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There is an adaptation, though.

The theme of this morning's programme, trees.

Trees on riverbanks provide shade and help keep temperatures down.

Two years ago, we met members of the Boyne Rivers Trust.

They wanted to start a programme of planting because their river can get as hot as 22 degrees Celsius.

recorded this morning at half past five.

I met them again this week.

Why?

Well, there is a good chance, folks, that this is the weekend of 2026.

What are you looking for now?

If you're standing under a cloud right now and you're wondering what on earth it is that I'm going on about, the forecast says you will be looking at sun before too long.

Zoologist Sarah Austin is turning over rocks in a stream running through a suckler beef farm in Meath looking for good news.

But if you are here for controversy, well, let me give you controversy.

Full on calls to live line, letters to the editor level of controversy this week.

She finds it almost straight away.

The timber industry paid for a kid's book promoting commercial forestry with a foreword by the recently resigned forestry minister, Michael Healy-Ray, that was sent to every national school around the country.

You wouldn't see that, would you, in a nutrient-filled river?

Sitka Spruce, the amazing timber tree, tells the story of a tree that is delighted to be cut down and follows it on its journey to the sawmill and beyond.

There was good reason to suspect that the river would be in rude health, though.

Many years ago, the farmer, Rosaline Finnegan Gibbons, planted trees along the bank that have prevented runoff to the water.