Disband the whole f**kin Army NOW !

Big Hooha going on about a few of our fat overpaid underworked toy soldiers having to drive a few miles extra to work, (the poor dears will only be paid a nice chunk to do it for the first year).

I say, disband the whole lot of them now, as they are as useless as a fork when its raining soup anyway. If we were to be invaded, (not likely) they could only put up a small token resistance anyway, and would be massacred within a few days.

Here's what we could do instead with the money saved ;

1. Keep a very small force - maybe 500 or so for protecting cash-in-transit and minding our Leprechaun in the Park (thats another thread entirely) and picking up old dears when their houses get flooded.

2. Spend half of the savings on hospitals, schools, - stuff we dont have that most normal societies do....fill in this blank to your own taste.

3. Spend the other half saved on equipping our token Navy properly seeing as most of our borders are in water, and most illegal incursions into our state happen when our fishing stocks (We have the largest waters in EU but one of the smallest fish quotas) get systematically stolen by other countries.
Our newly beefed up Navy could also play a more meaningful role in reducing drug trafficing through Irish waters.

Now I've no particular interest in fishing, or drug traffic reduction, or the Navy, but it seems mad to me that we have a huge coastline, and countries with almost none eg Poland have Navies which put us to shame, while we have a land army used almost exclusively for peacekeeping outside of Ireland.