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Soda, potato bread, sausages, bacon, fried eggs, they have to be runny.
Thats it, beans, mushrooms, hash browns, all an abomination.

Where's the Black Pudding? Not an Irish fry without that.

Austin Currie too joined Fine Gael. The Garrett Fitzgerald/social democratic wing of Fine Gael was always a natural fit for SDLP. Surprised they went with FF.

Though he gifted Dublin  scores today. Clear pick off the ground by CC and free in front of goal for Dublin. Dublin back handles on ground in front of Ros goal and he throws it up! And was Ros player pushed in back as he went to tap in open goal?

Just moved to London with work, i want to get a "system" on to my tv... is there somewhere i can get a plug and play system,fully loaded using a firestick or something similar, happy to pay for a subscription. If anyone on here supplies them or can point me in a direction that would be great. I am basically looking for the Irish channels, movies and sports... Thanks.

May be better options but with Firestick you can download Vader's app (after you install downloader app first) and then subscribe to their service which gives all the above.

Roscommon's Smith should get a year for that eye gouging.

Doubt it, after all there was no year bans for James McCarthy or Philly McMahon for similar eye gouging incidents.

You are forgetting about the unwritten GAA rule:
"If it's a smaller GAA county, be sure to make an example of them."

MP's salaries have gone up from 65,000(2010) to 77,000(2018)...... how's that for austerity?
It never ceases to amaze me that the general public in the UK roll over and take it.....same in Ireland.....whereas in France there are multiple demonstrations. The sooner people realise that the French way is the only way we are going to see change the better.

That's not a very high salary. Most 23 year olds on their first job in top cities in US would make that. But they work hard unlike the French who like their short working weeks. The French way will never work - just results in a stagnant economy based on protectionism. They have been rioting for decades and things just getting worse.

What is the difference between IPTV and STB?

IPTV is TV delivered over internet protocol (ip)
STB is a set top box for streaming media such as Roku, Mag Box, Apple TV, Shield, etc. Generally you get IPTV through a STB connected to your TV or a STB Emulator app.

Is literally anyone surprised? Look at the attempted character assasinations of every public figure in the GAA on this very forum.

You should look at your own comments. One of the most revolting descriptions I ever saw was you describing a Mayo forward with these terms: "They don't play it at the speed of a paraplegic with a hangover".

I think that was a great line actually, glad it stuck in your head.

Never said I was immune from it but I don't engage in the character assassinations some here do, JP and Duffy excepted. Colourfully critiquing a slow forward is something different entirely.

Well if you don't see how awful it is on so many levels, I'm afraid there is no reasoning. But if you have to bring brain affliction and spinal injuries to have a go at a Mayo player's pace, it's very troublesome that you think that's a great line.

Is literally anyone surprised? Look at the attempted character assasinations of every public figure in the GAA on this very forum.

You should look at your own comments. One of the most revolting descriptions I ever saw was you describing a Mayo forward with these terms: "They don't play it at the speed of a paraplegic with a hangover".

Yet so many take the time  to  submit their protest, Is that called being "threadbaited"?
Some even surmising what must be Dick's ambitions in life.
'I heard the rumour that's doing the rounds from a source and if true then it sums up the man altogether´.....
'Based on a rumour, the man's a gobshíte'  ...  I think I heard that line on Father Ted.
The Ireland of the squinting windows lives on.


So we have one person in Camp Dick.
Anyone else ?

It was a bit mean spirited of Parkinson. A lot of going to matches for a smaller county involves running into people who were there in the many bad days and the few good days of yesteryear. I thought that was the point and it is fine for the writer to set the stage and convey the experience and emotions. 1985 in particular was an amazing set of games. If we want deep analysis with data driven facts we'll get it elsewhere. Those tend to be dry pieces without emotion but serve a journalistic purpose. Colm spends a huge amount of time on his podcast talking about his personal experiences. Actually worse he often repeats the same stories. All the presenters then tend to parrot what the previous presenter just said. So if his criticism was because he feels he is doing a superior form of journalism, he is wide off the mark. The fact that he now has to give the end of his show to Paddy Power is even sadder still. No journalism worth it's salt would sell out like that.

What would be best - a Nvidia Shield running Mobdro or IPTV?

Nvidia Shield is just a high end android box and you can stream IPTV via various apps. Eg Vader has own app that works perfectly on a Shield.

Never had any issues with Roku. Is your same account working when you access GAAGO on mobile and web?

