Blue Ireland exists to advocate for proper Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and appropriate siting of offshore renewable energy (ORE) developments in order to optimise benefits (e.g., carbon capture and fish stocks) and minimise damaging impacts on the marine environment (e.g., damage to ecosystems and biodiversity). The issue is that, as a result of lax permitting regimes, at present all ORE projects in Ireland are proposed on sites self-selected by developers, with no regard for environmental impacts on marine life, livelihoods, or the Irish coastline.