Irish Examiner View: Ruling on climate sham is seismic

The Government's National Mitigation Plan “falls a long way short” of the specificity the 2015 act requires, the chief justice, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, declared.

It is sometimes more than difficult to align the parallel universes that make up our world; so many situations, perceptions, or behaviours — and realities, too — are so in conflict that it is almost impossible to reconcile them.

Today, we report on an evolving spat between the Government and local councillors over Green Party plans to reduce the mileage rates the State pays to those who drive high-emission cars. This is an extension of the polluter-pays principle that defines the road-tax bands we are all, by choice, subject to.