Primary insurers and reinsurers negotiate contracts of reinsurance (insurance for the insurance company) utilizing facultative agreements and/or treaty agreements; usually these are used in combination. Each of these agreements serves a particular purpose as follows:
Colcannon and champ. Potatoes transformed the Irish diet when they were introduced from the New World in the late 16th century. Irelandâs population boomed with this cheap and plentiful food source, but was later decimated, in the 19th century, when the potato harvests were hit by blight.
The potato was the staple food of Ireland at the time, with most of the population relying on it for much of their diet. Poor people who lived in rural areas tended to eat potatoes almost exclusively. From 1845 to 1849 a plant disease caused the potato crops in Ireland to fail, year after year.