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#1411
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
May 20, 2017, 09:47:16 AM
Quote from: Estimator on May 19, 2017, 02:36:29 PM
Teacher scheme legal challenge dismissed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39976668

Well that's the end of that!

240 very angry teachers after this. The 120 young teachers who won't get a permanent job for September and 120 over 50s who had mentally left the building and will have to wait for next year to escape.

I also feel sorry for the teacher who took the case, he is a great teacher, super enthusiastic, willing to take on any class and even as a sub engaging in after school sport. He would be a real asset to any school well ahead of some 22 to 26 year old with minimal experience and no track record. Hope good luck comes his way soon.
#1414
General discussion / Re: Enda Kenny steps down
May 18, 2017, 01:27:44 PM
Quote from: gallsman on May 18, 2017, 07:34:39 AM
Quote from: macdanger2 on May 17, 2017, 08:27:46 PM
I doubt we'll need a tribunal to enquire into any of his dealings so on that basis alone, he's probably the best Taoiseach of the last 30 years.

There should f**king well be one over the state of the Gardai.

Do you seriously believe that the Gardai took a complete wrong turn under Kenny's stewardship?  The issues with the Gardai are institutional and will require a long time to turn around as the cultures within the organisation are gradually changed.  Kenny did not have the finances necessary to rid the Gardai of deadwood and self serving elements that have been ingrained for decades and changes to a police force must be handled carefully and not with any haste or you find yourself looking over your shoulder when the force is no longer with you.

#1415
General discussion / Re: Enda Kenny steps down
May 17, 2017, 09:30:43 PM
Quote from: AZOffaly on May 17, 2017, 08:56:58 PM
Sorry, typo. Gobdaw of course

Still never heard of it before.  So, I looked up the Oxford English dictionary:

gobdaw

A foolish or pretentious person.


#1416
General discussion / Re: Enda Kenny steps down
May 17, 2017, 08:22:42 PM
Quote from: mrdeeds on May 17, 2017, 07:55:06 PM
Essentially he was pushed. He didn't step down willingly. I can't think of one leadership quality he had.

How many political leaders step down willingly?

"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs." Enoch Powell

#1418
General discussion / Re: Enda Kenny steps down
May 17, 2017, 07:43:57 PM
Godbaw. Maybe its a new word picked up in Tipp/Kerry?
#1419
GAA Discussion / Re: 12 Week Ban For Geezer
May 17, 2017, 06:29:41 PM
And so it rolls on as Joe Brolly is brought in to defend an Antrim player...............


Why Saffrons won't take a hit

Big ban: Antrim's Matthew Fitzpatrick has been given a heavy suspension
By Declan Bogue
May 17 2017

A little bit of hard news for you at the top of the column; Antrim will be appealing Matthew Fitzpatrick's suspension, having lodged the appeal on Tuesday night.

The man heading it up, will be no less than...drum roll here... Joe Brolly! An intriguing case just went nuclear.

Let's rewind and recap how we got here. At first, a grainy still image of a player was sent to Antrim, who were asked to identify a player involved in an off-the-ball incident against Armagh. A member of the team management and a member of the county board thought it was a player alright, but not Matthew Fitzpatrick.

On the basis that no-one could offer a certain identification, Fitzpatrick won his appeal.

The Central Competitions Control Committee then acquired a short video clip and asked Antrim to identify the player. A county board officer did so. Again it was not clear, with the players' face and number obscured so Fitzpatrick won his second appeal.

On Monday night, the CHC requested Fitzpatrick for a third meeting. This time they had a much longer clip. They froze the clip at one point and asked Fitzpatrick if he was the player identified. When he confirmed, they laid a charge against him of 'misleading an investigation'.

The length of time of the ban changed, because the charge changed. From striking, to misleading an investigation.

Of course, it will not stick. Antrim are pursuing their case through another layer of GAA bureaucracy with the Central Appeals Committee and are enlisting the help of the legal profession.

At best, it could be thrown out. Antrim are clinging to the stipulation that a video clip, edited in any way, cannot be used in evidence. At worst, Fitzpatrick's suspension would be at least halved.

The odd thing is that Antrim are now being punished off the back of evidence provided by Armagh, in an effort to clear one of their own players.

As joint-manager Gearoid Adams said on Monday night: "The fact they have another DVD of it, which apparently is different from the last one, shows that there is some sort of an agenda.

"If you look at Fitzy's, he was actually hit first in the evidence. So are they going to do the guy who hit Fitzy?

"What does it take for Croke Park or the GAA to go after Matthew Fitzpatrick?"

Adams is intimately familiar with Fitzpatrick, having coached him from he was under-16 at their club, St John's.

To his mind, he can barely recall the forward picking up a yellow card in his career, let alone a red.

What seems clear at this point is that Fitzpatrick did transgress. Let's not forget that. But the GAA culture is not to accept punishments.

It's not the populist thing to say, but when you take this case in isolation, digest the fact that the GAA are going to take a dim view of misleading evidence, then you cannot logically disagree with some form of punishment although the length is ridiculous.

Hold it up against the light of various cases down through the years however and the GAA look as if they are making it up as they go along.

In 2015, Armagh and Dublin played a challenge match that 'got a bit tasty'. Dublin defender Davey Byrne ended up hospitalised overnight with facial injuries.

The GAA asked for video evidence of the match, and neither county provided it. In an age where every training session is recorded on video, we were expected to believe that two of the most resourced, professional teams did not have a video man.

Neither county released names of those involved. Nobody was suspended. There was a significant fine, reduced to a less significant fine on appeal.

And then there was the time Diarmuid Connolly was recorded on video punching Lee Keegan in the 2015 All-Ireland semi-final. He received a red card, but escaped the suspension after Dublin had the means and the expertise to bring it to the Disputes Resolution Authority, prising open a loophole big enough to squeeze through.

