The question of a referendum to protect the rights of nature within the Irish Constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, may be an issue that has reached its time, debates ecologist Pádraic Fogarty

Ireland had a very early set of rules, or legal tracts, called the 'Brehon Laws’. These had detailed rules for the management and protection of trees, fisheries, wild birds, seaweed, and other ‘resources’ essential for people

Ireland had a very early set of legal tracts, the Brehon Laws, which laid out detailed rules for the management and protection of trees, fisheries, wild birds, seaweed, and other resources essential for people