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Terry left us in body yesterday but he lives forever among Meath GAA people as the man whose goal won the 1967 All-Ireland Final. His standing outside the world of football, as a gentleman, gentle man, friend and neighbour is just as great.

https://meath.gaa.ie/rip-terry-kearns-st-vincents/

Sorry for the new thread, but I thought a poll was in order and only the OP can add a poll to a thread.

A unit of alcohol is
- a HALF pint of standard (4%) beer
- a pub measure of spirits
- a SMALL glass of 12% wine as in 8 glasses to the bottle, so the standard glass most of us would drink is probably two units.

Why is this not a criminal investigation?

Early nomination - Finian McGrath.

Something to do with Brexit?

Anybody here ever had shingles? I was diagnosed yesterday by the online doctor. I'm on antivirals and Solpadeine (if needed but trying not to take it). Any advice or shared experience appreciated. The pain is not nice and I'm told it's gonna get worse. Somebody recommended dusting Caldesene (nappy rash powder!) onto the sores. I've bought it, but haven't tried it yet. Anyone done that?

I'll kick it off with the publication today of this body of research by a hitherto unheralded climatologist.

... or what was your granny's maiden name?

Which side do you dress (sorry, ladies)?

Coal, turf or logs?

Come on. We need to know this stuff.

Apparently.

http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_anholt_which_country_does_the_most_good_for_the_world#t-745685

Am I right that RTE have stopped streaming the matches they're not broadcasting live? A few years ago you could watch the live feed of matches they were covering just for editing for highlights. I can't find that now. Why would they withdraw this service? It was great. All championship matches could be watched live.

Watch out for this one:
http://www.healthy-consumer.com/articles/ie/?&c1=278&c2=21205&c3=

Well, how are we celebrating?

In the GAA, should we be calling it International Ladies' Day?

If I asked when is International Men's Day, would that be misogynistic?

If women reply that we don't need one and that they need theirs because we are oppressing them, is that being misandrist*?

*Did anyone here, unlike me, know the word for the female equivalent of misogyny?

[The Tragedy Of Colm O'Rourke]

From the Meath GAA Yearbook, 1977. 

The Tragedy Of Colm O'Rourke

"He had the potential to be one of the greatest Meath forwards ever."  This high tribute was all the more valuable when it is realised that it was the great Peter McDermott - no slouch in his own playing days - who made it. It becomes all the more ironic when the player to whom he was referring is still only 20 years old, played for the county for only 14 months and, tragically, will never play for them again.

Colm O'Rourke played at full forward for the Meath minors for two years before he graduated to the senior team against Mayo in a national football league game in October, 1975. His last outing in the county colours was in the same competition against Cork in December of the following year, two weeks before he sustained a leg injury in the final of the Navan carpets senior football tournament final at Dunsany.

In trying to finish a penalty which had been parried by the Walterstown 'keeper Sean Reilly, to the net he twisted on his knee and damaged three ligaments and a cartilage. One year and a major operation later he feels that he must begin to reconcile himself to the fact that he will never play again.

Though the doctors were able to repair two of the ligaments and remove the cartilage, it would need a further operation to correct the third ligament, and even then, the chances of success would be slim. "I feel bitter that it should have  happened to me, but I don't hold anything against anybody involved," said the genial Colm "but i find it hard to convince myself that I will never play again." I miss it more as time goes on, not being able to play, especially for Skryne and in this year's Leinster final."  He felt it most during the Dublin match, because having missing the penalty in the previous year's final against the Metropolitans he had a point to prove.

Despite his injury, O'Rourke keeps himself in fine shape and weighs in at 13st 5lbs, only four pounds heavier than when he was playing.  Though he runs and weigh lifts, he is unable to make any sudden movement which involves his left leg.

Even though his playing career is almost certainly over, O'Rourke has already made his mark in another aspect of Gaelic football - that of trainer of the Skryne senior and junior teams. In his first year, the senior side has earned their first major trophy since 1965, by winning the Feis Cup earlier this year.  They reached the semi finals of the championship and also the final of the junior competition. He has also played with UCD and will have full responsibility for the first year at the University where he is a third year student in economics and geography.

Even though he is still so young, O'Rourke has clear ideas on why both his own club and the Meath county team has failed to win the major trophies which their talent seems to merit. He said: "We have to adopt a far more professional approach at club and county level, and this depends on the person in charge of the county team." He must decide if he is going to tag along, train the team and hope for the best or if he is going to think a bit more than run a bit less. If it was done at this level, then it would filter back to the club's as the players learned the new approach.  It's no use sending our players who don't know what they have to do.  They must have one or two plans.  We must get the right 15 and put them through their paces until they play with cohesion - something which was completely lacking in this year's Leinster final."

In relation to Skryne, he said that "better administration would give the team a better chance. Communication between the officials and the players leaves a lot to be desired". He pointed out that both at county and club level, "no one thinks it worthwhile to discuss the problems of the team and to work out something with the players. The players should be given a chance to speak their minds and to make their feelings known to the people in charge.  It is not good for team spirit otherwise."

This youngster, who once seemed to carry the hopes of the future of Meath football, is undecided as to his future in the game.  He said "I'll have to make a clean break. Being so involved, yet not being able to play is getting me down."

Meath and Skryne football suffered a severe loss when that injury ruled O'Rourke out of ever playing again.  It would be an even greater tragedy if someone like him, with his love for the game and with  his ideas for its improvement, were to be lost completely to it.

- Tom Duffy

There's even a Nottingham Forest thread.

Just to kick it off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kzB6cPuQI

I have a business bill pay account with O2 and the robbing so-and-sos want €2.03 per minute for all roaming calls - in and out, local and international.

Does anyone know any good options to avoid being fleeced by these hoors?

Four slots. Eight pegs: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. Multiples of the same peg allowed. No blanks.

First guess?

Any thoughts?

I enjoyed this.

I didn't subscribe to read the WSJ article, but from the bits quoted it seems to be typical paddywhackery. Hard to blame them, I suppose, give that the country trying to portray itself as the cutting edge of intertechcybercloudmegadata - going forward - is coming to locatable addresses a few decades after the likes of Somalia and Swaziland.

The good news is that we're so late we're able to base the system on the latest GPS technology and it seems to be really well designed and precise.