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Status Yellow Famine Warning

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  • 03-06-2018 1:53am
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    Olsky
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    Met Eireann have issued a Status Yellow Potato Blight warning.

    https://www.met.ie/warnings

    WARNINGS

    Status Yellow - Blight Warning
    Weather conditions conducive to the spread of Potato Blight are likely to occur in coastal areas.

    Issued: Friday 01 June 2018 05:00


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    McDermotX
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    It's back.


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    #3
    One eyed Jack
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    Ahh be grand, we can just have chips instead.


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    #4
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Dythane 945 FTW...

    Copper sulphate if all else fails and read the bloody poem next time.......:D


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    Noveight
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    Olsky wrote: »
    Status Yellow - Blight Warning
    Weather conditions conducive to the spread of Potato Blight are likely to occur in coastal areas.

    Everyone will be flocking to Athlone to steal their spuds and women.


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    Poor Uncle Tom
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    Noveight wrote: »
    Everyone will be flocking to Athlone to steal their spuds and women.

    A gross of each costs the same or so I'm told.......:p


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    #7
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    Fine Gael to release a statement saying how great it is that we are moving on to rice


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    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Have you recently signed up to met eireann alerts OP? This is a fairly regular occurrence. We don't need to worry about getting to the coffin ships unless it's status red.


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    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    First the Visa cards now the potatoes!!


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    Poor Uncle Tom
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    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    First the Visa cards now the potatoes!!

    First the bread now the spuds, it's the starch monsters we were warned about, run for your lives...............


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    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Far far from a laughing matter if it really hit... shudders.

    Instead we have forage famines and the farmers can help each other out.

    I was reading the history of this island and during the Famine it escaped and grew enough potatoes and wheat to feed hundreds over on the mainland.


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    Herpes Free Since03
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭Herpes Free Since03


    As long as we don't get a halloumi fries famine we'll be grand!


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    M5
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    How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
    None


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    Mickeroo
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    Blight warnings happen practically a few times every year.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Once it's warm, with any chance of higher moisture, there is a blight warning issued so growers can spray accordingly. It happens several times every year. Nothing unusual and certainly not a potential crop failure.


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    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    At least the Brits aren't still here to steal the rest of our food.


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    Mr. CooL ICE
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    That's it; I'm moving to Boston.


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    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    dan1895 wrote: »
    At least the Brits aren't still here to steal the rest of our food.

    Oh yes we are ;) Here but not to steal.. You can share my spuds....and peas.. and cabbage..


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    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Take away the yellow warnings.
    Just surprise us.


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    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Blight be blowed. They need to issue a MIDGE WARNING. It is RED ALERT over here today... STAY INDOORS... Take cover..


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    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Aw shure isnt everyone eating pasta these days.


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    #22
    Berserker
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    dan1895 wrote: »
    At least the Brits aren't still here to steal the rest of our food.

    Oh yes we are! You'll be fine this time round though. You'll get by on quinoa and buckwheat. You are welcome to that stuff.


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    #23
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,861 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Trevelyn's corn could be robbed again, another few verses added onto the fields


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    #24
    Richard Hillman
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    Anyone know how to make Nettle Soup?


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Anyone know how to make Nettle Soup?

    Easy. But it tastes vile.


    We can lose the potato crop without fear of hunger. The consumption of Irish grown potatoes here had plummeted in the past 15 years. Rice, pasta and imported spuds are now the order of the day.

    Harvested my first early spuds today - delicious.


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    #26
    Graces7
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Anyone know how to make Nettle Soup?

    https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/health/nettle-soup-29332313.html

    NB of course wear gloves when picking them..


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    endacl
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    I was reading the history of this island and during the Famine it escaped and grew enough potatoes and wheat to feed hundreds over on the mainland.
    On the whatnow?


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    #28
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    McDermotX wrote: »
    It's back.
    ... and this time, it's personal...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,129 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    endacl wrote: »
    On the whatnow?

    Continental Europe.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #30
    Herpes Free Since03
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭Herpes Free Since03


    endacl wrote: »
    On the whatnow?

    She lives on an island off Galway


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    #31
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Hope people would enjoy a 2 in 1 then.


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