This is how it works, in the two-tier GAA justice system.

Say it ain't so, Joe.

Belfast Telegraph
#1420
General discussion / Re: On this day.
May 17, 2017, 06:13:18 PM
Lest we forget.

Friday 17 May 1974
Dublin and Monaghan Bombings; 33 People Killed
Day 3 of the UWC strike


33 civilians and an unborn child were killed in the Republic of Ireland as a result of a series of explosions when four car bombs were planted by Loyalist paramilitaries in Dublin and Monaghan. Approximately 258 people were also injured in the explosions. The death toll from the bombings was the largest in any single day of the conflict. No one was ever arrested or convicted of causing the explosions. On 15 July 1993 the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) claimed sole responsibility for carrying out the bomb attacks.

In Dublin three car bombs exploded, almost simultaneously at approximately 5.30pm, in Parnell Street, Talbot Street, and South Leinster Street. 23 men, women and children died in these explosions and 3 others died as a result of injuries over the following few days. Another car bomb exploded at approximately 7.00pm in North Road, Monaghan, killing 5 people initially with another 2 dying in the following weeks.

The first of the three Dublin bombs went off at approximately 5.28pm in Parnell Street. Eleven people died as a result of this explosion. The second of the Dublin bombs went off at approximately 5.30pm in Parnell Street. Fourteen people died in this explosion. The third bomb went off at approximately 5.32pm in South Leinster Street. Two people were killed in this explosion.

News of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan raised tensions in Northern Ireland. Sammy Smyth, then press officer of both the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) Strike Committee, said, "I am very happy about the bombings in Dublin. There is a war with the Free State and now we are laughing at them."

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/dublin/chron.htm
#1421
General discussion / Re: Enda Kenny steps down
May 17, 2017, 06:07:33 PM
Quote from: AZOffaly on May 17, 2017, 05:01:33 PM
He was longest serving FG Taoiseach alright. An awful godbaw, but cute and astute enough when it came to the political maneuverings. I was impressed with the way he cut the throats of the rebels back there a good few years ago, and then extended the olive branch to a few of them afterwards.

Godbaw?  Can't find a definition anywhere.  Is it a BIFFO word or something else?  Or is it just Enda Kenny?
#1422
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
May 16, 2017, 02:19:24 PM
Ireland Squad Summer Tour 2017 – USA & Japan
Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht) 6 caps
Joey Carbery (Clontarf/Leinster) 3 caps
Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 1 cap
Andrew Conway (Garryowen/Munster) 1 cap
John Cooney (Connacht) uncapped
Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 59 caps
Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) 67 caps
Dave Heffernan (Connacht/Buccaneers) uncapped
Paddy Jackson (Dungannon/Ulster) 23 caps
Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster) 17 caps
Dan Leavy (UCD/Leinster) 2 caps
Kieran Marmion (Corinthians/Connacht) 13 caps
Luke Marshall (Ballymena/Ulster) 9 caps
Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster) 1 cap
Tommy O'Donnell (UL Bohemians/Munster) 12 caps
Jack O'Donoghue (UL Bohemians/Munster) 1 cap
Tiernan O'Halloran (Buccaneers/Connacht) 3 caps
Rory O'Loughlin (Old Belvedere/Leinster) uncapped
Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster) uncapped
Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster) 8 caps
Rhys Ruddock (St Mary's College/Leinster) 13 caps
James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) uncapped
John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster) 6 caps
Niall Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) 4 caps
Rory Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) uncapped
Jacob Stockdale (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) uncapped
Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) 47 caps
James Tracy (UCD/Leinster) 2 caps
Kieran Treadwell (Ballymena/Ulster) uncapped
Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster) 7 caps
Simon Zebo (Cork Constitution/Munster) 33 caps
#1423
General discussion / Re: On this day.
May 16, 2017, 01:41:35 PM
On this day, 16th May 1943, the Nazis completed their suppression of the rising in Jewish ghetto in Warsaw after 28 days of fighting. The uprising was ended by the destruction of the Great Synagogue on this day. 13,000 Jews were killed in the ghetto during the uprising (some 6,000 among them were burnt alive or died from smoke inhalation). Of the remaining 50,000 residents, most were captured and shipped to concentration and extermination camps, in particular to Treblinka. The ghetto was razed to the ground and replaced by the Warsaw concentration camp.
#1424
General discussion / Re: On this day.
May 15, 2017, 11:38:49 PM
On this day, 15th May 1974, the Ulster Workers Council strike began.

From Wiki:

The strike was called by unionists who were against the Sunningdale Agreement, which had been signed in December 1973. Specifically, the strikers opposed the sharing of political power with Irish nationalists, and the proposed role for the Republic of Ireland's government in running Northern Ireland

The strike was organised and overseen by the Ulster Workers' Council and Ulster Army Council, which were formed shortly after the Agreement's signing. Both of these groups included Ulster loyalist paramilitaries such as the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). These groups helped to enforce the strike by blocking roads and intimidating workers. During the two-week strike, loyalist paramilitaries killed 39 civilians, of which 33 died in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

The strike succeeded in bringing down the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive. Responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland then reverted to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster under the arrangements for 'Direct Rule'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Workers%27_Council_strike
#1425
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
May 15, 2017, 01:33:47 PM
Quote from: JoG2 on May 08, 2017, 11:51:27 AM

Brannigan and Fuzzy logic hear should be on the Brolly PR payroll. You keep us all well informed of all things Brollyesque

Boss said to get this link posted today because he had got an extra few column inches in the Indo today for a championship preview. Yawn ::)


http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/joe-brolly-you-are-deluded-if-you-think-any-weaker-county-can-upset-the-status-quo-in-any-province-35715247.html