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Ireland has a small but very active 40k community. The size of the country makes for a truly national gaming scene. Currently a debate is going on about the RHQ system and tournaments. Namely, should medium sized tournaments be awarded the same RHQ points as the large tournaments. Currently you need 32 players to get max points and anything over 32 up to 50 players really helps with the points. Jonny65 a player and supreme tournament organizer crunched the numbers and the results make for an interesting read. Namely, the largest tournaments in Ireland are the easiest. The medium sized tournaments are worth the smallest amount of RHQ points but have the stiffest competition. I post a link to this here because it is interesting to have a country where the scene is small enough geographically and player-wise that a national analysis like this can be done. So for anyone interested in how RHQ and some number crunching can be used to analyze a national gaming scene head over to:

http://w-ired.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1248

And here's a link to the Irish 40k rankings
http://www.rankingshq.com/rankings/default.aspx?GameSystemId=3&RegionId=16