@chadpbyrne @Donosully1O @sseairtricity Regardless of the usage issue, the rate per unit is awful high, I'm paying 24.8 cent with bord gais. Pays to move around every 12 months, 10 min call to whomever. Loyalty means zilch anymore
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Conor O'Flaherty
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Conor O'Flaherty
@Conflats
Agriculture | Biodiversity | Soils |Horticulture | Avgeek
Ireland Katılım Eylül 2009
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@Donosully1O @sseairtricity Can't understand it , litteraly only sleep and eat , live alone , can't understand it , savvy with energy etc
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Got a bill today for a tiny 2 bed cottage , oil heated , use hardly any energy , kitchen and bedroom ,lights and fridge , 2months ago was similar, @sseairtricity not sure what's going , looking for help to see how this can be solved , something is wrong, yet they say it's right
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@finburke1 @BobFlavin Last grower stopped in 2022 after steep rise in energy. There are some smaller market gardener/ farm market scale growers but peppers are slow to grow and like heat.
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@Conflats @BobFlavin Didn't know we ever grew peppers in Ireland, was referring to cost/quality of Spanish peppers.
Let's wait and see on food shortages.
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And Irish flag means it’s packed in Meath but the carrots are from Scotland (UK)
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@finburke1 @BobFlavin No pepper growers of scale left in ireland. 1 grower of chilli's that I know of. Imports are cheaper.
Fert was up before war and went up further. Shortages may be seen in out of season imports but europe won't be going hungry
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@Conflats @BobFlavin I go by the availability and cost of my capsicums and they've been expensive and not v good for a few years.
Expecting food shortages due to a lack of fertiliser caused by the Iran war, even if Ireland had accidently stocked up ahead I've still heard farmers complaining
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@finburke1 @BobFlavin This spring the issue was bad weather not drought. There won't be shortages as we are coming into irish production season for fruits and veg. Food service would be harder to find Irish produce than supermarkets
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@BobFlavin @Conflats Agri exports from Spain are way down due to severe water shortages, which should be a warning to any state that wants to leave food production to market forces.
The Iran war may well trigger food shortages in a few months so perhaps there will be no carrots in Irish shops.
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@finburke1 @BobFlavin Very limited whats left of last years crop. Carrots don't store at scale out of the ground.
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@Conflats @BobFlavin Over wintered Irish carrots are being harvested and are being sold in shops now. They're a nicer sweeter carrot.
dunnesstoresgrocery.com/sm/delivery/rs…
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@BarbaraDunne17 @BobFlavin East coast of Scotland has soils and climate suitable.
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@AnnaVanAwesome I'd take a guess and say it's the sheer volume that use the channel over and back to France. More bodies to split the costs on. Then it's shorter journey time so more trips per day.
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How come it costs almost half a grand to use Irish ferries from wales to Ireland with a car, but less than a hundred for England to France via ferry
Is this company prices or Irish government tax what’s going on with that
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@SteveNomadic Why has the ULCC model failed in the USA? Ryanair (love em or loath em)are one of the largest airlines in the world on this model. They can get you around Europe for less than 50euros (once you follow their rules). Is it purely cultural differences?
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This is ridiculous. Putting aside the full blown socialism, putting aside the high price of oil - pumping more money into a failed airline business model isn’t going to save the airline, it’s just setting fire to half a BIL of our tax dollars. Let them merge or let it die. Sheesh.
Brian Schwartz@schwartzbWSJ
SCOOP: The Trump administration and Spirit Airlines are nearing a deal where the U.S. government would put up to $500 million into Spirit Airlines stock warrants to try to save the company, leading to a potential significant stake in the company. Team effort w/ @alyrose and @AndrewScurria wsj.com/business/airli…
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@noshiteplease Are you out of contract? They will jack the price when it ends. Loyalty is dead.
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#EnergyPrices
So This Morning I got my ESB Bill, a low user my Total annual cost rarely went over €600.
I do have new medical equipment in fairness & an EBike, but Today's Bill for 2 fucking months almost €350 😳
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@1noeloconnor @LeoForde Would it be worth contacting your local td who happens to be a minister in said department
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This is fireblight in a section of hedging that didn't show any last year.
I really am half tempted to just sit and wait to see just how long the Dept will wait before doing anything.
Three years now and still not a word from them
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@1noeloconnor @LeoForde As far as I'm aware control procedure for firelight is complete removal and burning of affected materials at owners expense. Or at least that's how nurseries are to deal with it.
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@LeoForde It's incredibly annoying. I can't bring in a hedge cutter to trim back the hedges and briars in case I spread it but they've left it there for 3 years now and that's not spreading it?
They're worse than useless, useless doesn't cause wanton harm
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@CarthyRobbie @MadTaoiseach Not picking a side but once the tractor is capable of driving over 50km/hr it's allowed on motorways. But pissing off the ordinary worker thats trying to survive isn't going to win favour
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@MadTaoiseach In the rules a tractor using green diesel isnt permitted to drive on that road. Dont try be a fuckin smart arse
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A lad in work driving in this morning took 3 hours from Naas. No real issue with the time but when he tried to use the Hard shoulder to get off at his exit a tractor was swerving in and out of the hard shoulder to deter him. Idiots like that will cause a major issue #Fuelprotest
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@paddydugganj @colmoregan They incinerate it due to plant heath laws. It's literally just there for photo op and destroyed. The bowl is kept though.
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@colmoregan Would love to know what they do with bowl of shamrock when Taoiseach is out the door!
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We CAN'T do the White House Shamrock shit this year for St Patrick's Day. If they must, go and talk and but not the fucking bowl thing. It was always bullshit but this year more than any, it would be Extreme Sleeveening.
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Conor O'Flaherty retweetledi
Yesterday, my brother called me from the Netherlands, and as I was talking to him, a white lady told me to "speak English," so I turned to her and, as harshly as I could, I said in perfect English, "What the fuck did you just say to me?" I swear I saw her soul leave her body😂😂.
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@flightradar24 Any way of putting a tiered system in place for those who pay for membership getting priority? Happens way to often
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@TheVenueBars @johnmpringle1 bordbia.ie/farmers-grower… use the supplier code here and not the barcode.
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@johnmpringle1 So going forward how do I check my food source 100% Irish? We do not do food in-house but our purchases must be locally sourced & 100% Irish except if not produced here.
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@KitChri75116757 @simonmaechling Double benefit on the strawberry farm it stops theft of the fruit
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99% of photos showing a tractor spraying glyphosate are not of a tractor spraying glyphosate.
Which crop is this?
Lyle Lewis@Race2Extinct
A major glyphosate safety paper from 2000 has been retracted for ethical concerns and undisclosed industry involvement. The science is being corrected. The ecosystems and bodies exposed for 25 years are not. Retractions repair journals. They don’t repair time.
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92.7mm is pretty ludicrous for Dublin in February only 12 days in. From 1981-2010, February was the driest month of the year on average before March took that title for 1991-2020.
The wettest February on record (2020) had 130.4mm which is only 37.7mm wetter than 2026 currently.
Ronan McGreevy@RMcGreevy1301
We are not even half-way through the month and there's nearly twice the annual rainfall for February in Dublin already. Can't understand why there was no yellow weather warning yesterday for Dublin. It's been raining without stop for the last 36 hours.
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@CWeston_Indo Is the deposit return scheme adding to this with reduced materials for the waste companies to sell?
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Revealed: How much households face being hit with from new bin collection price hike independent.ie/business/money…
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