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#14146
Jose puts his own liberty on the line to allow his dog freedom.
This is England.
Jose gets knighted.
#14147
General discussion / Re: Bobby Sands Movie
May 16, 2007, 04:13:03 PM
Quote from: SammyG on May 16, 2007, 03:55:49 PM
OK, thanks. So all those memorials, biographies, commemorations etc etc are wrong and Donagh's right.  ::)

FWIW he was OC of all the prisoners in Long Kesh. AFAIA he was not OC of the Belfast Brigade.
#14148
General discussion / Re: Bobby Sands Movie
May 16, 2007, 03:38:53 PM
I thought it was a wind up with the director being named Steve McQueen.
If it's the last 6 weeks of the hunger strike then it will start with the lead up to him being elected MP.
The world's most famous IRA man.  

His Holiness, it's no big secret what Sands was involved in.
He was an active member of the IRA.
Actual proof was a handgun found in a car with 5 occupants, 14 years sentence.







#14149
General discussion / Re: Shamrock Rovers Ultras
May 16, 2007, 01:16:27 AM
Quote from: dublinfella on May 15, 2007, 07:54:49 PM
It was me you claimed was the 'Rovers fan abusing disabled children'?  ??? No wonder you got lagged for being a random nutter. You really need a hug or something. Get over yourself, you went onto a closed forum for members of a club and stirred it up to play the victim when the inevitible happens. What did you prove? You can get barred. Someone give the monkey a banana.
Maybe you should have stated you were a Rovers fan. On a Rovers forum. Imagine.  ::) Whatever next.
This forum is a generic forum for all GAA supporters. Some here are county players, some are club chairmen, some have never been to a game in their lives. You dont have the right to declare who is or isnt a 'fan' you arrogent tosser.
Now now, keep the bricks in your pocket, you're not in the pseudo hard man ultra forum now.

Some time ago you wrote this
QuoteI am a member of a club in the area and am furious that TD are willfully and publically setting out to kill another sporting organisation.
I take it that the club you say you are a member of is anything other than a GAA club. You have only one agenda with the GAA.

#14150
Quote from: oakleaf stateside on May 13, 2007, 03:57:37 AM
Quote from: Main Street on May 08, 2007, 02:49:17 PM
Kilbane, Potter,  Ireland,  Hunt, O'Brien, Miller

Midfield is desperatly weak. Who's going to put in a decent tackle? Who can tackle? Who can play as a defensive midfielder.
That midfield selection takes away from the whole purpose of blooding in the other new boys. Joe Gamble could do it but there is an EL programme.
Ireland does a lot of work for man city and has showen he can do it at international level. i think he is our next keano
Stephen Ireland is not a defensive midfield player, nor could you describe him as a box to box player like Keane.
I see Joe Gamble has been called up :)
#14151
Any particular reason why the thread subject title is called the official Glasgow Celtic thread?
Where else could Celtic FC be located?

 

#14152
General discussion / Re: Sanchez Quits
May 11, 2007, 08:25:51 PM
As mentioned, it's hard to argue with a zillion% salary increase and EPL management. I thought he had a bizzare reaction after the victory against Spain, missing out on the pleasure of rubbing it in with 40 grit. I guess that most NI fans were hoping against hope after that.
#14153
The final  "permanent" ceasefire decision by the IRA was the single biggest contribution to the process. Very little could have happened without that.

Not on the list but whenever I heard David Irvine speak I was optimistic about the process. I don't know if many listened to him but I'm glad he was around.
#14154
Kilbane, Potter,  Ireland,  Hunt, O'Brien, Miller

Midfield is desperatly weak. Who's going to put in a decent tackle? Who can tackle? Who can play as a defensive midfielder.
That midfield selection takes away from the whole purpose of blooding in the other new boys. Joe Gamble could do it but there is an EL programme.
#14155
General discussion / Re: Shamrock Rovers Ultras
May 07, 2007, 12:51:40 PM
Seems to me that botching is twofold, the first in the years that the site was left untouched. Rover's club had been botching things for decades. The basis for a well run sports club is one that's owned and run by the membership. Do you think that the zillion GAA club facilities have just materialized after rubbing some State genie bottle?  You really haven't got any appreciatian how it's done, have you?
Seems to me that Rovers fans have been blaming everybody and everything else over the years, except their inate inability to form a functioning effective board from the membership to run the club, purchase and build facilities.

Secondly,  there is a population of 100,000 around Tallaght.  City planners have shit for brains when it comes to infrastructure, schools, hospitals and sports. Instead of the issue being - where is the space for us to build our sports facilities? - it becomes divide and rule, fighting over scraps.



#14156
General discussion / Re: Shamrock Rovers Ultras
May 06, 2007, 05:40:04 PM
Quote from: hoop on May 06, 2007, 04:26:58 PM
They express their support elsewhere - and it's almost universal.
;D
A delusional Freudian slip maybe?
How about, widespread support within the nest of EL supporters.
#14157
Quote from: ziggysego on May 04, 2007, 05:39:26 PM
SammyG states his points..... a LOT. I certainly don't agree with most of them, but I like to think that I can at least try to see his point of view. Never once did I think it was bigoted...... just ill-informed ;)
Okay, ill and informed.
If you need us to prepare your obituary Sammy, let us know, otherwise take it easy and get back to health in good time.
#14158
Quote from: nifan on May 04, 2007, 11:45:19 AM
hh - id agree that the ideals of the uvf may be very different from what they claim - they are simply drug dealing gangsters in my mind - but the problem is they claim to have an ideal, defending their communities against their enemies.

Obviously if this was their only concern they wouldnt be peddling drugs and extorting their own communities.

What has changed now?
Were they given an ultimatum to change just one thing, they decided to give up on the redundant defending idea but continue to peddle drugs?
#14159
General discussion / Re: Shamrock Rovers Ultras
May 04, 2007, 11:37:13 AM
From the The high court Judicial Review
"Construction works ceased on the site in November 2001 and there has been no work done since. The building contractor is still in possession of the site. In July 2003 Shamrock Rovers applied for and was granted an extension of the planning permission for a period of one year to 31st October 2004, to enable them to complete the stadium. No work was carried out during that twelve month period. In October 2004 Shamrock Rovers applied for a further extension for a period of one and a half years to complete the stadium. On 14th December 2002, the respondents as planning authority refused that application."

What a lazy shower of club members. They wouldn't even know how to lay a brick.
#14160
Quote from: Evil Genius on May 03, 2007, 01:26:15 PM
Well, I'm scratching my head right now to come up with any interpretation other than that Ulaidh considers that the Provos were in some way mitigated or absolved in their actions since they were acting for a cause.
The scratching isn't exactly taxing the limits of rational thought to come with an alternative to that stereotypical emission. 'Mitigated or absolved' are words from your dictionary.
It's the absolute certainty of your 'flight of fancy' interpretation, it betrays the one dimensional viewpoint that make up your ability to utter such crap.   
QuoteGandhi was opposed to Imperialism and was successful in defeating it, despite* his eschewing the use of violence. I admire Gandhi.
Ah yes the movie, don't confuse Gandhi's ideas with the ending of the Raj. At the time, Atlee acknowledged that the main reason for the fall of the Raj were the ideals of the militant Subhash Chandra Bose and the very violent Indian National Army.
Imo the closest equivalent of a Gandhi in the Irish national movement would have been John Redmond.