This is standard practice during heatwaves in other countries.
Hardcor07 on
Glad they didn’t hear about bonfires yet 🔥
Exact-Yogurt-2668 on
1000% agree. It’s a real issue for forest fires and unfortunately people aren’t abiding fire laws.
DennisDonncha on
>correspondence will be issued to retailers across the country recommending they cease selling disposable barbecues for now
What is the likelihood that we will be ankle-deep in puddles again by the time said correspondence is issued? Surely an announcement in national media is enough for this weak-willed recommendation?
Mindless_Let1 on
Wait does that include my own back garden? Would be a bit sad if I can’t enjoy a quick little bbq in the sun when there’s no trees around it
ConfusedCelt on
B&Q looking to ban competitors heh
AdBoring9620 on
Only time they’re going to sell them is in hot weather.
rockyoudottxt on

Lighter_Butane on
Ban, ban, ban. All they can do.
Upper_Ad8786 on
Nanny state… everything is a ban now. Jesus!
c-mag95 on
A standard gorse fire takes around 6-8 hours to fully put out, depending if the crew are any use, with there being at least 2 trucks on scene (normally more). Each truck has 5 firefighters and an officer who need to be paid, so that’s 10 firefighters and 2 officers all getting €50 per hour for 6-8 hours. Normally the firefighters pay is partly covered by the call out fees, but wildland fires are exempt from this, so the pay is covered by the local council.
Putting the obvious aside, most don’t realise how expensive a wildland fire is just on the fire brigade alone. Thats not including the cleanup and other work done by the NPWS.
lil_sass-a-frass on
They’re taking our water and our barbecue?? Ah here
Bighead2019 on
They should be banned for a number of environmental reasons but also and most importantly because the food off them is crap. The coals are too close and everything burns. Spend a little more and get a decent portable one.
flemishbiker88 on
You can make a disposable BBQ easily enough, i have made a few years ago when I did a bit of camping, I would just burry the spent charcoal and bring the foil and mess home, in many cases the mess was re usable for another BBQ
Behemothslayer on
Stop selling them, they’re shite anyway!! Food gets cremated and stinks of whatever they use to fuel the charcoal. Loads of cheap fold up ones available online
FatherFintanFay on
Tommy Shlug won’t be happy about this
Sheinkyakyu on
I am honestly surprised the Greenway trail at Blessington hasn’t gone up in flames over the years. The amount of shite, namely disposable bbqs you’d find there is insane during any time there is decent weather on a weekend. Forget actual heatwave. Thing is too, they’re often being used in the woodlands themselves.
Sympathise for those with a brain that know how to use and dispose of one correctly.
defixiones on
I saw smoke coming from the trees in Tibradden the week before last, but as I drove by I saw it was just some people barbecuing up against one of the trees and having a few cans.
GaryDnet on
Jesus, every other day I’m seeing „Call to ban X to prevent…“ or „Call to ban Y in fear of…“ and it’s just ban, ban, ban. People have become far too reliant on the state and the state is subsequently taking advantage of that to increase its hold over the individual’s daily life.
Personal responsibility is key here, and in any situation where there’s a call to ban anything. Stop taking freedoms away. The key to a safer world is not fewer freedoms, it is personal responsibility over actions. You can be as safe as anything when someone tells you what you can and can’t do for your own safety. Yes, you’re safe – but you no longer have any control.
AnyAssistance4197 on
Instead of doing what many other countries do and providing facilities for people to BBQ safely, ya know bits of auld concrete plinths to plant them on – maybe some public grills near picnic benches. The type of thing you’d see out in Canada or the like….instead….ITS BAN BAN BAN BAN…
ESCOOTERS BBQS NIGHT CLUBS DRUGS – it doesn’t matter, as long as it gets the votes of riled up auld ones who get their experience of the world from Liveline and some cracked out moron on Facebook with a fucking action camera on a home made stick…
BAN BAN BAN
EconomyCauliflower43 on
Every heatwave this gets raised and nothing happens.
conceptcat87 on
Ireland. Ban. Tax. Ban. Tax. Ban. Tax. No fun allowed.
Naval_fluff on
Where can u even BBQ now. Is it not banned on council beaches and land.
henchman171 on
Have you seen pictures from Canada recently? One big BBQ there
lace_chaps on
It’s funny how cooking outdoors over an open fire became a recreational activity.
UnoriginalJunglist on
For a temporary measure, I am calling for a ban on banning things as a temporary measure and to focus instead of addressing underlying economic and structural problems that lead to the conditions that require bans to be introduced as temporary measures.
Margrave75 on
The problem is cunts, plain and simple.
The cunts that don’t care what damage a hot bbq does after they fuck it away.
Lucky enough to have a decent lake side amenity near where I live.
I bring the dogs out early mornings in wether lime this for a swim, and the amount of rubbish just fucked everywhere……
Cans, bottles, disposable bbqs, all the food wrappers, discarded towels, picnic blanket, clothes.
It’s absolutely fucking shameful.
Talking to one of the council clean up crews a few weeks ago and asked could they not drop out a few of those large wheelie skips, he told me „the year we did that, the fuckers that leave the place like this started bringing out their rubbish from home to throw into the skips!“
Just to reiterate, problem: cunts.
