Cathal Nolan
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first heard Jul 2026
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It certainly can't.
I mean, when we look at the conditions yesterday in Madrid, we had westerly winds which were feeding that smoke plume from the central mountains just to the west of Madrid, directly across the capital itself, leading to a significant deterioration in air quality.
Globally, 1.5 million people are estimated to die each year as a consequence
of smoke inhalation issues directly associated with wildfires so these wildfires it's not even as we said so much the immediate evacuation or the immediate threat of the fire itself but it's as an impact of the smoke inhalation that we see the particulate matter and the exacerbation of certain respiratory conditions for those who are suffering from such conditions and indeed the possibility then of the impacts the particular matter can have on on your overall lungs and health quality so
We are very concerned about this.
And as we mentioned, with the heat wave expected to develop again during the course of the week, it's likely that these fires could very well continue to burn out of control for a forthcoming seven to 10 days, perhaps.
That certainly can be the case.
I think in terms of the Irish context with regards to wildfires, it's something that we're not aware of.
We're not very well educated on in terms of the impacts of wildfires and even in terms of our management policies.
Typically, because our climate is as damp as it typically is and fire conditions, while becoming more frequent, are still considerably less frequent than that of our European counterparts.
there is a case of perhaps the need for review in terms of our overall management of wildfires and even management of landscape practices in and around our forested areas and particularly so around our upland areas where we continue to see wildfires either set deliberately as an act of traditional kind of management of the land or in terms of just negligence in terms of those using these particular areas.
There has been a period, I think it was in and around about the medieval warm period, where we saw an increase in the production of wine across certain parts of southern England.
Now, to my knowledge, there has not been wine production at scale to any similar extent in the context of Ireland and certainly not in the context of Scotland's climate.
So I would question that particular statement.
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