Donal Hickey: ‘Plastic soup’ is a recipe for disaster for seabirds
People on beaches during the summer will surely notice a high level of plastic waste, some of which is going
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Islands of Ireland: Skull Island — a better name for this Cork island featuring a ruined mortuary chapel and graveyard?
There are a number of islands off the historic village of Castletownshend in West Cork and all but one of
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Eoghan Daltun: Irish nature is wrecked — we need a plan to bring back what we’ve lost
An often highly toxic, and very damaging, atmosphere has been allowed to develop — fostered even — in Ireland around
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Islands of Ireland: Success… I managed to find the tiny church on Parsons Island
The map didn’t lie. There it was in black and white. On a three-acre island on a small lake just
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Richard Collins: Not meer-ly making noises — they’re sharing important news
Pity the father of the bride as he faces the terrors of the podium: ‘Unaccustomed as I am to public
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Dónal Hickey: Increase in only one butterfly species here
A white butterfly flitting from plant to plant in the garden signalled the coming of summer. People are welcoming the
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Islands of Ireland: Cleaning up the plastic ‘treasure’ on Inishbroon
The presence of Daniel Defoe’s castaway classic Robinson Crusoe on a bookshelf in a pub in Letterfrack did not augur
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When rewilding works — a visit to the Alps to track wolves
As we stood on the ridge overlooking the valley one of the more observant of our group pointed to a
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Islands of Ireland: Kenmare Bay — still called a river thanks to a lord who wanted to ensure fishing rights
Kenmare River has multiple islands scattered up and down its majestic coastline. A coastline on a river? Well yes, as
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Glaciers and Irish bogs make perfect ‘time capsules’
‘Some day I will go to Aarhus, To see his peat-brown head’ — The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney. “I
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