Interesting articles

Its behind a paywall but according to the Times the Giraffe Radar System has gone to Ukraine as reported a while back.

The RBS System has not gone to Ukraine. So where have the launchers and the Missiles gone? Back to Sweden for safe dispoal in Ukraine?

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/09/20/government-quietly-donates-air-defence-systems-to-ukraine/

There was an article posted here while back they are out of use because of the lack of radar.They would be pretty useless with just eyeball only.

The RBS-70 doesn't need a radar its laser guided, does a radar help yes but it's not necessary. We only got the latest batch of new BOLIDE/NG missiles in 2022.

I don't know why, presumably trolling, but you've twisted the history of the actual evolution of the Defence Forces to what they are today.

The National Army was stood up immediately in 1922 from among the numbers of the War of Independence IRA and veterans of the Great War. It was never a crown force, but the national army of a dominion state under the terms of the Treaty.

To be considered a crown force, it would had to have been at the beck and call of HM government in London, ruling in His Majesty's name. And we know, of course, that that was never, ever the case.

The national army immediately adopted the styling Óglaigh na hÉireann, in the aftermath of the war of independence and the civil war. A wholesale peacetime reduction and reorganisation of the forces took place, completed by March 1924.

Meanwhile in August 1923, Dáil agus Seanad Éireann passed the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, raising

"an armed force to be called Óglaigh na hÉireann (hereinafter referred to as the Forces) consisting of such number of officers, non-commissioned officers, and men as may from time to time be provided by the Oireachtas."

So, in spite of all that bulls**t you just said, and in spite also of the seditious utterances of proscribed criminal organisations in the interim, and in summary, there is a direct and historically recognised line from the

"secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army" - to the modern Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the constitutional Defence Forces of this Republic.

Proclamation of the Irish Republic, April 1916.

I am not twisting anything, nor am I trolling.

I am stating historical fact which I can back up with the relevant period documentation. In the meantime, look it up for yourself and learn. Read the Free State Constitution and the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty. The minutes taken on the evening of the 5th and morning of the 6th are damning and clearly state the name given to the nascent free state army by the enemy British as the Defence Force - the name it still uses to this day because they were established as Crown Forces.

Let me remind you that the Sovereign State as far as Ireland and the Irish people were concerned was the 32 county Irish Republic. The Parliament of the 32 county Irish Republic was the 32 county Dáil Éireannn, and the actual national army of the 32 county Irish Republic were the 32 county Irish Republican Army, the actual Óglaigh na hÉireann. Both the real Dáil Éireannn and the IRA (the actual Óglaigh na hÉireann) swore an oath of allegiance to the sovereign 32 county Irish Republic.

That is just the reality and the historical fact of the matter.

100 percent - identity theft.

It's mind-blowing to realise that the State has been lying about its foundation and teaching us how to perpetuate the lies in school.

I did - and I am factually correct according to the period documentation.

Men deserted from the Irish Republican Army (the actual Óglaigh na hÉireann) and defected to the Dominion of the British Empire nascent Free State army (Crown Forces). 

That is just the reality and the historical fact of the matter.

I'm not trolling. Just because certain people refuse to accept facts does not mean the person who is attempting to educate them is trolling. I was being constructive. I also don't see why a mod should tell me to take it up with the Gov. If every mod had that illogical attitude when someone made a comment about how the State is run, what's the purpose of a forum. If you were being constructive, perhaps you could have suggested I start a thread about Óglaigh na hÉireann. Perhaps I will, assuming I'm not being censored.

You tell him Larbre.…not like the interesting posts that meself and yourself put on here!

I see Connelly was having a moment in UCD last night…

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/09/25/catherine-connolly-compares-german-arms-build-up-with-1930s/

**** me, how she gets that angle is beyond me.

it’s totally unprovoked and unnecessary isn’t it, there’s not a single hostile actor in Europe, but look any German defence spending must be linked to the Nazis…

I'm afraid she is a good bit wide of the mark. The Polish have been expanding their massive armed forces both in manpower and equipment to meet the Russians head on. Some of our politicians don't really seem able to keep up with world events.

She has an intense streak of 1970's unreconstructed tankie in her and she keeps letting it show,