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Does Angelo actually think people on this board who were/are Lennon Fans are to blame?

Good to see Forker getting a nomination

I changed roles at the end of august and can't do my new job form home. In my old role I was WFH from March to august and while it was ok at the start it got tiresome very quickly. You miss actual real life human interaction

All the big licks Lennon was giving about Bolingoli letting the team down this season.

Sack him now.

And Lawell

The one with Kevin Cassidy last night was very good.

Seems a very strong character and great insight into his love for GD football

I hadn't realised that McGuinness offered him a place back on the panel early 2012,  before the all Ireland win.

Was excellent, they have really upped the series in the last few years. Credit to TG4.

Already up on the TG4 player to watch for anyone who missed - well worth it.

Oisin McConville gets a bit of a touch about his accent, but I find his insight excellent. He'll be a county manager soon.

Can also recommend the Aisling Thompson and Kieran Donaghy ones there too.

There's a number two slot just opened up for him

Given the recent run of form and the pandemic raging in Scotland this was a shitshow of a decision. Not to mention the sight of highly paid players drinking and sunbathing when their fans and pay masters are stranded at home.

Agreed. Really there is probably nothing wrong with them having a pint but with the way the season has gone it gives a really bad impression. That's before you mention the pandemic

They won every game after they came back last year didn't they?
I agree that it won't happen this year tho

The minister and the department don't seem to realise that we parents have to make arrangements. Living on a day to day basis, is the school open? closed? arranging childcare, booking time off work, sorting out online classes, etc, etc it's tiring and fills parents with anxiety. Parents need to know. And Teachers need to help this time unlike the last time when they treated it as an early summer holiday.

If the cases keep going up what do you recommend?

Make Teachers redundant and send them to the fields to pick fruit and vegetables.
Honestly if the numbers keep rising I can't see Schools reopening. I don't agree with it but I think that is what'll happen. The disparity becomes huge. Some children will have wonderful online learning experiences and others won't. Some children will suffer huge neglect. That's the truth of it.
My own view is that every other avenue should be exhausted before closing schools. Curfews put in place. Strict work from home. Only 1 outing a day exercise or shops. No mixing. And it needs to be enforced.

That's not a lot of difference from schools being open. Lots of kids have great learning experiences. Lots don't. Lots get neglected. Either in school or at home.

Problem is the comparsion from first lock-down - every family had different experiences.  I know work was laid out on a weekly basis, as a menu i.e. pupils could do it or they didn't have to.  It was a matter of choice (by their parents).  From what I heard, I know some did everything, some did a bit and others never even contacted their teachers to say they were still alive!!

Different reasons for that apparently, some parents wanted routine, others wanted to keep them ticking over while other could'nt have care less about the work.  Another issue was some families had only one computer in house and maybe 3 or 4 kids loiking to use it.  Every situation was different.

At the end of the day, it's up to the parents - they're the main educators in their kids' life.  Not too hard to print off a few sums and a comprehension every day as well as doing a bit of reading.

People always looking to blame somebody else. 

Spend some time with your kids instead of handing them a f'*king X-Box.

If households only have access to 1 computer I have my doubts they have a printer.

While you seem to be getting very defensive Marty, I can assure you work was not laid out on a weekly basis from my experience.

No doubt everywhere was different - Im not apportioning blame - Im telling you factually what happened in my experience

I'd be going to the principal and if it isn't sorted then consider moving the children.

Where to Jim - all schools are closed, and as for trying to meet a teacher or speak to one. 

No they're not. As far as I know we have children in on Thursday and I am back in from Wednesday. Sounds like the schools near you are useless. Where do you live?

Also, I've been contacting parents on class Dojo this morning to check their children's new passwords. A lot of parents have replied. I hadn't one single complaint throughout the whole of lockdown and I'd be pretty confident this next week will be the same.

You must be a great teacher Jim - there is no denying though their is a large section taking the piss, I have contact with folk all over particularly in Belfast through work the conclusion is the same online learning is minimum at best.

