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Roy Hodgson looks like he's having a great time...

Escaramouche is the grounds of Shanes Castle in Randalstown. Top notch setup and professionally ran..

Front page of the Belfast Telegraph today - "Residents go to war over BBC fly-on-wall "stitch up"

The jist of the article is that residents are angry about how the estate is being portrayed

As the saying goes, you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.  I wonder how these characters expected themselves to be portrayed? 

One of them has five children, has never worked and lives off benefits and probably will do for the rest of her life.  The children wreck the house and the eldest refuses to go to school.

The next is an alcoholic and while he seems to realise the situation he is in is wrong, he can't get off the booze.  He did go off it for a while but it seems that when he realised he had to go to his medical checkup there was a chance he would lose his benefits for being an alcoholic so conveniently he goes back on the sauce a few days before his medical examination.

Next up is a young lad who doesn't work yet gets handed a new home which he openly admits will be used as a party house stating the reason for moving out was that he fell out with his da and he wanted somewhere to have a quiet drink.

Then you have a family who have a child with severe disabilities who struggle to get by with both parents working different shifts.  They are trying to get a new house to facilitate their daughters needs but can't get out of there current house.  Then it turns out that they could get out in an instant if they didn't work and were on benefits.

Now, in my reckoning the only people who you can have sympathy with is the family with the daughter with a disability.  The other families/losers can go an jump if they're looking the sympathy vote, they get enough handed to them without seeking sympathy from a newspaper and the public about how they are being portrayed...

would any of these people be getting money from the bbc to appear on this show.

i just cant think why anybody in their right mind would want to appear on a show like that unless there was money involved.

I think they got £50 in vouchers for Asda at Christmas and the hairy lipped c**t still had the cheek to complain about that.

The best thing that could come out of this is that no residents bat an eyelid. Let Willy tear away, he'll lose interest soon enough and resort to other extremes to get a reaction. An out and out bigot who is seen for what he is by almost all of society in the North. Quite a strange occurance in this area of the world. A universal dickhead...

There's jobs surely, just jobs that these people don't want to do.  In the mind of Kelly Ann who didn't fancy the idea of school, she wanted to go to school two or three days a week from 1-3.  Who the f**k would employ someone with that attitude?

I would put her into a young offenders centre if she continued to miss school.  Anyone who is up at 8 O'Clock and can't get out the door for 9 when they have a work placement needs slapped.  I think she went out in the same clothes she had slept in so she hardly spent the time tidying herself up.

Aye, it's probably not as clear cut as I make it out to be there but there has to be some measure put in place to stop people like this having children as a meal ticket to more benefits.  By the looks of it there isn't much rearing of children going on in that house anyway, the kids basically have the run of the house and just wreck it while hairy lip sits downstairs and smokes.  It's going to cost money either way and at least the child would have a better chance of getting out of the estate if they were put into care/adopted.

Its not the celled benefit that should be stopped its the child care benefit that should be stopped!  My partner and myself both work full time and have to pay £100 a week in child care.  However single unemployed parents or parents on DLA or job seekers allowance get the child care free!  So they sit at home and send their kids to the creche!  We are now looking to get a place for the kid in a pre school which will save us a bit of money, however these places go to kids whose parent are on job seekers allowance or DLA first.

That's just mental.  Why would the government give money to someone to pay for childcare when they are sitting at home anyway.  Maybe my idea of waiting until they had kids before they had their benefits cut was wrong.  Maybe they should be sterilised so they can't possibly have any more. 

It does leave you feeling a bit like a mug when you pay income tax and rent/mortgage and whatever else when these vermin get everything paid for them. 

There is nothing in place in that estate or society that encourages these people to go to work.  You have little or no education so you can work 40 hours a week at a low income job and scrape along paying your bills and taxes, etc.  Or, you can lie around on your hole all day, knock out a few sprogs and we will give you a house rent free, hand you over just as much or even more than you would get if you were working and then throw in the odd bonus of heating allowance and whatever else you can get on these benefits.

In my opinion, anyone who is on benefits and isn't genuinely ill should be out picking rubbish of the street, cleaning grafitti, tidying flower beds, filling in pot holes, etc. to earn their benefits.  If they don't do it, they don't get paid...Simples...

