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Spain has a first class medical system, as have most countries in the developed world.

The UK has of course the "world leading" NHS.

The amount of shit we have been fed, and took at face value, listening to the BBC [and others] when we were growing up is mind boggling.

McGeeney not wanting to show his hand for the league         

The Democrats have a sizable pro Palestinian caucus-whereas the Republicans  wouldn't.

The Republican base and Trump supporters in particular would be very pro Israeli and wouldn't have an ounce of sympathy for the Palestinians

Haha. What good has Biden's sympathy done for Palestinians. America is a dictatorship. Two old white men fight it out each year, both in the pockets of big business and powerful lobby groups so no matter who wins it's pretty much the same outcome. Two bald men fighting over a comb.

There is no-one in US politics more rabidly Zionist than Biden.

Pat Flanagans letter after leaving Newbridge 

https://x.com/johnnyrc88/status/1733279207105442111?s=46

Fr Ted accepting the golden cleric was more gracious lol

Here I think JB is a great fella, someone of this calibre setting the agenda for unionism can only be good for nationalism imo, and needs to be encouraged. Everything he touches turns to shit.

Though in fairness the elected face of unionism as repped by Sammy, Gregory, Shannon and Lockhart are hardly intellectual heavyweights either.

Reminds me of Edwin Poots' Da who advocated for cutting off electricity and public services for catholic areas back in 70's. Same mindset. Spose they are the lost tribe of Israel though

Its the definition of genocide ffs.

It is not. Isreal has the arms to kill everyone in Gaza if they wanted to.
The analogy I used before was, this is analogous to the invasion of Poland, when many Poles were killed, but is not analogous to the holocaust, which actually was genocide. 

That's rubbish mate.

Israel is carpet bombing a densely packed city and refugee camps. It is analogous to the Warsaw ghetto except that even the Nazis didn't try to complete level that from the air with 2 ton bombs or go in with tanks or bomb schools and hospitals.

They are assassinating doctors, intellectuals and journalists. They have murdered many multiples of babies to combatants.

And if you don't believe me a quick google search will show you multiple members of the Israeli cabinet and army telling you that that's exactly what they are doing.

Ukraine voted against a ceasefire in Gaza, the hyprocritical shower of scumbags, they can go f**k themselves from now on as far as I'm concerned.

Yep. A f**king disgrace after the whole world rowed in behind them.

Can't you read? They didn't vote against it.

Did you row in behind Ukraine Armagh18, eh?

They abstained, which in my eyes equals voting against. Same as the Brits

Ireland was a member of the Axis during WW2 because they were weren't a member of the Allies. 

Totally different. But you know that anyway

Yes of course my statement is incorrect, a bit like saying an abstention is the same as a vote against at the UN. No one knows what pressure is being brought to bear on Ukraine. They are in a fight for their survival and their biggest ally has shown recent signs of wavering. But sure they should just take a moral stance and take it on the chin when the essential to their very survival flow of aid and weapons dries up.

They [rightly in my view] asked for, expected and accepted worldwide support for their resistance to an invasion by Russia.

They sought support for their stance in the UN criticising the invasion and used Russia's flagrant targetting of civilians and civilan infrastructure as a means of garnering sympathy and support for their cause.

Their gutless abstention the other night completely undermines that cause in my view. Using the targetting of civilians as means of raising support for your own cause but not showing an iota of empathy for an  even greater war crime is despicable.

I am fairly certain that a large percentage of people will share that view and that there will be a massive decrease in support for the Ukrainian cause as result of this. And rightly so.

You say all this with the luxury of not having Russian missiles raining down on your head and having to rely on certain allies for your survival. But sure, according to you, more Ukrainian children should now die because of the political situation Ukraine finds itself in. You're an idealistic fool.

Yeah I am sort of foolish like that tbf. Chagrined now that you've pointed it out.

Silly old me, I Find myself liking people more when they vote against dropping high explosives on babies than when they don't.

Wish I was a bit more sensible and pragmatic like yourself, maybe when I grow up who knows. 

Ukraine voted against a ceasefire in Gaza, the hyprocritical shower of scumbags, they can go f**k themselves from now on as far as I'm concerned.

Yep. A f**king disgrace after the whole world rowed in behind them.

Can't you read? They didn't vote against it.

Did you row in behind Ukraine Armagh18, eh?

They abstained, which in my eyes equals voting against. Same as the Brits

Ireland was a member of the Axis during WW2 because they were weren't a member of the Allies. 

Totally different. But you know that anyway

Yes of course my statement is incorrect, a bit like saying an abstention is the same as a vote against at the UN. No one knows what pressure is being brought to bear on Ukraine. They are in a fight for their survival and their biggest ally has shown recent signs of wavering. But sure they should just take a moral stance and take it on the chin when the essential to their very survival flow of aid and weapons dries up.

They [rightly in my view] asked for, expected and accepted worldwide support for their resistance to an invasion by Russia.

