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[but they are seeing people its not like they are sitting playing Candy crush all day]

My 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.

Police where in my place today, I'm attached to the surgery but its methadone day! Go figure

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! 

My 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

https://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.

And the same thing will apply when they have two refs on the pitch at Intercounty level.. Said it many times, one mistake is better than 2 mistakes 

Not all, in the surgery I'm at they are seeing people all the time, some places must different

The state totally at fault, recruiting people and allowing them to get away with murder, helping them and supporting them time and time again..

Mad

Baby 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.

If all true...

If they were part of the damage that it obviously had on him, based on the show, then that's on them, they didn't have to carry out what they did, then expect to walk away scot free!

40,000 emails, can you imagine if a 40 year old man sent 40,000 emails to a 20 odd old woman?

Or a man taking advantage of a young woman looking to get a start in show business?

Wife was talking to some nut job Christian that used to live near us in our last home.

Anyways she got talking about being a aid worker going to Israel to 'help' the Jewish community come to terms with the attacks in Israel.

She went on to say because she's been there (I ask where, but wife didn't ask) its lies being told by the media about what's happening in Gaza.. And blah blah blah, i sent my wife some links and said if you bump into her again show here this! 

People like this have the same mindset that the holocaust didn't happen

Baby 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!

This 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.

They also allowed stakeknife (as their agent) to torture and kill plenty, crazy place and how that system was continually allowed to operate was unbelievable

If someone made a film about it, it would go straight into the fiction department

A 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!

I've said before, these people work dam hard at not working, the levels of understanding the benefit system is way above the actual people working in it

I remember being at a garage on the Shankill years ago, guy was filling up his rather new BMW, he was chatting away to a fella in the shop telling him he was heading to the dole who were interviewing him for the DLA renewal.

He was basically covered in shit, clothes were hanging on him and he smelt of booze, told him that it works every time and they never keep more than 5 minutes due to the smell.

This isn't taking away from multi national companies not paying full tax btw 

Haven't watched this but will give it a go later, can only imagine what the family are going through reliving this over again and again.

Would love to know how many agents there were used over the years

By 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.

You're asking to simplify the rules but then add in rules which will be interpreted differently by every ref lol.

Players play within the rules and we are good to go?

Another 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?

To 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?

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?

Always carried over into extra time, in that instance the gap between both players for the 'contact' was minimal and sorta on a threshold of body check or accidentally  impeded him, body check black card

Another 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?

To 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?

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

The Cavan player had Hampsey by the leg. If Hampsey had fell to the ground would that have been a black card?

Yeah, by the rules that would be seen as a trip, whether it's off the ball with the ball up the other end a deliberate trip or pulling someone to the ground you run the risk of a linesman or umpire informing the ref of a black card offence.

It's completely bonkers why an intercounty player in championship would put his team's progress in jeopardy over his manliness