Cork councillor brands minister 'a fool' for criticising FG MEPs who voted for Nature Restoration Law

Patrick O'Donovan insisted he was not a climate-denier or opposed to nature restoration, but he said the new law and its implications, had not been properly debated. File picture: Denis Minihane

A senior Green Party figure has branded Fine Gael minister Patrick O’Donovan “a fool” for criticising his own party’s MEPs who voted for the landmark EU Nature Restoration Law.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Cork City councillor Dan Boyle, who helped to negotiate his party's programme for government with Fianna Fáil in 2007, said: “This man is a fool and he should be nowhere near the Office of Public Works (OPW).”