Ireland’s pollution measures: Our clean-air challenge

Ireland's performance in the air pollution league table is better than some of its European neighbours, but as the latest readings for 2016, published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show, there’s no cause for complacency.

It continues to be the cause of an estimated 1,200 to 1,500 deaths here each year, and the EPA says levels are moving in the wrong direction, with emissions of three of the main air pollutants — ammonia, nitrogen oxides, and non-methane volatile organic compounds — above normal EU emission levels in 2016.