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#1
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster U20 Championship 2024
March 28, 2024, 01:41:18 PM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 28, 2024, 08:00:54 AMNice to see Armagh actually winning games at underage for once. I'm sure Donegal in Ballybofey will be a step up though.

assured at least a quarter final so thats good
#2
General discussion / Re: Cost Of Living
March 28, 2024, 12:59:52 PM
Quote from: armaghniac on March 28, 2024, 12:41:23 PM
Quote from: lurganblue on March 12, 2024, 01:48:36 PMThere are no shortages of jobs going at the minute.  At least it curtails the "them foreigners coming over here and taking all our jobs" rhetoric/excuse.

they can have our jobs, it is the houses they take that are the problem

is it really?
#3
GAA Discussion / Re: Division 2 2024
March 28, 2024, 10:21:14 AM
Quote from: Orior on March 27, 2024, 09:47:30 PMIs there a trick to putting Ticketmaster tickets into an iPhone Wallet?

they usually give me an option to do so
#4
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 28, 2024, 10:19:59 AM
Quote from: gallsman on March 27, 2024, 04:57:41 PMYou could have googled it in the time it took to type.

A Norn Iron hospitality group. Hotels, restaurants, pubs, bistros etc. Considerably upmarket. The Merchant the jewel in the crown.

why use google when the worlds best experts in everything congregate here
#5
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 27, 2024, 04:23:54 PM
who, or what, is Beannchor
#6
General discussion / Re: The Fine Gael thread
March 26, 2024, 01:14:07 PM
Quote from: Hound on March 25, 2024, 08:44:07 AMThanks for that RH. I see the odd McDowell piece in the paper, i don't frequent his website.

McDowell's claim that SF was undemocratic wasn't because she was elected unopposed though.

If you believe some puppet master told Coveney, Donohue, Humohries, McEntee etc that they were not permitted to contest the election then that would be equivalent alright. Personally I don't think Harris is controlled by shawdowy puppet master figures. I think he really wants it and will make decisions (whether good or bad) himself and for his personal agenda of what he thinks would be successful. And he has persuaded most of his elected parliamentary colleagues to side with him. The other potential contenders were either not interested (SC and PD) or knew they would lose (everyone else).

Here's some of what McDowell said about SF (from the 2019 article that was linked):

I think Sinn Féin is still an undemocratic, marxist movement masquerading as a conventional political party. Most of its members are probably unaware of its true nature.

Let me pose two questions.

Why did Sinn Féin recently spend a large sum sending a delegation to the inauguration of the undemocratic marxist, Nicolas Maduro, as president of Venezuela?

How precisely was Michelle O'Neill chosen to succeed Martin McGuinness as leader of Sinn Féin in the North?

In the case of Maduro, the Provisional movement have long backed communist movements in that region. They sold their weapons technology to the Farc communists in neighbouring Colombia in exchange for millions of narco-dollars. They had, despite denials, a permanent representative in Castro's Cuba. The common thread was a belief that they were and are a revolutionary movement with a marxist orientation. Readers of An Phoblacht over the years will remember the constant stream of supportive articles for marxist revolutionary groups internationally.

It should come as absolutely no surprise that the party sent a delegation to Caracas to celebrate the subversion of democracy in what used to be one to Latin America's most liberal states.

This may not lie easily with the polished, bourgeois professional image which the Party seeks to create using Mary Lou McDonald and, until recently, the urbane Peadar Tóibín.

But the truth is that Sinn Féin is rigidly controlled by a small clique of Provo veterans who are puppet-masters in what appears to be a normal democratic party.

It was they who chose Michelle O'Neill. It is they who secured the unopposed election of Mary Lou as the party's Uachtarán. It is their network of commissars who impose order and discipline on the party's members. It is they who decide on strategy. It is they who will decide if and when the party resumes participation in the NI executive.

In true marxist style, the entire party is subject to what Lenin described as "democratic centralism".

Sinn Féin members of the Oireachtas do not choose their advisors, interns or secretaries. The party commissars make those decisions. By this means all vestiges of political privacy and autonomy are absent.

