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El Pais responded to the Daily Mail with a front page showing how many ships the UK now has innit.

15 years and 3 years for Craigavon couple.


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-39489348

Horrible cnuts. Why did the wife only get 3 years?

the judge said the husband manipulated the 2 women but that the wife partook in some of the abuse

Before Brolly made it onto the national media I remember meeting a few of his old Derry teammates one time in Quinns and they were telling me even back then how he loves the limelight and will do or say anything to get a rise for the craic and he especially loved winding up the Tyrone boys. (like many of here of course)

I feel that ever since he's got onto RTE and now the newspapers that he has a much larger platform to boost that ego and he really doesn't care who he upsets or what he says. He will dismiss it afterwards as "Ah sure it's just a bit of craic lads, chill out".

That's basically it. He loves the attention.
He does have a couple of themes that he keeps watered as well.
And at the end of the day the RTE stuff is mostly nonsense.

As Dr Sylvie Linnane once said, you have to have a few tinkers

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/there-was-an-orchestrated-campaign-against-lee-keegan-fitzmaurice-fuming-over-lack-of-balance-35594766.html

Since October 2016 we have been collecting GAA Jerseys for Palestine and hundreds of you out there rallied to the call.

Unfortunately, we have had no way of getting the jerseys to Palestine, subsequently we will be sending them to Syria.

One word for this: Fraud.

I would have issues with his methods but wouldnt agree its fraud. The whole area of providing support to the third world or to situations like Palestine, eastern Ukraine etc is very difficult. There are so many different poitical/military groups on the ground and not all would have good records on human rights. Hamas can be as cruel to their own Palestinians people as the Israelis

The IRA were worse than Hamas. 
You wouldn't put the IRA in the same category as the British Army, presumably

The behaviour of the British forces in Ireland whether in the1916 to 1921 period or the 1969 to 1994 period is nothing to be proud of. Hamas' treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank etc. who are opposed to them is far worse than anything the Provisionals did to their opponents.
Today we see what Assad in Syria does to his own people. Do we want to see his undercover murderers wearing GAA jerseys? That is the problem when you cannot control aid to refugees.

What sort of social welfare did the Provos provide to their people while they were fighting the Brits?
NI was never as bad as Gaza.

And the Provos killed plenty of spies too. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/world/middleeast/20gaza.html
"I felt there was a lot of thirst for blood," one soldier is quoted as saying. "This is the beauty of Gaza. You see a person walking down a street or path; he does not have to be with a weapon. You just have to see him with something, and you shoot him."
He also described an incident in which a platoon commander ordered the shooting of a woman who was crossing a street close to a house used by Israeli forces: "Suspicious, not suspicious, I don't know her story. what he did in the end was get the men on the roof and take her out. From that story, I felt it was cold-blooded murder."


Central to Israel's defence of its actions in Gaza in 2014  is the claim that international humanitarian law (IHR) is inadequate and must be modified to accommodate the "asymmetrical"nature of modern warfare.

Syf, would you rather beat Sligo to win a Division 3 title or beat them to win a place in a Connacht final where you get destroyed by Mayo?

Jinxy, would you rather beat Westmeath  to win a Division 2 title or beat them to win a place in a Leinster final where you get hammered (again) by the Dubs ?

Panic over lads...Breheny has it all sorted out....

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/martin-breheny-why-colm-cooper-is-the-fifth-greatest-forward-of-them-all-35594573.html

