Gardaí and Emergency services with heavy lifting equipment are currently at the scene of an overturned truck on the N4 Westbound at the Dodsboro exit. Three lanes Westbound and two lanes Eastbound are blocked. Motorists should expect long delays in both directions. pic.twitter.com/YIS1394Ml0
— An Garda Síochána (@GardaTraffic) February 28, 2022
Oh.
This morning.
This afternoon.
R736, County Wexford
Barry writes:
They left a ‘shed load’ of room to pass…It’s the last ‘straw’ for this farmer …time to ‘bale’ out!
It’s not a pun harvest unless you insist.
Yesterday evening.
Lusk, Fingal, County Dublin
Firefighters from Swords and Skerries stations at a baler and field fire.
This afternoon.
Naas, County Kildare
Parched land is stunting the growth of cereal crops, say farmers, affecting the yield and in some cases making it only suitable for horse feed. Meanwhile, hay and straw prices have almost doubled.
Can I go up on top, Daddy?
No.
Straw prices almost double as stud farms muscle in on supplies (Independent
Oh.
This morning.
A hay truck sheds its load in Ardee, County Louth bending a telegraph pole, destroying the door of a boozer and possibly damaging Ardee’s chances at next year’s Tidy Towns.
More as we get it.
Ardee, Hay! Early morning chaos on Bridge Street (ThisIsArdee.ie)
Pics Aidan Crawley
Yesterday
Tom ‘Dylan’ Dillon’s farm in Kells, Co Meath, home of Alright Pumpkin!, Halloween fruit and vegetable store.
The Dealer writes:
To celebrate the wedding of Dave and Cathy O’Brien from Mayo, some of their friends designed this fantastic bale structure outside the church in Kilmaine, Mayo.
Dearly bale-loved, we are gathered here today… (Irish Farmers Journal)
Thanks Maura Fay
‘sup?
Phoenix Park, Dublin this morning.
Sam writes:
“Fallow deer graze as the long grass which has been cut and bailed near the Papal Cross. Since the 1970s with the removal of hay these grasslands has been improving. Extensive open areas of grassland such as the ‘Fifteen Acres ‘ provide nesting sites for skylark. Grasslands which are remote from the main thoroughfares, are not cut and thus provide food and shelter for invertebrates and cover for small animals….”
Mmf.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
This lunchtime.
Roisin Delaney tweetz:
“Unloading of the hay at today’s farmers protest at the Dept of Agriculture [Dublin]…
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
