Also, deals with the case where the developer firm goes bust once the profits have been moved to some other firm in the network, and before the infra has been put in properly. (View Post)

If you also add civilian labour, quite possibly. Though some of the North was working in armaments, etc. OTOH tge Free State did send fire brigades to help with the German bombing of Belfast to get a… (View Post)

Not least because it would have triggered a restart of the Irish Civil War. Which would have absorbed some of those resources which you mention. Edit: it did also provide a lot of useful food, as wel… (View Post)

To be fair a lot of old soldiers didn't, wherever they were. My granddad was in France in 1915-18, in the absolutely typical trench war campaign with a Scottish infantry battalion, and I was tol… (View Post)

My dad was in the Navy. His equivalent phobia was for tinned apricots and tinned plums! (View Post)