'By and large, farmers are decent, honest, hardworking people, who want to do right by future generations. With progressive, visionary leadership they could be nature and climate champions.'

But that leadership is absent.

My piece in today's The Irish Times
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“If it is going to change things, it has to change them well. We’ve heard enough from people who clearly don’t know what they’re doing in RTÉ. It’s time to listen to the people – the creative people – who do,” Una Mullally @irishtimes [€] irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

“I don’t think any of us at RTÉ have any boasting left in us after the last few weeks. But I am still, after everything, proud of the work we do and the contribution we make to public service broadcasting,” Kevin Brew @irishtimes irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

“Tubridy repeated over and over on Tuesday that he wants to go back to that ‘great old place’. He wants to be part of the catharsis. He may come to regret hitching his wagon to Noel Kelly’s,” ⁦Jennifer O'Connell⁩ ⁦The Irish Times⁩ irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

Great read by Lisa Tierney-Keogh: I was a writer on Toy Show the Musical. It has been a weird time irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

RTÉ was looking for a warehouse for the Toy Show musical set while TG4 was at the Oscars via @irishtimesoped

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“Two weeks into the RTÉ crisis over secret payments, the organisation is still faffing about looking for the first aid kit. With every day it is spinning further out of control in a catastrophic doom loop of damning revelations,” Jennifer O'Connell @irishtimes irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

Justine McCarthy: The next time committee members make snide remarks about RTÉ managers taking the “hubby” on foreign trips, they might stop and think that, if they had done their job in the first place, matters might not have reached this sorry pass.

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What do university performance rankings really mean? And should Ireland be chasing them at all? Interesting explainer on what those sought-after university rankings show us irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

'We just need to zoom out. The greatest marketing win in Ireland in recent years was the Wild Atlantic Way. Nobody built anything, it was just about connecting the dots' - Una Mullally has a big idea for Dublin's O'Connell Street irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

Great points here by Jennifer O'Connell. People constantly spin the need for more hotels as a binary choice (more hotels = less housing/art)…until they need to book a room and are shocked by the price.

These things should run hand in hand with a bit of vision and strategy.

Deep dive by Cliff Taylor into RTÉ’s Bosco accounting is well worth a read irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

Frank McDonald: Dublin’s runaway growth is bad for the rest of the country, and worse for Dublin via Irish Times Opinion irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

Noel Kelly: Who is the behind-the-scenes agent, seen as RTÉ's ‘real director general’?

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Dublin hotel prices in “the realms of the utterly fantastical,” writes Jennifer O'Connell ⁦The Irish Times⁩, adding “That’s where they seem to have been hovering in a semi-permanent state of suspension for some time now.” irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️'While Irish people voted overwhelmingly in support of marriage equality, we still have a long way to go'

Wrote about the importance of #Pride for Irish Times Opinion today.

👉 irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

Thanks to Jennifer O'Connell for having me!

#Pride 2023

“The chasm in the response to the two events almost a week apart – the contrast in the level of public interest; the resources offered to the rescue teams; the desire to know more about the victims and the circumstances – was stark,” Jennifer O'Connell irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/0…

A piece by me in Irish Times Opinion this morning on that GCSE study and the broader context of breastfeeding pressure and stigma around formula in Ireland. Thanks to Jennifer O'Connell for support on it.

With my brilliant colleague David McWilliams and the fantastic Jana Bakunina Dalkey Book Festival for our talk last night on the world at a tipping point. We're on day two already

And we’re off again!

Listen to the Land happening right now at the Seafront

Manchán Magan and Jennifer O'Connell kicking off Day 2 ✨