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Prohibitive costs stalling widespread retrofitting of homes, energy firm finds
- Environment
- June 14, 2020, 10:09
Prohibitive costs associated with retrofitting houses and lack of information about the process are major obstacles to widespread uptake of this energ(...)

How to give your home a detox and reduce energy bills
- Homes & Property
- April 6, 2019, 00:00
It’s almost at that time of year again when fashion magazines will be urging us all to get “beach ready” – and one of the suggested methods to become (...)

Adults have abdicated climate responsibility, says energy expert
- Environment
- February 18, 2019, 19:45
Adults are not in control of the global response to climate change, and this has led to widespread protests by young people throughout the world, acco(...)

Friends of the Earth warns Government over carbon tax
- Environment
- January 14, 2019, 14:07
Friends of the Earth has called on the Government to include the carbon tax in a series of decarbonisation measures rather than increasing it as a sta(...)

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(...)

Laughing all the way to the apocalypse: Ireland’s climate inaction
- Environment
- October 13, 2018, 06:00
Without a co-ordinated global response, unprecedented in history, in as little as 12 years “several hundred million” lives will be immediately threate(...)

Feed and water shortages flagged as perilous farm hazards
- Agribusiness & Food
- August 21, 2018, 21:40
Fodder and water supply shortages are the devastating consequences for farming communities of climate change, Minister for Environment Denis Naughten (...)

Plugging the gaps: the benefits of retrofitting
- Environment
- July 19, 2018, 00:00
The average Irish home is leaky. So leaky that if you were to add up all the tiny holes around windows, pipes and wires and through the attic, there w(...)

Baby it’s cold inside: 12 ways to deal with draughts
- Interiors
- February 10, 2018, 06:00
Roll on spring. All this cold week, all winter long, I’ve avoided the kitchen. Though it has a perfectly fine radiator, the kitchen is way colder than(...)

Most Irish homes need to be retrofitted by 2050 to reduce emissions
- Consumer
- January 24, 2018, 12:51
The vast majority of Irish homes will need to undergo a “deep retrofit” by 2050 to meet targets for reducing CO2emissions while adopting renewable ene(...)