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#1
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
November 04, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: Dougal Maguire on November 04, 2019, 03:23:45 PM
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on November 04, 2019, 03:03:19 PM
Gaybo dragged Ireland into the 19th Century on his own.

He seemed to get more conservative as he got older..........or maybe it was cos Ireland passed him out.

But he was top of his profession and Ireland owes him a debt.

RIP
In fairness Shamrock we all tend to become more conservative as we get older. Obviously a young whipper snapper like yourself wouldn't have reached that point yet but with just 12 months of my 50s to go I've been there for a few years now.

+1

However, I am actively doing my best to stop the movement to the right.
#2
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
October 17, 2019, 08:23:13 PM
Quote from: gallsman on October 17, 2019, 05:34:27 PM
Conway unlucky to miss out and picking Kearney is a mistake.

+1

A bigger mistake in the years of prep allowed to Schmidt that he failed to develop another full back. Larmour is a few years off and Kearney reached his sell-by date a year or two ago.  All of his moves are so predictable.
#3
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
October 12, 2019, 02:50:10 PM
Regardless of the merits or otherwise of the sending off of Aki, Ireland play better without him and this has been the case over the last year.  He is a liability in giving away penalties. Aki being unavailable even for the rest of the Irish time in the tournament will not necessarily be a hindrance to the starting line out. Just leaves Ireland with a gap in centre cover for remaining games which might well just be one.
#4
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
September 21, 2019, 09:20:25 PM
Quote from: tbrick18 on September 18, 2019, 10:00:20 AM
I have to admit, I've never seen the Sky coverage as I don't have Sky, but on principal I just don't agree with at all.
Since the Sky agreement, a large number of people in the country have much less access to viewing the national sports than they had before the agreement.

When TV3 was allocated games access was reduced for those particularly in the north who couldn't receive that channel. There was far less complaining about than Sky.

Sky is just as accessible to any one without a dish and contract by paying for a day's worth of Sky Sports when games they want to see are on via a £13 Now TV stick and an internet connection. The cost per day is a fraction of the cost of travel and gate price at a match.

Sky is not perfect but they make RTÉ look like the bunch of amateurs that they are. They have applied their experience from other sports to football and hurling and brought in high level recent playing/management experience in their pundits and given them extensive ongoing presentation training. RTÉ so arrogant that they have made no moves to compete. Just wait until Eir Sport makes its bid for games in next round.

No chance of Brolly ever being taken onboard as Sky has its resident clown in Senan Connell.
#5
General discussion / Re: Quinn Insurance in Administration
September 21, 2019, 09:47:27 AM
Quote from: supersarsfields on September 19, 2019, 11:44:35 AM
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on September 19, 2019, 11:37:32 AM
Quote from: supersarsfields on September 19, 2019, 11:16:58 AM
Quote from: TyroneOnlooker on September 19, 2019, 08:34:04 AM
Just reading the details of the attack in the paper. Absolutely barbaric, fingernails torn off, stabbed, bleach poured over him. I'm maybe a bit naive to this but are these attacks being carried out by so called Sean Quinn supporters? What is the reasoning behind it all? Surely these new owners have safe guarded jobs and bringing prosperity to the area when it otherwise could be a wasteland.
Have the Quinn family spoken out against these attacks previously? The seriousness of the attacks would also lead you to think there is a degree of organisation behind them. It's not carried out by young lads if you know what I mean. Is paramilitary involvement suspected?

The Quinns spoke out about the attacks previously and I believe has done so again regarding this. And was quite clear that he was disgusted at it. While Kevin Lunney and Sean haven't seen eye to eye in recent years, he worked closely with him for 20 odd years prior and would have been very close with Kevin and the family. If it was done with some misguided attempt at vengeance for Sean, it was very wide of the mark and will have done more harm. Disgusting act that would make you wonder what people are capable of.

