Philip Boucher-Hayes
@philipb-h.bsky.social
Mostly a journalist. Mostly RTÉ Radio and Television (Ireland). Mostly climate, farming, nature. Never said no to a Ginger Snap biscuit.
The eye watering prices we are paying for beef are caused by all sorts of hidden factors and come with unforeseen social, environmental and cost of living pros and cons.
I spent a few days in suckler cow country. Deep Dive Listen 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
I spent a few days in suckler cow country. Deep Dive Listen 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The eye watering prices we are paying for beef are caused by all sorts of hidden factors and come with unforeseen social, environmental and cost of living pros and cons.
I spent a few days in suckler cow country. Deep Dive Listen 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
I spent a few days in suckler cow country. Deep Dive Listen 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Good adaptation: A national attitude and government policy that nobody is safe until everybody is safe. It’s saved countless lives.
October 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Good adaptation: A national attitude and government policy that nobody is safe until everybody is safe. It’s saved countless lives.
There’s a lot in this programme about what the west has to learn about adaptation from developing countries.
Bad adaptation: This community of 200,000 Bengali farmers who lost their land to coastal erosion and now live on the water on top of their old farms.
Bad adaptation: This community of 200,000 Bengali farmers who lost their land to coastal erosion and now live on the water on top of their old farms.
October 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
There’s a lot in this programme about what the west has to learn about adaptation from developing countries.
Bad adaptation: This community of 200,000 Bengali farmers who lost their land to coastal erosion and now live on the water on top of their old farms.
Bad adaptation: This community of 200,000 Bengali farmers who lost their land to coastal erosion and now live on the water on top of their old farms.
Global Warning: Ep 2 Against the tide.
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Global Warning: Ep 2 Against the tide.
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
How do we adapt to what is coming?
The nice people at Al Jazeera have made this series free to watch. I hope you all share it widely.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicServiceBroadcasting
📺 👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
Global Warning now on Al Jazeera.
Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.
Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.
October 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Global Warning now on Al Jazeera.
Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.
Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.
With everything going on in the polycrisis #Climate has been very much pushed to the side. So I’m impressed (and a little relieved) that @aljazeera.com has bought and scheduled a documentary series I made. Starts next Thursday. #GlobalWarning #ClimateCrisis
October 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
With everything going on in the polycrisis #Climate has been very much pushed to the side. So I’m impressed (and a little relieved) that @aljazeera.com has bought and scheduled a documentary series I made. Starts next Thursday. #GlobalWarning #ClimateCrisis
I’m doing a #climate thing at the Hinterland Festival on Saturday. Despite or perhaps because the programmers describe me as a hot mess, there’s only a few tickets left.
👉 www.hinterland.ie/p-576-philip...
👉 www.hinterland.ie/p-576-philip...
June 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I’m doing a #climate thing at the Hinterland Festival on Saturday. Despite or perhaps because the programmers describe me as a hot mess, there’s only a few tickets left.
👉 www.hinterland.ie/p-576-philip...
👉 www.hinterland.ie/p-576-philip...
I can personally vouch for the integrity of this GoFundMe. Of the many times I thought his situation could not get worse - months in a tent on the beach, house flattened on his return - this is the worst. If you can’t donate please share this. 👇👇👇👇
gofund.me/0c79ba3b
gofund.me/0c79ba3b
June 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I can personally vouch for the integrity of this GoFundMe. Of the many times I thought his situation could not get worse - months in a tent on the beach, house flattened on his return - this is the worst. If you can’t donate please share this. 👇👇👇👇
gofund.me/0c79ba3b
gofund.me/0c79ba3b
This is an example of the kind of work my producer/cameraman colleague Fady Hossam has been making inside #Gaza.
He and his brother got hit by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike while searching for food on Thursday. Fady is the sole breadwinner for many relatives.
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He and his brother got hit by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike while searching for food on Thursday. Fady is the sole breadwinner for many relatives.
