Smoldering bushes at Monasterevin exit on M7

adser53

Tell me I'm not the only one that's seen this. 2 big bushes on the left hand side in the field before the monasterevin exit on the motorway (heading towards Laois) There's been smoke comining out of the centre of them every day for weeks now. It couldnt be simple fires as they'd be burnt away by now or at least put out with the rain.
Is it a sign? Is there a group of hobos living in them? Is it the secret underground lair of Brian Cowen as he plots the ruin of our country? God damn it I wanna know!

MickShamrock

Your name isn't Moses by any chance?

ILA

Video or GTFO!

adser53

ILA wrote: »

Video or GTFO!

Im gonna stop on the way home and get a video! Knowing my luck it'll be gone by then!

adser53

Ok here's a video of it ILA. I just uploaded it now so it's not viewable yet (still has to be processed or something)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnerxGzPP00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnerxGzPP00

And in the mean time here's a pic...



I didn't see anything holy about it but at least here's proof I didn't imagine it

irelandspurs

Its how the farmer gets rid of the bushes,happens all the time on the curragh they slowly burn from the inside out,not sure why they do it this way but thats what it is.

ILA

adser53 wrote: »

Ok here's a video of it ILA. I just uploaded it now so it's not viewable yet (still has to be processed or something)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnerxGzPP00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnerxGzPP00

And in the mean time here's a pic...



I didn't see anything holy about it but at least here's proof I didn't imagine it

And this has been happening for three days?! That's the type of thing that could turn Monsterevin into another Knock, you'd better keep it "hush hush"!

adser53

No not 3 days! At least 2 or 3 weeks in the same 2 bushes!
Spurs I've seen that done before too but not like this. The same 2 bushes, in a field full of bushes for that length of time? The end is nigh! Repent lest ye be damned!

ILA

adser53 wrote: »

No not 3 days! At least 2 or 3 weeks in the same 2 bushes!
Spurs I've seen that done before too but not like this. The same 2 bushes, in a field full of bushes for that length of time? The end is nigh! Repent lest ye be damned!

Holy be to God. That sounds like a quare sight, I think you should contact the press about this.

MickShamrock

ILA wrote: »

Holy be to God. That sounds like a quare sight, I think you should contact the press about this.

Sounds like someone was exposed to too much Glenroe as a child.

adser53

Ah tis a quare sight indeed. Holy god sure arent we all flootered. And all we can take with us is the hair on your arse...and so forth

Bodhan

happens out there a lot, it's the ground under the bushes that's burning, it's very common around Kildare as most of it is peat.
It can actually smolder away for years underground, tis weird but true.

irelandspurs

Maybe its sheep smoking spliffs.

MickShamrock

irelandspurs wrote: »

Maybe its sheep smoking spliffs.

Don't be silly! Sheep are highly flammable! :pac:

Augmerson

OP, hop out of the car next time and get close.

adser53

Ooo I dunno, it was weird enough stopping off a motorway to photograph a smoking bush. Getting out for a closer look is a bit on the mad side BUT.... she's still burnin! Just passed it there and said a few hail mary's

harr

its true,there has been white smoke comeing from the same two bushes for the last few weeks.is this the site for the new garage or is it up the slip road anybody know?

adser53

I did'nt even know they were putting in a garage! I hope its a big motherf****er like the ones on the M1 and such. And thanks for backing up my claims harr, at least I know I'm not the only one noticing it

harr

adser53 wrote: »

I did'nt even know they were putting in a garage! I hope its a big motherf****er like the ones on the M1 and such. And thanks for backing up my claims harr, at least I know I'm not the only one noticing it

i think it is going to be a big one allright,if you go up the slip road for monasterevan and take a left at first roundabout its in there.i was up haveing a nose this morning it looks like a very big sight.the bushs are still on fire by the way and its pissing rain.may get on to joe duffy or someone about the magic bush

Doogieboogie

Jaysus, I must be on the dumb side.. I drive past there every day and have never noticed it... I'll be keeping an eye out!!
As Bodhan says, it's probably the peat that's burning.

harr

Doogieboogie wrote: »

Jaysus, I must be on the dumb side.. I drive past there every day and have never noticed it... I'll be keeping an eye out!!
As Bodhan says, it's probably the peat that's burning.

no your not going blind you cant see it from motorway its kind of hidden up around the corner on the slip road,they were not allowed build it on the motorway.

zuroph

You stopped on a motorway just to take a video and some photos of smoke???

