What if all technology was wiped out?

Form Gangs. Round up the women. Kill the rival men and eat them.

Millions, maybe billions would die.

Food production come to a complete halt.

Ireland would be in a relatively good position we are self sufficient in food, defensible position and a decent supply of turf.

Power for spuds and cabbage? Most of our meat is grass fed. Their will be an initial reduction in output as we move away from artificial fertiliser and go back to smaller scale farms.

What?

you’d still be able to go for a walk, go for a pint, cut the grass, have a barbecue, play poker, walk the dog, etc. etc.

Doubt the pints would be a goer, how do you brew beer ? Keg it, Transport it… ?

There will be a mad dash to buy horses.

We don't have the methods of distribution for food and heat they had back in the day. How would you feed and heat a million folk around Dublin for example?

I'm sure there would be plenty of survivors,but it would make the famine look like a picnic.

Dunno about that. But that is probably because the vast majority of every hobby or enjoyment I have in life - is unconnected to technology.

And actually some of the things I like to do might translate well if technology died - like hobby farming, keeping live stock, hunting, horse riding, bow and arrow work, martial arts, gun training and combat weapon training.

And failing all that I am also relatively good at running :)

I do very much love to cook however and a lot of aspects of that require good equipment and power. I could still do it without technology of course. But it would be very much curtailed.

Eeeeek. Often wondered how anyone could live with family like that :)

Some of us survived war and famine, but this scenario would cause unprecedented war, famine and drought. The world population 100 years ago was 1 billion. We'd be back to that in a short space of time.

There's hardly a single person in the country who could farm without modern machinery and an easy source of seed and fertiliser. Your willing pool of tech nerd labour would be ploughing fields with their hands.

Nature will always fill the void, somehow it'll do what needs done progressively over time in increments possibly meaning the mass extinction of humanity. There is footage of a tribe in the Amazon who had zero contact with the outside world, when anthropologists arrived their tribal leader stayed hidden and shouted. Their translator spoke a similar dialect and said best we do what they say and what was that? go back or we'll kill you. Feasible we'll go feral and wipe each other out.

If a solar storm wipes out all electronics that is sensitive to it, it will take couple of days to restore power using backup diesel generators to few critical places, like selected hospitals. Almost all comms equipment used for internet/mobile comms will be unrepairable. Modern cars won't even start. It will take months to restore power generation and transmission in a country that is prepared for an EMP event (like the USA), it can take years in Ireland. In a few weeks, it can be possible to hack some trucks and cars to work. Old tractors should be able to work without problems.

There is enough land in Ireland to grow potatoes and other foods to feed everyone even if it means manual planting and harvesting for a couple of years, but people will need to disperse from Dublin into the countryside.