No nukes please, we're Irish

The time has come to open the nuclear debate and get real about our energy needs

Tom McGurk.

Have you heard the one about the little country on an island off Europe that has neither coal nor oil and has to import almost all of its energy needs at huge cost?

More recently, too, it has launched something not unlike a societal civil war by attempting to build thousands of huge wind turbines across one of the most verdant and beautiful landscapes in the world. Now, does that that remind you ...