chinese leader visiting farm in sixmilebridge

jfh

hi ,
might see him in the mart buying weanlings on saturday!
anyone know where he's off to to or is that a state secret?

pakalasa

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0215/1224311800891.html

'Da Bridge' Mart, Cliffs of Moher and then Croke Park. He'll be a right culchie by the time he's finished. I wonder what farm is it? :rolleyes: I can give a good guess....

Grecco

Would there be any turf banks dry enough to bring him to?
Knock a bit of work out of him before he goes

Birdnuts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/court-halts-sale-of-new-zealand-dairy-farms-to-chinese-investors/2012/02/14/gIQAV1MhER_story.html

I wonder what the reaction to such a move would be in this country??

bt12

he is visiting a dairy farm in the bridge on monday...

blue5000

I hear NZ have put a stop to them boys buying land over there, I wonder.........is he thinking of retiring? Bank Debt, land,:eek: swop?

Birdnuts

blue5000 wrote: »

I hear NZ have put a stop to them boys buying land over there, I wonder.........is he thinking of retiring? Bank Debt, land,:eek: swop?

Given this country's long and rather inglorious history of giving away various natural resources - nothing would suprise me:(

pakalasa

C'mon da bridge;

"Tomorrow morning, Mr Xi, who was last in Ireland in 2005, will visit the farm of James and Maura Lynch at Sixmilebridge in Co Clare to see at first hand their herd of Friesian dairy cows and beef cattle."

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/this-man-could-rejuvenate-ireland-and-its-not-the-one-on-the-right-184308.html#ixzz1mlt3j9cA

Bizzum

pakalasa wrote: »

C'mon da bridge;

"Tomorrow morning, Mr Xi, who was last in Ireland in 2005, will visit the farm of James and Maura Lynch at Sixmilebridge in Co Clare to see at first hand their herd of Friesian dairy cows and beef cattle."

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/this-man-could-rejuvenate-ireland-and-its-not-the-one-on-the-right-184308.html#ixzz1mlt3j9cA

Any chance of a junior B hurling match that he could run in as a sub for ten mins on the edge of the square?

6480

pakalasa wrote: »

C'mon da bridge;

"Tomorrow morning, Mr Xi, who was last in Ireland in 2005, will visit the farm of James and Maura Lynch at Sixmilebridge in Co Clare to see at first hand their herd of Friesian dairy cows and beef cattle."

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/this-man-could-rejuvenate-ireland-and-its-not-the-one-on-the-right-184308.html#ixzz1mlt3j9cA

it could end as a great market for us exporting beef and dairy products to this nation and he will be able to see first hand our animal welfare , traceaibilty,and all our other good codes of practice that NZ does not go by ie(ear to the ground programme last week)

pakalasa

Bizzum wrote: »

Any chance of a junior B hurling match that he could run in as a sub for ten mins on the edge of the square?

What if he pulled a dirty stroke? They have to give him a RED Card.

johngalway

Did he visit Redsers crush I wonder

JohnBoy

I heard james lynch on today FM this morning, sounding very happy with the visit, a beautiful spring morning and a new calf born during the night, couldnt have been much better conditions really at this time of year. would have been a far less picturesque view after a long manky winter.

redzerologhlen

johngalway wrote: »

Did he visit Redsers crush I wonder

He did, I charged him a fiver entry and all, he reckoned it was a feat of engineering akin to the pyramid's in Egypt

Good loser

redzerologhlen wrote: »

He did, I charged him a fiver entry and all, he reckoned it was a feat of engineering akin to the pyramid's in Egypt

And your walls?

pakalasa

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/newborn-is-named-after-vip-as-family-mark-visit-3024599.html?start=1

John_F

just what the country needs at the moment, from a national perspective, having the word 'farm' come back in headline news for good reasons will get the joe soaps to come back to earth and realise what this country is good at and will always be good at and the two sectors that will always be there - food / farming & tourism! From an international perspective - much the same, having a man from what will be the most powerful nation come to visit on a trip with the USA and Turkey will certainly put us on the map for good reasons again. Wonder how he by-passed the UK and Europe.... is it because he knows the irish turn a blind eye to certain things and alot of things when we are on our knees?? - i.e. human rights

49801

have we not just had a visit from a giant xerox machine to visit our ag industry;).

or maybe his take home msg will be how important it is to avoid the family farm structure:D

redzerologhlen

Good loser wrote: »

redzerologhlen wrote: »

He did, I charged him a fiver entry and all, he reckoned it was a feat of engineering akin to the pyramid's in Egypt

And your walls?

A masterpiece he said, he said he might put a bit of contract work my way repairing breach's in the great wall of china after seeing it

bogman_bass

pakalasa wrote: »

What if he pulled a dirty stroke? They have to give him a RED Card.

:rolleyes:
Mods,
Can we please have a 6 month ban for awful puns please?:D

blue5000

Birdnuts wrote: »

Given this country's long and rather inglorious history of giving away various natural resources - nothing would suprise me:(

I wonder what sort of 'deal' went down at the weekend, Coilte? Nama properties? Mineral (exploitation) rights in Irish waters, any comments lads?

bob charles

blue5000 wrote: »

I wonder what sort of 'deal' went down at the weekend, Coilte? Nama properties? Mineral (exploitation) rights in Irish waters, any comments lads?

Ah blue we are too cynical. Maybe they are selling Ireland as a going concern!!!!

They were supposedly talking about exporting food, in particular beef, another great scam for the FFers + mates, sell it to Saddam and Gaddafy with a credit export insurance scheme in place and they will all do well, time has past, the lads are dead, do it again - old ones are the best.

The Chinese are notoriously difficult people to do business with, even if you are paying them to export to you, however selling to them will be a minefield.