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Other than Leinster football.
I was in Debenhams in Galway the other day and it is pretty shit compared to Roches Stores which it replaced.

Other than uht milk

This was in the French magazine le canard enchaine

French channel ARTE is running a programme called Irlande l'aube d'un pays about NI in the 60s and afterwards.
http://www.tele.ch/tv-programm/sendung/103073193-irlandes--laube-dun-pays

Catholics living in squalor. "Where I come from, from birth to grave I knew I would never get work" said Eibhlin. Mary went to work in a factory featuring a picture of the King looking down on everyone. "I was told that was my place"
They went marching for jobs, decent housing , work , dignity, "I thought we would be listened to" said Joe.

the response was brutal.
And there was no way football could develop in that sort of environment with police and army killing people for fun.

If NI wasn't so fucked up

Down would have at least as many all Irelands as Meath or Galway,
Derry and Armagh would have at least as many as Offaly
Tyrone might have as many as Cork   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRpntHflrNo

Just wondering what sort of help does the Government provide. I think I might give it a go at some stage 

8 years on from hope and change. He could never be as transformational as the media portrayal. What do you think of his 8 years ?

I would suggest dropping

The late late show
Anal levels of centralisation
The current Civil Service mentality
Flegs
The economic concentration on Dublin/Belfast

Do the Rossies have the killer instinct ?

Not the last time. The next time.

In 1952 both counties had 3 all Irelands each. 6 Nil to Galway since but Mayo lead in number of Connacht championships and have loads of Croke Park experience.

2 fallen women. Mired in mediocrity in a Leinster ruled imperiously by the Dubs who have won 10 of the last 11 Leinsters. Which team will win Sam first after the Empire collapses?

I thought this would be interesting. Local rivals . Which is more likely to win the all Ireland before the other? Monaghan have never won Sam. Cavan have 5 but the last one was decades ago. Both are football mad and in D1 next year.

A brave but doomed attempt to desexualise the female nipple , I would say

http://freethenipple.com/

Like expecting dogs to respect chairs

It goes round and round and giorraíonn beirt bóthar

1. They were never in the game in 2014. The match was over when Feeney went off. They were like a punch drunk boxer on the ropes before Connolly knocked them out


2. Quote from: brokencrossbar1 Fair enough Indy,  you know more than me about winning AI club titles. Just for the record,  in the history of the competition St Vincents club have won 3 AIs, I the history of my playing career I have won 3 AIs. So that puts me personally on the same bracket as the St Vincents club. I'll tell you here and now there is a greater chance we will win another before St Vincents win their next.

Not a hope pal . We will look forward to rinsing you again soon in an AI semi final. You think you invented the game up there .

Apart from hurling..

And how it is used. Say RTE or BBC and how they present information. Or things like bailouts and how they happen. Or Denis O Brien...

https://next.ft.com/content/96810a0e-8d8f-11de-93df-00144feabdc0
decades ago, Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, observed that elites in a society typically maintain their power not simply by controlling the means of production (ie money), but by dominating the cultural discourse too (ie a society's intellectual map). And what is most important in relation to that cognitive map is not what is overtly stated and discussed –but what is left unstated, or ignored. Or as he wrote: "The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than a complicitous silence."

Other than this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-9fGEgAcY

Who would be in your top 3 ?

An article about swimming in Greystones, Co Wicklow by Ruth Fitzmaurice, published in The Irish Times last January, has led to her securing a "significant" international book deal.

Major British publisher Chatto & Windus bought the literary memoir in a pre-emptive bid within 24 hours of seeing a 25 page proposal. In a statement they said she was "a stunning new writer".

The book will explore the writer's life with award-winning filmmaker husband Simon Fitzmaurice, who has motor neuron disease, their five children under 10 (Jack, Raife, Arden and twins Sadie and Hunter) and the team of nurses and carers who share their home in Co Wicklow.

The book, I Found My Tribe, has been described by the publishers as "an incredible love letter" to her family and to her husband Simon who due to his illness is paralysed and can only communicate using his eyes. Two years ago he wrote his own acclaimed memoir, It's Not Yet Dark, using an "eye gaze"computer.

The "tribe" in the book title also refers to her outdoor swimming club in Ladies Cove, Greystones, which featured in the Irish Times article, Fitzmaurice's first published piece of writing. In it she wrote powerfully about how swimming provides her with an important outlet in the midst of an intense and demanding life.

Related I found my tribe at the cove in Greystones
Ruth Fitzmaurice: Five kids, a dad who only moves his eyes and a mass of medical equipment

Speaking to this newspaper, Fitzmaurice, who is originally from Ardee, Co Louth and turns 40 at the end of March, said she was "thrilled and excited" with the news.

"The article I wrote in the The Irish Times had a viral amount of hits, but still not as many hits as I took to the head. I just couldn't have expected that kind of reaction," she said.

"Life got very strange very quickly and suddenly agents were emailing me about book deals. A wonderful lady called Sarah Williams from SophieHicks Agency in London spoke from the heart and stole mine."

Fitzmaurice spent the next two months "writing my head off", putting a book proposal together. "My house was a mess, I was ignoring my children and I was failing spectacularly at a thing called balance. Now I find myself writing a literary memoir with Chatto & Windus. I'm still working on the balance but life couldn't be more wonderful."

Chatto & Windus publishing director Clara Farmer, who purchased volume, audio, serial and ebook rights in World English territories, described the book as "an incredible love letter to her husband, family, the natural world and the brightness of life".

She added: "Ruth's voice is unexpected, passionate, poetic, explosive, desperately funny – she is a born writer and reading her is a life-altering experience."

There were no financial details released but according one sources the amount is "significant" and it was described as a "major acquisiton" by the publishers.

I Found My Tribe is due to be published next year

would be?

Can Armagh find their groove?