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I would say that Israel is throwing UK, USA and France under a bus by dragging them into a war, they don't want to be part of.

"Thousands of Arab fighters arrived near occupied Golan Heights to support Hezbollah, claims Israeli daily

Around 40,000 militia fighters and mercenaries from Iraq, Yemen, and Syria are awaiting Hezbollah's approval"

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/thousands-of-arab-fighters-arrived-near-occupied-golan-heights-to-support-hezbollah-claims-israeli-daily/3340681

Gateboy is an expert in whatiffery

Here we go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcIV2mRKw4

Clamp down on the long term sick, it seems!

The H group in Lebanon have started hitting israeli airstrip. UK has airstrip in Cyprus used to support the Isreali. This whole situation is a complete powder keg! We get full scale outbreak of hostilities, then ukraine will be nothing more than a neighbours dispute, by comparison!

To be honest, I'm a bit p155ed off as I won't qualify for the fuel allowance, when I retire.

What is Fuel Allowance?

"Fuel Allowance is a payment to help with the cost of heating your home during the winter months. It is paid to only one person in a household.

The Fuel Allowance season normally begins in late September of each year and ends in April. The 2024/2025 Fuel Allowance season started on Monday, 23 September 2024. It will be paid for 28 weeks (until 4 April 2025).

The current rate of Fuel Allowance is €33 per week. You can choose to get the Fuel Allowance paid every week or paid in 2 instalments (lump sums).

In the 2024/2025 Fuel Allowance season, the first lump sum instalment is paid in September 2024. The second will be paid in January 2025."

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How to qualify for Fuel Allowance

To get Fuel Allowance you must:

Live alone (or only with certain people listed below)

Be getting a qualifying payment (unless you are 70 or over)

Satisfy a means test

These 3 conditions are explained in detail below.

You must also live in Ireland. You cannot get Fuel Allowance if your heating costs are provided in full as part of your accommodation.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social-welfare/extra-social-welfare-benefits/fuel-allowance/#:~:text=The%20current%20rate%20of%20Fuel,be%20paid%20in%20January%202025.

Now up 1708% on my original investment in III.

Just logged into HL account, no issue.

Starmer is doing a super job!

Economy and lloyds will boom!

What is there not to like?

Hardup is he right though, that the USA is a house of cards, that is going to come crumbling down? This is what we want to know. You're forever playing the man, not the ball. A bit of a slow learner, I fear!

Ireland's first railway, the Dublin and Kingstown, was built to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) (later known as standard gauge). The Ulster Railway (UR), taking the Irish Railway Commission's advice, used 1,880 mm (6 ft 2 in). The Dublin and Drogheda Railway was proposed to be built to 1,575 mm (5 ft 2 in) gauge[1] on the grounds of lower costs. The two broader gauges were not used anywhere else. Following complaints from the UR, the Board of Trade investigated the matter, and in 1843 decreed the use of 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in).

Numerous narrow-gauge systems were built, usually as three foot gauge railways (3 ft or 914 mm). Most are now closed, including one of the largest narrow-gauge systems, that of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee. The Irish narrow gauge today survives as heritage railways in both the Republic and in Northern Ireland. Bord na Móna uses narrow gauge in the Midlands bogs as part of its peat transport network. There is also a private peat railway on the southern shores of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, operated by the Sunshine Peat Company.

Https://youtu.be/1y_MtFtIe8U?feature=shared

It will be over before you even realise it started! Get out of cash and get in to tangible non US assets.

Regardless of their economic circumstances to get the chop?

She is a lovely lady.

Also, I was in and out in 7 minutes.

It is so fast in that health centre.

Only one person in front of me in the queue, to make the appointment.

Popped into my local healthcare office at 7:20, and got a doctors appointment for tomorrow at 9:10 am. That is what the national health system is like in Spain. Also I see the same doctor each time, not a different one each time you go.

Having been to Albanian, I can recommend it, as a holiday destination.

Just paid into my bank account

Exactly what I was thinking also!