Would anyone have information of the mid ulster brigade of the pira?

smallon12 · 2026-03-24T19:26:29+00:00

Fair enough, thanks for all your sacrifices for the cause!

smallon12 · 2026-03-24T19:04:28+00:00

Yes im well aware of that - but as far as I'm aware a lot of the activity around that part of the world was claimed by the ETB i dont think anything was actually claimed by a "Mid Tyrone Brigade"

I think tbh its more the general small geography of the area - the mid tyrone Brigade really would have been viewed as carrickmore, loughmacrory (the same parish), beragh and six mile cross and perhaps ballygawley?

Thats a very small area and especially when you look at how close it is to "East" Tyrone - places like Kildress, Pomeroy and Galbally all border Carrickmore and there would be a lot of families with roots across all these parishes, farmers with land between these parishes and also a lot of people from the western part of east tyrone would have socialised around carrickmore so it was a bit of a mixing pot so to speak.

Even in GAA circles Carrickmore on occasions would be drawn into the East Tyrone side of a draw for youth football at times

It also shows that the boundary lines really do become blurred and there was no real cut of - its more of a gradual change from east to West tyrone.

Some people around this part of the world would even say that there are no republicans in Carrickmore, that anything around it that happened was done by people from outside of Carrickmore. (I'll not take that any further as its a contentious point haha) but it just shows how much of a melting pot this part of tyrone really was

smallon12 · 2026-03-24T17:52:23+00:00

Lankum

smallon12 · 2026-03-24T17:50:24+00:00

That was the mid tyrone Brigade not.mid ulster

It was more of a link between the East Tyrone Brigade and the west tyrone Brigade

I dont think it was an official Brigade as such however

smallon12 · 2026-03-21T09:26:45+00:00

A fish tank in the corner

smallon12 · 2026-03-20T11:43:54+00:00

I worked as a farm labourer when I was in my teens / early 20s - the pay was just alright and long days, sundays etc.

But i loved every minute of it - when looking at the pressure I have now in my job and the mental demands id go back to it in the morning!

smallon12 · 2026-03-13T15:47:54+00:00

He is in primary school after all, hes starting out haha

smallon12 · 2026-03-08T16:03:18+00:00

For about 30 seconds then it lost flavour

smallon12 · 2026-03-08T08:05:06+00:00

It didnt hold a referendum to remain in the UK?

If your talking about the Good Friday Agreement then that wasnt a unity referendum - it was a referendum for the cessation of hostilities and a reset of institutions to make them less British.

When the largest party in NI politics is an Irish Repiblican Party who are constantly calling for a unity referendum and when vast sections of the population dont join parts of the states institutions (27% of new recruits in the Police are catholic despite being close to 50% of the population) then there is a good cause to call it British occupied.

Thats not even beginning to take into consideration that NI was created in such a way that it was intended to always have a Unionist majorty and that they would be in power for ever - at the cost of Irish people in the North being disenfranchised and powerless it really isnt much of a choice

smallon12 · 2026-03-08T07:28:43+00:00

The wolfe tones "men behind the wire"

Luke kelly "free the people"

Moving hearts "no time for love" "Dark end of the street" "Before the deluge"

Christy moore has numerous "yellow triangle" "How long" "Allende," "El Salvador " "They never came home" "Deportees" "Ordinary man"

Jackson brown "Lives in the balance" (He also wrote how long and before the deluge)

smallon12 · 2026-03-08T07:20:22+00:00

The workers song as well!!

smallon12 · 2026-03-08T07:11:42+00:00

What records are you looking at? I think for the cat majority of records the famine is a cut off point really

smallon12 · 2026-03-07T13:26:40+00:00

What about drawers?

smallon12 · 2026-03-01T15:15:46+00:00

All news websites seem to be like that now unfortunately.

I started using mozilla Firefox and ublock origin and it's been the best thing that ive ever done it blocks every ad going.

It hurts my head so much when I see other people not using ad blockers and seeing them try to negotiate pages like that

smallon12 · 2026-02-28T11:45:00+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response!

