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If control of vital functions usually carried out by the state is handed over to private organizations like churches, it's a sign of a weak state.

But the state prohibited the education of Catholics leaving the Church as the only option, hence, it built the foundation of the current system and took control.

While one might criticize Connolly for not scoring enough, if you look again at the last 10-15 minutes of the 2011 final, Dublin don't win that without his contribution.

Yeah, but that was 6 years ago and he wasn't the marked man then, that he is now. Point me towards a knock out game, that the Dubs won in the past 2 or 3 years, where he was the most important or influential player on the pitch.

National League final showed what happened when his influence was removed from the game and Kerry were able to put Dublin under enough pressure to win.

McDonnell has no hope, looks like Pengelly will be next.

Owen, I'd suggest you're skimping on detail here. 48 Week Ban for calling the ref a cheat sounds a bit excessive. Did you call him that as you held him down and threw footballs at his head or something?

For a start the referee's report was pure fiction and the ban for 48 weeks from all playing fields belonging to the GAA was a conversion of a 12 week ban to a 48 week ban without appeal because it was established that I was not a member of the GAA.  It was then leaked to the media.

For all my bad press the worst I got was 12 weeks which was overturned as it was wrong😂  (Well technically wrong...I did what I was accused of!). You're an awful hound Brannigan😂

Coming from you, I will take that as a compliment!

Owen, I'd suggest you're skimping on detail here. 48 Week Ban for calling the ref a cheat sounds a bit excessive. Did you call him that as you held him down and threw footballs at his head or something?

For a start the referee's report was pure fiction and the ban for 48 weeks from all playing fields belonging to the GAA was a conversion of a 12 week ban to a 48 week ban without appeal because it was established that I was not a member of the GAA.  It was then leaked to the media.

Good point.
We should have a top 15 of the 'knock-out' era.
We're bound to have a good few lads on that team.

And have Seafoid start another thread!

[I also entered the field twice to hand back footballs to the umpire to keep the game going and stood talking to him for about a minute.]

Suffering from the same rule as I did in the past. When a referee makes a statement in his report it cannot be overturned as it is taken to be the absolute truth under GAA rule book. So, if anything is in the referee's report then you have no chance of having it successfully appealed.  I was reported for calling the referee a cheat while on the sideline but this was untrue, I simply said to him after the game, 'that was a disgrace'.  I also entered the field twice to hand back footballs to the umpire to keep the game going and stood talking to him for about a minute.  The upshot was that the rule that the referee's report is always right was invoked, I eventually ended up with a 48 week ban which was fed to Winker Watson to report on the BBC news and mentioned by Sidebottom during his match commentary.

What were you talking to him about?

It was an evening game in the Athletic Grounds and the locals didn't like the floodlights on above their houses and were in dispute with the Armagh County Board so they burnt something that produced a heavy cloud of smoke just above the pitch.  On that night, there was little wind and the smoke hung low above the pitch with the floodlights giving the area a strange glow.  The linesman and I were discussing the visibility and I was explaining why the smoke was being produced. 

[Winker Watson]

Winker Watson to report on the BBC news and mentioned by Sidebottom during his match commentary.

And how, pray tell me, did he garner such a moniker? 

He uses it as his twitter name. Winker Watson was a character in the Dandy comic.
https://twitter.com/winkerwatson1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winker_Watson

 
Stephen Watson - BBC sports reporter

Winker Watson - comic book character

Suffering from the same rule as I did in the past. When a referee makes a statement in his report it cannot be overturned as it is taken to be the absolute truth under GAA rule book. So, if anything is in the referee's report then you have no chance of having it successfully appealed.  I was reported for calling the referee a cheat while on the sideline but this was untrue, I simply said to him after the game, 'that was a disgrace'.  I also entered the field twice to hand back footballs to the umpire to keep the game going and stood talking to him for about a minute.  The upshot was that the rule that the referee's report is always right was invoked, I eventually ended up with a 48 week ban which was fed to Winker Watson to report on the BBC news and mentioned by Sidebottom during his match commentary.

Just pick a team based on players who played from 2001 onwards.  It is meant to be the best players in this 16 year period according to their positions in your opinion. I don't want another thread started about me because I am making any demand on a poster to set out a team of his/her choice in a particular format.

South Belfast election results 2017

SDLP   8,353   15,963
SF   7,610   
AP   7,648   
DUP   8,975   
TUV   703   
UUP   3,863   13,541
GP   4,247   
PBP   760   
WP   163   
CON   200   
LAB   531   

There are at least 13,541 votes in a unionist pact with some more possible from Alliance but a SDLP SF pact could bring in 15,963 votes.  Again Alliance votes are unpredictable as are the GP votes. Care needs to be taken not to turn this area over to a unionist pro Brexit MP but McDonnell is a vote loser as the sitting MP and his own local party despises him.

I suppose it's hard to ditch an incumbent who doesn't want to step down but I think McDonnell is toast here, mainly because he's useless.  It'll be interesting to see who the DUP run but with the SF and Greens on the up in this constituency they probably think that Bailey and O Muilleoir (if he runs) will continue to eat into Big Al's vote and that the DUP can sneak through the gap.  They'll throw the kitchen sink at this one.

The seat has been promised to Pengelly after her bitter disappointment in the Assembly election.

My uncle was a priest in Korea. Please desist in classing all missionary priests as paedos.

North or South?

South Belfast election results 2017

SDLP   8,353   15,963
SF   7,610   
AP   7,648   
DUP   8,975   
TUV   703   
UUP   3,863   13,541
GP   4,247   
PBP   760   
WP   163   
CON   200   
LAB   531   

There are at least 13,541 votes in a unionist pact (DUP, UUP & TUV) with some more possible from Alliance but a SDLP SF pact could bring in 15,963 votes.  Again Alliance votes are unpredictable as are the GP votes. McDonnell is a vote loser as the sitting MP and his own local party probably won't canvas for him.

2015 GE Results 60% turnout

SDLP   Alasdair McDonnell                  9,560   
DUP   Jonathan Bell                          8,654   
Alliance   Paula Bradshaw                   6,711   
Sinn Féin   Máirtín Ó Muilleoir           5,402   
UUP   Rodney McCune                           3,549   
Green (NI)   Clare Bailey           2,238   
UKIP   Bob Stoker                           1,900   
NI Conservatives   Ben Manton   582   
Workers' Party   Lily Ker                      361   

2010 GE Results 57% turnout

SDLP   Alasdair McDonnell          14,026   
DUP   Jimmy Spratt                  8,100   
UCU-NF   Paula Bradshaw    5,910   
Alliance   Anna Lo                   5,114   
Green (NI)   Adam McGibbon   1,036   

Amazing how people can't follow simple instructions.

I think only 2 of the ten teams named so far are posted as requested. Congrats Farrandeelin and Bennycake

"6. Please do not add numbers to your list"

Even they didn't get it right.

That request was added after I saw the numbered lists.  It is a bit of a pain to get rid of the numbers before collation.

I don't see the scientific justification for it.
And I'm concerned about the implications of it.

I agree they are two separate things.

But you haven't given any reason why you don't see a scientific justification.

Anatomy, gender identity, sexuality... are they NOT all controlled by our development, whether that is influenced by genetics, hormones, environment etc?

You said earlier science "comes to a screeching halt" when it comes to transgenderism. How?

So, when the paedophile claims that he has not committed a crime because his/her development was not under his control and his/her behaviour is as natural as gender dysmorphia, homosexuality, etc that are now accepted as such and he/she is just on a spectrum, what will be your view?