It's a fcuking disgrace that disease was ever allowed into the country. If our inept dept of gobshites put half the effort into actually policing imported diseases as they do on TB (heading for 80 years on that and no further along) and missing ear tags we'd still have Elm trees and Ash.It’s a national scandal that ash dieback is in this country. Have hundreds of mature ash around the farm and they all have it. Where are the environmentalists around this issue!!
The poor mans coal they were known as. I certainly burnt enough Elm over the years and it was a fantastic timber for heat.I cut up many an elm tree and cut them into blocks rather than split them . You can cut them in any direction as there is virtually no grain and the chain will stay sharp and clean .
The poor mans coal they were known as. I certainly burnt enough Elm over the years and it was a fantastic timber for heat. Elm trees were wiped in a couple of years. Ash seems to have some resistance to it. But as you say it shows us how totally useless the dep are at controlling and doing little or nothing about these things.
Elm was wiped out in a very short time frame from what I can remember. I can remember one tree lasted for several years after all the rest had died but by the very early 90's it had succumbed to Dutch Elm disease. I'll always remember one little twig of a branch near the bottom of a fork in the tree with about a dozen leaves on it. That was the last Elm tree here. Ash is going the same way.
I doubt if it even would take 10 years, it's was only a young plantation that it was in first and it spread into the mature trees in the immediate vicinity were quickly and around the neighbouring townlands, but in saying that not every tree got infected .I'd love to know what the department could have done to stop ash dieback.
Importing saplings only gave it a very minor head start. It's an airborne fungus that had reached the south of England by air by the time we imported it.
Not importing it on saplings would maybe have gained us 10 years while it worked it's way across England and Wales
EU rule dictated that we should have free movement of goods; this Free market opened up the unrestricted importation of Plants and Animals and their associated disease.I'd love to know what the department could have done to stop ash dieback.
Importing saplings only gave it a very minor head start. It's an airborne fungus that had reached the south of England by air by the time we imported it.
EU rule dictated that we should have free movement of goods; this Free market opened up the unrestricted importation of Plants and Animals and their associated disease.
We are an island nation with limited, if any, exposure to many diseases of continental Europe before accession to the union.
This Free Market policy has made us vulnerable to many Diseases in the name of "Free Trade" with very little benefit to "Free trade" as economically, the Euro value of the trade advantage to our European cousins to be able to export live animals or plants to Ireland is negligible. whereas the downside of diseases, pests etc, is high.
It would also have been better (For Europe) from a "Food Security" and Environmental perspective if we had strict border controls; Ireland as an Island could act as a reservoir for food, etc, if there was a disease/ pest catastrophe in Europe.
In short, there was Siloed thinking on the issue, that is, thinking of the Free Market only as opposed to the greater good
Been passing them for a good while, first saw them in kilcornan, think they’re gone from there but seen a couple in Glin the last week or so, and passed one today on the road to mitchelstownI ve seen signs by the roadside lately in Co. Limerick with " Ash Scandal" and similar on them , anyone know about it?
Saw something similar between Limerick and Nenagh can't remember exactly whereI ve seen signs by the roadside lately in Co. Limerick with " Ash Scandal" and similar on them , anyone know about it?