Aonghus Ó Coistealbha agreed it was ‘mad’ to venture outside as Storm Éowyn was doing its worst around South Conamara last Friday week – but he has no regrets. It was 3am as the storm raged, when the ...

Many beloved garden structures were battered (or removed entirely) by Storm Éowyn. How to stop it happening again?

There’s yet more evidence that exposure to plastics can be harmful to health. Recent research indicates that black plastic found in items like food containers, kitchen utensils, and toys often ...

Dilleen’s vegetable farm also produces eggs from its chickens for its farm shop and runs a sauna. The storm caused significant damage to the plastic on his 20mx9m vegetable polytunnel, it knocked a ...

Padraig Fahy, an organic vegetable farmer in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, said he "never heard wind like it" when Storm Éowyn struck. "I was genuinely frightened, I couldn't sleep during it," he added. Mr ...

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After two years of talks, we are closer to securing a treaty for the ages. One that hits the problem of plastic pollution hard and protects human, planetary and economic health. A high degree of ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

There’s a saying that a shed is for the shepherd rather than the sheep, and this rang through to a certain extent last January when the plastic cover on the polytunnel on the farm of Ronan Gallagher ...

Polypropylene is a type of plastic used to make everything from yogurt containers to water bottles. It's easy to recycle and is one of the most popular plastics used today. You'll know a piece of ...

Space the cloves 15cm apart in rows 30cm apart, so it will be easy to hoe off weeds. If you can, grow garlic indoors in a cold greenhouse or polytunnel as outdoor crops have been suffering from rust ...