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    #32
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    People objecting to Pylons or Mobile Phone masts have only ONE basis to complain. They don't like the appearance of them.

    Any other claim has never had any validity and was made up by by NIMBY folk who just don't like the appearance. Let's have honesty. You want to hold back Industrial Development because you *might* go out for a drive and have your view "spoiled" by a pylon or Mobile phone mast.


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    #33
    seanaway
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭seanaway


    Bringing life to this thread on the day it arrives.

    Wonder if this might come under the umbrella term of Stroke Politics?

    If not, some coincidence.

    A bit like Wexford VEC being made HQ of it and TWO Waterford VEC's by Minister for Irregular expenditure - Howlin


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    #34
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    seanaway wrote: »
    Wonder if this might come under the umbrella term of Stroke Politics?

    If not, some coincidence.

    :confused:


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    #35
    seanaway
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭seanaway


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    :confused:
    Where's Enda Kenny from?


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    #36
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    seanaway wrote: »
    Where's Enda Kenny from?
    He's from Castlebar. What's your point?


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    #37
    seanaway
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭seanaway


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    He's from Castlebar. What's your point?
    You trolling then?

    If not,Castlebar Co......?
    Finish the line and win a Transatlantic cable for your community.(AKA Constituency)

    Got it now?


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    #38
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    seanaway wrote: »
    You trolling then?

    If not,Castlebar Co......?
    Finish the line and win a Transatlantic cable for your community.(AKA Constituency)

    Got it now?
    Honestly, no. Are you trying to claim that Enda Kenny personally organised a transatlantic fibre connection for purely selfish political motives?

    Because that's a fairly strong contender for the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.


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    #39
    seanaway
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭seanaway


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Honestly, no. Are you trying to claim that Enda Kenny personally organised a transatlantic fibre connection for purely selfish political motives?

    Because that's a fairly strong contender for the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

    Well congratulations on that and I wish you best of luck when you arrive in the real world.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    seanaway wrote: »
    Well congratulations on that and I wish you best of luck when you arrive in the real world.
    This is the real world in which Enda Kenny can persuade a private company to spend $300 million on a transatlantic fibre cable for his own personal political advantage?

    You're welcome to it.


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    seanaway
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭seanaway


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    This is the real world in which Enda Kenny can persuade a private company to spend $300 million on a transatlantic fibre cable for his own personal political advantage?

    You're welcome to it.
    Never said anything about him persuading anyone to spend 300 million. They were going to spend it anyway.

    The rest is easy enough to work out.


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    #42
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭ct5amr2ig1nfhp


    Please explain your crazy to us simple folk?
    seanaway wrote: »
    Never said anything about him persuading anyone to spend 300 million. They were going to spend it anyway.

    The rest is easy enough to work out.


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    #43
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    This is the real world in which Enda Kenny can persuade a private company to spend $300 million on a transatlantic fibre cable for his own personal political advantage?

    You're welcome to it.

    He also personally dragged Mayo around to the West Coast just so they could land the Cable here. don't you know?


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    #44
    seanaway
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭seanaway


    Rodrigo Clumsy Sender wrote: »
    Please explain your crazy to us simple folk?
    If it needs explaining then you're too gullible to understand.


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    #45
    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    @seanaway, if you're not interested in serious debate (and unfounded conspiracy theories doesn't fit in to that category), then please refrain from posting.

    @others, how 'bout not engaging if you find it so crazy?

    Please stick to the topic, thanks!


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    #46
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0814/721144-killala-cable/
    The system will enable 53.8 millisecond transfer speeds across the Atlantic when it goes live in early 2016.

    The new digital infrastructure is expected to create a significant number of jobs and business opportunities in the western region.
    No definite date yet, it would seem, but the timeframe is welcome.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0810/720352-cork-fibre-optic-cable/
    It was announced last December that a connection from the network into Cork would be created to come ashore at Garretstown beach in Kinsale.
    I wonder will we see more use of it in Cork than in Mayo?


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    #47
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    the_syco wrote: »
    I wonder will we see more use of it in Cork than in Mayo?

    Different cable.


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    #48
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    Different cable.
    Ah. Sorry. Thought they were attaching a cable from the Mayo connection, and linking it to England.

    I actually didn't realise there was another cable also in the works.


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    #49
    dubhthach
    Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Cork cable is part of "Project Express" by Hibernia Atlantic. Cable is US <-> UK, with branch to Cork. Mayo cable is seperate project using dark fibre across Ireland (Bord Gáis and Motorway duct) to get to Dublin and onward to UK.

    I'd imagine the likes of Apple's proposed Data Center in Athenry would be potential big customer for the Mayo link. After all Bord Gáis "Gaswest" project laid empty duct alongside the gas pipeline from county Galway (near Athenry) to Blacksod bay in Mayo.


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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    This is the real world in which Enda Kenny can persuade a private company to spend $300 million on a transatlantic fibre cable for his own personal political advantage?

    You're welcome to it.

    Probably not but 2 of the first 10 towns in Ireland Siro are rolling out in are in his constituency.

    That's some coincidence.
    siro.ie wrote:
    The first ten towns are Cavan (Cavan), Dundalk(Louth), Westport (Mayo), Castlebar (Mayo), Sligo(Sligo), Carrigaline(Cork), Tralee(Kerry), Navan(Meath), Letterkenny(Donegal) and Wexford(Wexford).


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    #51
    mass_debater
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    Chris___ wrote: »
    Probably not but 2 of the first 10 towns in Ireland Siro are rolling out in are in his constituency.

    That's some coincidence.

    Not really, it's a landgrab between Siro and Eircom, incidentally, Eircom will be live in Castlebar before them


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