Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The fibre would be fine, but the issue is the routers/switches which are typically just located in telephone exchange buildings and small data centres are electronic, or even where they're optical, they're still controlled by electronics. All that gear would be toast.

The FTTH wiring / distribution networks are PON (Passive Optical Networks) so there are no electronics in them - the splitters and all of those devices are purely optical.

There was a time in the past when telephone switching equipment in certain areas of the UK, US, France etc was in buildings that contained faraday cages or were placed underground in some cases. They are often still housed in nearly bunker-like concrete buildings in some countries.

I don't think we ever did much of that as the only threats were possibly domestic or from the Troubles and were not all that likely.

Any kind of EMP would wreak havoc on the mobile networks and more significantly the national grid and local distribution grids for electricity.

I still would think Russia's threats are just theatre for their domestic audience. There's a lot of nonsense and Dr Evil style threats that are more like comedy sci-fi.

However, I would be of the view that having made a threat like that on state television, diplomatic relationships with Ireland should be curtailed to the point of just bare minimum if not ended completely.

They're literally threatening our national security and our very existence in the case of those nuclear threats and they are being communicated through state owned channels, not some shock jock of on a rant. Those messages are quite obviously fully approved.

Threatening to annihilate a country should be red line in diplomacy!

At the very least a certain resident of Orwell Road should be called in to explain his government's messaging...

Also, Odessa recieving lots of attention with the unusual sight of both an E-3A Sentry and E-8C within sight of each other ( one 3,000ft above the other). Both aircraft can monitor air and ground movements. There is also a Global Hawk just south of Sevastapol covering Crimea and Odessa.

The proverbial foot has not been let off the accelerator with regards to these flights. It must be costing hundreds of millions of dollars every week.

Just nationalise it temporarily and be done with it. It's not like the Russians didn't nationalise several billion worth of jets they leased from Irish companies!

I would have my doubts that bauxite processing is particularly lucrative, particularly in a location with enormous energy costs. It reminds me a lot of Irish Steel in the sense of trying to build a heavy industry in a location that didn't have any of the resources to support it.

There would be job loses, but it's not necessarily going to be the case that those jobs weren't going to be lost anyway. From what I have read about the sector it's an extremely low margin business.

You can also run the small gas turbine power plant they have without operating the rest of it.

It would make more sense to get some high margin businesses to invest in the same location - Pharma, biopharma, medtech .. etc etc.

You didn't make any relevant points for me to agree or disagree with.

That's pretty impressive. Energy policy is generally decades in the making.

I wonder if similar figures are available across the EU?

Looks like abandoning neutrality comes with risks.

Russian State TV simulates nuclear attack on Ireland - Independent.ie

The members of the group - Kalush Orchestra - were actually part of the Ukrainian defence effort a few weeks ago. They have been given special dispensation to leave the country and represent the country in Eurovision. Here's three of them in uniform:

Same footage my comment was replying to.

It was time to shut down the Russian embassy the same day they invaded a neighbouring country, let alone months later.

Was an opportunity lost to work with other EU members a few weeks ago and kick out the majority of the bloated Russian mission here, even if they (Irish govt.) do not wish to close it down.

Maybe fact that they didn't do it with the others back then means they'd have to act alone now to expel any more (and poke their head up as it were). That is (probably) not going to happen due to fear.

Norway never fails to dissapoint:

"OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will close its borders and ports to Russian trucks and ships, joining sanctions imposed by the European Union over the war in Ukraine, the Norwegian foreign ministry said on Friday.

Russian fishing vessels, which often land their catch at ports in northern Norway, will receive exemptions from sanctions.

Norway's Arctic Svalbard archipelago, which operates under a 1920s treaty allowing expanded foreign access, will also be exempted, the ministry said."https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-04-29/norway-shuts-borders-ports-to-russian-goods-exempts-fishing-vessels

Hosting Orc fising vessels while the scum are trying to create a famine in Ukraine by stealing and selling all it's grain and the ships that carry it - and a big fu​ck you to Turkey for being the happy buyers of stolen grain, acquired by murdering, raping and torturing the original owners, stealing their laden ships, and knowing this full well. I never trusted their apparent sympathies for Ukraine. I was actually surprised at them closing the straits to Orc warships, but now suspect it must have been due to threats from higher up the food chain.

That Russian threat of a tidal wave bomb would wipe out the Faroe islands and inundate Norway also, but keep helping the Orcs breach sanctions and embargoes.

Why does the tsunami stop at Europe. Is it because of Brexit, I wonder?