Climate change protest

Everything is going up as far as I can see most things you can buy have nearly gone up by 25% minimum

I am in full agreement. But there’s nothing cute looking about re coupling payments to production and demanding no cuts to beef production!

Theres a direct correlation between farmgate income and handy scheme money, and there’s a direct correlation between Irish beef price and supply of Irish beef no matter where this meat is being exported.

No cute fellow would have anything to do with this protest.

Fuel prices..

Just mentioned earlier about a specific rise in rates in our case, and I know from contacts that this is beginning to manifest elsewhere. Drivers are now very scarce , and mechanics almost impoßible to find. Trucks are parked up, and maybe its just their lack of availability rather than their negotiation prowess has the rates moving upwards.

Your not wrong there food prices will have to take a massive hike in price I see things are slowing Milk wise in the states already as the feed price rises bites

Who's concern is that it is high time food took its proper place as a large chunk of people's income

Add childcare, mortgage, cost of keeping a car it’s not going to end well

Add in what ever you like. I stand by my view that food needs to be far more expensive than it is at present ......it's not going to end well but like always it's expected that food Will be cheap or cheaper even. God farmers really have been conditioned to be downtrodden. Everyone else is getting a price rise across the country but farmers themselves don't want food to be too expensive 🙄🙄🙄

We don’t build houses anymore, we build Mansions requiring two incomes to service a mortgage, requiring payment to someone else to rear the kids, requiring a suitably year of registration car to “keep up” with our social peers.

A friend of mine inherited a place from an aunt some years back complete with a 70’s concrete 3 bedroom prefab bungalow (800 square feet?). She had had new windows and doors fitted and this was the deciding factor in not knocking it and he moved into it, redecorating, knocking a wall between tiny kitchen into living room, fitting a stove, new presses, some insulation overhead, tiling, flooring all well under 20k.

Himself, wife married and moved in, 2 kids close to half reared in the stop gap now. One income (hers) and the farm just tipping along (his) allows him to mind kids. And they have a very nice lifestyle. He will now never build a new one. And 12 15 years time when the kids fly on to wherever he has no empty house to maintain for no particular reason.

Im guilty of the Celtic tiger influenced 2 storey and I think we have lost sense and reason.

I was guilty of the celtic tiger two storey as well. Have it paid for though this 3 years so it's not hurting me financially.

The other side of that is my jeep is 16 and the minister of the interiors car is 14. I work short hours off farm with kids in primary and secondary school. Wife works in the local town so she does the secondary school drop and I do primary drop and collections. Secondary school students do after school study which finishes 15 minutes after the wife's work so collection is sorted there.

We have no mortgage, no childcare and no car loans. I still have no money though 😡😤🙄 however I manage that!!!!! If I could shed the farm debt on land I bought in 2011 and the dairy start up I would be fine.

Must remember that one

On houses it's was worse over the last few years when building prices were cheap. There has been a bit of a planning application blitz locally over the last 12 months. I saw some of the plans and I think some of the houses will never get build 3k+ sq feet. That with present build regs will put some of them houses toward above 400k in present building costs and that is a builders finish.

Build what was a decent sized house in the early 90. 1800sqft. it cost 48k pounds with everything in it inc fitted kitchen, oil range and stove in the sitting room when most lads were still putting open fires. It was insulated to a very high standard at the time. Insulation standards did not reach what I put in until the end of the noughties

No Site was not included.

From the Facebook page. If that’s the hard shoulder they are blocking they need to cop on.