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The one thing no one has mentioned is it a case the GAA are compensating cost for the amount of free tickets given away. i.e 2 to every club, sponsors, dignitaries etc. Id say its a fair few thousand.

The younger brother was friendly with the son of an ex GAA president and it was a serious amount of free tickets that they got. It was way more than 50 IIRC.

This being my 8th All Ireland final this decade, the handiest to get tickets was again Kerry in 11 and again 2015. They dont even travel for finals.

Considering the crowd at yesterdays semi-final the final will be 80% Dubs.

Surprised Horan hasn't called for the game to be shifted to the Saturday evening as thats when the Dubs always play.

Can't see anything other than the Dubs winning by whatever they chose it to be.

How much do Croke Park charge Dublin CB for the hire of Croke Park for a National League game?

Speaking as a Meath man with experience of this, don't go changing management for the sake of change. Wait till you have a clear successor and a plan to take things to the next level before getting rid of a manager who has consistently kept you in the top tier for the last decade. If MH can keep you in the top four for another year or two while you get someone with a proven track record of success lined you'd be better off than going with some familiar name who's not won anything of note.

Id agree with this.  Malachi O'Rourke would be a good fit for Tyrone I feel

How would that ever work out?







Unless he's related to Micky.

I wouldn't. I think you'd find a large portion of people in the village, Shankill, Tiger's Bay and working class east Belfast would agree with what Bryson has to say most of the time.

And so do the DUP and other unionist parties.  Re: issues like the bonefires, they all sing off the same hymn sheet (no pun intended).

David Irvine has been the only sane voice Loyalism has put forward in decades and is sorely missed.

The DUP play the loyalist card at election time and the rest of the time don't give a flying f**k for them but throw a few K at an "outreach" program to line the pockets of the local gangsters to keep them at bay.

Bryson is using them as a way of getting himself a media career helped by the likes of Nolan and Co calling him every other day.

Daughters been flat out trying to get a part time job these last 3 months! Impossible

You should have trained her to weld.

Won't need to with all these jobs that seem to be available

There's heaps of jobs if you want one. I appreciate not every job suits every person or their circumstances. But if you want a full time job there's no excuse that I can see. If you can't find a job create one, start a business, loads of opportunities at present.

The NI economy has record numbers of business failures
UK as a whole has low unemployment but no growth because most new jobs
don't pay enough. That is what is happening

Don't pay enough? You have to pay the minimum wage? This makes no sense.
Loads of businesses fail. Sometimes you need to fail before you succeed.
There's lots of jobs. Lots of good jobs. No one should be unemployed at this moment in time. Anyone without a job doesn't want one.

Loads of people are better off on the dole than take minimum wage/zero hour contracts type jobs.

Something wrong there.

Did Everton get new owners, or where has their money come from?

Looks like a very good summer for them

Bill Kenwright has another season of blood brothers in the West End and has dipped into advance ticket sales for the dough.

Stolen from a YouTube comment:

Calm down everyone , this is how it will go down.
When they meet in France at the G7 Boris will agree to only N.I staying in the C.U and Single Market.
That will be voted through by the House of Commons as they will all be called back early for the vote.
DUP will say " we are pulling our support from the Convervative Govt".  A general election will have to be held.  This eliminates the No Confidence vote option  and allows Boris to set the G.E for post Oct 31.
Everyone is a winner except the DUP.   But let's not worry about the DUP their White ISIS caliphate called Northern Ireland has run it's course. Peace in a Unified Ireland.

Thoughts?

Fixed parliament term means that an actual vote in Westminster is needed to call an election, Boris cannot just toddle off to QE2 and ask for one.

Aye but Corbyn has been harping for a GE as well, so I'd expect that vote for a GE to go through Parliament.

Timing is the issue though as Cummins is allegedly confident that a no deal brexit can legally happen by default if Parliament isn't sitting.

Trailer,
    I'd say your not far wrong in saying a high percentage of farmers or whatever hue voted to leave the EU, mightn't go as far as 90% though, and that they're blaming the EU for their ills when it's anything but.

It's a lot like Boris waving about a packet of kippers that he'd said the EU insisted be shipped in a cooled container when it was actually the UK's food standards agency who insisted on it.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[because it's written in the constitution that people have the right to bear arms]

Can I just make the point (and I have made this one before, specifically) that Whitey's argument is that our perception of America having a gun crisis is erroneous because

1. Mass murder victims are a vanishingly small part of the ocean of gun victims in America
2. White people generally don't have to worry about random shootings, it only really happens in black and coloured areas
3. The murder rate in his town is less than Dublin's and other cities in Ireland...so there.

And I would respond as follows

1. Mass murders are merely the most visible symptoms of a huge psychosis at the heart of the American state - banning of guns would not only greatly decrease mass shootings, it would greatly decrease deaths by suicide and deaths in the commission of felonies.

2. This point is racist at its heart and deeply illogical - when you are talking about the rate of gun violence in a country, you don't get to go "well it is only happening to certain races and in certain areas" - because, surprise, surprise, those black and brown people are human as well, with the same intrinsic rights as those middle class whites holed up in suburban Mass. The blackest joke of our age is a political party calling itself Republican without any true insight into what that term actually means. "But I don't support Trump etc etc.." Shut the fcuk up.

