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Roddy Doyle summed it up quite nicely on facebook

Roddy Doyle
20 septembre, 12:33 ·
-See Angelina and Brad have broken up.
-I couldn't give a shite.
-Ten years together, they were.
-I couldn't give a f**k.
-She wasn't happy with his parentin' style.
-I don't fuckin' care.
-Wha' does tha' mean - parentin' style?
-Don't know. His aftershave or his shirts or somethin'.
-I think there might be more to it than tha'. The whole package, I'd say.
-I'll tell yeh one thing, and it's the only thing I'll say on the matter. My missis has never complained abou' my parentin' style.
-Same here.
-Everythin' else, she's slaughtered me. But not tha'. Which makes me think.
-Wha'?
-She just doesn't like him. She's copped on - that's all. Brad's only a ****, like the rest of us. He's human, like.
-So she might as well have married one of us.
-There yeh go. It's the good thing about gettin' old. See - the older he gets, the more he looks like us. The older we get -
-We look like Brad.
-Exactly. We all end up lookin' like Brad.
-Except Brad. What'll they do with the kids?
-Don't know.
-They've fuckin' hundreds of them.
-They could give some o' them to Madonna, I suppose.

Interesting breakdown/summary of all the 2016 killings by US police here:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#

Astonishing reading that.

Many whites killed as well, with the investigation ruled 'Justified'. For example, a 23 year old white woman was shot by her husband, a cop who claimed he was 'cleaning his gun'. Ruling: 'Justified'. Not negligence or incompetence or possible homicide, but Justified. Oscar Pistorius should have used that one.

This shooting of a 12 year old is particularly sad: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/12/police-fatally-shoot-ciara-meyer-12-pennsylvania

As is this shooting of a suicidal woman who pulled a knife: http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/04/auburn_police_officer-involved.html

All of the three women above were white, so I am not banging the racial drum. But in most civilised countries, the cops would not open fire in those scenarios. There is obviously an issue with either training (just shoot to kill) or personnel selection (are they completely incapable of assessing situations under pressure and just open fire?).

Each circumstance is different and I am not saying the police are wrong automatically, they are not. And even the 3 cases I picked above have their own different levels of blame to apportion. But I honestly believe that none of those women would have been shot dead in Ireland or the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/mysterious-lynching-of-frank-little-equality-activist
"Violence is as American as cherry pie."

Supporters and players in '6 counties' in north show respect to the anthem but not the rest...

Free state Taigs are pagans

Sometimes a great team's time is up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdoKkuN1qx8

We need to bring together the finest song-writers in the country to pen a new anthem for a new Ireland.
I'm talking Coulter, St. John, Brady, Shiels, Logan etc.

Hozier would give it bhfaca tu. He is an amazing lyricist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw

good old Indo
http://www.independent.ie/style/voices/caitlin-mcbride-theres-a-reason-brad-pitt-and-angelina-jolies-divorce-feels-so-personal-35064832.html

I love the anthem before an All Ireland Final. It's a great day to be Irish, and the anthem adds to it and adds to the build up I think. Sure the f**king Champions League has to invent an anthem to try and build a sense of occasion.

I'd play the anthem at every county final, every provincial final and every All Ireland final. I don't think we need to play it before every single intercounty game.

Agreed
No need for AnF at discos either

[hagiographical]

Most articles written about Jim are purely hagiographical accounts so it's interesting to see one that exhibits Jim warts and all.

His demeanor, single mindedness and his obtuse nature very much reflect other great managers of our generation. Cody and Harte are equally flawed as individuals, both are uncompromising and, for avowed Christian's, particularly unforgiving. That's what's make them champions though and what irks me is that when you win a championship all of a sudden you're a white knight and society's hero. That's what makes shite like "Jim for president" and "blue-print for our education system" so nauseating.

We can respect these individuals and their feats, there is no need for the over the top adulation.

Brilliant word!

Think I seen it a year ago in the wiki article about neil Jordan's "hagiographical" film about Michael Collins. I'm probably using it wrong or in the wrong tense but it's a good word.

I had to look it up, but I think it is perfect for Jim.

there is a special class of manager that scares the bejaysus out of journalists because of their knowledge and intensity. Cody is one. McGuinness is another.

Brian O'Connor strikes again.
I'm pretty indifferent to the anthem being played to be honest.
Don't think it does any harm but I wouldn't be up in arms if it was gone tomorrow.
Nothing to do with inclusivity, I just don't think it has a place in domestic sport.
There's a reason we don't sing it well before GAA games and that's because we're all Irish.
We should have county anthems instead.
Now there's an idea!
Feel free to nominate your chosen song. 

Mead : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCQBuYhq_s

I was at it last year. Nice atmosphere but the food was awful. Loads of hurley makers.
RTE very prominent. Spit on me, Marty.

Dublin were good but they compete in a dead province. Kilkenny had the same problem in the early years of the Cody regime and they got ambushed a few times. Regarding longevity,  Dublin are not Kilkenny.

They won the 2011 All Ireland with a last minute free. They beat Kerry by 3 points  last year. Wow. They are not galacticos.
They can bitchslap Kerry but they have 2 wins, 2 draws and a loss against Mayo. 

Maybe the Mayo semi last year was the real all Ireland.

Mayo have been held back by psychological issues but maybe Rochford has addressed them. They were also weak tactically previously. Perhaps they have improved in this area.  Maybe they do have the balls.
And media are lazy. Reading the Indo last weekend was very insightful.

J. K. Galbraith "The conventional wisdom"gives way not so much to new ideas as to "the massive onslaught of circumstances with which it cannot contend".

Mayo by 5

It must be in his contract or something.
Was hoping it would be Darragh Maloney.

"One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of 'crap'." Neil Postman

[She appears to have met the churchs criteria for a saint so why would they not make her one?]

She appears to have met the churchs criteria for a saint so why would they not make her one?

Alot of shite talked here like Mother Theresa was a medical professional running a hospice or hospital. Her charities were performed by nuns with litle or no professional training so of course their medical services are not going to be on a a par with a modern hospital. But a medical hospital couldn't afford to provide the care coverage in the way her charities did.

As for her statement about the poor I dont agree with i,t but Im looking at it from a bigger picture than her. She is not a politician she was just someone who saw the poor and helped them so i understand where she was coming from. Imagine a Christian nurse wading into India and telling their culture and traditions need to be changed, she would likely have been burned out of it.

This is a good place to start.

Can you reference the Bible's criteria on saints?

Whats the bible got to do with it?

For a start, to answer Tony's question, Papal Infallibility cannot conflict with scripture. So that is why I was asking where the church's criteria for Sainthood comes from. Because if it isn't in the Bible, it is garbage under the church's own rules.

It is like employee of the month.
The Church''s audience is no longer in Europe despite the sterling efforts of Tony. It is in poorer countries in Latin America, Africa and bits of Asia where people are less likely to question the process.

Joe the big 3 monotheistic religions all have this inbuilt notion of progress. And climate change will show that to be nonsense.