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Have we any printers on board.  I am trying to find out what company on the island prints posters like the election posters and on that type of material.  Any help appreciated.

Dodi's Da is playing a blinder anyway according to Sky News.  He'd make a great manager that man, jesus you would be afraid to come in at half time.
Remember D'Unbelievables sketch, the pep talk for the hurling match, it has nothing on this man. 

Reading in the Sunday Tribune yesterday that we have no Black Maria or a Paddywagon in Laois and the Gardai had to go to Mountmellick or Rathdowney to arrest a fella during the week.  When they got there he was over six foot tall and would not fit in the small panda car so the boys borrowed a tractor with a horsebox and the put yer man in the horse box.  They had to drive slowly through the town with yer man looking over the back of the horsebox to the amusement of all watching.  And last year the Gardai had to hire a taxi to go to a break in.

Surely the man did not have to agree to travel in the horse box? He'll be lucky if judge Mary Martin doesn't sentence him to three laps of the Curragh.

I am downloading a free trial of a program at www.winzeal.com.  When I launch the setup it tells me I am missing a dll file, namely, msvbvm50.dll.    So off I toddle to Mr Googler and I find a free download of msvbvm50.dll.   Now that I jhave her, where do I copy and paste that file into?  Do I just copy it to the C drive or Program files or where?    Thanks. 

Should per chance ye take a peep in here lads I just want to say thanks for the good times.  When I heard the news first that you had both announced your retirement I honestly thought it was a bit of undercurrent associated with the St. Josephs U21 scenario and the county board.  Alas it is not to be and it seems now that the worst news for Laois football is for real and we go into the championship without yourselves and Fergal Byron, three players who never more deserved to have the three Leinster Championship medals and three All-Stars for your explots in '03.

Needless to say, if you decide to give it another crack there is not one person in Laois would not appreciate a change of mind.  I know I didn't have to go through the pain of the knee injury suffered against Westmeath Joe or travel to USA for treatment that would have put many out of the game and that you came back after that is credit to you. I am sure all gaels will agree that the three of ye were three gentlemen on and off the pitch and I know how much Tom was respected here in Dublin during his time with Round Towers.

I sincerely hope that the next time the Higgin's twins parade around Croke Park it will be on the day of an All-Ireland Final with the Laois team and if the have the pluck and courage of the Da it is a realistic objective.

Slan.

A spy satelite described as being the size of a Volkswage Van is out of control and is as lost as a bad forward line in. Due to hit earth anytime, anwhere you are warned "not to go near it, it is toxic !"

Leo Him Right on RTE says it is an embarresment to the space buffs.  The yoke cost ten times more than Croker twenty times full and some asshole who probably drives a big Ford Mustang and is on about one and a half grand a week took his hand off the joystick!   As I look out my window from where I sit I see no sign of it yet but I rang RTE and they told me that the chances of it hitting Delany's Pub, Ballyboden St Enda's Clubhouse or my house is pretty rare, I think I am allright.  Got a phone call from the bank though saying they needed a lodgement today that was due a week ago and they can feck off, not going out, far too dangerous.

A few weeks ago I filled out an application form to apply for the rules and regulations to qualify under the tenders process for supply of Business Services for the new Paediatric Hospital.   The HSE returned the document today by Email with the rules as an attachment in word.

Rule 1. said   "The names of interested parties will not be shared while the current competition is running"

This most important rule is there for very obvious reasons.  Then what did they do?
Well they did the same as Croke park did one time with the Premium Seats and instead of Blind Carbon Copy the copied the names of all us interested parties to each other !!    You couldn't make it up lads, I laughed when I saw my little company in there among the KPMGs and the Eircoms.  I'd say one of the fat cats will be out on his arse over this.

I find this game addictive !

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Any other ones.

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I think it was Eugeene McGee who said one time that we should burn te rule book.  The article below was printed in the Rooscommon Herald a few years ago. I have come to the conclusion that the GAA are coming a lose second to the HSE when it comes to admistration. (The health service monitoring comittee have a tender on e-tenders right now for blackberry phones for 70,000 despite the fact they have not made one single publication in two and half years.

I mention the HSE to try and put some focus on the argument for burning the ule book, if the GAA were a Plc how would we be view by the pblic at management level.  The first rule that needs to be changed is clarification of exactly what a manager is.  I would personally like to see each county have their own manager,  from their own county after the GAA set up a management "badge" system.  The idea of Mick O'Dwyer sitting in the K Club with Bailey discussing a possible move to Dublin a few weeks before Laois and Dublin met in the Leinster Final is one example.  Clear definitive rules regarding maximum expenses should be drawn up.

