Ill wind blows on energy prospect

Wind energy has huge potential, but the fears of communities need to be heeded, writes Michael Clifford

THEY made for a hardy sight walking in the snow. More than a dozen men and women of all ages, protesting outside Dublin’s Four Seasons Hotel at the opening day of the annual conference of the Irish Wind Energy Association.

The protesters, from the Laois Wind Energy Awareness Group, bore leaflets with the stamp and photo of Laois Labour Senator John Whelan.