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Seen a queue outside my local Lidl the other morning at 7:30. Checked their website to see what the star item was in the middle isle this week & it seems to be their robot mower for £179
I came across this thread where someone did a fairly in depth reviewboards.ie Lidl mower review

has anyone a list of the GAA council facilities per council in the 6 counties

see this on twitter a while back (30 in total as per 2023-24 FOI request)
https://x.com/smccourt1992/status/1885072681080381578

Not an Android box question but I've seen loads of adverts for these retro games consoles boxes/sticks that plug into TV and you can play all the old Sega Mega drive and SNes games amongst others.
Anyone ever buy one of them?

We got the kids a dance mat game at Christmas off amazon. We didn't realise but it also came with all the retro Nintendo games on it.
I've played a few of them, only issue is it doesn't seem to save your game progress, and the controllers are a bit cheap.
I've seed the ones list with PS1 games etc, look really good for the price

Two questions regarding IPTV on firesticks;
1.   I know there are different IPTV players available. A friend uses one called "8K" I'm not a huge fan of this interface. I think it would be better if you could hide the streams you're never going to be interested in, e.g. foreign languages & an overview TV guide would be good rather than having to click each feed – has anyone got a better recommendation?

2.   My friend just bought the IPTV feed from someone on FB marketplace, all communication via whatsapp & payment via paypal.
Is there a better way to pay without a trail of evidence leading back to his paypal?
I know they're not going to come after end users, but still

If you're happy enough to bring a tent and go camping, it's a great way to experience the islands.

Can you just land out with a tent & pitch it anywhere? I'd say landowners on the island would be much the same as here and not appreciate that?
There are lots of accommodation options on the Donegal mainland though & just do a day trip to Tory?
I'd like to get to Tory this year, my mum has far out relatives there & I haven't been since I was a child

Good friends of ours have a house in on Inishbofin, which is now serviced by the Tory ferry during the tourist season. They hire it out in summer, although I don't see it on Air BnB atm
There's absolutely nothing to do there, but enjoy the scenery & peace;

What do the rules say here?
Can the game officially be awarded to Omagh, or does there have to  be a farcical scenario of Omagh turning up for the "replay" and Maghera not fielding?

Killyclogher in Tyrone have one.
I was there on a frosty morning before Christmas and you could see the route it had taken earlier – it had just went around all the white lines & then taken a diagonal route from the furthest corner of the pitch back to its charging point. I'd assume you can program in a load of different routes to do in sequence each day so you don't end up with half the pitch cut & half not.
They look like a great job

Anyone any experience of using battery storage in the context of solar panels?

Often see case studies like this
Residential Solar Install In Moira
but no hard figures on previous electricity units used/cost in a year V what it is now & the costs of installation/maintenance

Would be interesting to know the installation costs on a basic family home, say 2 adults 3 kids & would it produce enough power to run all the appliances in the home year round, or in addition would it also produce enough power to charge an EV to do 100mile a week

Been toying with holidays for next year. Did CP this year and few shorter breaks down south. Kids loved it and said they'd prefer CP over a sun holiday. But have been in CP the last couple of years.
Was thinking of heading over to England and going to one of the similar sort of places. Ideally one where you could go to a theme park or two on day trips.
Any recommendations for somewhere maybe with good entertainment on site?

Flying or Driving?

Always hear good reports about Duinrell Euro Camp in the Netherlands - 30mins from Airport, has an on site theme park included.

We did Domaine des Ormes in Brittany last year, handy drive from the ferry, & lots of tourist attractions within 30mins (Mont St Michel, Zoos, & Aquarium ) similar setup to Centre Parcs in Longford - KelAir based in Galway have a big presence on site & do ferry/accommodation deals from Ireland


Or if you want to go to the UK, would you try one of the Centre Parcs over there? Whinfell Forest is <3hours from Stranraer. Weather could be shite though.
Woburn Forest is about an hour from Legoland & Thorpe park

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.