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June 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is an example of the kind of work my producer/cameraman colleague Fady Hossam has been making inside #Gaza.
He and his brother got hit by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike while searching for food on Thursday. Fady is the sole breadwinner for many relatives.
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He and his brother got hit by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike while searching for food on Thursday. Fady is the sole breadwinner for many relatives.
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04.57am Wicklow
June 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
04.57am Wicklow
Which should be compared with what the Gardai told me at the time.
June 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Which should be compared with what the Gardai told me at the time.
PS - I coined the nickname “Kitchen Table Historian” back in 2014. I regretted it almost straight away. It undermined the investigative rigour of Catherine’s work. Time to let it fade away, I think.
June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
PS - I coined the nickname “Kitchen Table Historian” back in 2014. I regretted it almost straight away. It undermined the investigative rigour of Catherine’s work. Time to let it fade away, I think.
Her North Star was that she knew what the facts said and where the evidence would lead anyone that studied it.
It took 11 years, but today we have started unearthing the past and setting it right. No more “sure you know what went on in there” nudges and winks.
It took 11 years, but today we have started unearthing the past and setting it right. No more “sure you know what went on in there” nudges and winks.
June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Her North Star was that she knew what the facts said and where the evidence would lead anyone that studied it.
It took 11 years, but today we have started unearthing the past and setting it right. No more “sure you know what went on in there” nudges and winks.
It took 11 years, but today we have started unearthing the past and setting it right. No more “sure you know what went on in there” nudges and winks.
It was ferocious. For providing her a platform I received only a fraction of the abuse Catherine did, but for me the volume was completely unprecedented. For her I know it was nearly overwhelming. Not that she buckled or wavered under it.
June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It was ferocious. For providing her a platform I received only a fraction of the abuse Catherine did, but for me the volume was completely unprecedented. For her I know it was nearly overwhelming. Not that she buckled or wavered under it.
In 2014 she was unequivocal that the correct response to her revelation was to exhume the babies, identify and reunite them with as many relatives as could be found.
I couldn’t deny the logic of her position, but I didn’t think she had correctly figured how much pushback there would be.
I couldn’t deny the logic of her position, but I didn’t think she had correctly figured how much pushback there would be.
June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In 2014 she was unequivocal that the correct response to her revelation was to exhume the babies, identify and reunite them with as many relatives as could be found.
I couldn’t deny the logic of her position, but I didn’t think she had correctly figured how much pushback there would be.
I couldn’t deny the logic of her position, but I didn’t think she had correctly figured how much pushback there would be.
By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil.
It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
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It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil.
It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
🧵
It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
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The beef industry has made less progress in offering incentives.
I asked the Sustainability Manager from Larry Goodman’s ABP were they happy to run a very profitable multi billion euro business and get the taxpayer to pick up the bill for their polluting.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
I asked the Sustainability Manager from Larry Goodman’s ABP were they happy to run a very profitable multi billion euro business and get the taxpayer to pick up the bill for their polluting.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
June 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The beef industry has made less progress in offering incentives.
I asked the Sustainability Manager from Larry Goodman’s ABP were they happy to run a very profitable multi billion euro business and get the taxpayer to pick up the bill for their polluting.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
I asked the Sustainability Manager from Larry Goodman’s ABP were they happy to run a very profitable multi billion euro business and get the taxpayer to pick up the bill for their polluting.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The dairy industry explains why it hasn’t yet incentivised farmers to adopt these tools.
The choice is stark. Either business and taxpayers pay for this work to be done now, or we reduce the herd by 1 million to avoid billions in fines.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The choice is stark. Either business and taxpayers pay for this work to be done now, or we reduce the herd by 1 million to avoid billions in fines.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
June 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The dairy industry explains why it hasn’t yet incentivised farmers to adopt these tools.
The choice is stark. Either business and taxpayers pay for this work to be done now, or we reduce the herd by 1 million to avoid billions in fines.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The choice is stark. Either business and taxpayers pay for this work to be done now, or we reduce the herd by 1 million to avoid billions in fines.
