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"Supply and demand" can only justify so much of an opportunistic price rise before it becomes an opportunistic rip-off.

If you don't ration scarce resources by price, then you are simply facilitating those with nothing better to do that sit with booking sites open.

Have already tried to book a room for either night in the hope that I get a ticket - 4 hotels ive tried are already booked out!!!!

It has long been stated that the Croke Park concert would be announced today. So travel agents etc book the rooms, even if they didn't yet know which type of fan they would be selling to.

One all Ireland is hardly dominance.

The begrudgers come out of the woodwork!
Next you'll be saying the Garth Brooks is not brilliant. 

"Before we go back on tour in the Fall of 2014, I want to challenge myself, the band, and crew.  In '97, we were lucky enough to play Croke Park, the stadium was under construction. 130,000+ of some of the greatest fans in the world. I was quoted then as saying 'When this stadium is finished, I would love to come back and try to fill it again...this time to the brink.'...and we're back to do just that."

http://www.aikenpromotions.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2122.html

Garth was followed a couple of years later by Armagh dominance of football, let's hope history repeats itself.

I know, anyone think this deserves a yellow card?

Black card. Off with you.

its like the old joke about someone meeting Mrs Paisley coming out of the dentist
"How's the mouth"
"He's at home having his tea"

Is this a new low? Or is it merely a symtom of a sick society devoid of any reminant of decency.  A country ruined by sick clergy and immoral self serving politicians- traitors each and every one who have merely clambered to the top of a pile of  steaming vomit to feed on the weakest in irish society..  -Angels who cant look after themselves..!

Just as there were clerical abuses, there were facilities where the salaries of the religious were being used to run the place.

There are some charities well run, there are some doing good work but where the top echelon are helping themselves (like CRC) and some which are probably mostly run for all staff.

Even politicians can be divided into the incompetent and the crooked.

So... If im to understand.. These guys were getting paid by the taxpayer to administer charities. (why') the government cut their wages.. So they just put their hand into the collection bucket and helped themselves?

In most cases these guys were paying themselves extra before the cuts and continued doing so.

Hold on!! Isnt that stealing? Thou shalt not steal ..? "Suffer the little children?"

The money is donated to run the charity, they are "running" the charity.

The CRC is an independent charity, which nowadays gets most of its money from the government, but who also hold collections and the like. The government funds staff on its payscale, which has been cut 3 times. The current rows are about this type of organisation giving an extra whack of loot to the top management from their "own resources" (i.e. people collecting money for them). This CRC thing is a particularly excessive example. There has been few stories emerging of "own resources" being used for nurses etc who have gone beyond their jobs. It is clear that the board of this organisation have lost any sense of serving charitable aims. The problem is that people are now (understandly) less keen on donating money and the other charities who have been more responsible are losing money too. The solution is a register of charities where this information can be found and you can then decide whether to donate or not. As usual, the 26 counties has had legislation for this for years, but haven't done anything about it.

Why not just say Ireland instead of the 26?

Probably because it isn't an equal problem through Ireland, only in the 26 counties.

Northerners were eligible for the pension after Dev got in. Taking it though was akin to "taking the soup" and recognising the legitimacy of partition.

Was it not a case ( like modern SF) or recognosing the REALITY of Partition?

If those who got the pensions had been content  recognise the reality of British rule, we'd still all be under the yoke of Saxon oppression, rather than just some of us.

RIP Trigger.

@BBCBreaking: British actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, best known as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, has died age 69,  agent says http://t.co/Vzn2DgpUQk

A legend. OF&H is still one of the best shows on tv, even though I know every word. When people talk about how brilliantly written and acted it is the focus is obviously on DEl and Rodney but the likes of Trigger, Boicey and Mike were fantastic in their own right.

One of the funniest lines ever was Trigger defending how he hit is head on a "Mind Your Head" sign. His response "of course I saw it, but in those days I could nt read!"

9. (Trigger, Del, Rodders, Sid and Boycie chatting in Sid's cafe. Trigger has just been presented with an award for saving the council money.)

TRIGGER And that's what I've done. Maintained it for 20 years. This old brooms had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time.

SID: How the hell can it be the same bloody broom then?

TRIGGER: Theres the picture. What more proof do you need?

Perhaps Mickey should take a break and Paul Grimley could put his ideas forward instead.

I know we are not talking about club All Ireland's, but how about Paul Hearty, 1997 and 2015?

Some classic ones there e.g.
#AskTUV do you get any many votes from dyslexic UTV voters?

Am I missing something but are Norn Iron vols not included (yet)?

There was nobody from Norn Iron in the GPO, they booked the wrong weekend.