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I broke mine a few months ago in the same way.  You can ring Apple and they'll sympathise, but they'll blame you and make you pay for it.  They design all their products to break easily.  In fact, I'm convinced their iphones are styled perfectly to slip out of your hand and break.  Ridiculous.  Many of use our phones to watch things like Netflix, sky etc, but you can't lay them on their side because they'll slip.  Glad to see they're losing market share.  They need a good kick up the ass.  I'm thinking of moving to Huaiwei

So you also hate Bill Gates, a man who has donated his $65bn fortune to good causes.

Thanks Magpie. I was just randomly looking at Obama's launch of his candidacy in Springfield in 2004.  What music did he walk out to?  U2 - 'Oh You Look So Beautiful' A future POTUS choosing the music of four lads from north Dublin who answered an ad on their school notice board. U2 are the best thing to have come out of this country.

Steve Coogan
Rob Brydon
Blindboy out of the Rubber Bandits
Brian May
Noel Gallagher
Mary McAleese

Not surprised Anderson was beaten in the semi final so convincingly. He hadn't a great competition. Didn't really get going to the extent that we know he can. Hasn't recovered from Gerwyn price who beat him in the Grand Slam by getting into his head. He also embarrassed himself by his vulgar comment in the semi final of that competition whit talk about farting. Not sad to see him go, although I like him. James Wade another huge disappointment with his behaviour on the oche and his inane ramblings off it. The ten players picked for the Premier League will be very interesting tonight. My guess is MVG, Anderson, Wright, Gurney, Wade, Smith, Lewis, Suljovic, Cross, Chisnall.  No place for Barney. He has been treading water for the past three years and looks bored. he gives the impression he doesn't want to be there. SO he shouldn't.

It's probably time to nail the tax thing.  There are 2 U2s.  The first one is the four lads from Dublin who formed and still play in a band.  They live in and pay all their taxes in Ireland.  Always have done.  Then there is the second U2 - The publishing and touring arm of the outfit.  This is a global, multi national operation and doesn't owe Ireland anything really.  U2, like all bands, make most of their money nowadays from touring, since streaming has made album sales not very lucrative. Since 2016, U2 have done three world tours (Innocence, Joshua Tree, Experience) and have played 187 concerts (Innocence 76, Joshua Tree 51, Experience 60) In that time, they have played in Ireland (including Belfast) 12 times.  This works out about 6% of their output for the past three years have been in Ireland and U2 pay that amount to the Irish exchequer. For their international income, they are perfectly entitled to find the best location to maximise profit. There isn't another company in the world that would do any different. In fact, Ireland itself is a tax refuge for Facebook, Google, Apple and other companies who want to pay less corporation tax because of our favorable tax rues which attract these companies.  U2 are no longer an 'Irish' rock group.  Haven't been for many years.  They are based in Ireland, but are an international phenomenon. It is typical of their detractors and begrudgers that they would seek to pick on this element of their operation to take pot shots at them.  The fact that those 187 shows are all sold out, global world tours is lost on those people. We should be proud of U2.  It speaks volumes about our collective attitude that some of us save their most vitriolic comment on what is our best artistic export.

Anderson is great when it's going his way but just can't take a beating.  I saw him give verbals to Gurney too when he was being beaten by him and Barney too.  I thought his interview about the farting incident was vulgar and very unpleasant. 

Just wondering what you think of this guy. Some of his podcasts are really brilliant. Comes across as really intelligent, but what's with the plastic bag over the face etc?  Anyone know anything about him at all?  Seems to talk some really socio economic sense.

I've moved to Harry's recently. Far better. Cheaper. They work out what your needs are and then send you them each month.

Mayo manger has just done a very interesting interview with Woolly which shines a strong light into that squad.  he appears to be an excellent manager and was quite diplomatic in his analysis, but the message was clear.  Carnacon to blame.  Precious, touchy and led up the garden path.

Ten members (Cora included) have walked out of the squad citing 'personal differences'. No statement from either side.

I don't think Joey's son took anything to do with the road racing.

It's on FM.
The excuse traditionally was that the Sunday religious programmes clash with the GAA games and apparently 'Sounds Sacred' can never ever be moved, such is its importance to the 25 or so people who listen to it.  I think to move a religious programme off its slot to allow for the 'IRA at Play' would be far too much for our evangelical zealots to endure and Ulster would explode as a result.

So then a few years ago  the GAA moved games to a Saturday and guess what - even though there's usually a sports programme on at the very time the GAA game is on, lo and behold, it's also on MW.

You couldn't make it up...

I believe both of these fellas (Watson and Taggart) are quite decent guys, but to go five years on your twitter feed commenting about every single sport apart from the most popular one in your region, speaks volumes.  Ulster final, 30000 supporters, but warrants nothing, no comment, not even a mention from the two main sports reporters for the main broadcasting unit in the region.  All Ireland final - 87000 supporters on the biggest sporting days in the calendar of this island and not even a murmur from either of them.  If you check the GAA BBC reporters, their twitter feed is much more representative and inclusive. 

This in a nutshell sums up the entirety of the BBCNI Sport attitude to the GAA. 

Passive aggression all the way.

It's a mixture of a few things; a total lack of desire in any way to want to get to know our games, a complete lack of understanding of what and who we are and how embedded our games are in terms of our identity and of course, the little bit of themmuns all thrown in.

To give an illustration of all this, I'll just throw in a simple factual example.  Stephen Watson and Joel Taggart are the two main sports reporters in BBCNI.  GAA is the main sport within the region of the BBC where they report.  Just check their twitter feed.  Go back for four, five years.  Not one mention of any GAA event, match, occasion, situation.  Not a picture.  Not a comment.  Nothing.  It is just totally ignored as if it doesn't exist.  Now, in what other parallel universe would this happen?