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Apparently, the great man is considering running for FG in Meath West as running mate for Navan TD Damien English.  What do the Meathies think of this?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1126/geraghtyg.html

Im a scratching my head trying to figure out how McStay made it on to list

Here come I to my own again,
Fed, forgiven and known again,
Claimed by bone of my bone again
And cheered by flesh of my flesh.
The fatted calf is dressed for me,
But Isotonic Lucozade sport has greater zest for me,
I think Mayo will be best for me,
So I'm off to the partk afresh.
So back I go to my job again,
Not so easy to blindside Tyrone again,
Or quite so ready to sob again
On any redneck that's around.
I worked with the Heron Chokers from the Connemara Bogs
Where I spent my nights and my days with hogs.
And shared their milk and maize with hogs,
Till, I guess, I have learned what pays with hogs
And - I have that knowledge to sell!

[Jerimiah, Chapter 12 Verses 7-9]

I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest;
It crieth out against me, therefore I have hated it.
Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her;
Come ye, assemble all the beats of the field, come to devour

Jerimiah, Chapter 12 Verses 7-9

Duggan isn't very good.  Gets too many facts wrong.  Humphries light.

Thats a good call!

Can we limit this to politicians/aspiring politicians who actually played inter-county, and not include lads who were 'handy footballers' according their own gobdaw supporters.

Deenihan is FG
If O'Mahony takes the Mayo job he would have to be manager
Michael D'Arcy, Wexford FG candidate, played inter-couty for them.

As was Dr. Tom Moffat - former FF TD from Ballina, Liam McHle was set to stand against him on the issue of a long awaited Sports Hall ( Basketball Arena, Gym, Community centre ) in Ballina, Bertie had to come down and promise it would be built to stop him, worked a treat

Forgive me Stephenite, but my recolleciton of Tom Moffatt (and I think I may be older than you) was that he couldn't kick shite off a rope.  I don't recall him playing inter-county football, but I do remember him playing bad club football.

Thank you Muscles

Fields of loss
Fields of hate
Fields of blood
Fields of war

Our blood upon the walls
Our team upon the floor

Langan, Flanagan, Thou should be living at this hour
Mayo hath need of thee
In our time of shadow

In the stand
From behind the goal
From purgatory we watch

With wings that cannot fly
With tounges that cannot speak
Broken backs
Broken hearts
Wings thick with tar
Our lives destroyed

We are selfish men

Prendergast, Mulderrig, Gilvarry
Rise up and return to us again

Civil wars of uncivil hearts have divided and dammed us
The old is dying and the new cannot be born
By the Bacon Factory I wept

Power is very rarely limited to the pure exercise of brute force....Power is ...a far more complex and mysterious quality than any apparently simple manifestation of it would appear. It is as much a matter of impression, of theatre, of persuading those over whom authority is wielded to collude in their subjugation. Insofar as power is a matter of presentation, its cultural currency in antiquity (and still today) was the creation, manipulation, and display of images. In the propagation of the imperial office, at any rate, image is power.

Each station in life has its duties; every situation in life has duties or obligations incumbent on it.

The single most important philosophy in Rome was Stoicism, which originated in Hellenistic Greece. The contents of the philosophy were particularly amenable to the Roman world view, especially since the Stoic insistence on acceptance of all situations, including adverse ones, seemed to reproduce what the Romans considered their crowning achievement: virtus, or "manliness," or "toughness."