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Smell of Manure Spreading

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  • 14-09-2015 9:48pm
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    themissymoo
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭


    There's a smell of manure travelling through Dublin. Noticed it in Artane and just off the Malahide Road down near Belmayne, and someone else told me it was on the N32. Anybody know what's going on?


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    neris
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    slurry spreading season probably, theres still alot of used farm land around Belmayne, Clongriffen, Portmarnock & kinsealy thats used to grow veg on


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    marketty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭marketty


    Dáil back in session?


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    Dizzyblonde
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    Moved from Dublin County North because the areas referred to in the OP are in the City.


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    uck51js9zml2yt
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    I love that smell when I'm outside city limits this time of year :)


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    Penny Tration
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    Yeah, it's around Coolock too. Very odd.


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    WearstheFoxhat
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    Chuckled at this, it's the start of the process of how your food ends up on the table


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    Penny Tration
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    WearstheFoxhat wrote: »
    Chuckled at this, it's the start of the process of how your food ends up on the table

    Yeah, I think we're all aware of how food ends up on our table.


    What we're not aware of is any farm in the middle of an urban area like Artane.


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    scrimshanker
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    Baldoyle Industrial Estate has a right stink of it today...


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    Suzyq
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    Gas, there I was checking my shoes to see if I'd walked in dog poo at the bus stop (Clarehall) this morning. Now it makes sense!


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    whiskeyman
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    surely it couldn't be manure?
    Is it the wind blowing from a treatment plant or are the sewers in the area experiencing problems?


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    themissymoo
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭themissymoo


    Suzyq wrote: »
    Gas, there I was checking my shoes to see if I'd walked in dog poo at the bus stop (Clarehall) this morning. Now it makes sense!

    I did the exact same thing!
    whiskeyman wrote: »
    surely it couldn't be manure?
    Is it the wind blowing from a treatment plant or are the sewers in the area experiencing problems?

    The sewers having a problem would make sense, as it's spread across such a huge distance. :/


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    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,995 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    themissymoo wrote: »
    I did the exact same thing!



    The sewers having a problem would make sense, as it's spread across such a huge distance. :/

    Yep, easterly breeze means it's coming from our stink in Ringsend and shangallagh.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



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    Lux23
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    It's awful, on the bus now and it's turning my stomach.


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    Dyr
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    At this time of year its usually caused by culchies going into their 1st year of college, takes a while for the bang to wear off them


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    Birneybau
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    Could have sworn I smelled it in the South Circular/Grand Canal area.


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    humberklog
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    I think it's from all the Red Valerian plants that have been growing. Loads the summer and they really start stinking this time of year. I've them here in Clarehall and it wreaks of them.


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    Turtle_
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    humberklog wrote: »
    I think it's from all the Red Valerian plants that have been growing. Loads the summer and they really start stinking this time of year. I've them here in Clarehall and it wreaks of them.

    That makes sense actually, walking from Howth Junction into the Baldoyle Industrial Estate is awful and that whole area is covered in them. It stinks!


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    imme
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    humberklog wrote: »
    I think it's from all the Red Valerian plants that have been growing. Loads the summer and they really start stinking this time of year. I've them here in Clarehall and it wreaks of them.

    I don't think it's plants, much more widespread and smells more like industrial , effluent or sewerage-like. Was still present last night.


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