Cloughjordan

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Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co Tipperary. Photograph: Alan Betson
Ireland needs to fully embrace community-led housing

The delayed Housing for All Strategy is supposed to guide the next nine years of housing policy in Ireland. If it does not have a strong focus on comm(...)

Take a walk at Coucane Barra, and pass the entrance to St Finbarr’s Oratory and the serene lake shore
Family walks suitable for social distancing

Back in 2001, to protect our agriculture industry during the foot-and-mouth crisis, we were banned from visiting the hills, and Irish countryside gene(...)

The role of butterflies as indicators of healthy habitats, and as useful pollinators, is only beginning to be generally appreciated.
Explore Irish biodiversity– all week long

“Mysterious and little-known organisms live within walking distance of where you sit. Splendour awaits . . ” EO Wilson, who first published the term (...)

Part of crowd striking for climate change on Molesworth street, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Estimated 10,000 people strike for climate change

Young people across Ireland are protesting this lunchtime at 37 rallies seeking urgent action to address the growing threat of climate breakdown. The(...)

Declan Daly of SuperHomes Ireland; Margaret Hennessy, homeowner; Sean Sherlock TD; John Lahart TD; and Brian Stanley, vice chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
It’s a long way to nationwide climate action, but not in Tipperary

Travelling along the M7 motorway on a grey Tuesday, a ferocious gust of a wind blows open a luggage compartment door on the bus as it makes its way to(...)

The British base at Spike Island off the Cork coast was the first to be handed over on July 11th, 1938. Photograph: Richard Mills
‘Treaty ports’ handover recalled at Spike Island 80 years on

The 80th anniversary of the handover of the “Treaty ports” was recalled at a ceremony on Spike Island in Cork on Wednesday. In 1938, with tensions mo(...)

Mimi Pierson and one of the Crawford’s Farm herd of cows, near Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, at a Lens & Larder photography workshop. Photograph: Aoife McElwain
Slow down: Crafty ways to reduce stress

“Crafts are a perfect expression of the Slow philosophy,” writes Carl Honoré in his book In Praise of Slow. In my own quest for a slower approach to l(...)

Fergal Smith: “The priority is to introduce people to good, fresh, local food and to explain the work that goes into growing it.” Photograph: matt smith
A new way of farming: community schemes changing rural Ireland

Possibly the most unlikely candidate in the 2016 general election was professional surfer Fergal Smith, who ran for the Green Party as “a surfer who h(...)

Three generations of Thomas MacDonagh’s relatives. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy
Cloughjordan remembers ‘thoughtful’ Thomas MacDonagh

One hundred years after his execution by firing squad, the people of Cloughjordan in Co Tipperary have unveiled a statue to their native son and signa(...)

Cloughjordan ecovillage, Co Tipperary. Iva Pocock recently returned there after living six years abroad. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Cloughjordan: Inside Ireland’s only ecovillage

An idea that began in Dublin’s Central Hotel in 1999 – to create Ireland’s first ecovillage – has borne fruit on a 67-acre farm adjoining the village (...)