Let’s start facing up to our need for nuclear debate

The belief that Ireland is a nuclear free zone is a myth. What protects us from the hundreds of European reactors on our doorstep?

One of these days someone, somewhere, is going to have a serious discussion about our future energy needs.

Despite the growing crisis of global warming and the demands for low-carbon alternatives - plus the fact that some experts believe we have already passed the point of ‘peak-oil’ -we remain dependent on imported oil and electricity.

A tiny amount of wind power has been harnessed but the promised experiments with wave power have, so ...