Michael Viney

Michael Viney: Captive breeding of eggs taken from the wild can contribute to our conservation programmes

Another Life: Extreme weather can be traumatic to live through. We need to grow increasingly alert to the psychological damage it does

New species arriving through human activity turning Ireland into ‘ecological junkyard’

Michael Viney: The last ramparts of bog-deal, piled at the margins of fields cleared from peatland, are darkening in November rain

Six decades ago our Another Life columnist wrote his first article for The Irish Times. It was the start of a long relationship with the paper and its readers

Irish media for a long time did a medium job – at best – of holding power to account

What emerges from the files, and from the graves of the unregarded innocents, is a dark story that will take some time to absorb into the official narratives of independent Ireland

Will Covid-19 begin a resurgence of the 1970s withdrawal from growth-driven capitalism?

In season: You’ve filled bucket after bucket with plump blackberries, now what to do with them?

It takes time and expertise to coax these greedy, sun-loving, thirsty plants to give of their very best

Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more

Ecologists push for a critical mass of cover, extending and merging existing clusters

On walls and boundary railings of Lucan’s public park, 54 were counted on one visit in July

Michael Viney: We have never known about more species – and the list is growing

Michael Viney: Stephen Galvin’s work established the long-lived yew as a reliable barometer of environmental change

‘Irish Times’ columnist and environmentalist among 18 people recognised by RIA

Published: April 24th, 1967. Photograph by Gordon Standing

Unless we attend to health of our environment, our economies cannot survive

UK moves to pardon gay men prompts calls to examine how they were treated in State

Whether elderflower, blackcurrant, rhubarb or gooseberry, country wines livened up our social life in our first decades at Thallabawn

In times long past, Zostera fringed every sheltered coast on both sides of the North Atlantic

The English journalist and naturalist – this paper’s longest-serving columnist – has always been a keen-eyed yet sympathetic chronicler of Irish life. So what does he make of our nation in this centenary year?

Politicians do themselves no favours by pandering to notion that their appearance at flood scenes does any good

I feel particular despair for all the young city women rushing through their lives, lost in a hectic flow of virtual conversations

The Wexford lake in autumn is a prime staging post for thousands of Ireland’s migrating swallows, house martins and sand martins

It seems the ambition of ‘Rubus fruticosus’, the common blackberry, is to take over most of this island

Fruit flies, crayfish, grey squirrel and a catterpillar

17th-century manuscript by Johann Joachim Henneberger could make €189,200

Michael Viney’s groundbreaking Irish Times series in 1964 documented the plight of women who gave birth outside of wedlock

Despite previous State reports, such homes have not received scrutiny

National public airing of principle of unity by consent

From the side of a Mayo mountain, Michael Viney has dedicated decades to chronicling the natural world around him, and even after turning 80 earlier this year, his appetite for observing the neighbouring flora and fauna remains undimmed

Our waterways have become tunnelled with alder and willow, blocking light and reducing bioproductivity, says a reader, who suggests the animals would fell the riparian trees and let in the sun

The common swift is struggling to survive. An Irish project hopes to help

Connections between coastal people in Ireland and North Africa found in the hills above Granada

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