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I have to agree with ONeill, his stand up was much better than the sketches. The sketches weren't terrible, they just weren't brilliant. Plenty of room for improvement. A heck of a lot better than the sketch show The Hole In The Wall gang did a few years ago, Dry Your Eyes.

You telling me to dry my eyes?!! I hope he does well and am only giving opinion! I see in other places you have aspirations to be Predisident of Ireland. Won't be much freedom of speech if that happens!

Trying to be gentle here but I was disapointed with the first show but live in hope that the characters will bed in and grow on the viewers. People rave now about James Young and clips of it are very funny (Emily Beattie etc) but when you watch full shows on video a lot of it was absolute sh*te. Not an easy game to craic.

Hit and miss, like most Irish comics. Some potentially very funny material. Sorta knew him growing up, never opened his mouth.

Comics now seem to struggle with juggling the modern (sex) with the old (accent/traits).

Terrible spelling of Derrylaughan though. Or is is Derrylaughen. Or Dirtyloughland.

You spotted my deliberate mistake. Well done. Derry - laughin as in laughing and him a comedian... 

Tommy Tiernan best I've seen too. In tears laughing at his show.

Anyone see this lad Diarmuid Corr the other night. From Derrylaughin. Wondering wat people thot of it. Go easy on him now!! was the first show and Monty Pythons got hammered at the start. IMO characters have potential but big time I think he needs funnier material.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obeyPkLa7QM

This teeanger has not yet admitted strangling his grandfather. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds that he found him dead and was negligant by not calling for an ambulance. Instead he went off for a night's drinking. The judge however said he definetly strangled Grandpops. So in effect he still denies it... and is no remorse or admission watsoever. He is still lying. I do believe in a chance for rehabilitation and have got hammered on the board for that in the past. But to serve no time and still deny doing it is no starting point.   

Did Martin McGuinness not recently speak at the Tory party conference in England and that just as bad? Did I dream that?!!! yiks  im not sure.

In fairness lads, this was a fair heavy hit from behind on a fella not remotely expecting it. A lot of people saw it at the time. It was a cross sub who was steaming up and down the line warming up. impossible to know if there were verbals previously as the player was passing but it was a very heavy hit at full speed.

Is yer man Bradley out of hospital yet.

There you go. It's okay to pull strokes like this if person doesn't get bad injury but then there is uproar when there is a report of someone getting badly hurt. Can't see how we can have it both ways.   

This is a case for electronic tagging.

What use would that be? Unless he stays under house arrest. Sure his Granda only lived down the road from him.

Class alright. hopefully he stays there as that is what has torn the ass out of soccer, the rich boys moving in for top players. Still no need to move if he is playing in the Champions League.

It was in different papers about that. He is charged with that but not convicted of it.

Is it my imagination or was this lad returned to custody after being released on bail for beating up a lad in Strabane who testified against him?

Aye- a few weeks ago.

Nope, the judge reckoned he didn't mean to kill  him and the judge described the strangling action as 'foolhardy.' Oh! and yer lad Coyle also stabbed the Grandfather in the neck... sure the report says that.
Pints, I know we have clashed on rehabilitation of young offenders before but even the Fox appreciates this is crazy. This boy gets out in  a few weeks.   

[Early release for killer grandson]

OK dudes... reaction to this one...   



Early release for killer grandson

The Omagh teenager whose 12-month jail sentence for the killing of his elderly grandfather has sparked controversy is set to be released within a month.
Eamonn Coyle was just 16 when he stabbed and strangled 78-year-old Francis O'Neill at his home in April last year for £80 to pay his rent.
Now 18, he was sentenced on Monday to a year's detention for his grandfather's manslaughter and a further two years on licence.

But Coyle, who has served time on remand since the killing, will be freed by the end of the month.
"It appears to me Eamon Coyle was sentenced for the robbery of £80. The manslaughter element seems to have been brushed aside," Chairman of the Stormont Justice Committee, Maurice Morrow, said.

The teenager's identity would have remained unknown because of his youth, but Omagh Crown Court judge Mr Justice McLaughlin - sitting in Craigavon - lifted reporting restrictions as he felt the details were necessary to allow the public to better understand the outcome of the case.
The judge said, while he was certain Coyle never intended to kill his granddad or even to seriously harm him, he had gone to his Brook Valley home "for the motive of theft or robbery".
He also stated that Eamonn Coyle "is the person directly responsible for the death of his grandfather", but accepted the teen posed no future risk to the public.

Morrow has called for further explanation from the courts of the leniency of the sentence, amid a public outcry.
"I cannot understand how and why this decision was arrived at. It sends out the wrong message to the law abiding public," he said.
"I am shocked and stunned, as I think a lot of people are."

The Public Prosecution Service is to consider the case, which could be forwarded to the Court of Appeal if it is considered to be "unduly lenient".

The two tier system between club and county... and then when county players have a big success with their club they say it means more.