Úna FitzPatrick: Pollinator Plan helping to make country buzz again

The first All-Ireland Pollinator Plan was published in 2015 and saw Ireland gain international acclaim. Its 81 actions have been delivered and today, the next plan is launched

Úna FitzPatrick and Jane Stout, of the Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin, co-founders of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, meeting President Michael D Higgins to mark World Bee Day in 2019.

When I was a child, our garden was full of bumblebees and butterflies.

For many years, I was scared of going outside our back door at night because of the hundreds of moths flitting around the outside light.