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[vic mcclymont]

Vic you are a man I enjoy reading most of your posts, but come on Vic why would the Irish (a very small economy)want to be buying Scotch Whisky, Salmon, Beer and Cheese when they have their own which by the way they export world wide , come on get real here. The population of the whole of Ireland N&S is less than 6 million.Now I know the paddies like a drink but if the UK is relying on Beer , Whiskey sales to keep the UK economy afloat ffs get real, oh forgot they also have a very large Salmon industry.

Ah Lewis, International Business Times, source of info. Maybe your compatriots enjoy a decent Whisky (Scotch) compared to the stuff you distill (LOL).
Now Lewis, your twisting things again, I only posted these items to show, that it is not all doom and gloom.
Slaithe
Vic

[Ivan Cloherty]

Vic you are a man I enjoy reading most of your posts, but come on Vic why would the Irish (a very small economy)want to be buying Scotch Whisky, Salmon, Beer and Cheese when they have their own which by the way they export world wide , come on get real here. The population of the whole of Ireland N&S is less than 6 million.Now I know the paddies like a drink but if the UK is relying on Beer , Whiskey sales to keep the UK economy afloat ffs get real, oh forgot they also have a very large Salmon industry.

Asia and Australasia were the biggest importers of those goods mentioned by Vic, Ireland and France are AMONGST the largest individual importers

[Lewis McColl]

Well Vic, as we all were reminded not so long ago by a certain Labour shadow minister of some department or other. We will not be exporting or shipping food to Australia as it will all have gone off by the time it gets there.
You see Vic this is why we need to stay in the EU as it is closer for us to ship food so it does not go off. lol

[j.sabourn]

Lewis you seem well up on Irish history... I have never mentioned before in previous posts as did not want to upset people if they are still alive. So with no bad intent in mind has anyone of Irish descent known the name Lundy. I was told by the Irish sparks at the time was a well known name in Ireland and was a Protestant family in the south. Sparks being a R.C. There was no love lost. Cheers JWS

[Keith at Tregenna]

Lundy Family History. Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places called Lundie, for example one near Doune in Perthshire. Irish: according to MacLysaght, from Norman de la Lounde, a name recorded in medieval documents in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny.

https://www.johngrenham.com/findasur...?surname=Lundy

[j.sabourn]

Thanks Keith was looking for more recent history. Previous to 1969 it included the loss of an Irish coaster and the loss of lives. Even though I had personal issues involved I would not decry anyone from a distance. We all have likes and dislikes. Thought by what I was told that the name summoned up visions of the devil to some of the Irish community. However the average paddy likes stringing stories together to make a lengthy yarn. Thought it may also have references to Lundy Island. Cheers JWS

[Keith at Tregenna]

Will try to help further but, will be in the morning. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ K.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Lewis.
You are right about importing food from Britain; we have the biggest cattle farms in the world, we still have millions of sheep, massive veg and fruit farms, but what we don't have are many manufactured goods made here, they are long gone to Asia where they now all come from , so what we would trade with the UK is good British manufactured goods that won't fall apart at the slightest bump, and these days selling technology is the in thing; something that Britain is still good at. That is why I don't like all these trade deals that are being signed up by our Govt's, we are stuck for years with these country's even if their goods deteriorate over time.
Cheers Des

[Keith at Tregenna]

Off to kip, took one last look for tonight: Search the database Irish Mariners

[j.sabourn]

For those still at sea on ships transiting some of the ports in Australia, may not see it so much. But bringing a ship To work out here from abroad and I have brought a few. You can guarantee all your meat will be confiscated and all your vegetables condemned, even a large percentage of packaged foods, as not supposedly having the standards required by the Australian food board. I always had to have an order radioed in to the chandler at the first Australian port of entry. So following on from this the import of foods must be they are of a high standard. And yet you see shops and supermarkets selling fish caught in polluted rivers in the Far East for sale. We always bye pass such, and buy food produced in Australia. There seems to be two laws on the import of food into the country. I am in agreeance with Des these Trade agreements should be of short term and not be so binding. I like my kippers from North Shields and not North Korea. Cheers JWS