Joyce Fegan: All we really are missing is willpower in this climate fight

Tommy Tiernan gave moving testimony following his recent visit to Somalia.

Last Sunday two things happened in Ireland.

In the first half of the day, Tommy Tiernan’s testimony about his recent trip to Somalia was published in a Sunday paper. There was something about it, its directness, its clarity, that signalled Tommy was now, never going to take “no” for an answer when it came to things like climate inaction or political abdication in the face of abject poverty. From his writing, there was a sense that Tommy had been changed in some resolute way. It was the kind of work that could win a Pulitzer, but not the kind of work to be flagged on the paper’s front page. Far away famines don’t make us buy papers in all likelihood.