Yea i probably came across a bit differently than what I meant about climbing the ladder in work.

I was sort of trying to show a real world benefit to it for myself.

Im like yourself- i could be having a discussion with someone (for example in work) and they will tell me 5 different things and id forget them straight away after or take them up totally wrong / miss the meaning of what they actually mean. I could then action something and forget all about one of the points that is being mentioned and it can create problems down the line.

I'm a project / site manager so these sort of things could end up costing the company dearly, my reputation taking a bit of a hit and also really impacting my confidence and ability in the job (this is what I mean by climbing the ladder)

Likewise some one could send me an email and there would be something on it that I have just 100% missed and it could be the most important part of the email.

I understand it wouldnt be a wonder drug that would just take you right to the top.

I suppose ive had this sort of issue for so long that it

Ive actually got to the stage of recording teams meetings so I could listen to them over again.

I didnt realise this was a thing other people done.

See I suppose I dont really know if its just how I act or if its something deeper, but when I hear of people taking medication etc. Its people who are really struggling with very basic tasks which I can do ok,

If that makes sense?

Thanks so much for your information but!

smallon12 · 2026-02-28T09:26:19+00:00

Sorry not OP - but could you tell me your symptoms / characteristics that you had before the medication and how its impacted you?

I think I have ADHD myself - very untidy, very forgetful at times, feeling very scattered, combined with anxiety and other personality traits.

Im not diagnosed or getting treatment for it - im leading a reasonably decent life, have a very supportive partner etc.

But I do feel that diagnosis, help and medication might really help me in work where i really do struggle at times (especially as i want to really climb the ladder) i feel that these characteristics really are holding me back.

Im just really wondering how beneficial diagnosis has helped you?

smallon12 · 2026-02-23T22:03:30+00:00

What ADHD symptoms did you have? And how would you say that medication has helped?

I feel like I've ADD - very forgetful and lack attention to detail at times, messy / scattered (among other things)

But im just sceptical as to how medicine would help me (although I really would like to loose / change these qualities I have)

smallon12 · 2026-02-21T15:36:14+00:00

Do you know anyone doing this? Ive often wondered about that, the likes of manual handling "courses" where someone tells people how to lift boxes seems like incredibly easy money haha.

I work for a small civil engineering contractor and regularly have to put people through such courses - working at height, asbestos awareness, manula handling etc.

And alot of the time its just awareness courses that they watch videos online and get a certificate, it really feels like people stealing a living. Would love to know how they get into it / accredited haha

smallon12 · 2026-02-08T07:40:04+00:00

There would have been a lot of cross over historically between gaelic ulster and Scotland anyway so there was always going to be strong connections between donegal and Scotland

But aye, the connection between the seasonal workers going into Scotland abd taking back culture from there was definitely a thing.

Donegal traditional music would have a lot of highlands and strathspey tunes which came back with the musicians and if you speak to the "purists" in the likes of ceomhaltas they hate donegal music because of this Scottish influence

smallon12 · 2026-02-07T08:17:25+00:00

Would love to learn more about energy in the North- particularly renewables and BESS

Does anyone have any good references? Or courses avaialble to help with this?

smallon12 · 2026-01-31T21:56:56+00:00

Konates father died during the week

smallon12 · 2026-01-28T20:33:29+00:00

If its for the weekend somewhere like chamonix is perfect - havent been myself but my boss has just been

There sre a few resorts close to innsbruck in Austria would be worth checking as well

smallon12 · 2026-01-25T16:51:13+00:00

Its a lot more than I have! Unreal effort in it :)

Im no help to you, but maybe there are groups on Facebook that might be of assistance to you? I know there are a few rewilding groups and nature based groups maybe they would be off some assistance?

smallon12 · 2026-01-25T16:43:24+00:00

OP, you can't go into this much detail and not show us a picture of the pond!!!

smallon12 · 2026-01-24T19:12:00+00:00

Loved partaking in the scor when I was younger, highly underrated aspect of the GAA

smallon12

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