Climate

It was much more constructive than mitching from school and shouting and roaring on the streets; that has served its purpose in drawing attention to the depth of young people's worries about the future of our fragile planet.

Children are being encouraged to have their voices heard as the citizens of tomorrow, but aren't capable of reasonable thought, we hear, when they flee to Syria to become Jihadi brides.

SIR – I have always been somewhat sceptical about climate change and I remain so, unmoved by the impassioned speech made by teenager Greta Thunberg in New York recently. 

O'Sullivan was presented with the Trish Murphy Memorial Award at the Network Ireland Businesswoman of the Year Awards at the Celtic Ross Hotel last Friday

Councillors this week back gave their backing to a five-year Draft Climate Adaptation Strategy that will see the local authority focus on climate change in the delivery of its services.

Every generation wants to pass on what they have inherited to the next one in a better condition than they received it, but there is a new definition emerging of what ‘better' is and it revolves around sustainability.

Climate Change was the theme of the annual Food Forum, held as part of the Taste of West Cork Food Festival, in Baltimore last weekend. 

A lobster more commonly found in the Mediterranean has been caught off Union Hall in a further example of climate change