This past Christmas was the second year running that no member of the public was admitted to Newgrange. Only a tiny number live to go back five millennia in time. Pre-pandemic, a lottery would permit a handful to live the dawn on any given December 21: The magical and mythical winter solstice. For the rest of us, the Brú na Boinne experience is not quite so moving – a tour guide’s old-school torch mimics the sun lighting up the chamber. Yet one cannot but experience it all and wonder how, over 5,000 years ago, primitive man knew so much about…

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“Let’s just get on with it” – behind the depressing lack of rationale for Ireland’s slow solar energy uptake

The Irish solar industry is woefully underdeveloped. The problem isn't a lack of sunlight, but a crushingly slow approval system involving An Bord Pleanála, EirGrid and the ESB.

14th Feb, 2022 - 10 min read

Johnny Ward

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