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What are yours?

I'd start with

Cavanagh's tackle
London in the Connacht Final
Monaghan  beating Donegal

Marty and the open shirt but anyways very interesting discussion

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2013/0823/469925-call-for-straight-red-for-cynical-fouls/

The Ros manager is very articulate as well

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/limerick-to-lodge-appeal-against-result-in-wake-of-hawk-eye-debacle-1.1499272

"According to the Hawk-Eye release, "all of the settings were adjusted to cater for hurling, bar one value for the Hill 16 end posts, which was set for football."
The impact of this arises because Hawk-Eye automatically disallows any score that hits the post, as its image generation can't plot the trajectory of a rebound.
As it was reading the sliotar as a football, which is considerably larger, it deemed that the ball had hit the post and therefore declared the shot by Limerick's Barry Nash a 'miss' even though the graphic clearly showed the shot passing between the posts."

Should be a cracking match.

Leinster SFC semi-finals

Dublin v Kildare
Meath v Wexford

Connacht SFC semi-final replay

London v Leitrim

Ulster SFC semi-final

Monaghan v Cavan

All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers Round 1

Armagh v Wicklow
Derry v Sligo
Longford v Limerick
Galway v Tipperary
Offaly v Tyrone
Louth v Antrim
Westmeath v Fermanagh
Carlow v Laois

Ulster SHC semi-final

Derry v Down

Leinster SHC semi-final replay
Kilkenny v Dublin

All-Ireland SHC Qualifiers Phase 1

Wexford v Carlow
Westmeath v Waterford

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/galleries/50-years-of-hurling-all-stars-eamonn-cregan-s-all-time-selection-1.1396300

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWMgYyAtHU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWfawiufK0

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/beyond-the-battlefield-afghanistan-genital-injuries_n_1335356.html

Well?

Just 20 years on . I wonder will it be better than the Stone Roses' comeback.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/feb/03/my-bloody-valentine-new-album-listen

Last week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucu-fqoaM8A

Today

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0124/364250-obrien/

Fair play to her.

Is this having any impact in the Wee Six hi ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/16/blockbuster-uk-in-administration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/15/140-uk-retailers-critical-condition
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/15/hmv-gift-cards-christmas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/11/jessops-shuts-stores-1370-job-losses

as England becomes a nation of online shopkeepers

I thought it would be interesting to have a thread with videos or clips of accents by county.
If you have a good example throw it up here.

First off is Anthony Daly with the Ennis area accent

http://www.rte.ie/sport/player/809/326263/

To discuss Syria, Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere and why Israel still won't let the people go home.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1227/breaking29.html

"You know," "whatever" is a really annoying term - "like" "you know." We're "just sayin'." When it comes to the most annoying words or phrases used in conversation, those four top the list in 2012, according to the annual Marist Poll.

"Whatever" headed the list, cited by 32 per cent of adults, and next came "like," which 21 per cent didn't like.

Runners-up included "Twitterverse" and "gotcha'." The results mirrored last year's survey when "whatever" topped the annoying words list for a third straight year. But "seriously," named by 7 per cent last year, dropped off the list entirely - really. Marist questioned 1,246 adults in a US telephone survey.

Results showed differences by age and regions, with people younger than 45 or in the northeast especially annoyed by "like," while "you know" offended more of the 45-and-over set.

Men and women gave similar responses overall, but whites were twice as likely as non-whites to find "you know" irritating. And people under 45 were more than twice as likely as those over 45 to be put off by "just sayin.'"

[Will it be ready in time? "Yes and no . . . I wouldn't think so.]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/1219/1224327996393.html

"Kildare must now convince the health and safety audit committee that a reduced capacity at St Conleth's Park in Newbridge is capable of staging Allianz national league fixtures. The committee meets this week to sign off, or reject, all county grounds ahead of 2012.

Ongoing work at St Conleth's must be completed in time for Kerry's visit on March 3rd.

The ground's capacity has been reduced to 6,000, which the Kildare board agreed would not be enough to facilitate the Dublin match or Donegal on February 2nd , which is now a Croke Park double header with Dublin versus Cork.

"At the moment we have no home venue," said a Kildare GAA county board spokesperson yesterday. "The whole ground needs renovation from the turnstiles to toilets to the stands. The emphasis is on everything." Will it be ready in time? "Yes and no . . . I wouldn't think so.""


One of the many tragedies of the bubble madness. How much do Kildare need to bring it up to standard? 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/1212/1224327772802.html

Kerry report highlights rising emigration and rural depopulation

IAN O'RIORDAN

Not for the first time the twin issues of emigration and rural depopulation have been highlighted at a county convention, with Kerry chairman Patrick O'Sullivan citing the example of Coláiste Na Sceilge, who just three years ago won an All-Ireland colleges football title.
"In the past few years the number of students attending Coláiste Na Sceilge has fallen dramatically," said O'Sullivan, "an indication of the serious affect rural depopulation is having in south Kerry.
"Players transferring to overseas clubs since the downturn in the economy have also affected clubs in rural areas to such an extent that many fear they will be unable to field teams unless some radical solutions are found.
"We in Kerry GAA will do whatever is necessary to help clubs but we must work together with Munster Council, and the association at national level, to ensure that rural Ireland is supported, and not neglected.
"It is our hope that there will be a satisfactory outcome to this problem so that our clubs can plan for the future confident that those in power at the highest level of the association are working on their behalf."
O'Sullivan highlighted other problems, including "financial management, the standard of football and hurling played in our club competitions from under age to adult, our coaching structures, providing a much needed support back-up to our club officers, maintaining our county grounds and facilities and providing a centre of excellence for our intercounty teams and development squads".
But "rural depopulation", he said, "is going to be the most challenging issue facing the future viability of many clubs throughout the county but particularly in south Kerry . . . Emigration, school closures and planning restrictions are the major factors identified as the difficulties currently experienced by many rural-based clubs.
"During the past few weeks, the rural depopulation committee held four information nights on employment and enterprise for all clubs in Kerry. Club secretaries, club chairpersons and county board delegates were invited to attend these meetings that were addressed by guest speakers from the local development associations who gave presentations giving information on jobs and employment opportunities available in Kerry.
"I welcome Pat Spillane's appointment to chair a government task force on Rural Ireland . . . ," O'Sullivan added.

