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Dive Brief: This is the first roadmap the utility filed since announcing a clean energy goal and an accelerated exit from coal generation, which PNM director of integrated resource planning Nick Phillips said is set to take place by 2024. The IRP lays out several potential paths to full decarbonization by 2040 as PNM retires its gas generators over the course of the late 2020s and the 2030s. However, environmental groups say the plan does not actually achieve true decarbonization, with the Sierra Club criticizing PNM's decision to sell its interests in the Four Corners coal plant. The sale, a...

Limerick village looks forward to 2021 with new calendar Reporter: ');  '); “OF course, there won’t be a Boher Calendar this year,” was the assumption aired by a chorus of people in the parish Boher during the year. They were wrong. Boher Community Development Association sponsors the calendar every year, mostly with a view to highlighting the tremendous community spirit in Boher, with one eye on the need for a link with the Boher Diaspora, while being conscious too of recording for posterity the goings on in this small rural place. Despite not much going on Mary Finucane, Helena Hick...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth meets fishmonger Pat O'Connell at the English Market in Cork during her visit to Ireland in May 2011 Who would have thought that five years on from Queen Elizabeth’s visit, Britain would vote to leave the European Union, putting this relationship under severe strain, and almost causing it to break apart completely? The extent of anti-British feeling among a section of the population now appears to be so potent that Higgins was recently moved to warn of the danger of a rising tide of Anglophobia. We should be cognisant of “stereotypical depictions” of the Britis...