They all reply to any question, often within the hour. I am currently living in Vietnam and the staff that I have been in contact with at our embassy in Hanoi could not have been more helpful. We are blessed to have such fantastic embassy staff Sinn Féin and McDonald could well be the ones to achieve that. A peacefully reunited Ireland will be an important player on the world scene. Protestants are an integral and important part of Ireland and its future. Mary Lou McDonald could well be the leader of a united Ireland held accountable by Catholic and Protestant alike. Scotland’s SNP rules in Edinburgh and narrowly lost a 2014 independence plebiscite and is poised to gain a second one within a decade. FF and FG have governed Ireland for decades, let’s see what Sinn Féin can do.Īlthough English and Protestant, I hope Northern Ireland will have a successful referendum on reunification in the near-future. However, Mary Lou McDonald yearns to be Taoiseach so should be given the chance. I read Oliver McGrane’s letter ( Irish Independent, November 1) with great interest. Mary Lou could be the right person to lead united country The best way of meeting demand for dairy, sustainably and with due regard for the environment, is by producing in a country that’s better at it. Ireland is better at producing dairy than most other countries. Globally – like it or not – demand for dairy is buoyant. The implications of that are summed up by three Bs – Buoyant, Better and Best.
Your correspondent omits to say that Irish dairy is the most GHG-emissions efficient in Europe. Careful breeding programmes ensure more milk from each cow and as a result, emissions per litre of milk are down. The national herd has grown over the past decade, but it is still smaller than it was in 1986 – and Irish dairy is producing more with less. Your correspondent rightly says that 65pc of dairy’s emissions are methane – he neglects to mention that biogenic methane is a short-lived greenhouse gas, hanging around for a dozen years only in the atmosphere, as opposed to CO2 from fossil fuels, which is there for hundreds of years. For example, while agriculture is indeed the largest contributor to Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions – because we are an agricultural nation – the majority of our emissions come from energy, transport, residential, industrial processes and manufacturing. When it comes to dairy farming’s climate effect, the picture is not quite as clear-cut as your weekend comment piece ( Irish Independent, October 31) would suggest. Truth about dairy emissions not so clear-cut As the great and good discuss the ongoing crisis to our Earth at COP26, there are two things which won’t be discussed by the most powerful of governments: that is the market economy and the continued building of huge defence systems that are threatening our children’s and grandchildren’s future.
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