Funnily enough I woke in Belfast, and at other locations throughout the north, and I would say the opposite to you. Also just stuck my head out the window and guess what, the school beside me is open. During the last lockdown there were teachers in everyday. And as for teachers being uncontactable, that's a load of nonsense.

As for Bobby Madden.

We all know the only reason he got the gig today and he delivered.

Bitton rugby tackled the Rangers lad to stop him getting in on goal. No other Celtic defender was going to close him done. Stone wall red card. Blaming the ref for that result is delusional and clutching at straws.

Ajer was covering in the middle. It was a very marginal call at best. Dont know why he bothered tackling him though - he'd never score anyway

Ajer was never getting back in time. He's well behind the play. Bitton was stupid though. Morelos still has work to do to score. No need to do what he did.

No chance.... do you even see it. Jack had a stormer didn't he :-)

Ryan Jack had his moments, but no one said he had a stormer. Hagi made a difference in the 2nd half. Morelos is just outside the box when he's pulled down. No way he doesn't get a shot on goal so it has to be a red card. Bitton needs to gamble though and hope he misses. Even if he does score it's still 11 v 11 on the pitch.

Lennon had his team set up tight and didn't get anything wrong. It's not his fault Bitton had a brain fart, paniced and rugby tackled Morelos trying to recover from his mistake.

Duffy looks devoid of confidence and made several mistakes when he came on. No wonder he didn't start.

Delighted for Steven Gerrard. Someone in the PL or Championship will move for him in the summer. Rangers fans in our Scotland office don't expect to be able to keep him beyond this season.

FFS Ryan Jack wasn't playing. You're the one that said was a "nice footballer". After that howler how can i take anything else you say seriously?

This made me howl. Dublin7 was well abs truly had here.

Didn't see the second half as was driving to work and haven't seen the red card so won't comment on it. We played very week first half but I felt uncomfortable that we went in at half time level. Had we been even 1 up we would have went on to win.

League is completely over now

Have started very well

If someone continually criticises the Storey funeral on the premise of covid regs being broken but does not criticise other massive funerals, then their issue is not with covid regulations being broken

Unionism cannot be reasoned with.

Anyone who is trying to say they can is utterly deluded and living in some sort of alternate universe.

Die hard republicanism can't be reasoned with either. One of the reasons I can't see a united Ireland is due to to the die hards on both sides who'll refuse to meet in the middle.

Ah yes, another utterly ignorant free stater with the "both as bad as each other" argument. The thing is you don't have the slightest clue of what you are talking about.

If you want to know anything about unionism, look at Brexit. Unionists cutting their nose off to spite their face and show what uber Brits they are.

SF not exactly covering themselves in glory either.. Using a funeral to put on a political show and arranging  a mass turn out during a pandemic when they should have done the exact opposite and told everyone to stay at home

Did FG and the Gardai not also use the funeral of a Garda to put on a show and had a mass turnout that breached loads of regulations.

Nicely buried by the media with TDs and high ranking Gardai attending.

Never mind their wee "golfgate".

The cabal of the establishment.

Sinn Fein flouted the Covid rules in a much more shameless way

No wonder the north is in such a state

You'll find that there was little difference to that and FG and the Gardai and the Garda's funeral in Mayo.

But a compliant media nicely swept it under the carpet.



Sweep, sweep. Hypocrite.

SF organised a funeral procession to the graveyard with leadership from the north and south present. I didn't see Michael Martin or Leo Varadkar at the funeral of the Garda. They did send one minister, Charlie Flanagan. He was the minister for justice at the time.

The funeral Charlie Flanagan attended was for a Garda killed while on duty. SF organised a mass turn out for Bobby Storey. What did he do to deserve such an honor? Do you count his role in the IRA or his alleged role in the Northern Bank robbery?

