Last night.
Dramatic scenes of a gorse fire which broke out at Killery, Ballintogher in County Sligo overnight.
No injuries have been reported.
Pics by Michael O’Donovan.
Thanks Annie
Meanwhile.
This morning…
Firefighters tackle gorse fire in Co Sligo (RTE)
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Probably some hill walkers or campers with a careless cigarette. Defiantly not some local farmer(s).
Didn’t you read the article? The fire just “broke out” ok?! Wildfires are just a factor of life in our temperate maritime climate. The arid, cork-dry landscapes in places such as Sligo and Kerry are like tinder just waiting to go up. It can’t be helped.
It seems around here that farmers are the only acceptable working class* to criticise and generalise
*who actually work
Trolololol
Farmers are stupid
you are
I know I’m stupid, but farmers ARE stupid.
*applause*
But a maritime climate doesn’t have long dry spells. Rain is dispersed throughout. Sligo and Kerry are more like a wrung-out sponge than a cork!
“broke out”
‘broke out’ of a can of kerosene and a packet of matches.
Beautiful images. Reminds me of ‘Apocalypse Now’
The Ukrainians are not going to like this!
Fingers crossed this news slips under their radar!
Who took the photos?
Michael ‘discreet watermark’ O’Donovan,
ha, good man Bodger :-)
its like sum’ting out’ve Vikings
gorgeous photos tho
There is no “gorse” in Sligo. It’s whins.
It’s a whin-whin for farmers and photographers.
ulex-pect a pat on the back for that one :)
Easy with the patting – I’m on fire.
You’re raging out of control – in a field of your own
really? you look like you’re furze-ing
…he shall not hear the bitern cry…nor the corncrake, cuckoo, curlew, groose, partridge…
Sadly fires like this are caused quite often in South Wales (U.K) by arsonists. They have no regard for the hundreds of animals and birds burned alive, and these fires usually happen during dry spells and school holidays. If this was caused by a farmer burning off gorse, shame on him for his wanton disregard of the consequences. Likewise if it was caused accidentally by hill walkers. What is very worrying is that it may have been caused by bored hooligans with nothing else to do but cause damage and destruction and terrible suffering to animals and their young.