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No organisation that forbids membership, or discriminates, on the basis of what one is born by chance should be in receipt of tolerance and understanding, much less tax payers' money.

That's all of the churches on this island not getting any money either, then.

I see a section of GAA-Boarders remain as intolerant and neanderthal as they were the last time I popped-in, though to be fair this thread is all very tame compared to the disgraceful content of some other threads, for example the one about the brutal killing of the guy in W Belfast a few days ago (a pretty unedifying sequel to the earlier one about the apprently equally brutal slaying of the young Quinn fella in south Armagh late last year).

Honestly, if you could see yourselves, as others see you - so much hate, so much ignorance, so little tolerance, so little intelligence, so ungraceful.

You remember who piloted Ruane into South Down?

Eddie McGrady will be enjoying the piss-poor minister drowning in her own of mediocrity.

Maple syrup and Celine Dion! 

Don't forget Big Bill Werbineck.

I see the BBC is proposing to launch a dedicated digital television service for the 58k Gaelic speakers in Scotland:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open_consultations/gaelic.html

I wonder will they be proposing the same for the 75k Irish language speakers in the six counties?

Everyone who quotes the number of Irish speakers up-North seems to quote different figures for usage.

Is there a genuine need, or is it just a demand?

This is old news, investigated and dealt with by the authorities months ago.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Perjury United!

last 2 stories I have seen on the BBC about the GAA.  Over the last 3 days were:
1) Sectarian abuse hurler returns to GAA
2) Talented GAA players leaving in their droves to go to Australian rules.
3) Presume Cavlan will make TV tonight
Not one mention of the AI hurling final teams but plenty of Rangers on the field coverage.
Fox news is very much alive and in our country, not any wonder Gweltah etc cant have a good word to say about the GAA. Objective and fair - my arse.

Hear, hear - nothing wrong with shooting the messenger when the message is against Gaels.

Typical of the BBC to try to do-down the GAA and Gaels with this sort of sensationalist, tabloid shite.

Well, the Southern State and many of its people will insist on referring to itself as "Ireland"

Dreadful behaviour, really. I mean, how dare we call our country by its name. Almost as outrageous as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland referring to itself as "Britain", I'd suggest, or the USA calling itself America. But nowhere near the outrageous provocation continuously perpetrated by France calling itself ... France. I mean, where do we get off with this insulting carry on?  wouldn't blame you UK-ish people if you refused to accept our subsidies and support for your roads, airports, etc.

Oh lighten-up FFS.

This one's on live now.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_6920000/newsid_6924400/6924443.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&nol_storyid=6924443&news=1#

Enjoy!

Well, the Southern State and many of its people will insist on referring to itself as "Ireland", Belfast isn't in that State, so it's no wonder others refer to the new hub as being the first "non-Irish" one.

A lot of partitionism on this Aer Lingus, Shannon v Aldergrove squabble, none of it of Unionists making, and a lot of sillyness in particular from witless Willie O'Dea.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6944850.stm





Half of all calls for help to a leading charity in Derry are not genuine, it has said.
St Vincent De Paul said it often had to refurnish flats as a minority of people who use their temporary accommodation sell off furniture before they leave.

The area president, Cormac Wilson, said it had now become difficult to distinguish who was in actual need.

Father David O'Kane, a chaplain of St Vincent de Paul, said they took requests for help at face value.

"If someone arrives arrive at the parochial house, we would take their request, write down a name and an address and we have to pass that on to St Vincent de Paul," he said.

"We may have some doubts about it, but we have to still give them some hearing.

"If there is any doubt, we meet once a week and we bring up different cases and report back.

"We try to be as responsible as we can with people's money."

Jimmy Doyle, who has been a volunteer for more than 20 year, said it was an ongoing problem.

"You find out who is genuine and who isn't," he said.

"But at the end of the day, we are here to help and it is not us being conned, but the the people who are donating money and goods.

"However, he said he hoped it would not put people off donating to the charity."

Anyone who is thought to be not in need but accepting charity will be identified and told they will not receive anything in the future, he said.

The irony should not be lost that those from within the republican fraternity who have written critical or self-analytical material about that community have tended to then suffer from all sorts of black propaganda, ranging from being called Uncle Toms to condemned as Brit agents, others have ended up in a box.  Marie Jones, by all accounts, goes to NI games and is an enthusiastic part of the support, which either suggests they have got a whole lot better or can't really be all that bad after all.

so the 'IMPARTIAL' courts of the day 'convicted' him for membership and 'participation' - feck you have had some dup-esque style upbringing to believe all that rubbish.

if you were to agree that the ruc/udr/british army/dup etc were also terrorists, then I would agree that the ira and inla etc were also terrorists then.

otherwise its your orange hall mentality that will continue to blind and blinker you.
no change there then.
You dont want to see/admit the imaginary walls you are putting up pretending there are some kind of barriers in existence to protestant peoples playing Gaelic games.
If young graham has played and is returning to play (and the outcry his despicable treatment caused across the country) then it should be obvious that all codes and creeds can play

except for you oo blinkered folks

Quite possibly the most mutant contribution seen here all year, well-done LynchBhoy, good to see that 'Ireland of Equals' is still work in progress.

I find it a crying same and something of a human tragedy when people like the preceding poster either lose the free-thinking gene they were born with, or else are just blinded by hatred and prejudice fed from the tit, and unable or unwilling to contemplate or challenge their own views, however daft or deluded.

You shouldn't be here, EG, you should know that by now.  You don't seem pure, you just don't belong.