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#1
Quote from: Walter Cronc on November 28, 2013, 02:16:44 PM
Quote from: rodney trotter on November 28, 2013, 02:12:23 PM
There was grass banking behind the goals in some of the stadiums in NZ. I doubt they are going to turn every stadium being used ,into all seater arenas. An upgrade obviously, but hardly essential to have every stadium  seated.

What you tend to find in this case (Super 15/NRL grounds) is that the two stands running either side of the touchline are of very high spec, with grass banks behind their goals. Australia and to a lesser extent NZ have the climate to accomodate such facilities.

What you also tend to find away from your average GAA stadium is the meaning of "toilet". Even Croke Park bogs are a total disgrace.
#2
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
November 24, 2013, 10:00:30 PM
In an era where the GAA strives to cement the "community" aspect of club activity the rebranding of a club always known as Warrenpoint or "The Point" with its close identification with its geographical area to some abridged version of a combined Irish Language / Catholic Parish strikes me as being the very opposite of that inclusive type of idreal and ther is a touch of marketing silliness about it. Many Point people I've encountered believe it stands for "Can't Pronounce the Name"! And every single jubilant Point person I have met tonight is rightly celebrating the clearly identifiable victory of Warrenpoint U20 over geat rivals Burren (or CMN as some might possibly dub them). Well done the Point.
#3
Down / Re: Down U20 football championship 2013
November 24, 2013, 09:59:19 PM
Quote from: our_fella on November 22, 2013, 01:08:52 AM
Is it just me, or is warrenpoints "rebranded" name of CPN gay as f**k?

In an era where the GAA strives to cement the "community" aspect of club activity the rebranding of a club always known as Warrenpoint or "The Point" with its close identification with its geographical area to some abridged version of a combined Irish Language / Catholic Parish strikes me as being the very opposite of that inclusive type of idreal and ther is a touch of marketing silliness about it. Many Point people I've encountered believe it stands for "Can't Pronounce the Name"! And every single jubilant Point person I have met tonight is rightly celebrating the clearly identifiable victory of Warrenpoint U20 over geat rivals Burren (or CMN as some might possibly dub them). Well done the Point.
#4
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
November 13, 2013, 01:56:43 AM
Lack of posts on here about Kilcoo is very surprising.
Our representatives in the only meaningful competition ongoing seem to have the apathy of Down  GAA supporter - maybe even antipathy - strange!


#5
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 25, 2013, 11:28:34 PM
Shane Mulholland - nice guy - decent enough footballer - but if he plays the minors in the "keep ball" Ballyholland style we have seen recently, then we  are doomed to more years of waste in Down football
#6
Quote from: lawnseed on October 20, 2013, 05:42:24 PM
I thought it was liam adams who was on trial? but I've been in the Gerry moving aside camp for quite some time, not for family reasons but simply because he's now one of the obstacles to sinn fein taking the next step toward becoming the big power in irish politics. he simply not up for the cut and thrust of the filth of the dail. sorry ger you did your best

"Roll on the dung out" as you have it... indeed.
#7
Quote from: Jinxy on October 20, 2013, 03:01:36 PM
It's a vanity project for the GAA and the players, which represents the worst of two fantastic sports (sponsored by a hateful rag, I might add).
I doubt we'll see it again after this year.

Only 90% correct. We will see it again because the Aussie freebie trips for officials will ensure that this spurious nonesense will continue. Sure the players like it - it gives some stati]us and the possibility of a paid (yes "paid") trip abroad - but in the end of the day the suits who organise and run this invented stuff will still yearn for their wee trips all expenses paid to Aussie now and then as well as the big dinners at home. It is a circus and those who applaud and turn up are the clowns.
#8
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 20, 2013, 10:13:47 PM
Burren, with great pedigree and massive squad, slect an unfit forward instead of a tight full-back, go out to play Kilcoo at their game instead of working to their own strenghths .... not the Burren we used to fear, too much loose play from over-hyped "county men" ... too much misplaced ego I think ...if hey could get someone to knuckle down on the latent talent that is there they would swipe any team in Ulster aside but something is missing ... fair play to Kilcoo who get every ounce out of a small pool of players
#9
Quote from: Saffrongael on October 16, 2013, 10:45:19 PM
Adams under pressure over knowledge of abuse by his brother - The Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/adams-under-pressure-over-knowlege-of-abuse-by-his-brother-1.1560761

Over his long career Gerry Adams, with his paramilitary (which he denies) and political past, has ended up in corners without any discernible escape route. Yet he has always managed to dodge his enemies and emerge with his political position secure.
But the terrible experience of Áine Adams seems different; this case is about a woman, his niece, now aged 40 who was raped between the ages of four and nine by his brother, Liam Adams.
How this story unfolds will keep returning to Adams's day in court on April 22nd this year and the evidence he gave under cross-examination to Liam Adams's lawyer Eilis McDermott, QC.
In the first trial in April McDermott accused the Sinn Féin president of acting to save his "political skin" rather than in the interests of his niece.

