Climate change may kill spuds

THE humble spud could face extinction in a sun-sizzling Ireland within two generations.

Experts predict some traditional Irish crops will not survive startling climate changes, in a revised book, Climate, Weather and Irish Agriculture.

Co-edited by Tom Keane, formerly of Met Éireann, and Jim Collins of the Department of Crop Science, Horticulture and Forestry at UCD, the evidence of change is provided by leading meteorologists, agricultural scientists, pathologists and hydrologists in Ireland.