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The basic point is that if we can discuss on the an Internet forum whether they had a clue, then no complex collusion was needed for the IRA to become aware of what they were doing.

My car turns itself on at random moments. Any cures?

1. take out the battery
2. take out the engine
3. leave your car immersed in a lake

Unmarked police cars/ their own cars. What difference would that make?
Provos would have recognised police cars as easily as private ones!

Basic common sense tells you not to drive around in a vehicle known to those who might shoot at you.

I have no doubt that on many many occasions during the conflict police / army in civilian gear have driven through republican areas and returned unscathed.

Not, I would have thought, in their own cars.

Louth are always up for a game against Armagh.

Poland had the biggest Jewish population of any country, as previous Kings had encouraged their arrival and as in subsequent times life there was preferable for Jews compared to Germany or Russia. There was tension there in the 1930s and anti-Semitism to be sure, but only in the ha'penny place compared to Germany. Also in the war Jews were seen as being somewhat pro-Russian, never a good plan in Poland.

So the events like those in the series could have happened, their depiction as the only events in Poland in a 3 part series would be very misleading for anyone without some acquaintance with history.

I joined with NotTonyFearon@yahoo.ie as my email 
Little did I know then that he would have preferred me to use the UK address.

O'Neill.

Watch out for the ANPR cameras
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=217547757041314517647.0004a03ad9fbe9f40a116

although presumably the sick counties will keep the discs to keep the folks in Coleraine in work.

A truly great man. Without him South Africa might have become Syria. RIP.

I just finished this mini series last night and rated it very highly but the exceptions sadly bring it down to the gutter.
One of the exceptions was so blatant it destroyed any credibility the series had, and that was the portrayal of the Poles resistance (the AK) as rabid anti semites, afflicted with extreme Jewphobia and any Polish farmer in the series was generally a rabid anti semite and a collaberator with the germans. You'd wonder what perception the german filmmakers or germans in generaL  have of the Polish resistance to Nazi german occupation, but this extreme depiction in the series was so deranged it was beyond belief.
It's almost as if, yes the German were bad but the Polish resistance was worse and the Russians were just pure evil.
Compare to those 2, maybe we were not that bad.
It's not that I expect germans to wearing sackcloth and ashes about WW2, but I'd expect a half way rational account of The Polish resistance.
If you keep in mind that this series is also an exercise in crude revisionism, then it's well worth a look.

I think the comments about Poland are very valid and this series has caused controversy elsewhere. A scenario where the Polish are more anti Jew than the Germans is a very suspect. Also both the army guys killed their superiors, which is not quite typical either. The out and out Gestapo guy working in public for the Americans sounds like a stretch too. Not sure that the Russians portrayal was unfair.

Having just watched Armagh and Down on "Armagh TV", this type of Internet streaming is the way forward rather than Sky.

Well done Armagh and Armagh TV.

Did Armagh come out after half time? Down doing all the work, now +2.

That way they'll stick to their "second class" place in future and not be taking the glory that rightfully belongs to their "betters".

So we are in agreement Im not for holding innovation back by any means, but I know the effect of just dumping jobs can have not only on the families involved but the local area and people depending on the spin off opportunities.

Keep the people in employment if you wish, but get them to do something that needs doing rather than something a computer can do!