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Currently, a hostile power like Russia doesn't need to land 100,000 troops on the beach in Wexford. They could bring Ireland to its knees with far less manpower and effort.
The remote cyber stuff is one aspect.
I'd suspect a few dozen personnel, unknown, unchecked and unhindered could neutralise Ireland's energy, communication, rail network, ports etc in short time. 
We don't think it will happen, but we definitely have little means to prevent the possibility.

The countries in immediate danger from Russian attack are former Soviet states and countries in close proximity.
But, Putin and Russia generally has a big problem with prosperity and democracy to the west of them in Europe.
The more attractive an entity like the EU looks, the greater the pull away from Moscow.

Putin would have no problem taking advantage of Ireland's weak defence if it gave him an opportunity to destabilise Europe even further.

Being 'neutral' or canvassing that Russia and Ireland are good buddies and should remain so, is not a strong defence policy.

Not too many countries can defend themselves from nukes if Russia so decided, regardless the size of their army.

Screen and Magherafelt were two that came to mind for me , I think Tyrone Gaa publish a breakdown of each clubs membership in their annual report not sure if Derry do likewise

That would be interesting to see.

Its weeks before Christmas and the RTE flagship show is running a 3 hour toy advertising campagin when parents are struggling, on top of which fire us all your spare money, who has that.

Sure it's only been like that for nearly 50 years. You are a bit late to the party if that's your concern from this years show.

Yeah - you mix it to a ratio depending on the strength you want it at and how bad the area to treat is. Gives you instructions - but you just spray it on and leave it. Takes a few weeks for it to start working.

Only prob is this country is too wet and too cold for too long, so any moss or algae will keep coming back. It's just a constant battle of the wills.

Derry and Antrim are long due a championship game.
The last one was the day before Eamon Coleman died in 2007. It was free entry that day because the previous match was postponed. Loads of people turned up even though they never paid in the original game.

what would be considered loads of people at a Derry-Antrim game? Reaching 4 digits?

17,500

I find it very hard to believe that 2 stands and 2 open terraces cant be built for 170M.
These are basic structures. 1 stand with hospitality the other just a normal stand like in every other country ground.
Surely that can be done and hold over 30k for the Ulster final

 

I've said it time and time again. The GAA need to cut their cloth to suit. Had they taken the Croke Park approach and built it one stand at a time with the funds available at that time, they'd have had Casement built by now. The blame for that lies fully with the Ulster Council, and it is a damning indictment on those involved to date. Failure to do so has opened the door to where we are today, with Unionists opposing everything to do with it, but the Ulster Council opened that Pandora's box by not having their act together 10/15 years ago.

Any OLED men? Is it worth it?
Currently sitting on the fence, and it's a big price jump.

It depends on how into your TV you are. I have bog-standard LED TVs and an OLED in the "good room". You can see the picture is sharper, and it pops out more. Was it worth it? I honestly don't know, as I'm not big enough into TV, movies and tech to really fully appreciate it, but I don't lose sleep over having spent a few extra quid on it. That probably doesn't make you any the wiser - it's just my experience.

That time of year again when the tar turns a nice green hue.
What do most of you do to treat the dreaded moss on the tar. Have just sprayed it so hoping that will kill it off. But then still need to remove it. Has anyone hired one of those pedestrian road sweepers to give it a good clean to remove the dead moss? Trying to avoid the powerhosing as not good for the tar apparently.

Sprayed the moss on the tarmac with Algae remover this time - finished by power hosing it off.
Useless.
Missing a few stones from tarmac now and all of the moss is still there.

Has anyone names of products that actually removed the moss?

MMC Pro

How Shane Carey recovered from that head injury in the 2nd half to lay down again, and then get up again was miraculous

In fairness if the ref seem the dirty dig he'd have sent 7 off, pure dirt, which you can't defend

And you can't address the correct point

I didn't post to address it, I posted to say complete dirt by 7 . Which you didn't address at the time. Players go down to waste time or fool the ref

Surely you'd know who Paudi McGrogan is? The man put in an unreal shift out there... Talk me through this pure dirt you keep talking about. I didn't see it

You didn't see it? Arsene stuff there.

Look if you didn't see it that's ok, neither did the ref but they slowed it down many times to show it

In fairness he asked you what it was. Can you not explain it?

Carey won the ball in his own box, 7 pulled him down, free out but he threw a dirty dig into the ribs, TG4 showed it at least two or three times in slow mo after it happened. I posted at the time when he done it

That wasn't hard. I hadn't seen it either at the time but will be going back for a look.

great game and makes for a great final. Scotstown have a lot of cleaning up to do but i think they just about deserved it today

Began with those 2 pointers is a massive weapon in your arsenal

How Shane Carey recovered from that head injury in the 2nd half to lay down again, and then get up again was miraculous

In fairness if the ref seem the dirty dig he'd have sent 7 off, pure dirt, which you can't defend

And you can't address the correct point

I didn't post to address it, I posted to say complete dirt by 7 . Which you didn't address at the time. Players go down to waste time or fool the ref

Surely you'd know who Paudi McGrogan is? The man put in an unreal shift out there... Talk me through this pure dirt you keep talking about. I didn't see it

You didn't see it? Arsene stuff there.

Look if you didn't see it that's ok, neither did the ref but they slowed it down many times to show it

In fairness he asked you what it was. Can you not explain it?

The refereeing of the tackle has been inconsistent to say the least

He has been woeful in that respect

Newbridge will be regretting a lot of them wides now!

Quick question for the legal people on here.

We are involved in a legal dispute over a boundary with someone who purchased land beside us a few years ago. They initially made direct contact with us, and we went to our solicitor. They then had a solicitor involved very briefly, but over the past year, they have been directly contacting our solicitor with all kinds of letters and emails demanding proof or this and that. This all seems like a play so that they are leeching money from us as we have to pay our solicitors' time, but they have no legal costs.

My query is, can they keep contacting our solicitor directly, or can we insist that any communications to our solicitor go through their solicitor, so at the very least, they are also incurring expenses? It might make them think twice about sending communications/requests to our solicitor.

Christ Almighty, you'd have thought they'd have made a call like this before the game began, it's not like conditions were much better then. This is a serious mess of a situation now

Another f**k up in the catalogue of fucks up by the Ulster Council. They are an embarrassment. Why they insist on playing these games in Omagh when they know it is a disaster of a pitch.

What happens now?