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I think you'll find that it is the likes of yourself who portray the Palestinians as poor defenceless wee mites, while the big bad Israelis are evil baby killers. The Palestinians aren't as downtrodden by Israel as they claim.

Sure maybe the Jews weren't as badly treated by the Nazis as they let on either?

Have you ever heard Israelis justify the shooting of Palestinian children by saying they would be future terrorists? I have. Why was Israel so afraid of Palestine being recognised at the UN, so much so that it spent weeks before lobbying every country with a vote. What are they afraid of? Maybe they are afraid they will be shown for the blood thirsty savages that they are.

Alright lads, am I missing any from here?

http://www.prideinthejersey.com/cavan.html

They are not official ones, just bootlegs. Note use of the old crest.

[Israeli Jewish kids who die violently are more likely to be killed by their parents or in traffic accidents. Palestinians are not responsible for the vast majority of deaths of Israeli children.]

There are some on here seafood that will be agreeing with a lot of what you say. To them I ask to read this little nugget and it implies...

Israeli Jewish kids who die violently are more likely to be killed by their parents or in traffic accidents. Palestinians are not responsible for the vast majority of deaths of Israeli children.

So as long as Palestinian militants keep murder of Israeli children down to a handful then all is well. You're a sick individual and you should be booted out of any Palestinian support group you are a member off.

How come an Israeli firing rockets into a high rise block of flats isnt a "terrorist"?
Are Palestinians not capable of being "terrorised" by seeing hundreds of civilians being blown to pieces by cowards flying in armour plated helicopters and enjoying immunity from censure or prosecution due to the one sided nature of the US Government?
Meanwhile they go on stealing land from the Palestinians ... wonder where they learned that from...  the U S of course 

Personally I never use the term "terrorist" but if it is to be used then I see no reason it should not be used to describe israeli see soldiers and politicians.

Your article is from Reuters which I would regard as neutral. However you ignore the other links referring to "Unlawful Israeli Attacks on Palestinian Media" and "Israeli Airstrike on Home Unlawful". One side, which you are jumping up and down about, fires 'rockets' which may kill, the other side fires missiles with surgical precision from F16s which kill with incredible efficiency.

This conflict is like watching an Olympic champion boxer punching a quadriplegic in the head, decade after decade. You chose to be proud of that, I find it inhuman.

I wouldn't waste of your Christmas day replying to that lad. Seafood isn't much better as he can only see one side too. Your analogy of the boxing natch us spot on though.

The former Taoiseach and Meath TD John Bruton has said those who tweet messages to radio or TV shows should not have their views aired unless their names and addresses are given.

His comment comes as colleagues of the late Fine Gael TD and Minister Shane McEntee say he was upset in the weeks leading up to his death because of abuse he received on social media websites.

The 56-year-old took his own life at his home in Nobber in Co Meath on Friday.

His removal will take place this evening while his funeral Mass will be held tomorrow morning at St John the Baptist Church in Nobber.

John Bruton said the trend of submitting comments to discussion programmes over social media was worrying, "particularly thanks to the anonymity that people enjoy in tweeting in comments which are then broadcast and given status in radio programmes as if they were coming from somebody who was prepared to stand over what they were saying.

"In fact they are being delivered under the cowardly cloak of anonymity."

He added: "If there is a lesson to be learned, it would be that only comments that come from people who give their name and address should be broadcast, because otherwise you're just licensing people to lower the tone of the discussion."

What does John Bruton say about the countless people who have committed suicide due to the complete balls politicians have made of this country after finding themselves about to lose their homes? Or do the only ones that count come from the political classes.

Myles - if you have information that proves Pat Finucane was in the IRA you should really give it to the PSNI. If you don't then perhaps you should just stop taking shite and being such a bitter nasty little man.

Very sad news about Shane McEntee and condolences to his family and friends. However, I wonder why there has been a concerted effort to keep the cause of death from the public. You might argue the public have no right to know but I don't recall such principles being espoused last week when a young girl in Donegal took her own life and we had every expert in the media, the pulpit and the dail having their say on it. Double standards.

A reduced newbridge couldn't be a runner in my opinion as they'd never fit Sean Johnston's ego into it. I suggest maybe croke park or nou camp as the only alternative.

Very sad news. Far too young. Condolences to his family and the people of Kerry.

I also believe that he was, just like his brothers, an IRA operative, who was taking information in and out of the prisons under the cover of his professional duties.

Why do you believe this?

