It is difficult to be positive about Ireland’s future when it comes to our environmental policy. We are a country still playing catch-up trying to improve our basic infrastructure, such as sewage treatment and water supplies. In Arklow, where I went to secondary school, construction began this year on a sewage treatment plant that was first proposed 33 years ago. More than 30 towns and villages around the country still lack treatment facilities. While attending the school, in my early and mid teens, my early very basic foray into journalism came in writing letters to newspapers complaining that Ireland wasn’t…

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