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the level of sterling depends on how well the Brits negotiate with Europe. If they get a deal like the outline of EU membership, sterling goes to 1.45 vs the dollar
If they don't , it goes between 1.20 and 1.30
the last time they negotiated trade seriously was 1973

I bet they drop Brexit

They will probably be happy with a lower exchange rate which can offset effect of any tariffs.

The only thing they probably really want to hold onto is passporting for financial services.

Bran is the important stark.

Check out the asoif reddit or free folk reddit.

and now that both irelands are among europes best #strongertogether 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EH1G4EwljM

I have no interest in either  the NI or ROI soccer teams.

Other sports are available.

You might as well say that there are too many candidates. Quotas are 10000 odd, but some people are too lazy to vote down the ballot paper so the last candidates end up with less votes.

If you halved the seats you would need twice the votes.

The turkeys arent going to vote for Christmas though.

Maureen O'Sullivan getting in from 7th place on first prefs in Dublin Central does illustrate that PR sometimes does lead to a different result.

The other aspect of PR is that FF have 125% more seats than SF.

It illustrates that there are far too many TDs.

Where in the world can you get into Parliament with 1990 first pref votes.

She got elected on the back of a plethora of Candidates with the same ideals and platforms as herself. Her natural vote was diluted initially, but returned after eliminations. If it was first past the post you'd have no voice for all those ideals.

She ended up with less than 4000. You should need 10000 votes to get to the dail. There are county councils for local politics.

Maureen O'Sullivan getting in from 7th place on first prefs in Dublin Central does illustrate that PR sometimes does lead to a different result.

The other aspect of PR is that FF have 125% more seats than SF.

It illustrates that there are far too many TDs.

Where in the world can you get into Parliament with 1990 first pref votes.

mid you he did remove that thug from number one sport on the wall and replaced him with Mick o dwyer  so he cant be all bad

Removing Paul O'Connell from the wall was a crime. The thug got promoted to 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJqgFHz_chU

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I am going to be contrary here and predict Kerry will win at least half of the next 10.

The groundwork has been set at underage level and three successive defeats to Dublin will drive them to another level.

Some people are so blinkered when it comes to Cooper,

There are none so blind etc.

I actually thought it was a day to try out the twin towers approach for kerry when nothing else was working.

Hard enough trying to mark Donaghy, but put tommy Walsh beside him for the last 10 minutes and land balls in on top of them with Gooch and Darren o'sullivan feeding off breaks.

In those conditions, nobody was going to catch anything launched in there but it would have taken at least 4 dublin defenders to mark them two, leaving a lot of space somewhere else!

I thought the same thing. However the rules seem to have been amended so that you can do what you like to big lads so not sure it would have worked.

Dublin were the better side but Kerry got the wrong side of the referees big calls for the first time in a while. Donaghy is a terrible messer and wasted a lot of time Kerry didnt have with some of his carry on yesterday. McMahon stepped well over the line and this looked a lot more clear cut than the Rory O'Carroll/ Gooch incident in 2013.

Couldnt see much humility in the quote below.

Regarding the incident with Donaghy, McMahon commented: "Look, it was a slippy day and the ball was on the ground to be challenged and I went down to challenge the ball, and he's a big lad so, trying to get around Kieran Donaghy is hard but... Yeah look, this is the heat of the battle.

"We'd like to say part of our culture is humility and the same with the Kerry lads. You know, what happened on the pitch stays on the pitch and we shook hands and that was the end of it."

When pressed further if there was any intention to get involved with Donaghy 'in any way', McMahon responded: "No, look it, this is Gaelic football and we're grown men. We play a physical sport and at the end of the day the result is what ends it and we shake hands and get on with it."

Small picked the ball clean off he ground in small square after he saved the ball on the line. Should have been penalty to Mayo.

Cafferty probably overcarried in run up to Dublins 2nd goal.

Except he didn't. just watched it and the ball was bouncing and he got his toe under it - great save.

watch it again then.

The 3 amigos in the studio don't seem to think so either !

i didnt spot it until replay but he got way with it.

Small picked the ball clean off he ground in small square after he saved the ball on the line. Should have been penalty to Mayo.

Cafferty probably overcarried in run up to Dublins 2nd goal.

Except he didn't. just watched it and the ball was bouncing and he got his toe under it - great save.

watch it again then.