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Im wondering do tickets to games in Thomond Park ever sell out for weekend Magnors league games?

There is a large party of us (20-30) heading down some weekend in late November or early December and I need to know if we can pay in at the gate or do we book tickets in advance?

Hey guys,
Do any of you know of an Irish pub in La Paz that would be showing the GAA games on Sunday?

Is there any way to get RTE player to work abroad?

Cheers...

Has anyone got any links to proper GAA 7 a side rules?
Is there any official GAA rule book or guide for a 7 a side game / tournament ?

Im going around in circles looking for somewhere to watch it online as RTE player keeps crashing......

can anyone help?

I need about I need about six flagpoles.
12 ft to 15 ft foot high.

PM me if anyone wants to give me a quotation.
(Or know someone who supply's them)

Based in Mayo

[GAA team end 'nightmare' trip with ferry home]

GAA team end 'nightmare' trip with ferry home
By JOHN FALLON

Wednesday May 05 2010

ONE of the country's top GAA teams is due back in Ireland today by ferry after a nightmare trip to the United States.

The Galway senior footballers and supporters will touch down in London before making their way back to Ireland on ferries from Holyhead and Fishguard.

The travelling party of 121 have had to take the circuitous route after being told by Delta Air Lines that they might not be able to get them home until the middle of the month.

The Galway team were in the US to take on New York in the opening round of the Connacht Championship, but found themselves unable to get their flight home on Monday night following the latest crisis over volcanic ash.

Some of the travelling party spent 24 hours in JFK Airport in New York before they boarded two separate flights to London yesterday.

It was the latest incident in a nightmare trip that saw some supporters caught up in the Times Square bombing incident on Saturday night. The fans were unable to get into their hotel until 6.30am.

And on Sunday it took a late flurry of scores from Galway to prevent one of the biggest shocks in GAA history as an unfancied New York side came close to defeating the Tribesmen.

The chairman of the Galway Football Board, John Joe Holleran, said that everyone in the travelling party was in good form despite the upheaval, but they were looking forward to getting home.

- JOHN FALLON

Irish Independent

Whats peoples favourite GAA photos?

The following are some of my favourites

Willie Joe 1985


Pat Harte Vs Dara O Se (I think)


JOM Keep the faith


Kieran McGeeney


Ciaran McDonald

Does anyone else feel that little bit sombre during Holy hour or on Good Friday in general?

Im not awfully religious any more but I get more pensive or something on Good Friday.

PM me with details if you know any company or if you have any suggestions of where to get retractable netting systems for behind GAA goal posts.

Many Thanks!

ALREADY!!!!



http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/disillusioned-lee-quits-politics-445304.html

Disillusioned Lee quits politics

George Lee has announced that he has resigned from the Fine Gael Party and from his seat in the Dáil.

In a statement this lunchtime he says it has been a very difficult decision, but it is one that he has taken after a great deal of reflection on his position and on the role that he has played in Fine Gael since he joined that party in May last year.

He says he has done his best to play a positive role in contributing to the national debate and to efforts to find a solution for many of the country's economic problems.

However, he says he has had virtually no influence or input into shaping Fine Gael's economic policies at this most critical time.

[Sorry darling, I can't do the vacuuming. It might damage my sperm count: The best excuse yet for men not to do the housework...]

Sorry darling, I can't do the vacuuming. It might damage my sperm count: The best excuse yet for men not to do the housework...

By Nic Fleming

It's the get-out clause work-shy husbands have been praying for for years.

A study has found that household chores – including using a vacuum cleaner or microwave oven – could reduce a man's chances of having children.

Researchers exposed male volunteers to electromagnetic fields – high doses of which are produced by all electrically charged objects, including refrigerators and vacuum cleaners – and found such exposure could double the risk of having poor-quality sperm.

Fertility expert Dr De-Kun Li said his work provides the first evidence of a link between electrical goods and declining male fertility.

Dr Li, of Stanford University, California, said: 'I would advise men and couples trying for a baby to reduce their exposure to electromagnetic fields as much as possible.

'I'm not saying you shouldn't use a microwave but it makes sense to turn it on, then move away and go back when it is done. Keep devices, especially those with electric motors, away from the body.'

The study recruited 148 donors at a sperm bank in Shanghai. Tests showed that 76 had poor sperm mobility, shape or count, while 72 had good-quality sperm.

