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Lads when i am using the internet at home the page i am on keeps freezing, when i close it i get the old "programme is not responding" message. It has been happening for about a week now, the signal strength icon on the bottom corner of my screen is still saying "excellent" so would this be a problem with my computer or BT as my internet provider? Cheers

Just incase anyone was thinking of getting one, it is an 02 and Carphone Warehouse promotion. Apple are still selling them for £269.

Lads i am looking for a good pair of running shoes, from what i have heard Asics seem to be the best about. What are the best sites for a decent pair?

Experience is a hard master.........



Men killed as stolen car crashes 


Two men have died after the stolen car in which they were travelling crashed in south Belfast early on Sunday.

The car was in collision with another vehicle on the Lisburn Road near the King's Hall at about 0430 BST.

Police said the driver of the other car was taken to hospital. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

The victims' names have not been released. The road was closed for several hours after the crash but has now been reopened.

SDLP Councillor Bernie Kelly said it demonstrated how car crime could lead to tragedy.

"Belfast City Council has a community safety partnership. We are involved with the police and all the key partners to try and get rid of this type of behaviour," she said.

"I would appeal to the local community to work with us on that. I would appeal to young men, it usually is young men, to desist in this kind of dangerous behaviour that leads to a lot of heartache."

Police have appealed for information.

Lads my missus is hell bent on going to see one of these fraudsters, her Granda died a month ago. I have told her they will do nothing but part you with your money. Has anyone had any experience of them?

Anyone watching these mad f**kers? Going game shooting in South Africa,shooting zebras and tigers etc.

Came back to work today after being off on a relaxing refreshing break over easter,went to log on to Gaa Board but the NICS surf control denied me access as the site was classified as "chat", anyone know a way round this,or is there one? What the fcuk else do they expect me to do at work?

Todays Irish News - maybe someone could post the full article.


North Down DUP councillor John Montgomery and his party colleagues are objecting to the Marks & Spencer whipping cream being labelled as Irish and not Northern Irish. Mr Montgomery has accused the supermarket of mislabelling and shortchanging local farmers.

Alliance councillor Ian Parsley described the row as a "waste of time". M&S refused to comment........

Well i for one am glad the councillors are using their time constructively....

[Murder probe as attacked man dies]

Murder probe as attacked man dies 

The police have begun a murder inquiry after the death of a man who was beaten up to 60 times at his home in west Belfast.
Frank McGreevy, 51, a former republican prisoner, had been on a life support machine following Saturday's attack in Ross Street. He died in hospital.

A 20-year-old man, who handed himself into police, remains in custody.

Mr McGreevy was found injured by his 15-year-old son, Francis. He also had another son, Tiernan, who is nine.


It is not clear if Mr McGreevy was attacked after confronting young people about anti-social behaviour.


A forensic examination of the attack scene was carried out

The PSNI have said that the man who is being questioned handed himself in to Grosvenor Road police station.

Police have appealed for anyone who was part of a group outside Mr McGreevy's flat at about 1830 GMT to contact them.

Sinn Fein and SDLP politicians met senior officers at Grosvenor Road police station on Monday.

Afterwards, the politicians called for a broad community-based approach to tackling the problems in the area.

Started at 7.15pm

Can anyone post the article? I dont know if this is worthy of a thread on its own but Mods can feel free to move it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7291907.stm

Lads there is a girl in my office is away to do toning tables at lunchtime, she has my head melted listening to her. She said 10 minutes on them is the same as an hour in the gym, she must mean standing watching everyone else for an hour in the gym. It seems to be a typical woman thing, ie lazy, i told her there is no substitute for exercise and cutting out the cream buns. I take it these things are a load of sh*te?

Anyone looking to go? Tickets going on sale tomorrow.

£40k spent on rapist in one week 


More than £40,000 has been spent by the police in just one week protecting and monitoring a convicted rapist in County Tyrone.
Eamon Foley served eight years of a 16-year sentence for the rape of 91-year-old Mary Ann McLaughlin in 1999.

He was released two weeks ago and has since been living in a house near Omagh.

People in the area have been campaigning for him to be moved.

Kenny Adair, who lives next door to Foley, said the amount being spent on protecting and monitoring him was "ridiculous".

"More than £40,000 this is costing for a week for one man. We wouldn't even have that in the village in maybe five or six years through tourism.

"It would have been cheaper to keep him in (prison) or monitor him somewhere else."

[Biographer's Keane attack]

Biographer's Keane attack
Eamon Dunphy, Roy Keane's biographer, has launched a withering attack on the Sunderland manager, accusing him of becoming a "bull*******g" talking head. "When we were working on that book [Keane's autobiography], he hated the bull**** that was part of manager-speak," Dunphy said. "Now he holds press conferences every week in which he anoints David O'Leary to be the next Ireland manager, anoints Terry Venables as the next Ireland manager. He's talked about how wonderful it is for the Premier League to play more games abroad, and he's just become rent-a-quote. "This is a smart human being and he's been sucked into that Premier League vacuousness, and it's sad to see Roy Keane bull*******g."

