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camroc1 wrote:

paddyor wrote:url not correct there Cammy.

Apologies.

Try this :

https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

you need to wrap it in url tags, the automatic url identification doesn't go past the brackets

Have they set a start date for any of the expansions? Northern line in particular?

de_Selby wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

paddyor wrote:url not correct there Cammy.

Apologies.

Try this :

https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

you need to wrap it in url tags, the automatic url identification doesn't go past the brackets

OK, try this :
https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

normilet wrote:

danthefan wrote:

normilet wrote:Time for the annual car insurance hunt. Any particular provider jumping out recently as not being totally sh*t?

Currently with the AA, fully comprehensive, able to drive any other car, which suits me. They sent a renewal quote which was exactly 11 cent cheaper than last year, no accidents, no penalty points, no claims etc.

Edit: Right, just tried liberty insurance and for almost exactly the same cover, its half the price. Literally from about €1,000 to just over €540. Double checked the details I put in were correct, all fine. Something screwy there, can't be that random.

I saw this so decided to get a quote from Liberty, they had some sale on but went from 750eur with FBD to 502eur with Liberty for fully comp. Had just renewed so had to pay the cancellation fee with FBD but was paying them via DD so still saving 250 quid.

Anyone got any recommendations for house insurance?

camroc1 wrote:

de_Selby wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

paddyor wrote:url not correct there Cammy.

Apologies.

Try this :

https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

you need to wrap it in url tags, the automatic url identification doesn't go past the brackets

OK, try this :
https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

Most depressing and honest quote from that link cammy.

Construction of DART was subject of severe
criticism from politician and economists
based on cost and value for money

Our managing classes have to be among the most incompetent globally. We can't be far off south american levels of fubar. At least we beat the Africans.

Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Mullet 2 wrote:Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Only in Ireland, etc etc.

Cemetery Sunday 2019:

Garda Dog unit

Armed Response Unit

Garda Helicopter

Garda Command

Dozens of Gardai on duty.

All to stop the knackers fighting.

We have lost this battle.

Liathroidigloine wrote:Cemetery Sunday 2019:

Garda Dog unit

Armed Response Unit

Garda Helicopter

Garda Command

Dozens of Gardai on duty.

All to stop the knackers fighting.

We have lost this battle.

By comparison 70k march in Dublin on Saturday in the Gay Pride march, and the only coppers to be seen were either marching in the parade, on traffic direction duty, or Leos protection squad.

lorcanoworms wrote:

normilet wrote:

danthefan wrote:

normilet wrote:Time for the annual car insurance hunt. Any particular provider jumping out recently as not being totally sh*t?

Currently with the AA, fully comprehensive, able to drive any other car, which suits me. They sent a renewal quote which was exactly 11 cent cheaper than last year, no accidents, no penalty points, no claims etc.

Edit: Right, just tried liberty insurance and for almost exactly the same cover, its half the price. Literally from about €1,000 to just over €540. Double checked the details I put in were correct, all fine. Something screwy there, can't be that random.

I saw this so decided to get a quote from Liberty, they had some sale on but went from 750eur with FBD to 502eur with Liberty for fully comp. Had just renewed so had to pay the cancellation fee with FBD but was paying them via DD so still saving 250 quid.

Anyone got any recommendations for house insurance?

Having both with the same provider often results in a discount.

Mullet 2 wrote:Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Dutch ranked 8th in the world.

The Irish are ranked between Belgium - a failed state that wants to eat itself

and the Republic of yellow vest.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankin ... ctiveness/

camroc1 wrote:

Liathroidigloine wrote:Cemetery Sunday 2019:

Garda Dog unit

Armed Response Unit

Garda Helicopter

Garda Command

Dozens of Gardai on duty.

All to stop the knackers fighting.

We have lost this battle.

By comparison 70k march in Dublin on Saturday in the Gay Pride march, and the only coppers to be seen were either marching in the parade, on traffic direction duty, or Leos protection squad.

danthefan wrote:

lorcanoworms wrote:

normilet wrote:

danthefan wrote:

normilet wrote:Time for the annual car insurance hunt. Any particular provider jumping out recently as not being totally sh*t?

