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Local-womanizer · 13-08-2011 12:17AM

Yea the An Cosantoir.

Done it last year in 55 minutes. Hadn't trained for it though.

Looking to be in the 40s now.

Its a lovely run I found last year.

Manic Moran · 14-08-2011 12:17AM

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Yea the An Cosantoir.

Done it last year in 55 minutes. Hadn't trained for it though.

Looking to be in the 40s now.

Its a lovely run I found last year.

6 miles? I should be able to do that in about fifteen minutes. There's a reason I didn't go infantry....

(The last time I went that far on foot took me just under an hour. But that was when I was many moons younger)

NTM

Local-womanizer · 14-08-2011 12:47AM

Manic Moran wrote: »

6 miles? I should be able to do that in about fifteen minutes. There's a reason I didn't go infantry....

(The last time I went that far on foot took me just under an hour. But that was when I was many moons younger)

NTM

I am just glad I am not carrying anything!

The other good thing is you get free stuff at the end,win-win!

Morpheus · 15-08-2011 11:27AM

can you run it carrying backpacks if you so wish!?

Local-womanizer · 15-08-2011 11:38AM

I'm not sure,never seen anyone last year doing it.

On another note:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/15/pakistan-china-access-us-helicopter

Are Pakistan stupid?

Manic Moran · 17-08-2011 10:12PM

Doing some world travelling, I'm going to be of limited availability this week and next.

Currently in Germany

NTM

Local-womanizer · 18-08-2011 05:24PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

Doing some world travelling, I'm going to be of limited availability this week and next.

Currently in Germany

NTM

Being a mod here has it's perks it seems!

Tubsandtiles · 18-08-2011 11:04PM

Anyone browse the DF facebook in the last few months ?
I take a look a few times a week to see any update on deployment, DF news and recruitment but dam the page seems to be clogged up daily with "Wen will i b able 2 join the army, when is recrutn ????" "ow can i join de army"...etc

The press officer must be sick to death

goldie fish · 20-08-2011 02:55PM

i wan't 2 join d army coz i lik 2 shute de gunz... lol
doz i have to be able 2 shote 1st? i'm gr8 at paintball and moh. i shud b a ranger

Tubsandtiles · 20-08-2011 11:09PM

goldie fish wrote: »

i wan't 2 join d army coz i lik 2 shute de gunz... lol
doz i have to be able 2 shote 1st? i'm gr8 at paintball and moh. i shud b a ranger

Manic Moran · 23-08-2011 05:57PM

Now in Moscow. Internet is dodgier than ever. Expect little moderating from me.

NTM

Manic Moran · 26-08-2011 05:55PM

I have seen The Mouse. With my pilgrimage complete, I shall be returning home on the morrow. And then I can set about moderating all the naughty boys and girls who have apparently taken advantage of my absence.

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iceage · 26-08-2011 08:28PM

Place is like a bloody morgue...Somebody for God's sake start an argument..I'm bored!

OS119 · 26-08-2011 08:59PM

iceage wrote: »

Place is like a bloody morgue...Somebody for God's sake start an argument..I'm bored!

how about a 'Libya - will the wider political fall out make the deployment of Irish troops on Europes southern periphery more likely?' thread.

obviously the title needs a bit of work...

iceage · 26-08-2011 10:33PM

Could be an interesting debate, everyone's lining up to be Libya's friend and ally, shall I just drop the obvious and state its because of the oil, or is it the downturn in Saville Row cos the Daffman has reverted to the Dishdash.

I just want to know where all the freedom fighter's have alf inched the G36's from?? lovely aren't they.

Irish DF deployed....unlikely by the time their finished over there. Although the Leb's not that far away is it, a quick jaunt and bingo.

Local-womanizer · 26-08-2011 11:04PM

iceage wrote: »

Place is like a bloody morgue...Somebody for God's sake start an argument..I'm bored!

Jedward will see ireland out of recession!

Good enough?!

Oh,G36,i seen an FN2000(?) there!

OS119 · 27-08-2011 10:01AM

iceage wrote: »

...Irish DF deployed....unlikely by the time their finished over there. Although the Leb's not that far away is it, a quick jaunt and bingo.

i was thinking more generally - does anyone belive this is going to end with Libya (whatever the hell Libya is going to look like for the next decade), or that Assad will rule peacefully for the next 30 years?

we tend not to think of it, but North Africa and the ME are astonishingly close to Europe geophically - a 1 hour ferry ride from Morocco to southern Spain - once they cross the EU border the problems of these far away countries are a 24 hour train trip from the Holyhead ferry...

iceage · 27-08-2011 12:27PM

Ha ha, Just heard some sphincters tighten up in Rosslare! Could be closer than we think, Didn't Italy(still very close ties there) give the new guys a chit for €350 million the other week? Do you reckon they'll be happy with that when it comes to doling out the contracts of trade.

