With Dr Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist
Look out for charlock growing on recently disturbed ground on roadsides or new house sites where the seed gets a chance to germinate, as it is an annual plant.
Charlock is an annual weed of tillage crops. It is similar to brassicas like oilseed rape with bright yellow flowers with four petals. Nectar is easily accessible by insects. Branched stems grow up to a half a metre with variable lobed leaves, the upper ones stalkless. Its name as Gaeilge as praiseach bhuí appears in placenames such as Cloonprask in Galway and Trafrask in Cork.
Valued as a food during the famine, charlock is part of our native Irish biodiversity.
With the summer travel season approaching, many consumers are awaiting a well-earned break. But what if something goes amiss with your flight and you are left unclear to your rights?
If your flight is delayed, the airline must provide you with care and assistance depending on the length and nature of the delay.
For example, if you are delayed for five hours on a medium-haul journey, you are entitled to claim for compensation but not if it is due to severe weather conditions.
A top tip is if an airline leaves you to fend for yourself during a delay, keep all of your receipts so you can claim back any expenses you are entitled to.
If your airline cancels your flight, they must offer you the choice between re-routing as close as possible to the original time, re-rerouting at a later date or a refund.
Similarly, if your flight gets overbooked the airline must offer you an alternative flight as soon as possible, at a later date of your choice or a full refund.
• For more, see ccpc.ie
Molly Ellis, The Wild Felter.
In this week’s Meet the Maker, Grace Hanna chats to The Wild Felter, Molly Ellis about all thing’s wildlife, felt and nature.
All the work I had been doing and editing over the years had been me working towards being a fiction writer. All the skills I needed were there. I had control and tone and, suddenly at 30, I also had ideas. I thought, ‘OK, I know myself now and I have thoughts that I want to say about the world’ and so, suddenly, it flowed out of me. Booker Prize winner 2023, Paul Lynch
Paddy Fenton Brosnan helping with twin lambs on his grandad’s farm. \ Phil Fenton, Co Kerry
Crosswords: Poem from Rambles in Kilcommock, Volume 8 written by Paddy Egan, 2023
It’s a mental craze without a doubt
Trying to work those crosswords out
My dictionary I’m about to scan
To decipher a word to fit the plan
The clue looks simple from initial glance
But the downward clue leaves me askance
I wrack my brains for that elusive word
It makes me feel a hopeless nerd
Those crossword puzzles I do enjoy
Although by times they can annoy
Oft for hours I peruse and ponder
Such teasers cause the mind to wander
Crosswords promote an active mind
They help relax, rest and unwind
They’re never serious nor too sublime
An ideal way to pass the time
Students, housewives, farmers,
scholars
And even those in roman collars Cloistered ladies with holy vows
All do the crossword when time allows
Hi-tech gadgets are now being used
What was once a pastime, is now abused
The challenge involved is now no more
No longer a teaser like days of yore
We’ve completed crosswords of
various sizes
But never enter or claim the prizes
We don’t consider their financial worth
Just enjoy the craic, a bit of sport.
The father-daughter team made an offer under the asking price of €175,000, which was accepted, and received the keys in February 2023. Niav estimates that the renovation cost around €70,000 to open the doors in November 2023. Milliner Niav Riley
Read more
Meet the Maker: Molly Ellis
Editorial: super supermarkets
With Dr Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist
Look out for charlock growing on recently disturbed ground on roadsides or new house sites where the seed gets a chance to germinate, as it is an annual plant.
Charlock is an annual weed of tillage crops. It is similar to brassicas like oilseed rape with bright yellow flowers with four petals. Nectar is easily accessible by insects. Branched stems grow up to a half a metre with variable lobed leaves, the upper ones stalkless. Its name as Gaeilge as praiseach bhuí appears in placenames such as Cloonprask in Galway and Trafrask in Cork.
Valued as a food during the famine, charlock is part of our native Irish biodiversity.
With the summer travel season approaching, many consumers are awaiting a well-earned break. But what if something goes amiss with your flight and you are left unclear to your rights?
If your flight is delayed, the airline must provide you with care and assistance depending on the length and nature of the delay.
For example, if you are delayed for five hours on a medium-haul journey, you are entitled to claim for compensation but not if it is due to severe weather conditions.
A top tip is if an airline leaves you to fend for yourself during a delay, keep all of your receipts so you can claim back any expenses you are entitled to.
If your airline cancels your flight, they must offer you the choice between re-routing as close as possible to the original time, re-rerouting at a later date or a refund.
Similarly, if your flight gets overbooked the airline must offer you an alternative flight as soon as possible, at a later date of your choice or a full refund.
• For more, see ccpc.ie
Molly Ellis, The Wild Felter.
In this week’s Meet the Maker, Grace Hanna chats to The Wild Felter, Molly Ellis about all thing’s wildlife, felt and nature.
All the work I had been doing and editing over the years had been me working towards being a fiction writer. All the skills I needed were there. I had control and tone and, suddenly at 30, I also had ideas. I thought, ‘OK, I know myself now and I have thoughts that I want to say about the world’ and so, suddenly, it flowed out of me. Booker Prize winner 2023, Paul Lynch
Paddy Fenton Brosnan helping with twin lambs on his grandad’s farm. \ Phil Fenton, Co Kerry
Crosswords: Poem from Rambles in Kilcommock, Volume 8 written by Paddy Egan, 2023
It’s a mental craze without a doubt
Trying to work those crosswords out
My dictionary I’m about to scan
To decipher a word to fit the plan
The clue looks simple from initial glance
But the downward clue leaves me askance
I wrack my brains for that elusive word
It makes me feel a hopeless nerd
Those crossword puzzles I do enjoy
Although by times they can annoy
Oft for hours I peruse and ponder
Such teasers cause the mind to wander
Crosswords promote an active mind
They help relax, rest and unwind
They’re never serious nor too sublime
An ideal way to pass the time
Students, housewives, farmers,
scholars
And even those in roman collars Cloistered ladies with holy vows
All do the crossword when time allows
Hi-tech gadgets are now being used
What was once a pastime, is now abused
The challenge involved is now no more
No longer a teaser like days of yore
We’ve completed crosswords of
various sizes
But never enter or claim the prizes
We don’t consider their financial worth
Just enjoy the craic, a bit of sport.
The father-daughter team made an offer under the asking price of €175,000, which was accepted, and received the keys in February 2023. Niav estimates that the renovation cost around €70,000 to open the doors in November 2023. Milliner Niav Riley
Read more
Meet the Maker: Molly Ellis
Editorial: super supermarkets
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