Jesus H Christ, this country.

adser53

zuroph wrote: »

You stopped on a motorway just to take a video and some photos of smoke???

Jesus H Christ, this country.

Yes, yes i did. I stopped in the fast lane and caused a massive pile up just to take a photo
If sarcasm is beyond you I actually obviously pulled off the motorway, im not that stupid.
Edited to add that I mistakingly said in my earlier post, by way of a typo, that
I stopped ON the motorway but I thought common sense wouldnt make the need for a correction necessary. I guess I was wrong

zuroph

adser53 wrote: »

Yes, yes i did. I stopped in the fast lane and caused a massive pile up just to take a photo
If sarcasm is beyond you I actually obviously pulled off the motorway, im not that stupid.
Edited to add that I mistakingly said in my earlier post, by way of a typo, that
I stopped ON the motorway but I thought common sense wouldnt make the need for a correction necessary. I guess I was wrong

um
1) You SAID you stopped on a motorway.
2) I can SEE the motorway in your wing mirror in that photo. You're in the hard shoulder. You're not meant to stop there.

Squeaksoutloud

Ha ha I noticed these bushes smouldering last Saturday evening while driving down the motorway. Prob all the dry weather we've been having as Dublin Mountains had some going on aswell or maybe it is something more exciting..and yeah it is illegal and dangerous to park on the hard shoulder of a motorway but this is Ireland and no one seems to give a crap about it.

adser53

Right well I'll hold my hand up and plead guilty for pulling off on the hard shoulder for for 30 seconds. My bad, my insatiable curiousity led to a momentary lapse in judgement.
Rest assured that I'll present myself to the gardaí when i get home tonight
Now that my haenous crime has been addressed, anyone have any ideas what wouldve caused the peat beneath to burn to begin with? Surely if the farmer had lit this to get rid of the bushes, he wouldve been back with a can of petrol to finish the job?

MickShamrock

adser53 wrote: »

Right well I'll hold my hand up and plead guilty for pulling off on the hard shoulder for for 30 seconds. My bad, my insatiable curiousity led to a momentary lapse in judgement.
Rest assured that I'll present myself to the gardaí when i get home tonight

That's a minimum of 6 months in prison! Off to Portlaoise prison with you so. You'll probably be put in a wing with other serious offenders to society like jaywalkers!

adser53

Jaysus not the jaywalkers! I'll have to ally myself with the tv licence dodgers if I'm to have any chance of survival!

ILA

Just heard a car skidded off the motorway on the Southbound carriageway just after the exit for Monsterevin this evening. Ambulance and three units of the Fire Brigade were at the scene, hope they didn't put out the fire.

Could it be related? :eek:

adser53

it could be! maybe its like the sirens luring ships onto the rocks? its distracting drivers, pulling them off the road!

JupiterKid

It is illegal to stop on a motorway unless your car has broken down. It is very, very dangerous, no matter what has piqued your curiousity.

I could hear the traffic scream past you at 120 km/hour.:eek:

The burning bush does look odd alright. But the land on which it's in looks like a little bog to me and perhaps it's a smouldering turf fire of some sort?

Le_Dieux

JupiterKid wrote: »

It is illegal to stop on a motorway unless your car has broken down. It is very, very dangerous, no matter what has piqued your curiousity.

I could hear the traffic scream past you at 120 km/hour.:eek:

The burning bush does look odd alright. But the land on which it's in looks like a little bog to me and perhaps it's a smouldering turf fire of some sort?

