Matt Smith has a month to find €3.9 million. “If there was a headline, it would be, you know, do we want free money or not?” he tells me over Zoom from Co Clare. It’s not taxpayers’ money, he goes on, “this nature restoration project is using rich foreigners’ cash, so do we want that money or not?” Smith is the CEO and co-founder of Hometree, the Ennistymon-based nature restoration charity founded in 2021 by a group of conservationists who wanted to do more. Among them was the late Manchán Magan, the writer and journalist. The charity has recently been…

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