Library welcomes famous biologist
Cashel Library were delighted to welcome biologist, environmental consultant, radio and television presenter, author and educator Éanna Ní Lamhna to Cashel library recently as part of their Mná Month events. Éanna is a well-known Irish biologist and TV celebrity, and is one of the best-known public figures in Ireland in the area of nature and the environment.
Listed as one of Ireland’s “Influential 100” in 2012, she has served as President of the national environmental charity An Taisce, pushing forward its mission to celebrate and protect Ireland’s natural and cultural heritage.
As part of her trip to Cashel, she first took in students in Cashel Community School, impressing upon them the importance of sustainability and the effects of climate change and how they could mitigate it.
She praised the students for some of the projects that they have initiated in the school such as the bottle and can return schemes, and their commitment and success in events such as Junk Kouture, which gives younger people an awareness of the fleeting nature of clothing and the damage that single wear clothing is doing to the environment globally.
After that Éanna had an audience in the library, where once again she spoke out the dangers faced globally to a different but no less curious audience who know how they need to ensure they leave a lasting legacy on this Earth for their children and grandchildren.