An Taisce

Um, so there's a lot here, and we'll elaborate on more.

And maybe a good place to start is at the beginning and what happened in 1995 after members of An Taisce placed an ad in the Irish Times offering a reward for anyone who could provide information on planning corruption that could lead to a conviction.

Yeah.

And, um, that was a very, a very insightful introduction, I must say.

Um, I also should, should express thanks to CMAT, um, because she gave me permission to use the full lyrics of that, of that, of that verse, um, which was very generous of her.

1995, um, Michael Smith and Colum Le Hyucki, who went on to become a judge, uh, both of them barristers and both prominent members of An Taisce, as you said, uh, were so frustrated at the failure of the government to deal with quite blatant and obvious, uh, reports of corruption within particularly Dublin City and County Council, that they, they issued a, a reward or offered a, a reward through solicitors in Newry, Donnelly Neely Donnelly, um, as you said, offering, um, money, a sizable amount of money, in return for, uh, information that could lead to a conviction for corruption.

Not an easy thing to do or to achieve, even by, even by the, the most interested or, or, uh, determined gardaí.

Um, and of course, which, um, which just hardly happened.

So it's, it's actually a really nicely designed website and a very easy to...

And by nicely designed, I mean easy to use, and it's all organized by An Taisce, of course.

And if you'd like to find out more information, you can emailkaw@antaisce.org. That's kaw@antaisce.org. And I just wanted to give it a shout this week, as we are in Climate Action Week.

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