Jason Walsh on December 7, 2009, 5:10 pm | Readers 7
Retail Ireland, the group that represents the Irish retail sector, says that shopping in North is destroying the planet.
Retail Ireland director Torlach Denihan said: “On the first day of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit it is sobering that cross-border shopping trips in 2009 will result in the emission of 100,000 tonnes of carbon.”
You wouldn’t just be desperate, would you now Torlach?
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