No Mickey Linden . Jaysus

Man Utd are very poor this season.
So much for the special one

Irish Times from 2004

Locker Room: They used to say of the Native Americans that, critically, they failed to spot on the horizon those boats which would carry their doom because they had never seen such shapes and their eyes were accustomed to looking for other things. It was a mistake you wouldn't think you'd see made twice.  And yet. Coming down O'Connell Street yesterday, happy, blithe crowds of Mayo and Kerry people spilled merrily out from the footpaths and onto the tarmac. It was as if they'd never seen cars before in their lives I thought, as I ploughed through a couple of hundred of them, thus single-handedly easing the ticket crisis a little.  Croke Park. Late. Mayo are already out on the field with nearly half an hour left before the throw-in. Some of them are going to need reading material to kill the time.  Asking around, trying to borrow an opinion for myself. Nobody is too keen on Mayo. Flighty, is what they are. The consensus among the nabobs of hackery is that Kerry are Kerry and Mayo are Mayo. So it is and so it shall be.  Mind always wanders before the throw-in. Must be big-match nerves. Start composing little lists of likes and dislikes in case the GAA want to ask me. Like Mayo's red jerseys. Bit more flash, in keeping with their native self-confidence.  Don't like tubby tenors who "lead us" in singing the national anthem. Croke Park on All-Ireland final day is about the one place where we don't need leading in singing the thing. Adjust scope on my telescopic rifle but can't get a bead on the bugger.  Mayo have shuffled their forwards. Ingenious. Briefly Conor Mortimer establishes a bleachhead at full forward. Trevor goes to the right-half forward spot. Everyone else except Ciarán McDonald is somewhere other than the spot they were picked in.  It starts well for Mayo. A goal and a point up, scored after four minutes. Already they are in the position they best like: the final is theirs to throw away.

Two minutes later it begins to look ominous. The Gooch rises as if levitating and fields a ball on the 21. If I were related to The Gooch I'd get religion and pray hard every time he goes out on a field. And when he'd come home I'd feed him.  I was in Killarney recently, and in the outlet mall at the station there was a big car which Dr Crokes were offering in a draw. Ten euro a ticket. There was nobody around to give the €10 to, but I'm mailing it to the club with instructions that I'm not interested in the motor but I'd like to buy The Gooch a meal.  Anyway, the Gooch catches, feeds Willie Kirby for a point. If I were John Maughan I'd be shouting, "Do I not like that?" The Mayo forwards are playing in the Mayo tradition: subsisting through famine. Conor Mortimer and Ciarán McDonald provoke near hysteria every time they touch the ball, but you can close your eyes and tell Mayo are struggling. The outbreaks of hysteria are getter fewer and farther between.  I love the two lads. When did Gaelic footballers begin to get so flamboyant? I remember Noel Lynch of Meath had a pretty blinding blond Afro years ago, the sort of hairdo you'd need planning permission for in a built-up area, but Westmeath never gave him the platform with which to etch his barnet into the national psyche.

Mortimer reminds me of the story of Seán Thornton, the bleached midfielder who signed a couple of years ago from Tranmere to Sunderland. Arriving on the windswept training ground the first day with his earlobe bejewelled, his hair peroxided and his boots matching, he drew a sad shaking-of-the-head from Bobby Sax, an old coach. "You'd better be good, son, you'd better be good."  And Ciarán McDonald? What's left to say? He's struck two sublime points against the traffic in this first half and everyone in Mayo loves him. They'd swear, in fact, that they always have. I once had a long, rather bizarre and heated argument over the phone with a woman from Mayo. We were discussing the topic of Ciarán's hair, which he was then marshalling into a splendid ponytail. Being the ace wordsmith that I am, I had called him "the ponytailed Ciarán McDonald".
"Why did you call him that?" screamed the woman down the phone.  "Because he has a ponytail," I said back, devastating her with my wit. "You know what I mean," she hollered.  "No, I don't. If he had a beard I might have called him the bearded McDonald. If he had big feet I'd call him Flipper McDonald."  "What were you trying to tell people about him?"  "That he has a ponytail?" "And who has ponytails?"  "Ponies?"
"Don't be smart."
"People in advertising? Bicycle couriers? Artists? Who?" "You know who."  "Who?"  "Homosexuals. You were saying that he's a homosexual. You're a homophobe." This was news to me and, I'm sure, had it been brought to his attention, to Mr McDonald, who I'm sure isn't gay but has every right to be if he so desires.  Anyway, since then I've always been careful about the ponytail issue, and now I dither before describing his do de jour as cornrows lest I get a call accusing me of accusing Ciarán of being black, which I'm not, and which he has every right to be if he so desires.