Listen: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The first part of this programme is on the Cavan dairy farm of Thomas Duffy.
Adding up what he has done, and what he could do if he received financial support for the new tools, he estimates his farm could achieve a 33% CO2e cut.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Adding up what he has done, and what he could do if he received financial support for the new tools, he estimates his farm could achieve a 33% CO2e cut.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
June 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The first part of this programme is on the Cavan dairy farm of Thomas Duffy.
Adding up what he has done, and what he could do if he received financial support for the new tools, he estimates his farm could achieve a 33% CO2e cut.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Adding up what he has done, and what he could do if he received financial support for the new tools, he estimates his farm could achieve a 33% CO2e cut.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
In fact, the richer you are the less you actually care about the environment.
Red = Poor.
Blue = Mid income.
Green = Rich
(Poll by Gallup)
Red = Poor.
Blue = Mid income.
Green = Rich
(Poll by Gallup)
June 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In fact, the richer you are the less you actually care about the environment.
Red = Poor.
Blue = Mid income.
Green = Rich
(Poll by Gallup)
Red = Poor.
Blue = Mid income.
Green = Rich
(Poll by Gallup)
We have updated and re-cut Rising Tides, the series shown on Irish TV, for an international audience. Al Jazeera will screen it in July under the new title Global Warning.
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We have updated and re-cut Rising Tides, the series shown on Irish TV, for an international audience. Al Jazeera will screen it in July under the new title Global Warning.
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social
@al-jazeera-english.bsky.social
The climate minister appeared to tell the Dail last month that there was no framework for paying these fines, therefore they weren’t a concern. It’s not entirely clear.
www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...
www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...
May 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The climate minister appeared to tell the Dail last month that there was no framework for paying these fines, therefore they weren’t a concern. It’s not entirely clear.
www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...
www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...
The 51% target was set a long time ago and a lot of fossil fuels have been burned since, while we mostly sat on our hands.
A scientific, not political, target for Ireland to play its part in holding warming below 1.5 degrees would be 30% cuts a year.
Last year we cut emissions 7%.
A scientific, not political, target for Ireland to play its part in holding warming below 1.5 degrees would be 30% cuts a year.
Last year we cut emissions 7%.
May 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The 51% target was set a long time ago and a lot of fossil fuels have been burned since, while we mostly sat on our hands.
A scientific, not political, target for Ireland to play its part in holding warming below 1.5 degrees would be 30% cuts a year.
Last year we cut emissions 7%.
A scientific, not political, target for Ireland to play its part in holding warming below 1.5 degrees would be 30% cuts a year.
Last year we cut emissions 7%.
The government says it will meet its 51% emissions reduction by 2030 target.
- The government’s own Climate Action Plan quietly admits (page 19) even in the best case scenario it won’t (42%)
- The same plan acknowledges that continuing business as usual will mean an 11% reduction
- The government’s own Climate Action Plan quietly admits (page 19) even in the best case scenario it won’t (42%)
- The same plan acknowledges that continuing business as usual will mean an 11% reduction
May 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The government says it will meet its 51% emissions reduction by 2030 target.
- The government’s own Climate Action Plan quietly admits (page 19) even in the best case scenario it won’t (42%)
- The same plan acknowledges that continuing business as usual will mean an 11% reduction
- The government’s own Climate Action Plan quietly admits (page 19) even in the best case scenario it won’t (42%)
- The same plan acknowledges that continuing business as usual will mean an 11% reduction
There is an enormous gap between what the Irish government says it will do on climate, and what it is actually getting done. There is an even bigger gap between what it says it’ll do and what science says needs to be done.
“Hot Mess” episode 30
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
“Hot Mess” episode 30
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
May 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
There is an enormous gap between what the Irish government says it will do on climate, and what it is actually getting done. There is an even bigger gap between what it says it’ll do and what science says needs to be done.
“Hot Mess” episode 30
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
“Hot Mess” episode 30
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...