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One of the two killed was a pupil at St Ciaran's Ballygawley.

Only yesterday, the school produced this short video clip about the A5, and a photo from it was the main photo on the front page of yesterdays Irish News.

According to the BBC, she took part in this campaign video. Heartbreaking stuff.

Do you pay for these?

Well I suppose the presenter does get his pay packet from my licence fee but in any case, what does it matter whether or not it has to be paid for? I often have positive and/or negative opinions about things I don't pay for. I think most people do. I'd go as far as to say most of the podcasts discussed in this thread are free, so was it ok to talk about those ones? Or do we have to live in a world where we can't express opinions on media output unless the opinions are about paid content?

All besides the point. I've repeatedly said the podcast, and its host, are top drawer. I was merely stating that his constant attempts to crown each episode as "the most powerful yet" are a bit daft. But chill. I'm not calling for his head to roll over it.

The interviews are top class, and Niblock is a fine interviewer, but he does need to tone it down on the superlatives.

Claims that a podcast is "the most powerful one yet" do tend to become a bit meaningless when the same claim is made on an almost weekly basis, and when, as I say, each episode seems to have it's own dedicated section for talking about how "phenominal the response has been to last weeks episode".

[the best podcast we've created]

OK I really like the gaa social podcast, but can someone please have a word in Tommy Niblock's ear and tell him to tone it down on the self praise for the podcast ffs lol

Prompted by his most recent tweet today, here's more his tweets introducing entirely different episodes in just the past year or so:

• "Some will say this is the best podcast we've created. Considering the powerful people we've had, I appreciate that's big speak."
• "This podcast has everything. Beyond powerful"
• "This is the story of Frank McGuigan. It is among the most powerful podcasts we've ever recorded."
• "Tristan our videographer, turned to me after recording and said "I don't think there's many we've done as powerful". I think he's right."
• "It's probably our most powerful podcast yet."
• "In perhaps the most powerful episode of the GAA Social, former Armagh manager Brian Canavan talks about the 1998 killings of Damien Trainor & Phillip Allen in his Bar. "
• "Probably the most powerful episode of the GAA Social we've ever recorded. Armagh Gaelic footballer Aoife Lennon & her remarkable story.
• "This is the most powerful podcast yet. Richie Power has won 12 inter-county All-Ireland's with ⁦@KilkennyCLG - a hurling icon."

And while you're at it, tell him to stop asking every guest if they listen to this podcast and to stop telling us each week how phenominal the response has been to the previous week's episode.

All that aside, it's still, unquestionably, the no 1 GAA podcast by some distance!

Gaslighting

I remember reading about this fella, Michael Davis, a comedy juggler of all things. The bit I read about him described his mastery of comedic timing as unsurpassed by anyone. Hard to argue when you watch him. If you've never seen him, I recommend you spend 9 minutes of your time to watch him in action as he performed for then US president Ronald Reagan:

another player walks away from senior panel?..

Make sure and don't mention the name anyway 

What is the point in posts like that?

What do you want him to do?
Invade Israel?

So you're saying there's no options open to him that fall somewhere in between doing f**k all and invading Israel?

Yeah you don't post about other things. Even other things that have an infinitely bigger impact on the public purse than immigration. Yet, still all you want to talk about is immigration. Why is that?

Who said I'm not agitated about all these other things........

Well as far as I can tell, you have never once mentioned the subject of tax evasion by our non-dom superwealthy. Not once have you blamed such tax evasion for the lack of additional funding available to health/education etc. You have only ever wanted to blame it (and everything else) on immigration, and to post obsessively about that.

we just happen to be discussing immigration

I'm also trying to discuss tax evasion, but you've made it abundantly clear that you're not willing or interested enough to get involved. You only want to talk about those pesky immigrants. Which tells a lot about how genuine your claims are to be only motivated by concern for the money that should be available to help those "disabled kids in hospital". It's almost as though your distate for immigrants is motivated by...something else.

Who said I'm not agitated about all these other things........

