Lorna Siggins’s second of her three-part series runs the rule over mounting challenges. Desperate times call for desperate measures, no more so than in Dublin in 1893. A drought that began in March and continued for most of the year prompted one letter writer to this newspaper to suggest using explosives to burst clouds over the Phoenix Park. “We all can perceive every evening the thick black masses of rain-cloud gathering…
Irish Times, 25/07/16. Read the full article ‘Shannon to Dublin pipeline: An Irish water dilemma‘.
