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[The Irish Times is introducing subscription packages for its digital content from Monday, February 23rd. It will become the first national daily newspaper in Ireland to introduce a metered subscription for its digital content.Kevin O'Sullivan, the editor of The Irish Times, said the move will "support future investment in journalism" across both print and digital. The subscriptions are being introduced because the company does not believe it can sustain its online journalism through advertising income alone.]

Not sure who owns the Irishish Times, but their reasoning behind the "subscription" fee is laughable. Although I'm an avid reader on a daily basis, I'd prefer they just came out with the plain truth, i.e.even though there's a crisis you want to increase your income

The Irish Times is introducing subscription packages for its digital content from Monday, February 23rd. It will become the first national daily newspaper in Ireland to introduce a metered subscription for its digital content.

Kevin O'Sullivan, the editor of The Irish Times, said the move will "support future investment in journalism" across both print and digital.

The subscriptions are being introduced because the company does not believe it can sustain its online journalism through advertising income alone.


For the full article, please refer to www.irishtimes.com before you have to pay

I need to know the name of the transport card in the republic, presumably Dublin only. It's a card that lets you use the DART, LUAS, Bus etc


Tanks

Ps Tried to google but haven't time to shift through the info

Boy awarded €1.5m in settlement for car crash

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/boy-awarded-1-5m-in-settlement-for-car-crash-1.1324521

Just got the Times to go on here. But chist is our little nation still mad? Can't we think beyond the bloody € sign. I remember a case from way back where a guy got drunk in a bar. fell off the stool, ended up in a wheel chair and sued the bar.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0803/breaking41.html

Read this article in the Irish Times today; hopefully the link works. Talks about Spanish fraud under mining the system, but manages to not make a single reference to "Paddy back hander".

Need a list so I'll begin, but please ignore racism or politics:

Conservative
Drink Tea
Love the royal family
Football Hooligans
Fish and chips
Horrible fashion sense
Punctual
Polite
Believe in their invincibility
1966
All sports winners are English (Barry McGuigan, Greg Lemond etc)

Tried to google the help, but couldn't get what I wanted.

Would like to teach some non-Irish kids Irish dancing.
I can't dance
Someone mentioned the "7 steps" as being really easy and for dummies.

Can you point me in the right direction,

pretty please

Just listening to Mass at the minute on the radio; well it's playing in the background as I'm cooking and drinking.

When my parents call tomorrow, I'll be entitled to say "I was present whilst mass was going on".

This isn't a lie as such, is it?

I'm trying to print onto little lables. The sort of thing you stick on the front of an envelope. The labels are 19 x 40mm, and I have an A5  sheet on windows I'd like to print off on one of these pages of Stickies (A5). How do I change the print options for this.

Tanks in advance

captain gobshite.

Who is this girl?
Great voice, but christ she plays up the accent (spelling) a bit, no?

Just been sent this link, in the day that it is and all.

The royal mail one uses the same tune as the mad guinness dance ad with that bloke McKinny; I think.  Curious about who's the thief.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlfqQ0wLBgE&feature=relmfu

What's the craic with "breaking your contract".

I've been with Orange for years, never had a bother with them.

Then one day some one pointed out that the stoneage mobile I had could be replaced by the points I'd accumulated with orange; yeah I'm slow as I'd never thought to upgrade the phone.

So aways I go and upgrades to this yoke with all this shite I've no idea how to use. About 2 weeks later I got head by a car whilst on the motor bike, and the fecker drove off. Took me a couple of hours to realise that the paper thin screen on the phone was smashed and thus the phone was unusable. I contacted orange and told them what happened and asked if I could you use some of the remaining 1000,s of points I had to replace the broken phone. They refused and insisted I had to buy a new one from them because I could only replace the phone once every 18 months.
I explained rather nicely that if this was the case I'd simply change service provider and get a new phone from them. Not a bother says they. So I moved to vodaphone, who've been pretty cool about things so far, but Orange keep sending me threatening texts asking me to contact them for a special offer or else they'll penalize me. Bear in mind I've been with orange for at least 5 years. Can they penalize me? If so how much?

Easter sunday is the 11th April. When was ash wednesday? How many dys are there in lent so?

The day before good friday. Not a half bad thursday or whatever. The big JC seems to have been wild busy on this day, which must have certainly lasted fpr more than 24hrs.

If the bible's wrong is the man in Rome infallible?

