She was striking from school, demanding that her government take radical action to address climate change.
Lucy Holmes was among the crowd that day, a sixth-year student who had travelled up from Mullingar to take part.“But I’m not a scientist,” Lucy says, “The only thing I could do is write poetry.” She painted a scene of planetary ruin and stressed the desperate need for change. Complacency, she concluded, will ultimately kill.
“With environmental issues, it’s very easy to think this is a losing battle, “ he finds, “but when you organise and see the amount of people that care, it just gives you hope that actually, things can change here.” The student-led group started meeting with different facilities around the campus and took stock of how much plastic was being used day-to-day. A petition was then set up, and with almost 4,000 student signatures, it was presented to the provost in February 2018.
Following its success, another annual Trans Pride parade took place in Dublin just last month with thousands in attendance. The focus this year was on “breaking the binary” to highlight trans voices, as well as those in the non-binary and intersex community.