Nuclear option: Adi Roche says Ireland should commit to renewables rather than nukes

Chornobyl activist ADI ROCHE says Ireland should resist the push to adopt nuclear power generation, while NEIL MICHAEL provides a historical insight into Ireland's opposition to nukes

Adi Roche has been working with, and advocating for, the victims of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster for decades. Picture: Chani Anderson

I am a firm believer in the philosophy that “we do not own this Earth … we borrow it from our children and our children’s children” and that nothing is more important than the protection of our environment.

I constantly remind myself that this Earth is our common and only home, a beautiful grain of life spinning in the depths of the universe. But now, in a nuclear age, a time of grave mortal danger, with our very existence on the cusp, our planet has become so fragile in the hands of man.