The North Leitrim Glens Hill Walking Festival, now in its 23rd year, run by \u2018The Holey Soles Hill Walking Club\u2019 takes place Easter weekend, Saturday 15 th \u00a0and Sunday 16 th \u00a0of April. The iconic Benbulben and Glencar valley are on this year\u2019s itinerary with walks beginning and ending at a new caf\u00e9 beside Glencar Waterfall, the festival has a very Yeatsian flavour. As always there will be a big social element to the festival. There will be tea and scones beforehand, soup after, and a dinner laid on for walkers if they would like to avail. Manchan Magan will speak at the festival. Enquiries: \u00a0Sheila\u00a0O Keeffe 0876470902<\/p>\n
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The IFA run \u2018amuck\u2019. The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) published an article entitled \u201cSelective Misrepresentation of Research by Environmental NGOs Undermines Their Credibility”. The IFA\u2019s unhappiness appears to relate to a newly published European Parliament document, entitled: \u2018Research for AGRI Committee – Policy support for productivity vs. sustainability in EU agriculture: Towards viable farming and green growth\u2019. An Taisce claims that the IFA completely and entirely misrepresents the research and the response of environmental NGOs to its findings. Figure 5 (p.25) of this document examines \u2018Agricultural GHG productivity in the EU \/average 2012-2014)\u2019 using the measure of carbon productivity, i.e. how much agricultural output value in euro is generated for every tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted. The best performing country in the EU, Italy, achieved some \u20ac1,700 of agricultural output per tonne of emissions. The worst performing country in the EU28 was Ireland, where less than \u20ac400 in agricultural output was achieved per tonne of carbon emitted.<\/p>\n
As the EU report observes: \u2018GHG productivity is a widely-accepted indicator at international level to monitor green growth (OECD). The culprit appears to be largely the dominance of beef and dairy systems in Ireland, compared to other member states.<\/p>\n
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We have discovered Dublin City\u2019s best kept secret? Proposed felling of…….. trees along the front of Fairview Park to facilitate the completion of cycleway. It is claimed that there has been a public consultation about tree felling in front of Fairview Park but it is not well documented-internet search shows little detail.<\/p>\n
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Progressive Film Club will take place on Saturday 22nd April 2016\u00a0in the Ireland Institute, Pearse Centre, and 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 -Celebrating Trade Unionism – 2 pm: Salt of the Earth (1954) \u2013 93mins. Director: Herbert Biberman. Blacklisted by Hollywood, this film was set in Zinctown, N.M. One of the great union films, it is also a celebration of male-female solidarity. Co-produced by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelt Workers, Salt of the Earth was assembled under conditions of extreme duress by a group of Hollywood expatriates, all victims of the Blacklist.<\/p>\n
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Presenter:<\/strong> John Haughton<\/em><\/p>\n Panellists:<\/strong> Joe Dunne & Robert Navan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The North Leitrim Glens Hill Walking Festival, now in its 23rd year, run by \u2018The Holey Soles Hill Walking Club\u2019 takes place Easter weekend, Saturday 15 th \u00a0and Sunday 16 th \u00a0of April. The iconic Benbulben and Glencar valley are on this year\u2019s itinerary with walks beginning and ending at a new caf\u00e9 beside Glencar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1126,5424,4412,1723,5467],"class_list":["post-21544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-enviro","tag-environmental","tag-joe-dunne","tag-john-haughton","tag-robert-navan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions\/21545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}