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michelle cox was at the aghyaran game with the div 2 league trophy
very very embarrassing on the county board side of things

would have been better waiting somewhere half way such as Carrickmore until the results were known.

In a helicopter at the C-More Flying school & have her abseil onto the pitch with the trophy under her arm? I'll pass the suggestion on for next year

Next year the league should be completed pre championship - this will help take away from a lot of the messing about end of season carry on when teams have switched off for the year.

Will there be no play-offs etc? What happens if the team that wins the Intermediate championship had finished bottom of the league

[Admission to the terrace is still free for U16]

Different opinions here. Certainly don't think "heads need to roll", just a rethink.
I'd be more inclined to add £3 on to an adult ticket if more funds need generated rather than start charging kids, others will surely disagree.

Am I right in saying it wasn't possible pay cash into any club championship games this year?
Would be interesting to see the official attendance stats & tax declaration for the 2019 club championship verses 2020 

I've seen this thrown about a lot today. AFAIK, there has always been a small charge for stand tickets at the county final for U16. Admission to the terrace is still free for U16. Lets get some perspective instead of jumping on the bandwagon.

Is this true? Tyrone website suggests otherwise

U16s will require a Juvenile Admission ticket for the Senior Championship Final and should be accompanied by an adult.

[£3 for under 16s]

£15 into the intermediate final this Saturday £3 for under 16s

No mention on the Tyrone website of charges for U16s to Intermediate final but they are charging £3 in for U16s to the Senior final on Sunday.
That's just greedy IMO

Hi, I was in this scenario.
Tax for the car is £0, but I couldn't renew the tax online as MoT due date had passed & my Mot test was for 2 weeks later
I've since received 2 debt collection letters on behalf of the DVLA for a £80 fine, will see if I get another
I think you should go to a Post Office that does tax & they'll sort it

Think the streaming will be back this year?

I hope they bring this back with the option of a "season pass"
There were a few technical problems last year, but overall a good service for those who can't make games

White to the pole, red to the pole is Derry!!

White to the Pole - Tyrone
Red to the Pole - Cork
Red & white horizontal - Derry 

Source: those "know your county colours" posters they used to give out at primary school in the 90's

There is talk of the county board and team talk mag streaming these youth games and hopefully all games reserves etc . It could be a festival of football lads if they pull this one off.

Can't see too many parting with £5 for youth or reserve games to be honest with you.

I thought last year's coverage was really good, the one criticism I had was that there was no "season ticket" option. I think that'd be a great addition.
Drawback would be you'd have people watching games they'd usually not bother paying the £5 for, and that'd increase load on the stream...
Give season ticket holders access to all games & a mid week discussion episode during championship

How many "career welfare" people vote?

local politicians are fighting their corner at every turn, which makes me think quite a lot of them ?
A quick google of a former local independent councillor on our council who was well known as the man to speak to regarding welfare, shows he ran a "Consultants & Advice Agency". So basically he charged them a fee plus the promise of a vote in return for filling in their forms (& making sure they were accepted )

I'm all for social welfare BTW, if people need it, they should get it in a decent society BUT there are some amount of assholes ripping the piss.
Especially the social welfare recipients who tell you they're "Farmers" 

Have never used this site, but a very good deal by the looks of it

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Retail is dead. It's was always a pretty terrible experience and Covid has all but finished it. Shops that will continue exist are those that offer an added value service. Clothes shops were the assistant knows what he or she is doing and can give you a personal shopping experience. Any of you parents might be familiar with that shoe shop in P'down. They measure and check the child's feet and fit the shoes appropriately. An added value. I remember getting shoes as a child in it and our children all get shoes out of it.

The way to revive town centres is by enticing people back to live in them or pushing commercial office space. Otherwise you're looking a town centres with 62 vape shops, 87 Turksh barbers and 45 coffee shops. Depressing.

In Omagh the place to go to for kids shoes, for the same reason you've highlighted, was Clarks. Apparently it has shut for good in the latest lockdown.
With 3 young kids we were in it often in the past few years, primarily for the shoe fitting service. They almost never had the sizes in stock, so you'd order and have them posted directly to the house or pickup in store a few days later.
You can now just buy the measuring tool for £12 online and order shoes from anywhere. It didn't make much sense to me for them to still have a store in town simply for the measuring service - and obviously no longer to them

I see so many of our stores in town as just pickup/drop off points for online shopping - Next, M&S (excl food), Argos etc - they could all just be replaced by 1 big Collect+ store on the edge of town


David McWilliams is talking alot about this on twitter atm - he's proposing a dereliction charge on property owners who let town centre property go derelict, to try and force them to sell it rather than hold on to it for years until it becomes more valuable.

Some are saying that we need people to move back into town & city centres to revive them. I can understand that thinking, but I'm not sure the people exist here that would want to live in town (?) maybe they do.
I get what Eamonnca1 is saying there about a young guy in his 20s preferring to live in the center of town but they're often priced out of it? (& no/expensive parking). This probably only works for City centres, not market towns like Omagh etc where there's little happening

There was planning permission being contested recently around the cathedral Quarter area of Belfast - those campaigning against a load of 1 bed apartments were claiming there should be more 2 & 3 beds to bring families back into the city centre. Sounds nice in theory - but would many people want to raise a family right in the middle of town?

A low cost (even free) regular dependable public transport service is a good idea to get people to town & leave the car at home
I'm all for the outdoor cafe culture, I really enjoy it in other European cities even in the cold. Some local places put real effort into it in recent times. e.g. Mourne Seafood in Belfast, proving it can work

know plenty of people who do this.
Their tanks are all full of red diesel though...

Got an in ground trampoline put in a few weeks back & artificial grass on the rest of the back garden.
Have to say the artificial grass is a great job. Garden was previously holding a lot of water, so had to drain it anyway. Kids getting great use out of it now

Had to dig a soakaway under the trampoline, its doing the job so far

May have been covered in this thread before;
Why did Antrim/Ulster GAA board(s) close casement before planning was approved, finance was in place & construction was ready to begin?
That's scandalous - ok the place needed work, but it could have at least been maintained for Club games & national league without significant investment surely?
It almost looks like they made it unusable to put pressure on PlanningNi to pass it?

Yes,
that particular Ethernet point is CAT6, so use Cat6 cable
Will you have room to connect the HDMI cable you pull from the cupboard to the back of that plate? you wouldn't have room in a normal wall box, but maybe if its a stud wall or something you'll have room to connect