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straight · 06-09-2021 09:28AM

Could Guinness zero now for example be seen as a health drink. Is it only the alcohol that does the damage? I'm a Guinness drinker for 20 years but don't get the chance that much anymore. I'd like to go somewhere for a few zeros and drive home.

_Brian · 06-09-2021 09:58AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117852562#Comment_117852562

Health drink based on what 🤣🤣

straight · 06-09-2021 10:24AM

Guinness for strength and all that. High in iron I believe. Good to clean out the bowl. Surely as good as Monster or red bull anyway

_Brian · 06-09-2021 03:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117852816#Comment_117852816

Guinness isn’t high in iron, ironically a misplaced decimal point years ago built up that myth but the truth is it’s not high in iron at all.

As for comparing anything to monster or red bull, your setting the bar very low there, they are pure rubbish.

straight · 06-09-2021 03:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117854344#Comment_117854344

Guinness is good for you. We all know that. 😜

Lime Tree Farm · 06-09-2021 05:00PM

In olden days doctors advised stout and milk for some convalescents.

Lime Tree Farm · 06-09-2021 05:51PM

The Farmers' Country Showdown BBC2

Why have the Suffolk's on show been given a "Spray Tan"

06-09-2021 07:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117854554#Comment_117854554

Some lad on Twitter told Guinness their new "Nitrosurge" sounded like a fertiliser 😀 Of course I had to ask how many cans to an acre, for science like

Dinzee Conlee · 06-09-2021 07:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117854882#Comment_117854882

When we were small, if the grandfather was having a bottle of Guinness, we would get some mixed with milk. I loved it, thought I was hard out at the time. 😀 Nearly turns my stomach now the thought of it 😀

Lad told me once that when he was young and if any of them were sick, his mother would give them warm Guinness with sugar. He couldn’t touch at a pint of Guinness after it 😀

straight · 06-09-2021 07:13PM

When we bought calves years ago we used give them a bottle of stout back the throat. They loved it.

Say my name · 06-09-2021 07:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117855419#Comment_117855419

Man I know used to give his stallion stout. Not sure if it made any difference.

You'd probably be brought before the courts for animal abuse now for making a horse an alcoholic.

Say my name · 06-09-2021 08:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117854554#Comment_117854554

The Guinness family bankrolled hospitals in Dublin.

They were repayed by doctors advising their patients and pregnant women the black stuff.

Carries through to today with all our politicians wanting their photo taken with a pint. Even making it into the foodwise 2030 proposals of expanding the drinks sector.

If alcohol was only invented this year it wouldn't be allowed off the drawing board for health reasons. Same as a motorbike concept, etc, etc. But we're here where we're here. People looking back at the way things were fifty years ago think weren't they quare people then. Same in fifty years time from now.

Say my name · 06-09-2021 08:34PM

Coca Cola started out as Cocaine mixed with wine. Endorsed by the Pope as a tonic.

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/08/the-coca-wine-fad-a-brief-history/

StevenToast · 08-09-2021 07:58AM

Just looking for some expert opinion...i have about 20 acres excess grass that needs cutting......i have a man interested in coming in and baling it and taking it away himself.......what could/should i charge?

5-7 euro a bale or should i charge per acre...bearing in mind its 2nd cut silage and september? I dont want to take the p1ss....something reasonable but not too cheap either!

Thank you.

whelan2 · 08-09-2021 08:08AM

Did you put fertiliser out on it?

whelan2 · 08-09-2021 08:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117854344#Comment_117854344

How did your daughter get on in the cao offers?

StevenToast · 08-09-2021 08:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117861956#Comment_117861956

No...but it got slurry and fertilliser in april before first cut....

DBK1 · 08-09-2021 08:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117861912#Comment_117861912

You’re definitely not robbing him at €5-7 per bale. If anything it’d be the other way around. Second cut might only have about 7 bales/acre so you’d be giving him the grass for possibly as low as €35 per acre. If you fertilised it you’d hardly be covering the cost of the fert.

Around here it would be generally €10 per bale and I’d think that’s a fair enough price for it for both buyer and seller

Another option around here is giving it to a dairy man for zero grazing if it’s not too strong. They generally pay €40 per load.