Currently with the AA, fully comprehensive, able to drive any other car, which suits me. They sent a renewal quote which was exactly 11 cent cheaper than last year, no accidents, no penalty points, no claims etc.

Edit: Right, just tried liberty insurance and for almost exactly the same cover, its half the price. Literally from about €1,000 to just over €540. Double checked the details I put in were correct, all fine. Something screwy there, can't be that random.

I saw this so decided to get a quote from Liberty, they had some sale on but went from 750eur with FBD to 502eur with Liberty for fully comp. Had just renewed so had to pay the cancellation fee with FBD but was paying them via DD so still saving 250 quid.

Anyone got any recommendations for house insurance?

Having both with the same provider often results in a discount.

Used to have good contacts with Landlord insurance brokers who would give me a deal on my own house.
This mob want us to take out two years at a time, same crowd that we have car insurance with.

camroc1 wrote:OK, try this :
https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

It is going to all end in congestion without DU. Would be interested to know the frequency they are planning on for Maynooth, Hazelhatch and Drogheda.

Blackrock Bullet wrote:

camroc1 wrote:OK, try this :
https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

It is going to all end in congestion without DU. Would be interested to know the frequency they are planning on for Maynooth, Hazelhatch and Drogheda.

I agree.

DU is the key to increasing through city services.

The reason for the delay is that it's "unaffordable" which is patent nonsense given negative interest rates on government loans.

Shane Ross requires defenestration and replacement with someone who is at least interested in PT.

"Unaffordable" means they can't sell it to politicians, let alone the general public. This is a 50 year failure now.

I'd prefer the NTA to take over this project, or at least double up on it, they are the ones who have the ear of the people that matter.

nardol wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

de_Selby wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

paddyor wrote:url not correct there Cammy.

Apologies.

Try this :

https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

you need to wrap it in url tags, the automatic url identification doesn't go past the brackets

OK, try this :
https://www.engineersireland.ie/Enginee ... f?ext=.pdf

Most depressing and honest quote from that link cammy.

Construction of DART was subject of severe
criticism from politician and economists
based on cost and value for money

Our managing classes have to be among the most incompetent globally. We can't be far off south american levels of fubar. At least we beat the Africans.

This is the most depressing part;

“Dublin is no longer a small city. With the current regional population of about
850,000 and a vehicle ownership of 160,000, it has assumed many of the
characteristics of concentrated urban living which have made life difficult and
have presented long-term serious problems in the urban areas of other
countries…………….Parking has reached saturation level with present facilities.
Existing public transport has been unable to effect significant improvement due to
congestion on aerial routes into and out of the city”

The Dublin Transportation Study, 1971

Things are moving though. On Friday the tender issued for multi disciplinary consulants for the Kildare line DART Expansion

https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Suppli...wNotice/215085

Project includes:

* 20km of electrification and resignalling of the Kildare line from Hazelhatch to Heuston, and through the Phoenix Park Tunnel to the western side of Glasnevin Junction
* Quad tracking from Parkwest into Heuston Station
* Structural works associated with 4 tracking at South Circular Road, Memorial Road, Sarsfield Road, Kylemore Road and Le Fanu Road bridges
* New station at Kylemore
* Realignment works to segregate DART + Intercity
* Any required upgrades for the Phoenix Park Tunnel
* "Passive protection" for future development of DART Underground

The problem as always will be whether the construction button will be pressed at the end of the design process. This, in itself, is a reduced programming, as the tracks were originally going to be doubled to Kildare, now only going as far as Parkwest !

nardol wrote:

Mullet 2 wrote:Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Dutch ranked 8th in the world.

The Irish are ranked between Belgium - a failed state that wants to eat itself

and the Republic of yellow vest.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankin ... ctiveness/

Quite the change from just above South America

Do you want a hand moving the other goalpost?

Mullet 2 wrote:

nardol wrote:

Mullet 2 wrote:Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Dutch ranked 8th in the world.

The Irish are ranked between Belgium - a failed state that wants to eat itself

and the Republic of yellow vest.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankin ... ctiveness/

Quite the change from just above South America

Do you want a hand moving the other goalpost?

