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Watched them the other day... great stuff!

I got them on ninjavideo.net. Great quality DivX. The only thing is you have to download the ninjavideo helper first but I use it all the time so I can safely say the software is 100%. Also I think it is not illegal to watch streamed videos on the tinternet whereas video piracy is a CRIME!

Yeah it's only the most popular sports programme and they aren't allowed to show MOTD on the iplayer either. It is a good job that it is available to people though!

lads maybe i am wrong and biased but did Fergal Doherty micheal ennis and gramham canty do more is thhe championship this year and Dan Gordon and Aidan Carr???

i could be wrong about Carr but def think i have a point about Gordon.

Carr kicked 24 points i think that in itself is worth something?

I'll give you Dan Gordon because I think he's class but did Aidan Carr not have to kick the same number of wides to get his 24 points? It used to be that the National League Champions got recognised on the All Star team and I don't think this should change and that Fergal Doherty is without doubt the standout candidate on that shortlist of Midfielders along with McGinley... hell one year Derry got 3 All Stars for a National League!

Shocking story alright and some nasty pictures with it.

If anyone wants a look here you go:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/young-swan-put-down-after-act-of-extreme-cruelty-1481464.html

BE WARNED PICTURES MAY OFFEND!

Guinness is a strange invention alright. I would take notions now and again of going on it but never at home. If I'm in the 'Free State' I will usually chance a few and I when I lived there I would have drank Guinness when going for a few pints rather than when on the session where I found it heavy.

The strange thing about it is I went to Manchester and found that I would drink it in Irish Bars over there and by and large it isn't too bad but whenever I have a pint at home in the North it just doesn't taste the same!

Best pint for me though is O'Donoghues on Merrion Row... best pint of Porter I've ever had!

One thing for me is the omission of Damien Freeman. I've watched him destroy Derry now 2 years in a row and he is a fantastic footballer. He has also been one of Monaghan's best players in recent times yet he doesn't seem to get the recognition he deserves from most of the media (although I think he got an Irish News Ulster Allstar this year). Had he been nominated he would have been the other HB along with Harte and Jordan for me!

Watched Stepbrothers too but after the first sort of half an hour when the brothers stopped fighting eachother I kind of lost interest and the story dicintegrated massively. I know it's not a plotline I'm looking for in these types of movie but they could have made a bit of an effort at some kind of decent story. Not a patch on Anchorman, Wedding Crashers, Old School but fairly amusing.

The scene with the Drumkit will be a keeper and one fired about between lads for a log time. "Look my balls are on your drumkit." "Ha well my drum kit's a guy so that means your gay!"

Here's my go:

Masterson
McMahon, O'Sé, Gormley
Harte McCluskey Jordan
McGinley and a toss up between Doherty and McGrath, Doherty because Fermanagh already got CHB
Dooher, Cavanagh, Joyce
Lyng, Cooper, Clarke

Wexford 2
Tyrone 7
Kerry 2
Derry 1
Galway 1
Fermanagh 1
Armagh 1

Will Ryan get the other MF beth after McGinley or do Cork deserve one? It will be an interesting call but I'd say I'm not too far wrong.The only reason Wexford get 2 i because there is no standout keeper this year!

I have the ipod touch and I love it!!! It's a great piece of kit and the applications you can get for it are amazing also. An Iphone is a step ahead though with the phone, ,GPS and camera on top of the ipod touch functions. My problem is I take the phone everywhere and it gets abused... if I had an Iphone it would have been smashed 3/3 times by now but my iPod touch is still in mint condish... if I were to get one again though I'd get the 32Gig as I have a lot more music I want to throw on it.

[D Kelly]

Yes it is! Ciaran Meenagh PE Teacher of Ballinascreen.

Derry had 2 decent minor sides that had seniors progress to All Ireland medals...

1983 Minor Side: D Kelly, P O'Donnell, P Bradley, J McGurk, R Conway, B Kealy, N Mullan, P Young, C Barton, C McNicholl, D McNicholl, E McElhinny, E Lynch, D Cassidy, Tony McKiernan.


1989 Minor Side: M O'Connor, J Martin, P McAllister, G Simpson, B McGonigle, G Coleman, R Skelly, J Mulholland, A Tohill, R McEldowney, J Lynn, E Burns, E O'Kane, D Heaney, D Bateson. Subs - K Diamond for Martin, R Murphy for Lynn, J O'Connor for E O'Kane.

All in bold were in the '93 All Ireland winning panel!

Best find a broker who won't charge you a fee! I am working in a mortgage brokers at present but we deal mainly in Sub Prime lending so we would use Sub Prime companies which charge people an arm and a leg and give us a good whack of commission. We also charge a Broker Fee of between 1-2% as well so best stay away from people like us.

I would say go to the Mortgage Shop as I've heard they are very good with the customer service and have a good range in the market.

Also I think that now for the next 3 months or so will be a good time to buy as I can't see house prices dropping much further than at present, I'm also a firm believer that if you see something which you think is a good deal you should go for it as you could be waiting for years for house prices to drop this low again and it may  never happen so if you're comfortable with a place and can make the mortgage payments comfortably then go for it!

I am in possession of 4 tickets for the Sold Out Belfast show if anyone would like to buy them off me at face value please send me a pm... thanks.

I have an Oasis ticket for the same night and I'm going to that instead!

