For decades Ireland banned smoky coal town by town; in October 2022 the whole country became a low-smoke zone, and the Asthma Society had been lobbying for exactly that.
42towns and citiesTowns and cities covered by the smoky coal ban before the nationwide rules
10grams of smoke per hourSmoke limit for coal and manufactured solid fuels under the nationwide rules
A coalition of Ireland's leading ocean NGOs is pushing to grow Irish marine protection from under 10% to 30% by 2030.
9%Irish waters currently protected
2.1%Irish waters protected when Fair Seas campaign began (2022)
A Galway social enterprise dismantles mattresses by hand and has kept 50,000 of them out of Irish landfills and ditches since 2017.
50kmattressesMattresses diverted from landfill since 2017 (company claim)
An Irish charity's tech platform connects surplus food from retailers to charities, redistributing hundreds of millions of meals since 2013.
450MmealsMeals redistributed globally since 2013
685charitiesIrish charities supported in 2024
Ireland cut and burned its bogs for centuries; since 1982 this small charity has been quietly buying the survivors and handing them back to sphagnum.
6reservesPeatland nature reserves owned and managed
2,000membersMembers supporting the council
The Republic of Ireland's only seal rehabilitation centre nurses sick, injured and orphaned seal pups back to health and returns them to the wild.
169sealsSeals rescued
97sealsSeals released back to the wild
