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Cos it is dysfunctional.

Ochón is ochón ó.

to a foreigner?

This should be a cracker

Now

Are there any ?

apart from flegs

Cén fáth?

Apart from Tayto

A bad month between Ballymena and today Bombardier announcing 1000 redundancies

Apart from GAA..

Monika Kruse, tomorrowland 2015 , giving it bhfaca tu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0g_WmVKrY

Starts on Sunday. Will the Dèise do it again?

With the gardai nowhere to be seen

In Galway it would have to be lookit followed by arra

For Tyrone I would suggest aye. Any other counties ?

This is scary

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/11/the-collision-sport-on-trial/

"Iron Mike" Webster was a Hall of Fame center who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, won four Super Bowl rings, and died in 2002 at age fifty. By then he was a broken man who lived in a pickup truck, estranged from his family, shocking himself with a Taser and attaching his teeth with superglue. It was his brain tissue that Dr. Bennet Omalu—the main character in Concussion—examined at the Allegheny County Coroner's Office in Pittsburgh, leading to the discovery of CTE.

Chris Borland was an inside linebacker who played one brilliant season for the San Francisco 49ers, then retired in March 2015 at age twenty-four after studying the potential long-term effects the game might have on his brain. "I want to be seventy-five and healthy if possible," he told Rebecca Carpenter in her documentary. One magazine labeled him "the most dangerous man in football."

No scene in the dramatization Concussion can match the agony of watching John Hilton, who played tight end in the NFL from 1964 to 1974, lose his train of thought, his eyes watering, a look of sheer desperation washing over him, as he tries to explain his mental condition; or the pain on the face of the wife of Mike Pyle, a center for the 1963 champion Chicago Bears, as she tells Carpenter, "One day you wake up and think, I don't have a husband anymore. He's sitting next to me, but..." The current estimates are that nearly 30 percent of all NFL players will suffer some form of dementia over the next sixty-five years. Most players, unlike Borland, will still say it is worth the risk. But David Hovda, the head of UCLA's Brain Injury Research Center, explained to Carpenter, "Brain injury does not happen to one person. It happens to an entire family."

Rebecca Carpenter had spent years trying to understand her father, Lew, who grew up near the cotton fields of the Arkansas Delta, started as a running back at the University of Arkansas, and became a football lifer, ten years as a player, a coach for thirty-one more. On the field, Rebecca said, "he was beautiful, and I mean really, really beautiful," but at home his anger and withdrawal had cast a shadow over her childhood and later became so pronounced that his wife, after a long and loving marriage, felt no choice but to leave him.

When he died at age seventy-eight in 2010, his family received an inquiry from Ann McKee, the neuropathologist in Boston. She had read Carpenter's obituary, saw that he ostensibly had never suffered a concussion during his career, and asked whether his brain could be examined as a control in the CTE studies. The family agreed, and months later Rebecca was in Boston looking through a microscope at the brown strands of tau protein that had riddled her father's diseased brain tissue. McKee said to her, "On a scale of one to four, four being the worst, your father was a four."

Since it cannot be diagnosed in living players, CTE is not a fully understood disease. Its symptoms appear to vary widely from severe dementia to depression to bursts of anger. But Lew Carpenter's brain reinforced what leading neuroscientists now believe—that it is not severe concussions so much as the repetitive subconcussive blows that football players endure over a career that are more often the cause, the toll of thousands of collisions and jarring movements that shake the brain inside the skull. This calls into question whether the NFL's concussion protocols and changes in rules can fix things

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

Colm O'Rourke mentioned this yesterday
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/you-need-two-finishers-to-jump-the-big-fence-34430254.html

Monaghan have one
Mayo have 2

What about other counties ?

Go on

It is in Co.derry. There was a huge convention there in 590 ad featuring Colmcille and the King of Ireland. The programme included a discussion on what to do about the poets. They had the right to roll up at a man's house and stay for up to a year. It was estimated that one third of people were poets. Is any of this local history taught in schools up north?

IT today had an article about a nuclear bunker for sale outside Ballymena equipped with bbc but no rte. Were any bunkers built in nationalist areas ? or was it like the motorways in NI, solely for areas where Protestants are concentrated ?