I don't reckon it'll end with Syria either..to resort to shelling your own people from warships off the coast, you've really lost the plot haven't you, it's just a matter of time before someone has to step in.

As an afterthought, has the DF upped its Arabic lessons? Might come in handy in the not too distant future eh.

iceage · 27-08-2011 04:40PM

iceage wrote: »

Ha ha, Just heard some sphincters tighten up in Rosslare! Could be closer than we think, Didn't Italy(still very close ties there) give the new guys a chit for €350 million the other week? Do you reckon they'll be happy with that when it comes to doling out the contracts of trade.

I don't reckon it'll end with Syria either..to resort to shelling your own people from warships off the coast, you've really lost the plot haven't you, it's just a matter of time before someone has to step in.

As an afterthought, has the DF upped its Arabic lessons? Might come in handy in the not too distant future eh.

On the move here, but as an afterthought, has the DF upped its Arabic lessons? Might come in handy in the not too distant future eh.

Manic Moran · 31-08-2011 04:43PM

Good little CNN video on chaplain training.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/30/preparing-clergy-for-war-army-chaplains-train-by-the-hundred-for-the-combat-zone/?&hpt=hp_c2

NTM

OS119 · 31-08-2011 05:04PM

iceage wrote: »

...Might come in handy in the not too distant future eh.

tbh, i think there may be a short term need for a small peacekeeping force in Libya right now - the NTC are surrounding Sirte, giving a deadline, while Gaddafi loyalists inside Sirte are making all kinds of blood-curdling claims about the population of Sirte being lead out into the desert and being beheaded when the NTC take the city.

if a independant, trusted force could enter the city and take its surrender, then they'd be no need for an NTC advance and the civpop could be unafraid of joining the rest of Libya.

iceage · 01-09-2011 11:44PM

I think both you and I and everyone here knows that's not going to happen.. This is all diversionary, and will end messy of course. Could be wrong but I reckon the curly one is long gone from Sirte at least.

If there was to be any independent, globally trusted force sent in to Libya to assist in smoothing the way it would have to be McDonald's. Everybody knows your going to be taken seriously when you've been given the nod for a drive thru and a set of Golden Arches....Oh hang on.....

Poccington · 03-09-2011 05:16PM

Howya lads.

I'm up to my tits in a Cse that's leaving me very little free time, so I can't pop in as frequently as I'd like to.

OS119 wrote: »

how about a 'Libya - will the wider political fall out make the deployment of Irish troops on Europes southern periphery more likely?' thread.

obviously the title needs a bit of work...

The most likely chance of us deploying there would be with the Battlegroup IMO. Unfortunately, the Deutch Battlegroup which we're a part of, isn't on standby until the second half of 2012.

Manic Moran · 04-09-2011 05:58PM

Just spent $ 2000 or so on tank books. Hunnicutt, Fletcher, Spielberger, Jentz... Working on the ultimate reference library.

Speaking of, I met Jentz's cohort, Hillary Doyle. He lives in Dun Laoighrie.

NTM

iceage · 04-09-2011 09:33PM

Some heavy reading there MM. Tanks.....

I'll get my coat.

Tubsandtiles · 08-09-2011 05:49AM

The news was saying Gadaffi could have been heading to Chad, Niger, got me thinking what would have happened if our troops had been still deployed there and he had made it into Chad ?

On another note with rumours spreading around the PDF wouldn't be recruiting till 2013, alot of peoples spirits will be broken

My dad was speaking to a member of the DF and he said recruitment wasn't looking good

Edit: Just got thinking with the amount of recruits taking on last year its a shame RTE didn't make a programme following the recruits throught training, it would make some good tv and show the rest of Ireland how highly trained we are

Local-womanizer · 04-10-2011 05:45PM

Seen this today,

:eek: :eek: :eek:

iceage · 04-10-2011 07:56PM

Holy crap batman. Reckon he didn't flinch?

Local-womanizer · 04-10-2011 11:10PM

iceage wrote: »

Holy crap batman. Reckon he didn't flinch?

Probably didn't seeing as it happened so quick! I did watching it though!

Local-womanizer · 12-10-2011 03:17PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9vZrxfiMss

I hate when this happens!

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