How difficult would it be to take over the country ?

th3 s1aught3r

How much resistance would an invader expect to find from our defence forces or the Gardai ?

alwaysadub

Try it there and find out.
Let us know how you get on.

mikom

Its the pensioners I be scared of.

th3 s1aught3r

alwaysadub wrote: »

Try it there and find out.
Let us know how you get on.

I'll know where to find you anyway

Poor Uncle Tom

Not tonight Brain.......

KylieWyley

We work in subtle ways...

Have a few pints with them, let them lust after our women. We soon make them learn the errors of their ways. Rather than invade us they'll want to become us.

Tom Slick

Who do you think poses a particular threat at the moment?

Why would they bother?

th3 s1aught3r

How long would we last though?
A couple of hours ?

Daroxtar

Just get 35 billion and buy it

Flygimp

The Garde can't shutdown a few feuding hill-billy families in ghetto Limerick with drive by pop guns - so don't hold your breath boss...

karlog

Don't why any country would want to take over Ireland. Unless they wanted to take over the UK using Ireland as a back door.

Schism

You wouldn't get very much trouble from the Irish Army, not to sell the army short or anything but there just wouldn't be the manpower. Then you've got the Gardaí who aren't armed (for the most part).

On the other hand we're part of the EU, so yeah, we'd be OK.

alwaysadub

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

I'll know where to find you anyway

:eek: Stalker alert!

:pac:

TheUsual

As a member of the EU, it would be a first being invaded by anyone.
I don't see it happening myself.

The rise of guerilla warfare has made invading easy, but living in a country difficult. Foreign soldiers and police need to live, eay and drink on weekends which makes them an easy target.

minidazzler

It would be easy enough, just kill the cabinet all at once, have enough people willing to kill and die for your cause and you can do it. The defence forces wouldn't put up a huge fight I would think for a coup, for an all out war they'd fight, but an incursion wouldn't be hard!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Just say for craic sake, the Brits.. A few hours. The yanks - a few minutes.

The Vatican guard, maybe a half a day.

Martians, seconds since we don't have an airforce or air defence system worth a fiddlers fuck.

And a half decent cross channel swimmer would give our navy a headache

Deus Ex Machina

Junkies have managed to take over many areas of the country's capital city, so I'd imagine armed forces would have the whole island licked in about twenty-five mintues.

th3 s1aught3r

So basically our defence forces arent worth a fiddlers ?

Fratton Fred

Someone might invade the country easily enough, but they still wouldn't get into coppers with runners on.

Shryke

Easiest thing would be for our own army to stage a coup. If you'd be serious about taking over then you don't want a struggle, you want to keep as much infrastructure as already exists. I think out of the other countries in the world the amount that couldn't take us would be in the minority. We're a small nuetral island on the edge of the Atlantic.

th3 s1aught3r

If we were invaded by France , who would come to our aid ?

KevinVonSpiel

Josue Fluffy Asteroid wrote: »

Just say for craic sake, the Brits.. A few hours. The yanks - a few minutes.

The Vatican guard, maybe a half a day.

Martians, seconds since we don't have an airforce or air defence system worth a fiddlers fuck.

And a half decent cross channel swimmer would give our navy a headache

Yo. Josue Fluffy Asteroid... is that a swastika tattoo on your avatar pic? & if so, is it an ironic one...? ...or?

arybvtcw0eolkf

KevinVonSpiel wrote: »

Yo. Makikomi... is that a swastika tattoo on your avatar pic? & if so, is it an ironic one...? ...or?

Explain?.

Scuid Mhór

why would anyone want to take over ireland? it'd be more of a renovating project (let's fix the economy, guys!) than a command and conquer sort of thing.

SugarHigh

Josue Fluffy Asteroid wrote: »

Explain?.

http://files.myopera.com/celebfan/albums/341984/IMGDVJJ3ZBTNR.jpg

longhalloween

What kinda of idiotic invasion force would WANT to run the country??!

davrho

This is a fishing thread. Do not bite;)

Johro

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

How much resistance would an invader expect to find from our defence forces or the Gardai ?

I would think they'd say: 'Here, take it, it's f#cked anyway.'

davrho

davrho wrote: »

This is a fishing thread. Do not bite;)

Agreed.

Soc>Military>Walter Mitty ---->thataway!

dunsandin

Fishing for what??? Sprats? Or Prats???

Our defence forces couldn't defend us against an angry granny, 1/2 would be on leave, 1/4 would be out sick and the rest would want overtime for active service, or no dice.

th3 s1aught3r

davrho wrote: »

This is a fishing thread. Do not bite;)

Thats prats

Anyway, I guess the apethetic response of the people to the economic crisis would suggest that not only would an invader face little resistance from our military, but that the Irish people wouldnt give a **** either

Some of us would kill the invader scum or die trying.

(Damnit, promised myself I wouldn't be riled)

Sir Gallagher

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

Thats prats

Anyway, I guess the apethetic response of the people to the economic crisis would suggest that not only would an invader face little resistance from our military, but that the Irish people wouldnt give a **** either

You don't actually believe this and you're clearly trying to get a rise out of people.

