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Leaks neither does the all copper system provided the matching pipes and olives are used. They are more to Tolerant of the external fitting so one can easily buy 1/2 inch couplers and bends in France which mate happily with irish or .uk fittings ...provided the olives and pipes are correct.. ...

Don't worry about the Daniel bit... It is actually correct... My keyboard stuttered when I was enrolling. At my stage in life, I am all in favour of European standards, and so would you if you tried to do plumbing on old houses. There is a slight but important difference in the thickness of...

Could I paraphrase... H&S begins with the informed individual..... There are many hazards whose lethal attributes are not obvious. Why for instance did those boring electrical installers only use female contacts on wall plates, and them maybe even put switches on them and protection plates...

Zathlan has a point here, measurement units evolve which are natural and people like to deal in small numbers in terms of length the yard or the metre are both natural.. being about a stride or half term height of a person. . The inch about the length of a knuckle.. but the huge advantages of a...

There is nothing wrong with the active line motor. .. it may even be more reliable. Than the more Powerful variants. For road use.

The irony is that good health and safety standards, actually improves the bottom line. The systematic thought processes needed to implement safe work practices, yield improvements in process, and a reduction in days lost while digging out trapped miners etc. I am however heartened to note that...

This isn't a topic that interests me... I am no petrol head. But as with any other area, the EU will have set up an expert group who will try and negotiate an agreed standard. Engineering and people being what it is, the different standards in different jurisdictions will normally be close to...

.. I can agree with the difference in public safety differences between the UK and Ireland and Spain... The number of deep drops without barriers on public steps, castle walls, parapets, frightens me. I see young children walking on these areas and my heart is in my mouth.. The fact that our...

The technical standards groups within the EU make suggestions, the parliament and commission make decisions , depending on the nature of the change it may be advisory or compulsory... Compulsory where a state has agree to implement it. These technical standards are for every thing from cement...

.. when I used the term Muppets, I was not actually referring to the NI representatives, but the mainland UK reps. I will agree that the NI reps have as you say a certain decency. I might be wrong, but I never recall Mr Adams as having been a candidate for an ROI MEP constituency. As you may...

There was never a restriction on the UK having any specific speed limits on bikes imposed by EU. Can you not see that that is the exact problem you have in NI

The first point raised is a fact , the rest are opinions. So regarding the first point. The minutes of the UK cabinet discussion are not published. The discussions of the Irish cabinet likewise are not made public. In fact it is an offense for the discussion to be published..even by a minister...

We agree on that. , And also, were you to include it the Algerian conflict, and then the near civil war in France as a result of that. Colonial France does not have a proud record.

Your original post referred to UK colonial involvement post ww2. No reference to France post WW2. . As France had been the occupying power for 60 + years, and had only been kicked out by the Japanese for 4, they would have claimed they were reoccupying that which was theirs. In the same way as...

Degaulle must have been some operator there he was at his conception even prior to his birth arguing for French indo China. And low and behold by his birth the state of indochine including Vietnam was in place !. The U.K. problem with the European union is precisely that... it's problem...

... Sounds like a refrain from" McArthur park"

We have been over that ground so many times, that a furrow is worn. I ,we know the names of our local MEPs , I can go, were I so inclined to the local office of the EU, around the corner from the Dail,and I have knowledge of who our current EU Commissioner, elected by the Dail is. .. I don't...

Careful flecc, we Irish are very jealous of our rights .. the one in Ireland to which you refer is the currently non existent one in the North of Ireland. Our southern Dail didn't devolve, it revolted.

.. but don't the Saudis have plenty of princelings , so the loss of a few won't matter? .. if the current news is valid.

... Its not the war... Its Brexit!!!.. they want you to replace it with a Morris marina...