Those volunteers whose job involved working with high temperatures or being exposed to chemicals linked to sperm damage such as solvents and pesticides were excluded.

Participants were asked to wear meters which took readings of magnetic fields every four seconds for 24 hours on days they considered 'typical'.

They found that the half of the group who had peak readings above 0.16 microtesla – a measure of magnetic field strength – were twice as likely to have low sperm quality as those with readings below this level.

Dr Li's team also revealed that the chances of having poor sperm quality increased as the time exposed to higher-strength magnetic fields rose.

He said of the research, due to be published in January in the journal Reproductive Toxicology:

'This is the first study to show a link between measured electromagnetic fields and poor semen quality in humans, which may provide a logical explanation for why we have seen reductions in sperm quality in men over the past century.'

Although the study did not look at what was producing the magnetic fields, electrical appliances – especially those containing motors such as hairdryers – produce high frequencies and therefore strong magnetic fields.

In previous studies, excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, a poor diet, drug use and obesity have all been shown to reduce sperm count.

Dr Allan Pacey, of the British Fertility Society and a fertility researcher at Sheffield University, said: 'I believe there might be something in it.

'If these results are repeated in a bigger study, we need to start thinking seriously about promoting advice about avoiding exposure.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227813/Sorry-darling-I-vacuuming-It-damage-sperm-count-The-best-excuse-men-housework.html#ixzz0X16VG2OH

Criminal feud goes online with gangsta-rap duel

CRIMINALS involved in the country's most infamous gang feud are waging a bizarre online war against each other.

Four months ago senior members of the notorious McCarthy-Dundon gang in Limerick sent out a chilling death threat to their rival gang boss on an internet site.

But now their deadly enemies -- Limerick's Keane-Collopy gang -- have joined in the internet hate war by issuing murder threats -- in the form of a MTV-style 'gangsta rap'.

Members of the Keane-Collopy criminal outfit have warned well-known criminal and sworn enemy, John Dundon (29), that they will shoot and murder him, via a video which has been posted on popular internet website, YouTube.

During the summer, senior members of the McCarthy-Dundon gang sent a death threat to convicted drugs dealer, Christy Keane, which was uploaded on to the same website.

Posing beside a high-powered Mercedes, John and Ger Dundon warned Keane that they knew where he was and would see him soon.

YouTube is one of the world's most popular websites where online computer users can upload, access and view videos.

Warned

The Keane-Collopy outfit based in St Mary's Park, Limerick, have recorded a video threatening John Dundon which has been viewed 7,000 times already.

Young associates of the gang, who are known to gardai, feature in the video filmed in St Mary's Park, Limerick.

One man wearing a hoodie raps into the camera for almost a minute and John Dundon is warned he will be shot six times until he doesn't breath anymore.

At one stage, a man wearing a hoodie with a print of an Uzi submachine gun on the back of it displays it to the camera and says, "this is what you are getting, you are getting that in the f**king head, you f**king rat".

One of the individuals in the video is a well-known Keane gang member and was recently questioned about a shooting incident targeting the Dundons. Another individual is closely associated to the Collopy outfit.

Another man with a hoodie pulled over his face, cocks his fingers in the shape of a gun, points it at the camera and declares: "I'll come out like this and shoot ya."

Gardai in Limerick are currently profiling the region's criminal gangs in a bid to prosecute senior members under the new criminal justice laws.



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Now check out the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm6y6fqM54Q

[Magician Barry's grandfather dies after Waterford attack]

I find this story particularly sad.


Magician Barry's grandfather dies after Waterford attack

The grandfather of magician Keith Barry has died in hospital from injuries he sustained during a burglary at his home in Waterford last week.

Eighty-four-year-old Paddy Barry suffered serious head and facial injuries, as well as a broken arm, when he was attacked by three men who called to his home on Mount Sion Avenue last Wednesday evening.

He had been unresponsive since the attack and died in hospital at 5.30am today.

A post-mortem will be carried out to determine whether he died as a direct result of his injuries.

A man who was arrested by gardaí in relation to the incident was arrested and released. A garda spokesman said a file has been prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Mr Barry had lived in the Mount Sion Avenue area of Waterford for 60 years.

