As Willie Madden inched his way through Galway traffic to drive to the Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, office of engineering consultants RPS last Tuesday, inspiration for his meeting later that day with the Sunday Independent was not hard to find.
Last week, in the US state of Montana, a group of young activists won a landmark legal case after it was ruled unconstitutional for the state not to consider climate change when approving or renewing fossil fuel projects.
Rory Fitzgerald’s infectious laugh echoes as loudly and as frequently as the airplanes that touch down nearby at Dublin Express’s tiny airport headquarters.
When accountancy firm Moore Ireland announced last month that it had been acquired by a London firm, it didn’t take long for managing partner Ned Murphy’s phone to start ringing.