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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Wildweasel74 - Today at 10:29:02 PM

Not any lover of Tyrone, but it's very unfair a team having to play a big semi-final game just 6 days after a tight game. Def needs a 2 week breathing space between quarters and semi, plus a 2 week space to the qualifiers after the final for runners up

#2

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by AustinPowers - Today at 10:27:05 PM

I 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? 

Unfortunately we normalised it at the time and adopted

My dad handed me the book The Shankill butchers when it came out

Made me read it before I headed out that weekend, needless to say that put the willies up me for that period of heading out! 

Absolutely horrible book. Really tough. I read the book called committee. Really opened my eyes as a teenager growing up.

Only policeman you trust is a dead one.

Is that the  one by Sean mcPhilemy?

#3

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by paddyjohn - Today at 10:25:30 PM

👆 What he said.

#4

General discussion / Re: Official Gooners Thread - ...

Last post by From the Bunker - Today at 10:25:01 PM

Arsenal are now asking questions of City. 5-0 tonight not only got them 3 points it improved their GD. They have 2 more games out of the way. If City draw - Arsenal have it in their own hands.

#5

Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurl...

Last post by Wildweasel74 - Today at 10:23:20 PM

Listen. it was over nothing.Not a bad tackle in the game. Kilrea lad run into McAtammney fairly easy after a ball passed off, little in it, Then he pushes the Kilrea lad, other lad pushes him back, seriously, that how it started, over nothing. Continued across the field, pushing, then grapping, then from what i seen ,there was a few of the grab the Jersey with a light jab to the face a few times, both ways, then the head butt, which split both open.Bad carry on, in a game of not 1 hard tackle, before or after.

#6

General discussion / Re: snooker world championship

Last post by Tones - Today at 10:23:18 PM

Milkins could be out next.

#7

GAA Discussion / Re: Connacht U20 and U17 champ...

Last post by Gael85 - Today at 10:21:49 PM

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/gaa/gaelic-football/davy-burke-wants-give-bag-32639008?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0eFY81WlPdnBe25Xl03GOojCNUoOs1TNBY1yHo2d6vIr1kc_H982k0EZA_aem_AeKXBD6eFWp0o60N18WxmzU3CRqbFJImoFwiTEsAbg5Q3jBopVdkXULrbCwJeNPupjtMGCLPg5qH7yH4-QTk1KHm

#8

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - Today at 10:20:35 PM

No university course is free now, are you a doctor after a medical course or do you need advice, training and guidance via a paid private sector company or is that provided by say the NHS in the occupied 6?

#9

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by Saffrongael - Today at 10:11:25 PM

I 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? 

Unfortunately we normalised it at the time and adopted

My dad handed me the book The Shankill butchers when it came out

Made me read it before I headed out that weekend, needless to say that put the willies up me for that period of heading out! 

Absolutely horrible book. Really tough. I read the book called committee. Really opened my eyes as a teenager growing up.

Only policeman you trust is a dead one.

Is that book still available?

Yeah on Amazon

#10

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 10:10:06 PM

Yeah f**k you jack I am OK.

You're putting the blame at the GPs door for taking on a legal practice activity? What moral obligation do they have to get f**ked by a broken system?

Successive Prime Ministers, Health Ministers drove the place into the ground. Some moral obligation to be the last violinist on the Titanic.

Did they pay privately to be trained?

Is the course to be a doctor free?