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What may have prompted this is that there are a few lads on the Royal School Armagh team playing the Schools Cup last week, who have very obviously Irish names and a fair smattering are from a GAA background. There was a lot of coverage of the match in the area and it was certainly remarked upon to me about the names of the players.

Ireland win a Grand Slam for the third time in its history and it's all over the D4 based media, no big deal IMO.

McGeeney and his type of intercounty management need an all year round type role and with compacted leagues and if Armagh don't make the super 8's then the season could be over for him sooner than he'd like.

Does he have a 9 to 5 job?

re-watched 12 Angry Men earlier in the week in anticipation of what will go on behind the scenes shortly;

I realise this has little relevance, but hey ho, hasn't stopped some of yis

I watched re-runs of Ally McBeal, I think I could give this law malarkey a good go.

Syferus,
    What law school did you attend? What is the entrance criteria?

British made a big deal about returning to a blue passport post Brexit. Now seems that the contract to manufacture them has been won by a French company who underpriced the current UK manufacturer. You couldn't make it up.

It gets better,
    A Galway based company complete the bio-metric programming of the passports during the application process.

Jim Allister will have a fit.

Fence half of it off and let a farmer graze a few calves on it. That's a massive garden.

Put it into spuds and a few rows of carrots and stuff, make it work for you.

You're missing the point here completely. Which isn't surprising.  This is much bigger than one election in the US. I (and many others from what I can see) care about the privacy of data. CA and FB have overstepped. That much is clear. US politics is a drop in the ocean. I accept that those living in the US may feel differently about that as they have to live there. Thankfully most of us don't.

A lot of posts on here but most are just repeats of what's on the US politics thread and completely miss the importance of this story except for shark's post imo. The big picture here and the opportunity for this to be replicated a hundred fold is frightening. Trump has won his election and no amount of hand wringing will change that. It's the elections of the future and how this sort of thing can be combated that we should be talking about. There's no simple solution to it though

Lets not kid ourselves either. Foreign Governments and big businesses, Media moguls have been influencing elections in various countries for decades so what Cambridge Analytica was doing was just an upscaled, modern, privatised version of what has been the norm form as long as pussy was a cat.

One day it's Murdock and his red tops, the next day it's some private "individual" using CA and a social media stream to carry its message.

Charlie Brooker is normally a good old read.

Someone mentioned Kevin Cashman, I found quite alof as you'd get nuggets of greek mythology or something deep thrown into the mix but hurling wise and taking into account his Cork/Traditional three hat dothing bias he had some insightful things to say.

Newton Emerson is pretty decent normally when it comes to local politics even if I don't personally agree with his slant on local travails.

[Moyles]

It's starting to feel like the beginning of the end for Jose. Building up for a meltdown.

I give him to end of September / Early November next year.

Has all the hallmarks of the Chelsea exit here, although he never went after any of their players like he's done with Shaw.

No - that time it was victimising and libelling the doctor for doing her job that lost him the dressing room.

The major difference here is that he seems to have the backing of the board. I really don't know what to make of it, but if you watch the post-match press conference for the Brighton match and put it together with his comments and 12 minute rant from the Seville game, he is feeling the pressure.

There is a school of thought that Mourinho is making an attempt to gain 'total' control at United.

At Real / Chelsea he could never gain total control of transfers.

There was an article I read recently, maybe on the telegraph - I'll try and find it that raises some very good points, Ferguson / Charlton views have been marginalised since the Moyles debacle, Woodward is not a football man meaning Jose is playing some aggressive politics.

Chris?

Do you not think it's got to the stage now though where Putin is fed up with the UK and Uncle Sam's hypocrisy? I find him as intriguing a man as there is in the world or has been in the world for the past 40 years. He certainly is a dictator and has committed serious crimes but it can't be denied how interesting he is.

He's a fallow imitation of Stalin. He's not really interesting even as a curio. Russia had a chance for a new beginning and chose a KGB strongman. When the world goes renewable they are so fûcked it isn't funny. And few will be all that upset about it.

If he was smart he would have used the money to develop other industries and modernise Russia as an open society that people want to do business with rather than feel compelled to do business with. Instead he enriched himself and brought about the era of the oligarch.

I always thought it was Boris Yeltsin who allowed the carve up of the old state industries which created the oligarchs who then bought up half London and fund the Tory Party?

Did the Cats pull this one out of the bag?

Staggering the amount of people giving Russia the benefit of the doubt!!

Put in is slowly destabilising the world to diminish the term alliances that are there to keep him in check!!

And even some with a working knowledge of the intelligence industry;

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/03/boris-johnson-issues-completely-new-story-on-russian-novichoks/

Waterford relegated in the play off game v Cork today which survived the weather . It took 20  minutes for us to score today and that  slow start cost us. We got back to within 2 points of Cork at one stage in 2nd half but the sending off of Maurice Shanahan within a minute of coming on for a petulant slap of the hurley (not for the first time) probably ended our chances. Cork finished strongly to win the game. It's been a disappointing campaign and Derek McGrath is getting criticised for his attitude to league. We have no home games in round robin in Munster championship as Walsh Park is not suitable for championship crowds. We have 2 games in Limerick where Waterford have a poor record so the morale is low at the moment.

Some awful shooting let Waterford down again yesterday. The wide count must be well into the teens.

Sort out that and Waterford will have a good opportunity to be in the top 3 of the Munster section and hurling into the knockout stages.
Still think they could maybe throw up another forward all the same and still be compact at the back.

Congratulations to Mayo hurlers, 2B Champions

bolloxes,, 

According to some of the players we were well in the game till a mistake in our defence led to the Mayo goal being poked home.
Disappointed but we've a very young team now and they need to learn how to win dour games.

Winning aside, Schmitt has been able to increase his pool of players with Stockdale, James Ryan, bundi aki and the other big centre coming in and adding something to the team.
Carbery is still a fair bit off but he's capable and will improve accordingly.

Unreal.. new territory. This Joe S. Man taking us to new territory.

A win is a win.

Ireland didn't play overly well, took whatever chances came their way with a little bit of luck going our way and still beat England at Twickenham. You'd be happy with that every other year all the same.

Sexton needs wrapped in cotton wool till the world cup.

Mr Deeds  no I don't know any of the above.I wouldn't be a big following of Tipp footballers
Would you know many Down players may I ask

A lot of Down fans don't know many of the Down team the way things are going..