If you see a job that needs doing..
Joanna donnelly was it. She was alway fun and quirky on it
SShe's 55 has 30 years done with met eireann. She used to be on another site I'm on and they dont speak too highly of her. Stepped on alot of toes
I’d have had her down as the worst presenter they had. She’s all the time fumbling through it and seems to get it hard to get through full sentences.
My Mother's brother passed away from cancer last night. Cancer sucks. You'd think by now there'd be a cure
I don’t think a cure is possible really. But average survival rates are increasing massively. Numbers seem very skewed because people are living longer and the longer we live the more likely developing it becomes.
When I was a kid the life expectancy for men in ireland was mid 60’s, it’s over 80 now. With so many more men living that much longer means more cancer cases.
I’d worry a lot about micro plastics. We’re ingesting oil based products and lots of other nasty chemicals at a rate previously unseen and there’s no real understanding how this will affect humans in the medium term.
I'd say the fact a tumour is symptom less and painless in the early stages before detection is the problem. If you're lucky enough it hasn't spread through the lymph nodes, the greater the chance of survival. Definitely more people are surviving it nowadays, with the exception of pancreatic which is the hardest one to detect..
That's gas, I'd be the opposite, I'd have as by far the best. I always felt I knew what the weather was going to be like after watching her forecast.
With more of them I'd feel wiser before than after.
I find TG4 weather better even though I cant understand a word of Irish
I don't have a focal either but I definitely do like watching the tg4 weather, LOL
Sorry for your loss
Use it to Keep my culpa focal refreshed and watch Mexican weather to learn un Poco Espanol. Doesn't seem like a chore like some online Spanish courses.
A few weeks ago some asked about BISS clinics. A link to Agriland showing the dates and venues for the clinics.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/watch-strong-demand-for-biss-farmer-clinic-in-kerry/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwY2xjawJ0QxRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHkOo6cr9uhjSP5I-t8mj_sqnzsZTEfsWphtl78LioYOkwYDvONa31XJCzbpx_aem_oRF17r3FyeOsW5EyXD8uXQ
OH goes private to a consultant in the Beacon twice a year for review and scans, it’s costly but what good money without your health.
@whelan2 deepest sympathy to you on the passing of your uncle. Yes cancer is hard to deal with and affects us all at some stage.. there is just so many different types. Thankfully they are getting more and better treatments all the time.
HHeard on the grapevine that she had significant health issues going back a good few years, was doing well to work at all
She has spoken previously about insomnia,asthma & a weak immune system previously.
How that's anybody else's business I don't know but sure there ya go
You'd know she was meteorologically trained and very competent in met eireann at what they do have to do and that's interpret the data and put it down in a written forecast. There was a certain geekiness off her. And her Dutch husband from the Dutch weather service I think was as similar.
She'd be more what the new found online weather twitchers would be looking to hear from.
So no more than the department telling farmers that they have to sow 3 different crops do you think that it should be dictated that certain crops cannot be sown in their own land if there's a stables within a few miles. It doesn't seem to bother coolmore, there probably one of the bigger oilseed growers in the country.
I've no opinion on it.
A horse trainer and a grower would. Each likely different. The way the world works.
On permissions though. If sowing forestry permission has to be granted. Then permission to thin, permission to harvest.
Every year autonomy is being taken away from the landowner.
On racing though. There's humans being sent to high altitude training camps to get an edge. In horses there's horses being sent to private facilities across the country and abroad to get an edge.
Saw a swallow today. That be early for these parts.
good few here the last week too, seems early alright, the f**king starlings have arrived too
I will say one thing though. If the pollen is as much as an issue as the trainer said it was. And he gave himself hell getting away from it training on the side of the road. Like he wasn't doing it for the craic to annoy some random agronomist. Then these new weather stations that measure particulate matter will show it. Iphone users had the whole of county wexford showing a smog because there's a station in enniscorthy linked to their weather service had a bad reading from coal burning. It's the only weather station in the county showing these <pm1, ,<pm2.5 readings. As the weather enthusiasts renew their stations these will be the one's they'll be getting and linked automatically to the online weather websites.
WWe tb tested mid march, neighbour tested last week and had 4 reactors. What's the story now? First tb in 25 years, he's our only bounding neighbour
Cant test you again within 4 months.
It depends on how bad tb is in your area. If it's not bad you shouldn't have to test. Or dept can tell you to test every 6 months maybe.
@whelan2 chances are if it's only 1 neighbour & this is their first case in 25 years then nothing will change for you. I had 4 reactors last October & my brother who is adjoining my home farm didn't have to test. I am / was on a 4 month testing programme due to an out farm I have & the guy who has an adjoining farm rented is a cull cow dealer so regularly restricted. He has now fenced that farm as he is trying to get feedlot status on it.
I think the Beacon is very good, I see they're doing Cardiac assessments now, you don't need an referral, you just phone for an appointment.
I've had symptoms that weren't symptomatic of heart problems yet it proved to be my heart, I had a blocked artery a month ago and needed a pacemaker two years ago. I know now to look for a stress test if I'm not feeling right
A few years ago a lad was servicing the scrapers on outfarm. He tripped and did his shoulder in. Needed an op, at the pre assessment they found he'd a blocked artery. He was very happy he fell as he could have died otherwise
IIt'll be all fun for you then if he gets it.
Gosh he was lucky
