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Donal Hickey: We'll hear cuckoos any day now — or have you already?

Satellite-tracked cuckoos should be coming 'home' from Africa very soon

United-kingdom , British , British-trust-for-ornithology , Wildlife-service , National-parks , British-trust , Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Cuckoo , Ornithology , Scaraveen

Donal Hickey: Steering the shipping industry towards low-carbon fuels

Shipping accounts for 3% of global CO2 emissions

Ireland , Irish , Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Ustainability , Co2-emissions , Fuel , Shipping-industry , Container-ship , Person-professor-jerry-murphy , Person-jonathan-bull

Donal Hickey: Graffiti on an 800-year-old friary in Cork

Damage has also been caused to a number of monuments by people unwittingly churning them up by driving scramblers or quad bikes over them

Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Monuments , Graffiit , Ringfort , Quadbike , National-monuments , Place-loughcrew , Place-castlelyons-friary , Organisation-tuatha ,

Dónal Hickey: Campaign to save monuments from accidental damage

There are more than 140,000 archaeological remains here including standing stones, castles, and ring forts — and an online map lets you check any area before starting digging work

County-cork , Cork , Ireland , Liscarroll , Eilis-noonan , Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Archaeology , Monuments , Ring-fort , Place-wood-quay

Donal Hickey: Do e-collars work - and are they cruel?

The deadline for public consultation on e-collars is February 16

County-cork , Cork , Ireland , Dan-linehan , Ciara-cronin , Lower-killeens , Utdoors , Onal-hickey , E-collars , Dogs , Dog-attacks

Donal Hickey: Mild weather on the way if you spot a hedgehog at this time of year

St Brigid’s Day, on February 1 — with the bank holiday celebrated on February 5 this year — is the beginning of spring and, effectively, the start of the farming year

Ireland , Irish , Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Hedgehogs , Hibernation , St-brigids-day , St-brigids-cross , St-bridget , St-brigid ,

Conservation rewards system needs to work for farmers if it is to actually work

Increasing numbers of farmers are participating in eco-schemes and this is critical to their success and to repairing the damage done to the Irish countryside in the last 50 years

Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Conservation , Ecology , Farming , Eu-nature-restoration-law , Organisation-birdwatch-ireland , Organisation-acres ,

Donal Hickey: Welcome protection for seabirds but locals need consulting

The seas off Wexford now become our largest Special Protection Area. The 20 species to be protected at the site include some of our rarest and most threatened birds

Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Seas-off-wexford-special-protection-area , Special-protection-area , Conservation , Ecology , Mpa , Marine-protected-area , Manx-shearwater , Puffins , Gannet

Donal Hickey: Grants to save energy and make our homes warmer

The Government’s highly ambitious goal is to have 500,000 homes retrofitted to B2 energy rating by 2030. A tall order given the level of uptake so far — €170million of the €300million set aside in grants for the scheme was not taken up in 2022

Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Etrofitting-homes , Retrofit-grants , Sustainability , Insulation , Fuel-costs , Retrofit-costs , Nergy-efficiency , Energy-rating ,

Donal Hickey: Do you let your kid cycle alone on the road?

Is it safe for a child to cycle to school by themselves? And even when they do, is it fair to expect them to breathe fumes from all the cars idling outside schools?

Utdoors , Onal-hickey , Exhaust-fumes , Road-safety , Engine-idling , Person-dr-dean-venables , Organisation-centre-for-research-into-atmospheric-chemistry ,