Eamon Ryan: 'Irish people want to play their part' in helping environment

Whether by bus, bike or train, with just two years left in this Government, Eamon Ryan is a man in a hurry 

Depot and training inspector Paul Gillespie, Environment, Climate and Communications and Transport Minister Eamon Ryan, TD; and Bus Éireann CEO Stephen Kent in Athlone to launch Ireland’s first all-electric town bus service. Picture: Naoise Culhane

THERE are two years left in the life of this Government — maybe less if the perpetual farrago of political storms keep brewing — and Eamon Ryan is in a hurry.

As the lightning rod for much of the ire directed at the Government online for various policies — the Taoiseach and Tánaiste escape relatively unscathed in the greater scheme of things — it is with either admirable optimism or a lack of self-awareness that the Environment and Transport Minister ploughs on with various elements of Ireland’s transition to a low-carbon society.