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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19147279

About 1.36 in she is taking about one of the team who was sick. Also mentions it again at around 2.40 about the sick team mate (ex).

Was listening to the new GB golden girl cyclist on Olympic BBC Breakfast this morning and what do you know, doesn't Miss Trott have an ongoing dodgy tummy complaint that goes away when she throws up. No big deal.

Mmmmmmmm?? PR machine kicking in there?

Oh and and maybe not the best turn of phrase to be using at around 2.24

Just looking at the amount of Div 2 Reserve games conceded this week. 4 out of 7 matches. Is this just a one off or is there a real problem for clubs fielding teams at this level?

Congratulations to Donegal. Hope they go all the way.
And depsite all the negative criticsm that the players and management attract, out of all the 4 quarter final games this weekend, this one was the most enthralling and exciting. (as have been most of the highly competitive games they are involved in)

One of the great strengths of the GAA was that "we stand by our own", Mr Kelly said, adding that if people were in the gutter it did not mean the GAA turned their backs on them.

Such a ridiculous statement from Sean Kelly.
The Quinns are a million miles (and even more £'s from being in the gutter) and are very much unlikely to be.

Also reading some of the statements from some of the other Ballypuddle Martyrs there was a lot of mention about justice.

What form would this justice take?

- Quinn Invested money buying CFDs
- Share price dropped causing a call on the CFD position
- Quinn met with anglo and explained that he was unable to meet the CFD call.
- Decision was made between Anglo, SQ and maple ten to take loans from Anglo to support the call on CFDs
- Anglo share price continued to drop and was nationalised by the State
- Quinn Insurance go into Administration
- Anglo move to take over Quinn Group to recoup loans (Should be pointed out that loan repayments were still being met at this stage)
- Anglo realise they slipped up over a number of Foreign assets where Quinns were still able to control
- Quinns make attempt to run large cases against Anglo loans. Anglo oppose
- Quinn fight anglo over the assets declaring that huge part of the debt was "Illegal"
-  Quinn Family get legal standing by the Irish courts to run the case against anglo on the basis of share support.
- Anglo take out injunctions stopping Quinns moving certain assets within the property portfolio
- Quinns continue to move assets
- Anglo get contempt proceedings done against Quinns
- Anglo senior management get charged with Share support
- Anglo and Quinn still at loggerhead over assets

That's my attempt. And I'm trying to be as unbias as possible there. So if anyone else has steps that they feel I've missed or anything, it's not intentionally and let me know.

Yes. I have a question.
Is there any point in that sequence of events that Sean Quinn or his advisors could have went - f**K , this is going tits up. Lets cut our losses and get out of here?

10, 15, 20 years ago, discovering a name in Stubbs Gazette was whispered in hushed tones among the public house glitterati, the after mass smokers collectives or the big fair day farmers' mart.

For some it was/is an inevitable and only way out of a hole. For others it was/is an excuse.

It is mark of how society is shifting its values in that today bankruptcy and being bankrupt no longer attracts the stigma that it once did.

And just as society askewed its disposition towards wealth and wealth creation so too has the line between accountability and dereliction been seriously cast aside.

Sean Quinn's case is no different than the 100's of other cases of bankruptcy's taking place week in week out throughout Ireland in these recessionary times apart from the sheer scale of the numbers involved and the fact it is being dragged out in the full glare of the media spotlight.

Like many before him and many that will come after, accounts will be closed, deeds altered, money transferred before the proverbial hits the fan. For some this will involve a few £1000 for some a few £100 and for some a few £1,000,000.

Sean Quinn has openly admitted doing the same. Anglo are coming after him. - To the victor the spoils.

I personally have a very simple take on the whole thing.
Sean Quinn still owes some money. He hasn't paid it all but has the means to pay some more. He is refusing. That is a moral decision that he must make.
I don't really care if he pays it or not because just as he has no interest in my life, I have no interest in his.

But just as we effortlessly allowed our economy to lapse into a cycle of greed and unfettered expansion we are now insulating failure and recklessness with the some sort of abandonment.

I have credit cards debts of £5000, a relatively small mortgage of £20000 and a personal loan of £7000 that cost me £685 a month in repayments.
How I would love to borrow another £25685, go into a casino and put it all on red secure in the knowledge that I should never have got the £25685 in the first place and I won't have to pay it back.
If I win. Well that's a different story. (Maybe I will have just one more go)

Never has this quote from John Paul Getty been more appropriate.
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

"Look Peter all those nice people are shouting wave. Sure aren't we already waving"

Who ever said otherwise?

Absolutely no one.

But in my opinion previous posts on this issue become very personal and quickly lose balance.

And no one will tell me any different that some posters take great delight in castigating all the church and all priests in retribution for the crimes of a few.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18442288

No clergy among that lot.

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My point is that it's unnecessarily divisive and clearly provocative, not just to non-nationalists but to the wider GAA membership who are, at least, uncomfortable with, at best totally opposed to the invocation of IRA figures in the GAA context

I am not sure whether this is the case or not. It is Galbally we are talking about here which was and still is a very strong, traditionally republican area.

For a place like this it is unlikely that such a tournament was divisive or indeed provocative (Sorry couldn't resist) to the vast majority of the parents who allowed their children to play. 

If there is a debate then it should be focused on why the majority of parents think it is acceptable that a youth football tournament should be played in honour of a dead IRA volunteer/terrorist and not on one lady who thinks it was not.

If this particular lady was offended then that is her right to be so - as is her right to have nothing more to do with the club or any of its football teams.

I would suggest that her disgust is a general anti republican stance (again her absolute right) rather than some well thought out cohesive objection to this particular tournament.

Reminds me of the famous Groucho Marx comment "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."

Goodbye, good luck and thank you for trying Kenny.

Yourself, Alex Ferguson, David Moyes and Arsene Wenger the only managers left where the club runs deep through your veins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3plY4YBpJU&feature=fvwrel

I need some words of encouragement or some act of contrition very soon because I cannot hold on much longer to what I previously held very dear.

I am clinging on by my finger nails and the grip is slowly loosening day by day. I just hope that my stronger Christian faith (stronger than any blind faith in a priest/bishop/cardinal/pope) will cushion me when I do fall.

I will not launch any personal attack on Cardinal Brady because I still profess to uphold Christian values of love and forgiveness which if truth be told he probably desires more than we will ever know.

He should resign for his own sake, for the sake of the wider Irish catholic church but most importantly for the sake of the victims.

Now Barcelona and their fans know how Liverpool have been feeling for most of the season.

I was completely neutral before the game but felt gutted for Barca. Suppose that's the old north of Ireland injustice complex coming out in me.

Last night was a bigger job than the Northern Bank.

Sunshine cyclists/runners/walkers congesting the roads while kitted out like Lance Armstrong or Usain Bolt.

Where the f**k are all these idiots when it is raining or even mildly overcast.

Either exercise consistently or stop being a nuisance when the first ray of sun appears.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01d24dm/Storyville_20112012_Knuckle_Bare_Fist_Fighting/

Not sure how long it is going to be there.