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I have been wondering what people on here think the word 'discussion' means... as in GAA Discussion Board. More and more I see when people don't agree with some-one's viewpoint, they move in to take out the man (woman) rather than adressing the arguements they are making. Hence comments like... you are talking shite... you are full of shite... and other worse insults which really mean nothing. Was a popular tactic of the GPA during the 'Pay for Play' row, known as playing the man rather than the ball. It often then descends into trading insults which is hardly discussion.... any thoughts.... (no prizes for saying I am talking shite here  ) 

[Racially abused Croat given £50k]

Where do these rascists get off, going over this type of sh*t?
Pity this f**er wasn't charged...

Racially abused Croat given £50k

A Croatian man who was racially abused at his workplace has been awarded £53,596 by an industrial tribunal.
Nenad Zubin, 41, who has lived in NI for over 20 years, worked at Brett Martin, a polycarbon sheeting company based at Mallusk.
He was dismissed from his post for misconduct in 2007 but took a case against the company on the grounds of racial discrimination.
The tribunal ruled the company had ignored the harassment he suffered.

Mr Zuban, who worked as a process operator at the plant, was told at one point that "the Serbs were just right to rape your women and children".
The incident which ultimately led to his dismissal occurred on 30 October 2007 on a night shift when he was discovered by his supervisor lying on the floor near his machine.
Vendetta
He was subsequently sacked for being asleep at work but claimed that he had been subject to a vendetta by the supervisor who found him.

The tribunal accepted evidence which indicated that this vendetta included the supervisor racially abusing Mr Zuban, scrapping his work, and crossing his name off time-sheets.
Witnesses for Mr Zuban corroborated his evidence that the supervisor often made derogatory comments about his nationality.
These included: "The Serbs were just right to rape your women and children" and "See that Croatian fella, he left his wife and 18 kids and came here on the back of a lorry".
The tribunal's judgement said that it was "shocking" that the supervisor had got away with making such comments and found the company liable for his acts.
It found that management at the company had "effectively condoned" racist bullying by doing nothing about it.
The judgement described a "culture of fear" at the company and said that at times the behaviour of the human resources department was "reprehensible."

[Dungannon]

Any theories on this one you super sleuths? It is  a bit sick...


Foetus dumped at DARD vet's home
A calf foetus has been left at the home of a Department of Agriculture veterinary official in the Dungannon area, the department has said.

Tests are under way to establish if the foetus was infected with the highly contagious cattle disease brucellosis.
The department said it would use DNA analysis to establish which cattle herd the foetus came from.
The Agriculture and Rural Development Minister said she was "appalled by this irresponsible action".
The minister, Michelle Gildernew, said: "We will follow up this latest incident as rigorously as possible."

In January, an attempt was made to infect a herd in Armagh using an infected foetus dumped in a field.
It was found near feeding buckets where cows, calves and a bull were grazing at Lislea, but did not come from the herd.
The foetus had been opened from its neck to its belly, with meal placed over it and inside it.

I see in Irish News that Kevin McGourty is giving out about Usain Bolt getting an honourary degree from Queens rather than it going to a local athlete. He mentions soccer and rowing but says he especially advocates a GAA player as that is his sport. He suggested Sean O'Neill former Down and Queens star as an appropriate choice.  I suppose he has a point but...  Kevin McGourty... 

[Police fears over 'Anyone but England' T-shirt]

Right you PCs... is this racist? 


Police fears over 'Anyone but England' T-shirt

A company selling "Anyone but England" T-shirts for this year's World Cup has rejected suggestions it is racist after police in Aberdeen visited its store.
Police warned Slanj, which also has stores in Glasgow and Edinburgh, that a window display featuring the shirt could cause offence.
Grampian officers advised a store worker to consider whether the display was appropriate and should be removed.
A spokesman for Slanj said staff were "flabbergasted" by the warning.
Ross Lyle, from the company, said: "To be honest we're absolutely flabbergasted.
"We have been selling this T-shirt for the past three months and we've had a great response.
We would be failing in our duty if we did not make people aware of the potential for disturbance such a window display could cause
"Even the English people who come into the store think it's a laugh and just a bit of tongue-in-cheek football banter.
"We're certainly not being racist. We are the same race as the English. It's just daft to say it's offensive."

