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Gorse fires West Cork - What on earth??

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    #32
    pwurple
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    kingchess wrote: »
    I suppose it is the attitude that if you can burn up to March 1st then shure what harm if you burn 15 or 20 days later,and do those 20 days later have a much greater impact??

    March to september is nesting period.

    Also lots of animals are having their young around now (as any farmer wouod know). Higher chance of killing the young and the females.


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    #33
    sporina
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    kingchess wrote: »
    I suppose it is the attitude that if you can burn up to March 1st then shure what harm if you burn 15 or 20 days later,and do those 20 days later have a much greater impact??

    there is no sense to that "attitude".. more like.. "we don't care - we will what we need to and to hell with the eco system"..


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    #34
    whisky_galore
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    sporina wrote: »
    there is no sense to that "attitude".. more like.. "we don't care - we will what we need to and to hell with the eco system"..

    That local Gardai seemingly don't have a bull's notion of who is doing it just goes to show how far down the list of priorities it is.


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    #35
    .red.
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    This has started again.
    Some "spectacular" pics of gougane barra on Facebook and twitter.
    Hope nobody is hurt!


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    #36
    Milly33
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    Spotted it alright looks like it went well out of control... Seen a few images of animals that didnt survive such a shame


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    #37
    sporina
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    i read in the farmers journal that it was not started deliberately but it did start on a farmers land..
    poor animals.. some sheep have died


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    #38
    whisky_galore
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    sporina wrote: »
    i read in the farmers journal that it was not started deliberately but it did start on a farmers land..
    poor animals.. some sheep have died

    Not started deliberately? How do they know?


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    #39
    sporina
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Not started deliberately? How do they know?

    thats what the hotel owner said and the reporter from the farmers journal - i don't know


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    #40
    Milly33
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    thats what they always say.. i wish someone would just fess up..


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    #41
    marno21
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    Very good drone photo of the aftermath of the Gouganebarra fire on this company's Facebook page:

    https://www.facebook.com/MunsterDroneServices/


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    #42
    whisky_galore
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    sporina wrote: »
    thats what the hotel owner said and the reporter from the farmers journal - i don't know

    Two very unbiased sources no doubt.


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    #43
    sporina
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Two very unbiased sources no doubt.

    perhaps..

    more in sligo yesterday i heard on the news..


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    #44
    Jamiekelly
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    sporina wrote: »
    perhaps..

    more i sligo yesterday i heard on the news..

    Also one happening in the Curragh as we speak.


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    #45
    mcgiggles
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    Heard there was one in Wicklow too? One last weekend in Sligo and another the last few days. 4000 acres burned last weekend and about 1000 this week.. Driest weather we've had in ages. Not necessarily people starting them, could be as simple as sun shining through a broken bottle! Scary though!!


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    #46
    noddyone2
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    I drove from limerick to Portlaoise last week. Counted 8 fires just started on the mountains. All equally spaced bottles I suppose? If haybarns were burnt, it would be a different story. Hasn't Ms. Humphrys been very quiet about this. Prosecutions to follow, no doubt?


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    #47
    Chester Copperpot
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    The boardwalk on cuilcagh mountain is under threat as gorse fires out of control.


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    #48
    Milly33
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    A video from the Galway one, it must be huge...http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/watch-incredible-videos-show-extent-10391751

    I really hope this one was an accident and the area it covers is just crazy... We are in loughrea and the smoke reached us I thought it was fog coming in for the evening until we went out and smelt the smoke...


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    #49
    sporina
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    its terrible - i actually hope it rains so that they can be put out.. (and its foreign for me to wish for rain)

    no word about causes - but from what I have heard, they seem to be natural as oppose to man made...


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    #50
    Milly33
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    I heard the opposite up here on the radio they said they were set deliberately


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