TarMc on
Right, so someone has said something MIGHT have been responsible for a fire, with no evidence presented or even hinted at…therefore we must ban it. Okay.
DarkCrusade_IRL on
First, scramblers and e scooters now BBQ’s.
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This is standard practice during heatwaves in other countries.
Glad they didn’t hear about bonfires yet 🔥
1000% agree. It’s a real issue for forest fires and unfortunately people aren’t abiding fire laws.
>correspondence will be issued to retailers across the country recommending they cease selling disposable barbecues for now
What is the likelihood that we will be ankle-deep in puddles again by the time said correspondence is issued? Surely an announcement in national media is enough for this weak-willed recommendation?
Wait does that include my own back garden? Would be a bit sad if I can’t enjoy a quick little bbq in the sun when there’s no trees around it
B&Q looking to ban competitors heh
Only time they’re going to sell them is in hot weather.

Ban, ban, ban. All they can do.
Nanny state… everything is a ban now. Jesus!
A standard gorse fire takes around 6-8 hours to fully put out, depending if the crew are any use, with there being at least 2 trucks on scene (normally more). Each truck has 5 firefighters and an officer who need to be paid, so that’s 10 firefighters and 2 officers all getting €50 per hour for 6-8 hours. Normally the firefighters pay is partly covered by the call out fees, but wildland fires are exempt from this, so the pay is covered by the local council.
Putting the obvious aside, most don’t realise how expensive a wildland fire is just on the fire brigade alone. Thats not including the cleanup and other work done by the NPWS.
They’re taking our water and our barbecue?? Ah here
They should be banned for a number of environmental reasons but also and most importantly because the food off them is crap. The coals are too close and everything burns. Spend a little more and get a decent portable one.
You can make a disposable BBQ easily enough, i have made a few years ago when I did a bit of camping, I would just burry the spent charcoal and bring the foil and mess home, in many cases the mess was re usable for another BBQ
Stop selling them, they’re shite anyway!! Food gets cremated and stinks of whatever they use to fuel the charcoal. Loads of cheap fold up ones available online
Tommy Shlug won’t be happy about this
I am honestly surprised the Greenway trail at Blessington hasn’t gone up in flames over the years. The amount of shite, namely disposable bbqs you’d find there is insane during any time there is decent weather on a weekend. Forget actual heatwave. Thing is too, they’re often being used in the woodlands themselves.
Sympathise for those with a brain that know how to use and dispose of one correctly.
I saw smoke coming from the trees in Tibradden the week before last, but as I drove by I saw it was just some people barbecuing up against one of the trees and having a few cans.
Jesus, every other day I’m seeing „Call to ban X to prevent…“ or „Call to ban Y in fear of…“ and it’s just ban, ban, ban. People have become far too reliant on the state and the state is subsequently taking advantage of that to increase its hold over the individual’s daily life.
Personal responsibility is key here, and in any situation where there’s a call to ban anything. Stop taking freedoms away. The key to a safer world is not fewer freedoms, it is personal responsibility over actions. You can be as safe as anything when someone tells you what you can and can’t do for your own safety. Yes, you’re safe – but you no longer have any control.
Instead of doing what many other countries do and providing facilities for people to BBQ safely, ya know bits of auld concrete plinths to plant them on – maybe some public grills near picnic benches. The type of thing you’d see out in Canada or the like….instead….ITS BAN BAN BAN BAN…
ESCOOTERS BBQS NIGHT CLUBS DRUGS – it doesn’t matter, as long as it gets the votes of riled up auld ones who get their experience of the world from Liveline and some cracked out moron on Facebook with a fucking action camera on a home made stick…
BAN BAN BAN
Every heatwave this gets raised and nothing happens.
Ireland. Ban. Tax. Ban. Tax. Ban. Tax. No fun allowed.
Where can u even BBQ now. Is it not banned on council beaches and land.
Have you seen pictures from Canada recently? One big BBQ there
It’s funny how cooking outdoors over an open fire became a recreational activity.
For a temporary measure, I am calling for a ban on banning things as a temporary measure and to focus instead of addressing underlying economic and structural problems that lead to the conditions that require bans to be introduced as temporary measures.
The problem is cunts, plain and simple.
The cunts that don’t care what damage a hot bbq does after they fuck it away.
Lucky enough to have a decent lake side amenity near where I live.
I bring the dogs out early mornings in wether lime this for a swim, and the amount of rubbish just fucked everywhere……
Cans, bottles, disposable bbqs, all the food wrappers, discarded towels, picnic blanket, clothes.
It’s absolutely fucking shameful.
Talking to one of the council clean up crews a few weeks ago and asked could they not drop out a few of those large wheelie skips, he told me „the year we did that, the fuckers that leave the place like this started bringing out their rubbish from home to throw into the skips!“
Just to reiterate, problem: cunts.
Right, so someone has said something MIGHT have been responsible for a fire, with no evidence presented or even hinted at…therefore we must ban it. Okay.
First, scramblers and e scooters now BBQ’s.