Irish Gov bagsies sea area South of Eire

the_syco

http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/breaking/8091875?view=Eircomnet

Just saw this, and I think its a good idea. They, by right, should have done this up the North as well, as somewhere off Donegal, seemingly there's lots of oil/gas.

Of do you think, that, as per usual, they'll somehow fuxor it up, and leave us shortchanged?

oscarBravo

[pedantry] "South of Ireland." [/pedantry]

I disagree

What’s the point? They'll probably just hand it away to a foreign state owned company.

A Dub in Glasgo

Look what Bertie & Burke did in the late '80s early '90s

http://www.villagemagazine.ie/article.asp?sid=1&sud=2&aid=1795

gurramok

Should we do a Bolivia and nationalise it?
Its rather disgraceful that the taxpayer gets nothing from the prospected billions of euro worth in oil and gas out in those new fields.

mike65

In a joint submission to the United Nations Spain, France and the United Kingdom have joined Ireland in a bid to secure control of the area known as the Celtic Shelf. The area is some 200 nautical miles from shore.

Should the government send a gunboat? Keep it all!

Mike.