Greta Thunberg is also awarded Freedom of the City of Dublin
He said he had great admiration and regard for Ms Thunberg and criticised attempts by some politicians to “create a split” between her and the Green Party.
“Greta Thunberg and the Green Party are very much on the same focus. We have to stop this negative publicity by politicians. Now I have the freedom of Dublin to really embarrass these politicians to make sure they don’t ever get elected again.”EU nature restoration laws “It’s not just politicians who are to blame for this, our electorate don’t seem to care about the environment. When it comes to elections we don’t see this becoming the priority issue it deserves. It is the most existential challenge ever faced by human civilisation and Ireland needs to wake up; we are not performing, we are a laggards in Europe, we as a society need to start acting responsibly.”
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