Mark Keenan

When politicians announce new climate targets, most people assume these policies emerge through the normal democratic process. Governments consult experts, scientists publish research, legislators debate proposals, and elected representatives ultimately decide the direction of public policy. Across the world, an extensive network of charitable foundations, non-governmental organisations, think tanks and advocacy groups works to influence […]

President Trump's efforts to dismantle parts of the Biden administration's climate-policy framework have exposed just how much money and institutional power had become attached to it.

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More than half a century after Apollo, NASA’s continuing struggle to return people to the lunar surface raises questions that deserve far more scrutiny. In July 1969, NASA told the world that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had travelled approximately 240,000 miles from Earth, descended to the lunar surface, walked on the Moon, launched from […]

Direct flights and proximity to golf courses remain important to wealthy buyers, but the market is changing

Mark Keenan talks to the designer of a new digitised home design platform about how Ireland could be leading the tech home-building race in Europe — if only Government certification delays could be ironed out

Mark Keenan talks to owner Iain Wright about the long history of the Glenasmole Estate and its forthcoming starring role on the small screen streamer

Sky-high property prices and gentrification shouldn’t let us forget the legacy of the houses that saved tens of thousands of lives in Dublin

The environmental movement used to be about protecting nature: clean rivers, clean air, fewer toxic chemicals and less destruction of the countryside. Now, apparently, we are going to save nature by digging up enormous quantities of it. The “green transition” requires an enormous expansion of mines, mineral-processing plants, battery factories, transmission lines, solar farms, wind […]

NASA claims that between 1969 and 1972 twelve men walked on the Moon. They supposedly travelled approximately a quarter of a million miles from Earth, landed on the lunar surface, walked and drove across it, and launched themselves back into lunar orbit and returned safely to Earth. The most extraordinary visual evidence supporting that claim […]