You have to say impartially that it takes a lot for people not to believe that deep in him somewhere, he's happy enough the people that he said stabbed him in the back and treated him like crap (to paraphrase) are getting tortured....now literally. He's made no secret he wants the business back.
People will obviously make their own decisions. But I think it's madness to think that he would get pleasure out of someone he's know for a lifetime getting treated like that. I think most people would be appalled by it. With regards to wanting the business back, that's true and I'm sure he's been working along quietly regarding that. He's smart enough to know this will have a negative effect on that process.

If the Quinn's have nothing to do with the campaign, they may know who is behind it but will know why it is happening.
#6
General discussion / Re: Quinn Insurance in Administration
September 21, 2019, 09:45:07 AM
Quote from: Rossfan on September 19, 2019, 10:28:57 PM
Hopefully the awful extreme brutality of this event will bring about an end to the disgusting campaign of intimidation.

Like that has worked in this country in the past.
#7
General discussion / Re: Quinn Insurance in Administration
September 21, 2019, 09:43:49 AM
Quote from: RedHand88 on September 20, 2019, 11:40:20 AM
Quote from: trailer on September 19, 2019, 09:38:40 PM
Quote from: Main Street on September 19, 2019, 07:55:54 PM
Quote from: trailer on September 19, 2019, 12:49:41 PM
This isn't reflecting on the Quinns well at all. The people who carried out this and other attacks are doing it for money. Either they're not being paid off or they are being paid to carry them out. There can be no doubt that paramilitaries are involved.
Who's paying these pipers?

Well they're either being paid or not being paid depending on which side they're on. Typical IRA modus operandi extort and victimise the very community they purport to protect.

Is that you Jamie Bryson?

What he means is all paramilitaries extort and victimise the communities that they purport to protect and the IRA in whatever its current guise is no different. Ever wonder why majority SF represented areas rarely prosper when they were in power for over 10 years with full control of several ministries including the top posts?  Keep your people down, don't let them get comfortable, blame everyone else and then get their vote to keep it going. SF not alone in this strategy, the Labour Party in UK doing the same at moment to use Brexit to break the Tories.
#8
GAA Discussion / Re: County Manager Merry go round
September 16, 2019, 07:05:09 PM
Quote from: ballinaman on September 15, 2019, 10:57:57 AM
Quote from: Blowitupref on September 15, 2019, 06:25:10 AM
Quote from: GalwayBayBoy on September 15, 2019, 02:42:54 AM
QuoteTrue? Not true? Who knows?

Former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford is strongly tipped to be named the new Galway senior football team manager within the coming days.

The Connaught Telegraph understands that the Ballinrobe coach is the top choice of the Galway County GAA Board to replace Kevin Walsh, who retired from the position earlier this month after serving five years in the role.

It is understood Rochford will be joined on his management team by Padraig Joyce and John Divilly, the duo who led the tribesmen to the Connacht Under-20 title this year, with a view to Joyce and Divilly taking over the senior post in three years time.

The telegraph speculate plentyful but are right a lot of the time. I wonder are Joyce and Divily to stick managing the U20s while part of Rochfords senior management?
Joyce and back room team went on the beer on a training weekend in Limerick post Connacht final and pre AI semi final to Dublin. Team meeting had to be delayed because they all had heads on them the Sunday morning. Doubt that has gone down well.

Not the worst thing that managers have being doing recently on team weekends if allegations are even nearly true.
#9
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
September 16, 2019, 07:00:32 PM
Quote from: playwiththewind1st on September 16, 2019, 01:53:38 PM
You can be quite sure it will be "action short of a strike", so that they don't lose a day's pay out of their inflated salaries. School budgets in a mess? Big headteacher salaries account for a sizeable part of that little problem.

No teacher is losing any salary with their current industrial action. No reason why principals shouldn't do the same.

Heads' salaries are not the issue, only one per school. Problem due to:

1. Real terms decreases in budgets each year since 2012. Allowing ministers to claim there have been no decreases in the amount of money being paid to schools.

