Fears for thousands of jobs due to peat shortage

  • 📰 rtenews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 27 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 14%
  • Publisher: 99%

Ireland Headlines News

Ireland Latest News,Ireland Headlines

Fears are being expressed that thousands of jobs could be lost in the horticultural sector in Ireland due to a shortage of horticultural peat.

Peat is being supplied to some of those in the industry by Bord na Móna, but those involved in the sector have said that the company has informed them that supplies could run out as early as next March.In Kilfinane, Co Limerick, Young Nurseries is a wholesale business supplying a wide range of Irish grown plants and herbs.Nuala Young said that the company currently employs up to 24 people.

Her husband Joe Young said peat is the base material that most businesses in the Irish horticultural sector relies on. "It’s like asking the dairy sector to continue to produce cheese and butter without any milk", Mr. Young added. Larry Doran, of Doran Nurseries in Timahoe, Co Kildare said "thousands of jobs are at risk due to the shortage of peat. The Irish horticultural community has been thrown into sudden crisis due to Bord na Móna not being able to supply peat for the growing season".

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Horticultural peat is the only possible growing medium?

Eh this industry was shut down due to serious environmental breaches. When was the last time you did an article on biodiversity collapse? Head in the sand stuff by RTE

TheMontyDon

For peats sake!

Livelyhoods do not matter to the Greens. They've had their best year ever. No flights, no one could drive for three months and 1million a day spent on walkways and cycle lanes. €365 million each year for 5 years. Yet we cant get €200 mill to pay our pension when it falls due

And Geoengineering

Find it amazing how rte can report on this, and a total media black out in a certain rally, where videos on them threatening people and boys in blue. Oh well, proves my point on msm

Leaf mould, compost from green bin waste - this was known well in advance of it happening.

Thanks to the greens and the traitors FF&FG for yet more job losses. Not enough to close two powerstations with hundreds of job losses and indirect job losses, but now more businesses face problems. Killing rural Ireland one week at a time. Government traitors

Erm... Peat compost should have been banned decades ago. I stopped using it in the early 1990s once I became aware of how devastating it is to the pest bogs.

Surely they should be using peat free compost at this stage. Is there no peat free compost in Ireland?

I’m sure IrelandsDemand would have some suggestions on how to save those jobs

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 1. in İE

Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Fears mount of another night of violence in Northern IrelandPoliticians appeal for calm after 27 police officers injured during riots North Ireland Protestants gonna protest Terrible.. nobody wants to see a return to violence.. strong political leadership required Just a few lads having a bit of craic. They're bored after spending so long in lockdown.
Source: IrishTimes - 🏆 3. / 98 Read more »

BMW urgently recalls 16,000 cars sold in Ireland over fire fearsThere are a total of 16,195 affected vehicles in the Republic of Ireland The indicators don't work.
Source: IrishMirror - 🏆 4. / 98 Read more »

The 12 countries banned from sending travellers to Ireland amid new strain fearsThe 12 countries not allowed send travellers to Ireland amid new visa rules over new Covid-19 strains
Source: IrishMirror - 🏆 4. / 98 Read more »