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[It's exactly the same with the Irish signs at the new Train station.]

No one would deny the Ulster Council messed up, Jasus they'd secretly admit that themselves but a lot of you are missing the point here. This is the Union and DUP saying F**K you fenians, you're getting f**k all from us. They are currently proud of themselves for stalling the project. It's exactly the same with the Irish signs at the new Train station...no one is doubting they messed up by not having them on the original signage and to spend that money on new signage is ludicrous but the Union and the DUP do not want anything Irish, it's not about the money for them, it's just because it Irish.
They still have it in their heads that support for the GAA is like buying weapons for the IRA, that's how they've always thought and haven't changed one bit. They gave £50m for a fecking ICE Bowl in one of the strongest loyalist areas in the Country and no one batted an eyelid and make no mistake about it if they had plans to upgrade Windsor Park the money would be found from somewhere.
They want us all to die or go away, or as they put it..."go back home to Dublin", the irony from English and Scottish settlers.
So to recap, yes we have shot ourselves in the foot and seem to be quite good at it but please don't lose sight of what this is all about...It's anti Irish...FULL STOP!!!

Since you have made the comparison, I assume from this that you agree that giving hundreds of millions of extra funding to the Casement project is also ludicrous and therefore it is irrelevant what Unionists think of the GAA, their decision is founded in logic?

How are both the same, brand new station with brand new signage v no stadium and no signage. Don't sound the same to me

You said it, not me. I've put it in bold in the original post to help.

Well then I'll take it back as they're not the same Inspector Jacques Clouseau and you know they're not the same. You're just being a smart arse.

No one would deny the Ulster Council messed up, Jasus they'd secretly admit that themselves but a lot of you are missing the point here. This is the Union and DUP saying F**K you fenians, you're getting f**k all from us. They are currently proud of themselves for stalling the project. It's exactly the same with the Irish signs at the new Train station...no one is doubting they messed up by not having them on the original signage and to spend that money on new signage is ludicrous but the Union and the DUP do not want anything Irish, it's not about the money for them, it's just because it Irish.
They still have it in their heads that support for the GAA is like buying weapons for the IRA, that's how they've always thought and haven't changed one bit. They gave £50m for a fecking ICE Bowl in one of the strongest loyalist areas in the Country and no one batted an eyelid and make no mistake about it if they had plans to upgrade Windsor Park the money would be found from somewhere.
They want us all to die or go away, or as they put it..."go back home to Dublin", the irony from English and Scottish settlers.
So to recap, yes we have shot ourselves in the foot and seem to be quite good at it but please don't lose sight of what this is all about...It's anti Irish...FULL STOP!!!

Pointing out the Dup are anti-Irish is pretty much irrelevant/background noise in my eyes.
The issue for me is that the Ulster council/the GAA/SF basically made life so much easier for them and the British by being so inept at managing the whole project and the stuff that was under their control.

Exactly. The Ulster Council are so inept that if the money were to be found, I'd have absolutely no faith that the Ulster Council could deliver the project on time and on budget. Everyone knows who exactly the DUP are and what they are about, so that's no shock to anyone. But the Ulster Council have made it easier for them to object.

Really don't understand why this project can't be started with the funds available. Progress it in phases over the years. Build one stand now, the opposite one in a few years' time and eventually close in the ends. Work with what you have and get the fecking thing started. That's the best way to stick two fingers up to the naysayers.

I concur...

I would go to the ice bowl the odd time and have taken the wee fella in his cul camp top a few times and he is far from the only one in a gaa top. Dundonald is far from as one sided a place as it used to be. Yes I wouldn't run round tullycarnet in a gaa top but we would go to a good few venues in Dundonald and it's grand

Well that's great, things are def changing. Wouldn't happen in my day

You guys are in la la land blaming the DUP for the failure to develop Stormont. Whilst they are no doubt enjoying the impasse it's entirely Ulster GAA fault. They got double the funding (60mill v 30 and 30) compared to rugby and soccer yet decided to build an ego-massaging white elephant that was strongly opposed by local residents. It was a high court judge not the DUP who ruled in favour of the residents.

After that the Stormont Executive collapsed over the RHI and language act. SF would have known that stadium funding would have been a casualty of that.

Now the 60 million from Stormont is back available, the GAA said they'll give 15 and the FG/FF government are going to pony up 40. But Ulster GAA said they need another 100million. Come on to fcuk. If the IFA and IRFU can build 2 18,000 seater stadia for 30 mill why is it taking 200 mill to build a 34,000 seater stadium.

