No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Such a shame it slipped for them. I was talking to my youngest there recently about trades recently making sure she knows it’s also a great route to a livelihood.

Absolutely agree with getting a trade. Youngest wanted to be a Marine Biologist since he was in playschool. He worked towards his goal and thankfully is employed in a Government full time pensionable job. Eldest was totally different, he is currently living in Aus and working in the buildings on what they call form work. He left school (against my wishes) in the middle of 5th year and never sat his Leaving Cert. He got a job in another well know large Dublin pub/nightclub for a few years to gather money before heading to Aus. He now loves what he does and said to me recently that he would never have thought to take the choice/option of doing carpentry/woodwork when at school. Some lads need to spread their wings far and wide before they learn how to land back to Earth.

(Leaning pole of wexico).

The pole on left is straight.

2nd year fitting myself now too, looking into nightclasses for welding and stoving here at the moment too, was looking into the engineering side of things too but nothing suited me in regards flexibility along with work. Such a broad area to be working in you wouldnt be stuck for variety once qualified anyway.

I automatically thought about the P&T but their defunct, then I was going to suggest Telecom Eireann but they are also gone by the wayside, then I thought about Eircom (never forgot the shares debacle and thankfully I bought a Connie pony instead) but alas they don't exist anymore either so my best guess is EIR on 1850 245 424.

https://www.openeir.ie/dangerous-plant-reporting/

Thanks. 😅

I may ring that number Monday.

Reason I asked I was near that pole earlier in the year when some young fella was walking away from it. I asked what he was doing (it was lashing rain at the time). He said a van had dropped him off and he was inspecting the pole. He said he found that pole acceptable and there was a good few years left in it still. I told him it was a hazard. Reading back what I typed you'd wonder was he legit. But he said it was logged in to be checked.

I'll ring Monday.

Out of interest have a look and see does it have the original P7T symbol stamped into it.

Lifestyle is a huge bonus out there too as well as the weather, way better value for youre tax as well.

Is the building not going to soon stop with increased costs?

Great to see the crowd in Cork Last night despite Beef Plan doing their best to undermine the rallies.

They really are anti farmer and farming/agriculture.

They should f.. off now and let real farmers protect their future, my rent depends on them succeeding.

Lads nd lasses I cant see any of the soccer forums, what's going on?

It's too little, too late. I don't think they got the message out too well either. Their main message seemed to be trying to maintain the status quo with FF and FG and telling the greens to butt out. There should have been real issues raised and put into the public domain and they need a social media presence. They came across very bad if you ask me considering the strong case they have to put forward. The vast majority of people outside of farming have no idea of the workload and investment involved in the industry.

There wouldve been a much more concentrated effort meeting the government in the last couple weeks, up to 200 members would've met politicians at a session,near the dail and I'm sure again locally this weekend. We shouldn't care about educating the public they don't give a sh... about us.

Plenty of stuff on the net about it

https://www.ifa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IFA-Pre-Budget-Submission-2022.pdf

https://www.foe.ie/news/2010/12/16/ifa-is-scaremongering-about-impact-of-climate-change-law/

https://www.ifa.ie/ifa-campaigns/climate-action/

Plenty going on, Climate action is only one of many campaign.

Just remarking a Beef plan member posting that IFA are doing nothing, he started farming in 1990, he got a lovely place same acreage as mine, he didn't have the 20% interest in the 1980s nor the 5 years nursing home bills That I had,

He was substantially better off than I was in 1990. He just didn't put in the effort.

Everything I have is due to IFA delivery, even the OH remarked the other day that she didn't mind paying the IFA membership as her contributary pension has just kicked off. None thought we'd get that for farmers wives that already had a Public Service pension, But there you go

The optics from Cork weren't great either with shiny new top of the range high end tractors rolling threw the streets - a m8 was on a stag in the city and said alot of the locals weren't exactly impressed with the message or the spectacle. If thats whats planned for Dublin its likely to go down even worse since the Mica crowd got alot of grief on Dublin Radio stations for slowing the M50 and most non-farmers would be more sympathetic to their plight compared to a certain section of farmers riding into town on 6 figure machines protesting about their right to keep increasing nitrate pollution or keeping the current dysfunctional tax payer supported CAP.

My back and hearing is wrecked from a MF 135 and MF 188. To be wishing those days on us again is a bit sick..