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Amazon.ie seems to be up and running.

Not sure how prices compare and it isn't in Hagglezon.com yet.

There is a case for favouring other non US suppliers, but Amazon works and you can find stuff.
It seems a bit unclear about deliveries to the 6 counties.

Amazon.ie to start next year.
This will be handy, although cue people who are using it complaining about the lack of shops in their village

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0509/1448097-amazon-ireland/

If you are old enough to remember Big Joe Kernan and Jimmy Keaveney both scoring 2 goals in the same AI final then you should attend to your pension. There is an article in the Sindo today about this.
If you are from the 6 counties or worked there or in Britain and have not been working there for the last couple of decades then you can buy UK State pension contributions from 2006 until July, after that you can only buy 6 years. So this would suit people who moved away or people working in England etc in the past. This would be like buying an index linked annuity from age 67 except it is only a fraction of price. You only get paid from age 67 but then you could get the cost back in less than 5 years and if you live for another 20 years you'll liberate the UK exchequer of quite a bit more than you paid. 

Check out your present situation  https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record
you can use a passport for ID purposes and it helps to have your old national insurance number to hand. 
Worth checking if you are somewhere near reaching the age required and haven't been working in the UK lately, but did before 2006.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CapturedCctv/status/1615327072641232896

The DUP thread seems to have disappeared, or my search skills have gone to sh:te. I was't enamoured of the title but it was a useful place to gather various examples of prejudice.

I would have posted this. Back in the day the DUP were boycotting Bushmills as they were sponsoring the GAA, presumably Antrim.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41034599.html

Scene from the Real Ulster comedy club.

I propose a thread to keep some of the best retorts, comebacks and general smart alec comments on GAABaord.
You can't nominate yourself, best if someone you have put down does it.

Sometimes on TV etc you see people that you can only admire.
I remember thinking this a couple of years ago when there was a woman from Tallaght who was campaigning for an old person, her connection with this person was that she had been hired as a cleaner.

Tonight, I am watching the father of those 3 children who were killed by their mother and I do not think that I would have the composure and strength that he has.

Non essential shopping haul seized and brought back to the station.

This guy, James Crombie in Offaly, took advantage of the supermoon last night with this shot.

I caught a bit of John McAreavey on Pat Kenny just now
https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-the-pat-kenny-show/john-mcareavey-on-life-after-michaela

He is launching a podcast on events in Mauritius on 2 December.