Media Centre
Communicating the work of the Environmental Pillar to policy makers, the media and the public is a central aim of the organisation.
If you are a member of the media looking for a spokesperson on any topic relating to the environment please get in contact with our Communications Officer, Kayle Crosson.
Our member organisations include all the main environmental NGOs in the country and cover everything from local habitat protection to global climate change.
Kayle Crosson
Communications Officer
Environmental Pillar
Email: kayle@ien.ie
Press Releases
The Environmental Pillar cautiously welcomes the marine measures in the budget but warns that the increase in the blue economy must not come at the …
The Environmental Pillar welcomes a number of tax measures that will benefit farmers and farming communities but warns that increases in productivity must not come …
At the National Ploughing Championships 2014, the Environmental Pillar launched a report into how Ireland’s biodiversity can help in the fight against climate change.
The report entitled …
The Environmental Pillar is concerned that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being negotiated could force Ireland to permit fracking against the will …
The Environmental Pillar are calling on Ministers Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney to stop burying their heads in the sand over Ireland’s climate change commitments.
While …
For immediate release
The European Commission’s withdrawal of two crucial pieces of environmental policy at the moment that citizens across Europe are voting in the European …
Here are the highlights from the Environmental Hustings for MEP candidates in the South constituency.
Three candidates attended the event which was held in the Gresham …
The Environmental Pillar welcomes the decision of the United Nation’s International Court of Justice, which has just announced its ruling that: Japan’s whaling is not …
RTE Primetime Tuesday 18 March
14 March 2014: Following RTE Primetime’s decision to give climate change “sceptics” equal representation on a show discussing climate change, the …
6 February 2014: The Environmental Pillar is calling on the Constitutional Convention to allow an additional weekend to debate the issues raised by the public.The …
29 January 2014: The Environmental Pillar calls on the Government to initiate an inclusive participatory process to develop a comprehensive national strategy on energy.
“There is …
Environmental Pillar meets Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine at 2pm today to discuss the Forestry Bill
28 January 2014: The Environmental Pillar says …
22 January 2013: The Environmental Pillar expressed its dismay today at the European Commission’s disarray over climate policy. Spokesperson Michael Ewing commented:
“The split in the …
20 January 2014: Some 300 civil society groups from across Europe have expressed their concerns over proposals by the European Commission to issue non-binding guidance …
Press release – 8 January 2013
Environmental democracy is still a long way off
“The Irish public are unlikely to accept that their rights to access information, …
26 November 2013: The right to information, as enshrined by the Aarhus Convention, is an emerging good news story in what has been a dim …
12 November 2013: The Environmental Pillar condemns the announcement of a further round of fossil fuel exploration on the very day that the 19th Conference …
7 November 2013: The Environmental Pillar is warning that proposed local government reforms have excluded sustainable development from their core structures, putting the stability of …
7 November 2013: The Environmental Pillar, a coalition of 27 national environmental NGOs, welcomes the National Social and Economic Council (NESC) support for the greening …
9 October 2013: The Environmental Pillar reacts with dismay to the news that Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2012 increased by 1% from 2011, as …