We are still somewhat in the dark as to whether the party confiscates its public representatives' earnings and allowances over certain average industrial wage thresholds to apply them to party purposes under the guise of a voluntary contribution to the support of the party.

Most Sinn Féin members, elected and un-elected, are outside the loop of decision-making. I do not believe for one minute that Mary Lou or Michelle is in charge of the party rather than the old gang in the backroom of the Felons' Club on the Andersonstown Road.

If the party does not make sufficient progress at the polls, either or both of them will receive a tap on the shoulder from the Felons' Club – not from the ordinary members.

Sinn Féin is not a democratic or republican party. It remains a carefully constructed façade for a small, manipulative and undemocratic clique with very different values.

LOL. Am I reading about SF or the Nazi Party here?
#7
GAA Discussion / Re: Power Rankings
March 26, 2024, 07:15:26 AM
Quote from: seafoid on March 25, 2024, 06:28:51 PMDerry haven't won an all Ireland semifinal since 1993 afaik. The last 4 times Derry won the League they didn't win Sam. 

they wont win it this year either but I do think the league final will also be the AI final
#8
General discussion / Re: Petrolhead culture
March 25, 2024, 11:17:36 AM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 25, 2024, 11:11:12 AM
Quote from: tonto1888 on March 25, 2024, 10:44:08 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 25, 2024, 10:16:47 AM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 25, 2024, 09:39:39 AMThe black box thing is a load of shite. Driving too slow is hazardous as well. Limiting young ones to 1.2 litre would make more sense.

The box is to keep within the speed limits, are you encouraging driving over the limits?

Talk me through that

the lad just likes to be controversial. Thinks it makes him look cool
A young driver sitting at 45 mph on a main road with a queue of traffic behind them isn't a good thing for any road user.

the black box doesnt limit you to that
#9
General discussion / Re: Petrolhead culture
March 25, 2024, 10:44:08 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 25, 2024, 10:16:47 AM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 25, 2024, 09:39:39 AMThe black box thing is a load of shite. Driving too slow is hazardous as well. Limiting young ones to 1.2 litre would make more sense.

The box is to keep within the speed limits, are you encouraging driving over the limits?

Talk me through that

the lad just likes to be controversial. Thinks it makes him look cool
#10
Laois by 5
West Meath by 2
Donegal by 1 - they're gonna win on penalties
Derry by 3
#11
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 22, 2024, 07:16:41 PM
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 22, 2024, 03:28:43 PM
Quote from: tonto1888 on March 22, 2024, 02:14:56 PM
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 22, 2024, 01:13:58 PMJust answer the question ffs. You're deflecting. Does a swimming instructor deserve more than £20ph? It's an honest question.

I have no idea what they deserve but if you go private - and I researched it - you could pay a lot more than that. My point still stands

That's a fair point about private ones.  I've heard what some people pay for a PT to do a class session (not even 1 on 1) and it's absolutely nuts.

Aye. I hear ye. PTs really stick the arm in
#12
General discussion / Re: King Charles III
March 22, 2024, 07:16:01 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 22, 2024, 06:28:31 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 22, 2024, 06:18:45 PM
Quote from: SaffronSports on March 22, 2024, 06:02:51 PMShe has cancer apparently. I wish her well.
It's a pity she felt the need to announce it on camera just to get the headers off her case.

Anyone that's had family through cancer and having chemo know that it's a horrible experience.

I wish her well

My father lost his battle with cancer nearly 12 years ago. Horrible horrible disease. I wish her a full recovery
#13
GAA Discussion / Re: RG at arms length
March 22, 2024, 02:15:48 PM
Cheers brick. I have heard and read that many different things you dont know what to believe.
#14
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 22, 2024, 02:14:56 PM
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 22, 2024, 01:13:58 PMJust answer the question ffs. You're deflecting. Does a swimming instructor deserve more than £20ph? It's an honest question.

I have no idea what they deserve but if you go private - and I researched it - you could pay a lot more than that. My point still stands
#15
GAA Discussion / Re: The Advanced Mark
March 22, 2024, 12:50:31 PM
Quote from: Itchy on March 22, 2024, 12:40:16 PMIf there were no advanced mark it would be worse and the stats have shown this.

whats the stats? I am not fully against it but it needs tweaked