At a time when the Brits are squeezed for money they rightly turned down the request for hundreds of millions for a stadium which would be lucky to be filled once a year and used maybe 10 times a year.

Build a good 20,000 seater stadium from the 100mill that is available. which is what always should have been done at the start. GAA arrogance and weakness for vanity projects mean that never happened.

You can't really compare them together...3 different sports with different attendances. If you were building Windsor or Ravenhill as of 2025 they would be costing £80-£100m. Like i said earlier I know Ulster GAA have made a pigs ear of it

[Pointing out the Dup are anti-Irish is pretty much irrelevant/background noise in my eyes.]

No one would deny the Ulster Council messed up, Jasus they'd secretly admit that themselves but a lot of you are missing the point here. This is the Union and DUP saying F**K you fenians, you're getting f**k all from us. They are currently proud of themselves for stalling the project. It's exactly the same with the Irish signs at the new Train station...no one is doubting they messed up by not having them on the original signage and to spend that money on new signage is ludicrous but the Union and the DUP do not want anything Irish, it's not about the money for them, it's just because it Irish.
They still have it in their heads that support for the GAA is like buying weapons for the IRA, that's how they've always thought and haven't changed one bit. They gave £50m for a fecking ICE Bowl in one of the strongest loyalist areas in the Country and no one batted an eyelid and make no mistake about it if they had plans to upgrade Windsor Park the money would be found from somewhere.
They want us all to die or go away, or as they put it..."go back home to Dublin", the irony from English and Scottish settlers.
So to recap, yes we have shot ourselves in the foot and seem to be quite good at it but please don't lose sight of what this is all about...It's anti Irish...FULL STOP!!!

Pointing out the Dup are anti-Irish is pretty much irrelevant/background noise in my eyes.
The issue for me is that the Ulster council/the GAA/SF basically made life so much easier for them and the British by being so inept at managing the whole project and the stuff that was under their control.

That's your opinion...just like i had mine.
I also pointed out the Ulster Council f**ked it up

[to spend that money on new signage is ludicrous]

No one would deny the Ulster Council messed up, Jasus they'd secretly admit that themselves but a lot of you are missing the point here. This is the Union and DUP saying F**K you fenians, you're getting f**k all from us. They are currently proud of themselves for stalling the project. It's exactly the same with the Irish signs at the new Train station...no one is doubting they messed up by not having them on the original signage and to spend that money on new signage is ludicrous but the Union and the DUP do not want anything Irish, it's not about the money for them, it's just because it Irish.
They still have it in their heads that support for the GAA is like buying weapons for the IRA, that's how they've always thought and haven't changed one bit. They gave £50m for a fecking ICE Bowl in one of the strongest loyalist areas in the Country and no one batted an eyelid and make no mistake about it if they had plans to upgrade Windsor Park the money would be found from somewhere.
They want us all to die or go away, or as they put it..."go back home to Dublin", the irony from English and Scottish settlers.
So to recap, yes we have shot ourselves in the foot and seem to be quite good at it but please don't lose sight of what this is all about...It's anti Irish...FULL STOP!!!

Since you have made the comparison, I assume from this that you agree that giving hundreds of millions of extra funding to the Casement project is also ludicrous and therefore it is irrelevant what Unionists think of the GAA, their decision is founded in logic?

How are both the same, brand new station with brand new signage v no stadium and no signage. Don't sound the same to me

[so I don't understand the comparison with the ice bowl]

No one would deny the Ulster Council messed up, Jasus they'd secretly admit that themselves but a lot of you are missing the point here. This is the Union and DUP saying F**K you fenians, you're getting f**k all from us. They are currently proud of themselves for stalling the project. It's exactly the same with the Irish signs at the new Train station...no one is doubting they messed up by not having them on the original signage and to spend that money on new signage is ludicrous but the Union and the DUP do not want anything Irish, it's not about the money for them, it's just because it Irish.
They still have it in their heads that support for the GAA is like buying weapons for the IRA, that's how they've always thought and haven't changed one bit. They gave £50m for a fecking ICE Bowl in one of the strongest loyalist areas in the Country and no one batted an eyelid and make no mistake about it if they had plans to upgrade Windsor Park the money would be found from somewhere.
They want us all to die or go away, or as they put it..."go back home to Dublin", the irony from English and Scottish settlers.
So to recap, yes we have shot ourselves in the foot and seem to be quite good at it but please don't lose sight of what this is all about...It's anti Irish...FULL STOP!!!

Tbf the ice bowl will get 700k visitors a year, will Casement get anything near that?
Stormont has already agreed to front up more than this amount anyway for the GAA, so I don't understand the comparison with the ice bowl.

