Bogman wisdom makes an awful lot of sense

Donal Hickey on the value of our rapidly vanishing bogs.

A WISE man offered yours truly a bit of advice the other day. "If you've an acre of bog somewhere, mind it. It could be very valuable before you know it," he declared.

Elaborating, he pointed to the increase in oil prices, which could be start of huge upsurge in the cost of petrol and heating oil like we saw 30 years ago. Out of necessity, we might all become peat bog soldiers once again, he warned, though he forgot that large amounts of bogland have been planted in the last 20 years.