And how have the banks behaved with the public?

Like bankers the world over: rip them off, maximise profits. It's not an Irish thing. The financial crisis itself began with the greed of American banks. Anyway straying off topic here...

And who has facilitated them?

Well the gov and regulator are making them pay back their customers that they screwed on the tracker mortgages. In the US it was lack of regulation on the gov part that allowed banks to profit from selling mortgage debt. Obama for example brought in a lot of regulations to protect the consumer including a fiduciary rule that financial companies are supposed to act in the best interests of their customers. Trump overturned that rule. There's much more regulation in Ireland now compared to the Bertie years when a dog could walk into a bank and secure a mortgage.

And how have the banks behaved with the public?

Like bankers the world over: rip them off, maximise profits. It's not an Irish thing. The financial crisis itself began with the greed of American banks. Anyway straying off topic here...

The Irish Free State was abolished 80 years ago.
Do keep up😆😆😆
Well said above Itchy.

Meanwhile when does Marylou get officially crowned?

and that's your issue with being called a free stater?
when can Northern republicans stop feeling shame? What is the time limit? Or does shame only apply to Northern republicans?

I think his issues about being called a free stater is the connotations it brings up about the way his state callously abandoned their northern brethren in their hour of need and left them to fend for themselves. The rest is history as they say and the free staters have now decided that history only starts from the 1970s so they can moralise and pontificate to northern nationalists about armed republicanism and relieve themselves somewhat of that shame.

The free state would have got obliterated in a military battle after treaty. What emerged was a priest ridden country that was anathema to Unionists, and in opinion poll after opinion poll a large percentage of Catholics preferred their lot in UK to their gombeen brethren down south. Until now. Because the dirty secret is the only means the "free state" can bring about a UI is by becoming a more forward thinking country with better economic prospects than the failed state the Unionists created. However, I get the impression you are not convinced.

I think both the Free State and Occupied Ulster have been abhorrent failures.

Well you may think so. Country has it problems but it's a country unlike six counties where marriage equality exists. It's a country that's frequently amongst the top in human development index, world happiness index, best place to live, best place to do business. We've maintained a strong native culture in sports, language, literature, music. Tourism industry is increasing all the time, often due to smart marketing like The Wild Atlantic Way. The top global brands are content to make Ireland their Euro HQ - obviously there's a big tax incentive, but they are big employers. Would be foolish to say we don't have big problems in health and homeless. We of course always had the self-loathing Paddy that loves to proclaim the country an abject failure. They spend a lot of their time on politics.ie and in the comments on journal.ie. And we have the types that say we couldn't afford to run the North. We could, and I hope that day will come soon.

It's a state where political corruption has been the norm since day 1, where politicians have been the puppets for big developers and wealthy families. It's a state which recently had to ship off hundreds of thousands of their youths after the Government felt citizens should take on the burden of the debts that bondholders reneged on. It's a state which currently has a widening wealth inequality with huge social problems in housing and health.

And that's ignoring the Free State's disgraceful record with the North of Ireland.

It's an island that when part of the most powerful empire in the world 2 million of it's people starved, and millions more emigrated. The state that went it alone is now a country that can stand on it's own two feet. In contrast, the majority of Scots, Unionists and Welsh never had the balls to do this and dependent on Mother England to feed them. While there's corruption in Ireland and many did well out of a brown envelope, there is in every country and we are still considered one of the least corrupt countries in the world by global standards. As regards bailing out the banks, both the UK and US governments bailed out their banks too. While distasteful, they all believed it would be better for their economies in the long run with a healthy banking system. They were proved right with BOI and AIB which look to return back to the taxpayer what was invested in saving them. Anglo should have been let fail. Ultimately Ireland recovered a lot quicker than anyone expected.

Are you on the windup?

The Irish banks have not tried to pay back those who saved them, they've recently been embroiled in a tracker mortgage scandal that saw loads of people lose their homes and furthered financial hardship?

No I'm not. AIB had already paid back 6.8 billion to the state, before state raised an additional 3.4 billion from selling shares last year. That's 10.2 of the 20 billion for AIB already paid back. And the state still owns most of the bank.

I think Bank of Ireland has already paid out most if not all of the funds it received.

You can always google this if you don't believe me.

I'm not in defending the banks or their behavior. However, had we let the banks fail, likely a lot more innocent people would have got hurt and lost what savings they had. People say sure weren't we insured by govt up to a 100 grand. And where do they think that money would have come from?