Gorse Fires

[Syferus]

What sort of jackass goes out into the countryside to set fire to it?

[armaghniac]

Who calls whins "gorse".

[seafoid]

Who calls whins "gorse".

A garsún

[Orior]

15 year olds who want to proof to others that they are big men.

[omaghjoe]

Who calls whins "gorse".

+1

[Owen Brannigan]

Pity they wouldn't burn the whine that have populated the banks along the A4 dual carriageway instead.

How many of the fires are for clearing the bog before cutting?

[ONeill]

Most our way. Used to be quite a spectacle.

[manfromdelmonte]

Problem is no rain for 3 weeks

[Tony Baloney]

Burning whins was a rite of passage growing up. The local fire service got paid a callout so they didn't mind.

[ONeill]

We called it burning brackens.

[Main Street]

The optimum time for furze bush pyrotechnics is when the seeds are popping on a hot summer's day. It's not a bad therapy either for a kid, burn a few furze bush instead of working out your anger by burning down the school. Not that burning down a school is such a bad thing but perhaps consequences due to social outrage could make life more difficult.

[nrico2006]

I remember it was an annual thing back our way to get the whin bushes glowing.  It was great craic.

[Main Street]

Re the question in the opening post

What sort of jackass goes out into the countryside to set fire to it?

I don't know about jackasses but generally a person sets light to a whin bush, just to watch it burn.

[Hardy]

The Johnny Cash philosophy.

[Main Street]

Johnny doesn't own it.