Irish Examiner View: Clutching at swans while eagles inspire

Over the last while, since the pandemic emptied many of our cities, a very different pace of life has changed our perspective on many, many things.
Irish Examiner View: Clutching at swans while eagles inspire
Over recent weeks, two white-tailed sea eagle chicks have hatched in Glengarriff Nature Reserve, County Cork. This species of bird has been absent from this part of the world for over 100 years

Over the last while, since the pandemic emptied many of our cities, a very different pace of life has changed our perspective on many, many things.

City air is much cleaner, because traffic is greatly reduced. So clean, so invigorating, that it has encouraged many cities, even the spectacularly-polluted Milan, to renew efforts to expel cars, so that choking pollution might be reduced permanently.

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