You can't sit and have a go at the Storey funeral but not the Gardai funeral

Stop talking shite and stop digging a hole for yourself Angelo. Why don't you ask someone from these areas, try that first

Would there be no scope for PBP to make headway in loyalist working class areas or would they be seen as too nationalist and/or republican

There is no reason why there should not be a left wing form of Unionism, or a left wing party for people from the PUL community - other than that Unionism is ethno-nationalism

Unionism is obsessed with the notion of Empire, of being a chosen people, and the whole culture surrounding these notions

The whole culture surrounding Unionism is that they are a superior but lost and threatened people, like white South Africans, white US evangelicals and hard right Israelis

Working class Unionists vote in the same way the white people in trailer parks who love Trump do

They might be poverty stricken and uneducated but in their own mind they will always be superior to blacks simply because they are white and they have been fooled into identifying themselves as being part of a traditional hegemony

Poor whites in the US are paranoid about losing the only thing which gives them any form of self-identity or self-respect - white supremacy

Poor Unionists are paranoid about losing the only things which give them any form of self-identity or self-respect - Protestant supremacy and the Union

Why do we need a left wing party for unionism. What can't we have a left wing party that encompasses everyone

Left wing parties fly in the face of unionism as unionism is all about a protestant ascendacny.

Unionists would only vote for a deeply sectarian left wing party.

And that's the thing the lads from the free state don't understand, the mindset of unionism means it simply cannot be engaged with, it's a section of society that will continually cut its nose off to spite its face.

There's bound to be Working class left wing unionists and loyalists and that's who you start with. They can't all be right wing nuts. I refuse to believe that

My initial point here before Milltown made a clown of himself arguing something he can't even substantiate is the point that the PUP are a unionist party representative of working class loyalists communities. They would style themselves as on the more left wing side of politics, yet working class unionists and loyalists vote in their droves for the DUP. Why do they do that? Bigotry and sectarianism primarily, although the PUP have their hands dripping in blood - I don't think their rhetoric and politics are anywhere near as extreme or sectarian as that of the DUP or UUP for that matter.

And that is why working class loyalists vote for the DUP.

So my question is how is it possible to engage with unionism, their whole existence, their whole culture is to lord it over the Catholic subclass. Things are a lot better these days. There is a certain element of middle class liberal voters of a unionist background that will vote Alliance, other than those however 90% of unionism will vote for the sectarian policies and ideology or the DUP/UUP/TUV.

I have Protestant friends who definitely put working class values above sectarian bullshit. They are out there. They're the ones who need to be engaged first and then build from there

Stop talking shite and stop digging a hole for yourself Angelo. Why don't you ask someone from these areas, try that first

Would there be no scope for PBP to make headway in loyalist working class areas or would they be seen as too nationalist and/or republican

There is no reason why there should not be a left wing form of Unionism, or a left wing party for people from the PUL community - other than that Unionism is ethno-nationalism

Unionism is obsessed with the notion of Empire, of being a chosen people, and the whole culture surrounding these notions

The whole culture surrounding Unionism is that they are a superior but lost and threatened people, like white South Africans, white US evangelicals and hard right Israelis

Working class Unionists vote in the same way the white people in trailer parks who love Trump do

They might be poverty stricken and uneducated but in their own mind they will always be superior to blacks simply because they are white and they have been fooled into identifying themselves as being part of a traditional hegemony

Poor whites in the US are paranoid about losing the only thing which gives them any form of self-identity or self-respect - white supremacy

Poor Unionists are paranoid about losing the only things which give them any form of self-identity or self-respect - Protestant supremacy and the Union

Why do we need a left wing party for unionism. What can't we have a left wing party that encompasses everyone

Left wing parties fly in the face of unionism as unionism is all about a protestant ascendacny.

Unionists would only vote for a deeply sectarian left wing party.

And that's the thing the lads from the free state don't understand, the mindset of unionism means it simply cannot be engaged with, it's a section of society that will continually cut its nose off to spite its face.

There's bound to be Working class left wing unionists and loyalists and that's who you start with. They can't all be right wing nuts. I refuse to believe that