Agreed JK. But sadly, some of the drivers are really brainless when it comes to driving on M-Ways here. This morning, I went to the airport & the number of drivers driving in either the middle or outside lane was crazy.

But then I wonder just where we are going. This past week, I was in Dublin up near a hospital and saw the clampers clamping a 4x4 because it's parking ticket had expired. Fair enough I thought. They then checked a car 2 parking bays behind, and walked away. BUT this car behind the 4x4 was actually parked too far forward and had its nose in the bay between it & the 4x4. But the clampers walked away. For me, the car deserved to be clamped more than the 4x4.

ILA

Le_Dieux wrote: »

Agreed JK. But sadly, some of the drivers are really brainless when it comes to driving on M-Ways here. This morning, I went to the airport & the number of drivers driving in either the middle or outside lane was crazy.

But then I wonder just where we are going. This past week, I was in Dublin up near a hospital and saw the clampers clamping a 4x4 because it's parking ticket had expired. Fair enough I thought. They then checked a car 2 parking bays behind, and walked away. BUT this car behind the 4x4 was actually parked too far forward and had its nose in the bay between it & the 4x4. But the clampers walked away. For me, the car deserved to be clamped more than the 4x4.

What the hell is up with you people and your desire for a nanny state? This is Ireland ffs, we make rules just to be like the Brits but we're not supposed to obey or enforce them :pac:

I've never saw you post on this local forum before, do ye just do a search for "stopped on motorway", etc. and then come on and spout your little anecdotes that have nothing to do with this area or topic?

MickShamrock

Yeah, seriously people. Pull the stick out. You'll feel a whole lot better.

Le_Dieux

ILA wrote: »

What the hell is up with you people and your desire for a nanny state? This is Ireland ffs, we make rules just to be like the Brits but we're not supposed to obey or enforce them :pac:

I've never saw you post on this local forum before, do ye just do a search for "stopped on motorway", etc. and then come on and spout your little anecdotes that have nothing to do with this area or topic?

You are right, it's my first post on the Laois Forum. FYI, I opened www.boards.ie and for the midlands there was this thread. I didn't know one has to be from Laois to make a comment here. All I am saying is that people must respect the laws of the road, as I mentioned earlier.

I guess from now on only people from Tipperary can make a comment on a certain pub in Birdhill??

MickShamrock

Le_Dieux wrote: »

I guess from now on only people from Tipperary can make a comment on a certain pub in Birdhill??

What the fúck, has anything got to do with Birdhill? What the fúck are you talking about?

ILA

Le_Dieux wrote: »

You are right, it's my first post on the Laois Forum. FYI, I opened www.boards.ie and for the midlands there was this thread. I didn't know one has to be from Laois to make a comment here. All I am saying is that people must respect the laws of the road, as I mentioned earlier.

I guess from now on only people from Tipperary can make a comment on a certain pub in Birdhill??

This is the Laois forum, not Motoring. For the Motoring forum (which relates to cars, roads, and your favourite road safety), click here. Just look at the derailment you've caused on this thread!

What the hell has Tipperary or a pub in Birdhill got to do with Laois or a burning bush near Monsterevin?! Keep digging , keep digging!

irelandspurs

ILA wrote: »

Just heard a car skidded off the motorway on the Southbound carriageway just after the exit for Monsterevin this evening. Ambulance and three units of the Fire Brigade were at the scene, hope they didn't put out the fire.

Could it be related? :eek:

They were swerving to avoid hitting adser parked up in outside lane,worshipping the bush.:D

adser53

irelandspurs wrote: »

They were swerving to avoid hitting adser parked up in outside lane,worshipping the bush.:D

I'll be holding a service there at 12pm today, parking us free but I expect their to be some protests from the safety brigade

As for all the Gay Byrnes that have never posted in this section before but felt the need to come on and spout about road safety, I recommend you get off your high horse of unrelatedness and give yourselves over to the way of the burning bush.Maybe the stick that's up your hole might smolder away and give you a new outlook on things

Crann na Beatha

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ILA

Obaraten wrote: »

Ok lads enough with the bickering or ill close the thread,this is the first and only warning

Sorry but some people just get me :rolleyes:

Oh and What about them off-topic posts? :P

Ivan

ILA wrote: »

Sorry but some people just get me :rolleyes:

Oh and What about them off-topic posts? :P

ILA: Please don't discuss moderating on-thread, if some people "just get you :rolleyes:" then please use the report post feature. Likewise if you have complaints or concerns regarding off-topic posts.

