"Green" policies are destroying this country

Before covid, public transport at peak times was oversubscribed and at a dangerous level on rail and luas, yet fares only went up. Another example of Eamon Ryan and the Greens policies which are bonkers. If Greens are serious about public transport particularly in Dublin commuter belt they need to add capacity and reduce fares.

It's really bad, sometimes impossible to even get European apples.

If you have space join the fight back.

This great bunch of people have saved many native varieties and can supply trees.

Nuclear plants do not shut down for 3-6 months annually. The go off-line for 2 months every 2 years for refueling and maintenance.

We are quite happy to take nuclear power from France over the next few years because of the unreliability of our own output. With no Plan B for where our needs will come from if we ever get to 70% from renewables, (basically just wind), when the wind drops, where effectively the national grid will be empty, then where do we go then. Back begging the French for more and paying through the nose for it ?

Interconnectors work both ways. Had we a nuclear plant we could get the shortage due to being off-line for 2 months every 2 years from France, and when their plants are off-line for the same, we could return what we borrowed over 2 years. It would cost us nothing and only require 8% of the nuclear energy we produced annually.

A win win as we are going to be depending on France to make up the shortfall for the foreseeable anyway.

Nuclear is not 'unreliable' It can be fully relied upon to be out of operation for about a month every 18 months for re-fuelling and maintenance operations, but all energy infrastructure has planned downtime

And then there are the unplanned outages. A resilient grid has many eggs in multiple different baskets with interconnectors linking them all to each other for multiple redundancies

Ireland can build a grid based mostly on wind if we are connected to a bigger grid that includes nuclear in their mix.

Nuclear for Ireland is not practical because we are too small and the lead times to plan, design, build, commission test and operate a nuclear power station is measured in decades, time that we don't have if we are to meet our responsibilities and get to carbon neutrality

That’s a different issue, but peat moss should just be outright banned at this stage. A unique ecosystem gone forever for a few poxy garden plants.