Kildare Focus 10.06.22

Kildare Focus

Friday, 10 June 2022 - 34 minutes

Pádraic Fogarty
Campaign Officer, Irish Wildlife Trust
• Demonstration was held at Dublin Castle on Wednesday
• the first of a two-day National Biodiversity Conference organised by Government departments took place
• Demonstrating groups say an act of legislation tackling the biodiversity crisis must be enacted, alongside Climate Act, or Ireland will keep adding to its "30 years of inaction"

Dermott Jewell
Policy Advisor, Consumer’s Association of Ireland
• Over 2.5 million contactless payments made in first quarter of 2022 - is this the end for cash?

Alan Bannon
Founder, Cannonball Run
• Retro Cannonball is coming to Naas this evening – from 6.20pm

June Tinsley
Head of Advocacy and Communications, NCBI
• Volunteers needed at NCBI store in Clane in community notices