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There is an Interactive Map
The bit from Magheramason to Newbuildings does look very close to the Foyle

Wesley Johnston's diagram below explains the difference in "Sections" & "Phases"
I seen him say on Twitter that it wasn't clear if an Omagh bypass was included in the Strabane to ballygawley phase

No doubt another legal challenge from the Alternative A5 is being preparer and will further delay this?

Name and shame them at this point

Hamilton Hassard - Newtownstewart
Hamilton Hassard Linked In Profile
His Air BnB

Hamilton not prepared to say how many members the AA5A has

Ciaran McClean - Omagh
his twitter
Ciaran compares the A5 to a Famine road

[Brocagh ever produced an above average footballer, serious Question?]

Too much shite on this page now! Lorcan Martin in with Killeshil adds a different dimension to them. With Micheal Oneill and Tomas Hoy they are the 2 most inform forwards in the County, and add in the evergreen Packie McMullan. Don't forget Killehsil were a kick of the ball away from putting Galbally out of the championship a few years ago. And look how Galbally performed this year until Marty Brannigan ran out of $$$$. Tight battle expected with Drumquin, Oisin Gormley, Ronan/Lawrence Strain and Charles McDonagh all good players. Aghaloo will slaughter Brocagh, have Brocagh ever produced an above average footballer, serious Question? Brackaville, Killyman and Derrystresk have all produced good players/ championship winning teams.

Ciaran Donnelly played Sigerson for UUJ in late 2000s- was he on a Tyrone McKenna cup squad?

Surely by now people will have realised that RTÉ, ahem forget, to block restricted shows on the their HD channels..
The Olympics, Champions League, Home & away etc are all unblocked in the North on the HD channels. Its currently channel 31 on my TV but I think it originally tuned in at 800+

Different story if you're on Sky, but if you have a TV aerial you should be able to get it same as me

How are aghaloo still in Div 3? You see them putting up huge scores in that division for the past 3-4+ years only for them to end up bottling the league, championship and league playoffs every year.

They threw away the championship semi-final last year to Fintona in the last 10 - they were the stronger team with most possession but weren't converting that to scores on the board - Fintona got 1 single attack in that period and hit the net to win the game.

Division 3 is incredibly hard to get out of, and then stay out of

Not exactly the TDF but was walking the dogs along the tow path where I live, its a shared tow path for walkers runners dog walkers and cyclists, has a beach along side it and fairly busy at the weekends and after work, but some of the cyclists think they should be hammering along the path at speeds that would hurt themselves or anyone they hit, be it a child a dog an adult!

This one fat turd of a cyclists was complaining yesterday that the dogs have to be on leads, not true, if he'd care to read the rules of the place on the many signs about, I mentioned that his expensive bike didn't have a bell to warn people that he is coming of behind people at which point as he rode off giving me the w**ker hand signal

This coming from a man that squeezed his large fat belly into spandex Lycra that you'd be embarrassed to be seen in.

Rant over about cyclists, this coming from a retired cyclist

I thought the only place in NI where you definitely aren't required to have a dog on a lead is in a designated dog park, or private land? In all public places it must be "under control", which doesn't mean on a lead, but it is an offense to allow a dog to cause injury to a person.

Why do journalists keep allowing them to hide behind the group name? You can't publish a quote as offensive as that & not name the individual who came out with it!

[8th July]

Anyone anxious and worrying about Aer Lingus action next week? 
Waiting to hear today if our flight is being cancelled, and even if it isn't, I'll spend all next week worrying about it.

When is your Flight? We are down to fly with them on the 8th July. Wife is already panicking

It's between 26th June & 2nd July though, so you should be fine?
It's shit timing, I'd say there are plenty of people taking the kids out of the last week of school to get a reasonable priced holiday and now they're landed with this!

Any recommendations for family friendly hotels or accommodation in Albuferia, Portugal?

https://www.alfagar.com/
Stayed in Alfagar Alto da Colina a good few years ago. Good spot, access to the pools of 2 other hotels owned by the group, walking distance to 2 beaches (sand wasn't very fine on them) & walking distance to the new town strip with a buggy. We had a car & drove to the old town & Vilamoura

We need to see more of this. Indeed it needs the full backing of VFI and another supplier ready to step in.

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/dublin-pub-takes-stand-against-29004882

(Why do so many "news" websites have to destroy the user experience with an advert every scroll? Yes I clicked on that article because it interested me. No, I refuse to stay on that site and see if there's anything else interesting to read)

I thought you couldn't penalise customers for paying by card now? the article doesn't clearly explain their "cash discount scheme"
The Chinese we go to used to charge 50p to pay by card, now since that rule came in they only accept cash

Extend the "R" period to 3 years
Nothing over 1.2 in that period & no unrelated passengers 10pm – 7am

Government are never going to introduce rules like that, so its up to parents really.
Although in this most recent accident they may have already been driving 3+ years, so would make no difference

I rolled a car when 30, driving too hard in slippery conditions on a road I was familiar with, so can't lecture.

[Is this actually needed?]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68621308
Is this actually needed?

Needed?
In one word: No
But the 5 schools yet to move to the site require different levels of investment in their current facilities if those schools are to remain on their existing sites.
I think it's a case where you have to think of the long term benefits, which will be financial among other things.

I think it'd do no harm for kids from those schools to mix more if possible. Ironically the Integrated school in town is not part of this project (they waited many years for their own new build)

Definitely a good proposal but the road network to the site is poor apart from the new link road out to the  Derry Road

3 of the existing school sites don't belong to the DENI but to Trustees.
The Sacred Heart college site is massive and could be worth a few pounds

If it were to open tomorrow, there would be traffic chaos no doubt, but solutions can be found to that.

One of the key aims of the project is to make community use of such a large patch of land vacated by the army – but if it goes ahead, its going to leave 5 (?) other prime sites vacant. It'll be interesting to see what happens to those & as you say the Education board doesn't own them all.

Will the CBS hold on to their playing fields at Coolnagard if they have new pitches at this development & the brothers park just over the footbridge from it?
I seen a councilor pushing Fermanagh & Omagh DC to provide GAA pitches in the council area recently, maybe they would be interested in purchasing..

Another bad smash. O'Dowd needs to get the finger out and get the Omagh - Ballygawley stretch built asap

It has probably been answered on here before – but what was the reasoning that it couldn't go ahead in 3 separate sections?
IIRC some of the original objections came in the Omagh(Strabane?) to Derry section because of rivers linked to the foyle?

Omagh to Ballygawley is terrible

Not new car but looking advice. Have a q7 had a suspension issue as one wheel dropped. on. Brought it to A guy and he's fixed the problem but the suspension light still comes on after driving a while. He said it's a senor issue and can replace. But car driving fine. I have MOT in a couple wks. Will it fail for the yellow suspension light if it comes on during the MOT?

Yep.
Buy a code scanner from amazon & remove the error until your mechanic can change the sensor

I've tried searching this thread for posts on Euro Camp Holidays as I'm sure I've seen them mentioned before, but its returning nothing(?)

Currently exploring the idea of our first trip abroad with the kids – 6, 4 & 3
We liked the idea of the ferry to Brittany, but its around 17 hours & actually quite expensive so looking at flying
Has anyone any airport/camp combinations to recommend? Thinking short transfer
I've been checking flights to Nates/Paris/Amsterdam – might have to go the 12th week which isn't always ideal

I'm seeing flights from ~£800-1300 (before luggage) & the camp starts at less than £800 which isn't bad at all compared to a package holiday