Energy
- Should Ireland’s Energy be Nationalised, Drivetime, RTÉ, 5 September 2022.
- ‘5 Degrees of Change: ‘‘We are trying to shoehorn climate action into an energy framework that prioritises profit”’, Interview and Sunday Business Post Podcast with Daniel Murray, 18 April 2021.
- Tógra na Sceirde: Iris Aniar, Raidió na Gaeltachta, 30 Meán Fómhair 2021.
- Sunday Business Post Interview with Jason Walsh, Cleaning technology for the future, 28 November 2021, Sunday Business Post.
- Episode 16 – A Public Energy Response to the Climate Emergency, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies podcast.
Cultural Heritage
- Planning and Development Bill 2024: Letter to Irish Times with Amy Strecker, Planning Bill is dangerously flawed (chosen as Letter of the Day by Editor). Also article Comment: The planning bill – here comes the most fossil fuel infrastructure in the history of the state, The Ditch, 8 October 2024. Resulted in substantial pick up in national news and mentioned in the Oireachtas by Ivana Bacik TD, Catherine Connolly TD and Bríd Smith TD. We were also quoted in opposition speeches to the Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024 introduced by Michael Healy-Rae TD which sought to abolish An Taisce.
- Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Amy Strecker and Sinéad Mercier, Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past by failing to protect our heritage, Irish Examiner, 28 April 2023. Also accompanied by Letter to the Irish Times, Amy Strecker, Thomas Muinzer and Sinéad Mercier, Legal Protection for monuments, 22 April 2023.
Climate
- Review of the Climate Action (Amendment) Bill 2019, September 24 2020 – Guest Blogpost on Ireland’s Climate Bill for the Irish Centre for Human Rights. See also Green News, Some key things to look out for in the Climate Bill, 2 October 2020.
- Teocht an domhain agus an dochar a bhaineann leis, RTÉ, 10 May 2022
- Interviewed for Oireachtas TV Documentary ‘Tionól – An Ghéarchéim Aeráide’, with panellists Éanna Ní Lamhna and Mícheál Ó Cinnéide, July 2024.
Sinéad Mercier 