Say, Patrick, can you tell me the way NOT to get to Ireland?

The Irish seem to have had all the “luck” lately. We only just reported on a turbine that tumbled back to earth in County Tyrone, Ulster a week or so back – with a sound like an “exploding bomb” (see our post here). And have been reporting about tumbling turbines and flying blades so often lately, we’re wondering whether the wind industry is suffering some kind of hex.

Here’s the Irish Independent on – yet another – blade throw event.

30-metre blade plunges from wind-farm turbine
Irish Independent
Majella O’Sullivan
8 January 2015

Something’s missing, in my life …

THE Health and Safety Authority is investigating how a blade became unattached from its turbine and fell to the ground at a Co Kerry wind farm.

The blade, measuring up to 30 metres, came apart from its…