No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

The Guinness family bankrolled hospitals in Dublin.

They were repayed by doctors advising their patients and pregnant women the black stuff.

Carries through to today with all our politicians wanting their photo taken with a pint. Even making it into the foodwise 2030 proposals of expanding the drinks sector.

If alcohol was only invented this year it wouldn't be allowed off the drawing board for health reasons. Same as a motorbike concept, etc, etc. But we're here where we're here. People looking back at the way things were fifty years ago think weren't they quare people then. Same in fifty years time from now.

Just looking for some expert opinion...i have about 20 acres excess grass that needs cutting......i have a man interested in coming in and baling it and taking it away himself.......what could/should i charge?

5-7 euro a bale or should i charge per acre...bearing in mind its 2nd cut silage and september? I dont want to take the p1ss....something reasonable but not too cheap either!

Thank you.

How did your daughter get on in the cao offers?

You’re definitely not robbing him at €5-7 per bale. If anything it’d be the other way around. Second cut might only have about 7 bales/acre so you’d be giving him the grass for possibly as low as €35 per acre. If you fertilised it you’d hardly be covering the cost of the fert.

Around here it would be generally €10 per bale and I’d think that’s a fair enough price for it for both buyer and seller

Another option around here is giving it to a dairy man for zero grazing if it’s not too strong. They generally pay €40 per load.

strange case that

Hard to feel sorry for someone as stupid as that alright.

On another note I think the council should have a procedure in place where they can fine people for not cutting their roadside ditches. The amount of roadside ditches that haven’t been cut in years around here is crazy and there’s a lot of roads where cars used to be able to meet without even slowing down and now one would have to pull into a gateway to let the other past.

You can be fined for cutting a ditch.

But if your ditch grows out and blocks the road no fine. 😀

Agree.

Section 70 of the Roads Act 1993 (hereafter “the 1993 act”), provides that the owner or occupier of any structure and land must take reasonable steps to ensure that any structure on the land is not a hazard, or a potential hazard, to persons using the public road.

The obligations of land owners and occupiers are laid out in the 1993 Act.

Under Section 70(2) of the 1993 act, the owner or occupier of land is obliged to take all reasonable steps to ensure that a tree, shrub, hedge or other vegetation on the land is not a hazard or potential hazard to persons using a public road, and that it does not obstruct or interfere with the safe use of a public road or the maintenance of a public road.

Section 81 of the 1993 act states a person guilty of an offence shall be liable on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding €1,238.70 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €12,386.97 or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment, for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Milk tanker driver has often asked us to fill the potholes our lane, we do it. Why would the driver be expected to drive up a road that would damage his lorry?

And there you are now paying for someone to do a job that someone else is responsible for. Of course the neighbours won't cut it cos they know you will. I've lads like that beside some of my land. Landowner normally owns out to the middle of the road. Are you now responsible for filling the potholes? If someone falls on that road is it your responsibility? It's a joke.

@whelan2 careful with filling in holes on council owned stuff. Anything happens, they'll come after you. Happened to a man outside Portlaoise in 2004. He filled in potholes outside his house. Someone slipped on it in frost and the council sent him to the mans place for compo as the hole wasn't filled with the required components, no H&S when the job was done, no engineer signed off. Cost him 20k in court.

Haha! Not at all. Do the same myself.

Last weekend there I was cutting hedges across the road from our house. Got up to the entrance to the housing estate up the road and the estate agent and the developer who are in finishing it told me to sling my hook and don't cut the bit at their entrance. It's about 10ft away from the end of our land and cars coming out of the estate have to have the nose of the car on the middle of the road to be able to see out. More than once I've nearly taken the nose off one as it popped out when I passed. Other neighbours have no such issues as it benefits them too around gate entrances, etc.

Luckily enough for me the road hedges are mostly back in off the road with a grass verge between them and the road and don't have to manage them outside of the open season.

I still say roads and their safety are a council issue.

Some people are bastards who do nothing and expect others to do it for them. Actually, was in the pub one night a few years ago and overheard a lad crowing about how my father was out trimming the hedge outside his house so he could have sightline down the road to get in and out safely. Pure delighted with himself that someone else was doing stuff they should be doing themselves. Got some land when I reached in beside him to pick up my pint

I'd throw it back over

Same as that. And if it came back into my side again I’d be leaving it at her front door the next time!

Magic. 😅