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A MAN IS in a critical condition after two cars were involved in a crash last night in Cork.
Gardaí are investigating the incident, which took place at about 8.40pm at McCurtain Street in Fermoy, Co Cork.
A man in his 20s who was a passenger in one of the cars was taken to Cork University Hospital and is in a critical condition.
The driver of the other car (a woman in her 50s) was taken to Cork University Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
The road at McCurtain Street remains closed with local diversions in place. Forensic collision investigators are due to examine the scene.
Gardaí are appealing for any witnesses to the crash to come forward.
Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the McCurtain Street area between 8.30pm and 9pm are asked to make this footage available to gardaí.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Fermoy Garda station on 025 82100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.
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What is wrong with this country and the amount of lawlessness amongst its citizenry. Quinn, Drumm, Lowry, lawler, Ahern, Shell to Sea, these bog men….. Throw them in jail – you break the law you pay the price. I don’t understand why the taxpayer has to give these people money simply because they show scant regard for our natural heritage and want to keep destroying the bogs simply because they want cheap fuel.
And just a guess, you don’t live in rural Ireland and could care less about the people who live in rural Ireland.
Plynch – absolutely correct. You suggest that ‘rural Ireland’ is some kind of badge of honour. The law is the law; not just for those of us who dwell in towns and cities.
Throw dese bog men in jail for resisting a law imposed on dere land. Thats exactly wat the english nd naxis did. Do u want a dictatorship? These laws are being imposed on land not owned by the government but by the landowners them self. This law has devalued there land. How is this fair?
Correct me if I am wrong are we now paying people huge sums not to break the law ok why not extend this to lets say burglars !
How about it BSI (Burglars Association of Ireland) fancy taking this offer up easier than being up all night !!
Stupid laws again and people have to stand up for themselves. Turf has been cut for thousands of years with no dire consequences to the environment. It certainly is nt cheap fuel it’s extremely hard work .the skill of turf cutting now more than ever needs to b passed on.
It’s not paying someone to not break the law. It is compensating those for taking away something they had. If you don’t understand that then I’m sorry for you. But don’t let the facts get in the way of a good gripe.
Compensation schemes like this happen all over Europe. Not unique to us. And is probably a little bit funded by the EU.
So, again, it’s not paying people to not break the law.
And the attitude shown to the rural communities is a disgrace.
The comment about driving tractors on motorways, check your facts, they are allowed.
Check the rules on the motorway entry boards, they qualify.
And don’t ever confuse the rules of the road for the Law. They differ slightly.
Sorry Bill.
That post should have been a standalone one, not a reply to you.
Eilish Deegan, there has been consequences though you are just choosing to ignore them…..loss of bog land is the outcome.
Just because something has happened for thousands of years doesn’t make it ok, just think of what people used to do but weren’t always happy about it when it changed.
- It used to be the norm to cut down local woodlands so you could light a fire, this had to stop and be regulated or we’d have nothing left (frankly this didn’t stop soon enough).
- It used to be ok for farmers to drive cattle (not on a truck but have them walk over days/weeks) on roads from kerry to kilkenny for markets, this had to stop as it would have been insane on modern roads and very dangerous.
- People used to dump sewage into their local stream or river because it was handy, again this had to stop as the idiots were then drinking this same water and it was causing health issues.
People hate change but like so many things the eu stopping bog cutting is very much a good thing, but far too many short sighted people just think about their own pockets then how this wil affect their country in hundreds of years time.
You roll over Barry and take all the changes that european goverment are throwing at us while we show that at least a little bit of this country has a bit of fight left in it.
Martin Grenham, so your against this because its come from the EU?
hmm, I’m curious are the farmers so against all the grants and stuff they’ve gotten from the EU since the 1970′s…no?, thought not.
Being against this because its come from the eu is a idiotic reason to be against something,
Are these the same farmer that grow the vegetables that you buy in your shop or rare the cattle that you buy in your butchers,chickens,pigs and the list goes on. Your quick to down the name of the farmer Barry but see how far you would get without him. You my friend havent a clue how much hard work goes into putting the basics in the shops for you and this is the thanks we get.
Here, I’d also like to permanently disfigure the landscape by destroying delicate, unique habitat on my land and denying it to my children and their kids. But I’ll settle for destroying somewhere else instead, but only if you lot will give me a tax-free pressie of €23,500. It’s not about the money of course.
If ye only knew how much we used to get for farming grants,,JESUS ye would go mad all together,,,,they just never stop giving to us country folk
True for you Martin is that corncrake grant still going.
By-jingo you’re not a country person!
