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Michael McDowell does not think much of Ryan's railway plan for Derry and Donegal and he wonders what happened to all those other "great" ideas of rail links around Dublin that are still in the melting plot up to ten years behind the studies and nothing has happened.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/michael-mcdowell-a-rail-feasibility-study-is-always-good-for-a-positive-headline-1.4680042

The problem with the government is that it cannot survive without Ryan and the Greens - not enough votes. Perhaps another year of insanity and we can have another general election and we can clear out all this dross of stupidity.

Latest news:

Ireland buys thousands of tons of peat from Latvia.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/ireland-starts-importing-peat-following-wind-up-of-domestic-production-1.4679135

This shows how mad the current government is. The country in Europe historically known for its peat bogs now gets its peat because production in its own country is embargoed. Nuts.

That's like a dairy farmer buying milk from the supermarket because he is too lazy to get it from his own cows.

We have entered the land of Alice through the Looking Glass and the poem the Jabberwock. The following verse says it all:

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

Perfect description of the current Irish government. I reckon Ryan is the Bandersnatch, fits him perfectly.

Nothing wrong with the posts. Worked fine.

And talking of balls, did you ever hear more rubbish than the gibberish from Ryan?

The price of gas is rocketing, wind has vanished, no more sun now we are entering winter and he says we can get adequate supplies of gas and we can "store" vast amounts of it. But at what price as he mentions Putin and the Middle East?

He does not mention that Corrib is fast running out and will be empty by 2029 and where is he going to get the gas to fill up all that "storage space" we have?

Ten minutes of pure bullsh*t saying there will be no issues during the winter. Who is he fooling? One outage and he is for the birds.

The more he dodges the issue the clearer it becomes that Ireland has to develop Barryroe and especially if the gas issue goes on for any decent length of time as he constantly claimed it was short term which it certainly will not be.

The following headline says it all:

"Gulf Stream collapse could leave Ireland with ‘winters as cold as Toronto’"

And we know the Gulf Stream is collapsing. No more semi-tropical Valentia as it is kissed goodbye and Ryan will shiver unless he switches on his gas fire.

Do you think Linn is going to make any announcement ahead of this?

"Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has said that the latest plan from the government in the Republic for tackling the climate change will be published in the first week of October."

Hardly!

Bow down to our new master. Putin puts the pressure on Europe with his control of gas.

Today's headline:

"Putin sparks panic in Germany over natural gas blackmail fears: 'Houses will stay cold!'"

If Germany is worried about Russian gas which has built a big gas pipeline into that country, Nord Stream, what about the rest of us?

If we have a cold hard winter with problems of gas supply as well as the huge increase in wholesale gas prices which will be passed on to consumers what chances Barryroe gets the go ahead very soon?

I think Ryan and Smith are being backed into a corner faster than you can say "up yours".

We won't need Providence if Ryan gets his way and we have to all go back to riding bicycles and the other suggestion that country people don't need lights but can use torches to get home at night in villages and towns when he gets the street lights turned off. And yes, we must stop those data centres being built in Ireland. And perhaps farmers should go back to hand milking cows and not use electric automated milkers and not sterilise the milk. Hopefully, he would get a dose of brucellosis which is just about as bad as Mad Cow Disease.

And I like his suggestion of having a rail link all the way to Derry from Cork. How long does he think it will take to travel that far and who in their right mind would want to travel from Cork to Derry by train? And if he is so keen on railways how about resurrecting the Achill line which was abandoned years ago and is now a cycle path for tourists.

The more scatterbrained schemes he comes up with the more people will realise what an absolute fool the man is. And how about the West Clare Railway closed in 1961. Brendan O'Dowda would turn in his grave if that was resurrected because it is the famous song "Are you right there, Michael, are you right?" which was written about that one.

Interesting link which shows how Ireland's rail network has reduced from 2025. Perhaps Ryan would like to resurrect all of these that have disappeared. The graphic in the following shows the demise.

https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/losing-irelands-railway-networks-to-partition-was-a-giant-mistake

I think Linn is playing a crafty game. The worse the problem becomes with fracked gas, shortages creating spiraling costs and Russia curbing gas supplies, Germany now in dire straits of blackouts, England being in danger of blackouts from power stations being switched off the better the case for developing Barryroe.

