There is an unmistakable cultural shift underway, which can be seen in the number of farmers who are switching to organic, or the communities organising their own weekend clean-up. Photograph: Valerie O'Sullivan
In the wonderful two-part documentary Listen To The Land Speak, which the late Manchán Magan produced for RTÉ in his last year, he outlined some of the reasons why he could see an awakening among Irish people around the need to value and restore our natural world.
There is an unmistakable cultural shift under way, which can be seen in the number of farmers who are switching to organic, the communities organising their own weekend clean-up or the emergence of new pocket forests, ponds and rewilding projects.
More than anything else you can feel it in the pride of Bord na Móna workers, as they rewet and
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