Ireland becomes sixth European country to end use of coal ahead of schedule | NationofChange
Ireland becomes sixth European country to end use of coal ahead of schedule | NationofChange
It didn't say in the article who the previous five were, so I looked it up:
That's using the source quoted in the article.
Another source has a longer list:
would be interesting to see the respective major power sources
Guessing this is only for industry, but hopefully the knock on effect will be less use domestically. Having been in small town Ireland, the amount of pollution generated by home coal fires is crazy. It feels like stepping back to industrial revolution times, at 6pm when everyone lights up their fires is choke inducing.
Wow, and while they have 6 whole years of coal reserves left in their country. Very forward-thinking to switch to oil.
In contrast, the US has about 400 years of coal reserves.
(Yes, I know Ireland had been importing coal)