Though how exactly you quantify an off-topic post with regards to a thread like this is something I'd love for you to explain to me, through PMs of course.

Bodhan

StAying on topic, I passed the hallowed burning bushes yesterday, it was raining and lovely plumes of smoke were rising up from the bushes!
Should we call:
1 the fire brigade
2 An RTE reporter
3 a Priest
4 go out there and deal with what ever comes at us?

harr

Bodhan wrote: »

StAying on topic, I passed the hallowed burning bushes yesterday, it was raining and lovely plumes of smoke were rising up from the bushes!
Should we call:
1 the fire brigade
2 An RTE reporter
3 a Priest
4 go out there and deal with what ever comes at us?

i would say no 3 and no 4 and maybe it would no harm in letting joe duffy know:)

ROS123

speaking of off topic, I have seen, said burning bush in Monasterevin, Co Kildare.

ILA

I favour the Joe Duffy option. You'd be bound to get to the bottom of it on his show and get attention. I think we should have a poll of who is in favour of contacting the show, since it's Adser's find I think he should have an input and be the caller.

adser53

Ah lads between this and the holy stones on the mountmellick off ramp I havnt got a minute to be ringing Joe "the ignorant $hite" Duffy! Someone has to pass the collection baskets around
I reckon we head up there on Sunday night (it is halloween afterall) with a few cans of petrol and a few tins and have us a good old fashioned bonfire and put the flames to rest.
Failing that, I'm with Bodhan on options 3 and 4.
She's still burnin strong though!
May I propose we call it "Saint Adser's Fire" from now on? Or else Adser's Smoky Bush Bonanza? Ye have to drag in the tourists with a catchy name

harr

adser53 wrote: »

Ah lads between this and the holy stones on the mountmellick off ramp I havnt got a minute to be ringing Joe "the ignorant $hite" Duffy! Someone has to pass the collection baskets around
I reckon we head up there on Sunday night (it is halloween afterall) with a few cans of petrol and a few tins and have us a good old fashioned bonfire and put the flames to rest.
Failing that, I'm with Bodhan on options 3 and 4.
She's still burnin strong though!
May I propose we call it "Saint Adser's Fire" from now on? Or else Adser's Smoky Bush Bonanza? Ye have to drag in the tourists with a catchy name

nacker drinking at saint Adsers fire on sunday night, nice one.now what do ye think would be a fair cover charge?

adser53

well considering parking is free along the hard shoulder (oooooh, snap!) I don't think a fiver a head would ne too much
can you supply some beats harr?you don't mind being the DJ do ya? you'll have to throw in a few hymn remixes in there so suit some of my more senior "church of the bush" members though a bit of Ave Maria sexed up by David Guetta and Akon should suffice

harr

adser53 wrote: »

well considering parking is free along the hard shoulder (oooooh, snap!) I don't think a fiver a head would ne too much
can you supply some beats harr?you don't mind being the DJ do ya? you'll have to throw in a few hymn remixes in there so suit some of my more senior "church of the bush" members though a bit of Ave Maria sexed up by David Guetta and Akon should suffice

right so,i will mix up sounds later and i will head down and set up the stage this eveing we are also going to need some porta loos and i was thinking of geting some t-shirts printed up with some photos of the bush on them i would say they would sell well.will someone give that crowd from nationwide a ring they love this sort of thing and while you are at it you could ring that other lad of the telly as well paddy o gorman:D.we could make a nice few quid if we play this right...

irelandspurs

can we sacrafice a sheep