Sunday Interview: EPA head sees Storm Ophelia as 'tipping point'
Laura Burke, director general of the Environmental Protection Agency, sees Storm Ophelia in 2017 as the weather event that switched Irish people’s attitude to climate change from indifference to red alert
CV: Laura Burke
Age:48
Lives: Wexford
Role: director general, Environmental Protection Agency
Hobbies: walking the dog, swimming, baking
Family: husband, Declan; three children: son, Christopher, aged 15 and twins, Killian and Catherine, aged 13
Favourite movie: Roman Holiday
Favourite book: Prague Nights by Benjamin Black
Just finished reading: The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
When Laura Burke joined the Environmental Protection Agency in 2005 people talked about climate change, but not very often.
