Floods and pylons are inextricably linked in climate change planning

Has anyone spelled out the alternatives to pylons and renewables, such as building a nuclear power station at Moneypoint and confining economic development to Dublin? Or just turning off all the lights and using candles?

IT WAS one of the beautiful views in the country, the white-sanded cove facing the mountains and breached by a hand-built pier commissioned by the Congested Districts Board according to Captain Nimmo’s report, in the early 1890s.

That pier is gone. The next time I look out at that landscape the familiar landmark won’t be there. That’s if I get to sit in our summer rental house again, because half of the road in front of it has disappeared and the front door is only a few feet from the sea at high tide.