Have you ever been to a bog? You are probably right, I imagine some would be quite beautiful. The solution is simple really. Who ever decided that certain bogs should be protected should buy them from their owners instead of passing a law and making them outlaws. By the way to put this in perspective, the majority of Irish bogs are owned by Bord Na Mona (somewhere north of 90% I believe)
plynch, your attitude is typical of rural ireland, the a la carte approach to the law. i bet you drive your tractor on the motorways
No my friend, I don’t own a tractor. I just choose to learn the other side of the story. There is another side to this story – pretty interesting too…
Bill that would b B.A.I.??its compensation for not being allowed cut turf from their own bogs .a serious offer should b double the amount offered but they have always said its not about the money .
Typo sorry
@Kingston, all I’ll say you really don’t know the whole story and as I stated earlier you could care less. Not sure where your going with your badge of honour comment. You are correct on the face of it the law is been broken but there is a lot more to this story. You have your mind made up, your are entitled to your single sided perspective.
@plynch all I need to know that these people are destroying a beautiful and unique habitat. The lame excuse that ‘they’ve been doing it for generations’ sums up what’s wrong with this country and it’s acceptance of ‘cute hoorism’; case in point all those people in cavan who came out to support sean Quinn.
Im curious kingstown, when were you last down at the bog to admire its beauty?
u never worked a day in the bog then u fool….cheap fuel …ya right .bet u don’t have to pay a property tax or pay for ceptic tank charges
you know what pisses me off? this debate is about money and money only.
it seems every time rural Ireland majes the news its about money, how come?
college fees, good/ bad harvest, turf. Always money.
Because they earn their from the country side perhaps?
Barry think u have just strengthened up my argument . The botanical gardens say we have lost lots of rare species due to mowing down roadside grass drainage building houses etc.so should we stop all this too ?why just pick on the boggers.
and by the way if you want to point the finger at who destroyed all the bogs in the country..its back to the government and bord na mona
How would a habitat that’s survived for thousands of years suddenly b in danger because someone says it is .it has survived hasn’t it .?
Eilish Deegan, you know your right….
Just how could a habitat have survived for thousands of years be suddenly in danger, I mean just look at all the woodlands Ireland has…oh wait…thats “had” because we have feck all but eventually somebody copped onto this and realized something had to be done and people had to stop just cutting them down when they felt like it.
This is no different with bogs, just because they’ve been ignored doesn’t mean that the bog lands in Ireland were not being destroyed,
Lets look at this a different way…….. lets say all these farmers had acres and acres of old growth forests that they owned in Ireland. Now this is the proper old growth forests not one of those new forests thats only been around for say 100-300 years.
Would you think its perfectly ok to destroy more and more of such an ancient forest that can never ever ever be replaced?, this destruction ensures that no future generations will see as much of this old growth forest that exists right now today.
In addition this old growth forests has species that don’t exist anywhere else, is it ok to wipe them out all so you can say “ah sure its ok we did it for thousands of years”?
Just because a person owns the land doesn’t mean they can do what they want with that land, if that was the case we’d have every idiot building whatever they want on their land or dumping whatever chemical they wanted on it so it could affect the local environment.
Your thousands of years excuse is just that, an excuse and it doesn’t cut the reality of the situation.
Eilish, you’re aware that cutting + carting away a bog and burning it destroys it?
Eilish, maybe its because people weren’t using tractors and track machines for thousands of years?
Barry fair point but bogs are kinka different ,the habitat has survived it seems so no danger there..not sure what u mean when u say loss of bogland is the outcome .
Logic and common sense just go right out the window with you doesn’t it?
Its completely about yourselfs and its all about your bog and you;ll do what you want with it, to hell with anyone else and future generations. Extremely short sighted
Unfortunately you’re a bit misinformed Eilish – surviving areas of raised bog are only a tiny remnant of what was originally there, hence their prime ecological importance:
http://www.raisedbogrestoration.ie/life04/downloads/raised-bog-conference-pres-jim-ryan.pdf
Ok Barry still think the species has survived thousands of years so they must have figured how to do that .if the situation is that serious then the bog owners who want to sell their bogs should have the option of selling to the gov.
Species don’t just evolve that quickly I’m afraid so your talking nonsense…this is fact, species have been wiped out in the past and this is also a fact and they will continue to be wiped out due to ignorance.
Source: http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/census/threatnd.htm
Now lets just take one random extent species from that list on the above factual website…..oh lets say “Scheuchzeria palustris”, it used to grow on bog lands but sadly not anymore.
Care to back up your nonsense claims that species just “survive” and are you just going to talk more and more nonsense about how its ok because its been done for thousands of years?
Its evident this is all about the money as these people care nothing about nature and ensuring species and such a natural resource (no different to a old growth forest) exists for future generations.
Sorry bogs
How can you possibly keep up this line of argument?
Destroying the bogs destroys the bogs. They are being cut up and burned.
How on earth can a habitat continue to thrive/survive if it is being destroyed?
Income*
therefore they should respect the countryside, stop stripping bogs, get their septic tanks inspected, respect the rivers.
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