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#1
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 27, 2024, 06:54:20 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 27, 2024, 05:04:12 PM
Quote from: tonto1888 on March 27, 2024, 04:23:54 PMwho, or what, is Beannchor
Bill Wolsey and family.

Merchant, Bullitt, Dirty Onion, The National, Little Wing pizzerias...

And a hotel in Dublin incoming?
#2
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 27, 2024, 02:05:24 PM
Quote from: general_lee on March 27, 2024, 12:11:01 PMSo why is a pint in Belfast £6+?
Is it solely because of some imaginary cabal price gouging (see Beannchor) or is there actually more to it?

Belfast city centre pubs pay 20% VAT, in Dublin it's 13.5% (was 9%). UKGov refuses to reduce VAT for hospitality & tourism.

There is no rates relief in Belfast city centre (or NI) for hospitality businesses that is available elsewhere in the UK. So when the council raise their non-domestic rates, pubs and restaurants here get slaughtered.

Despite handsome profits last year, Diageo have announced their latest price increase - this is the one that makes the news but other breweries and suppliers have also put their prices up in the past 12 months.

Many Belfast city centre pubs employ people on minimum wage. When that goes up next month, they will be paying their bar staff more. They then have to pay supervisors, managers etc more as well. If they hire external contractors such as a cleaning company, that bill will also increase.

Wetherspoons, despite being a messy, under-staffed, McDonald's that serves alcohol and cheap, nasty food, has still increased prices twice in the last 6 months. The industry is fucked.

latest accounts article i could see for Beannchor. £6.3million pre-tax profits for a year.
#3
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
March 27, 2024, 09:09:42 AM
How many do we expect to be in Croke Part on Sunday?
#4
Stars aligning for Arsenal. Walker & Stones both injured...
#5
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 27, 2024, 09:06:54 AM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on March 26, 2024, 07:33:32 PMWhat are pubs paying Diageo per pint nowadays? Couldn't be much over £2?

Yeah nearly £2 on the button.
#6
General discussion / Re: Price of a Pint
March 27, 2024, 09:05:54 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 26, 2024, 02:51:59 PMOut for a meal on Sat afternoon.. bill was £80 a head! Is what it is, had a great time and decent food..Ya only live once!

£80 a head is a blind statement though. I've no problem paying £80 (or more) a head in a place that's worth it. However a pizza restaurant charging £8.50 a pint in Belfast is absolutely taking the piss.
#7
General discussion / Re: Price of a Pint
March 26, 2024, 01:51:12 PM
Work event last week in Fratelli Belfast, sweet lord I haven't saw prices like it! Obviously we weren't paying, but looking at the drinks menu gave me a shiver down my back. Absolutely disgraceful prices in Belfast (or anywhere) Apparently the same group that own The Galgorm & Cafe Parisian who both apparently charge over £7.50 for a Guinness.

From Memory - (Their Drinks Menu is online too for anyone wanting to see it)
Pint Lager - £8.50
Pint Stout - £7.50
Gin & Tonic - £13.40

#8
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 26, 2024, 09:23:18 AM
Quote from: Mikhailov on March 25, 2024, 04:58:44 PM
Quote from: Mario on March 25, 2024, 04:39:46 PMWhy has he not had more game time since? I thought he'd be straight back in to first 15 but management seemed to prefer Murray and he finally rewarded them for that.

Did Toby47 not say he got injured. Was it a broken bone in the wrist?

Broken finger I think
#9
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 25, 2024, 03:39:13 PM
Quote from: tbrick18 on March 25, 2024, 02:55:04 PM
Quote from: Rawhide on March 25, 2024, 01:50:37 PMBaker has done really well. He is athletic and understands our patterns of play and times his support runs excellently. Grt through the transition. His weakness is on the few one to ones that todays games allows,  he has been to easily gone bye, his tackling in one to one needs improvement. When all our defenders are fit I do not see him starting. I see McCloskey, McAvoy, McKaigue, McGrogan, McKindless & Doherty.

For me Baker has been the find of the season.
I think he's a starter and with a fully fit panel, McKaigue should be the one to drop out.
I'm going to predict that McKaigue will struggle most against the dubs. He won't have the pace and will resort to fouls.

