As I mentioned in one of my earlier entries we are living off the grid here in Leitrim, supplying all of our own electricity. We had a very basic system to start with, which we did by ourselves and now we have a more sophisticated system with help from some local people. We used to…
August 13, 2018 Subject: Ireland’s peat power stations must be shut down, not gradually converted to biomass As conservation and environmental justice organizations in the United States, we are deeply concerned about plans by Irish companies, ESB and Bord na Móna, to co-fire increasing amounts of wood pellets in the three remaining peat power stations…
Well, I waited until the cool light of morning, still don’t like the colour scheme in my newly designed, diy, template. I know what happened and where I went wrong. This is not the colour scheme that I had intended to use, I inadvertently made an error just before I saved my scheme last night…
A doctor once told me that allergies are imagined, they did not exist. Allergies are very real, they can cause a wide variety of responses and a lot of discomfort, frustration and pain. Even today many doctors do not consider allergy as a possible cause of an illness until they have first eradicated many other…
Are you interested in seeing the International Space Station as it flies overhead? I have been lucky enough to see it twice recently. Just last week I was camping at a beach on the west coast of Ireland and happened, by chance, to see the space station pass overhead. I was really amazed at how…