1 Hardstation the night Antrim beat Galway
2 Burke's goal against the Cats in the Leinster final
3 The Larries beating Laois for the first time in 44 years   
4 Jimmy's press conference after the AIF
5 Ray Houghton calling Ger Canning Geoff   

This story from Donegal is very disturbing 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1031/breaking7.html

It sounds like the authorities are out of their depth. What can the Gardai do? And surely there should be consequences for those who drive someone to suicide.


There were in the States in the Phoebe Prince case


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Phoebe_Prince

On March 29, 2010, Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel announced at a press conference[25] that six teenagers from South Hadley High School were indicted as adults on felony charges by a Hampshire County grand jury. Charges ranged from statutory rape for the two male teenagers involved (both adults under Massachusetts law) to violation of civil rights, criminal harassment, disturbance of a school assembly, and stalking. Additional delinquency complaints were also filed against the three female minors indicted by the grand jury. One was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for throwing a can at Phoebe Prince. A separate delinquency complaint was filed against one of the three female minors for assault and battery against another victim at South Hadley High School (a girl who was attacked at school after appearing in a TV news report describing the bullying that took place at South Hadley High School)

[Church officials have said mere condemnation is not enough. In an interview with Haaretz a few weeks ago, one of the Vatican's top officials in the Holy Land, the Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, sharply condemned what he termed Israelis' derogatory attitude toward Christians. "When you say 'Christianity' to Israelis they immediately think of the Holocaust and the [Spanish] Inquisition," he said. "People don't know that we are here and have roots here." He said this attitude seems to be prevalent in Israeli society, noting that priests are often spat on by yeshiva students, and that National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari had torn up a New Testament in the Knesset. "If you as a Jew want people to respect you, you need to respect others," Pizzaballa said.]

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/another-israeli-church-defaced-with-price-tag-graffiti.premium-1.467930#

Another Israeli church defaced with 'price tag' graffiti
Graffiti reading 'Jesus, son of a bitch, price tag,' was found on the door of the Church of the Dormition on Mount Zion, just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.

By Oz Rosenberg and Nir Hasson | Oct.03, 2012 | 7:07 AM
   

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Less than a month after a monastery at Latrun was vandalized with "price tag" graffiti, similar graffiti was found Tuesday morning on the door of the Church of the Dormition on Mount Zion, just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.
The graffiti, which read "Jesus, son of a bitch, price tag," had already been removed by midmorning Tuesday, Israel Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said.

Jerusalem Police Chief Maj. Gen. Yossi Pariente yesterday ordered the formation of a special investigative team to locate the perpetrators. No one has yet been arrested for last month's vandalism.
Jewish extremists are thought to have carried out similar vandalism on churches, mosques and army property in response to what they consider pro-Palestinian government policies. The Latrun vandalism occurred shortly after settlers were evicted from the illegal outpost of Migron.

The Dormition Church, built over a century ago near the site of the Last Supper, is one of the Franciscan order's most important holdings in the Holy Land. Though Israel has only about 155,000 Christian citizens, less than 2 percent of its 7.9 million people, the repeated defacing of their sacred sites has shocked the country and drawn official condemnation.
"Price tag actions contradict the morals and values of Judaism and do great harm to the State of Israel," said President Shimon Peres, speaking at a meeting with one of Israel's chief rabbis at a Sukkot reception yesterday. "It is forbidden to harm the holy sites of [other] religions and faiths."

Church officials have said mere condemnation is not enough. In an interview with Haaretz a few weeks ago, one of the Vatican's top officials in the Holy Land, the Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, sharply condemned what he termed Israelis' derogatory attitude toward Christians.
"When you say 'Christianity' to Israelis they immediately think of the Holocaust and the [Spanish] Inquisition," he said. "People don't know that we are here and have roots here."
He said this attitude seems to be prevalent in Israeli society, noting that priests are often spat on by yeshiva students, and that National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari had torn up a New Testament in the Knesset.
"If you as a Jew want people to respect you, you need to respect others," Pizzaballa said.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/sep/27/mexico-war/

With its terrible brutality and its death toll of nearly 60,000 lives in four years, the current Mexican drug war recalls two other periods of violence across the past two centuries of Mexican history: the War of Independence of 1810–1821 (and its long aftermath in the nineteenth century) and the Mexican Revolution of the early twentieth, with their greater death tolls but equivalent ferocity.

The murder rate is statistically higher in Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, and Brazil, but in Mexico we are enduring a continual escalation of nearly unbelievable cruelty, with murder and torture a constant marked by decapitations, mutilations, kidnappings for profit, and mass executions. In the most afflicted areas, the criminal groups threaten to supplant local power with their displays of terror and volleys of bullets. In the era of YouTube and instant Internet news, it is a return to the past.