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I've a Casio CX200, ( the 32 key model) which I'm prepared to donate to anyone who needs one

I'm a reasonably regular mass goer but I'm strongly thinking of giving up the Catholic faith as a result of the Pope's recent comments about condoms and HIV. If he's prepared to take a stance which has the potential to condemn millions to death then I'm not sure I want to be part of his set up.

Avoid the Killarney Heights Hotel. The wife and I stayed there for a couple of nights last year while at a wedding. Firstly they charged us a dearer rate than we were told when we booked, however we didn't have a confirmation e mail to prove it so we had to grin and bear it, but worse still they tried to overcharge us when checking out.

My favourite time of the year

Bright evenings, football's started, smell of cut grass.....bring it on!!!!

And best of all the whin bushes in blossom and the entire countryside turns bright yellow. Class

Dad cooks a deer and doesn't tell the kids what it is. He gives one clue "Its what your mother calls me". The boy yells, "it's a f**king ball bag don't eat it"

That reminds me of a line from Fr Ted:

Ted: Mrs Doyle, what's for tea?
Mrs D: I'll give you a clue, do you like deer?
Ted: Yes I love deer
Mrs Doyle: Great, because the thing you're getting for tea loves deer too.

Doing the readin up

Keeping the cattle out of the low haggard

Is it true that Rory's father played for Down minors?

Higgins in 'mad man' snooker rant

Thursday, 19 February 2009


Snooker player Alex Higgins has been dropped from a charity event in Limerick next month after he allegedly threatened and verbally abused spectators and a referee at a separate match.


The Belfast-born former snooker world champion is reported to have reduced a 10-year-old boy to tears, threatened to smash a snooker ball into a spectator's face and told the referee at last Thursday's exhibition match in Kildare that he would stick his cue "up your a***".

Higgins' latest debacle took place in Athy, Co Kildare during a game against Jimmy White.

As a result, Limerick and North Tipperary Carer's Association, who had arranged for the 59-year-old to play in a charity match in Limerick next month, have dropped him from the schedule and replaced him with seven-time world champion, Stephen Hendry.

Sports Editor with the Kildare Nationalist newspaper, Brendan Coffey, acted as referee at last week's match and experienced Higgins' abuse and threatening demeanour at first hand.

Mr Coffey claimed Higgins behaved like a "mad man".

"Alex didn't seem drunk. He wasn't acting like a drunken man, just a mad man," he said.

"At one stage he picked up the cue like someone with a spear in Braveheart and said that if anyone annoys him, he'd stab them in the chest with it.

"He shoved a ball in front of one person's face and said he smash him between the eyes with it if he distracted him again," Mr Coffey claimed.

Higgins was also alleged to have scolded a 10-year-old boy sitting in the front row for apparently distracting him. The boy was reduced to tears.

My favourite player in recent times would have to be Sebastian Rosental. A great servant of the club. Mind you Tore Andre Flo comes a close second.

Wife took a group of first years (12 year olds) to the National Aquatic Centre. She would highly recommend it

A property tax would only make sense if the revenue collected was used to pay for services such as waste disposal etc. The current system whereby residents  pay for bin collection services at source only seems to act as an encouragement to some to dump their rubbish illegally rather than pay to have it collected. THe introduction of a property tax to pay for these services would remove that problem

Sure plenty of the Connacht lads head over to New York for the Connacht championship every second year and it offers the chance for many Irish people to reunite after numerous years away from each other. Obviously it would mean that many Irish people wouldn't get to the final from here but many more from the US could make the final. It would easily sell out a stadium holding 80 - 100,000 people and it would give us massive publicity it the US, which would help the GAA community over there. I think we should definitely look to play league finals and AI finals outside of Ireland every now and again, there is great work being down all around the world by Irish and non-Irish to promote the games, bringing our best players and the biggest occasion in the Irish sporting to their backyard would provide them with a tremendous boost and a fitting reward for the work they do.

Just what is required in the midst of an economic meltdown!

Tony, that's the first sensible posting on this thread

I'd like to hear Plank ask him the following: ' During your 2003 Party Conference you said the following about this country's current Prime Minister ' I was enraged when I saw that strange character from Dublin coming again to see us."Somebody told me the other day the reason his lips were so thick was that when his mother was bringing him up he was a very disobedient young boy so she used to put glue on his lips and put him to the floor and keep him there and that has been recorded in his physical make up... yes, away with him indeed and if he wants to use his lips to better effect he should do it somewhere else and go to people of like physical looks." Tell me Ian do you think that was a christian way to describe him.

I have a random question...will I be allowed to bring an alarm clock in as hand luggage (I am not putting a case in the hold)...or will they not let me through with it incase they think it's a bomb

I'd be careful with that alarm clock if I were you. You could end up with a good ticking off

Went in to the shop this evening after a very difficult day in the office and noticed they'd Creme eggs out on display, yum yum I thought!

However, much to my disgust I realised the the creme eggs have reduced in size by at least, AT LEAST! 20%! and it's not just the creme eggs either, it's the caramel eggs now too! I'm pretty sure there's less yellow stuff in them as well!


I'm off to pen a harshly worded email. 

Gone are the days when Cadbury can be relied upon!

Pints, As I recall there was a debate one time as to whether you were male or female. Your fondness for chocolate might suggest that you're in the female bracket.