Claire Byrne Live (RTE1)

Price of fuel is off peak despite about 10 cent plus in tax being added to it over the last 5 years.

At least there is a full team working on set creation in RTE

Did they actually bring kerosene in to the studio or is that Ribena?

Hopefully the former so they can burn all these **** props after

If we take the green approach simply spending €70k retrofitting your home is the solution, payback should be achieved around 70 years time.

Not great for the seller if bids are not transparent.

I will gladly buy up all houses within one mile of the coast for 20% of their current asking price.

Another "new normal" on the way it seems...

Get there on your bike and then find your bike gone when you get back to it as some scrote has stole it with an angle grinder.

Her basic point was that people drive absolutely everywhere and are exceedingly lazy, except she didn’t quite put it like that. It’s hard to disagree.

I remember a couple of years back on Eco Eye they visited the home of some bachelor lad in his 70's living in the complete back arse of nowhere house with an energy rating so poor it was off the scale and they told him what he would need to do with his home to make it more eco friendly, the show was a complete disgrace and abuse of power on the man. They dictated what he should do to reduce his emissions, what he should use to heat his home etc, the man was living a good mile plus from anyone burning his turf, coal and was happy out with his expenses, he would be long dead before any of their waffle would make any financial benefit to him. Meanwhile last season or so a family in Donaghmede, North Dublin blow €70k plus of a budget in a highly congested area and they fit a wood burning stove in the home and still get the massive grant, crooked as absolute fook.

Anyone advising installing a wood burning stove in a built up area should be in jail with what is known now on particute matter.

The show is sponsored by state agencies and should be audited by someone independent to see what in the jaysus it is advising, it's up there with cash for ash in what controls are there for State money to go.

That Eco Eye program with Donkey Stewart is basically a 30 minute advertisement for the retrofit & renewables industry. The end credits say it is supported by the SEAI so its them who are funding it. Must be great that the retrofit industry have a half an hour long ad on tv with Donkey raving on about how great every eco product is and sure you can get a grant for this and a grant for that. What he wont be saying is most of these companies have raised up the prices of anything that attracts a grant so they get it for themselves.

Its interesting the way government agencies are now getting tv programs made to try to sell whatever wares they are promoting. Another one is Nevin Maguires Irish Seafood Trails which only features fish dishes. If you look at the credits at the end the program is made for the Fisheries Board, another government quango. So that too is basically a 30 minute long ad trying to get people to buy more fish. Then you had Kathryn Thomas No Place Like Home, this time sponsored by Failte Ireland in an effort to get people to 'staycation' and be ripped off by the prices of Irish hotels.

Division and sniping at each other won't help us to address climate change.

Some well off people care, some don't. Some not so well off care, some don't.

The policies that will work need to ensure that all socio economic groups can be part of the solution.

It's actually 50% that are recycled and climbing, these are currently mostly phone, laptops etc.. car batteries will generally be used for static storage first before being recycled. A new car battery today probably won't be available for recycling until late 2030s at the earliest.

If the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine then we're all going to die of cold, starvation or flooding.

Doesn't matter what you think of EVs they are coming whether you like it or not. Don't see too many people commuting on horseback despite all the whinging when ice arrived.

Well they were Right according to a friends of the Earth report in 2010, pity they didn't look for a more recent figure. Not too many EVs (if any) at end of life in 2010.

Tubridy isn't a public servant. He's a private sector contractor.

They've a good income for sure, probably touching €200k in the house, but that wouldn't be my definition of filthy rich. Start talking to senior folks in banks or Google or Microsoft and see what filthy rich actually means.

You've been a tad selective in your quotes from that article. Why did you leave out the other bits, like

"She does, however, admit that there is a worrying trend in climate change on a global scale in the long term. "I talk about climate change in the book, and minimising your impact when you can," she nods. "Every choice that we make counts - like, today, for example you chose a glass of water, rather than buying one of those bottles which we so instinctively reach for every time," she says, pointing to my now-empty glass. "Some marketing genius back in the 1990s decided to tell us to buy these plastic bottles of water, and we did; and we never used to. People managed to survive very well drinking tap water for a long, long time - and now there's how many, a billion of those plastic bottles on the planet? It's depressing. But I think David Attenborough did a really good job of highlighting the dangers of plastic over the last year or two and now everybody is starting to be a bit more aware of their actions - at the supermarket, at home, wherever.""

And if you're deciding what a person was thinking 10 or 20 years ago based on their Twitter feed of three years ago, you might be looking in the wrong place.

Maybe it would help move things along if you could clarify up front what particular standard of ideological purity your require from someone to not be sniping and picking holes? How long does a person have to have been living in the forest off fresh spring water and leaves for you to actually listen to what they say instead of coming up with petty arguments to distract from the message?