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IF YOU THINK the rows in the Dáil these days are farcical then check out this one from over 20 years ago which hit new levels of rowdiness and pointlessness.
It’s May 1991 and Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats are in coalition with Charlie Haughey as taoiseach. Opposition TDs wanted to discuss the contents of a World in Action programme broadcast the night before which had made a series of allegations in relation to the Irish beef industry.
But Ceann Comhairle Seán Treacy was having none of it prompting a fair bit of shouting from the opposition benches with Ruairí Quinn in particular very unhappy asking Treacy: ”Who wrote that rubbish?!”
Then the taoiseach stood up to try and quell the row before Labour leader Dick Spring tried to offer his party’s Dáil speaking time to talk about programme.
Haughey later said the procedures of the house should not be dictated to by “a television programme – the motives of which I have my gravest doubts”.
That didn’t go down well.
Fine Gael leader John Bruton then asked if the government would consider using its own time to call a debate. Haughey said this was amongst other things a “despicable suggestion”.
Then a short time later the government decided after all to devote some of its time the following day to debate the matter.
All’s well that ends well.
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“Primarily used in farming as a fertiliser”. No, no it isn’t.
@shake n’ break: dead right it isn’t ——Makes me wonder what kind of a bo***x wrote that
@shake n’ break: what would it have been doing on a farm?
@john doe: Don’t ever buy your spuds off those lads John, while they’re putting liquid nitrogen in their tea to cool it down because the kettle boiled too hot, farmers use it to replenish nitrogen in the soil between harvests as it’s probably the single most important element in farming outside of H2O.
@shake n’ break: yes it is.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/5-reasons-why-you-should-consider-using-liquid-nitrogen/
@shake n’ break:
The containers in the photo look like AI sperm sample tanks.
@Gavin Cronin:
You fertilise with liquid nitrogen to grow frozen vegetables for the supermarket. Also give it to cows and they make ice cream.
@Gavin Cronin: the stuff in your link is a solution that contains nitrates, like a liquid form of fertiliser. Liquid nitrogen is -200d/C and used to store semen and embryos on farms.
@shake n’ break: As a fertiliser ??
It’s a cold case
@Peter Jo: it’s say whoever lost that stuff thinks you’re a real comedian mate
@Peter Jo: bravo.
@Patrick Agnew: I bet you’re there life and soul of a party.
@Patrick Agnew: I’d say you’re great craic to be out with down the local and have an amazing sense of humour. Lol
My god, they better be careful. That’s stuff would be friesian!
I hope the thieves dip their Mickies in it.
Hope the see you next Tuesday’s get around in a circle and all edge in closer to have a good look at the container just as its being opened.
Put my finger in liquid nitrogen a few years back. It was extremely painful, wouldn’t recommend.
@Crocodylus Pontifex: what inspired you to do that?
@Crocodylus Pontifex: So did i…..THE WIFE
@D Mems: Ice cream was served over a bowl of the stuff. I was after a few glasses of wine, it was bubbling away. Had to try it.
Used as a. Fertiliser? Who writes this garbage?
@sean o’dhubhghaill: https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/5-reasons-why-you-should-consider-using-liquid-nitrogen/
@Gavin Cronin: Despite the headline that isn’t Liquid Nitrogen. It is a liquid nitrate fertiliser. A COMPLETELY different thing.
@Gavin Cronin: From your link: “Omex material is UAN (50% urea, 25% ammonium and 25% nitrate).”
There is some confusion here. It seems to be an unfortunate name they have given to a convenient liquid fertiliser rich in nitrogen. It’s not liquid nitrogen that you’d have in a lab. Using liquid N2 wouldn’t make much sense as it would evaporate too quickly for nitrogen fixing bacteria to even notice it was there.
@Chloë Johnson: I still think you are confused! That picture is an insulated flask used for storing bull semen in straws which is filled with liquid nitrogen, which used to be the gas nitrogen, which has been distilled from plain old air!
@Martin: using liq N2 for cooling samples makes a lot more sense than as a fertiliser! I was wracking my brains trying to understand why a farm would need it, thanks for clearing it up! But the article (and many comments) still seem to confuse a certain similarly named fertiliser with very very cold N2
@Martin: maybe you went a bit far explaining liquid nitrogen to a chemist though
Dr Evil and his henchmen stole it and he will now demand €1 million dollars in cold hard cash to have them returned mwhahaha
@Michael Patrick Newell: Log off, Michael. Thanks.
@Michael Patrick Newell:
cash will do, he can cool and harden it himself ;)
Don’t open them yokes in the livin van, mikey.
@John Mulligan: Halting site frozen over, Met Office perplexed.
Since when was liquid nitrogen a commonly used fertiliser. Surely they’re for storing straws for AI?
There looking for an over zelous AI man, with loads of cows.
Smoke and mirrors stuff
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