Aibu to wonder what Russia is up to in Ireland..

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Reading this was a shock, given recent events... www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/0310/1285699-russian-embassy-orwell-road-irish-government/

@JaneJeffer ???

@LadyEloise10 I think I mixed it up with a different one

Pity. I was about to go through the thread again, looking for a coded message 😉

Are you a Russian spy Fuzzy?

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I drove past it on Thursday LadyEloise10 and was also amazed at how many flags there were. DS was with me and asked which one was the Russian Embassy and I told him that he could make a pretty good guess based on how the density of Ukrainian flags increased as the got closer to the embassy. Plus, of course, the Garda car parked outside the gate and the protesters opposite were a pretty big clue.

Late one night a couple of weeks ago I drove past the Russian residence on Ailesbury Road. A garda car and an unmarked garda car parked outside with some gardai having a chat. I'd say that's a VERY boring assignment, making sure the Russian ambassador has an uninterrupted night's sleep.

I passed it recently too and there was only an unmarked, undercover garda parked a bit away.
The Russian ambassador's garden backs onto a Chinese embassy official's garden.
I wonder do they have a chat over the garden wall

Fair play Cork

I have tried to post this on the app several times but it wouldn’t let me

Love it @JaneJeffer

Interesting- we were in Canberra (Australian capital and home of diplomats) recently and noticed the Russian Embassy had a HUGE amount of building work going on. The large site was about 60pct new buildings.

Maybe Russia is trying to spend money overseas quickly???

If a government has money to spend planning long term 5- 10- 20- 50- 100 years out🤺 on infrastructure in foreign nations is not a bad idea to build big with growing room.
If you believed it would be harder to build a large property in 5 or 10 years time build and hold is a good strategy.
If you are building a castle wall and mote you should think about what happens when yea olde grandechilder grow up or you need to hire and house lads to man the walls.

Or ..... someone has plans to move the embassy to a new location and sell off the existing property.....

So... anybody local who can check if the basement was built to be waterproof??