Ireland is closer to Aruba than it is to The Netherlands on that list.....

And you live where again?

Mullet 2 wrote:And you live where again?

Rathfarnham

Thought so.

If Ireland is such a shit hole, why have 150,000 people chosen to come here and apply for citizenship since 2011.

Liathroidigloine wrote:If Ireland is such a shit hole, why have 150,000 people chosen to come here and apply for citizenship since 2011.

Its not a shithole. Where did I say that?

Its run by shitholes.


Its also a lot better than Africa, the Middle East, and large parts of the third world

Love it or leave it Dutchy

Mullet 2 wrote:Love it or leave it Dutchy

Pffff suck my free movement of people

nardol wrote:

Mullet 2 wrote:Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Dutch ranked 8th in the world.

The Irish are ranked between Belgium - a failed state that wants to eat itself

and the Republic of yellow vest.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankin ... ctiveness/

What I like about you PhDboy is that you really keep your fingers on the pulse...!!

The Sun God wrote:

nardol wrote:

Mullet 2 wrote:Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Dutch ranked 8th in the world.

The Irish are ranked between Belgium - a failed state that wants to eat itself

and the Republic of yellow vest.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankin ... ctiveness/

What I like about you PhDboy is that you really keep your fingers on the pulse...!!

You're part of the global problem mr tax exile

nardol wrote:

The Sun God wrote:

nardol wrote:

Mullet 2 wrote:Actually this is one of the best run and most stable countries in the world.

Dozy Dutch prick

Dutch ranked 8th in the world.

The Irish are ranked between Belgium - a failed state that wants to eat itself

and the Republic of yellow vest.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankin ... ctiveness/

What I like about you PhDboy is that you really keep your fingers on the pulse...!!

You're part of the global problem mr tax exile

........ I'm only here for the hot women and fine wine.

Certain problems deserve to be tackled head on.

redderneck wrote:Certain problems deserve to be tackled head on.

Yeah, the knack issue is certainly one of those.

There are a fairly small number of countries you can compare Ireland unfavourably to. South f**king American countries are not amongst them. I always wonder how much of the world these 'only in Ireland' dopes have seen. It can't be much.

danthefan wrote:There are a fairly small number of countries you can compare Ireland unfavourably to. South f**king American countries are not amongst them. I always wonder how much of the world these 'only in Ireland' dopes have seen. It can't be much.

I lived in Argentina for 4 years as a child

nardol wrote:

danthefan wrote:There are a fairly small number of countries you can compare Ireland unfavourably to. South f**king American countries are not amongst them. I always wonder how much of the world these 'only in Ireland' dopes have seen. It can't be much.

I lived in Argentina for 4 years as a child

Cool.

danthefan wrote:

nardol wrote:

danthefan wrote:There are a fairly small number of countries you can compare Ireland unfavourably to. South f**king American countries are not amongst them. I always wonder how much of the world these 'only in Ireland' dopes have seen. It can't be much.

I lived in Argentina for 4 years as a child

Cool.

You're questioning what I've seen.

I am telling you.

Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Also - I thought i was being fairly obvious in my exaggeration.

nardol wrote:

danthefan wrote:

nardol wrote:

danthefan wrote:There are a fairly small number of countries you can compare Ireland unfavourably to. South f**king American countries are not amongst them. I always wonder how much of the world these 'only in Ireland' dopes have seen. It can't be much.

I lived in Argentina for 4 years as a child

Cool.

You're questioning what I've seen.

I am telling you.

Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Also - I thought i was being fairly obvious in my exaggeration.

Deadly.

nardol wrote:

danthefan wrote:There are a fairly small number of countries you can compare Ireland unfavourably to. South f**king American countries are not amongst them. I always wonder how much of the world these 'only in Ireland' dopes have seen. It can't be much.

I lived in Argentina for 4 years as a child

This actually makes it worse. With you, and I can't stress this enough, it can always get dumber.

I think every Irish man with a brain is just sick to death of hearing the "only in Ireland" cliché.

I'm not wrong though.

Institutional effectiveness is fairly shite in Ireland and nobody is able to refute other than name calling.