Philip Boucher Hayes

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Good morning to Carl and Navin who has just texted us.

I think a lot of the problem making progress with the climate in Ireland is that the big polluters like agriculture and the airline industry have big, loud, shouting, bombastic voices that practically scare the government into keeping the status quo while the silent majority are not a collective voice.

And we are left with the fallout of government fear.

The environment needs a big, loud, table-banging, ear-burning spokesperson to get the government to stand up to the big polluting groups.

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Let us get out and about again to a bog where, once again, it would be helpful for government to provide everybody with a bit of direction on the best course of action.

Cornufulla bog in Roscommon.

A thousand acres on the western bank of the Shannon, bordered on three sides by internationally protected wetlands and all within sight of Clonmacnoise.

Bordnemona and SSE Renewables think that the best thing to do is build a wind farm.

On the face of it, a sensible use of the land.

Locals argue that the bog's restoration value far outweighs its energy potential, both environmentally and culturally.

They make good arguments as well.

Who is to say who is right and who is wrong?

Ideally, a land use strategy, as we've been hearing.

But in the absence of that, Ella McSweeney went to Cornifulla to hear what locals Amanda Ralph and Oliver Carney had to say.

Sounds lovely and corniful, doesn't it?

Stay with me.

We're about to go one better.

You heard Ella put some of the points to Amanda and Oliver there that Bordnemona would make in any conversation.