GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Garda communications purport to be fully secure from interception now that a digital system currently on trial in the Store Street garda station are trickling out to the entire Dublin area. When used with encryption on, they are much more secure than their analogue predecessors. It would take more than €100m from the Irish government to give digital radios to all police throughout the Republic. 8:18:26 PM

BAWNTAMEENA -- Just off the phone with an American who asked for my frank opinion of things in North Riding. I told him that before he invests in Thurles, he should get a feeling for the lay of the land by driving through Liberty Square towards Nenagh some morning around 0900 or some Tuesday evening around 1800. [Tipperary Institute] 10:12:32 AM