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#21

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Lamh Dhearg Alba - April 23, 2024, 10:45:20 PM

So to sum up, nobody actually knows the entirety or precisely what happened, but everyone is certain the ref got it wrong or fucked up in order to shaft their team.

Great stuff.

I'd say Paddy Lynch has a pretty good idea. He said they were both at it and he was lucky to get a different punishment and that the game turned on the incident.

Tyrone need to deal much better with going down to 14, no doubt about that, but a shocking piece of refereeing.

#22

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - April 23, 2024, 10:42:58 PM

And they earn significantly more let's be honest, I was replying to Armagh18 saying it is fine for Doctors to take better pay, which is a fair point we all want the best pay, when I was trained I entered a contract 30 years ago that if I left with in 2 years I had to pay a percentage of the training and my job is so unimportant compared to the great work Doctors do. My point to Armagh18 was if all medical professionals did their degree got trained by the NHS to be as great as they are in their field just left for private work where us the morality for folk who paid their taxes all their lives but can't afford 75 quid a pop to see said professionals, seems a tad unfair.

[Are people just more sick?]

#23

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by thebigfella - April 23, 2024, 10:37:53 PM

Are people just more sick? More people and less doctors?

Living longer, as I've said many times is a curse.

Yeah but why are we all so sick

Eating carbs

 

#24

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Armagh18 - April 23, 2024, 10:37:33 PM

Just goes to show anyone can beat anyone on the day. Harte is a stubborn f**ker though so I'd put money on Lynch pushing up the next day too! Not many teams have the midfield to dominate Glass!

Derry are a class side, I've no agenda here... But Conor Glass is so overrated it's unreal..another shocker performance, he saves his shockers for when Derry are in a tight spot too

I'd agree with that. Even from what I've seen at club level he's able to take it up a notch in the final 10 minutes but before that it doesn't feel like he's in the game. Seems to be the same at county level as well. Capable of a few big plays during a game but it doesn't feel like he's there consistently for 45/50 minutes

As a famous son of Derry once famously said.. 'youse boys no nothing about football'.

Glass is some operator. Not too often he doesn't have a massive say in games and steps up when the game is in the melting pot.

#25

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Armagh18 - April 23, 2024, 10:36:06 PM

Not any lover of Tyrone, but it's very unfair a team having to play a big semi-final game just 6 days after a tight game. Def needs a 2 week breathing space between quarters and semi, plus a 2 week space to the qualifiers after the final for runners up

Absolutely. Scrap the group shite, 2 championships of 16 with a back door before the quarter finals or maybe just straight knockout be even better. Push the all ireland back to mid august.

#26

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - April 23, 2024, 10:35:11 PM

No university course is free now, are you a doctor after a medical course or do you need advice, training and guidance via a paid private sector company or is that provided by say the NHS in the occupied 6?

I'm not sure what you are on about, are you saying doctors have to be public sector workers because the do a medical degree?

How Much Does It Cost To Become A Doctor In The UK? In 2021, it was estimated that the average medical student graduates with between £70,000 - £90,000 student loan debt. This is significantly larger than students in other degrees due to the length of the medical degree, charged at £9,250 per year.

#27

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by JoG2 - April 23, 2024, 10:34:46 PM

Just goes to show anyone can beat anyone on the day. Harte is a stubborn f**ker though so I'd put money on Lynch pushing up the next day too! Not many teams have the midfield to dominate Glass!

Derry are a class side, I've no agenda here... But Conor Glass is so overrated it's unreal..another shocker performance, he saves his shockers for when Derry are in a tight spot too

I'd agree with that. Even from what I've seen at club level he's able to take it up a notch in the final 10 minutes but before that it doesn't feel like he's in the game. Seems to be the same at county level as well. Capable of a few big plays during a game but it doesn't feel like he's there consistently for 45/50 minutes

As a famous son of Derry once famously said.. 'youse boys no nothing about football'.

#28

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Wildweasel74 - April 23, 2024, 10:29:02 PM

Not any lover of Tyrone, but it's very unfair a team having to play a big semi-final game just 6 days after a tight game. Def needs a 2 week breathing space between quarters and semi, plus a 2 week space to the qualifiers after the final for runners up

#29

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by AustinPowers - April 23, 2024, 10:27:05 PM

I remember at the time it sent chills through the whole  nationalist community. Just listening to Talkback and Trevor Birney talking about and how attacking someone like Sean Brown was a deliberate ploy as he was decent and could not be associated with any paramilitary organisation. It was purely to put fear and Terror through a whole community by striking at its centre.

We had just won the AI and had beaten Bellaghy in the Ulster final before Christmas 1996. There was a crew of us living in Belfast and we had close relationships on and off the field with a lot of the Bellaghy lads. It struck hard. I remember travelling home at the time and we regularly changed out pick up spots etc. Going to matches in Lurgan and that was always a concern as well. How the f**k was that normal? 

Unfortunately we normalised it at the time and adopted

My dad handed me the book The Shankill butchers when it came out

Made me read it before I headed out that weekend, needless to say that put the willies up me for that period of heading out! 

Absolutely horrible book. Really tough. I read the book called committee. Really opened my eyes as a teenager growing up.

Only policeman you trust is a dead one.

Is that the  one by Sean mcPhilemy?

#30

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by paddyjohn - April 23, 2024, 10:25:30 PM

👆 What he said.