Christmas dinner saved bytheIrish

BRITISH Christmas dinners were saved this year by Ireland shipping us a million Brussels sprouts because foreign moths killed our home-grown veg.

The UK’s sprout crop took a hit this summer when hungry diamondback moths were blown from Europe to the UK and gobbled fields of budding Brussels, leaving the remaining sprouts puny and tasteless.

Pat Farrell, from the Irish Farmers’ Association, said: “As far as I know this is the first time that sprouts grown in Ireland have been sent to the UK.

“Thankfully, Irish growers didn’t have the same weather and disease-related problems this year.”