He was from a family with exceptionally strong republican leanings. Three of his brothers were in the IRA. It is stretching credibility, therefore, to believe that PF didn't at the very least have pro IRA views. If he disapproved of his brothers' activities or of the IRA generally, he could very easily have taken steps to distance himself from them and from the political situation in the north. He was an educated man. He could've practiced a different branch of law, he could've relocated, he could've done a number of things. Instead he immersed himself in high profile cases involving IRA personnel. A man in his position, going in and out of the prisons with unsupervised access to IRA people, would've been very useful to the republican movement. Again, it is stretching credibility to believe that this wouldn't have occurred to the IRA leadership, or that they wouldn't have asked him to relay information back and forward. This could have been done without too much risk to himself, since they were hardly likely to compromise such an important operative by asking him to smuggle in explosives up his backside. He was only being asked to talk and listen, which he was entitled to do with his clients in private. Clearly the establishment thought he was up to no good, despite what the British government is saying now. Remember, it was senior RUC officers - not special branch grunts - who briefed Douglas Hogg before his infamous comments in parliament. There was and is no hard evidence of PF's activities, but then the same could be said of Gerry Adams. Who thinks he wasn't in the IRA?

It doesn't matter what you believe. There was no evidence of what you say and I assume if there was he would have been arrested. What happened is that people who "believed" like you and who were in a position supposedly of law and order decided to execute a man in front of his wife and children.

I am going to buck the trend here and say the following. I think Eugene McGee is one of the good guys and I think he writes well about GAA affairs and was a good selection to lead this project. I think the team went about this the right way. The asked the fans what the thought and everyone of us was free to answer the questionnaire they laid out. How many on here moaning about the changes took the time to fill it in?

I think there is a lot of good in these rules. I think the mark is a great idea and it was a joke it was abandoned in a previous attempt. I know I like to see a big man soar through the air and catch a ball under pressure. I hate to see that man then get mauled by 5 defenders and get done for over-carrying. Fielding is a spectacular skill of the game which the rules should  protect. We see less and less fielding these days.

The yellow card for an "intentional" foul is fine in theory. My fear is that the standard of refereeing is so absolutely brutal that the use of "cop on" to determine what is intentional and what is not is unlikely to work. The problem is that the referees the GAA promotes are whistle happy, by the book types. Just go to some U21 games this year and you'll see this is where the GAA tries them out and often ruin games in the process. I think the idea of giving a guy an early shower for pulling and dragging off the ball is good but I can't see our referees implementing it properly.

The countdown clock is long over due. I hate it when you see the board go up for 2 minutes of injury time, 90s of which is wasted by a freetaker or another injury and the ref just blows it up exactly on 72 mins.

I'm a bit baffled where the calls for 70 minutes in club games came from, I can't imagine the survey put that forward as a problem.

Its a shame that something could not have been suggested to curb the scourge of the handpass abuse but I can see how putting a rule in place that could be implemented would be very difficult.

In general I think the GAA should give these rules a good chance in the league even when the inevitable moaning from Mickey Harte starts. Our game has become ugly and boring and I think we need to try and bring the skills of the game to the fore and stop teams of racehorses becoming the norm.

Its called competition and if it weren't for the likes of Ryanair good old aer lingus would be charging you 500 euro return to London.

Its amazing the snobby attitude people have to flying, I'd love to know where it comes from. For example you can get a bus eireann bus from North Donegal to Dublin and it will probably take you 3 hours. You won't a seat reserved and you get a smiley stewardess or free coffee. Would you pay 30% more for that luxury. But come to flying and we get all this shite about aer lingus being better garbage. I fly at least once a week to europe. My first port of call is always Ryanair as they are the cheapest (i wouldn't even bother compare the others anymore as i've never found them cheaper). I've had one flight late in 3 years and I've never had my bag go missing. Thats all I care about. I also fly aerlingus to some places like stuttgart or munich. They are fine but again 30-50% more expensive. You get the same shite about bag size, charged for bag check ins and weight of bags. The only difference is you get a seat number - fantastic. Lufthansa charge 70% more and they give you a seat number and a piece of cake.

The recent case of the ill children is bullshit. What is the ryanair worker supposed to do, tell them its ok to have heavy bags as they are ill. What if they are blind, crippled, old - do you think the worker should just make it up as they go along. Unless the people in charge of this group live on Mars they will know that all airlines have weight restrictions. Its to do with fuel consumption and the like. Should people with no luggage pay for those that choose to bring anything they want? The media love having a go at one of Irelands most successful companies and i don't get it.