_Brian · 08-09-2021 08:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117861958#Comment_117861958

Great thanks.

She got her first choice, she had plenty of points in excess, 150 over

Because of her points she gets an academic scholarship, €1000 and guaranteed access to on campus accommodation with single en-suite room, she’s over the moon about this

hard to see kids getting maximum 625 points and not getting their first choose.

_Brian · 08-09-2021 08:46AM

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/video-i-hate-seeing-it-going-to-waste-limerick-farmer-on-dumping-milk-in-slurry-tank/

strange case that

whelan2 · 08-09-2021 08:50AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117862084#Comment_117862084

He seems like a total clown

DBK1 · 08-09-2021 09:28AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117862102#Comment_117862102

Hard to feel sorry for someone as stupid as that alright.

On another note I think the council should have a procedure in place where they can fine people for not cutting their roadside ditches. The amount of roadside ditches that haven’t been cut in years around here is crazy and there’s a lot of roads where cars used to be able to meet without even slowing down and now one would have to pull into a gateway to let the other past.

Say my name · 08-09-2021 09:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117862102#Comment_117862102

Around here the council have the ditches side trimmed.

I'd be lukewarm on this.

He'll probably send the lost revenue bill to the council which he's entitled to do.

With all these rules and regs now people don't know which way to turn. A case in the county here where both contractor and farmer were fined for cutting a beech hedge on the road. Was always cut since squat in July August. Contractor fined 1800 I think and farmer 2000? If they'd have left the top of the hedge they'd be fine. But someone passing reported and..

Say my name · 08-09-2021 10:21AM

You can be fined for cutting a ditch.

But if your ditch grows out and blocks the road no fine. 😀

DBK1 · 08-09-2021 10:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117862439#Comment_117862439

The council just side trim the ditches at junctions and around the bends on any of the smaller roads around here. And even at that they only done a lot of them in the past few weeks which is really too late in the year from a safety point of view.

Also I don’t see why the council should have to pay to maintain someone else’s ditches? Fair enough doing the bends and junctions or trimming back something that a farmer had already done before the closed season. But if the landowners are leaving it to the council to do they’re work then there should be a way for the council to charge them for that.

It’s only through either laziness or greed that the landowners aren’t doing it.

Say my name · 08-09-2021 10:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117862536#Comment_117862536

Agree.

roosterman71 · 08-09-2021 10:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117862536#Comment_117862536

Disagree. It's only in the last few years (not sure when exactly) that the onus was moved from the council to the landowner to manage roadside ditches. My father spent many a year trimming hedges and verges for the council. It's a cop out for the council to move ownership. Why should it be the landowners responsibility to manage the road? You're not allowed fill potholes for safety reasons. You're not allowed straighten bends for safety reasons. You're not allowed open a gate even in a hedge! Why then is it the landowners responsibility to ensure the hedges are managed? If the road floods do you have to go out and fix it? Or do the council come along and just create a hole and let it flow off in the nearest field and screw you over? A few years ago in the heavy snow wasn't there a lot of talk of farmers being responsible if they damaged a road while clearing it.

Say my name · 08-09-2021 10:53AM

Section 70 of the Roads Act 1993 (hereafter “the 1993 act”), provides that the owner or occupier of any structure and land must take reasonable steps to ensure that any structure on the land is not a hazard, or a potential hazard, to persons using the public road.

The obligations of land owners and occupiers are laid out in the 1993 Act.

Under Section 70(2) of the 1993 act, the owner or occupier of land is obliged to take all reasonable steps to ensure that a tree, shrub, hedge or other vegetation on the land is not a hazard or potential hazard to persons using a public road, and that it does not obstruct or interfere with the safe use of a public road or the maintenance of a public road.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-30823478.html?type=amp

Section 81 of the 1993 act states a person guilty of an offence shall be liable on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding €1,238.70 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €12,386.97 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment, for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

roosterman71 · 08-09-2021 10:57AM

Exactly. Pure selective as hedge maintenance is a time consuming annual job. So throw the work somewhere else.

whelan2 · 08-09-2021 11:16AM

Milk tanker driver has often asked us to fill the potholes our lane, we do it. Why would the driver be expected to drive up a road that would damage his lorry?

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