This, crucially, is in relation to when and why he went to the police in 2009 to tell the PSNI of an admission he said his brother Liam made to him nine years earlier in Dundalk of sexually abusing Áine Adams.
"This is above politics. Saving my political skin is no consideration in these matters," replied the Sinn Féin leader. It is an issue now.

Earlier this month the jury in the second trial convicted Liam Adams of raping and sexually abusing Áine Adams from when she was aged four until she was nine, beginning in 1977.
Now other juries are deliberating on what this will or should mean for the political future of Gerry Adams: there's the public jury; the Sinn Féin membership and leadership jury; what Adams believes in some cases is a media "witch-hunt" jury; there are the juries comprised of his political opponents North and South; there are the separate inquiries currently taking place by the North's Attorney General and Police Ombudsman.

It emerged during both the collapsed and completed trials that as far back as 1987 Adams was aware of the abuse allegation against his brother – an allegation Liam Adams denied that same year when confronted by the Sinn Féin leader. That case never proceeded because Áine Adams retracted her evidence to the RUC.
But most particularly, as Adams said in the first trial (he wasn't called to give evidence in the second trial), it was in 2000 during a long walk in the rain in Dundalk that his brother admitted the abuse to him, saying it only happened on one occasion.

When in 2006 Áine Adams reactivated her 1987 allegation Gerry Adams went to the police in 2007 to give a statement - but did not tell them about the 2000 admission by his brother. As McDermott said it took another "two years and four months" before he did tell the PSNI about that admission.
McDermott put it to him that the reason he gave the 2009 statement was because he already knew that UTV's Insight programme was about to run a programme about the abuse. "You needed to make the statement at that stage because you wanted to do your best to avoid allegations that you had withheld information about child sexual abuse?"

It was this evidence that prompted her "saving [your] political skin" charge.
In earlier evidence she also accused him of lying when in 2009 he said that after 1987 Liam Adams was "out of my life more or less for the next 15 years".

She then showed Adams photographs of him and Liam Adams together at family and political events in 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2003. She also raised with him how Liam Adams was able to work in youth clubs in west Belfast and Dundalk in Co Louth – the former and current constituencies of Mr Adams – even in the period after the 2000 admission.

It was also stated during the trials that in 1986 when Sally Adams was raising her family as a single mother that Gerry Adams referred the family to social services, complaining of hygiene problems and lice in the children's hair.

All of this has led to claims that Adams acted in a calculated self-interested fashion to avoid charges of withholding information about child sexual abuse and to save his "political skin"

I read in the motoring press that Opel have launched a new mini car to rival the Fiat 500 in Europe. It's called the  - wait for it - Opel Adam. Now if it was the Opel Adams it would have a silencer installed with a nine year guarantee.
#10
Quote from: glens abu on October 16, 2013, 10:31:57 PM
Quote from: Leo on October 16, 2013, 10:23:51 PM
Hard to stomach a Sinn Fein TD in the Dail today accusing the government of condeming young Irish people to exile (because of the reduced rate of dole money for school leavers). The only group I know actively engaaged in exileing young people from their homes and communities in recent years were - ehm - the Provos. Double speak hasn't gone away you know ( as Gerry, with very personal experience, might say)

You need to wake up and smell the coffee then,as the Provos haven't existed or a long time.

Maybe they havent existed for a time in the Glens, but in Newry the cordite is still stronger than the coffee. In any case, you chose to throw a diversion and not deal with the issue - classic Provo SF tactic. Thanks.
#11
In awe at the heat being generated here about a boring journalist, a temporary "manager" and a rent-a-mouth pundit in the context of the worst group of Irish soccer players in living memory, not one of whom would get near a leading English premier team (none at Arsenal, Spurs, United, City, Liverpool, Chelsea - even Southampton), No wonder Martin O'Neill has kept his gunpowder dry on the Irish job that would otherwise suit him so well. Here's a couple of million quid - who do you want to waste it on? A couple of years ago you would have said Kevin Doyle, now languishing in (what do they call it these days?) League 2. Or Shane Long who can't get in the WBA team and hasn't scored for donkeys? Or Wes Hoolahan who can't get in the Norwich team? Or the great Andy Reid who failed at Spurs and Sunderland and is now our saviour again from the lofty heights of Nottmm Forest?  Get real about this outfit.
#12
Hard to stomach a Sinn Fein TD in the Dail today accusing the government of condeming young Irish people to exile (because of the reduced rate of dole money for school leavers). The only group I know actively engaaged in exileing young people from their homes and communities in recent years were - ehm - the Provos. Double speak hasn't gone away you know ( as Gerry, with very personal experience, might say)
#13
General discussion / Re: Ireland's grimmest place
October 12, 2013, 12:08:39 AM
Kilkeel? Hard to argue - but try Ballynahinch - its Kilkeel II - without the scenery!
#14
We know from his IRA denials that Gerry always tells the truth, don't we>
#15
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 04, 2013, 10:59:51 PM
Without a home game in 14 years? Ulster Council need to re-assess the money spent on grounds like Park Esler.
Wee Pete? He did the county great service - significant - zzbut all things must pass and I'd like to see him move away with some dignity.