In 2015, Ireland passed the Gender Recognition Act, which permitted trans people, beginning at age 18, to have their preferred gender recognized by the State. In 2007 however, Ireland was cited by the EU’s Convention on Human Rights as being behind the rest of Europe on this issue, and informed the country to correct the infraction. Ireland obeyed its colonial masters and was thoroughly on board by 2015.
As a model EU colony, Ireland is now poised to obey another EU command: the eradication of emission gases from the planet, which in practical terms means the slaughtering of 200,000 cows to help save the planet.
Ireland’s Climate Action Plan, engineered by the same people who brought you gender ideology, the legalization of abortion, and 1,000 and one ways to open doors to illegal immigration, made it known that they wanted to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.
The slashing of carbon emissions by 51% by 2030, the government’s goal, was called “hugely significant” by Eamon Ryan, the country’s environment minister and Irish Green party leader.
And since agriculture causes about 37% of Ireland’s emissions, the woke target was put on cows, the same moocow that Joyce writes about in the opening pages of a “Portrait of the Artist”:
“Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/ireland-obedient-colony-of-the-european-union/