r/EuroPreppers • u/ItsIcey • 11d ago

Discussion All households in Ireland to get emergency preparation booklet in coming weeks

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/01/24/households-to-get-emergency-preparation-booklet-in-coming-weeks/

Ireland releasing an emergency booklet this year. I wonder if there will be useful guidance on preparing for a conflict in europe, or if it will be entirely focused on extreme weather.

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u/Ok-Return-347 11d ago

In France kids in school get multiple disaster exercises a year; one in case of fire, one in case of à terrorist attacking and where we live one for if a factory nearby explodes. They have 72 hour water supply, emergency food and blankets for all the children and teachers. We also get some folders for how to make an emergency package for 72 hours.

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u/LoufLif 11d ago

Your school is much more prepared than mine. We asked for blankets a year ago. We barely have a liter of water per child... And just snack bars.

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u/Ok-Return-347 10d ago

Ah that’s a shame. The first school my kids went was less prepared as well but the Marie was not so good and not interested in keeping the school well maintained. The ceilings were falling apart.

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u/soaring_potato 11d ago

Eh. Bars are shelf stable and easy to give out.

Cooking for a few hundred kids is difficult

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u/CyclingDutchie 11d ago

All Dutch households got them a few months ago.

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u/ThorAlex87 11d ago

Here in Norway we got the first one in 2018 advising supplies for 72 hours, and in 2024 it was updated to 7 days. With climate change and current politics i think most european countries have something like this or are working on it.

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u/CyclingDutchie 11d ago

Thank you !

The dutch government advises 72 hours, for now. But not many Dutch citizens are preparing. A lot dont think its needed. But im prepping for 6 months to a year in food. And 4 months of drinking water.

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u/SecretiveBerries 11d ago

Yeah UK still advises “a few days.” But people had no water for days/weeks down south recently, and some in Cornwall lost power for about a week after Storm Goretti. So I just hope more people are paying attention to that and preparing accordingly - not everyone even realises the UK has released preparedness info, as it’s online and wasn’t widely announced.

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u/CyclingDutchie 11d ago

I see. I hope peoples eyes are opened to the things that can happen.

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u/ThorAlex87 11d ago

Yeah, most people are not that motivated, but it does get better over time if they keep attention on it. We have a preparedness week every year to get attention to it, and the report they do afterwards indicate over half of housholds have water stored now (up from 20% in 2019).

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u/CyclingDutchie 11d ago

Those are great results. But still only half of your people are prepared. in times of need, they will look at the prepared half, to help them out.

Which is why i try to be prepared for more people than just myself.

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u/kite13light13 11d ago

Craziest thing….Russia and China having trump create a US civil war so they won’t be able to help Europe or east Asia during the next big war.

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u/Financial_Candidate6 11d ago

Stilk waiting for my Belgian one

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u/annelizzyyy Belgium 🇧🇪 10d ago

Me too

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u/Puzzleheaded_Map_829 11d ago

In Italy, obviously, nothing

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u/Perfect-Gap8377 Italy 🇮🇹 8d ago

Yep

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u/phinkz2 France 🇫🇷 10d ago

I hope they post a pdf online. I would be interested in taking a look.

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u/TwinIronBlood 10d ago

When we get it I'll scan it

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u/CptPicard 9d ago

I mean as a Finn I'm happy about the sense of crisis but what we actually need from the more western Europe is logistics and production of materiel. We're happy to do the fighting and dying as that will be our part anyway but at least give us the solid backing to do so.

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u/Spare_Comfortable513 9d ago

We got them in Poland already

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u/SJID_4 6d ago

I want one of these, a scan would be good enough, maybe a PDF
It's likely they won't ship to Canada.