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Culture
What are we eating?
- More local & seasonal due to increase in transport costs.
- Semi-organic cabbage (fertilizers and pesticides expensive)
- Irish farmed fish
- Pasta (dried) produced in Ireland
- Oranges from Spain (by boat)
What are we watching?
- Ground Force are now converting gardens for vegetable growing
- Community TV
- Neighbours from Heaven
Most popular Websites
- www.sharensave.org
- www.c&c.gov.ie
- www.bus&rail_timetables.ie
What are we selling
- Cold press for rapeseed.
- Wood burning stoves for sale, conversions from beer barrels add style.
- Turnips in exchange for 1/2 ton of topsoil
- For sale, 10 boxes of Organic Apples.
Headlines
- Census shows poverty halved in last five years - Those previously on the povery line are well suited to making the best of tight times and do better than the middle class unprepared for making do with very little.
- Out of town shopping centre bankrupt - People can no longer want to make a special journey just to do the shopping - they want to combine many tasks for each journey so prefer going to a town or city.
- Crack down on loan sharks intimiation of pensioners for their permits - Everyone has permits to sell and older people do not always understand their value or how to sell them.
- Kilkenny farmers market raided - Farmers Markets are now found in all towns but this makes it hard to check everyone is paying their taxes!
- Tenant farming is new form of slavery - The rich are always with us. The rich have land and use tenant farmers to work the land. In some cases they offer very little to the tenant farmers.
- Salmon caught in Liffy again - Lack of waste has reduced the pollution going into the river that flows through Dublin, enough that salmon are now using the river again.
- 100mpg family car launched - There are still people who can afford new cars but there has not been significant development in car technology because of lower demand.
- Return to sail - Sailing ships are a cheap form of transport and ships are being retrofitted with sail to to used when conditions allow.
- Road deaths fall again - Less cars, less danger.
