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  1. minister_for_hardship
    I'm assuming that's a very old ad. The buildings are crumbling shells now. Wonder who bought it, if indeed it was ever sold?
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Meanwhile.. door, stable, horse etc. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41427925.html
  3. minister_for_hardship
    And the world's most expensive as yet unfinished hospital.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    I wouldn't read anything into that. Everyone is infatuated with greenways now.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    They were quite popular as holiday homes in west and east Cork and Fountainstown. Coaches, old buses, even a tram as a greenhouse. There's still a (very) small handful left if you know where to look.
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    Carrot and stick. Give the required supports but at the same time there has to be a punishment of some sort, be that community service or similar. There can't be no consequences at all for acting the maggot.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    €1.5m! Doubt it.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    New security hut at government buildings...hmm..
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Hitting Fleabay already. Would one of our 3d specialists run off a few open top ones? What they missed out on were the grey painted Per Way Dept ones that might have limped on into the 70s.
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    I don't know what the law is like up in NI when "pups" are caught, but it's fairly lenient down here. Minors, solicitor lay out a sob story, weren't hugged enough when toddlers, etc. Alright don't do it again you little scamp.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Oil lit with Colza (vegetable) oil before petroleum industry kicked off, a very poor, smoky light. Since these are modelled without the old oil lighting "pots" on the roof, they're either supposed to be gas or more likely electrically lit from battery charged by an axle run dynamo.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    The lighting packs look well but were ancient 6 wheelers that brightly lit in reality?
  13. minister_for_hardship
    The flat roofed ones look MGWR-ish in profile at least.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Invoiced, paid, and winging its way to my (fake) UK address.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    I haven't heard of any attempts to preserve the Newmarket branch, my understanding was it hit the blocks a decade too early to attract would-be preservationists. Once traders and farmers had means of conveying goods and cattle by road its fate was pretty much sealed.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Now to seek out a friendly UK contact to avoid the dreaded Brextax, fool me once...
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Not that I recall, in any case the focus of the podcast was the Lartigue, not the broad gauge which only got an incidental mention. Built by Limerick & Kerry Railway but operated by Waterford & Limerick (pre WL&WR)
  18. minister_for_hardship
    The Lartigue boys were involved in a history podcast some time ago. Not enough distinction between GS&WR and GSR made, calling the GS&WR "The Great Southern" as shorthand but confusing to a non enthusiast listener if not made clear.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    I always preferred the curt "Nächste Halt ...." (next stop) in Germany rather than a whole lot of chatter about what to do, where to sit, where not to smoke, reserved seats yadda yadda yadda in both languages.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    They're paid by the word? Or maybe they're covering themselves in case some brain dead passenger turns up to wait for a train at Dundalk Bus Station or Dundalk Post Office and Twitters in on the Muskograph to complain.
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    It would be interesting to know how many court cases are won with freeman pseudo legal arguments. I'm guessing zero.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    "Strange choice for a model, as they were short-lived, and never used as train engines." A straight paint job on an existing model, an easy and cheap choice.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Does not post to Free State.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Not unusual to see bridges built for a double road and enough space for a second line that never got built in the end, redundancy in case traffic was better than projected. Foynes branch was always single.
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