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Is this not in breach of Rule 42?

Nothing to see here 

https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1881433327779168614

It's not just celebs who are affected, poor people are being hit too.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has lost 2 of her 3 mansions in wildfires.

https://x.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/1878231004936380881

Whitey, we're you not one of these lads who didn't believe in the flu or strains of it?

No

I get the flu shot every year (and even got it this year)

Just because I'm somewhat conservative on some issues, doesn't mean I believe in every tin hat conspiracy going around.

Or a Zionist, according to some geniuses here...

Be OK if he backed Saudi Arabia, Bahrain etc?

It's not his job to back anyone.
His problem is that he likes anyone who is anti-American or anti-West.

If Saudi and Bahrain declared a jihad against the Great Satan, he'd be drooling over them.

A few useful eejits or Israelibots obviously got their orders.

The man has more dignity in his little finger than all the War criminal murderers and their supporters put together.
Gript.... enough said.

Integrity, like his backing of despotic regimes in Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.

[hobbit]

Internationally many people think that the "President" of Ireland is a position of power and the views expressed are those of someone with authority, and reflect our national policy.
That's why what he says can cause real damage.

In reality, he's a senile hobbit in a luxurious retirement home, living off the taxpayers all his life.

Similar rhetoric to that used on him by Zionists. He called those genocidal maniacs out. A great President.

Thinking Michael D is a total idiot and a disgraceful president doesn't amount to Zionism.

Internationally many people think that the "President" of Ireland is a position of power and the views expressed are those of someone with authority, and reflect our national policy.
That's why what he says can cause real damage.

In reality, he's a senile hobbit in a luxurious retirement home, living off the taxpayers all his life.

the best 15 from 2000 to 2025 is:

Brendan Cummins
JJ Delaney
Philly Maher
Ollie Canning
Tommy Welsh
Pádraig Maher
Brendan Maher
Tony Kelly
Cian Lynch
TJ Reid
Henry Shefflin
Gearoid Hegarty
Lar Corbett
Seamus Callanan
Eoin Kelly

It must kill you to have to put in players from outside Tipp!

Carter may have been a nice guy, and all the tributes flowing in portray him as one of the greats, but in office he was a weak president.

Surely Gillane or Hegarty make the forward line? Not that many Limerick men considering their dominance.

Like these debates though, good to reminisce about some absolute quality footballers/hurlers.

I like the half forward line. The full forward line could be improved on.
Pat Horgan - No
Eoin Kelly - Maybe, but he rarely lived up to the hype.
Callanan - Yes, a class forward.

I know it's nearly Christmas, but I've just  been catching up on  my  sporting podcasts, and this one was  mentioned  on one. Very interesting  read

Interesting to note  that it was Leicester City  who started the  poppy on football shirts and the rest were more  or less shamed into it

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/05/has-poppymania-gone-too-far

That's a great article. Recommended reading for anyone.
You can clearly see that those journalists in papers like the Daily Mail know they're taking the piss with the fake outrage, but their dumb readership lap it up.

Despite his behaviour, McGregor is worshipped by all the scumbags in Ireland.

For a couple of decades now, we've been hearing how the MNC gravy train is coming to an end.
However, US corporations usually tell their lawmakers what to do, instead of vice-versa.
Maybe Trump will turn the tables.

I always felt the expression 'The Hyde' was somewhat disrespectful to Douglas Hyde.
Anyone else?

Never thought of it like that. When I was young, my Dad took me across the street from The Sheepwalk Inn to the Protestant church in Tibohine and we walked through thistles and briars till we got to an unkempt grave. There said my Dad shaking his head lies the first President of Ireland.
It's a lovely interpretative centre now thanks to EU funds but it took a while for Hyde to be respected. He was removed as patron of the GAA in 1939 for attending a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. He was never invited to an All-Ireland again after that, and missed Roscommon's only two wins in 1943/44. Fianna Fáil stayed away from his funeral and Fine Gael remained parked outside the church lest they incur the wrath of the Catholic Church. Given how much he did for the Irish language, I'd say his own preference would be: Páirc de hÍde. But he might equally want nothing to do with the GAA and he wouldn't be wrong.

Wow, that is worse than I thought! Different times.