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IN IRELAND ALONE, we dump 63,000 tonnes of textiles into our bins each year. This doesn’t include nappies or healthcare waste, so much of that figure is likely to be clothing: items we don’t like anymore, items we wore once and discarded or (we’ve all been there) items we bought, left the tags on and never wore.
So how can we as a nation begin to take a more sustainable approach to fashion? Can we shift the focus from next day delivery and flash sales to second-hand clothing, shopping our wardrobe and choosing quality over quantity?
Those are the questions Caoimhe Ní Chathail and Proinsias Ó Coinn are hoping to answer in Éadaí SOS, a brand new show starting this Wednesday October 6 on TG4. Check out the trailer here.
Each week, the pair meet a self-confessed fast fashion addict – from Donegal student Mollaí Ní Mhiacháin who spends 80% of her income on clothing, to teacher Corey Hanna from Derry who can’t resist an online sale.
Wardrobe overhaul
Caoimhe and Proinsias will give each shopper the tough challenge of cutting down their wardrobe and transforming their fashion habits. Bye-bye overnight clothing deliveries, hello streamlined, sustainable wardrobe.
Each overhaul begins with a wardrobe consultation from Caoimhe, leaving the shopper with just ten items of clothing to wear for the next two weeks – oh, and there’s a total ban on buying anything new in that time.
Back at Éadaí SOS HQ, Proinsias, the ‘numbers man’, carries out a clothing audit, measuring just how often each item of clothing has been worn, be it every week or never at all.
Can the shopaholics change their habits for the better? And how will they cope with their new, scaled down wardrobe? Tune in to the latest addition to TG4′s autumn-winter schedule to find out.
Éadaí SOS starts this Wednesday October 6 at 8.30pm on TG4. Missed it? Catch up on the TG4 Player.
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SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then
throws the milk away
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy
grows.
You sell them and retire on the income
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by
your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption
for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.
SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to
produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why
the cow has dropped dead.
A GREEK CORPORATION
You have two cows. You borrow lots of euros to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, feed sheds,
dairies, cold stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds.
You still only have two cows.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three
cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce
twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and
market it worldwide.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows,
but you don’t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the ** out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive…
Classic. Funniest thing I read in ages :)
Agree, very funny indeedy! Sorry Lily, I’ve just shared this on fb :)
Where do you think I found it ; )… I had to share…
* It’s been doing the rounds since at least 2008. In one form or another with people adding their own take on it… It called ’2 cows’ if you want to google it…
Brilliant.
For the sake of the cows, Ireland and Northern Ireland should just become the one country. Again.
This Linda Martin story keeps on mooing.
Didn’t the Church do away with Limbo?
So the problem is that they have to label the cows as Irish-born, British slaughtered, yes? All for the sake of travelling a few kilometres.
Couldn’t they just label them as Irish-born, reared and slaughtered? Even Paisley proudly calls himself Irish (his own words) by virtue of the fact that Northern Ireland is still part of the island of Ireland. So why can’t the cows be Irish too? Labelling problem solved. Everyone can calm down, relax and take a breather. This economic crisis that could have brought the continent to a screeching halt has been averted, so the European Parliament can go back to discussing the shapes of bananas instead.
Cows in limbo priceless
Limbo’s burgers
Some load of bull
I know a farmer in Roscommon. I wonder if he will let me try convince one of his cows to shimmy under a low fence to the sound of some Calypso music.
Limbo, Limbo, Limbo!
They are up in the dall
Seriously though Irish beef factories paying poor prices at the moment for home grown stock. They dont want farmers cattle. Not even interested in Bord Bia quality assured animals. The have sheds full of their own fit for slaughter. LH reg (Goodman country)lorries delivering cattle into Goodman factory into Bandon . Same story different year.
Sectarianism rears its ugly head again. Are cattle religious? This could get messy.
So these cows haven’t been baptised then?
All i remember about that article is, ive got 2 cows.
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