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I haven't seen any either. Are you lot swarmed with midgies up the mountain ONeill? Home from home for you.

No wasp problems down Mexico way this year but the midgies are driving me bananas. Great thing is that they're so stupid and slow, you can kill em off dead handy. Not like those nifty houseflies, tricky bastards.

Wasps though. Jaysus.

Ziggy, getting stung won't cure ya. I was told the same the summer I was working in the hospital emptying bins -- wasp bastards everywhere. Made it the whole summer without being stung and got done on the last day. Typical. Stil terrified of the bastards.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned former Kildare legend Bill Sex. Dinny must be off at the rugby..

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Four races to go, Hamilton ahead by 3 pts and 4th on the grid tomorrow. A Ferrari win will only get either Raikkonen or Massa within spitting distance assuming Hamilton or Alonso bail out at some point. It's getting interesting.

What you have to remember is that Senna and Prost were two of the greatest drivers ever, who had many years together on the same track. Of course you were going to have some epic battles. Senna was probably the most naturally talented driver ever. Prost not far behind. If Senna had lived there would have been some equally epic battles with Schumi, who although not as natural a driver, was a more technical driver and could get the best out of his car in any conditions.
At the minute there are no really outstanding drivers and regulations arent helping matters either, but lately there has been some good races, especially in the rain. Watch out for Spa in 3 weeks time, best track on the entire F1 calendar and you never know what the weather will be like. Good to see Belgium back on the F1 map.

Good indeed to have Spa back, a great driver track. Lest we forget the first GP which Jordan won.

WHY ARE KILKENNY AS GOOD AS THEY ARE AT HURLING?WOULD THEY BE ANY GOOD AT FOOTBALL IF THEY TRIED?

Yeah i'd say they could play at a half decent level if they tried..

In my part of the world there's very little hurling played but when a team was set up in mid-90s all the good footballers naturally were v. good hurlers.

I'd say if you forced Kilkenny to field a football team instead of a hurling team next year they'd give it a good shot in Leinster. Sure they have a Laois man doing their physical training. Curious that their senior team is hard as nails and ours...... well I won't go there.

TV3 Irish wildcards

Glennon - Reddan ( with stringer on bench)
Costelloe - Quinlan
Henderson - Carney

Dinny is defintely watching setanta  .

Flannery will come in for Rory Best. I think EOS will drop stringer and replace with Boss- the ultimate wrong move IMO...I am really in anybody but boss camp. Anyway there always has to be one "Ulster" representative.

The token Nordie question is an easy one IYAM cos Neil Best is far better than Simon Easterby. Boss was dodgy alright but I thought Stringer was VERY poor in the speed and quality of his passing. Seems like it takes 5 minutes for ball to clear the ruck and another 5 to get the pass out wide..

If it's a really big do you should get Micheál O Muircheartaigh

I don't think he's too expensive.

Have heard Micheál before and he's very good. It was actually a corporate do for a mobile phone company, and he managed to work in an anecdote about the first All-Ireland final where somebody was able to phone somebody else at home with the result, as opposed to waiting at the train station for the news. As anecdotes go it was a good one. He also worked the room very well and put in a few minutes chat with anyone who wanted to talk to him afterwards.

Don't get me started on Micko though..... let's just say he'd take the fillings out of your head if he thought they were worth anything.

What about Plunkett Donaghy. One of the best first names ever if you ask me, he had to have gone far with that under his belt?

I would love to know the general consensus on this. For me the whole thing has a woeful bad taste to it. I have two Grannies still on the go (TG) and surviving on the pension isn't easy for them. Signing away the house would definitely make life easier for them and none of the rest of us would be any worse off for losing the inheritance.

Is it right though that some financial institution should benefit enormously from fronting up a few bob to our grannies and grandads?

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beat france and we will go through otherwise out.

If we can't counteract Georgia playing tight and putting us under pressure what hope do we have against France? We just aren't playing well and that's not going to change by next Friday. Eddie is a great man for logic etc. and it's fair enough saying we just have to improve, but logically how is that improvement going to happen?

The finacial end of the punishment is quite severe, but they seem to have let the drivers off scot free. Surely the drivers are the main beneficiaries of this cheating and should share the punishment with the rest of the team.
Schumacher was stripped of second place in the championship because of one on-track incident, whereas the McClaren drivers have been benefitting for a couple of years because of the illegal actions of their team, yet they get off. Its a very strange decision which seem to benefit Lewis Hamilton more than anyone else???

I agree with this 5ivetTimes. FIA no more than any professional sporting organisation have their eye on the money and
Hamilton winning the championship would be HUGE for F1. HUGE. He's the "Tiger Woods of F1". He might possibly break F1 in the States. The hype will guarantee revenue from the Brits. He's is the only reason they haven't sanctioned the drivers.

We're out, gone, finished. Not a hope of beating France and Argentina. Lucky not to lose! f**king devastated by this. I would give anything to know what the f**k is going on with this team. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Ruck ball was unbelievably slow, half to do with the Georgian effort but half our own f**king fault. Kicking was horrendous. We edged out Argentina in Lansdowne a couple of years back by being patient and kicking well. Every team in this tournament knows exactly how to beat us and our only way of counteracting it is not working.

Again I would give anything to know what's going on, something's not right there. If you ask me there's a strong comparison with the Kerr era of the soccer team, players got fed up with "paralysis by analysis" or whatever. I would guess another 4 years of O'Sullivan is sticking in the craw of some players. If Munster played Georgia would the result be like tonight? Not a hope.

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has any one ever got a stalker on the GAA board??

I don't know if that means the same thing in Armagh as it does in Laois but I think A4SA might be enjoying posting a little too much.

We've done it a couple of times in the last few years.

Micko was suspended from the sideline last year for incursions onto the pitch against Offaly I think but we successfully appealed with the help of video evidence.
Also appealed Brendan Quigley's suspension ahead of the Leinster U21 final against Offaly this year.

What county boards "usually" take their punishment (most of the time) and get on with things ?

Depends on whether the punishment was justified or not in the first place doesn't it?

Me ma dishing up the dinner and saying "what's your man saying" the whole way through the minor match.

Disappointing for our lads. Everybody's talking about the referee, exactly how bad was he?