Alison O'Connor: Chilled Robinson offers an urgent message on climate change crisis

Mary Robinson spoke of the movement to divest from fossil fuels and how the wealthy fossil fuel industry had learnt ‘a lot of bad tricks’, writes Alison O'Connor.

It is a cliché to say that someone had an audience in their palm of their hand, but this is exactly what happened when former president Mary Robinson spoke recently before an audience in Cork on the issue of climate change.