Irish Examiner view: We have to afford greener energy

Power plant closures

Despite being a wealthy economy Germany has found phasing out nuclear energy a difficult challenge while it still generates one third of its energy from coal.

Some readers can probably recall the public protests of the late 1970s when nuclear power was mooted as a strong possibility for Ireland.

Carnsore Point in Wexford was to be the location, but those protests led to the plan being abandoned, and now the issue lives on mostly in the memories of those who attended the famous music festival (Ireland’s Anti-Nuclear Power Show) which rallied opposition in 1978.