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THE IRISH AVIATION Authority (IAA) has warned the public not to fly drones in the vicinity of fires, as emergency services continue to battle blazes across the country that have broken out as a result of the hot weather.
Yesterday marked the sixth consecutive day that the Defence Forces deployed the Air Corps to assist firefighting operations.
Following a request from the civil authorities, the Air Corps have responded to requests in Dublin, Wicklow, Limerick, Cork, Tipperary and Offaly.
In a statement, the IAA said: “Do not fly drones, Small Unmanned Aircraft, or Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the vicinity of fires or these firefighting operations, as doing so could pose severe safety risks to aerial operations, flight crews and individuals on the ground.
“Aviation safety is the responsibility of all operators (drone operators included) and all operators should inform themselves of operations in their area to ensure they do not interfere with operations.”
Forest fires
Since Wednesday, firefighters have been battling a major forest fire on the Slieve Bloom Mountains.
An Air Corps helicopter and a private helicopter from Coillte have been brought in to assist.
Speaking to RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland, Coillte’s managing director Gerard Murphy said that there were 120 personnel on the ground in the area yesterday.
He added that the fire is currently contained, but that there are still “significant hotspots”.
“We’ve crews on the ground monitoring it and it’ll all depend on the weather. If the weather in terms of heat picks up today and wind starts to change direction, we could have a high risk again of it resuming,” Murphy said.
He added that Coillte has been called out to around 60 fires around the country, and that 20 of them were “very significant”.
Other fires
Ireland’s current heatwave has seen the longest period of sustained heat in five years.
Met Éireann’s Climatology & Observations Division yesterday issued a warm weather report for June up to Monday.
The report shows that the hottest June temperature in over 40 years was recorded last Thursday at Shannon Airport, where the thermostats hit 32 degrees Celsius. That made it the highest June temperature since 1976, when Boora in Offaly hit 32.5 degrees.
As a result, fires have been breaking out across the country over the past week.
On Tuesday, Dublin Fire Brigade was called to grass on fire on the Oscar Traynor Road in Coolock.
It also responded to gorse on fire in Blackglen Road in Sandyford, at the edge of the Dublin mountains.
On Monday, a family escaped their car which had left the road on the Dublin Mountains after smoke from a heather fire suddenly changed direction.
‘Remain vigilant’
Advising the public ahead of the continued warm weather this weekend, Murphy said that the general public must “remain incredibly vigilant”.
“It’s really important that people remain vigilant, report any suspicious activity, it’s really important that if they see anything suspicious that they report it to local guards,” he said.
“We have at the moment what I call Mediterranean-style conditions out there, drought, very dry vegetation, highly combustible. I would have to say any lighting of fires for any purposes in this situation, in a forest or out in the open moreland, is incredibly wreckless.”
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And here’s me thinking that email offering me $26,000,000 was fake
In 1950,Nigeria had a population of 33 million.In 2100,the UN estimates their population at somewhere between 500 million – 1 billion.From 2006 up to this year,their population grew a staggering 42 million to 182 million people.There is a lot of extra mouths to be feeding annually.
Sounds like it’s a condom factory they need!
Drinking another animals milk has little nutritional benifit.
Cows milk is for calves.
Hopefully the Nigerian people will give these useless powders the elbow.
They are only relatively new in the western world, a farce form the feminist propaganda era, when “Doctors Smoked Camel”
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Who’s taking the bloody horse to Lagos
Tralee Co.Kerry an unemployment blackspot,let’s build a factory in Nigeria!
Why would it be packaged in Ireland, when its going to be sold in Africa?
The Kerry Group has always been a lot more interested in its shareholders than its employees, Kerry, or Ireland.
Dev, is there a connection between Tralee and Ornua?
Kerry Group have nothing to do with Ornua. Tralee has no connection to Ornua. Why drive yourself out of the market by packaging in Ireland and incurring cost. Uninformed comment is worse than no comment.
No, as far as I’m aware.Kerry Group HQ is in Tralee.They should have some social/corporate responsibility and give more jobs to Kerry.
Arma, Kerygold is a public listed company, so its answerable to its shareholders, who invested money into the company, and not to people of Kerry or Ireland. Same way as Apple, Intel, Facebook, Ebay, Paypal, Dell are answerable to their share holders, or people in their native country of the United States.
Building this packaging factory in Africa makes economic sense. If the products is going to be packaged in Ireland, then you have extra shipping weight, which will increase your shipping costs, making your product more expensive, and less competitive on the shelf. That competitive edge may allow Kerrygold to expand, and increase production in Ireland, where the milk powder comes from. if the packaging was done in Ireland,What happens if the packaging gets damaged in transit? Do they dump it, or send it back to Ireland to be repackaged?
