Another Life: Reflections on one sad rabbitIreland’s wildlife is a limited and tenuous network, much of it imported, in which the rabbit has an indispensable placeSat May 07 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: A tree without a bird is only half alive‘Storm-cock’ is an old, vernacular name for a bird imagined to predict bad weatherSat Apr 30 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: The case of the kneecapped bearA bone found in Alice and Gwendoline Cave, in Co Clare, revealed that humans arrived in Ireland 12,000 years ago, a whole 2,500 years earlier than hitherto believedSat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: The Wild – and conifered – Atlantic Way?For Ireland to have carbon-neutral agriculture by 2050, 1.25m hectares of trees need to be planted. What will it mean for our landscape?Sat Apr 16 2016 - 04:00
Another Life: Cuckoos v pipits – next round in the arms raceIrish pipits, as I’ve watched many times, don’t hesitate to mob the hawk-like cuckoo at its teetering perch on a telegraph wireSat Apr 09 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: Birds as foodies – a closer viewWhile blackbirds and starlings vary their menu, crows like to bury a little snack for laterSat Apr 02 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: A long wait for the badgers’ chocolate barsResearch into getting badgers to eat drugs that counter TB has found they like chocolateSat Mar 26 2016 - 01:00
Michael Viney’s Ireland: 50 years a blow-inThe English journalist and naturalist – this paper’s longest-serving columnist – has always been a keen-eyed yet sympathetic chronicler of Irish life. So what does he make of our nation in this centenary year?Sat Mar 19 2016 - 05:45
Another Life: Waiting for footfall on the wild Atlantic islandsThe wear and tear of tourist footfall poses a threat to seabirds of the northeast AtlanticSat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: Life along the stream – a love storyCaddisflies could take a prize for their variation of speciesSat Mar 12 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: Upheavals in the furry underworldMajor changes have been set in train by an invasive little vole and an alien shrew, with consequences for the barn owlSat Mar 05 2016 - 04:00
Another Life: Waiting for the woodpeckersA bird that was once widespread in Ireland is returningSat Feb 27 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: In the time of triangular cheeseRefections on a life less ordinary by the stormy sea in west GalwaySat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: Why we need even more wetlandsAs climate changes, bringing both drought and floods, wetlands will be a moderatorSat Feb 13 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: From whales to prawns: the plastic peril in the seaPlastic litter that has ended up in the ocean is taking a special toll on marine lifeSat Feb 06 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: Can eyes in the sky really protect the deeps?Satellites can track fishing vessels, but enforcement of marine conservation zones requires patrol boatsSat Jan 30 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: Fun for everyone with synthetic biologySyn-bio provides cheap, standardised, off-the-shelf ‘bricks’ of DNA that build new forms of organism. But many fear it could get out of controlSat Jan 23 2016 - 04:30
Another Life: Will our swans desert us if Irish winters keep getting warmer?Could whooper swans leave Ireland in a migratory change shaped over many years?Sat Jan 16 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: Galway’s hippy ideas are just what the environment needsGreen ideas make so much sense given the energy spent in transporting foods from every corner of the globeSat Jan 09 2016 - 04:00
Another Life: When rivers flood, damn the wildlife?The Shannon is Ireland’s wildlife heartland, partly because its floods have set such close bounds to farmingSat Jan 02 2016 - 01:00
Another Life: A high old time – the drugs also known as Christmas spicesSome of the ingredients in your kitchen are rich in aromatic myristicin, which is a molecular precursor of MMDA, a drug similar to ecstasySat Dec 19 2015 - 04:00
Another Life: At the edge of Ireland, a window on the universeLiving in remote areas lets you enjoy the clarity of night skies without light pollutionSat Dec 12 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Scots pines pass the native species testIn Mayo, trees planted by a 19th-century Scottish sheep rancher supplanted Ireland’s ancient pinesSat Dec 05 2015 - 04:00
Another Life: Stormy seas reveal our lost shores and drowned forestsIreland offered has dramatic examples of rogue waves, including those that swamped the bow of LÉ ‘Róisín’Sat Nov 28 2015 - 04:00
Another Life: From dinosaurs to sea lilies, the fossil windows into our natural historyLimestone formed when Ireland was still down near the equator, its deserts and dunes flooded by warm and shallow seasSat Nov 21 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Glorious new Irish books bring nature home‘I Was There’, ‘Sea Gastronomy’, ‘Ireland’s Birds: Myth, Legends and Folklore’, ‘Dordán Dúlra’ and ‘This Is the Burren’Sat Nov 14 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Mindfulness? I keep pace with nature, a stream one never steps in twiceI feel particular despair for all the young city women rushing through their lives, lost in a hectic flow of virtual conversationsSat Nov 07 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Ireland’s farmland may still seem mercifully green, but is, nonetheless, vulnerableIn Octobers past, this was my month for lifting the maincrop potatoes, taking care to rebury every earthworm tossed aloft, before the attendant robin could pounceSat Oct 31 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Saving the angel’s nosegay, or why we protect petalwortThis coastal plant helps to stabilise exposed sand against the pull of wind and soak up eroding waterSat Oct 24 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesA devil’s coach horse, a trapped crow and a death’s head hawkmothSat Oct 24 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesEarth star mushrooms, tar spots, pheasants and spanielsSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Leaving it to the fertility gods is tempting destructionMad growth of human race gobbles up space and wipes out ever more speciesSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: A landscape fit for our native honey beesA plan backed by 68 organisations shows the plight of pollinators is moving up the agendaSat Oct 10 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesAching bee stings, moulting blackbirds and ‘dog’s sick’ mouldSat Oct 10 2015 - 01:00
When the white swallows come back to TacumshinThe Wexford lake in autumn is a prime staging post for thousands of Ireland’s migrating swallows, house martins and sand martinsSat Oct 03 2015 - 02:00
Another Life: March of brambles keeping botanists on their toesIt seems the ambition of ‘Rubus fruticosus’, the common blackberry, is to take over most of this islandSat Sept 26 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesFruit flies, crayfish, grey squirrel and a catterpillarSat Sept 26 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesBicoloured dahlias, ramping fumitory, merlins and oak eggar mothsSat Sept 19 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Twitching for ticks – a tale of addictionEric Dempsey’s new book, ‘Don’t Die in Autumn’, is an honest, joyous account of life as a birdwatcherSat Sept 19 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesGannets, wrens, seals and tachinid fliesSat Sept 12 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: Should you rescue that animal or leave it alone?Rescue is best saved for obviously injured animals and birds, cold and limp. Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland has all you need to knowSat Sept 12 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: The plague threatening Ireland’s native crayfishA fungal disease spreading from North America could wipe out a species near extinction in most of EuropeSat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesGoshawks, false widows, and albino swallows and foxesSat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
For grey squirrels the Shannon remains a swim too farThey occasionally cross the river but stick mainly to the parts of Ireland to its east. What’s going on? And where does that leave red squirrels?Sat Aug 29 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesSparrowhawks, flying ants, robin’s pincushions and a trio of mothsSat Aug 29 2015 - 01:00
Eye on Nature: Your notes and queriesWhite hares, warble flies and comma butterfliesSat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: First catch your fish – the science of tracking sea lifeAround Ireland, electronic tags have been fixed to basking sharks, blue sharks, bluefin tuna, leatherback turtles and sunfishSat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00
Another Life: king of crabs has a long shelf lifeThe deep-swimming giant box crab are occasionally caught in shallow fishing trawlsSat Aug 15 2015 - 01:00