Well whatever he was getting he was getting far too much.  He didn't seem to have any children so I'd imagine he would have to concoct some story to get his own place or do they just hand them out to these wasters when they hit a certain age.  If he was only on the brew and getting 50 or 60 pound a week he'd hardly be sitting drinking Magner's, smoking all day and then heading to the chip van to buy his dinner?

Fair enough if they don't want to work but they shouldn't be handed houses to live in for the sake of it.  Why would they ever go to work when they can get a house and get everything paid for them? 

Mother's such as thon wench with the moustache should be told as well after one or two children that if she has any further children her payments will be stopped.  Five children, no father - sure I can live on benefits for the rest of my days...How about, right you have had two children and have never worked in your life and are using your children as a fast track to benefits.  Have any more and your payments will be reduced/stopped.  You cannot support your children so do not have any more, here's a packet of condoms. Use them or else.

The mother should be given an extra fiver, told to buy a razor and shave that stinking moustache off as well. What was the justification for giving the 'Proddy Orange Bathroom' bellend his own place? Cos he didn't get on with his da and he wanted a bit of peace and quiet to have a few drinks? Then he's sitting watching a tv that's nearly bigger than himself. DLA as well? More than likely lifted out of someone elses home a few streets away...

There's not actually that many to be honest but it only takes one club/competition named in this way and it is used to tarnish the whole association from some Unionist politicians.  As was mentioned on the radio this morning, someone should take Jim Allister and show him the great work done by the GAA in local communities rather than him sit there and complain about the choice of name for perhaps 0.01% of GAA clubs throughout Ireland.

Unionists comparing the GAA to the Orange Order is lunacy.  The GAA invites members of the other communities to games in an approach to reach out to the Protestant community while the Orange Order threatened disciplinary action against two high profile members when they attended the funeral of Michaela Harte. 

I don't think Billy Wright or Padraig Pearse compare in any way

I don't think the issue was with clubs named after previous generations of republicans such as Pearse (although it would probably be raised at some point) but more towards clubs named after more recent republicans, such as Kevin Lynches in Dungiven for example.  You can make the connection with the likes of Kevin Lynch and Billy Wright as they were both part of the most recent Republican/Loyalist epsiode and you can therefore make the comparison that if there was a local soccer club, for example, called Billy Wright FC that it wouldn't exactly be the most welcoming club for Catholics.

At the same time I wouldn't fancy heading into Dungiven and trying to persuade a name change from Kevin Lynches to a suitable alternative, I'll leave that to Jim Allister.  They'd welcome him with open arms...

Jeffrey and Jim Allister were good craic on the radio this morning as well as another caller who now seems to expect the Orange Order to be allowed to walk down the Garvaghy Road each summer as a way to recognise and reciprocate this positive move by Peter Robinson.

I suggest that if Jim Allister lines out at full forward for his chosen county for a season or two they can march wherever they want.   

Seriously though, I hope that this move isn't used as a political football where the DUP start crowing on about attending a GAA match and now the Orange Order should be allowed to march wherever they want.  In fairness they have a valid enough point regarding clubs and competitions being named after Republicans who have been killed during the Troubles.  You can't expect the Protestant population to fully accept the organisation while this exists in much the same way that members of the Catholic community would feel slightly aggrieved at attending the Billy Wright Memorial Cup or playing a sport against Billy Wright FC.   It would be one less stick for 'them' to beat us with if moves were made to change this in the future...

To be honest if the glove tip was found on the second sweep then I would find it quite suspicious. Judging by the images in the media it wasn't exactly something you could miss easily, maybe if they missed a hair you could understand it but half a finger of a latex glove which was clearly visible to the eye couldn't be missed by forensic experts and if it was you'd have to ask serious questions about their ability to do their jobs...

showed a tackle there on Match of the Day by 'Scholesy'

studs up hack around a Bolton players stomach. Not even a booking. the 2 pundits laughed and joked about it, as has happened throughout his career, at most wild tackles

Wonder would Sir Purple Nose have seen that as a red? afterall one of the reasons Kompany had to go he said is cos he's prone to that kind of tackle.

Yakubu's tackle is a definite red on MOTD last night but Scholes tackle is laughed and joked about saying poor Paul never could tackle. Ginger twat should see the line every other game  early!?!

Mayweather will be fighting Canelo Alvarez in June if reports are to believed. A 39-0 tough Mexican but still not the fight everyone wants to see!