Army on the streets...

DublinWriter

I just popped to the shop and there's about twenty Army lads clearing the pavements of the village.

Fair play to them.

Bog Butter

DublinWriter wrote: »

I just popped to the shop and there's about twenty Army lads clearing the pavements of the village.

Fair play to them.

What village?

meath4sam

no. fair play to the local people all around the country that are doing it for free. we pay the armys wages they mite as well do something while there not on foreign duty peace keeping.

BigDuffman

meath4sam wrote: »

no. fair play to the local people all around the country that are doing it for free. we pay the armys wages they mite as well do something while there not on foreign duty peace keeping.

Nice to see people appreciating the DF going outside of their job description and lending a hand :mad:

We pay all the civil servants, bin men and garda's wages. You are certainly not going to get a civil servant out on the streets clearing ice. The army however despite not being responsible (the local councils / corporations are the ones who are responsible) for this type of work.

The army do it with out complaint. They also fill the gaps and dig in during any other type of event from floods to bin collection. Even though it is outside of their remit. Civil servants give out when they lose their "half day to xmas shopping day"....I can imagine what would happen if a civil servant was asked to roll sleeves up and dig in.

So how about showing some appreciation.

bitemybanger

meath4sam wrote: »

no. fair play to the local people all around the country that are doing it for free. we pay the armys wages they mite as well do something while there not on foreign duty peace keeping.

Get your facts together before posting. comments like this usually come from people who say what they hear and don't know alot about what thier posting

Dubh Geannain

They were in Ratoath clearing footpaths last Thursday. I left work early and recorded them on my way home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vovS9MuJIA

On Friday they were in both Kilmessan and Maynooth from talking to folks.

Fair play to them.

It would be good training too I suppose

pullandbang

They did Trim yesterday morning. Fair play to them!

we'llallhavetea_old

dear santy,

please, please, please, can i have soldiers to help clear the ice in summerhill this week. i promise i'll be a good nice well-behaved well look, i'll be as good as i can ok?

love,

we'llallhavetea

:pac:

-Trek-

LOL saw thread title and thought it was to do with tomorrows budget

But fair play to them for the work they do.

meathstevie

The Defence Forces have two main roles inside Irish territory. One is obvious; defend it against external aggression and the second is providing assistance to civil authorities. That includes bomb disposal, cash escorts, etc etc and in extreme circumstances the Defence Forces can be called upon to perform other tasks which they'll happily fulfill if they have a capability to do so and you'll be surprised as to what expertise is available ranging from airtraffic control to providing a bit of muscle and shovels to the council to clear snow and ice.

meathstevie

bitemybanger wrote: »

Get your facts together before posting. comments like this usually come from people who say what they hear and don't know alot about what thier posting

Get on to that CO will ya, the roads around my town are in dire straits

bitemybanger

Mostly concentrated on the footpaths lad.
5th and 27th battalion looking after the Meath area AFIAK.
we've been in Wicklow around Blessington, Baltinglass and Rathdrum.
Man did they get hit hard.
Good bit fell here last night, what's it like there?

Wicklowrider

meath4sam wrote: »

we pay the armys wages they mite as well do something while there not on foreign duty peace keeping.

Thats a very ignorant comment.
How much would you pay a man to risk his life as the lads did last week dismantling the primed mortars while most of us were safe in our beds. Admit it you haven't the faintest idea what the DF do? Try and inform yourself a bit better about what work the Defense Forces actually do in this country. As for pay - 40 hours, 70 hours and more a week with no over time and no excuses or complaints.

Any DF reading this - THANKS for your help.

Archeron

bitemybanger wrote: »

Mostly concentrated on the footpaths lad.
5th and 27th battalion looking after the Meath area AFIAK.
we've been in Wicklow around Blessington, Baltinglass and Rathdrum.
Man did they get hit hard.
Good bit fell here last night, what's it like there?

Trim got a good pasting last night, i thanked the heavens i got home when I did. No more than 15 minutes after getting home, there were cars in the estate that couldnt move. Snowing a tiny bit now, but yet another snow day from work. Thank Santa for remote access to the office.

I must say that getting up at 8.45 and sitting in trackies working beats 3 hours of fighting through ice and dangerous idiots on the M4. Thats a side benefit

meathstevie

bitemybanger wrote: »

Mostly concentrated on the footpaths lad.
5th and 27th battalion looking after the Meath area AFIAK.
we've been in Wicklow around Blessington, Baltinglass and Rathdrum.
Man did they get hit hard.
Good bit fell here last night, what's it like there?

Too bad, would have been tea, coffee and buns for the gang if you'd been around here.

About 7 to 8 inches here last night btw.

bitemybanger

Archeron wrote: »

Trim got a good pasting last night, i thanked the heavens i got home when I did. No more than 15 minutes after getting home, there were cars in the estate that couldnt move. Snowing a tiny bit now, but yet another snow day from work. Thank Santa for remote access to the office.

I must say that getting up at 8.45 and sitting in trackies working beats 3 hours of fighting through ice and dangerous idiots on the M4. Thats a side benefit

Same in Navan. Cars couldn't get into or out of driveways. Not snowing at the moment but looks immanent.
Thank God for 4WD.

bitemybanger

meathstevie wrote: »

Too bad, would have been tea, coffee and buns for the gang if you'd been around here.

About 7 to 8 inches here last night btw.

Tea, coffee and buns. On the way
Bout the same fell here. No sign of this thaw ther were talking about??

Geezer1000

bitemybanger wrote: »

Tea, coffee and buns. On the way
Bout the same fell here. No sign of this thaw ther were talking about??

What kinda buns?

Archeron

Geezer1000 wrote: »

What kinda buns?

Iced fingers

Geezer1000

Archeron wrote: »

Iced fingers

Had them this mornin meself