Jeez Breheny had a right go at the inbreds for being a dirty shower of goading hoors today!!! It's good to see the bitterness is not dead... that great line was used as well "Nobody is disputing that Tyrone weren't the better side BUT"

What do ye all make of this?


From independent.ie

Time to cry foul

By Martin Breheny

Wednesday September 24 2008

T WENTY-FIVE years ago this week, the GAA was spluttering uncontrollably as the toxic fumes from the Dublin-Galway All-Ireland football final blew across the landscape.

Four dismissals, a row in the tunnel, allegations, bitterness, rancour. If the mood was bad during the game it was no better the following day when players ignored each other at the traditional post All-Ireland lunch -- although the mood lightened when Joe McNally stepped forward to deliver a rousing rendition of 'The Fields of Athenry'.

It took weeks for the GAA to sort out the disciplinary mess of a chaotic afternoon from which neither county emerged with any credit. Not that Dublin cared as their 'Defiant Dozen' had taken possession of the Sam Maguire Cup.

Who would have thought back then as the GAA hierarchy lined up in lengthy file to decry the indiscipline which marred football's big day that both sides would be honoured guests of the Association at the 2008 All-Ireland final?

Dublin were introduced to the crowd last Sunday as part of the 25-year Jubilee celebrations, which has become a welcome part of All-Ireland day. Meanwhile, the Galway squad were in the Hogan Stand as guests of the GAA.

Infamous

Nickey Brennan wrote about the infamous 1983 final in his match programme notes, referring to the game as a "tempestuous affair" (that's one description!) but pointing out that friendships had been rekindled in the intervening years even if players "still have memories of that bruising encounter".

But then time heals and what happened in the distant past, however heinous it may have appeared at the time, looks a whole lot less serious against the soothing background of passing years.

It's like modern-day refereeing, only in this case four months can appear like a lifetime.

Each championship is launched against a zero-tolerance backdrop.

Shiny new whistles play their shrill tunes during the early rounds of the provincial championships but by the end of July they tend to run out of puff. And by All-Ireland final day the aim seems to be to keep as many players on the pitch as possible irrespective of what's going on.

Now before referees or their representatives howl 'foul play', consider this. How is it that there's a public (and indeed player) perception that it's easier to pick up yellow cards and be dismissed in the earlier rounds of the championship than later on?

The truth is that it's more than a perception. If last Sunday's Kerry-Tyrone final had been a first-round game, I have no doubt that far more players would have been yellow-carded and maybe even dismissed. It ended up 6-2 to Kerry on yellow cards which suggests that they were three times guiltier than Tyrone yet the free count was 26-17 against Mickey Harte's men.

Kerry couldn't complain about their yellow cards but they most certainly had reason to feel aggrieved that referee Maurice Deegan didn't adopt a stricter line with the more destructive elements of Tyrone's approach. It wasn't that the referee ignored fouls (although Kieran Donaghy had a valid case for more frees in the first 20 minutes) but he adopted a very sparing approach to use of the yellow card.

And once that became apparent, players pushed the boundaries as they inevitably will when they get a chance.

There's a proposal coming before Special Congress next month to introduce a system whereby players are sent off for what's termed 'highly disruptive' fouls. Replacements will be allowed but it still represents a dramatic change.

There were plenty of 'highly disruptive' fouls on view at Croke Park last Sunday, with Tyrone the more guilty party, but they got away with it, as indeed they did with some theatrical falls to grounds when tackled. As for the verbals and goading which are sadly on the increase across Gaelic football, why don't referees act when they see it happening right in front of them?

Will it be the same if the new rules are introduced? Or will referees apply them to the full rigour right through the season rather than at the start of the League and Championship?

Nobody is disputing that Tyrone were the better side last Sunday but some of their antics were unacceptable. This is not to suggest that Kerry are all angelic souls who never stray over the line. Indeed, their discipline was not good this year, certainly by comparison with previous seasons.

What's more, it cost them in the end. A fully match-fit Paul Galvin was vital to Kerry's game plan against Tyrone but having missed three months playing and training, he wasn't in the starting line-up and couldn't really be expected to make a big impact when brought in just before the hour mark.

It's usual for the GAA to review all aspects of the championship at the end of the season. When they do, the following question should top the refereeing section: Can we honestly say that the same strict standards apply in August/September as they do in May/June?

The answer is a resounding 'no'. Still, if the 1983 football final is now seen as something to celebrate, should we be surprised at a few mood swings over a five-month championship season?

- Martin Breheny

Ah sure I'm well used to him... what else would you expect from a pig but a grunt!?

[mickey harte has a long way to go before he becomes a Mick o Dwyer,he's good,but he's not that good.]

Congrats to tyrone & to all involved who took team that looked like a bunch of aul fellas, to All Ireland champs is incredible.But now that ye won another title will ye please fcuk off & give the rest of us a go.Before ya get carried away lads,mickey harte has a long way to go before he becomes a Mick o Dwyer,he's good,but he's not that good.

Dubs 09

YET!

Mickey Harte will stay with this Tyrone team for the foreseeable future from what I can see. I also think he's the kind of man who won't take another team only his own as evidenced by all his managerial experience being at his local college, local club and local county. A great and while not in the Micko or Heffo category yet if he gets the next senior all ireland he will definitely have a case given his underage and club success!!