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So how do people feel about this? - johnny and the greens launch an another attack on rural life? or must we protect the wildlife and frogs so we can go on walking tours in the bog? yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11747 - 03/07/2010 13:19:34 694937 Link 0 |
tyroneled (Tyrone) - Posts: 69 - 03/07/2010 13:54:50 694964 Link 0 |
I'd like to hear some views of other 'rural folk' on the Green's proposals. No one cuts turf anymore, and no one goes stag hunting. Seem to be common sense proposals affecting very few people who have many other valid alternatives. Benandonner (Antrim) - Posts: 459 - 03/07/2010 14:07:37 694970 Link 0 |
Benandonner. To say that noone cuts turf any more is a ludicrous statement. I live in rural Mayo and nearly everyone I know that are natives of the area own a bog and cut turf annually. maigh_eo (Mayo) - Posts: 1346 - 03/07/2010 14:35:27 694993 Link 0 |
In Rural parts of Ireland it is a way of life for some people madasbutter (Mayo) - Posts: 872 - 03/07/2010 15:13:06 695025 Link 0 |
There is only one reason why the bogs are being banned and it has nothing to do with preserving wildlife. The only reason the government are banning them is because turf from the bogs can't be taxed simple as. Bord na Mona have done a million times more damage then normal people cutting a lod of turf. patmcgee (Longford) - Posts: 520 - 03/07/2010 15:58:49 695040 Link 0 |
patmcgee hornytoad (Cavan) - Posts: 141 - 03/07/2010 18:07:23 695116 Link 0 |
cutting turf is has been a tradational way of life in ireland for generations. ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 03/07/2010 19:04:18 695142 Link 0 |
madasbutters. ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 03/07/2010 19:12:03 695149 Link 0 |
It's a similar circumstance for Fishermen.. It's a way of life, many have been doing it in the same family for generations... But jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 03/07/2010 20:13:52 695211 Link 0 |
what happens when we have stripped the bogs bear, what then? brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 03/07/2010 20:39:25 695254 Link 0 |
brendtherehand. ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 03/07/2010 20:52:29 695271 Link 0 |
brendtheredhand jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 03/07/2010 20:54:00 695272 Link 0 |
jimbodub. ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 03/07/2010 21:09:31 695304 Link 0 |
God Donegal will never be the same again, Ah that smell of turf as you walk down the road mmm would take the heart from you! Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 05/07/2010 13:58:32 696679 Link 0 |
Lots of people still cut turf. Its alot of peoples main sourse of income. i no from when i used to cut for a man that the money he got from cutting was what got him through the year. Also its the cheapest form of fuel to heat ur house and at a time like this its not fair to take that away dizzydub (Dublin) - Posts: 339 - 05/07/2010 14:08:35 696706 Link 0 |
dizzydub brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 05/07/2010 14:44:40 696785 Link 0 |
The Greens think the countryside is just somewhere they can drive through at the weekends without having to be inconvenienced by the sight of houses - other than quaint run down ones of course - and cars, and people working on farms and god forbid maybe even enjoying themselves. A bit like the way the Relics of Aul Dacency used to view the peasantry as a bit of an inconvenience other than when they paid their rent. The countryside is for eco tourists, hares, rare species of snail and dragon flies. hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 05/07/2010 14:54:33 696805 Link 0 |
jimbodub hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 05/07/2010 15:04:49 696832 Link 0 |
hurlingdub - dont forget our sugar beat industry has also been wiped out. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11747 - 05/07/2010 15:19:28 696862 Link 0 |