A spokesman for Grampian Police said the force's visit to the Slanj store was not in response to any public complaint about the shirt slogan and was prompted by an officer acting on his own initiative.
In a statement, the force said it was purely an "advisory visit" and there was no criminal investigation as a result.
Pc Kirk Hemmings added: "The primary role of any police force is to preserve the peace and we would be failing in our duty if we did not make people aware of the potential for disturbance such a window display could cause.
"The Grampian area, in common with the rest of the country, has recorded incidents relating to nationality and we have a responsibility to do our best to ensure that incidents of this nature are kept to a minimum.
"The public expect no less of us."

 I see the Kerry brothers are going crazy on another discussion board after Galvin got 8 weeks. It was actually four and doubled to eight for previous suspensions.
Does seem  a bit harsh and also ironic after they laughed at Tyrone's complaints about all the Cs.

..."The Central Competitions Control Committee have proposed an eight-week ban for Kerry's Paul Galvin, after his sending off in last weekend's NFL clash against Cork at Páirc Uí Rinn.
Galvin is expected to request a personal hearing."

Who can stop these stupid threads about who can stop different counties? They are grinding my gears...

[it should have not been on the road as it did not have a valid road test certificate.]

This is unbelievable that this boy gets 12 months after all the adverts about driving and then he causes this devastation  ... disgraceful


Motorist jailed over mother, daughter crash death

A 21-year-old man has been jailed for a year for dangerous driving after causing the death of a mother and her daughter in County Donegal in 2008.
Sean Goldrick from Dunlewey, pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of Martina McLernon, 45, and her daughter Louise, 15, from Toome, County Antrim.
Letterkenny Court was told Goldrick lost control, hit a car then ploughed into the pair, killing them instantly.

The victims were out for a walk and had been staying at their holiday home.
Goldrick was formally sentenced for two years on each charge of dangerous driving but the judge suspended the final 12 months of the sentence.
He was also disqualified from driving for seven years and was refused leave to appeal.
The sentences are to run concurrently, in effect, Goldrick will only serve one year in jail.

Irish police at the scene of the crash only identified the victims when Mrs McLernon's son rang her on her mobile phone which lay in her cardigan at the side of the road.
The court heard that Goldrick bought the 1990 Toyota Carina car for 350 euro and it should have not been on the road as it did not have a valid road test certificate.
Mr McLernon said in his victim impact statement that his son Gerard - his only remaining child, had been deeply traumatised by the deaths and found it difficult to talk about his mother and sister.

"His last of memory of them is ringing his mother's phone and it being answered by a Garda who told him they had been knocked down."

Mr McLarnon also said Goldrick never apologised to them prior to the case and that the family were deeply hurt by this.
Judge John O'Hagan said that dangerous driving was a "particular problem" in Donegal.
He described Mr Goldrick's driving as "reckless in the extreme".

In sentencing he said there must be a custodial sentence.

"The message has to go out to young people in Donegal that when they drive like this and do something wrong they are in serious trouble.
"This is not easy but I must send out a strong message," he said.

[DUP in Drumcree march 'cultural apartheid' blast]

Nelson 'lacrosse' McCausland does nae gi a hoot aboot the local yins.
Ironic remarks about apartheid on the 20th anniversary of his namesake Nelson Mandela's release.   


DUP in Drumcree march 'cultural apartheid' blast  

The DUP's Nelson McCausland has accused the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition of trying to introduce "cultural apartheid" into Northern Ireland.

Orangemen have been banned since 1997 from going down the mainly nationalist road after their Drumcree parade.

Mr McCausland said residents "were trying to claim ownership of particular roads and say 'you cannot go there without our consent'".
"There is not other way to describe that but cultural apartheid," he said.

However, Brendan MacCionnaith, spokesperson for the GRRC, said that Orangemen could take the same route back from the church as the one they take to get there.

He said that if there was going to be dialogue "then all the options had to be on the table".

"The right to freedom of assembly does not equate to an absolute right to march," he said.

