Govt defends absence of targets in rural plan

On the Six One news this week, Mayo Green candidate Saoirse McHugh outlined a strong vision for rural voters. "Rural Ireland has been in decline for 25 years now," she says, "but climate action could be a huge opportunity to revive rural Ireland and fix a lot of the problems we have. "We can have public transport if we demand it. We can pay farmers to store carbon. We can have community-owned renewable energy projects and stop that money leaving our communities. It could be transformative for th