At the time, his devastated grandson Keith, who has staged sell-out shows in Las Vegas, hit out at the justice system and said other pensioners living in the quiet part of the city were petrified.

He called for mandatory three-year prison sentences for criminals who break into pensioners' homes.

"I think anybody who enters a pensioner's home uninvited – that's anybody over 65 – it should be a mandatory sentence, without bail, without excuses," said the entertainer last week.

"These thugs have no fear. They have no fear for the law, they have no fear for the justice system and they have no fear of us in our homes."

Gardaí have appealed with anyone with information to come forward.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/magician-barrys-grandfather-dies-after-waterford-attack-427251.html#ixzz0Rp7vZWME

I wanted to start this thread to discuss the film for people who saw it.


if you have not seen it then do not keep reading


You have been warned....



**** MAJOR SPOILERS ****


Anyway, for anyone who DID see it... what did you think?
I just saw it last night in the Eye Cinema here in Galway.

I must say for the first time in a long time I got that rare cinema feeling. The feeling that I was watching a great film that will be remembered. That what I was watching may go down as one of Tarantino's greats. I havent really got that cinema experience since LOTR or the first Matrix film.

Speaking of the film, I enjoyed 95% of it. The script was brilliant. It was exceptionally casted, from Pitts character (and accent), the bastards, the Jew Hunter Colonel, the French guy at the start.

However I was a little disappointed with the over-the-top cinema scene although throughout the film I didnt look away or get squeamish once. I could take the scalping, the marking of the swastikas on foreheads, the clubbing etc. But that bit where the crowd are burning alive and getting riddled with bullets while Hitlers face is exploding is a little excessive.

A classic action, thriller or horror will always leave the worst moment to the audiences imagination. The camera always cuts away and you see blood splatter the wall, or the shaddow of whats happening. You are left to you own imagination and devices which can be worse or scarier than any directors.

However seeing some rubber-mans face blowing up with machine gun bullets looked terrible as it just didnt look real. It was slapstick violence at its worsed and it took away from the film because it looked so fake.

Now there was some laughter during the film. Mostly at the one liners and back answers by Pitts character. There was even some laughter at the violence which struck me as ironic. (I laughed too btw).

The scene where the top ranking Nazi's are laughing at the soldier in the birds nest killing the Americans, reminded me of the cinema audience I was sitting in laughing at the Americans killing the Nazi's. There was definitely a deliberate irony there.

All in all a great film though.

I cant post, reply or start a new topic on the Local GAA section.... whats happening?

[322533-88304]

Its that time of year again.


Abbey Sider has invited you to play in their Fantasy Premier League called Gaa Board 2009.

If you aren't already playing the game then you can register at http://fantasy.premierleague.com

Once you have logged in and entered your team, click on the 'Leagues'
link you can find on the right of the page. Now enter the code 322533-88304 to join the private league.

Enjoy the game.   

I went for it, opened this thread... bracing myself for the repercussions from Barney!

On the topic in question I wouldnt be afraid of any team in the back door.

Antrim v Kerry

Kildare v Wicklow

Galway v Donegal

Limerick v Meath/Roscommon

I upgraded a friends PC with new RAM and a new HArd Disk.
It was an old Compaq Pavallion and he didnt have the money to buy a new PC.

I used a Dell Windows XP CD to install the OS. I bypassed the Windows Activation and it was fine for a while.
Windows updated itself and it seems that the Windows activation is now broken so I have to reinstall the OS.

I am getting an original OEM copy of XP with a legit Key-code of another friend.
Im assuming that it will install Ok with the original CD and Key-code.

Will I be asked to activate it again and enter another Key?
Or am I correct in assuming that with an OEM version that you enter the key-code with the CD and it works fine?

[Health officials are investigating a probable case of swine flu in Roscommon.]

Health officials are investigating a probable case of swine flu in Roscommon.

A man presented himself at hospital on Saturday and initial tests indicate he has the virus, but a sample has been sent to the UK for confirmation.

The patient, who is believed to be from the US, has been placed in isolation and a small number of people who were in contact with him are being treated with Tamiflu.

Eleven other cases of swine flu have already been confirmed in Ireland.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/possible-swine-flu-case-detected-in-roscommon-414281.html#ixzz0I1sWDy8a&D

Was it me?
The last thread about God disappeared!

I guess he does exist with such a miracle!