Mind wandering badly now. Twenty-one minutes gone. Kerry have nine points on the board and the firm of Moynihan and Russell representing them on the bench. Every time I look back at the action Kerry are clipping over another point. Before half-time I'm playing a little game with myself, trying to spot the first Mayo person to get up and leave, shaking his head in conspicuous, mock sadness as if beating the traffic or getting an early pint wasn't what's on his mind.m  Before half-time - quite a way before half-time - Mayo bring David Brady on for Fergal Kelly. There's not much you can say to a man like Kelly at a time like that. Big day, everyone here and you get hauled off before you're warmed up properly.Anyway, Brady is on for 30 seconds when The Gooch leaps like a carrot-topped salmon and pulls down another high one. This time he skins the Mayo defence and puts it in the back of the net. Genius. Game over.  Early in the second half I go to unplug my laptop and accidentally unplug the TV monitor which four of us hacks are sharing. It won't come back to life. We only get monitors for big days in Croke Park and they're such a treat that what I've done is a crime for which I deserve to be flung from the upper deck of the Hogan. The lads just shrug. Nothing on worth watching anyway.  Mind rambling again. I remember being at one-sided basketball games in the US where they would have promotions to keep the crowd interested. If the Knicks, say, score 110 points everyone in the crowd gets free pizza. So in a game that's as dead as a Dana presidential bid the crowd would be apoplectic, urging the boys to pile on the scores. What would 80,000 slices of pizza cost? Kerry are on 1-19 and relaxed. Just say we all got pizza if they score 20. It would stop all those people leaving.
Mike Frank scores the last point for Kerry. An emphatic punctuation mark at the close of business. Strikes me that I'm not old, but I've been here to watch Kerry in 15 finals since 1972, seen them win 11 of them. Any wonder that, when it comes to these September pageants, Kerry are always Kerry and the rest of Ireland are always the supporting cast.


That was before 2005

Since October 2016 we have been collecting GAA Jerseys for Palestine and hundreds of you out there rallied to the call.

Unfortunately, we have had no way of getting the jerseys to Palestine, subsequently we will be sending them to Syria.

One word for this: Fraud.

I would have issues with his methods but wouldnt agree its fraud. The whole area of providing support to the third world or to situations like Palestine, eastern Ukraine etc is very difficult. There are so many different poitical/military groups on the ground and not all would have good records on human rights. Hamas can be as cruel to their own Palestinians people as the Israelis

The IRA were worse than Hamas. 
You wouldn't put the IRA in the same category as the British Army, presumably

Brolly 1 Final
Gooch 4-34 Nine Finals Winning 4 and every major honor in GAA.
Every Great of Kerry Football lining up to say he was the one of the Greats (pretty sure they don't hand out plaudits easily)
Man is a Living Legend

We live an age where he was been double marked and given rough treatment and he still shined

Brolly played on teams that could beat Tyrone, however

Down in Kerry the inability to beat either Tyrone or now the Dubs sickens them

Democrats are protesting the Executive order which is trying to prevent such attackers coming to the US.

Bring them all over eh Eamon? There's a sanctuary city somewhere which will hide them and allow them to do whatever they want.

the Dems will walk the midterms given the civil war in the GOP

Justin Amash‏
@justinamash  Trump admin & Establishment have merged into #Trumpstablishment. Same old agenda: Attack conservatives, libertarians & independent thinkers.

What has any of that got to do with what I posted?

Trump is 100% nonsense
So are his EOs

Democrats are protesting the Executive order which is trying to prevent such attackers coming to the US.

Bring them all over eh Eamon? There's a sanctuary city somewhere which will hide them and allow them to do whatever they want.

the Dems will walk the midterms given the civil war in the GOP

Justin Amash‏
@justinamash  Trump admin & Establishment have merged into #Trumpstablishment. Same old agenda: Attack conservatives, libertarians & independent thinkers.

Brexit is as bad as the bank guarantee, which was also welcomed by the papers at the time

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/04/sharp-rise-in-uk-food-prices-inflates-household-shopping-bill
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/04/uk-jobs-merkel-juncker-euro-clearing-eu-manfred-weber-brexit

True enough. I think you need a cliché.  Here you go. "One thing is for sure,  Galway won't fear Tipperary ".

Galway don't respect Tipperary