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The Government has been urged to use its large budget surplus to improve Dublin’s transport infrastructure. Photograph: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ieinvested €5.7 billion in fossil fuels

since the landmark Paris climate agreement of 2015, a new report has revealed. The research by charity ActionAid claimed Ireland was a “significant channel” for global investment in fossils fuels and industrial agriculture with funds registered here holding billions of euros in bonds and shares in climate-harming activities in the global south, which comprises large parts of Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and most of Asia. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the details.

, I was in danger of creating resentment – none of the necessary interest in others, which in my case is usually very genuine, was in evidence. I was being too nakedly self-serving, trying to cram these people into my schedule, one they found irksome in the heat.improve Dublin’s transport infrastructure

, writes Eoin Burke_Kennedy. “With 140,000 commuters heading to Dublin for work, the city’s commuter belt in the Greater Dublin Area and beyond needs better public transport – this includes Dart+ and MetroLink, as well as rail and bus projects further from the city in places like Naas, Bray and Navan,” Dublin Chamber chief executive Mary Rose Burke said., each giving a different read on where prices in Ireland are at.

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