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Scotstown are playing well. 8 points to 1

Scotstown 6
Kilcoo 1

Good breeze for scotstown?

Yes

Cill Chua vs an Bhoth

https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/watch-live/home/

TG4 coverage of Moneyglass vs Clonberne

https://www.youtube.com/live/pzxJDUbbeAE?si=eIE7B3h21o4KUMXV

https://www.oddschecker.com/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/ulster-club-sfc/winner

Kilcoo 8/13
Scotstown 5/4

https://www.ft.com/content/db1c00d8-1118-474e-8230-c7139b981556

In Donald Trump's telling, London is governed by a "horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor", Sadiq Khan. European leaders are "weak", their nations "decaying" and the EU was established to "screw" the US.  Trump reserves much of his sharpest criticism for America's allies in Europe. The US president's frustration with Nato members over their failure to meet the alliance's defence spending targets was well known. The level of antipathy was not.

https://www.ft.com/content/e50481a3-161c-4002-83e4-cae0be12799e

Ukraine would join the EU next year under a proposal backed by Brussels in negotiations to end Russia's war, a move that would transform the bloc's approach to admitting new members. EU accession by January 1 2027 is specified in the latest draft of a peace proposal that Ukrainian and European officials have presented to Washington

Here's the link to the Commission on the Defence Forces with the number of ships and airplanes

https://www.military.ie/en/public-information/publications/report-of-the-commission-on-defence-forces/

A nuclear attack by Russia is unlikely. Economic attack is more likely unless we have deterrence. There is no excuse with the budget surplus.

We should be investing in cyber security and if necessary for defence purposes.

But back to a question asked earlier, how many jets do we need?

Having three isn't worth my arse full of warm snow, we need at least 20 and a few nuclear warheads hidden in the bogs of Offaly and to come out of the ground like in thunderbirds.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/12/12/stephen-collins-if-russia-decides-to-attack-the-eu-irelands-wide-open-back-door-may-give-it-a-way-in/?The third level of ambition put forward by the Commission included the development of a substantial mechanised component of the army. It also called for a balanced fleet of at least 12 naval ships, supported by appropriate technology, the acquisition of a squadron of combat aircraft, a joint cyber-defence command and an expansion of the Army Ranger wing to include dedicated combat helicopter assets.


https://aerocorner.com/blog/how-many-planes-squadron/TLDR – Squadrons typically include between 12 and 24 aircraft, depending on the type of aircraft and the branch of the military. Land-based squadrons with heavy aircraft may have around 12 aircraft in a squadron. However, fighter units may have 18 to 24 aircraft.

A nuclear attack by Russia is unlikely. Economic attack is more likely unless we have deterrence. There is no excuse with the budget surplus.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/12/12/inflation-explainer-why-are-prices-in-ireland-accelerating-again/

After falling to less than 1 per cent this time last year, headline inflation has risen back over 3 per cent, placing a renewed squeeze on Irish households. The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI), the State's official measure of inflation, clocked annualised price growth at 3.2 per cent in November.

This was the highest level recorded since February 2024.

So what's driving it?
In a word, restaurants. The biggest driver of the November figure were restaurants and hotels, which saw prices rise by 3.6 per cent on an annualised basis.

While other sectors like education had bigger year on year price hikes, the restaurants and hotels category, which includes coffee shops, has a significantly bigger weighting in the overall rate. It accounted for 0.73 per cent of the 3.2 per cent rate recorded last month.


Prices in restaurants rather than the cost of hotel accommodation were pinpointed as the main culprit. And apparently these relate directly to higher food prices.

The price of basic foodstuffs has been elevated for months and it seems this has now percolated into restaurants and onto menus. The cost of meat and in particular beef was highlighted as the biggest single factor. Separate CSO data, published on Friday, indicated the cost of cattle rose by 47 per cent year on year in October.



What else is behind it?
Food inflation remains elevated in Ireland with prices rising by 4.2 per cent in the 12 months to November. Food also has a big weighting in the overall calculation. It accounted for 0.46 per cent of the 3.2 per cent.

Within the food category, the price of beef was up almost 24 per cent year on year while lamb and poultry prices were up 17.9 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively. But meat wasn't the only driver, b

https://x.com/CBSSportsGolazo/status/1998533998901887433

Shels and Shamrock Rovers both lost last night. Not looking good for qualification.

And both lost again last night. You could excuse Shels, even if Palace sauntered through their defence at will, as they were playing a team from one of the main European leagues. Rovers was a bad loss - is the Icelandic league so superior to ours? I wonder what kind of spin will Eamon Sweeney try to put on this?

Defending was poor in Iceland

https://youtu.be/sf3eP0kPgzQ?si=5F7r4tIffl5O1poP

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/11/nato-chief-prepare-for-war-with-russia/The West faces war with Russia on a scale not seen since the days of "our grandparents and great-grandparents", the head of Nato warned on Thursday.

Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, said Vladimir Putin had chosen the alliance as his "next target", in some of his strongest warnings yet on the prospect of war spreading across Europe.