No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

My dad was telling me of years ago there was a society sale on. He was involved in the milk board and they had an interest in a bull in it. Rather than send the normal lad who everyone would know was bidding for the milk board. One of the farmer members went to bid. The auctioneer and the owners were panicking as the milk board weren't there and some dude was bidding lowly on the bull....

Was on my way home from work last night and saw a dog on the M4 Motorway just after the toll (and everyone doing 120km/h). Stopped and managed to catch it and get it into the boot. Lovely young rottweiler bitch. Had drove to a local shelter I knew of in clonard and they wouldn't take her.After a few hours trying to get it somewhere I ended up driving to mullingar garda Station who got a local vet to take her.

Put a few posts on social media and ended up managing to locate the owners. She had gotten away from them close to mullingar but managed to travel almost to Enfield on the M4!!

A good news story for once after the hard news stories overnight. She was reunited with them today.

EPA Ireland now have been infiltrated by the vegan lobby. It's not their job to offer dietary advice.

But take them at face value that there's an environmental take on this.

Eating more plant based means more tillage which means more nitrates in our waterways. Teagasc knew this years ago from their research with the Epa. But the research was concentrated almost completely on cows. I saw one study where they were comparing farming systems but the tillage reading was only after 3 years since the plough and in set aside. The reading still came in double what the pasture dairy came back at. Tillage directly after the plough was not to be published by Teagasc. This was over 23 years ago.

epa head is an anti farming anyway. someone should receive a rocket over this.

My dad was saying there was a woman on the farming programme on rte 1 radio this morning that's going for ifa vice president. He said she spoke well, who was she?

Alice Doyle Wexford IFA she's very good and very professional.

On one of the few times I attended a meeting at the Ifa centre she has always impressed me.

I was at one such, the various commodity and section representatives were giving their talks at the end of the meeting. All the men gave theirs sitting down. When it came to Alice she stood up and gave her talk very professionally. She had all her info with her in case of further questioning.

She'd remind you of a Mairead McGuinness. Be very difficult to pull one over on her or catch her out. And she knows what she's fighting for.

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well there is finally a queue at the mens and when I went in, there was only 3 men at the urinals and a big queue of women in there for the cubicles so the lads wouldn’t whip the plumbing out and left a third of the urinal free.

I heard that also. She spoke very well. If she got the job It wouldn’t be a token woman vote anyhow

Last night for our local pub here. I didn't go because one of the children was quite sick earlier. No pint now for 15 miles... - that'll definitely happen.

On the bright side, the building has been bought to stuff it with lovely young men, sorry i meant to say 'unaccompanied children' fleeing war and persecution..

Its right near the school and all so they can finish their education to be doctors and engineers..

Maybe some of them can even win those vital sprinting medals we seem to crave...

Take no notice, sure I'm only an ignorant, narrow minded oul waaysist...

Weren't you cribbing the other day about posts here not being farming related, yet you are cribbing about something not farming related? What do you want?

Problem with the likes of you is that you have never been outside the five mile zone. The pub closed now might force you to venture out of your comfort zone. 👍

Will you ever give over with the sh1te about the sprinting medals. That comment was designed, saying that Jamaica, the US etc had their success in those events too off of immigration. I don't agree with uncontrolled immigration, nor direct provision. , do agree with controlled immigration and also looking after people whose whole world has been blown away by a war not of their making.

And the girl you are referencing in the sprints, she was actually born here. Her parent were immigrants, but she is Irish. Most of us will have Norman or Viking blood in us. Are we immigrants too? Should the Ó' hAilpíns not have been heralded by the Cork fans because their mother was Fijian? Will you not wish the Irish rugby team well later this year with Aussies and Kiwis involved and bless us all, a Saxon coaching them?

Yep that's definitely true... an average of 3 to 5 counties a day and 13 one day last week.

Lived in a couple of different countries and visited many.

Having the local to come back to and be with your own people after listening to so much shyte was one of the things which made it all bearable.

You're clearly spot on with your analysis though... carry on pls..