As Ireland is hit with its own extreme weather and flooding, causing untold misery and expense, is it too much to hope that decision makers and all of us will wake up to the need to get real about addressing climate change and building infrastructure for this new reality?

IT is encouraging that there is still one political party — the Greens — which will not acquiesce to the disastrous M3 planning decision, which has been shown to be flawed on both heritage and transport grounds.

THE High Court ruling on Tara changes nothing. The decision to put a motorway in this sensitive and sacred landscape was wrong, is wrong and always will be wrong.