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LAST UPDATE | 28 Jun 2018
THE IRISH AIR Corps has been called in as fire crews in Co Wicklow have been working to protect homes after a number of fires have broken out in the county.
Conditions have showed no sign of cooling off today, as top temperatures across the country have ranged between 26 and 30 degrees, according to Met Éireann.
An official request came into the Defence Forces for assistance in dealing with gorse fires in Lower Lough Bray and Liffey Head Bog this evening.
Meanwhile, Wicklow Fire Service tweeted today that its Bray and Greystones crews were working to protect a school and houses in Kilmacanogue.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, local independent councillor Christopher Fox confirmed that a decision was made at around 1pm this afternoon to move children from a school in Kilmacanogue to its sports pitches due to fires nearby.
Fox said that the school is located next to scrub land and mountain land.
He said that there had been numerous fires on that land over the past few days.
However, he said: “Today, it had got very close to some houses and the school, obviously. It had been contained more on the mountain in previous days.”
Parents of the students were notified of the situation and Fox said that the children were moved onto the school’s sports pitches.
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Elsewhere, Dublin Fire Brigade has been battling a number of gorse fires around the county today.
A forest fire has broken out at the Lugg and Slade Valley mountain area.
A spokesperson for Dublin Fire Brigade said that a number of resources have been tackling the fire throughout the day and that they received assistance from the Irish Air Corps earlier today.
The spokesperson said there had been a number of small fires in the area since Saturday and that there are now forest areas and trees on fire.
He added that while it is a relatively rural area, there are some houses in the local vicinity which officers are monitoring to determine whether they need to be evacuated.
He appealed to the public not to travel to areas where there are gorse fires to look at them.
“Even if people are going to recreational areas, leave gateways clear in case we need to access them,” he said.
Four appliances from Dublin Fire Brigade have also been battling a grass and gorse fire in Tolka Valley, Finglas.
after over 35 years of smoking i tried a vape, used that for about 15 months and for the last 3 years i have been smoke free, i would recommend to anyone trying to quit to give vaping a go, it’s hands down the best product on the market to help you quit.
@David Peate: Me too. Vaping helped me quit. I am so grateful for that invention. However having failed to quit lots of times before, the other important factor is to have a strong desire to quit. Just trying to quit because someone else doesn’t like it or societal pressure won’t work.
Allan Carr’s book was a surprise as it showed how easy it is to stop smoking once the mind overcomes the prejudices of craving/addiction, in short, we smoke to kill the craving caused by the previous cigarette but non-smokers don’t have the craving so we really want to be non-smokers by smoking. Some get it while others don’t but I suppose because it was not developed by a academic, his approach is ignored.
@Gerald Kelleher: I read Allan Carr’s book and I’ve been off them nearly 3 years now. Best thing I ever did :)
Nicotine isnt a particularly hard sustance to give up given it leaves your system very quickly. What makes it difficult to give up is the belief thats it is, that nicotine is a powerful drug. Society, media, certain products set you up for this massive battle and have convinced you its difficult. But the truth is its not. You dont wake during the night with dt’s and yet the nicotine wore off during the night. Some people make breakfast, gets kids out the door before lighting up and with no ill effects. you BELIEVE there will be. I went to a life coach and he talked me through why i smoked and the awful things things that would happen if i stopped. Society and marketing made me believe it was hard. So my brain believed! I smoked for 24 yrs! It took 90 minutes and I havent smoked in 4 yrs.
@Maria Mc: well said ,i my self gave up smoking with no withdrawles ,just decided to stop people have been brainwashed by the constant negatives and how being told how hard it is, was off them 3 months but due to stressfull problems i went back on them and am smoking the same as before ,its a fear.one thing i wuld say to anyone who gives up dont overdo exercisng straight away take it easy at first
@Maria Mc: Thanks Maria, it often suits those selling nicotine replacement to stress the difficulties in stopping while others ,once they see the cunning trick of nicotine, appreciate how the mind can work against a person’s best interests. I encountered this elsewhere but in a different context.
The theorists have convinced the wider population that you can only approach astronomy using a complicated language of mathematics thereby people shy away from this topic for fear they will get lost in the voodoo and bluffing that currently takes the name of astronomy. It is,of course, a self-serving scam that pays for the lifestyles,pensions and reputations of theorists but denies the wider population the freedom to explore the astronomical arena using computer graphics and imaging.
Right that’s it-All you smokers out there -Time to quit-can’t wriggle your way out of this one-if the worms can do it so can you.
I smoked for about 20 years, am off them for the last 7. 5 minutes at a time was all I done for a few days, the time starts stacking up. The cravinga last for a few minutes, then your ok again. I had cut down to 30 a day and than to 5 or 6, a friend told me id always be waiting for my next one so I quit. Carried a packet and lighter in the car for 4 months, and chewed gum and hard sweets when I got a craving.
Its not easy but it is worth it, at one time I got through 3 to 4 packs a day, now I dont. It has to be the time for you, and u must want it.
Best of luck to anyone thinking of it, u can do it, and its so worth it.
hpynosis worked for me and its fantastic….none of the stress or withdrawal systoms.
The ONLY reason it is hard to quit smoking is because of the psychological addiction and not because of any physical addiction. The psychological addiction creates the physical one and all these “studies” contribute to and sustain the myth.
This study is utter nonsense!
Just go cold turkey. I stopped smoking 4.5 years ago.
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