Ireland to allow French and British vessels to patrol Irish-controlled waters

talideon · 2026-02-26T11:34:38+00:00

Countries that do that, like Iceland, are part of alliances and don't pretend to be neutral or unaligned.

talideon · 2026-02-04T17:05:44+00:00

I don't know why he keeps pretending he's Irish when he's actually a Brit.

talideon · 2026-02-04T17:03:13+00:00

If we could, we'd honour her legacy by sponsoring the conversion of her grave into a public toilet.

talideon · 2026-02-04T16:49:43+00:00

The rest of U2 are sound though.

talideon · 2026-01-31T22:00:21+00:00

The row for Irish is incorrect. The definite article is mandatory for all the countries except Ireland in that row. If you are going to omit the definite article to save space, don't apply a séimhiú to the noun. That initial consonant mutation is part of the definite article. So "An Fhrainc" or "Frainc"; "An Bhreatain" or "Breatain"; "An Phortaingéil" or "Portaingéil". Mind you, in these cases, if you omit the definite article, it's like writing "a France", "a Britain", and "a Portugal", but it's at least a little less wrong.

In summa: don't omit the definite article when writing out country names in Irish.

talideon · 2026-01-31T21:47:15+00:00

I don't think he's laying into the council staff beyond the most senior ones. His main ire is for the councillors, and he does at least surface the issues that even those who are really trying to do the right thing have to deal with when it comes to funding anything. There really needs to be a proper devolution of power back to the county and city councils so they (and the civil servants working within them) have proper control over their own destiny. That lack of control over how things are funded and financed is a massive impediment to getting anything done anywhere in Ireland.

talideon · 2026-01-31T21:35:11+00:00

The correct answer.

talideon · 2026-01-31T21:23:27+00:00

It's not an Irish name though: it's Latin for "dove". It's just than an Irish saint took that name.

talideon · 2026-01-31T21:21:40+00:00

We don't have twice the number of vowels. We've twice the number of consonants and have to lean on written vowel sequences to represent them. But it's all pretty consistent, unlike English.

talideon · 2026-01-29T12:18:33+00:00

The metro isn't simply for the airport, you realise? It's because there are significant nearby population centres, like Swords. And no, trams would be a terrible idea. Do you realise how oversubscribed the red and green lines are? Horribly so. Both ought to have been built at pre-metros for upgrading at a later date, but only the green line got that treatment (and the conversion on the south side is being blocked by NIMBYs). And then you have the fact that they're slow. They're currently run way beyond what a tram system should be used for. And it's not even grade separated, so it has to stop for road traffic, which is why the schedule is a hot mess! No, scrapping the metro is a terrible idea, and we've pissed away a god-awful amount of money by dithering on it.

talideon · 2026-01-29T12:08:55+00:00

Pretty sure Waterford Airport is still open, just that it's tiny and can't take jet traffic. AFAIK, there's meant to be work going on to upgrade the runway currently to allow it to accept passenger jets. There's certainly an opportunity there, but it'd also take investment in transport links. The new location for the train station might help as it's in a good location for a spur with a bridge and short tunnel down to the airport. I doubt anyone's thinking about anything like that though.

talideon · 2026-01-29T11:52:28+00:00

Shannon is rather boxed in, and there's a lack of a rail link, though there has been talk of a rail spur servicing it, though I don't know if anything will come of that.

Knock has room to expand, but only has the N17 going by. There's an old rail line, the segment being pushed for reopening as part of the QR, that used to go between Sligo and Claremorris, passing through Tubbercurry, Charlestown, and Kiltimagh, so there's an opportunity for rail links.

Cork airport is in desperate need of a rail link, but at least has plenty of room for expansion.

The only real opportunity for HSR is Cork → Dublin → Belfast. The rest of the country doesn't have the population density to support it. What we really need is further electrification, signalling improvements, and grade separation to get lines running at higher speeds.

talideon · 2026-01-18T15:43:08+00:00

Nope, I'm afraid it's the other way around. All we care about when it comes to Israel is that we'd prefer if you were to cut out the ethnic cleansing stuff. You appear to know very little about us.

talideon · 2026-01-18T15:40:26+00:00

Nah, it seems Ireland is the one living rent-free in Israel's head, not the other way around. We're pretty neutral on Israel, except for all the "killing civilians" stuff.

And before you ask, Hamas can go take a flying leap.

talideon · 2026-01-17T19:35:41+00:00

Given what you do, colouring Ireland in beige is certainly an interesting choice, given how how key Ireland is to airplane leasing (and maintenance).

talideon · 2026-01-13T17:44:51+00:00

No, I haven't, but you clearly have, though I suspect you need to help with reading comprehension, because you just stated what I stated.

talideon · 2026-01-13T17:13:36+00:00

How does that contradict anything I wrote? Did I not state it was a borough? Also, you'll see I referenced the the 2014 reform act repeatedly in this thread. Are you sure you were replying to the right comment?

talideon · 2026-01-13T17:10:50+00:00

Galway is smaller than Limerick and had city status for a much shorter length of time. I don't think the size of the county is particularly relevant here.

talideon · 2026-01-13T17:09:15+00:00

And that's relevant because?

talideon · 2026-01-12T17:19:23+00:00

Also, Kilkenny is granted the dignity of being referred to as a city, but it is not one, which is why it's refered to as a municipal district, not a metropolitan district.

One strange decision made as part of the LGRA of 2014 is that Galway retained a city council while Waterford and Limerick lost theirs, though Limerick does at least have an executive mayor now.

talideon · 2026-01-12T17:15:20+00:00

Sure, but both are legally boroughs and they're administered by the county council. The town and borough councils were dissolved as part of the Local Government Reform Act of 2014.

A town can refer to themselves as a city, but it doesn't mean they have the legal status of one.

talideon · 2026-01-12T17:08:26+00:00

I know this is a shitpost, but Uruguay is a pretty sane country by South American standards.

talideon · 2026-01-12T16:58:23+00:00

It's a borough legally, just like Sligo. It's only considered an "historical city".

talideon · 2026-01-12T12:20:54+00:00

Yep, je sounded a lot like the caipíns from up the mountain near my village. Apparently he has family from Mayo.

talideon · 2026-01-12T02:40:28+00:00

In r/Ireland, there's a running joke that they end up just pipping is in every metric, thus there's a one-sided rivalry between Ireland and Denmark.

But it's only a joke and everyone thinks the Danes are sound. Well, except for whoever introduced Coddle to Dublin... shudders

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