Benefits of Membership

Our current benefits include:

Receipt of a quarterly newsletter and regular news items.
Invites to events such as member evenings on selected environmental topics and regular Council forums.
A chance to assist further by volunteering through An Taisce committees or Local Associations.
Free entry to An Taisce properties and discounted entry to other selected properties around Ireland.
Free entry to other National Trust properties around the world through the into.org/places programme (for when we travel again). This includes The National Trust of UK and Northern Ireland.
Access to advice on environmental, planning and heritage matters from our experts.

Where your money goes

The An Taisce Advocacy Unit relies nearly entirely on membership fees and donations to fund its planning and policy work. This is a small but dedicated team of experts working to ensure that our communities are created and maintained in a sustainable way. The more resources we have, the more work we can do to protect nature, conserve our built heritage and ensure that national and EU environmental laws are adhered to.

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Submission on the Draft Agri-Food 2030 Strategy and Environmental Assessments

An Taisce have serious questions over the flawed Agri-Food Strategy to 2030 as well as over the robustness of the accompanying environmental assessments and their compliance with EU law.
Beaumont House, Dublin 9

Beaumont House, Dublin 9
Benefits of Membership

Description of the benefits of joining An Taisce as a member
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High Court upholds An Bord Pleanála decision granting planning permission to Glanbia cheese factory

An Taisce is now considering the judgment to determine if there are grounds which warrant an application for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal or for an application to the Supreme Court.
An Taisce action on Kilkenny cheese factory planning decision

An Taisce has sought leave to appeal the recent decision of the High Court dismissing its challenge against the decision of An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for the development of a cheese processing plant. We've written this explainer on why we've taken the appeal, the planning case behind it, An Taisce's role in the planning process, the wider environmental context on dairy expansion in Ireland, and our view for future development.
An Taisce to appeal High Court decision on Kilkenny cheese factory

An Taisce has confirmed its intention to seek leave to appeal the recent decision of the High Court dismissing its challenge against the decision of An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for the development of a cheese processing plant.
We Protect

We hold and preserve a range of heritage properties in trust, including historic buildings and nature reserves.
Vacancies

List of any open positions and information on how to apply
Environmental NGOs call time on government-sanctioned environmental destruction

An Taisce welcomes the decision of the Environmental Pillar, of which An Taisce is an active member, to resign from the Agri-Food 2030 Committee. We join the Pillar in denouncing the strategy produced by this committee as entirely inadequate to meet the social and environmental challenges facing us.
Our Mission

Overview of An Taisce's mission, vision and work
We Educate

We develop and operate some of Ireland's most popular and successful environmental and sustainability programmes.
Irish State seriously in breach of its international obligations on ammonia emissions

While previous reporting indicated that our total ammonia emissions were already in breach of EU thresholds, this is now recognised as a serious undercount. New EPA data highlight that the State has been non-compliant for 7 out of the last 9 years, driven by growth of the agriculture sector.
An Taisce carefully considering newly published Agri-Food 2030 Strategy

The Department of Agriculture have published their Agri-Food 2030 Strategy outlining the objectives for the agri-food sector for the next decade. An Taisce will carefully consider the final draft to ascertain if the fundamental failures which we previously identified have been addressed.

Application by ESB for change of use from museum to residential at Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin 2

This proposal by the ESB to close the Georgian House museum at Fitzwilliam Street would represent the loss of a thirty-year-old heritage and cultural visitor attraction and educational resource for the city Read more