Ireland is the only island nation with no coastal plan

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By Eugene Farrell
NUI Galway


I returned home to Ireland in 2012 after spending 17 years doing research along the coastlines of Australia, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, the Torres Strait and the US.

I was at the initial phases of designing new research programmes in NUI Galway when coastlines in Ireland and northwest Europe were being battered by storms during the winter of 2013/14. You might remember Storm Darwin.

These storms were the most energetic in over a century of observations and dramatically changed the coastal landscape – leading to serious disruption, severe flooding, irreversible erosion and permanent changes in coastal alignment.

The extreme weather experienced during that winter also raised compelling concerns within coastal communities and the role they could play in building resilience to climate change. The natural and societal responses to storm impacts became the focus of my research in Ireland since this time.

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/0415/1292497-ireland-island-nation-no-coastal-plan/

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