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It is indeed a blue day - NEWS FLASH - DIVIDEND RECEIVED FOR 2018.
Grateful thanks for all the prayers and the assistance of our Mr Mac - not a fortune - no apology for the disappearance of their cheque, probably says everything about their current inertia......
Good luck all.
This young fella is wasting his time with us - he should be in The City where he could look after us Geriatrics - he'd probably get shot for making too much money.
Anybody think that he's the re-incarnation of Paddy Power ???
Good luck all.
SO - our young friend wants to get to my stage - As a twelve year investor in this share who doesn't fish anymore but is still able to get round the course I wish you more luck than most of us have experienced with this share. The future for this share is with the traders who can buy and sell in minutes on their computers.
Investment these days is played by different rules, which is why they are bringing forward Development Bonds.
You may do better buying a few of them - good luck anyway, I'm off to the course in the morning where I can exhaust my frustrations thinking about my last bank manager as I put my hammer to the ball - some days I hit as far as Shane Lowry.
Good luck young man and keep smiling.....
Now we have analysts and philosophers writing their betting formula's along with their trading diary.
Have been busy lately with the house painting it, garden planting it and the golf course because the weather has been so good - as well as becoming a grandad again thanks to my youngest daughter.
Have become excited again with my game thanks to recent practice and am now really hitting it well - which is more than can be said for our share - instead of buying more I have invested in a new Motor Caddy which makes playing around the Mourne's much easier.
I know that this information will not sit well with our new strangers, or are they from the Premium link, but who cares.
Good luck all - I still keep an eye on things but at the moment I am finding the markets quite boring - as they will be for the next while and life is short...
best wishes to all on board.
There is no doubt that Ireland will suffer a wobble, even lose a few branches when the ground shakes following the implementation of Brexit by the "English" crowd, who are going to restore "Britain's Greatness" much like Trump.
It will feel like winter for a while until the winds from Europe and huge QE take effect.
Ireland has friends in Europe and has always been helped by Germany over the last forty years or so as is well known.
Whatever about the politicians, Irish business will not be found wanting when it comes to reaching out in the search for new opportunities in Europe and its 550 million consumers.
Recent events, Covid and Brexit are unfortunate and maybe tragic complications for some people, for the next couple of years - over time however Ireland will emerge stronger and even more resilient in the end as new opportunities emerge in Europe and elsewhere.
The Irish people know well how to cope with hard roads - after all they have built many of them.
Good luck all...
Seeing my grandsons tomorrow - first time since March - we will be in a large park up here.
Returned to the links on Thursday in good weather, after a couple of wobbly holes was able to open my shoulders again, can honestly say I am hitting it better than at any time in the last five years - which is a great feeling for me.
Almost made me forget how much I have been swindled out of from both sides in this farce - ripped off in the re-valuation and twisted by the manipulators...
Looking forward to Tuesday and taking it out on the ball.
God it's been windy up here.....
Good luck all..
The markets have a very short horizon, when panic sets in it is just like an avalanche when everybody presses their buttons.
All we can do is sit it out until the storm blows over - where we will be when it stops raining is anybody's guess - what is certain is that we will be looking at a much smaller economy, probably 20% smaller, when the purchasing power of so many households and individuals has been slashed.
Part of the outcome I feel will be separation from China in the interest of ONSHOREING a lot of the Chinese production in order to create jobs whilst de-stabilising China at the same time - they have had enough of our intellectual property and money.
Thinking of cashing mine in and putting it in a fruit machine or Lotto tickets....
Good luck all.
Ah now I remember him - I'll have to use the filter again.
I remember Ireland before it broke the link financially with the UK - bit like throwing out the anchor - money from the CAP made a big difference - not only in tractors.
Greetings - somebody (Ranger) opined that he saw the end of the European idea - I don't.
They all know or should, that the Union is the best way forward from many points of view not least financially. It should be remembered that the EU was seen as a joke when it was the original seven, because of the progress made more countries joined including Ireland.
Because of the currency speculators "another joke was launched - The Euro" in answer to the constant shellacking that individual currencies were being subjected too by the big funds in the US and the UK, who simply played pump and dump with national currencies like the Lira and the Punt amongst others.
Perhaps our new friend from Salford can tell us where the Euro stands now in relation to the Pound and more to the point, where he sees the Pound going in the forthcoming RECESSION...
The Europeans are not by inclination over generous, particularly the Dutch who know the price of everything, but really any group would be irritated by the antics of the Greeks and the Italians. Europe has come through a lot since the formation of the Euro whilst absorbing all the small impoverished countries and Poland,freed from the Russian yoke with the collapse of the Soviet Federation.
That it might fall apart now is very unlikely, there is after all strength in solidarity which is not always appreciated by some of those smaller nations but I see no inclination in any of them to rejoin the Soviets.
Now you ask me about Britain and its links with the two other nations Wales and Scotland - there could well be a breakup there - even the "Loyalists" voted against Brexit having proved that they anybody's for the right price.....
Good luck all - hope the camper van is keeping clean during lockdown.
And there was me thinking that "ye all were cocooned" and then we are visited by two economists who it appears are also historians.
One Euro to TWO is no great stretch for this share that at the moment has lost its fizz - I can still remember the day that it doubled in value.
I can also remember Norman Lamont's bouncing credit card and Black Friday, when Britain's failure to work within a financial discipline was exposed.
What a good job they have been able to discover "Greatness" - with what lies ahead it will not not put any butter on their parsnips.
Still, these two jokers stirred the pot for a few minutes in spite of the fact that one of them did not know how to spell "Unionist's."
Good luck all...
A few year s ago now a man who I assumed was a Tory said quite seriously - "we won the war, now we must win the economic war" - his face was perfectly straight when he said it, which led me to conclude that he had been persuaded and impressed by something that had been said to him by somebody like Nigel Farage.
Amazing isn't it that these people actually exist and are used to being led like sheep, have encountered the same mindset here by people who believe that "greatness" is just around the corner.
The only reply is "sorry mate"
My thanks to Mick-B for his thought provoking post..