Are people just more sick? More people and less doctors?
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Living longer, as I've said many times is a curse.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: lurganblue on April 23, 2024, 02:57:12 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 23, 2024, 02:47:53 PMMy surgery is like that also, 200 calls, and still no appointments, but they are seeing people its not like they are sitting playing Candy crush all day
I'm lucky enough that the girl that's on reception went to the same gym and I'll send her a text and get sorted
Not what ya know and all that
100%. Id say they are flat out and under serious pressure. The whole health care system is surely at breaking point.
On a side note, I'd say receptionists are taking some abuse.
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on April 23, 2024, 02:19:48 PMI remember at the time it sent chills through the whole nationalist community. Just listening to Talkback and Trevor Birney talking about and how attacking someone like Sean Brown was a deliberate ploy as he was decent and could not be associated with any paramilitary organisation. It was purely to put fear and Terror through a whole community by striking at its centre.
We had just won the AI and had beaten Bellaghy in the Ulster final before Christmas 1996. There was a crew of us living in Belfast and we had close relationships on and off the field with a lot of the Bellaghy lads. It struck hard. I remember travelling home at the time and we regularly changed out pick up spots etc. Going to matches in Lurgan and that was always a concern as well. How the f**k was that normal?
Quote from: NAG1 on April 23, 2024, 01:47:19 PMQuote from: HokeyPokey on April 22, 2024, 07:21:14 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 22, 2024, 12:07:59 AMQuote from: Gael85 on April 21, 2024, 11:33:41 PMhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41379304.html
Ah the aul hindsight and replays, multiple angles and so on, people hate VAR in the PL but call for it here!
Galvin needs to throw stuff out there otherwise he'll be not getting a wee earner
The PL have made a hames of VAR though. The standard of reffing in the PL is just generally abysmal considering the standard of the players. The same refs are in charge of VAR so it's a reflection of that. They could easily automate things like the ball going out of play and semi automated offsides. They have made some absolutely terrible mistakes. There's continually changes to the way they ref, some of which is announced, sometimes it's not. So something can be deemed a penalty, one week and then not be a penalty the following week.
It generally works grand for rugby and also for international soccer tournaments as far as I can see.
That's because they have tried to implement a system which is looking at which is ultimately opinion and interpretation based. It is not black and white and 3 different people in the VAR room watching the same footage could make three different calls on it, so it was never going to be the silver bullet for refs.
If anything I think it is had made their life more difficult instead of less.
Quote from: NAG1 on April 23, 2024, 12:40:46 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 23, 2024, 12:17:13 PMQuote from: NAG1 on April 23, 2024, 11:59:16 AMQuote from: mrdeeds on April 20, 2024, 03:37:47 PMQuote from: JimStynes on April 15, 2024, 09:56:27 PMBaby Reindeer on Netflix is very good.
Unreal. He's a great actor considering he's a comedian. Must be therapeutic playing himself. I never was as uncomfortable watching something and as quiet when over.
Couldn't sit through it.
What does that say about 'us' when watching something like that, which happened, that we all felt very uncomfortable and unable to watch?
Watching in discomfort!
I see it is causing a lot of issues for people in the writer past. Internet warriors.
Quote from: NAG1 on April 23, 2024, 11:59:16 AMQuote from: mrdeeds on April 20, 2024, 03:37:47 PMQuote from: JimStynes on April 15, 2024, 09:56:27 PMBaby Reindeer on Netflix is very good.
Unreal. He's a great actor considering he's a comedian. Must be therapeutic playing himself. I never was as uncomfortable watching something and as quiet when over.
Couldn't sit through it.
Quote from: johnnycool on April 23, 2024, 12:11:22 PMQuote from: seafoid on April 23, 2024, 12:03:51 PMThis story is really like the one about the Stardust
Certainly a tragedy with an attempted coverup, but collusion in the North went much further than that.
British State forces actively provided Loyalists with the intel, support and equipment to carry these murders out and then did everything to prevent a proper investigation then and indeed ever since.
Quote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 09:46:23 AMA friend of mind works dealing with benefit claims, she does England mostly, she says it's amazing how rude these folk are, how clued in they are, how persistent they are, how confrontational they are, she says when she clearly identifies fraud and passes it to her line manager more than not it is ignored - no wonder the country if fucked!
Quote from: HokeyPokey on April 22, 2024, 07:13:44 PMBy the letter of the law it was a pull down. The law was to stop cynical fouls when a player is in loads of space. The play was well away from it. There was two at that and the evidence suggests Hampsey didn't start it. It should have been two yellows.
On the one at the end of extra time, it looked like McKernan(?) wanted to put himself in the way, but that the Cavan player also looked to get the contact too. Does every time a player gives a wee push to another one off the ball, regardless of where the ball is, does that count as a black by the letter of the law because it's impeding. McCurry was pulling up with cramp and a Cavan player bundled him over, is that a black for impeding him? There were a lot of high tackles by Cavan players which went unpunished too which Cavan fans conveniently ignore too.
All this inconsistent application and never ending debates about technical interpreation is tiresome and takes away from the joy of football.
The GAA need to simplify the rules. I think give a black if a player tries to stop a free being taken (as this is a regular tactic to foul and slow the free taken so as to get men back). If a player tries to cynically stop a goal scoring opportunity, be it near the goal or where the team has loads of space in front of them, give a penalty. If a team keeps committing fouls, like rugby, give a black card once a threshold has been passed. Get rid of the forward mark.
Quote from: Itchy on April 22, 2024, 06:37:11 PMQuote from: tyrone08 on April 22, 2024, 04:37:27 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 22, 2024, 04:30:06 PMQuote from: Applesisapples on April 22, 2024, 03:44:46 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 21, 2024, 05:15:26 PMTo be fair the BBC could not find why there was 1 black and 1 yellow appeared bizzarre, a big call that impacted on the game. Do you know why?Quote from: clarshack on April 21, 2024, 05:13:27 PMAnother example of Tyrone being refereed differently again. How can one be a yellow card and the other black?
Did you see the whole incident or just what we seen on the telly?
I only seen what the telly showed, as did most? My thinking is the the Tyrone man pulled him to the ground and what we seen was the grabbing each about on TV
Someon said the cavan player threw rurari away then paudie went over to him and that started it. Not sure if thats correct though.
Hampsie was at lynch the whole match, I don't think I've ever seen Paddy on a wrestling match before at a match. There was another blatant black card at the end if full time which was a very poor miss by the ref but I'm not sure would it have carried in extra time?