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AT LEAST TWO Irish organisations are preparing to launch their pre-Christmas campaign urging shoppers to buy Irish goods.
Guaranteed Irish is airing its ‘Shop For Ireland” ads from next week which say that spending €4 more a week on Irish products will create 6,000 jobs in Ireland.
GI says that recent research involving 1,000 people aged 16 or older in Ireland found that four in five people believe it is more important to buy Irish goods and services now than five years ago.
Meanwhile, the Craft Council of Ireland is also appealing to the public to direct some of their Christmas present expenditure towards Irish-produced crafts. The council is launching a new Irish-made jewellery exhibition at Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 tomorrow.
The organisation says that research it commissioned from Millward-Browne Lansdowne has found that 83 per cent of Irish women believe that an Irish craft piece is the ideal gift, while a recent report by Deloitte found that jewellery is one of the top five most-wanted gifts at Christmas.
Brian McGee, head of market development at the Crafts Council of Ireland, said: “We appeal to consumers to think twice about making that purchase an Irish one when they are shopping this season.”
The CCI also said that nearly 120 retailers in Ireland are taking part in their Give Irish Craft campaign this Christmas.
Irish shoppers are expected to be the highest spenders in Europe again this Christmas. The annual Deloitte Christmas spending survey found that Irish households are expected to spend an average of €943 this festive season. In comparison, Dutch households are expected to spend an average of €260, while households in Luxembourg are expected to hit an average Christmas spend of €923.
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Looks like a very well managed response from dfb.
@Toca Stories: agreed. Not an easy job ..
How’s the traffic now, with the woke city transport plan to cut off the thoroughfare?
@Rafa C: 60% less traffic and 20 minutes won for commuters so it’s pretty good. No need a car to go in the city center so it doesn’t matter.
@Alex: not what it i was asking. Presume you meant 20 minute walk. Which was always the case.
@Rafa C: They meant worse for car drivers and better for everyone else
@Mick Duvanny: not what I was asking though.
@Rafa C: As I said, it is better, can’t you read? Are you missing some grey matter or having trouble to understand basic concepts?
@Rafa C: It’s 20 win for commuters by bus not walk. I assume you don’t live in Dublin so you are just a clueless potato.
@Rafa C: how can a traffic plan be woke? Lol.
@Alex: Born and bred in Dublin, don’t live there anymore. I’m asking how the traffic diversion has affected the already diverted traffic and is it adding to the problematic traffic in other areas.
@John Moore: The traffic plan is an example of ‘woke’ thinking because it’s based on a pretentious ideology that aims to redistribute traffic for the supposed benefit of the wider community. It’s sold as a progressive solution to congestion or pollution, but in reality, only a small group of people benefit, while the majority are negatively affected. It prioritises symbolic gestures over practical outcomes, leaving thousands stuck in longer commutes or forced into less convenient routes, all to satisfy an agenda that sounds good in theory but doesn’t actually improve the situation for a majority of people.
@Alex: and save your nasty comments if you can’t reply kindly then don’t
@Rafa C: Alex’s first language must not be English from what I can read. His posts are barely legible. And then he tries to be smart out of embarrassment by saying his grey matter spiel. He is to he pitied really.
bloody scooters always going on fire!
bloody EV’s always going on fire!
Oh wait, its a truck and its not electric at all.
Who knew that filling a truck with flamiable liquad would be dangerous!
@Martin Bishop:
Except diesel isn’t a flammable liquid (note spelling)… It’s classified as combustible.
@Regular John: Determining if diesel is flammable or combustible depends on its flash point (the minimum temperature at which fuel vapours given off by a flammable liquid can catch fire if exposed to a flame). This is why throwing a match into some types of diesel will put out the flame, but you can’t do this with petrol.
Flammable fuels have a flash point below 60 °C, however the flash point of diesel varies between about 52 °C to 93 °C, so depending on the blend is can be classed as a flammable liquid.
Diesel in Ireland has a flash point of >55°C, therefore Diesel is classed as flammable liquid. This is the classification for Diesel in Ireland:
4.3.1 Overland transport
Class: 3 – Flammable liquids
Danger code: 30
ADR classification code: F1
ADR danger labels: 3 – Flammable liquid
On the other hand, biodiesel has a flash point >130 °C, it is a combustible liquid.
That said, a combustible liquid can become a flammable liquid if heated enough, e.g, heating a fuel tank in a fire that then ruptures. Thus, the question if a fuel is combustible or flammable, in a fire, is often a moot point.
@David Jordan: an epic technical burn bravo
@David Jordan: Ha ha… I don’t think you actually know what flashpoints mean. You’re a great man for going straight to Google on subjects you obviously know nothing about.
A flash point of 52⁰C means the fuel is not flammable until it reaches that temperature. I don’t think we’ve ever had that kind of ambient temperature in Ireland and that is why diesel is not considered flammable. A match thrown into a bucket of diesel at ambient temperatures will always put out the flame, not sometimes as you state, always.
Looks like the fake news by Jak has been scraped! Good call.
Hopefully the structural members didn’t get hit with too much heat. Fire and structural steel aren’t a good mix.
Now that it’s reopened I’ll go on!
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