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Well done folks

Heres the result for those gallant wee birds that manage to get home.

Well done guys

Well done folks

Good morning folks

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Derry is on the Donegal border so hopefully it'll be close enough to me. Donegal is mostly rugged dense countryside and covers a huge area of many many miles.

Whereabouts in Donegal is the pigeon Andy ??

Well done guys

Well done folks

Yes the birds travelled into Scotland before crossing into Ireland. Omagh is only 30ml away and one of the training spots for Derry fanciers. Alan has timed some decent birds into Omagh over the years, top fancier.

NIPA have a habit of poor liberations over the past few years especially with Ybs and late liberations when birds are flying up here into the N/west and not enough daylight hours for the Ybs to get home. sadly I'm sure it won't be their last bad decision.

Bandit who took the decision to liberate the ISRF birds??

It is a shame that most of the convoy failed to return and I agree that there has to be some kind of enquirery as to the decisions that were taken and that outcome must be made public for all those members to see. Penzance was another tough race with the birds facing a N/westerly wind on their journey home as like most races these days there were losses and under the conditions only the fittest birds were going to make it in race time.

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Just noticed I must have posted the morning thread twice this morning

Well done young man

Paul the problem was the fog on the channel that no-one predicted, not even the weather stations picked up on it. Every fancier that sent knew that the westerly wind would be hard on the birds on their journey home and most expected a tough race. Most of the convoy didn't even reach the English mainland and instead headed for the channel islands and thats as far as they would got with their route home hampered by fog. There are plans on-going to try and retrieve most of these birds and get them shipped into Plymouth, what happens after that I'm not sure.

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Not sure about that one, the four organisations I mentioned earlier on this thread were conveyed on the NIPA transporter and liberated together.

That is not the NIPA transporter or their liberation from St. Malo. That is one of the smaller organisations from Southern Ireland.

Good morning folks

Good morning folks

Well done folks.

Well done folks.