alt Hacker NewsTheir comment is talking about a wider context than this single coal power station.
In the UK, Net Zero politics means we are killing our own North Sea fossil fuel extraction, only to purchase North Sea fossil fuel from Norway, at an increased environmental (and financial) cost.
That's the kind of political lunacy the OP is aluding to.
Okay, but do you have any examples of such alleged lunacy in Ireland? Ireland has no economically exploitable oil or coal, and what gas there is is largely exhausted.