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I'd take anything coming from the mouth of Alastair McDonnell with a pinch of salt. I'd suggest he'd be better off commenting on the overcrowding in the holylands, and the way that many, many landlords treat the student population as a cash cow

Sure that would be a conflict of interest i.e. Alastair McDonnell is a landlord.

I paid £225 of my trainee accountant wages to him back in 2002/3.  When we left, he had the agent round to arrange putting up a stud wall to make half of a through lounge into a bedroom.    

I would have said even longer.
I had a few mates there when the redundancies where starting and they have really dragged the shit out of it.

I think they're trying their best to restructure it to minimise any redundancy impact - Monkstown is pretty key in the European supply chain.

I didn't think you still got travel insurance with credit cards - I could be wrong.

Can't believe you went on a ski trip without insurance though

Wow-how skinny is Fern Britton looking................

My sister is just after saying the same thing Maggie.  

It's a great show tonight, and £29m already.  Must be some job counting all that money 

Book of condolences - no.  They have their place though - just look at the Cormac virtual book five years ago.

Demonstrations like those witnessed after the Omagh bomb to show people's disgust and sadness - yes.  Obviously the scale is different but the public sentiment the same - no to dissident republican violence. 

I'd like to see Jordan straight back in at 7 if he's back from his jollies

His boss told me he's back with no broken bones.

I just think this could be an online version of a protest rally - attend/show your support if you want to. 

AFR I think you are underestimating how seriously people are taking the recent events.  "Dianafying" is an awful phrase and I would object to your using it in this context.  Actually any context.  If you oppose it, you oppose it, but don't belittle those who are actually worried. 

Orior, I'm with you - no of course the Continuity IRA won't listen to a poll on a discussion board but it would be reassuring to the ordinary person at least to be able to confirm that the contributors on here (that represent a wide sector of Irish society including all shades of nationalism/republicanism) do not support their actions.

First sod due to be cut at Garvaghey today.  Was anyone there?

Where'd you hear that Tony?

If he did what he did in a bar or on the street he would be on the sex offenders register. He should accept the ban and learn from it.

Didn't expect that from you Lecale.  Think this is the reason the other thread was locked. 

Got a new computer too, last night faced what I thought was going to be the problem of loading on new songs without erasing what was there already but simple solution - just manually add them by clicking on the manual option when the screen comes up with all the ipod details.  You/he prob knew that already but just in case.

It happened to my sister a few months ago.

She was really freaked out - three children upstairs.  Thankfully she was so messy that her car keys were under a big bundle of ironing.  They took two laptops and her expensive handbags but not too much else, left flatscreen tvs etc. 

Her house now resembles Fort Knox - she got high fences, new burglar alarms, big locked gate.  The kids have forgotten about it now.

The PSNI phoned her this week to say they'd caught the guy that did it.  They traced her through one of the laptops that was registered to her school.  She asked them if she could come down to the perpetrators with a golf club.  The PSNI refused. 

I went to Paléo in Nyon, Switzerland once (1999).  It's not far from Geneva.  Typical well-behaved Swiss crowd.  I'll be honest, I only went because Bryan Adams was playing and I was in Switzerland for the summer.  But the lineups have been ok since.