Letters to the editor: Simon Coveney has not been kind to the environment

A reader takes Simon Coveney to task for the former minister's record on environmental issues
Then minister for agriculture, food, marine and defence, Simon Coveney, in an electric hybrid SUV in 2014. Letter writer Tony Lownes enumerates what he says are Mr Coveney's failures regarding the environment. Picture: Denis Minihane

Then minister for agriculture, food, marine and defence, Simon Coveney, in an electric hybrid SUV in 2014. Letter writer Tony Lownes enumerates what he says are Mr Coveney's failures regarding the environment. Picture: Denis Minihane

Simon Coveney’s many years of public service have been rightly recognised in the columns of your paper. 

However, at least four failures in the environmental field live on to haunt us today.

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