And it is interesting that the "naughty" gas CO2 is also now a shortage for the meat trade and other industries. I didn't realise it was used to stun cattle before they are killed in abattoirs. I thought we had too much of the stuff but it seems it is in short supply.

News:

"A large fire at a key electricity converter station in the U.K. has shut down a major cable that brings power from France, worsening Britain’s energy crunch. Gas and power prices jumped."

2,000 megawatt cable out of action until at least mid October but possibly until next March.

We are the tail at the end of the electricity dog. It might not be long before the tail gets cut off.

When will Ryan, Brid Smith and the Greens get the message that Ireland has to have its own gas and oil to feed its generators.

And when you realise China told the UK to get stuffed recently when they wanted China to reduce its dependence on coal fired power stations the Chinese told them they would not be carbon neutral until 2060 as they build hundreds more coal fired power stations which puts all of this into perspective.

So a note of warning for poor little Ireland today from the Irish Times.

"A shortfall in power left Ireland at risk of blackouts on Thursday after the Single Electricity Market Operator (Semo) issued another amber warning “due to a generation shortfall”.

If one blackout scuttles any of Ireland's datacentres you can expect the whole Irish carbon neutral gang to run for the hills.

The other amber warning was issued on Monday only three days prior to this one.

We are in September and it is not even cold. What happens when the temperature drops 5 or 10 degrees and greater amounts of heat are needed?

The Irish public will be like Tam O' Shanter's wife "there she sits all alone, nursing her wrath to keep her warm".

A few more of these warnings and even an actual outage before the Providence Strategic Review in December and we could be pumping oil and gas out of Barryroe by 2023.

Yes, Providence will have the funding for Barryroe in place by end of Q3.

It will be announced at the Q4 Strategy Review in Q4.

And you will be gone.

Even worse, on the same Express link as yours there is another article which says UK has gone back to coal fired generation for electricity as it runs out of gas.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1487366/uk-vladimir-putin-europe-germany-angela-merkel-russia-gas-coal-plant-nord-stream-2

Putin could be the stimulus Providence needs to get Barryroe off the ground as most of Irish gas and electricity comes from the UK and if it is now going to be generated from coal where does that put Billy "The Green" Kid Ryan? On a flogged "dead horse" going nowhere.

Roll on next year when we get a new government as the current one is falling apart with all the scandals that are now poking their heads above the parapets.

The last thing you do is p*iss me off. You are my entertainment during the Covid19 which I hope crawls up your back when you are consorting with those girls in Bangkok.

Since I know our day is coming when you will be put back in your box I keep kicking you in the nether regions so you won't go away because I want you here when the good news comes through because you will vanish like the wind and there would be no fun if you "just" vanished without saying goodbye with a last proverbial root up your rear end.

So, narcissist, what is it like being always right? Does not get a bit tedious?

By the way, there is a treatment for narcissism I can recommend for you and that is a total lobotomy and since that part of your brain is inactive any way you won't miss it.

So don't leave us until the good news comes through. We would miss you.

My investments and profits are far in excess of the amounts you claim and my 275% profit in Providence, Tremor, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey, amongst others, goes to show it.

I have only got to worry when your prediction, which I will hold you to, says Providence will go "sub 1p" as you predicted and from your tone it is clear you are rattled because you now know it is not going to happen but you cannot admit you were wrong.

I do love a rattled "know it all" and a narcissist to boot ("one who thinks they are always right") like you and I will be delighted when you get your comeuppance which, in my opinion, will be sooner rather than later.

When that day comes we will ask the call girls in Bangkok to soothe your brow or anything else that is upsetting you.

Why would I sit here in misery when I am well in profit in both Providence and Lansdowne and in numerous other shares so clearly I am far ahead of you in profits as I have an upsides of about 270% whereas you have only 100% on one shady, miserable deal.

In fact, some years ago, a company was in dire straits and its shares went to AU3c. I bought buckets of them as I believed in the company and the next day they were taken over at AU17c. Now that is a "real" deal.

So what are you boasting about a miserable 100%?

I know little things like that get you excite you, but - Get Real.

Rubbish.

You claim that "recent low of €0.5292 on the 20th of July 2021." But the lowest price for Polygon on that day was 64c. So how did you get 52c and just happen to buy them at their very lowest?