Mr McCausland, Northern Ireland's Culture Minister, was speaking after a DUP delegation met the Parades Commission, which rules on contentious parades, on Thursday.

In a statement the commission described the meeting as " a positive and useful exchange".

"We urge everyone in a position of influence to promote and encourage dialogue in Portadown and wherever parades are disputed," it said in a statement.

"The Commission hopes that all parties in Drumcree will see the merit of dialogue and agree that it is the best way forward."

Before 1998, attempts to ban the parade from going down the road resulted in loyalist rioting both in Portadown and across Northern Ireland.

However, when the 1998 march was forced through the Garvaghy Road it sparked republican rioting.

[Praise for paramedic who treated patient after attack]

This should get the sap rising... am loathe to use the word 'scum' as often bandied about on this board but these f***ers are the dregs... while yer ambulance man was heroic

Praise for paramedic who treated patient after attack  
The ambulance service has praised a paramedic who continued to treat a woman, after he was attacked by a group in Derry last weekend.
The man was punched, kicked and dragged across the road while attending a traffic accident at the junction of Strand Road and Rock Road on Saturday.
John McPoland from the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service praised his actions.
"Some bystanders, who we believe were intoxicated, kicked and punched and dragged him," he said.
"At that point I think most people would think, 'that's it, I've had enough,' but to his credit he realised the patient needed his help.
"So he stayed at the scene and treated her as well as he could."

A few posters on another thread said Harry Hill is for '12 year olds' and 'morons'... as the Fox is neither and wouldn't miss this show... is it funny or not?...  there's only one way to find out...Fight!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWLETnpcKqs

The big day has come and the excitement is too much... the Harry Hill 'Knitted Character' competiton starts this evening... but how would he fare against the charisma of McDonnell and Richie?...  Those SDLP folk sure are spoilt for choice 

[six years and 11 months]

I think in south prisoners serve two thirds of sentence ater than half in the north.
Any thoughts?... I expected him to get longer...

Lillis sentenced for wife's manslaughter

Eamonn Lillis has been sentenced to six years and 11 months in prison for the manslaughter of his wife Celine Cawley.

Judge Barry White at the Central Criminal Court said it is clear from the jury verdict that they had rejected his contention that he had no responsibility for his wife's death.

He said that manslaughter can range in gravity and in determining the appropriate sentence in this case he had counselled the opinion from both the prosecution and defence.
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He said that as a judge he must consider those views and in doing so he said he has had regard to the evidence heard in front of the jury.

Justice White said that evidence discloses that having injured Celine Cawley he had at least had the decency to call the emergency services.

The judge said as far as he could see that was the only decent act Lillis committed on the day of his wife's death.

He said that before the emergency call was made, Lillis took time to hide clothes in the attic and make up a story about a burglary.

Mr Justice White said that account was repeated in the days following the death and he said he even went so far as to point the finger of suspicion at an innocent man.

He said even though gardaí afforded several chances to tell the truth the lie persisted, until he had been charged and taken into custody.

Judge White said he considered it appropriate he should consider the lies and the cover up that Lillis carried out and its effect on the Cawley family.

Lillis, 52, was found not guilty of Celine Cawley's murder but guilty of her manslaughter last week.

He was due to be sentenced yesterday, but Mr Justice Barry White said he needed time to consider statements delivered in court yesterday.

Lillis spent last night in jail after his sentencing hearing was adjourned.

Judge White called on the media to respect the privacy of the Cawley family, he said the case had attracted an extraordinary amount of media attention and he had observed on news reports a 'scrum' of media outside the court.

He described the behaviour as an affront to human dignity.

The judge said he was conscious that upon Lillis's release from prison he is likely to still be of interest in the media and he said he was taking that into account in imposing sentence on him.

Leave to appeal the sentence was refused.

[Harte wants April Croke Park date]

Does he think we are made of money?... There are enough away games to follow without this ...

Harte wants April Croke Park date

Mickey Harte believes Tyrone's 2010 NFL clash with Dublin should be played in Croke Park.

