@Craig Clancy: Well sure i knew that from the price I paid! xxx

@Ann Neylan: that chap kept it in a file, in a filing cabinet

@Ger: Wild Salmon is rightly protected, and can only be fished with either a permit or at a certain time of year, man is hitting you with facts and that’s all you’ve got.

@Ann Neylan: do yourself a favour and dump it.

Salmon get their pink colour from their natural diet in the wild. The farmed muck you are eating have been dyed artificially. But sure, breadcrumbs taste nice.

@Craig Clancy: Farmed and of course fed on world wide, millions of tonnes of sieved and scraped juvenile fish species, totally wrecking the littoral environment, so we then have a barrage of complaint that there are not enough traditional adult species to be caught. Same game as the chicken being fed on the soya, raped out of some previous rain forest. Wake up everyone. The feed for the fish and fowl needs to be the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly, themselves fed on our, in Ireland alone, one million tonnes of food waste a year. Hard to bring this forward though when this marine raping is allowed to continue.

@Ann Neylan: Your fish came from a farm! Salmon is mostly farmed. I suggest you do not eat it. Salmon farming is a very polluting activity, produces huge amounts of live that infect wild fish. Farmed salmon are fed with fishmeal that deprived wild fish of their food. The huge concentration of fish in the pens leads to outbreaks of disease that have to be treated with high doses of pharmaceuticals. The colour of the flesh is achieved by adding carotene to the feed. The workers are poorly paid and the profits go to Norwegian and Dutch companies.
Smoked salmon made from wild Alaskan salmon is OK. The Alaskan fishery is one of the most regulated in the world in order to conserve stocks.
Bon appetit!

@Gordon Davies: I only buy wild. Even if it’s ‘organic’ it’s still farmed and not nearly as healthy. Wild is higher in omega 3′s. Same with grass fed meat vs. grain fed. I get smoked wild salmon in Dunnes. Its more expensive, 8 euro a packet or 2 for 10 euro sometimes. But I’d rather eat quality twice a week than muck every day :)

@There is no hope for humanity!: bring on the white swans… and we stop playing blackjack!

“In 2016 it was reported in the Irish press that several years previous confidential agreements were made between the Irish and British governments concerning the protection of Irish airspace from terrorist threats. The reports revealed that the Irish Department of Defence, Department of Foreign Affairs and Irish Aviation Authority entered into a bilateral agreement with the British RAF, Civil Aviation Authority, Ministry for Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office permitting the British military to conduct armed operations inside Irish sovereign or Irish-controlled airspace in the event of a real time or envisaged threat of an aerial terrorist-related attack on Ireland or on a neighbouring country”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93NATO_relations

@James Gannon: Soooo… the expenditure ratio between defence and public housing will then be about the same as the US. Cool.

@Niall Ó Cofaigh: thank you sir, we all know Ireland is small and neutral, but better not leave the national security or reply on someone else. Specially with Britain, the less the better.
There is no true friend in the world, only “friend with benefits” :)

@Fachtna Roe: You meant spending extra on the drones? If so I think that is just temporary expense and it benefits for next 10-20 years. Both of them are important
If Ireland not in NATO, think about how much they have to spend on

@There is no hope for humanity!: the British will continue to. Its nothing to do with the EU, its in their own interest to protect against an aerial threat from the west

@Ger: oh… NO, you just ruined my Xmas present, couldn’t just wait for bit after Xmas telling me? I choose not believe it, will find it out after new year

@There is no hope for humanity!: We also have an “Airfix” barracks with lots of action men and GI Joe figures..
A friend was just sayin’…
Just thought I’d mention…

@gk ricko: Ireland became a 1st world country for the first time ever largely due to to the EU

@gk ricko:
Keep taking the tablets!!

@gk ricko: those that want to leave the EU simply don’t understand it and it’s massive benefits. They are also clueless to how Ireland was prior to the EU.

The UK proved with brexit how little they understood the EU, just watch how much they bitch and moan when it comes to their summer holidays in the EU.

@Barry Somers: So long as their holiday is not longer than 90 days it stays the same as now and its the same for EU citizens coming to the UK.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2531

@Spongetron: give up your country to Europe for some tarrred roads. BRILLIANT

@gk ricko: your obviously too young to remember what the country was like before we joined the EEC (EU), I’m not…it’s was a hole.

@Joe Bloggs: are you a Beano?
Just wondering like…

@gk ricko: I would be grateful if you could back up your argument with a few facts

@Joe Thorpe: oh god no, ring Boris and tell him he can have whatever he wants, seriously think we can live without magic or UK al jazeera

@rolyat ecnal: go up north and get a Freesat box. No bills to sky and all chanels (including itv and channel 5) free

@Joe Thorpe: I tried looking for them, found them and manually tuned them all in

@Joe Thorpe: mainly rubbish channels I’m sure you can find substitute ones

@Joe Thorpe: There’s 50 less channels and nothing on.