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There was a club in the midlands on RTÉ which had a generator for its floodlights and it had wired it into the clubhouse and they were providing showers, hot food, phone charging etc.
This is a useful model and the GAA should work with authorities to promote this idea as a general concept for an emergency.

A club in Down was being used for people to call in and use as shelter for phone charging, showers, water etc. My own club had their power off but they have a large diesel generator for the floodlit pitch. Makes me wonder why they didn't spend a bit of extra money to get the clubhouse itself wired into it for emergencies

Is there a problem  with the TG4 player?

Couldn't see the end of  the Junior match yesterday.  And it still is playing up.

Is it just me?

Yes it's looping the 52nd minute of the game yesterday. TG4 been struggling since the storm

TG4 will now show Roscommon v Down live tomorrow afternoon at 2pm in Division 2 FL, following Kerry-Donegal postponement.

Irish News saying Ballinderry in All Ireland final on at 1:30pm tomoro on TG4. ?

On sport tg4 on YouTube I assume

https://www.joe.ie/news/bonnie-blue-says-shes-broke-world-record-by-sleeping-with-1057-men-in-twelve-hours-830860

That averages out at about 40 seconds per man. Sure what'd you get done in that time? 

What would you want to do w/ a yoke like that?!

37 seconds must be filling in NDA's and waivers for the catching of STD's

Thoughts on the keeper? Had a great game, could he be pushing for the number 1 spot?

I think you could see in the first half he was still reeling from the dodgy spurs game. His kicking was all over the place even under no pressure off the deck. The pen save seemed to have rebirthed him into a monster. Could be the bit of fire in him now that he needs to push on and compete with Onana. I see the value in a club having a strong 2nd choice keeper for cup games

The equalizer was the first effort on target for Arsenal in the game, from a set piece and keeper error and moments after a red card for Dalot. That minute alone sums up United's season. 

And deflected

I didnt watch this game as I was subjecting myself to another Villa collapse, but surely most united fans knew a result was unlikely here?

Newcastle are going well at the minute.  Scoring plenty of goals.  They are currently a level above that united team.

Lets see what January brings for the new manager before judgement starts proper.

By the looks of some reports January won't be bringing much in the way of reinforcement as usual for United who don't tend to typically do much in the winter window. I think the big thing for Amorim will be getting the players on the training pitch. He said in interview last night he's only had 4 training sessions with the players since joining because of the fixture load

20 years ago today. Indian Ocean tsunami which claimed an estimated 230,000 lives.  The death toll affected more than 60 countries including four Irish tourists lost their lives.

Dublin woman Eilis Finnegan, a 27-year-old United Airlines air hostess, died in Thailand.

Ms Finnegan, from Ballyfermot, was on the beach in the Phi Phi islands with her boyfriend Barry Murphy (29) from Castleknock in Dublin when the tsunami struck.

The other three Irish victims of the tsunami also died in Thailand.


Lucy Coyle (28), an accountant from Killiney, Co Dublin; student Michael Murphy (23) from Knockbawn, Blackwater, Co Wexford and Conor Keightley (31) from Cookstown, Co Tyrone were killed as the giant wave struck without warning.

Still very eerie watching videos of people standing at the beach watching the water pull back out to sea not knowing what was actually coming their way

Do kilcoo have good youth coming through?

I wouldn't say they'd be blessed with the same underage success as the likes of Burren and Carryduff in recent years but they always seem to be able to add a couple of new faces to the panel every year

Big score to win it when it looked like they'd missed their chance. Sqaure ball goal becomes a big talking point but EC won't care at all. Too many of Kilcoo's players didn't get to the level of their semi final. Big shoutout to doherty and niall brannigan who marked Darragh and Ruairi completely out of the game. EC had to find their scores from elsewhere

And never mind the square ball goal

Thought it was myself. TV didn't show wide angle replay to confirm

I rewinded it. Definitely a square ball

Do umpires have any power to definitively call a square ball or can they only intervene if asked by the referee?

And never mind the square ball goal

Thought it was myself. TV didn't show wide angle replay to confirm

Christmas Eve takes much less time now the children are bigger as there is no building of toys and much less inserting of batteries. Sort of miss it a bit having a few drinks whilst building f**king toys til about 2am

Remember passing up Smyths Store charging €10 to assemble two Bicycles (€20 in all). Jez, it must have been 3am before I got them near being okay!

"Sorry kids, Santa may be magical and all but he's no mechanic"

What happens if Sinn Fein get the most seats, does that give them the right to choose the next government or are they still at the mercy of who wants to team up with them?

Exit poll

FF 19.5
FG 21
SF 21.1

Interesting to see the difference in seat numbers considering percentages are so close