The mouth-watering Division One meeting - which coincides with the final round of league fixtures - is currently fixed for Omagh on April 11. But the O'Neill County supremo is prepared to relinquish home advantage if both counties can agree a mutually-beneficial package:

"The Dublin game is a home game but I wouldn't mind if it was away in Croke Park. It would be up to the two counties involved to get together and decide on potential benefits of having it there.

"They could negotiate with Croke Park and hope everyone would see it as a win-win situation.

"[Playing Dublin in Croke Park] always generates a serious atmosphere that you can't get anywhere else unless you are in an All-Ireland semi-final or final.

"Competitions like the Allianz league need to be in Croke Park. Let's promote it, let's bring young children there and add value to the occasion."

[I've been waiting for this day since I was a kid]

Why do soccer supporters believe this nonsense from players ...

Not to say that Robbie Keane is shallow and fickle but...

Keane on going to Liverpool (July 2008):
"To wear that shirt is an honour, and something I truly understand. I've been waiting for this day since I was a kid. Everyone knows I am a massive Liverpool fan, so to be sitting here today in a Liverpool tracksuit is a dream come true. I always wanted to be a footballer as a kid, but also to play for Liverpool."

Back to Spurs (February 2009):
"It was a difficult decision to make to leave Tottenham in the summer," Keane said. "It proved not to be the right move for me.
"I know some Spurs fans will feel I let them down by leaving but I can assure them I shall be giving my all for this club - this club has terrific fans and I want to repay them for all their support. We've got to get on and fight our way up that league table."

...and Celtic this week...
Keane was delighted having been consistently linked with the club.
"The club is massive," he said. "I am a Celtic fan and did not have to ask much about it. I always wanted to play for Celtic and it works for all parties."
Keane, a lifelong Celtic fan, has made 25 appearances for Spurs this season but has recently been confined to the substitutes' bench.
Spurs manager Harry Redknapp gave his blessing to the switch. "He is a Celtic man so it's a dream come true for him," he said.

ffs 

Rock Quarry pioneer society are putting on one of those Question and Answer sessions next Saturday, 6th February in the Glenavon Hotel in Cookstown.
Four diverse guests:  Bertie Ahern, Frances Black (ex problem drinker), Willie John McBride and Oisin McConville (ex-gambler). Compere Mark Sidebottom (BBC).
The money raised goes to Sr Concillios Alcohol and addiction rehabilitation centres. Apparently 3,000 people a year go through them for alcoholism, drug addiction and compulsive gambling.
Anyway... I might go along.
What could you ask such a diverse line-up?
     

What a wimp that bollox Murray posing to photographers with a Union Jack draped around him. Has he no pride in his country at all? Weak. He once said he shouted against England in the soccer whoever they played and after English people complained backtracked. No balls. hope he gets hammered... and he was     

[Fatty kills Skinny]

I suppose this will be seen as funny where fatty kills skinny but if it was a man done it to a woman...big time jail term. Like Tigger Woods wife busts his face for seeing other women no action taken but other way around... would be condemned and a trip to the slammer.
It's a woman's world folks...

Fatty kills Skinny
An obese Cleveland woman accused of killing her very slim boyfriend by sitting on him, has been sentenced to only three years probation for taking his life last summer.
According to reports, Mia Landingham, who is believed to be 300 pounds, and the victim Mikal Middleton-Bey, who weighed 120 pounds, had a history of domestic abuse. The couple shared three children together. After an altercation, Landingham sat on him–using her incredible weight to crush him. The victim died by suffocation.
"I just want to say that I am sincerely sorry about this situation," Landingham told the courtroom during her sentencing on Wednesday. "I wish I could take it back."
The suspect, who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and had no previous criminal record, was sentenced to three years probation and 100 hours community service.
The victim's family is disappointed with the outcome, "So basically you can say that I can go sit on somebody and get probation? I feel there wasn't no justice. My brother's gone and all she get is three years probation."

Over to the GAA Board jury. I think she deserved a few months but nine years!!..and judge seemed to be on her side in the summing up.
Is a bit long but a rollocking good read...

