Nettles are ok until the middle of April, they become too coarse after that date and are useless for making lovely creamy Champ or Colcannon.
Boil the young Nettle tops in milk, slowly, while the Potatoes boil, when the Spuds are ready dry them off and with a sturdy Beetle pound them merciless, then drain the milk of the boiled Nettles and with a portion of salt in the Spuds, add the nettles and finish off with another good pounding.
Add a lovely big dollop of butter and then get stuck in to the creamy nectar of the gods.    God i`m bloody dying with the hunger. Ard Mhacha.