Any results out there from this weekend?

A little bird tells me that Naomh Fermín (Iruña / Pamplona) may have broken their duck in Marbella

PS. Not sure if this should be in the clubs threads or not as it's all organised through the ECB

Just heard on the RTE that he's in the hotpot again. Sorry but one of the funniest things I've ever heard was his "Downs Sydrome" scatch. How's he insulted our over senstive hearts now? I understand it's something to do with WW2 and Jews. He's a hero no matter what

Not living back home, and the wife is obsessed with wrapping the wee man in cotton wool. Bringing up said wee man is wrecking my head as there are massive differences in how one should bring up a child between different cultural backgrounds.

I'd like to use this thread to exchange tips (words of wisdom?) when it comes to installing the norms and values which our future will grow up believing.

First off:

Potty training.
I've let him run around the house naked and waited for him to do a pee or a shite. Once it's been deposited on the floor I've run over, taken him by the scruff of the neck and stuck his nose in it, but all to no avail. Any tips

Weaning off the soother:
Simply doesn't get it when I'm about. The moment I leave the house the missus stuffs it into his gob. Have tried hiding all the soothers, but she just goes out and gets more. Getting to the point now where I'm going to have to build an extension to house all the soothers. How do you wean them off?

Child wants "X". It's too late at night, or not good for him, or too expensive etc. Child goes into a fit, rolls around on the floor howling. I ignore and won't pacify; as I believe that even if you give him something different from what he wants, you are still giving in to emotional blackmail. How do you deal with this?

Deignan claims historic stage win in Spain
Cycling: Ireland's Philip Deignan out-sprinted Czech Roman Kreuziger to win Stage 18 of the Tour of Spain to become the first Irish rider to win a stage on a major tour since Stephen Roche at the 1992 Tour de France.


The two riders fought for the day's victory after taking off from a break of 16 late on the hilly 165 kilometre stage from Talavera de la Reina to Avila.

Alejandro Valverde of Spain maintained his overall lead, while Deignan's win moved him up to ninth in the overall standings.

The Letterkenny man, who rides for Cervelo, crossed the line in a time of 4:19.14, three seconds clear of Kreuziger. Denmark's Jacob Fugslang was third, 16 seconds behind Deignan, while the main group were a further 10 minutes adrift of the winner.

Deignan, 25, formed part of a nine-man group that escaped the peloton at around 40km before the groups increased to 16 by the 55km mark after several more breakaways joined.

The advantage held over the main group was over five minutes at one stage, and although the Caisse d'Epargne and Euskaltel-Euskadi teams spearheaded the chase there appeared little genuine desire to reel in the leaders, ensuring one of the breakaway group would take the stage.

Valverde, Cadel Evans, David Garcia and Samuel Sanchez eventually broke from the chasing pack to ensure Valverde stays in possession of the gold jersey, some 32 seconds ahead of Robert Gesink in second heading into the three days of racing.

Gesink's chances of winning were reduced when he was taken to hospital last night for tests after suffering a spill on yesterday's stage.

Sanchez remains in third spot overall, one minute and 10 seconds behind his fellow Spaniard Valverde.

Tomorrow's 180km stage moves from Avila to La Granja with the Tour due to finish in Madrid on Sunday

Anybody got the Ireland vs Argentine match on line (outside of Ireland)?

Just watched some programme I suppose was bought from the BBC, with some ol straight laced snob teaching the english how to train dogs properly.

One of the owners says: "I really fear that he (an american bull dog) will bite somebody someday, then be put down. I'd be devastated". What about the poor child(presumably) that get's bitten. Nice priorities Mrs.

This then got me thinking abouts how pathetic it is for people to have large (working) dogs in houses / cities. Recently saw a Husky being taken for a walk; everyone lives in appartments here, I'd've loved to have shot the owner. Although I hate these little rat type dogs that people have, it's the only suitable dog for people who believe a dog should be kept in the house in the town etc.

So what do you have and in what type of environment do you live (city, town, country, dog in house, outside etc)? Remember a dog's not only for christmas, you can treat it miserably all year round.

I realise that the hour changes at 2am tomorrow monrning, but are we moving them back an hour and those 1 hr more in the scatcher?

Anybody getting a ton of pop ups on the gaaboard these days? Getting tons for housing, travel, downloads on the mobile. Thought I'd these all blocked, but can't stop the fecking things now. What's the story?