On June 2021, the Moore St. – Parnell St. – O’ Connell Street office...
Destruction of O'Connell Street Streetscape for planned 'Dublin Central' Development
Dublin Central Last June, the so-called (Moore St. – Parnell St. – O’ Connell St. shopping centre) complex, described as ‘Dublin...
Carrigaline Western Relief Road contract awarded to BAM
Carrigaline Road Contract: Cork County Council has just awarded the construction contract for the delivery of the Carrigaline Western...
State Lands and Funds to be Gifted to Developers
In fact, remember, that’s what we did during the Celtic Tiger and it led to an enormous crash in the economy. It wasn’t that there was a...
Large scale Navan Road Tree Removal Planned for BusConnects
Navan Road residents have launched a protest against imminent plans by the NTA to slash 140 trees from the area as part of a new...
A Scottish song on Rathlin Island
Fear a’ bhàta (or ‘The boatman’) is a Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) song of heart break which is very popular in Scotland, "among English...
Seán Treacy remembered
Learn more about the revolutionary who helped to ignite Ireland's War of Independence.
The Killarney National Park Fire
One third of the forests and wild habitats of Killarney's National Park were destroyed by the fire, said to have been started deliberately.
Phoenix Park Walls damaged by OPW North Road Works
The North Road works (just inside the Phoenix Park walls) was announced by the Office of Public Works to commence on April 12th last....
Works on North Road Wall, Phoenix Park
Phoenix Park – North Road Essential Repair Roadworks (April 12 to June 18, 2021) Quotation from Press Release: Phoenix Park – North Road...
Land Development Agency will have powers to remove land from local councils
The LDA Eliminates the Local Council Vote Irish Councils will be able to transfer state lands to the Land Development Agency without any...
The Great Privatisation of Lands Bill - 2nd Stage on Wednesday
This Wednesday, the Land Development Agency Bill goes through its Second Stage in the Oireachtas. Among other measures, it grants a...
Features of the Land Development Agency Bill
From the 2nd Stage of the Oireachtas Debate on the Land Development Agency Bill - February 18th 2020 “Deputy Mick Barry - " I am sharing...
Land Development Agency Bill (2021): Stage 2
Today the Land Development Agency Bill goes through its Second Stage in the Oireachtas. This piece of legislation grants a public body...
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