Mother gets life for heroin death 
 
Mother killed son "out of love" 
A mother convicted of murdering her disabled son by injecting him with heroin at a Hertfordshire care home has been jailed for life.
Frances Inglis, 57, of Dagenham, Essex, denied murdering Thomas Inglis, 22, on 21 November 2008 and an earlier attempt to kill him on 4 September 2007.
But a jury at the Old Bailey found her guilty of both charges. She must serve a minimum of nine years.
Mr Inglis suffered brain damage when he fell out of an ambulance in July 2007.

The jury reached their verdicts by a majority of 10 to two after deliberating for more than six hours.
Alex Inglis: "All of the family and Tom's girlfriend support my mum 100%"
There were cries of "shame on you" from the public gallery as the verdicts were read out.
Before the jury went out to deliberate, Judge Brian Barker told them "there is no concept in law of mercy killing - it is still killing".
Judge Barker said there was no doubt Ms Inglis had tried to take her son's life in September 2007 and succeeded using an "identical" method 14 months later.
In summing up, the judge said the background of "tragedy and grief" will have struck a chord with all who had heard it.
He said: "It would be extraordinary if we didn't feel empathy with the family and what Mrs Inglis had to face."

During the trial Inglis said: "For Tom to live that living hell - I couldn't leave my child like that.
"I did it with love in my heart, for Tom, so I don't see it as murder."

The court heard Inglis told a nurse she had HIV while at her son's home
Inglis told the court she had started to research her son's condition on the internet within days of his accident.
She also claimed she had to beg hospital staff to give him some relief for his "terrible pain".
Detectives investigating the first incident in September 2007 found notes stored under the stairs at her home in Dagenham, east London, the Old Bailey heard.
One said: "People keep saying Tom isn't suffering. How do they know? Can they know the terror of knowing you cannot control anything anymore?
"Can they know the agony of being denied pain relief just to see his reaction?"
She later told police: "When I wrote this I was sort of off my head really," the court heard.

Neighbour Sharon Robinson said Mrs Inglis wanted to know where she could get heroin
Inglis said she was convinced the doctor treating her son at Queens Hospital in Romford, Essex, was lying about his chances of recovery.
The jury heard from Inglis's other son Alex, who said his brother's injuries had driven his mother almost "insane".
Following the first murder attempt in September 2007, Mr Inglis was moved to the Gardens nursing home in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.
His mother was not supposed to visit him as part of her bail conditions.

But on 11 November that year Inglis visited, pretending to be her sister and signing in with the name Atkins, jurors were told.
When a nurse went to Mr Inglis's room she found his mother, who told her she had HIV and threatened to spit at her before shutting the door, the court heard.
'I injected him'
The nurse went for help to get into the room but when she reached the patient it was clear e was dead, the court heard.

Ms Inglis said: "I held him, told him I loved him, told him everything was going to be fine, took the syringe, and I injected him in his thigh and his arm.
"I knew I had to help him. I asked myself what Tom would want. He wouldn't have wanted to live like this.
"I asked myself what I would want. I would want someone to love me enough to help me die.
"That's why I thought heroin - a painless, peaceful death. He went to sleep. He was at peace. I stayed with him."

[a permanent brain injury after hitting him with a cricket bat]

This should cheer a few of you up...

Jailed businessman Munir Hussain freed by court
A businessman who was jailed for permanently injuring an intruder who attacked him and his family has been freed by the Court of Appeal.
Munir Hussain 53, was sentenced to 30 months for grievous bodily harm with intent after he hit Walid Salem with a cricket bat in 2008.
Hussain and his family had been tied up by three intruders at their home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
His jail sentence has been replaced with a two-year suspended term.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, who was sitting with two other judges in London, said he had shown "mercy" to Hussain.
Community figures
His brother, 35-year-old Tokeer Hussain, who was also jailed for causing grievous bodily harm, had his 39-month jail term reduced to two years.
The brothers were not at court for the hearing.
Both men, described as being at the heart of the community, were imprisoned in December after being found guilty at Reading Crown Court.
The pair left Salem with a permanent brain injury after hitting him with a cricket bat on 3 September.
The force of the blow was so hard that it broke the bat into three pieces.