From what I've seen of Gilmore, he's certainly an option. Murray was injured I think for periods last year and in the early stages this year, so I think he just needs a run. Has shown enough imo to be in with a shout.
Any updates on Oisin McWilliams?
Murphy and exciting prospect, I can see him as being a real potent impact sub.

Murphy isn't as young as people are thinking, won a MacRory cup in 2017 with Lynch, McCloskey, Declan Cassidy etc and has played in 3 County Finals with Magherafelt. He was unfortunate with the injury after his brilliant performance V Tyrone.
#10
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 22, 2024, 09:12:10 AM
Quote from: Mikhailov on March 22, 2024, 07:45:22 AM
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Quote from: derry82 on March 21, 2024, 05:11:55 PMjust heard 2 derry players are reopning a bar in maghera together

Which bar?
And not clubmates either

Clubs?

Think it's a bar and they're only opening one.

He is asking what clubs the players involved are from?


Shane Mcguigan & Conor Doherty. The Back Door, Maghera.

My god, why do people think it's cool to tell half stories & keep the other half to themselves? 'I'm letting you know I know something before you, but not telling you what it is'
#11
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
March 18, 2024, 08:47:27 PM
Did Ardboe/Moortown not get much return out of their 2 back to back winning teams from 2012-15?
#12
General discussion / Re: Cost Of Living
March 12, 2024, 09:05:29 AM
Quote from: trailer on March 12, 2024, 09:03:47 AM
Quote from: snoopdog on March 12, 2024, 08:11:52 AM
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 12, 2024, 08:06:22 AMhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534537

1 in 5 not working or seeking work. Mad.
Working age. I don't see it accounting for students from ages 16 to 24 or early retirement for late 50s.

Don't know all the ins and outs of this but there is no shortage of work. While inflation is / was high it will disappear when wages catch up which they nearly have now and energy prices come down as that is exclusively the issue.
Other recessions had millions unemployed. Not the case. It's boom time for the next 5 years. Fill yer boots. Stocks, shares, investments, new ventures. Get in now.

I got a letter through the door yesterday, 22.8% decrease in gas from 1st April.
#13
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 08, 2024, 03:04:33 PM
Quote from: Silver hill on March 08, 2024, 02:46:12 PM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on March 07, 2024, 10:13:47 PMWhat do you regard as a sacrifice?

I'm interested to know what difference being married makes to this also.

Well, apologies , I'm was working on an old traditional assumption regarding being married with kids. Appreciate that plenty of men are in relationships and have kids and are not married. The general point is still the same though, if a player missed his kid's play. That would be a sacrifice imo.

Missing a kid's play. The only sacrifice in life.
#14
Mikey Johnston in some form
#15
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 06, 2024, 01:07:20 PM
Quote from: Cluborcountywhynotboth on March 06, 2024, 12:27:07 PM
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Quote from: Cluborcountywhynotboth on March 06, 2024, 09:14:22 AMRight decision as clubs need stop appealing every single restructure as they have been the last number of years, however it's a very dangerous situation if the executive can effectively carry or defeat any vote they want. This executive seems to have become a dictatorship and serious changes need made.
Also. 80k on a holiday? That's complete and utter madness.

County senior holiday?
According to Cahair yes

So, what this squad has done for the county the last 2 years, 2 Ulster's, 2 x semi final appearances. The sacrifices made, never mind the revenue brought in, you'd begrudge them a team holiday? Complete and utter madness is right

Last time I check no1 had a gun to their head to make those 'sacrifices'. Large majority are young men with no families who are either at uni or in jobs that are very very amenable to allowing them to make 'sacrifices'. How and ever, my issue isn't with the holiday, more power to them, but spending 80k on sending a senior team on a jolly is ridiculous for a so called amateur organisation. Surely that money if it's coming from sponsors or the CB, would be better spent in games development?
Or how about instead of A county board spending 80k on a holiday for the men's team they use it to pay running costs and allow ladies, camogie, and clubs to use Owenbeg for free instead of charging them an arm and a leg to use the facilities. If the players are covering the costs themselves then work away, but if it's coming out of the coffers of sponsors then there is a whole lot better way to spend it. Yes the senior men are the marquee and face of the game to an extent, but they are not and should not be the be all and end all.

