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This from the BBC this morning. How sick can you get:

Alert on 20th anniversary of bomb

Most of Enniskillen town centre has been re-opened after the police cordoned off an area around the cenotaph following a bomb warning.
It is expected that the Remembrance Day ceremony will not be delayed as a result of the incident.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of a bomb in which 11 people attending the town's remembrance service were killed. A total of 63 others were injured.

The police are still carrying out some searches in the area.

Ulster Unionist councillor Alex Baird says the incident has brought back "difficult memories of twenty years ago".

"I'm amazed that anyone could be so uncaring or unthoughtful at this poignant time on the 20th anniversary of the Enniskillen bomb.

"It's a difficult enough time, as any anniversary is for anyone, but this definitely pours salt in the wound."

Must be a new way of dealing with speeders from the North. I got a ticket on the M1 a few years ago. Though I have to say the Gardas attitude done more to slow me down than any ticket, he was spot on, no silly lecture, just a bit of common sense.

I don't know about whether its a new way of dealing with speeders from the North but as you say it was a much better way of dealing with speeding per se than giving a lecture. His attitude made me feel guilty whereas a lecture would have made me feel angry.

The Garda just wrote the details down in a little note book there was no form filled in or anything. He was actually a nice guy, no lectures or anything to be homest he seemed more interested in our cocker spaniel who was in the back of the car with the kids.

He should have given you a ticket, which you would have been obliged to pay. I doubt you will hear any more about it.

No he said he passes the details on to some company that deals with fixed penalty notices and they will send out the fine which is €80 if paid within 30 days, increasing to €150 and then, if not paid, a prosecution.

Were you towing a caravan at the time or a load of tarmac?

my thoughts exactly. we don't need that sort of driving here we have enough road deaths!!!

So Tankie, can you explain how the comment ' were you towing a caravan at the time or a load of tarmac' echoes your thoughts exactly. What have you derived from that comment.

Would you like to explain why you put innocent peoples lives in danger when driving like a mad man doing 91 in a 50 Zone?

Point is I wasn't driving like a madman. I was close to the end of a 50 kph section, the road ahead was completely clear, there were no pedestrians about and no junctions from which vehicles might emerge. The car in front was going slowly my 91 kph was as a result of a burst of speed to overtake rather than an average speed, I had a wife, 2 kids and a dog in the car so I wasn't going to take any chances with their lives. However as I said I had no excuse but I'm not going to be lectured by someone like you. So that's my explanation. Can you now explain what you derived from the comment ' were you towing a caravan at the time or a load of tarmac'

If you pay the fine you're ok. If you don't your car and caravan will be lifted. The garda have these new computer things that link into the system in the North that has car registation details.

Are you a member of the travelling community Mighty Quinn?

LOL. Not at all. I have a touring caravan and Lecale likes to link me with our Travelling friends. By the way I didn't have the caravan with me when I was in Donegal, 91 KPH in a 50 limit while towing a caravan would be madness

I must admit when I heard they were 1 up I thought they were home and dry. Hopefully there won't be any hangovers from this and they can get back to wimming ways next week

I intend paying it of course but was just interested to see how the land lay. I didn't have any identification with my address on it so technically I could have given a false one had I wanted to but I'm not into that sort of thing. The Garda just wrote the details down in a little note book there was no form filled in or anything. He was actually a nice guy, no lectures or anything to be homest he seemed more interested in our cocker spaniel who was in the back of the car with the kids.

Were you towing a caravan at the time or a load of tarmac?

my thoughts exactly. we don't need that sort of driving here we have enough road deaths!!!

So Tankie, can you explain how the comment ' were you towing a caravan at the time or a load of tarmac' echoes your thoughts exactly. What have you derived from that comment.

Whilst driving home from Donegal got done for speeding just coming out of Castlefin. No excuse really other that I'd been behind two old biddys since Ballybofey and it was the first chance I got to overtake them. Doing 91 in a 50 just yards from the end of the 50 limit. No penalty points as I'm from the North but I will get a fixed penalty fine. Are those things enforceable in the North?

Lads, lads, lads.

Yiz obviously know f**k all about beer. At least the Wobbler was honest in his assessment that the muck mentioned is just a tool to get wrot off if you drink enough of it.

Friday evening (any evening in fact) cracking open a cool..Peroni, Warsteiner, Budvar, Staropramen, IMPORTED Stella...one of the great pleasures in life.

Tennets, Harp, Carlsberg, Budwiser etc is shite. EOS.


By the way a pint of plain in the club beats the shite out of them all.

Mmm That remark reminds me of a quote from the comedy series Men Behaving Badly when Dorothy said to Gary ' You're idea of sophistication is to buy expensive foreign lager'  Fact is that there's no difference between any of the beers you mentioned and Tennants, Harp, Carlsberg etc. Indeed in Italy I'm sure there are probably some locals who, like you, most likely try to impress their friends by extolling the virtues of foreign beers such as Tennants and Carlsberg over local brews such as Nastro Azzurro etc. At the end of the day its a matter of taste and personal choice. When in France I drink Kronenborg, in Spain its Estrella Damm, in Italy Nastro Azzurro in other words I adopt the 'when in Rome' theory. Mind you in all these countries the choice of draught beer avaiiable tends to be 1 local brand and 1 German brand.

It's quite amusing though how a thread which was started as a means of drawing attention to the fact that there was a good offer on Tennants in Sainsbury's - and 5 Sams I can also confirm that Peroni is  also reduced to a fiver a bottle - has now evolved into an exercise in pretentiousness with posters trying to outdo each other with tales of their exotic drinking tastes. I suppose its only a matter of time before some garlic smelling vegan in corduroys and check shirt comes on to wax lyrical about  'Granddad's Hairy Scrotum' the CAMRA real ale of the month for November

In some respects you're not wrong there Gerry. I could  tell the difference between Tennants and Carlsberg if it was my first pint of the night but after a couple its not so easy. o my eternal disappointment I've tried on numerous occasions to drink Guinness and acquire a taste for it but all to no avail.

Have to disagree there chum. Its my favourite, it and Heiniken which, incidentally is also on offer a 5 litre keg of draught for around £5.50

Sainsbury's doing 3 x18 tin cases of Tennants for £20

Horslips

Yes indeed Mr Mackay