The PSNI are looking for a "rotund male" from Poyntzpass known as Mr T Fearon. Perhaps somebody could post the article from todays Tele.

Gerry and his wife are to sell their "luxury" Co Down house after Armstrong has been tormented by a stalker, who has been inundating him with "lewd" and "aggressive" text messages.

A good thing in my view, the Eastwoods bookies are invariably dives and perhaps they could retrain some of their hatchet faced staff.......

Eastwoods bookies in £135m sale 

Ladbrokes has bought 54 Eastwood shops
The Eastwoods chain of bookmakers in Northern Ireland has been bought by Ladbrokes in a deal worth £135m.
Ladbrokes has bought 54 Eastwood shops, making it Northern Ireland's largest gambling outlet with 70 shops in total.

Eastwood's was established in the 1950s by BJ and Frances Eastwood and is Northern Ireland's best-known family bookmaker with shops in most towns.

Joe Lewins of Ladbrokes Ireland said there were no plans to reduce the 300 staff employed by Eastwoods.

Mr Lewins, the company's managing director, said: "We are investing and growing in Northern Ireland and this will mean new opportunities for the workforce.

"Leading edge technology will be installed and the full Ladbrokes service will follow. All UK racing will be part of the service."

Ladbrokes already has 16 outlets in the northwest, acquired when it bought Northwest Bookmakers two years ago.


Ladbrokes' purchase also includes the Eastwood telephone betting business headquartered in Belfast.

It is already the largest bookmaker in the Republic of Ireland, where it operates in 201 locations.

The £135m price tag is thought to include goodwill payments and a leaseback of the freehold properties.

BJ Eastwood said: "Ladbrokes is a world-leading name in betting and all our staff can be reassured that they will be investing in the business and offering more opportunities.

"The betting business is a fast-changing one and, having talked to several companies, we believe Ladbrokes were the best company to take the business forward in Northern Ireland."

I was under the impression it was all free now, i went to read a story and was told to "login or subscribe"..........Anyone else notice this?

[two mentally disabled women]

Sick bastards.



Twin bombs kill scores in Baghdad 
 
More than 70 people have been killed by two bombs in Baghdad, attached to two mentally disabled women and detonated remotely, says a security official.

"The al-Qaeda terrorists and criminals are proud of this method," Brig Qassem Ata al-Moussawi told the BBC.

The death toll in Friday morning's attacks at two animal markets was the highest in months in Baghdad.

Correspondents say a fragile sense of normality had returned to the capital following an influx of US troops.

Security has improved significantly since the US implemented its troop "surge" in the second half of 2007.

A ceasefire announced in August by the Mehdi Army militia of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, as well as the emergence of local Sunni militia armed by the US military that took on al-Qaeda in Iraq, have also contributed to the sense of security.

Figures released by Iraqi ministries on Friday suggested that the number of civilians and security forces killed across Iraq in January - 541 - was the lowest monthly total for nearly two years.


But that renewed confidence could be shattered by Friday's deadly bombings, the worst to hit the Iraqi capital since three car bombs killed 80 people last 1 August.


The blasts came shortly before the call to Friday prayers when many Iraqis were out shopping or meeting friends.

The first device was detonated by a female suicide bomber at around 1020 local time (0720GMT) in the popular Ghazil animal market, killing at least 46 people and injuring a further 80.

A popular spectacle for Baghdadis, the animal market only opens on Fridays and regularly draws large crowds, despite having been targeted by bombers twice in 2007.

Just 20 minutes after the first explosion, a second bomb tore through another crowded market in the Jadida area of east Baghdad, killing at least 27 people and injuring 67.

PREVIOUS GHAZIL MARKET BOMBS

June 2006 - Four killed by two bombs left in bags
Dec 2006 - Three killed in mortar attack
26 Jan 2007 - 15 killed by bomb hidden in box of birds
23 Nov 2007 - 13 killed in attack blamed on Iranian-backed Shia militants




Iraqi security forces spokesman Brig Moussawi told the BBC: "The operation was carried out by two booby-trapped mentally disabled women. [The bombs] were detonated remotely.

"Forensic and bomb squad experts as well as the people and traders of al-Shorja area of the carpet market have confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there today was often in the area and was mentally disabled...

"In the New Baghdad area the shop owners and customers of the pet market confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there was mentally disabled as well."

The US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, said al-Qaeda had found a "different, deadly" technique.

"There is nothing they won't do if they think it will work in creating carnage and the political fallout that comes from that," he said.

Police and medical officials piled the dead and injured into wheelbarrows, cars and the back of pick-up trucks to be transported to five hospitals across the city.

An official at the capital's Kindi hospital said at least 30 bodies had been received.

"We have a disaster here," he said. "There are too many bodies to count."