The pub is all that's remaining in the corner block from Tara Street Station to the newish office building beside the IT offices. That newish building will be demoloshed as part of the Metro plams to forma new street level concourse between the metro and Tara Street DART station.

https://imgur.com/a/hQqR9kF

This guy made a fortune in the 20s sticking goat balls in people as a kind of viagra. Early version Alex Jones
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vokz4SHGJzCPPvQvr8oaf

This fella started the essential oils craze. Both of them are pretend doctors.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0b6dz1CndHVVsMoYGKRBD9

I bought CBD gum this weekend as it happens because I saw the USPGA are banning it on foot of concerns it might be PE and suspicion that Woods and Mickelson are taking it. I'm sitting exams and haven't noticed any change in mood or improvement in cognitive ability.

I've 220m of the fúcking things. Will you clear mine when you're at it?

In other news, the Russians are playing silly buggers up north.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland ... -1.3935137

Pretty easy target, you'd have thought. Shouldn't take too much to wind up some people in either community and they'll just do the rest off their own bat.

Are you saying that nordies are a bit thick

Get a chainsaw and start hacking away at them.
They make great firewood.

on this topic - I moved into our gaff last year - there's a dividing wall with our neighbours that will probably fall down soon. They've got a huge tree by the wall that has branches coming into our back garden and very close to windows in upstairs bedroom. Personally I'm not too bothered but missus next door has brought up with my missus about rebuilding the wall. We haven't discussed it with them but it'll come up at some point, I wouldn't put anything towards the costs until they did something about the tree - the roots of which are probably causing the wall to resemble a Kerry full back line (for Zappa if he's about)

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'm with 123. Worked out cheaper than Liberty for me by a couple of hundred euro.
It's not random but a lot is based on their risk profile and the cohorts of customers they want on their books.

Talked to AA, got it down to €820 from €1,000 for no real reason. Just copped that Liberty are having a flash sale this week which would explain why they're in the €550 range. Excellent.

Anyone else currently renewing should have a look.

The Irish backstop was designed jointly by the EU and the Irish and British governments to protect against the return of an Irish border, but if it backfires by triggering a ‘no deal’ outcome, it will have become entirely self-defeating.

Because if ‘no deal’ becomes the default position of the British government, then Mr Varadkar can expect the choice to be framed between accepting the long-term risk of a ‘no deal’ - after a hunt for alternative arrangements fails or a putative time-limit expires - over the imminent chaos of a ‘no deal’ this year.

It is this trade-off that sees some EU member states speculating privately that Mr Varadkar might yet agree to a ‘time-limit’ to the backstop, as the pressure starts to bite in autumn. The Irish side remains adamant it will not budge.


Still, the EU are fully expecting Mr Johnson to put the heat on Mr Varadkar who - as his own central bank warned last week - faces a four percentage point drop in GDP in the first year of a ‘no deal’ and average incomes losses per head of Irish population estimated at €720 (£640) - seven times those of Germany.

The EU remains foursquare behind Dublin, but at the same time it is making very clear - as we report today - that in a ‘no deal’ it will expect Ireland to live up to its obligations as a member of the EU single market.

Mr Varadkar accepts these obligations, but in a ‘no deal’ is still presented with an invidious choice between erecting a trade border in Ireland, or diluting Irish single market status by accepting checks between Ireland and the Continent.

Mr Varadkar and the Commission prefer to skate over this hard choice, arguing instead that the British government must live up to the “letter and spirit” of the Good Friday Agreement and do what is necessary to avoid a land border.

Read this on the torygraph today.

Could this happen? It would be quite a bitter pill to swallow to keep an open border:

We are already after hiring the border staff, no border is a work of fiction unless the Brits accept the WA

For me if the choice is a border on the island or an open customs border to mainland Europe, it's the latter every time.

For me if the choice is a border on the island or an open customs border to mainland Europe, it's the latter every time.

The border will be on the island, they have left slip plenty of times that they are preparing for it. Putting a customs border between us and Europe is unworkable

And then we join Schengen.

Very simple.

Make absolutely no effort to check goods leaving the Republic. Make every effort to check goods entering the Republic and choke the kip.

You are legally allowed to cut off any branches growing over/into your garden, provided you give your neighbour the branches (his property).

Which is what will happen if the UK doesn't reciprocate.

A week of chaos at Dover should bring them to some sense.

Cheers....I,ll start digging up the roots tonight and fcuk them over the wall

Read this on the torygraph today.

Could this happen? It would be quite a bitter pill to swallow to keep an open border:

Dig directly down on your side of the wall and hack the shit out of any roots that have grown across to your side.

I do see a potential downside to this but fcuk it.....

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Neighbour disputes about tree encroachment are more hassle than they're worth.

Trees and hedges
You do not have a right to cut down such a tree without the consent of your neighbour. Overhanging trees or encroaching roots may be regarded as a nuisance and you are entitled to cut back the overhanging or encroaching branches or roots to the boundary line.

Are you saying that the Citizens Information Board is incorrect ?



http://www.citizensinformationboard.ie/ ... 17_12.docx

Neighbour disputes about tree encroachment are more hassle than they're worth.

Are you saying that the Citizens Information Board is incorrect ?



http://www.citizensinformationboard.ie/ ... 17_12.docx

These siptu striking healthcare peripheral workers are an utter disgrace. An illegal strike without going to through the labour court and they expect us to believe “it’s not about the money”. Vulnerable sick patients are going to suffer serious cancellations because of siptu playing their political games.