{"id":689864,"date":"2026-07-13T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689864\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:52:10","slug":"countryside-is-a-tinderbox-because-of-ban-on-burning-brush-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689864\/","title":{"rendered":"Countryside is a tinderbox because of ban on burning brush \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\ufeffSir, \u2013 We as farmers are not allowed to burn bushes and fallen branches (even though the rest of the population lights bonfires for festivals, weddings and sporting achievements) and as a result the countryside is a tinderbox of piles of dry timber waiting for a devastating wildfire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In other countries they actively encourage controlled burning to avoid this. Burning or rotting releases the same amount of carbon, so the carbon argument is irrelevant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Our Government is endangering lives and property needlessly with this ban on controlled burning. \u2013 Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ADAM GOODWIN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Castledermot, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Kildare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ufeffSir, \u2013 We as farmers are not allowed to burn bushes and fallen branches (even though the rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}