Irish Examiner view: We need to take care of ourselves and each other as temperatures fall

Government booklet will help us save energy while staying warn and safe — but we should all try to be good neighbours too
Irish Examiner view: We need to take care of ourselves and each other as temperatures fall

We need to stay warm amid the cost-of-living crisis and the surge in energy prices. Stock picture

There’s much to commend in the common sense booklet on how to save energy compiled by Aoife Foley and her team at Queen’s University Belfast, and distributed by Government.

Prof Foley, from Boreenmanna Rd in Cork, is right when she says it is often difficult to calculate the financial benefits of various individual actions — the cost of a washing machine load; turning off the wifi router; watching TV; charging a laptop. 

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