EU Banning the Burning of Turf in ROI

The country is called 'Ireland' first of all. Secondly, why would anyone protest in favour of more respiratory illness in children and more deaths. You must not have thought about the issue beyond the end of your nose. Burning turf is already banned in council areas that make up the majority of Ireland's population and I think anyone who knows what it's like walking around midland towns in winter will be supporting it.

The question is what real government policy is going to make alternative sources of heat available to people who currently depend on it.

Hopefully we will have had an Ixit by the time this actually comes around. Burning a bit of turf now, lovely stuff.

Have a grand turf fire on now, worked hard saving it last summer, saving turf will be around for many years to come even the D4 Greens realise that at this stage.

It won't. Turf burning will be gone by the end of the decade. There is no need for it any more.

Good riddance to that back breaking work.

Nope, I personally love the smell of turf and this lungs faecees is just that. With the very high wind speeds and prevelance across the whole of the country most of the time, the notion that air quality is a long term issue to the point it affects health long-term is a complete nonsense. The air mass over Ireland is probably flushed and refreshed 4-5 times a day, most days. Guess why Ireland is so often cited for it's potential for wind generated electricity.

There are isolated houses all over Connemara and there just isn't an air quality argument for them.

So the EPA must be lying and doctoring their air quality monitoring results.

OP you might get a better discussion out of this in Current affairs

I live in the midlands. Funilly enough, there are turbines to the north, south and east, not to mention one in Castletroy.