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#1
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 27, 2024, 10:43:12 PM
Is it fair to say that the price of a pint in pubs isn't the reason why pubs are empty?
As far as I can see, the dearest places for a pint is where people are flocking to while a lot of the other pubs with cheaper drink are struggling to get people in.
Yes, a lot of these pubs were packed 7 days a week in the 80s & 90s but it's never coming back. Society and drinking culture has changed and a £2 pint isn't going to make a difference.
#2
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 26, 2024, 07:33:32 PM
What are pubs paying Diageo per pint nowadays? Couldn't be much over £2?
#3
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster U20 Championship 2024
March 24, 2024, 06:47:22 PM
To be fair, Tyrone only beat Antrim by 6.
#4
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster U20 Championship 2024
March 24, 2024, 06:03:25 PM
Quote from: armaghniac on March 24, 2024, 05:43:05 PM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 23, 2024, 02:15:38 PMDon't see a minor thread apologies it I've missed it


U17 result (shield semi final)

Armagh 7-16 Antrim 0-2.

Results like that are good for no one


If this was a semi-final then who was worse than Antrim?

Fermanagh were deemed to be, though they never met.

It must be noted that this was the shield semi final. There were 4 teams in cup semi finals.
#5
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster U20 Championship 2024
March 24, 2024, 06:01:00 PM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 24, 2024, 05:29:36 PM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on March 24, 2024, 03:20:25 PM
Quote from: trailer on March 11, 2024, 09:08:07 AM
Quote from: HokeyPokey on March 09, 2024, 02:58:52 PMTír Eoghain 8-16 (40)
Aontroim 0-7 (7)

Brutal from Antrim. What a let down the county board has been to GAA in the county. With the size of the population it is a outright disgrace that the CB would put such a team out. They must be doing zero work at club and schools underage level. I don't blame the players at all, in fact to pull on the jersey and go out and represent their county they are a credit to themselves. 
Having McEntee and others up managing the senior team while ignoring underage is f**king pointless. The CB and Northern Switchgear would be better off taking £100k out on to the Falls road and setting it on fire. If I was an Antrim man I'd be calling for heads.

Utterly pathetic.

You ain't wrong but you might want to look about your own greenhouse when you're lobbing bricks at others.
is he not a Tyrone man? They're performing unbelievably at underage and schools level are they not.
It didn't stop them being "brutal" and "utterly pathetic" in the trimming they took today.
#6
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster U20 Championship 2024
March 24, 2024, 03:20:25 PM
Quote from: trailer on March 11, 2024, 09:08:07 AM
Quote from: HokeyPokey on March 09, 2024, 02:58:52 PMTír Eoghain 8-16 (40)
Aontroim 0-7 (7)

Brutal from Antrim. What a let down the county board has been to GAA in the county. With the size of the population it is a outright disgrace that the CB would put such a team out. They must be doing zero work at club and schools underage level. I don't blame the players at all, in fact to pull on the jersey and go out and represent their county they are a credit to themselves. 
Having McEntee and others up managing the senior team while ignoring underage is f**king pointless. The CB and Northern Switchgear would be better off taking £100k out on to the Falls road and setting it on fire. If I was an Antrim man I'd be calling for heads.

Utterly pathetic.

You ain't wrong but you might want to look about your own greenhouse when you're lobbing bricks at others.
#7
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 23, 2024, 10:40:27 PM
Yeah, I believe the standard is getting worse or we are getting left further behind by everyone else. Both probably. That said, results like this did happen 10 years ago.
#8
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 23, 2024, 09:25:17 PM
Quote from: Ethan Tremblay on March 23, 2024, 08:46:07 PM
Quote from: Sportacus on March 23, 2024, 07:56:04 PM
Quote from: erinsboy on March 23, 2024, 06:05:30 PMArmagh 7-16
Antrim 0-02
Another bad result for our underage set-up.
Armagh wouldn't be known for being an underage powerhouse, which makes this result standout for me.
Another horrendous beating, and as you say Armagh are no big shakes. Apathy from top to bottom. I genuinely don't know where you'd even start to fix this as we've fallen miles behind and it's been decades in the making. A multitude of issues.

Armagh had success at u16 level last year I believe and have hope to follow that through to minors, with aidan o rourke taking the reigns this year. I would say they are decent enough tbf.


Perhaps but considering this result was in "the shield", it's probably fair to say that they haven't been setting the world alight in previous games.

Anyway, we've been through it all when the U20s took a similar tanking. Same applies.
#9
GAA Discussion / Re: RG at arms length
March 21, 2024, 11:07:40 AM
Darren Gleeson?
#10
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
March 18, 2024, 06:07:38 PM
Quote from: JimStynes on March 18, 2024, 05:23:25 PM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on March 18, 2024, 04:44:30 PMTo a point but this deal (~13% and no workload agreement) is going to fly over the finishing line without a bother.
I don't think, say, 4% and an agreed workload solution would.
Money talks.

The younger teachers are blinded by the money and haven't ever went through the unrealistic inspection show/game/charade or whatever you'd like to call it.
I think that's fairly simplistic.
Anyway, "the young teachers" make up a fairly small percentage of the voters so they won't be the winning and losing of this.
I imagine those who will be "blinded by the money" are those who have been getting it tight with rising costs over the last few years and to whom the extra few hundred a month is very much needed. Those are people of all ages of course but I wouldn't particularly be thinking of "young teachers" in this case.
#11
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
March 18, 2024, 04:44:30 PM
To a point but this deal (~13% and no workload agreement) is going to fly over the finishing line without a bother.
I don't think, say, 4% and an agreed workload solution would.
Money talks.
#12
General discussion / Re: The DUP thread
March 17, 2024, 08:27:39 AM
That's not necessarily the insinuation.
The insinuation was that the nationalist community was driving young people towards law in order to take control of the judiciary.
#13
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 17, 2024, 07:55:28 AM
I still don't get "the reason" or how it couples with your statement about schools.

I'm not saying that you are wrong btw, you just have put a very vague comment out there. A bit more meat on the bones of it would be helpful.
#14
General discussion / Re: The DUP thread
March 17, 2024, 07:52:10 AM
Quote from: gallsman on March 16, 2024, 02:26:24 PMAllister talking through his hole. He was the only Prod in his Queens law class in...1974?
I'm not sure that's what he said.
He said that he was the first person in 10 years from his school, while there were 12 from St Whatever's.

Though I still wouldn't rule out that he was talking through his hole.
#15
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 16, 2024, 09:12:53 PM
Quote from: Spike on March 16, 2024, 09:02:46 PMThere is a reason why Dunloy and Cargin overachieve despite small playing numbers.  It is the same reason as why competitive school football environments are essential.   The rest are playing a numbers game hoping population size sorts out their root problems. 
What is it?