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- Pop acts and foreign games now take precedence over GAA activities on the hallowed sward of Croke Park.

Oh so they take "precedence", do they? Inter-county games and club finals are unable to get a look in because the place is booked solid with rugby?  Name one major GAA match that was kicked out of Croke to make way for a concert of a soccer match.

I don't think that word "precedence" means what you think it means.

Croke Park is a PLC? News to me.  When was the IPO?  How's the share price doing today?

Jesus you talk some shite. Between this story and the one about boys jumping in with the orange marches I dunno what's worse.

Wrong. It was Apprentice Boys marches. Not the Orangemen, the Apprentice Boys. There's a difference.

Disclosure: When I was young and had no sense I used to partake in the Lurgan practice of drinking Buckfast (and other dodgy concoctions) in a car park of a Saturday evening before going to the likes of the Ashburn or Centrepoint AKA "Centrepunch".

Was standing under one of the "no public drinking" signs in Church Walk drinking away with a mate and a squad of soldiers appeared. Scottish boy says "That's a nice sign you're standing under there."  Says I "I know, it's a great sign. I love that sign!" and I climbed up and kissed the sign.  My mate who was drinking lager says to the soldier "Don't you worry boy! I've only another lok of mouthfuls left in this can and I'll not be long draining her! Now go on about your business!" 

I think the squaddies decided they'd been standing about for long enough for they all took off back to the barracks and left us to it.

I still laugh at it now, but it took us a while to figure out it's better to have a drink in the pub or a club where you're socializing. It's not like we ever scored in the car park or when having a carry-out in the fields.

I have one lad who fancys himself as  a professional footballer with my rosiest pair of rose tinted glasses I dont think he'd make a poor pub team.

If soccer is what he loves then there's plenty of ways he could have a career in it without being a player. Coaching, administration, reffing, sports reporting...

What about being an electrical engineer?

Laudable, but not for everybody.  If he has a passion for it then let him tear away, but I wouldn't just follow the money because if his heart isn't in it then he's not going to earn the big bucks anyway no matter how lucrative the field is.

I ask yeah dad but the teacher says you should follow your dreams.. And I picture the thousands of x-factor kids balling off the stage when theyre told "that dream you had forget it.. Get back on your bin lorry..

X-factor has nothing to do with reality. Success is about small incremental steps, picking up skills one piece at a time over the years and working your way up a ladder.  There's a few critical junctures like job interviews, but very few people go from rags-straight-to-riches with a single audition.

Bandy. Now there's a game worth watching! Ice hockey on a rink the size of a soccer pitch! I always find ice hockey looks a bit cramped in the small rink.

Doesn't matter. The Irish have embraced it a bit too quickly for my liking.

Nope.

It's not just the danger part that troubles me. It's also the "drunken paddy" stereotype that we seem to be only too happy to promote. What the hell's the matter with us?

From Devon: One admitted to hospital after Neknominate drinking game 

If they fail and end up all over the globe I'll feel im to blame same old story "could do better" 

Why would emigration be considered a failure? Out of the five of us, two left the country because we wanted to and two of the others are in England every week for work. None of us are what you'd call 'failures'.

'Stop this madness' say devastated friends of teen whose body was pulled from Carlow river

I nominate Eamonnca1. You have 24 hours to upload proof.

Just don't be an eedjit and neck a pint of whiskey or vodka.

I might do a pint of water and a stern warning for people to grow up, stop being p*ssheads, and stop being led like sheep into every social media stunt.

I don't approve of this meme.

That is all.