It’s over five weeks since Storm Eowyn unleashed its enormous and destructive power on Ireland. Mayo was one of the counties that bore the heaviest brunt. Tens of thousands of people lost power and water for far too long.
All around me, I heard people talking about reopening their fires, getting rid of the electric cooker, cancelling the order for the heat pump, desperately searching the internet for the most-wanted accessory in Ireland: the diesel generator.
I can understand this response, and I think that in rural Ireland particularly, where we have greater dispersal of housing reliant on overhead electricity wires, it makes sense to keep a solid fuel source of heat in the house (like an efficient solid-fuel stove), a good supply of torches and batteries, and access to a gas camping stove at........

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