They sought support for their stance in the UN criticising the invasion and used Russia's flagrant targetting of civilians and civilan infrastructure as a means of garnering sympathy and support for their cause.

Their gutless abstention the other night completely undermines that cause in my view. Using the targetting of civilians as means of raising support for your own cause but not showing an iota of empathy for an  even greater war crime is despicable.

I am fairly certain that a large percentage of people will share that view and that there will be a massive decrease in support for the Ukrainian cause as result of this. And rightly so.

Ukraine voted against a ceasefire in Gaza, the hyprocritical shower of scumbags, they can go f**k themselves from now on as far as I'm concerned.

Yep. A f**king disgrace after the whole world rowed in behind them.

Can't you read? They didn't vote against it.

Did you row in behind Ukraine Armagh18, eh?

They abstained, which in my eyes equals voting against. Same as the Brits

Ireland was a member of the Axis during WW2 because they were weren't a member of the Allies. 

Ireland was a neutral non-participant in WW2, don't what you have been reading. 

153 countries voted for a ceasefire, the rest didn't vote for a ceasefire, in effect their vote was for a continuation of the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians.

I suppose they'll be various speed wobbles along the way, part and parcel of committees.. From the outside looking in, it's not so bad (performance wise)

Chris Collins has been getting away with all sorts for years. An egotistical clown

some truth in what you are saying, however he does deserve credit for the success of our development squads.

I don't agree, been completely useless since he has been in this post. Anyway he is a beard for someone else in the U20 post imo.

Ukraine voted against a ceasefire in Gaza, the hyprocritical shower of scumbags, they can go f**k themselves from now on as far as I'm concerned.

I think that any team that's good enough to win their respective county championship at junior or intermediate level shouldn't be allowed to compete in the provincial series as they are clearly too good for that level having already beat all the other teams in their own county, so there's a good chance that they will beat all the other teams from the other counties and thus become provincial champions.

In some cases they are beating other teams by a lot as well.

Indeed and in the case of counties like Cavan and the other 28 counties that don't link Championship and league, they should not be allowed send a team forward that might beat an opponent from Tyrone, Armagh or Derry. The main reason for this is that the incessant moaning from those 3 counties will result in people losing the will to live and taking up other sports. I expect Jarlath Burns will make this a priority of his term in charge.

Its just not fair so its not!!

Do SOMETHING!!

I think that any team that's good enough to win their respective county championship at junior or intermediate level shouldn't be allowed to compete in the provincial series as they are clearly too good for that level having already beat all the other teams in their own county, so there's a good chance that they will beat all the other teams from the other counties and thus become provincial champions.

In some cases they are beating other teams by a lot as well.

People putting up articles from the BBC and the Times of London and then using the word evidence in the same sentence. 

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/01/israel-hamas-war-rape-israelis-palestinians

Think she is talking about posters like you and Itchy & Tonto in this

The guardian has a similar article to the bbc, it is reporting on the testimony from witnesses, first responders, those that gathered up the bodies.

There are still photos & Hamas video footage. But again if you choose to believe Hamas over them that's fine but it's says a lot about you.

If she is talking about me I'm happy enough about that, as that article is complete and utter bullshit.

If it says a lot about me I am proud of that as I don't take cognisance of anything the newspapers and television correspondents report on this situation as they have completely skewed their reporting of what is happening.

None of these 'journalists' are in Gaza, none of them give a fig about what is happening to the palestinians, they are promulgating whatever the IDF are telling them and parrotting raw propaganda, as this lady in the guardian is doing.

In this instance you are either incredibly stupid or a raving bigot or both if you can't see that this story is a plant from the IDF, one of many in a long series and all of which has proved to be more or less complete bullshit, but are swallowed whole by the ISORBs when pushed by corrupt western governments and their lackeys in the media.

Hamas committed terrible atrocities on Oct 7th in particular, murder, rape, dismemberment, torture, kidnap etc. I have no doubt they lied about any aspects of it that they think might reflect badly on them.

As they are a designated terrorist group and persona non grata to all civilised people you would not expect them to behave in any way other than as scumbags and for the media to report that accurately. And for any reasonable person to condemn all their actions.

On the other hand most reasonable people would also expect that the only democratic country in the ME, some would say the most westernised and civilised, with a massive military budget and a huge army would not behave like scumbags.

You know like murdering thousands of babies and children, attacking doctors, attacking hospitals, attacking schools, murdering journalists and their families, cutting off food and water to civilians, carpet bombing a city etc etc.

If that happened you would expect it to be bigger news than a sc**bag being a sc**bag. But it's not is it? You would expect any unbiased media source, any world leader, any politician to condemn this with equal or more fervour than a one off terrorist attack. Do they? Do they f**k!

A thousand people were murdered in Gaza, the next day the headlines is about gangrape that allegedly happened 2 months ago. You would not have known about the former through mainstream media outlets [for me that's RTE and BBC as I don't read any national papers daily].

So don't you dare lecture me about what to believe you arsehole.