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Mickey Harte's biggest failure was convincing some of us that winning All Irelands is easy.

So you're ok with a country's leader potentially placing the needs of his personal fortune and finances above what is best for the country?

You have trust in the GOP-controlled congress as watchdogs?

There's a reason why past presidents have placed their business interests into blind trusts. Trumps refuses to do this and to cut any ties, beyond turning the management over to his kids (reconfirmed mere minutes ago).

This all from a man who was campaigned on corruption and "draining the swamp" (yes, I know it was cynicism on his part).

I'm not happy or sad about it. I don't assume he will do that. I respect the outcome of the vote and the political institutions in the USA. I understand the possibility there is for corruption. There is nothing new here. Every leader of ever Country has the potential to put the needs of their personal wealth first.
There is nothing new in friends and family of Presidents having private interests. There is nothing new in Presidents working after they retire from the White House. And there's certainly nothing new in someone campaigning on one thing and doing another.

Seriously?

Conflicts of interest.

What happens if he has to make a decision which is influenced by one of his or his family's business interests?

He's not the President.

So what if he's influenced. It happens all the time. That's why we have lobbyists and why we have systems of accountability and separation of powers.

not looking great, seen on teamtalk lastnight that he done the ACL and MCL in the same knee, surely rules him out for the whole year and a major blow to any championship hopes for Clonoe

Championship could be 9 months away yet. It's a long road but he could recover.

I'm homophobic but I have been working on it and I'm getting much better. I now have 2 gay friends who helped and were understanding about my earlier stronger homophobia. I'm pretty much cured now but I do still get pangs on homophobia.

How do you know?

I've no way of knowing either way, but the intelligence agencies were supposedly concerned enough to tell him and Obama they were looking into it.

Like I said, a bit of transparency from Trump would go a long way. They've previously acknowledged a lot of business entanglements with the Russians.

I don't know really i'm just forming an opinion from the info i've seen.

I suppose that's their job. Potential scandal for the President and President elect and they inform them. I'd say it's common.
Business men do business. What the issue there?

Donald Trump's twitter account is verified as his own and he has confirmed it is his own so it is an extremely valid source of information to that end!!!

It's an extremely valuable tool for Trump beating lots of nails in 40 characters or less.

[big into the Irish language, sport and traditional music.]

Its not that simple either as I've relations in North Down and we've several lads from that area who hurl for us and there's nothing British about them, big into the Irish language, sport and traditional music.

I know a lot of Germans like that and I know a lot of Irish who are not like that.

I agree that he can do whatever he wants to do. It's the identity police that are the problem not McIlroy.

What's fake?

That he and Obama were briefed by intelligence that they are looking into reports that Russia had compromising info, or that Russia had compromising info?

Trump could clear a lot of shit up by releasing his tax returns and getting rid if his business conflicts of interest.

That there was info to be had and that Russia had it.

[have you seen his twitter this morning he's blowing a gasket]

So Russia has some interesting material on the Donald. The narcissist in chief is not your regular President.

I'm hate to disappoint but this is a fake.
It only serves now to make him controversy free.

No it doesn't... have you seen his twitter this morning he's blowing a gasket. Good enough for him after his birther shite and questioning Ted Cruz's father's link to the JFK assassination, Clinton being linked to murders etc.

What's good for the goose!!!

No, i didn't see his twitter account. I don't have confidence in it as a source of information.

Yes, after all that.

So Russia has some interesting material on the Donald. The narcissist in chief is not your regular President.

I'm hate to disappoint but this is a fake.
It only serves now to make him controversy free.

[As a source, he is well placed to have an informed opinion.]

GHD - a guest contributors article to the pensive quill is something special as a source all right!!

Dixie Elliott is a former blanket man from Derry, and someone who knew McGuinness well.

In Republican circles he is a highly respected man, and his views are widely respected.

As a source, he is well placed to have an informed opinion.

None of that link you posted is from his well placed position.

Who else was working for her majesty other than Donaldson and Scappatacci?

I'd say at the time there were loads of low level guys. Eamonn Collins. Sean O'Callaghan working for the Gardai.
There was a wide range of ways of gathering info from people but not all would be classed in the same level.

[Today he leads PSF further and further into a humiliating acceptance of Britain's role in the North.]

Insufficient Evidence ... 

Wednesday, April 09, 2014   

Guest writer, Thomas Dixie Elliot with some thoughts on the Provisional IRA's chief of staff from 1978-1982 being able to evade prison time in the North.


The 2nd highest ranking member of PIRA/PSF was never interned. The only time he was arrested and jailed in the North was for a few weeks on an IRA membership charge and the Crown Prosecutor released him saying twice that he was 'instructed' Not to Proceed with the Prosecution due to insufficient evidence ...

However in 1972 McGuinness was filmed twice by British TV crews speaking on behalf of the IRA, one being the famous Tom Mangold interview on Stanleys Walk in which McGuinness was described by Mangold as they walked 'as The Officer Commanding The Derry Part Of The IRA...?' The other time being in May just after the OIRA ceasefire...

Yet in 1976 the Crown Prosecutor said he was 'instructed not to proceed with the prosecution due to insufficient evidence'.

(Who instructed a Crown Prosecutor?)

Again during the Raymond Gilmour supergrass trail many Derry IRA members and Republican activists were arrested but not McGuinness who was free to wander round Derry. According to recently released documents Garret Fitzgerald asked Jim Prior why they didn't use Gilmours evidence to jail McGuinness. Prior said because they had no evidence...

A supergrass names every Republican in Derry yet gives no evidence which could jail Derry and the North's most prominent IRA man?

Today he leads PSF further and further into a humiliating acceptance of Britain's role in the North. He does these things because he knows what they know and are capable of doing if he doesn't...

http://thepensivequill.am/2014/04/insufficient-evidence.html

Are you using the idea that there was insufficient evidence as evidence for something else?
That makes no sense.
There is always a case for not naming top people in a supergrass trial. If you have to name someone you name the least important people.

Who instructed him? I'd imagine it was the judge.

That last line is a little telling.

There is nothing about being a tout in that. It's left to the reader to come to that conclusion while the writer can claim he never said it.

[Scores of former senior IRA members]

Scores of former senior IRA members claim he is a tout. That much is common knowledge

No they don't. Vast majority of the senior IRA members are supportive of McGuinness.
You are mistaking senior Dissidents with former members of the IRA. They were never senior PIRA members and some of them where never members of the PIRA.
If they do claim he was a tout then they would accuse him of that but rather they accuse him of selling out.