Well as far as I can tell, you have never once mentioned the subject of tax evasion by our non-dom superwealthy. Not once have you blamed such tax evasion for the lack of additional funding available to health/education etc. You have only ever wanted to blame it (and everything else) on immigration, and to post obsessively about that.

we just happen to be discussing immigration

I'm also trying to discuss tax evasion, but you've made it abundantly clear that you're not willing or interested enough to get involved. You only want to talk about those pesky immigrants. Which tells a lot about how genuine your claims are to be only motivated by concern for the money that should be available to help those "disabled kids in hospital".

But you are only ever animated by the immigration bit. The bit that doesn't cost us as anywhere even close to what our 10,000 non-dom millionaires and billionaires cost the public purse in tax evasion annually.

Why are you only worried, only vocal, only outraged about the immigration bit? The bit that isn't costing us as much?

You don't have to answer that by the way. I think we all know why.

So if I understand you correctly, in your view, ALL concerns regarding immigration are driven by either racism or stupidity (or both)?

And if the answer is yes-do you support open borders?

All concerns? Not in the slightest. But anyone who regards it as a priority or anything close to one, or who spends more time obsessing about it than about they do about health, education, taxation etc...Well you have to question their motivation.


After all, other than racism or stupidity, why would anyone be angry enough to take to the streets, or to base their voting decisions in protest about immigration ahead of in protest about the state of the health service, or housing crisis, or tax evasion by the super wealthy etc etc etc?

Hear hear... is a very useful distraction used by FG and Tories from those other more pressing issues

Seeing millions being spent on housing refugees etc is bound to (rightly or wrongly) piss people off when they can see the state of things like the roads, hospitals, schools etc. low hanging fruit for a protest vote.

Screaming far right doesn't help.

Hospitals have been a shambles long before a refugee was about the place. If you blame hospital issues on refugees it's as simple as this, you are a racist.

And we were told that there was no money to fix hospitals..........and yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees

There's towns and villages that don't have a single Guard-and yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees

38000 people have been waiting for more than 18 months for a scan yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees

10,000 disabled kids have been waiting for more than a year to get an appt to see a specialist and yet we somehow have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees

People are rightly outraged and it has shag all to do with racism

Thanks for demonstrating my point for me. Not once there did you reference, for example, tax evasion by the super wealthy. Why aren't you vehemently posting your outrage about how maybe those "10,000 disabled kids" might have a better chance if the government would crack down on tax evasion? The amount that would save would dwarf what is spent on immigrants. Think of the billions that would be available to improve the the health service etc.

But no..

It's ALL the fault of those bloody immigrants!!!!


Like I keep saying. It's either stupidity, or racism and stupidity.

So if I understand you correctly, in your view, ALL concerns regarding immigration are driven by either racism or stupidity (or both)?

And if the answer is yes-do you support open borders?

All concerns? Not in the slightest. But anyone who regards it as a priority or anything close to one, or who spends more time obsessing about it than about they do about health, education, taxation etc...Well you have to question their motivation.


After all, other than racism or stupidity, why would anyone be angry enough to take to the streets, or to base their voting decisions in protest about immigration ahead of in protest about the state of the health service, or housing crisis, or tax evasion by the super wealthy etc etc etc?

Whitey, why aren't you more concerned about tax evasion by the super wealthy than you are about immigrants, if concern for the public purse is your genuine motivation, rather than just, ya know...racism?

Who said I'm not concerned about it?

Last time I checked you can be concerned about more than one thing at the same time

Keep banging that racism drum instead of addressing legitimate concerns and you'll see what happens. The govt got a sneak preview as to what coming with the recent referendum debacle

Well your history of posting to this board suggests it isn't a matter of concern at all. You seem to be infinitely more exercised about immigration. If your reason for "legitimate concern" around immigration is down to what you perceive it costs the public purse (as you have claimed) then why aren't you at least as vocal about tax evasion, given its surely a much bigger cost to the public purse?

I mean, I don't know anyone who gets up in the morning and is inhibited in any way during their daily life by the presence of an immigrant. I know countless people who on a daily basis struggle to pay their energy bills though. I'd imagine most people would say the same about the people they know. So I'd find it very odd if any of those people were more passionate  about immigration as a political priority than they are about things like the cost of living or any of the other issues that directly impact their own standard of living every day. The only explanations I can think of is that they are too stupid to know they are being manipulated, or just racism (which may as well be a byword for stupidity).