LukeQuietus

I think the real question is "How difficult would it be to take BACK the country?"

The country has already been taken from us by Fianna Fail. We've lost control of the government COMPLETELY now. They're calling the shots. When we voted against the Lisbon Treaty we we're practically frog marched into the voting booths to vote again "and get it right this time!". We shouldn't have taken that. I think that was when we showed we'd forgotten how this country was formed. I'm ashamed that I did nothing more than grumble and moan about that. We all did. We all need to read a history book and get back that pride which the government has stolen from us over the years. We've gone from the tiny nation that defied a country much larger than us to a country who can't bother to protest when our democratic rights are blatantly abused. No wonder the rest of the world laughs at us.

LukeQuietus

LukeQuietus wrote: »

...The country has already been taken from us by Fianna Fail....

No it hasn't.

We elected them in.

Come the next election we will vote them out.

Have patience, and don't make me kill you & others who follow you.

LukeQuietus

Deleted User wrote: »

No it hasn't.

We elected them in.

Come the next election we will vote them out.

Have patience, and don't make me kill you & others who follow you.

I've never voted for them.

dunsandin

LukeQuietus wrote: »

I've never voted for them.

Yes you did.

Apparently, if you were in Ireland during the good times, you:
Voted in FF.
Spent too much money.
Made wildly speculative investments that failed.
Are responsible for the economic collapse.
Paid no tax.
Didn't work hard enough, and if you did, were paid too much.

That appears to be the prevailing view of us on here anyway. Oh yeah, you also voted in the greens, even if you didnt....

Now shut up and take your medicine...:rolleyes:

stovelid

http://josh-wyxl.itmblog.com/files/2010/03/waffles.jpg

Stinicker

I reckon if anyone did invade now they'd be welcomed with open arms as liberators from the Fianna Fail regime of economic treason. I'd join in with the Martians or French, I'd let the martians take Bertie Ahern for a special anal probe.

dunsandin

Stinicker wrote: »

I reckon if anyone did invade now they'd be welcomed with open arms as liberators from the Fianna Fail regime of economic treason. I'd join in with the Martians or French, I'd let the martians take Bertie Ahern for a special anal probe.

They'd have to shove the probe in via Cowen...he was Berties a55h.le for a fair while.

That a picture of your breakfast Stovelid? Looks nice.

flag123

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

How much resistance would an invader expect to find from our defence forces or the Gardai ?

Wow!..Bordem really does go to your head!

LukeQuietus

dunsandin wrote: »

Yes you did.

Apparently, if you were in Ireland during the good times, you:
Voted in FF.
Spent too much money.
Made wildly speculative investments that failed.
Are responsible for the economic collapse.
Paid no tax.
Didn't work hard enough, and if you did, were paid too much.

That appears to be the prevailing view of us on here anyway. Oh yeah, you also voted in the greens, even if you didnt....

Now shut up and take your medicine...:rolleyes:

Don't tell me what I ****ing did or didn't do you ****wit! I've never voted Fianna Fail. I suppose you voted for the Lisbon Treaty aswel without bothering to read it either time just because you were told to. And now everything they said would happen hasn't and everything they promised wouldn't looks like it's going to.

I'm glad to say I've never voted Fianna Fail, didn't vote for the non-democratic Lisbon Treaty and never took out a mortgage or and big Loans I couldn't pay. And I'm doing pretty well because of all that.

KevinVonSpiel

LukeQuietus wrote: »

Don't tell me what I ****ing did or didn't do you ****wit! I've never voted Fianna Fail. I suppose you voted for the Lisbon Treaty aswel without bothering to read it either time just because you were told to. And now everything they said would happen hasn't and everything they promised wouldn't looks like it's going to.

I'm glad to say I've never voted Fianna Fail, didn't vote for the non-democratic Lisbon Treaty and never took out a mortgage or and big Loans I couldn't pay. And I'm doing pretty well because of all that.

Eh, I think you missed out on the meta-message there...

cock robin

Having spent a bit of time in the PDF back in the day and realising that most of our troops have never seen an angry man. We could possibly resist an agressive enemy force till about tea time. Let's not forget we have no air cover, no sea power and as for a mechanised unit you guessed it we dont have that either. We could make freind's with them

mikemac

dunsandin wrote: »

Our defence forces couldn't defend us against an angry granny, 1/2 would be on leave, 1/4 would be out sick and the rest would want overtime for active service, or no dice.

You forgot those who are deaf so can't follow orders

Gunsfortoys

The OP has had about 20 threads over the last few days, most of them seem trollish.

mikerowsopht

McGiver could pull it off
our army doesn't have guns ( that work )
we only have 2 choppers
and 1 plane
and most of our Army is in Africa if you would call it an Army
More so peace keeping protestors wearing green jumpsuits

did anyone hear that the Army was training down the country for riots in Dublin that are to be expected over the coming months

type this into google : irish army training for riots
and you will see the result and to add insult they spent 300 k on new equipment specifically to tackle rioters who are rioting over silly spending etc...