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Wasn't sure where to stick this so I'll throw it in here.

http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1116367

Good interview with Professor Joe Lee about how things have gone wrong here, lack of leadership etc. He's pretty glowing about the GAA 23minutes in

Lads I'm looking to get in touch with Kevin Myers, random as that may seem, and I was wondering do any of you know an email address I could get him on? Long shot I know...

Division 3 league could effectively be won tonight. Aghaloo should win, and Killeshill might drop points to Brocagh with Hub missing. If Aghaloo & Killeshill should finish the season level on points, do Aghaloo win on account of head to heads?

I once met Henry Winkler, aka The Fonz, at work

Just going to give this a bump up again. If anyone has used this scheme I'd like to hear how you got on. I've been in touch with the Irish Immigration Centre and they said it's rare that people would have a job sorted before they go out there. You get 90 days from you arrive to get yourself a full time job in your specific field or you have to go home.
Seems like a pretty big risk for me to be taking to go out there on a wing and a prayer in the hope that I might get one.

I've just started trying to contact employers out there, one has said no and the other hasn't responded. It's journalism I work in by the way, and I'd like to go to New York, so if any board members are based in NY it'd be great if you could mention some media outlets that might take someone on. Not knowing anything about the city myself I'm sure there'll be ones I'll miss through my own research. I've tried the Irish Echo and Irish Examiner.

Cheers

Tyrone senior scor winners tonight were Killyclogher 2 dancing titles , sketch , and ballad group , Dromore instrumental music , Trillick solosinging, Kildress quiz and recition.

Heard the solo singing was a bit of a fix "The Fields of Athenry " seriously a drunk man at a Celtic match could have sang that song regardless of the ability of the singer. Is it any wonder there is general apathy by certain clubs when it comes to participating the whole point should be putting your best foot forward so that Tyrone's Scor representatives do well on the provincial/national stage. P.S. Well done to Edendork instrumental group All Ireland champions !

The Fields of Athenry? Christ, that's a bit of a cliche. I was at the first two west Tyrone rounds of Scor, but wasn't at the final. The solo singing tends to bore the arse of me the way they just churn out songs like the Fields of Athenry etc. One year I heard three different entrants sing a Song for Ireland! Scor might be about celebrating these old traditions but I think it's far too conservative in general. Kildress' recitation is a similar story, some young fella bleating out Robert Emmet's oration before he was hung? Gimme a break. There was a couple of far more interesting original poems that should have won in my opinion. A Dromore man, think he was called McQuaid, had a great poem he wrote called Contentment.

I thought Killyclogher's novelty act was good but they lifted two or three Leslie Nielsen jokes straight out of Airplane, anyone know did they keep them for the final? Thing is no-one even laughed at those parts when I seen them, I think most people realised they were lifted! Eglish's sketch about the farmer and the tax man was brilliant I thought, the farmer was first class

Paul Galvin on Coppers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF30ocfHIU4&feature=related

insulting the irish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1hcfKAcxC0

Lads, I do a bit of work for a wee monthly newspaper in Strabane and I'm going to do a piece on Cheltenham. I was wondering do any of yous know of any local connection to any horses/trainers/jockeys going over to this year's festival, or would yous even know how/where I could find that sort of information out. Wouldn't know much about horse racing myself. By local I mean anywhere in the north-west really. The trainer Mervyn Torrens would be fairly local to us but I can't track down a number for him anywhere.

If any of yous could help with any of that or point me in the right direction it'd be much appreciated.

Gentleman. Have you used it/have experience of it?

Bit of help - I've heard about some sort of scheme that allows people from here to go and work in the US for a year (I think), but the catch is you have to do it within a year of graduating. Any of yous know anything more about it? I tried googling but sure I don't even know what I'm looking for. Any help would be appreciated

We don't know the ins and outs of this and may never know.
I understand thieving on a small scale goes on in some hotels, especially in major tourist hubs. Usually a small amount of money here, an item of clothing there, a pair of sunglasses etc, nothing major but accumulating over time a significant "bonus" to the perpetrators. What I dont understand is how this became murder.
Surely if the staff member was disturbed he could pretend to have "business" in the room? Report of noise, a leak, we tried to contact you but we needed to get in. Someone like this could surely think on their feet and go on? It's crazy.  As an outsider looking in I am interested to know what happened, I'm sure the family are wrecking their heads over it.

God bless everyone involved here and I hope and pray they find some comfort from each other over the weeks and months ahead. RIP.

A friend of mine was on her honeymoon in Mauritius in autumn time and had £220 stolen from the room. I'm sure it does happen all the time. As you said, madness that they had to kill her

Brendan Crossan is well above average. I think he's a first class writer and has a good grasp of different sports. That column he did a month or so ago on his da's friend who had just died was a brilliant piece. Kenny Archer is very bad as a columnist, no doubt about it, but I'm sure he has plenty of other values as a journalist - i think he's deputy sports ed now? Eamonn O'Hara is just ok at the feature writing, seems that boxing is his area of expertise rather than GAA, but I don't follow boxing so I wouldn't read that stuff.

The news is to a high standard and better than the Tele or Newsletter anyway, especially now that David Gordon is leaving the Tele. Brian Feeney is a great commentator, Newtown Emerson is good, Roy Garland is excellent too come to think of it. So for political insight they're pretty well covered.

Those columns by Meabh Connolly and Marie-Louise McCrory are completely shite but sure we obviously aren't the target audience of them so just flick on? The paper is a business at the end of the day and they're obviously trying to attract female readers. Though I think they're insulting women's intelligence by targeting them with that shite.

Barry McCaffrey and Alison Morris in particular are top drawer reporters as well, they obviously have good sources in and around Belfast and their news reporting is excellent. There just isn't as much news around Northern Ireland these days with the political institutions relatively stable, so I would say that would explain why it's a bit threadbare at times. Overall i think it's still a very very good paper and I never miss a copy. I don't know what sort of standards yous boys have, yous just like giving out

Trying to get entrants rounded up for the first Scor heat in February, does anyone know what's the minimum amount of categories you can enter? We wouldn't have much of a pick in our club and I could nearly definitely rule out us entering the two dancing categories and the novelty act. We might make 3 categories - would that be enough?

I did not intend to single you out, apologies if it appeared that way. I have already conceded that voting is pointless within the present system, where the prevailing orthodoxies are dictated by the liberal consumerist power centres in Washington, London and Bonn, and anyone who dares to question them will receive short shrift from our bought and paid for national media. The proferred choices in elections between tweedledum and tweedledee,are akin to the Bread and Circuses offered by the ancient Romans.

I think voting should be weighted more in favour of those who pay taxes.

e.g. those who pay no tax get 1 vote
those who pay <€10,000 get 2
and so on up to a max of 3 or 4 maybe.

I agree,  muppet. Also anyone who pays no tax and who meets a taxpayer on the road should be required to hand over his car to the taxpayer. And also there should be a tax on windows.

believe it or not there used to be a tax ion windows, there is a large planters house near to me that has 2 side windows bricked up to avoid the windows threshold and pay tax!

But i get your point lad

Hence the term 'daylight robbery'