Here is what the sheep stealers paper said a few years ago although the bit about the boozy culchies out for a weekend is OTT !

The GAA's rulebook

FOR YEARS, nay decades, the GAA's rulebook stood sacrosanct. It was the bible of Gaelic games. It was invincible, even, perhaps, infallible.

All issues regarding rules were dealt with by experienced GAA officials. Their alleged "grasp and understanding" of the rules made them authoritative interpreters. Like an experienced parish priest ruling on the bible, their decisions were never questioned.

Now, in the case of the GAA rule book, all this has changed utterly. The bible may still retain much of its sense of authority but the GAA's Official Guide does not. It is now as wide open to attack as a clutch of chickens in the presence of a marauding fox. It has been thrown together over the decades in a slipshod, incoherent manner.

Successive GAA Congresses have added bits and taken bits off. The result has been cobbled together and called The Official Guide.

It now looks like a big rambling house that started off as a small comfortable cottage. Over the years it was extended in bits and pieces and is now gaining withered looks from the planning office.

According to rule 83 (b), another committee, Central Council, is "the final authority to interpret the rules." Note that there is no mention of the courts. Unfortunately experience has shown otherwise.

It is lacking so much in clarity and wide open to interpretation that it has left ordinary members in a hopeless quandary. There are a myriad of committees and councils involved in the process of applying rules of discipline, administration, playing rules and appeals. The ordinary GAA member would need to be a lawyer to survive the mystifying world of procedures and hearings.

Since, in the vast majority of cases, the ordinary GAA members isn't a lawyer, there has been an increasing trend to pursue the legal route.

This in spite of two unconstitutional GAA rules – numbers 83 (d) and 151(g) that tells members they do not have the right to take GAA matters to a court of law.

In some cases that route has been justified. In others it has not, particularly in cases where a clearly guilty party has sought legal loopholes to allow him escape merited punishment.

All this has led the GAA to seek a formula that will resolve GAA matters within GAA structures.

We now find ourselves faced with equally complex and confusing layers of committees and bodies. We have the CDC, CAC and the DRA. In somewhat plainer terms there is the Central Disciplinary Committee, the Central Appeals Committee and the Disputes Resolutions Committee.

The best of these is the DRA which was set up to provide arbitration for GAA disputes. It's objectives to minimise or avoid costly visits to the courts and provide a quicker, more adaptable but equally effective route to justice.

If they rule against you of course there's still the High Court. However, given that many members of the DRA have extensive legal and judicial experience, the odds will be heavily stacked against members of the Association opting for that route.

DRA interpretations of rule may mean a fitter, leaner and meaner rulebook in the future. I certainly hope so.

The simple reality, however, is that the GAA's Official Guide needs a major overhaul. Its rules are so lacking in clarity, so contradictory and so wide open to interpretation that this, at the end of the day, is the only way to bring some kind of order to rules chaos.

As a well-known GAA personality recently remarked "experienced people with legal and judicial experience should conduct the overhaul – not a group of culchies out for a boozy weekend at GAA Congress". 

Do our yellow cards carry over into the New Year or can we act the bollix completely until we get a first yellow again.  Also, I think the first one to get a yellow card in the New Year should be named and shamed!!.  Some posters on here are out to start a new years revolution and some rules need to be explained about what is a personal attack on a poster and what isn't, or as one of you mod's so succinctly put it to me one time, "stop playing the man and play the ball or I will ban you from the board"

Strange how times change, on one hand we have what would have been called persecution if the Black & Tan's had done it and on the other we have the same body, ie, the Government handing out free grants.
Strange times indeed !!

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I'll probably get decked meself if I run into Desmond but I probably should have posted the other thread in the form of a poll, but shur what matter.

The question basicly boils down to whether the GPA have caused and are continuing to cause a divide in the GAA regardless of whether they are right or wrong.
I know it sounds contradictory but in fairness when this board started out a lot of us complained about the attitude of our own county boards. I remember a namesake of mine who went and played hurling in USA because his partner was not allowed in to a player and wives dinner one night! Two boiled spuds and a bit of steak the cause of our town not having a player on the county team because they were not actually married. Only in Laois!

So, for example my view would be, yes the GPA did some good but now they should go away, even if the grant thing is abolished after round one, they should stay away.  Others will think completely different but I never thought it was a clear black and white issue as to what they are about in the first place because information circulated among their members is not fully available to us poor devils.  On that basis, I am voting No. 1

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Just wondering what members think as the year draws to a close and what impact the GPA have had on GAA in general.  Just lets leave aside the issue if we can for a  moment and try and evaluate what is likely to hapen in the New Year.

