Blindboy

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The Blindboy Podcast · Have you anything to say about the Fuel protests Blindboy? Or are you a Government shill who is worried about losing his next Late Late show appearance? · 15 Apr 2026 podcast

specifically so that something like this could never happen because something like this used to be completely and utterly unthinkable it used to be unthinkable that the farmers of Ireland could not access fertilizer that's just no no no that's not society no no no we can't let that happen

How do you not let that happen?

Well, what you do is you have a fertiliser company which isn't run for profit.

This actually isn't run for profit.

It's run by the state as an essential service because fertiliser is so fucking important.

Food security is so important that just like our electrical service is state run, or the health service,

Or even the airline is state run.

We need to have essential services and we can't expose these to capitalism.

We need to make sure that they're state run.

So fertiliser is so important.

Let's do that.

So in the 1960s, Irish Fertiliser Industries, IFI, there were two fertiliser plants in Ireland.

One of them was down in Cork, I believe.

But these were state bodies, semi-state companies like Aer Lingus, but of fertiliser.

From the 1970s, Ireland had, we had natural gas from the Kinsale gas field.

So Ireland was producing its own fertiliser for our own farmers at an affordable price because it's not being run for profit, it's being run for the social net for food security.

By the 1980s, it started to collapse because of neoliberalism, because of cheap imported fertilizer from outside, from the private market, from these new companies that were being set up in the Gulf, were undercutting.

This really, really, really cheap imported fertilizer was undercutting the safe domestic fertilizer that existed to prop up the food safety net.

And then by 2002, the company had to be wound up

So by 2002 we no longer had a national state producer of domestic fertiliser.

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