Edit. Calling them settlers is just silly. The Ulster plantation was 400 years ago. I'd bet my left nut you are a descendant of some of the original settlers yourself if you live anywhere in the north half of the island.

I didn't compare it to the Ice Bowl, I said they got £50m quid and no one batted an eye lid.
I called them Settlers because that's what most of them are, you don't know where my roots are so bet away.

No one would deny the Ulster Council messed up, Jasus they'd secretly admit that themselves but a lot of you are missing the point here. This is the Union and DUP saying F**K you fenians, you're getting f**k all from us. They are currently proud of themselves for stalling the project. It's exactly the same with the Irish signs at the new Train station...no one is doubting they messed up by not having them on the original signage and to spend that money on new signage is ludicrous but the Union and the DUP do not want anything Irish, it's not about the money for them, it's just because it Irish.
They still have it in their heads that support for the GAA is like buying weapons for the IRA, that's how they've always thought and haven't changed one bit. They gave £50m for a fecking ICE Bowl in one of the strongest loyalist areas in the Country and no one batted an eyelid and make no mistake about it if they had plans to upgrade Windsor Park the money would be found from somewhere.
They want us all to die or go away, or as they put it..."go back home to Dublin", the irony from English and Scottish settlers.
So to recap, yes we have shot ourselves in the foot and seem to be quite good at it but please don't lose sight of what this is all about...It's anti Irish...FULL STOP!!!

Contract law, courts, legal proceedings

£20 f**king quid and missed game against Antrim in Belfast.

Place is bonkers

Correct...I very rarely miss an Armagh game and have written this game off already, I won't even try for a ticket and after everything that's went on and said I'm happy to watch it on TV. If it's not the TV then the 37 seconds on the Sunday Game will have to do...Sin e

If any of you seen his interview on Friday (I think it was) where he claimed he knew nothing about the GAA and Casement application...You just knew looking at his face he was lying thru his cake hole, the interviewer even knew he was lying but no one has the testicular fortitude to pull them on it.

Now who would have thought Mr Lyons would be objecting to anything Irish...

[Gordon Lyons]

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Gavin Robinson has warned his party has put a "marker" down at Stormont to block Sinn Féin spending money on "pet projects".

It follows the decision by Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins to approve £150,000 for Irish-language signage at Belfast's new Grand Central Station.

A row over the Irish language around the executive table is nothing new but this one has been simmering for some time.

Sinn Féin has accused the DUP of blocking the executive from resolving a funding crisis for cross-border Irish language services, which are facing a £650,000 cut.

The finger of blame is being pointed at DUP Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly for refusing to allow the matter to reach the executive.

So this latest row over Irish-language signage at Belfast Central Station has added another pressure point.

In an email to his supporters over the weekend, the DUP leader said the signage decision was now being challenged around the executive table.

It is understood DUP Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has posed a series of questions about the move in a letter to the infrastructure minister.

Last week Little-Pengelly criticised the decision, claiming "much of the £150,000 will be used to rip out new signs" to "drive forward a political agenda" by the infrastructure minister.

She also questioned spending the money at a time when the executive financially was in a "very difficult place".


Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins said her decision reflected the "thriving Irish language community"

But in announcing the extra funding, Kimmins said it was a "hugely positive development" which reflected the "thriving Irish language community".

She also confirmed her decision had passed an equality screening exercise which showed it would have "a minor positive impact".

It may come down to whether or not the decision by the infrastructure minister to approve funding for the signs should have been subject to wider executive approval.

Robinson believes it should.

"This is clearly a controversial matter and our ministers will use their position at the executive table to not only get to the bottom of how the decision was made but put a marker down that public money cannot be used to further Sinn Féin's pet project," the DUP leader said.

Whether the decision can be taken by a single minister depends on whether it is considered "controversial" and/or cross-cutting, in other words whether it falls under the purview of multiple departments.

History tell us it may be a judge and not a minister who decides, if we reach that point.

Corduroy back in?!

When did it go out?!

To everyone under 70

Go f**k yourself Lurgan spade!  No sense of style down Francis Street,  all turn up collared Polo shirt wearers!

Sure you're a Grand Pop now so you're entitled to wear that Corduroy, maybe it's just where I'm from but never seen any young wans wearing that.

I've been 19 years of illdecide but had others before that...lol

51...Unreal where the years have went. Don't know when I first went on here but it was prob about 20-25 years ago. When I was young and the Mucksavage thread was at it's peak I couldn't get any work done for laughing after reading all the lies but they were good honest lies