For example, say that what the GPA did was great, great for the players and they are getting a few bob. But the question is:  Have they created a distinct divide in the GAA, opened a Pandoras Box, created a division where for ever more as long as the GPA lasts that we will have a Men In Suits v Men in Tracksuits.

Even say that you disagree with whatr the GPA have done or achieved or imposed or whatever you want to term it as, the pro GPA lobby would argue that it is a "done deal", it is over, accept it and move on.  But will we move on?  Do you see the man with the brief case fitting in beside the man that carries the teams kit bags and minds the hurleys in the coming year.

My own view is that in the first instance there is clarification required from the Government as to whether the grant was a one off or an annual one. If it is a one off there is no point in discussing it, but while discussions rage on those discussions should not mask the other agendas that the GPA might have in terms of sponsorship deals.  They should come out and say now whether they have a proposal for indvidual sponsorship deals or who or what a player can do without being a member of the GPA or being a member, whichever is relevant.

When they have done that they should come back with a proposal for all club members throughout the country to vote on acceptance or rejection of their agenda.  Otherwise they should say, ok, we got the grant we were looking for, we have done what we set out to do and the players will be looked after from now on and in order that every club throughout the country can concentrate on issues that are more important like transfers of players between counties, GAC isues and rules concerning suspensions and the prohibition of legal actions by players suspensions etc, and we are standing down and leaving all outstanding issues in the hands of central council

Not to be I'm afraid, I have as much believe in of such a proposal being implemented as I have in Old Nick being a living legend.

After being out in the Beacon hotel or Bacon Hotel there in Sandyford and saw Brent Pope being interviewd by a TV crew.  Hear all is not well and the D4 gang have discovered that the ones with the credit card accounts in the FAI spent too much money. There is an underestimate of Millions in the new Landsdown Road project and the gov say they are not providing any more dosh in form of grants other than what they have already allocated.  IRFU say they can come up with the shortfall if the FAI can.  FAI have no team manager, no team and no way of raising extra funds required.  Should be an exciting Christmas for their negotiating team if not for their football team.

Comes home to find an invitation to buy tickets in advance for Ireland v Brazil in February and Ireland V Serbia in Croke Park reminding me of how exciting the games will be.

Anyone in the elec game know anything about the newest thing we will be swarmed with in 2008 in the form of white light from LED's and already used in CCTV cameras to replace the Infrared yokes.  My own research tells me that we will have no more light bills other than little ones and the traditional bulbs and downlights that turn the meter wheel faster than Peter Canavan will be a thing of the past.

Anyone used them or tried them as I believe you can get them in corresponding watts to light any room?



Aye, and the come with a ten year or nearly lifetime guarantee and work off 12V DC

Did anyone hear that the ref's are going on strike?  Seems that they have to be fitter than any player all year and particularly on the day of the A.I.F when the ould ref is the most important man in Croke Park.  Fecked if I would run up and down Croke Park at full tilt for an hour and a half if the fella in the goal looking at me was getting two or ten thousand on the recomemndation of Micko or the GPA.  Davy Fitz from Clare or Davy Fitz from Wexford used to be nearly on their knees after one run up to take a free and sure the ref has to tyrain and be as fit as anyone.

Anyone reading the story of the Dub's mascot being missing, a little terrier, that went to every game, etc  ---- names on poles, please find him etc.
Lost Cause, owners presented with a new dog !  Dogs name? Bud!
Why so?  
" Me sun came home one day and saw the dog and said, howya Bud and the dogs ears pricked up" and from that day we decided to call him "Bud" but then we realised that "Bud" spelled backwards actually means " Dub"

I implore you, your Holiness, in this hour of need, this dog has nothing to do  with me.

In the area where I live we have had an awful lot of tragic accidents but none worse than the one we had here last week. I don't want to go into detail other than to say that a mother was in the bedroom with her two yr old and ran down to accept a parcel from the postman.  The TV was on a chest of drawers and one of the drawers was pulled out where she was tidying and the child stood on the opened drawer to reach up to the telly.  It fell on him and despite every effort the injuries were fatal.

I only mention this because in another thread I read where dads expressed how proud they were of their little kids and the real reason I mention it is because a similar accident could happen again so check the old telly for stability so that all the wee ones are safe over Christmas. I would prefer if the details I described do not become a talking point in an extended thread about what happened, why it happened etc, just don't let it happen to you.

Dave Guiney has the following add in the Wexford People !

"AVAILABLE - Ex county hurler with 15 yrs experience prepared to come out retirement. High mileage but willing to train seven nights a week for the privelage to represent my county and to play in Croke Park. No pay required. Contact Dave Guiney, Rathnure."