3. Given his penchant for anecdotal evidence, I've been in the rundown areas of American cities, and I've been in the white middle class areas - and, without exception, the guys you have to watch out for are young, white, middle class males - especially the ones claiming to be Irish.

Someday I'll figure out what leads people to disgrace themselves on discussion boards.

You're completely missing my point (probably intentionally)

(1) You could never "ban guns" because it's written in the constitution that people have the right to bear arms. Whether you agree or disagree with that interpretation that's a whole other discussion. You could ban every automatic weapon in the country and the overall "gun death rate" per 100,000 would probably decrease by a rounding error because the vast majority of deaths are via handguns.

(2) I have a background in statistics and  I'm merely pointing out that average statistics do not paint an accurate picture of what actually happens in real life. The town I grew up in Ireland is caught up in a traveler feud, and there have been 4/5 shootings and one murder in the past 3 years. If you looked at the statistics for that town or county (because there's other local towns caught up in it) you'd be scared to set foot in the place, but when you know the back story the average statistics become meaningless.

(3) I would generally  agree with you on point number 3.

Is it not an amendment to the constitution?

[That's one of the core reasons why no one would bail them out (pardon the pun).]

From my limited understanding it sounds like it is purely symbolic. This day has been coming to H&W for a long long time and I think it's history has managed to drag it this far but can take it no further. I've been listening to the old argument that it was the EU's fault on competition laws. But H&W don't have a single order on their books at the minute and not even an order in sight. That's one of the core reasons why no one would bail them out (pardon the pun). Most of these ships are built in the Far East now in South Korea or China well outside the EU.

Another core reason being the horrific pension liabilities.

Buying out of administration makes more sense.

I was thinking that myself especially when it became clear there was a hole in the pension pot.

A new buyer won't take that liability, the Government will have to, but maybe not the full amount and some pensions might have to get trimmed by 10% or whatever.

There'll also be new terms and conditions for the staff unless the new owner offers to honour the TUPE process, but they are in the box seat if a new owner can be found.

I also don't get the "iconic" status of H&W as it was very much jobs for the boys and those boys wouldn't have been too welcoming to someone from my community back in the day.

Agreed.  There was nothing 'iconic' about the yard at all.  A sectarian shithole.  The cranes are a famous landmark and will no doubt survive.

Feel sorry for those who are losing their jobs, it can't be a good time.  Apart from that I'd say good riddance to another symbol of unionist dominance.

And when Shorts closes its doors that will be another nail in the symbol of unionist dominance!

Lets close all the unionist companies up the Shankill and Newtownards road while your at it

Shorts/Bombardier are just another employer, if they go against the wall it's because what they're doing isn't a viable business.
They'd have went to the wall if it wasn't for Government subsidies years ago.

I've worked for a company who went to the wall who in their day employed over 1K people, it's not nice, but you dust yourself down and get on with it.

These iconic industries need to move with the times or die. I don't buy this iconic bullshit.

See looks like Rojo to Everton. Hope they're as kind with the fee as they were with Schneiderlin!

Sure they've a £5M credit note with the Glazers for Lukaka.

[That's one of the core reasons why no one would bail them out (pardon the pun).]

From my limited understanding it sounds like it is purely symbolic. This day has been coming to H&W for a long long time and I think it's history has managed to drag it this far but can take it no further. I've been listening to the old argument that it was the EU's fault on competition laws. But H&W don't have a single order on their books at the minute and not even an order in sight. That's one of the core reasons why no one would bail them out (pardon the pun). Most of these ships are built in the Far East now in South Korea or China well outside the EU.

Another core reason being the horrific pension liabilities.

Buying out of administration makes more sense.

I was thinking that myself especially when it became clear there was a hole in the pension pot.

A new buyer won't take that liability, the Government will have to, but maybe not the full amount and some pensions might have to get trimmed by 10% or whatever.

There'll also be new terms and conditions for the staff unless the new owner offers to honour the TUPE process, but they are in the box seat if a new owner can be found.

I also don't get the "iconic" status of H&W as it was very much jobs for the boys and those boys wouldn't have been too welcoming to someone from my community back in the day.

Despite a comfortable looking scoreline, I believe we were lucky enough to come away from Ballygalget with a win. Not that that matters. Great win.

We hit the woodwork/metalwork twice when it looked easier to score a goal.

Your lads kept the two point gap through most of the second half and we couldn't close it. At the end we started going for goals and your lads kept popping the frees/points over and that was that.

I think we've Sarsfields to play in a relegation/promotion playoff.

The best bit of business Utd did this window is not signing Dybala. Players should want to play for Utd and to win trophies. Not earn huge wages. Hopefully a line in the sand from now on. Mercenaries not wanted.

I'll have whatever your smoking.

Some young lad from Argentina dreams about playing for the Glazers at Manchester Utd PLC....

All modern footballers are mercenaries.

[Anderson is to Unionism what Foster is to nationalism]

Anderson is to Unionism what Foster is to nationalism. A gift. She fulfils all the stereotypes that paranoid unionists have of the nationalist/republican population. Whilst I do think that there is a certain amount of faux outrage when these incidents occur, an elected representative should really know better than to rabble rouse in this manner.

Agree.

Both are actually doing more harm than good to their respective causes.

Once the EU seat goes Martina should be quietly pensioned off.

What would it take to get rid of Michelle though. Was she not anointed by wee Martin?