Caroline O'Doherty

Caroline O'Doherty

Climate & Science Correspondent

Caroline O'Doherty is the Climate and Science Correspondent with The Irish Times

‘Irish Government is clearly not listening’: Nature groups criticise lack of budget funding for restoration

Budget allocates just €6m extra to NPWS despite experts saying €700m needed annually for nature restoration

Minister backs Bord Bia chair after business found using non-Irish meat for second time this year

The food promotion board got €60.7m in this week’s budget

Carbon tax U-turn calls Government’s climate commitments into question

Environmental groups despair as Budget 2027 sees polluter-pays principle reversed

Fuel excise cuts extended to February as carbon tax is slashed to ease home heating costs

Budget 2027 energy measures: Cuts in excise duty on petrol and diesel, due to end this month, are now being extended until the end of February

‘Appalling attack’: Man forced into bin and pushed on to railway tracks at Dublin Dart station

Gardaí appeal for witnesses to incident at Harmonstown station on Sunday night

Mild, cloudy, occasionally wet weather to continue until midweek

Met Éireann expects temperatures to hit 20 degrees on Monday but dip expected on Wednesday

Alternative budget ideas: A €500 ‘everyday costs’ card, cheap e-bikes, a State building firm

Parties outline various ways in which rival budgets might appeal to the public ahead of next week's announcement

Opposition’s alternative budgets propose windfall taxes and €400 energy credits

Budget 2027: Sinn Féin eyes 3% ‘solidarity tax’ and €600 for additional properties, while offering €500 ‘essentials card’

European Commission to put Ireland’s poor climate action record under scrutiny

Climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra says emission reduction targets must be taken very seriously

Flood protection delays leave homes at ‘increased risk’ from extreme weather

Climate Change Advisory Council ‘extremely concerned’ by delays in planned schemes

Ireland and Tuvalu to co-host international climate conference next July

Second conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels will take place on a Pacific island nation

Is Ireland ready for a monster El Nino? Expect ugly potatoes, transport chaos and widespread disruption

Climate scientists warn the impending super-strong El Niño will have ripple effects worldwide and have implications for more than just the national weather

Irish summers likely to feature ‘extreme evaporation’ due to climate change, say scientists

Even in wetter summers, drought set to be a perennial problem

Energy firms seek planning changes to allow onshore wind farms to run indefinitely

Limiting the operation of turbines to 20 to 25 years makes no sense, wind energy companies say

Irish scientists lay 3D-printed reefs in pioneering bid to restore deep-sea coral

Artificial reef project aims to speed up recovery process after decades of damage by commercial fishing ships

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