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I think that's the club justifying their statement, stripping it down to the bare bones, almost child like and there for effect only, like why are they punishing an innocent man?

Quinn is not innocent. He borrowed money, he hasn't paid it back, he has concealed resources that could have been used to pay it back.

It seems that Andersons Town was actually slightly on the city side of Ballydownfine.
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,730076,871638,6,7

Now it covers all of West Belfast!

And is it the same deal that they had for the very first fields or were they able to strike more lucrative exploration deals after their fields were shown to be reliably productive?

I think this is the point. The first guys get a good deal, when they find some stuff, others come along and you can ratchet up the tax.

i remember back in 91 after Down played Armagh on a wet miserable day in newry, not sure who the pundit was on the sunday game but he said it didnt matter who won that game they wouldnt be contenders for an All Ireland

In fairness, the 16000 people who were there would have agreed with him!

What is the  catholic/protestant split  in Belfast now ?

Wait until the census results in September.

Was the area now known as Andersonstown in Belfast formerly known as Ballydownfine? I was rather surprised to find Ballydownfine on a 1970 map, I hadn't heard of it.

#nsu

he plans to attend the famous North Strabane University?

Is there any way to get Excel to load the demand so that only the balance goes into the final month rather than the full amount?

count the demand left to be fulfilled and use a MIN function
something like
=MIN(TRUNC($A$3/$B$3),$A3-SUM($C$3:E3)) should work

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman and chief executive Seán Fitzpatrick has been charged with 16 offences as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged fraud at the bank.

Mr Fitzpatrick was arrested at 5.35am at Dublin Airport after arriving on a flight and was taken to Bridewell Garda Station.

He later appeared at Dublin District Court to face the multiple charges.

Officers from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation and the Director of Corporate Enforcement, who are in charge of the investigation, are also due before a Presiding Judge at the Commercial Court this morning to report progress in the investigation.

Yesterday, two former senior executives at Anglo Irish Bank were charged as part of the Garda investigation.

Former finance director Willie McAteer and former managing director for Ireland Patrick Whelan were both charged with 16 offences under the Companies Act.

They are accused of permitting Anglo Irish Bank to give financial assistance to Patricia Quinn, her five children and ten senior clients of the bank, who became known as the 'Maple Ten', to enable the 16 to buy shares in the bank.

Both men were remanded on bail to appear again in Dublin District Court on 8 October for service of the book of evidence.

The joint investigation into alleged irregularities at Anglo Irish Bank has been ongoing for the past three-and-a-half years.

It depends on where you are. The NI transmitters are not at full power until October and Clermont Cairn is restricted in its broadcasts in a northerly direction. Perhaps picture stability will improve in October when transmission power is ramped up.

I'm in NI and pick up RTE1, RTE2, TV3 and TG4 on analogue

Download the latest software update.
Try changing country to Ireland and see what happens.
Ask Fionntamhnach!

It says here that the Sony kdl 40ex403 has MPEG 4. It has to, to be Freeview HD.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/television/sony-kdl-40ex403/details/

Are you expecting to pick up RTÉ from NI or ROI?

If you get standard Freeview TV that supported MPEG4 would that work also? I have saw a few online at decent prices

RTÉ from NI transmitters is broadcast as Freeview HD. A Freeview set with MPEG4 might pick up Saorview from a 26 county transmitter, I would be careful about picking such a set though.

Regular Freeview will be dead in a decade, HD is the way to go.

A standard TV, that supports MPEG4, is Freeview HD.

Not necessarily true. Freeview HD has a different transmission as well as using MPEG 4. Saorview sets have MPEG 4, but not necessarily DVB-T2. Some sets also support MPEG-4 for playback from computers and the like, but not broadcast TV.

Get a Freeview HD set and you'll be fine.
Freeview HD uses Mpeg 4.

the government will own your house too if you cant afford your property tax in the next year or two if they decide to make it €xxxx .... be careful what you wish for buddy - Your government can do anything they wish, anything at all, no matter how stupid it may be!

Bollix. People in Fermanagh have had property taxes all along.
The government does what it was elected to do, which is to recover as much money from billionaires who haven't paid back their loans so that schools and hospitals can get the money that would otherwise go to banks.

anyhow, the action moves along, Quinn will have a few mates to chat to in jail 

GENEVIEVE CARBERY and SIMON CARSWELL

Two former senior executives of Anglo Irish Bank appeared in court this afternoon charged in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the bank.

The bank's former finance director Willie McAteer and executive Pat Whelan are the first people to be charged in the three-and-a-half-year-old Anglo Irish Bank investigation.

Mr McAteer (61), with an address at Auburn Villas, Rathgar, Dublin was charged with 16 counts of giving unlawful financial assistance  to buy shares in Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.

It is claimed the alleged unlawful financial help to buy shares was given between July 10th and July 17th, 2008 to 15 people - which include the so-called "Maple Ten" group of Irish Investors and several members of Sean Quinn's family - and from July 17th until July 30th, of the same year, to Patricia Quinn, the wife of now bankrupt businessman.

The court granted Mr McAteer bail on his own bond of €1,000 and an independent surety of €10,000 in cash or equivalent. The surety was put up by his wife. Mr McAteer also surrendered his passport for the duration of the court proceedings.

Judge Cormac Dunne also ordered him to continue to reside at his home in Auburn Villas, Rathgar and to notify gardaí of a change in address at least 48 hours in advance.

Sgt Catherina Gunne told the court she arrested Mr McAteer at 9.50am this morning on the N7 at Rathcoole. He was taken to the Bridewell Garda station and charged.

He made no reply after each charge was put to him, she said. The case will return to court on October 8th.

Mr McAteer left the Criminal Courts complex at about 2.30 with his family.

Mr Whelan was charged later with the same 16 offences.

Mr Whelan (50), of "Rachra", Coast Road, Malahide, Co Dublin, was arrested today at 12.25pm at his home and brought to the Bridewell Garda station.

Det Sgt Michael Prendergast of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement told the court that Mr Whelan gave no response when the charges were read to him.

Mr Whelan, the former managing director of Anglo's Irish lending business and a one-time director of the bank, was released on bail on a bond of €1,000 and independent surety of €10,000.

He has agreed to sign on every Sunday at his local Garda station in Malahide and to give 48 hours notice to travel outside the State, other than the UK where he has business interests.

He must also give 48 hours notice of any change of address.

Michael Staines, solicitor for Mr Whelan, asked Judge Dunne could his client sign on every Sunday as he was "over and back" to London during the week.

Mr Whelan will appear before the court again on October 8th. There was no objection to Mr Whelan's bail.

The Quinn family members who allegedly received unlawful financial assistance were named as Seán Quinn jnr; Collette Marie Quinn; Aoife Quinn; Breda Quinn; Ciara Quinn and Patricia Quinn.

The other Anglo Irish Bank customers are Patrick McKillen; Seamus Ross; Brian O'Farrell; John McCabe; Gerard Maguire; Patrick Kearney; Gerard Gannon; Gerard Conlon; Joseph O'Reilly and Sean Reilly.

The charges were made under section 60 (15) of the Companies Act 1963. Penalties under the Act can include up to five years imprisonment or a fine of €3174.25 per offence.