A jolly / gun to their head.. Have a word with yourself.

Quote from: ONEDerry on March 06, 2024, 11:04:22 AMIt's only being made a big deal of because of Cahair has the inside line. Counties who haven't had the recent success Derry have had  are doing this and we hear nothing about it. As has been said the income from the last couple of years and the run the county with the big attendances at games more than covers it. He's of no help to Derry that man and just enjoys stirring it.

It's not a big deal though, far from it
Have a word with myself??? Very constructive.

I'd love to know what sacrifices these poor martyrs are making in order to grace us with their presence in a Derry jersey. I've nothing against the players and their commitment level, and it's great to see them doing well. But to paint them as men making huge sacrifices is just plain wrong. They are young men living a dream of thousands of young men and woman around the country and have everything laid on for them from 5 star hotels at away games, to paid days off work any time they need it, they literally just have to turn up and do what they are asked. 

Fair play to them if they are getting a free holiday, but as a member of the GAA in Derry I feel that that money could and should be spent elsewhere. The senior lads are already well enough looked after in my opinion.

You really are doubling down on this. What about the homeless?

You're a member of the GAA in Derry, what membership is that?
You feel, and I'd say you're in a very small minority, that the Derry seniors, what they've achieved, the revenue they've brought in via gate receipts, club Derry ticket sales, sponsorship are not worthy of a holiday as a way of thanks? You've entitlement issues by the looks of it.


Entitlement? I'm not asking for anything. It's you saying boys are entitled to a holiday beside apparently they make massive sacrifices.
All I'm saying is they get well enough looked after for amateurs and 80k would be better spent elsewhere so that we can grow the game for everyone, which in turn might lead to Derry having some sustained success across all codes, not just for senior men for a couple of years.

This will be last post on this, as you sound like one of those glass half empty moaners I always end up sitting beside at games.
You are asking for stuff and you continue to ask. You're asking that money raised by the seniors, some of it is not to be spent on a thank you trip for them, but spent elsewhere. And, you talk about growing the game.. What is growing the game right now in this county than the success of the senior's?
The huge numbers at McKenna cup games in Jan / Feb. A packed Celtic Pk for Tyrone / Dublin. A massive travelling contingent on the away days (there was maybe 25 or 30 of us in Fraher Field 4 years ago). Wains are storming the pitches to meet their heroes at the end of the games. Derry City is awash with Derry gear. All schools have Derry days before the Ulster finals and the big Croke Pk days... Tell me what is growing our games more than that?

Not a moaner at all. I've been sitting in Celtic park with a couple hundred people in Div 4 so I am well aware we have little to moan about at present.
And yes you're right all that achievement is growing the game, but why do the players need a 'thank you' as you put it. What about the players who got us out of div 4, 3 etc... what about each and every coach and support staff, what about the people selling tickets and club Derry when we were in div 4, those in county boards when no-one else wanted to be, the other underage players who drove these players on to be better, and many many more. Do they not deserve thanks as well???
All the stuff you listed is correct, but all that positive stuff will come anyway regardless of a holiday. As they say a growing tide lifts all boats, so what I am saying is why not use all that good stuff, and harness it, and if there is 80k laying about spend it on something more long lasting. What about hiring a coach for a couple years to work developing junior clubs? Or as I say subsiding the usage of Owenbeg so ladies, camogie, clubs can spend their money in better coaches and facilities etc.. rather than having to spend it renting our county centre.
I'm not begrudging at all, or against the lads, I just think 80k for a holiday is a massive outlay for little return other than for a very select few, and could be used in a more positive way for all.

But anyway, as you say, last message on it and agree to disagree.

My god. Everything that's wrong with the world at the minute. Don't do anything, you may offend someone. Don't let the lads go on holiday, the fella that pushed him 16 years ago when he was an u14 might be offended he's not been offered to go on the holiday.