Well then do something to mark Tralee more attractive to employers, rather than just giving out about the employers.
Dev kerrygold is produced by ornua, this article has nothing to do with Kerry group.
*make
Dev Boyjonauth
Look at a map long long way expensive & I assume cold storage way to Nigeria
The Kerrygold brand and the Kerry group have no relationship to each other
Dev Kerrygold and Kerry Group are two separate companies.
BTW In case you did not know Kerry Group has plants all over the world such Ireland, UK, USA, Brazil, Europe, Turkey, Singapore etc.
Armin __ I know that large multi-nationals couldn’t give a toss about the countries where they kick-started their operations, and in the case of the Kerry Group, they’ve long since forgotten that if it weren’t for the original Kerry Co-op members deciding to change the co-op status, there wouldn’t be a Kerry Group. The Kerry farmers probably couldn’t care less either, because their original shares are worth a considerable mint.
Dev,
import or raw materials to make good locally, reduces the amount of excise and duty payable on importing finished goods
Anyhow, it’s an expensive business setting up a factory in Nigeria, having to bribe everyone with a pulse to make it happen. A fella who set up a factory there some years ago, was telling me that he even had to pay people at the docks when machinery was arriving, and that it would be sitting there until a wad of cash was handed over to someone with the power to release it.
The Nigerians, a great bunch of lads ted!
All they need now is jam
Shur what would I know, I’m from Donegal.
Sad that they are trying to convert a breast feeding continent to a bottle feeding one similar to this country.
It’s not baby formula though.
Exactly, refrigerators aren’t widespread in Africa so powdered milk is popular there.
True, but traditional cows milk is perfectly acceptable from 12 months and on average Nigerians breast feed for 18 months. Also baby formula contains powdered milk, the picture in article is misleading as to the product range.
Ye becsuse the continent is a booming beacon of success thanks to all their breastfeeding.
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Look I know it’s a touchy subject for many as they feel they’re being judged but I doubt the kerrygolds marketing/financial board gives two hoots so long as its profitable like many other corporations. Infant formula is a huge money spinner and the success of its market nation is irrelevant to to them.
Swing and a miss Mark….that is not baby formula. Powered milk and baby formula are actually different you may be surprised to learn
How dare they give African women the same choices that those in the first world have. Is nothing sacred?
Swing and miss to you gene, you might be surprised to learn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_milk
Mark….so a single ingredient equates to the sum of ingredients I.e., the final product??
The article is not on about a single product, it says “powdered milk products”. So I fail to see where you are trying to go with this line of argument.
Same reason Guinness is brewed in Nigeria..
If you want access to the Nigerian Market you have to Employ locals/ Source your materials and make your product there.
Good in theory, but by the end of the process only the wrapping is the same.
The biggest Guinness brewery in the world is in Nigeria. They believe it is a Nigerian drink. I kid you not!
Good move. The UN population projections for Nigeria are eye-opening. Their population will go from 180 million now to 650 million by the year 2100. That’s a lot of milk we can export.
I can’t believe it’s not milk.
Will Ornua disclose the salaries of their senior management and CEO? You can bet they won’t, because they’re HUGE! If you thought the salaries in the IFA were bad…..
Ornua is owned by farmers in the same way as the IFA, so farmers have a right to know.
“We work hard to deliver a strong and sustainable return to the Irish dairy farmer.” that’s a laugh!!
“As a co-operative, owned by Ireland’s dairy processors, and in turn by Ireland’s dairy farmers, Ornua’s core aim is to deliver a sustainable, high return for the Irish dairy farmer.” Rubbish. They are only interested n paying themselves as much as they can get away with.
Pet lovers would never deny their pet milk from it’s mother’s breast.
Why do humans?
That’s true Human, but I still wouldn’t fancy it on my cornflakes!
I wouldn’t mind trying a drop.
As long at was from a clean healthy Lass though.
Couldn’t do with a gob full of Toxic Fake Tan, Aerosols, Make Up, Contraception Pills/Medication, Botox, Silicone, Processed Food, Pesticides, Booze and Fags etc.
Ah.. They still won’t have the crusty turnover to put it on!
Nothing like a bit of crusty bread to spread your powered milk on
If Ireland was not part of the EU the amount of food deals we could of did Africa , my partners family are small diary farmers they had opportunity to send milk to Southern Africa but cause of EU quotes and export/import controls could not do.
Even with some of our crops have better nutrients. And African countries wanted them to,
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