You forgot the crosswords and the sudoko..... and the table football........oh and the comedy ECMO in the middle of the night and the fruitless search for red flares.
As for the Irish binning milSAR - I think the mil setup was nowhere near the standard of UK in terms of trg and equipment and the trigger for change was a sad fatal crash in fog. It had a lot less to do with pure civ v mil costings.