Climate change protest

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.

The point that comes accross is that the truckers are not sure who they should protest against. High fuel prices are here to stay and the knock on effects. Government taxes on fuel are no worse than anywhere else in EU.

I was reading the feedback from the IFA's protest. They want the government ''to engage with them''. However they are not publicising what they are protesting against. On Sunday an artist trying to sell a few paintings for a 100-300 euro commented on hat he did not either but there was tractors there that were worth 500k, maybe an exaggeration. However you get the impression the IFA want to negotiate behind closed doors for a limited cohort if larger farmers.

With this trucker group you get a he impression they just do not understand that only as services are reduced will prices increase. However I expect that there is a cohort of truckers that have over borrowed.

The price of food has to go up , by how much is the question . Why aren’t those looking for climate change mitigation measures being asked how much extra they are prepared to pay for a basket of Agri produce ? They won’t be asked on RTE that is for sure. They have all the answers as to how much the herd should be reduced by but never mention the inevitable additional cost to the consumer .

Interestingly it is is being talked about in other countries . I see a former head of Danone predicting that both energy and food costs will rise significantly .