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Another big game for us on our home patch and a win here could mean we ensure our safety fairly quickly. Qill more than likely be a tough game though and Screen's pitch isn't in the best condition although Westmeath are coming off the back of a home defeat to Galway so we should be looking to rub salt in the wounds.

Are Westmeath missing many players? We're still a few down but the lads that have come in can do a job and I believe Paddy Bradley is starting to get his fitness back so things are on the way up. Should hopefully be a decent match.

I would say The West Wing series 1-4. A bit gay but I absolutely love that show and I reckon if I watched those series a couple more times and read up a bit there would be very little I don't know.

Can't see our match being played in this weather especially up in Ballyshannon!

I think it's a disgrace what they're doing to John Terry as well... poor lad!!!#

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/4076812._NHS_is_exploiting_my_l/

"NHS is exploiting my life" - claims transsexual

By Joanna Lean »


A TRANSSEXUAL, angry at an NHS advertising campaign that depicts a man wearing makeup, says her lifestyle has been exploited for the sake of a poster.

Lucy Smith thinks the NHS should have been more sensitive to the transsexual community in Warrington when it developed a poster warning women drinkers they could end up looking like men.

"It's hard enough living in Warrington without this," said Lucy, a pre-op male to female transsexual.

"People see the posters on the bus and it draws attention to me sat there. I walk down the street and everyone's looking or shouting," she said.

Transsexuality is recognised as a medical condition, and the NHS pays for transgender operations.

That NHS Warrington would put up the posters while knowing about the problems transsexuals face has upset Lucy and her friends in the transsexual community.

Not a day goes by without a violent incident or abusive comments towards Lucy, aged 23, and the posters have only brought transsexuality to the forefront of people's minds, she said.

"They have these pictures that stand out a mile and people will see it and start pointing and making comments and laughing," she said.

The posters were brought in as part of a hard-hitting campaign to lower excessive drinking levels in women.

Warrington is one of the worst towns in the country for the high level of women who drink too much, and research has shown that excessive drinking can introduce male characteristics to women.

The person on the poster is fictional, made up of different images that were merged together by an artist, a spokesman for NHS Warrington said.

NHS Warrington sent the poster to national equality and diversity groups and consulted with the national lead for the transgender community, the spokesman said.

The groups did not find any reason for NHS Warrington not to use the posters.

Similar campaigns used elsewhere in the country have been successful in reducing harmful drinking levels in women, the spokesman added.

Lucy has asked both NHS Warrington and Warrington Borough Transport to remove the posters, but was told the campaign had been effective and would not be removed.

Transsexual men and women want to establish a permanent role as a member of the opposite sex, and many have gender reassignment surgery to complete this. This transition can take years.

One of those ebay advertisements flashed at me on the top of the page and I noticed these 'sample' jerseys some guy is selling.

What do you lads make of them?

Offaly


Monaghan


Personally I think both are better than the ones both counties settled for!

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We All Quote Our Mothers

The last four (4) words of the very last quote is the title of your debut album

FFS Screen. Read the thing first.

I think adding the 'We' adds a little bit of intrigue to the album title.

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We All Quote Our Mothers

Jesus lads this is some post mortem after just the first game of the year! And I thought us Derry lads were bad!

In fairness ye were only beat by a point and contrary to what a lot of people have said the last few years we actually do have alot of good players so I wouldn't be beating yourselves up too much over it.

Valentine's is a pure joke. My favourite of all time is my Mum and Dad. My Mum's Canadian and my Father met her over there. When she asked him about it first he said he'd never heard of it and when she explained all to him he said they'd never had it over here.

She says she gave him a right tongue lashing when she found out the ruth. She had let him away with it for years at that stage!

Just right too!

BSc Hons 2.1 too.

Ditto

Wow what a TD!

Ridiculous... more of the same tripe and nothing new or fresh about it at all. Stringer, Malcolm O'Kelly, Dempsey, Paddy Wallace, Mick O'Driscoll shouldn't be near an Ireland team. O'Kelly, Stringer and Dempsey are past their best and would Wallace and O'Driscoll get anywhere near another Country's test team? I think not. I'm quite worried about this 6 Nations campaign as their is very little new about the side. I thought we were supposed to be building for a World Cup in 3 years time? Not by the looks of this squad!!!!

Joni Mitchell - The River

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xCov0TYXBp8

Counting Crows - Colorblind

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y0s7ycdUcHk

Eva Cassidy - Time After Time (My Personal Favourite... amazing voice and this is live)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SMznNlfLXP4

Jose Gonzalez - Hand on Your Heart

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLGMWgHIgw

Antony & The Johnsons - Hope There's Someone (Haunting but very good, listen for the pianos at the end, very spooky)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm6PfBsXHjs&feature=related

Have to agree that Gaelic Football is the hardest. When younger it was always my aim to try and hit the 45s. Years and years of practice and I'd say if I've hit double figures of them I' be doing well. Played bits and pieces of Rugby but always found a Rugby ball fairly easy to hit with distanve and control. Haven't played much American football but I reckon I could do the same fairly handy.

If I had all 4 balls 45 yards out and slightly to either side it would be the Gaelic football I would struggle with the most.

Probably will be moved to the top pitch on a Saturday. That is if we haven't whored it out to whatever teams want it. You'd think there were no pitches at Owenbeg the amount of Derry games held on our pitch!!!!