Bernard O'Shea: Peat briquettes are the new Bitcoin

In our house the heat was treated like an elusive spy who would cunningly try to escape any way possible and head off to London to buy forbidden things, like condoms or mint Kit-Kats

Bernard O'Shea. Photograph: Moya Nolan

There are a lot of elusive goods that retailers and customers can’t get their hands on right now like luxury electric cars, Rolex watches and, believe it or not, the most exclusive of them all briquettes.

Last year as part of its “Brown to Green” strategy focusing on renewable energy, Bord na Mona announced that they were going to cease peat harvesting for good. Which means that the peat briquette as we know it will be gone as soon as stocks run out in 2024.