2. Around 60% of the £2.1bn budget for education is actually paid to school budgets. Compared to GB where over 85% of the DE budget arrives in schools.

3. Any increases in pay since 2012 for teachers or ancillary staff has been taken from existing budgets, increases in employers contributions for pensions of teachers and ancillary staff have been taken from existing budgets. Only this year has new money been put into budgets to assist with pension contributions for employers. Now paying 20% of gross pay of ancillary staff and 24% of gross pay of teachers back into pension schemes. Schools also pay 14% of gross pay into National Insurance.

4. All inflationary increases in heat/light/supplies have had to be absorbed in static funding scenario.

But sure why look at the evidence when a glib and false comment can be made.


Quote from: Orior on September 16, 2019, 01:22:36 PM
School principals in the north might go on strike. Quite bizarre. Will anyone notice?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49709991

Almost every primary school principal is already on strike. Most CCMS school principals are members of INTO so also on strike. In controlled schools the principals mostly belong to UTU and are already on strike.

This creates an issue of principals running with the hares and hunting with the hounds as they answer to Boards of Governors and have a say in the strike action.

In secondary schools, the principals in most non-selective schools are members of NAHT which has decided to ballot for strike action.  Another block are the principals of selective schools who are almost all members of ASCL.

There are a few principals in secondary schools who are members of INTO/UTU/NASUWT/NEU and they are using their position to attend union meetings by right but are actually the management of the school who are the target of the striking teachers. A bit sneaky but they know what they are doing and so should their staff.
#10
GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game
September 15, 2019, 11:13:37 AM
Team of the Year

Cluxton

Fitzsimmons  -  McNamee  -  O'Sullivan

Durcan  -  Boyle  -  McCaffrey

Fenton  -  Moran

Murphy  -  O'Shea  -  Howard

Mannion  -  McShane  -  O'Callaghan


Clifford, O'Brien, Kilkenny???

McNamee?? How did Cavanagh get such an influence? Any Dublin or Mayo back was far superior.
#11
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
September 15, 2019, 10:53:58 AM
Quote from: hardstation on September 14, 2019, 11:19:55 PM
Quote from: square_ball on September 14, 2019, 11:12:04 PM
Quote from: hardstation on September 14, 2019, 11:03:24 PM
Quote from: square_ball on September 14, 2019, 10:59:51 PM
Christ is there any other sport in the world that obsesses as much about who's analysing in the studio as opposed to what's on the pitch as Gaelic Football?
Yes.

Yet to see it.
Irish soccer - Eamon Dunphy
Irish rugby- George Hook

English/Scottish soccer - Souness, Hansen, Sutton, Green, Gray


People who are or were whinged about due to their commentary/analysis.

::)

Anyone on Sky soccer analysis. Do we need to bring up local pundits - Winker Watson, Sidebottom, etc? All on this Board.

#12
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
September 07, 2019, 09:24:43 PM
Still no word from him about Rory Gallagher being appointed as Derry manager after all he has had to say about Fermanagh.
#13
GAA Discussion / Re: County Manager Merry go round
September 07, 2019, 09:20:28 PM
Allegedly he was at the forefront of players moving into Dublin clubs and had a Renault car when he moved in, his brother was also allegedly provided with a car.  Can't remember which one smashed the car shortly after receipt.
#14
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
September 07, 2019, 09:17:10 PM
Oh no! Ranked No.1 by beating Wales.

Except in 2007, the team list at No.1 in the rankings before the world cup has gone on to win it!
#15
General discussion / Re: Digital Re-tune
September 07, 2019, 09:14:15 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on September 07, 2019, 05:27:22 PM
The Now 90's channel seemed to close a couple weeks ago. Don't think it was due to the retune though. Now that I looked Now 80's has gone too.

And Keep it Country gone too... jaysus this is all too much for me!!  ;D

Think Keep it country closed a while back.