And as for investment, the shares I said I bought and owned were registered in the famous Blinkx share competition, a copy of which I still keep, and my profit there is about 350% which far out weighs your miserable 100%.

So let us get down to basics.
First of all, I am showing a far greater profit than you with the Providence shares I bought for .9p at the current price of 3.7p so what is great about your boast?

I put a proposition to you which you have conveniently ignored which even your feeble mind will understand and is as follows:-

recent low of €0.5292 on the 20th of July 2021.

The lowest price for Matic on 20th July 2021 was 64c so how did you get 52c?

But aside from that you have conveniently overlooked my proposal which is as follows:

Let's see going forward based on Providence's price today of 3.75p and Lansdowne at .725p and your $1.32 how this pans out over the next few weeks and months.

Providence only needs to go to 7.5p and Lansdowne to 1.5p to outperform your "makeup" rubbish which needs to go to $2.64 .so let's see if they do?

And if you are in a country that does not charge CGT it is probably somewhere like Thailand where a dirty old man like you could well take "refuge". There are plenty of your kind hawking the streets of Bangkok.

And, for Ireland, you do not pay any CGT if you invest through an ARF/AMRF and in the UK you do not pay CGT if you invest through a SIPP or ISA.

So let's see which does better your "imaginative" investment or Providence and Lansdowne.

Load of b*lls.

Here is the market trend for Polygon over the last few months.

All time high $2.68 (18/05/21) That was May this year, in case you cannot read properly.

You told us on 13th August you had made 50% gains yet the price of Polygon was falling to where its current price is $1.52.

So, Polygon went from $2.68 to $1.52 during the time you said you made 100% profit. Your name is not Nick Leeson and you worked for Barings Bank by any chance.

I bought a number of shares some years ago which I still hold such as Barratt Holdings for 120p and they are now 739p, I bought Taylor Wimpey for 40p, they are now 180p and I bought Blinkx for 42p and they are now worth 662p.

So, liar, yes there are other opportunities out there, hence my statement to you previously "don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs" which means some of us are far cleverer at this game than you.

So, please tell us how you made so much money on Polygon when it fell like a stone over the period you claim you made 100%,

Whose legs are you trying to pull?

I may be confused but I see your polygon (matic) aren't doing so well.

Down from $1.64 to $1.32 since you told us you had invested.

I thought you told us they were on the way up?

Any idiot, like you, who invests in cryptocurrency nearly always ends up losing their shirt, at least 70% I believe, hopefully you will also lose your kaftan as well.

And you try and convince us a cryptocurrency is a surer bet than Barryroe?

Let's see going forward based on Providence's price today of 3.8p and Lansdowne at .725p and your $1.32 how this pans out over the next few weeks and months.

I think you are going to look both thick and sick and I reckon we will have the last laugh as you vanish into you oozlum bird's nest.

I don't have any "alerts" set up. And don't try and teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

The article specifically says it is from eight months ago, so it is not trying to fool anybody with "new" information. My question, which you are obviously too stupid to answer was "why have they published an eight month old article."

Are they saying, when the news breaks and you are for the birds, that they "told us so"?

And all I did was query today's copy of the Sunday Business Post and it appeared at the very top of "company" news and I notice now when I query it that the item has disappeared.

And why did they not publish the article from three months ago which said "Providence forced into bond issue after Norwegian deal falls through."

The Sunday Business Post has a history of trying to beat the band and much of its info is just to try and fill up the paper.

If you have access to the whole paper it must mean you are stupid enough to have a subscription to what is nothing more than rumour and potential mistruths at its worst.

No wonder you cannot buy shares if you spend it on this thrash.

Today, the Sunday Business Post has reprinted the old article from eight months ago which said:

"https://www.businesspost.ie/companies/providence-plans-to-raise-eur60-eur70m-through-bond-issue-a0ea5d00"

Now why would they publish an old article saying "Providence plans to raise €60m to €70m through a bond issue"? Is it because the deal is nearly done or is it because they are short of material?

Perhaps this is the news that will be published in September, prior to start of Q4.

As the wise man said, "A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse".

Are we all still winking and nodding?

After thought,

Just in case you can access it, as it has a few more bullets to fire at the "Greens" and "Wally" Ryan here is the link.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/energy-and-resources/use-of-coal-to-fill-power-shortfall-an-embarrassment-and-red-flag-1.4658022