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Why doesn't he post here, or, why doesn't he post here under his real name, that way he could address us all.  I won't be reading what is in the Star because I don't buy it. Has anyone got more info as to what was said?

It's in tonights Herald, the paper that reports everything !!!

Dave Guiney has the following add in the Wexford People !

"AVAILABLE - Ex county hurler with 15 yrs experience prepared to come out retirement. High mileage but willing to train seven nights a week for the privelage to represent my county and to play in Croke Park. No pay required. Contact Dave Guiney, Rathnure."

Bud here has an article in this weeks Leinster Express about the health system.  Apart from that article it is time that this kip of a hospital was closed down, defumigated, restaffed and reopened as a service of the quality that the people of Laois and surrounding counties deserve. If I had a second chance and had been less distracted by the trauma side I would have sued this kip and closed it years ago.

My father, in his sixties, went for an x-ray for cancer.  They did not misread it. They lost it. They pretended they did not loose it and he was driven by taxi-minibus to Dublin by a bollox who told him that ihe was the driver and my dad was the patient and that he had the xray the surgeon he was going to meet required.  The driver had forgotton it and after my dad was driven around the country, all hospitals in Dublin including the Mater and Dunlaoire, he was driven home at 7pm.  As he said himself at the time, "I am nearlly dead from the hunger anyway because I was left sitting in the bus outside the hospitals and outside a pub while the driver had his lunch.  By the time my dad got to meet the surgeon, Mr Shaw, one year later, it was too late and he died. Before he died he told everyone in our family "if you can walk, or even crawl and you arrive at Portlaoise Hospital, keep crawling on your hands and knees until you get to another county hospital.

Incidently, the driver was later sacked for leaving patients in the minibus while he was in a pub.  That was much better fpor him than the fate he nearly met one day when he made a comment to me in St. Lukes Hospital about my Da!

Apart from mixing up two babies and sending them to the wrong homes, injecting an anesthetic wrongly and killing the patient, almost taking the leg off a wrong patient and other blunders I had two uncles that went into Portlaoise Hospital with tyhe same complaint, irregular heart beats.  Both came out in coffins and both died from infection.  The nurses cried, they knew what happened.

My mother went into Portlaoise and one day I was approached and told they could not operate because of the size of the tumour. Fair enough, except that up to that day we were never told she had a tumour or cancer despite being diagnosed for two years! My mother also died but not before I saw the disgrace thgat is Portlaoise Hospital for its dirt, innefficiency and third world service.  I saw a patient one day with his drip lead (canulae) lying on the floor until a nurse who was otherwise engaged (talking to another) asked a cleaner who was pushing a mopping trolley down the corridor - "Hey, x, will you plug back in Mrs so and so's drip there" and while he was passing he did, dirty hands and all.

Five years ago, my brother had a severe stroke. Where? In the council offices within five minutes of the county hospital.  The never attempted to give him a clot buster injection, no treatment at all. Into a bed and left him there until the following Tuesday and then drove him to Tullamore for a CT Scan because they have no scanner in Portlaoise, a hospital on the main railway link, main artery to Cork, Limerick and the west where a major accident of Buttevant proportions could occur at any time. After a month tyhey wanted my sister-in-law to sign an agreement to have him transferred to a nursing home in Mountmellick. They could do no more and he would not walk or talk again.  We refused to sign and after a campaign in the Herald and on RTE I suceeded in getting him the treatment he required.  Today, my brother walks and talks and drinks pints and lives a reasonably normal life, very reasonable compared to the hand he was being dealt from the kip that is Port;laoise hospital.

Mortar Monaghan of the Columbia Three is currently doing the rounds having his book signed. If I thought he had any of the rubbery stuff left over and if I could get my hands on it and have all patients and nurses and doctors at a safe distance I would gladly go to jail for giving Portlaoise Hospital the lift it now requires, that being, a lift oif about ten metres off the ground.

I had better watch myself, I am on five yellow's as it is !!!

...he can get Fergal Byron to come out of retirement and play in goal 

waiting till they go to 8.50 !!!

Re: Bank Of Ireland Sponsorship
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Bud -

The GPA already have a scheme in place whereby the following is available to all GPA members (including officials, club players, administrators etc) whereby they get the following -

12 months membership costs only €50.00 and entitles you to:  

25% off Car Insurance with INSURE.IE
Health Insurance discount with insure.ie and VIVAS
Exclusive significant discounts on OPEL cars
Receive Official GPA Press Releases in REAL TIME
Regular Member exclusive eZine
Discounted Admission to designated GPA events
Opportunity to purchase Official GPA merchandise
Regular Sponsor Offers
Opportunity to win All Ireland Tickets
Opportunity to win tickets for the OPEL Gaelic Players' Awards  

The first three items on the list are ok, well, sort of. The rest would not be required if there were no GPA in the first place because you would not be going to their events, reading their magazines purchasing their merchandise etc.

What I am saying is if an insurer, say Allianze agreed to set a figure of 300 euro as a special rate to insure every player in a panel of 25, senior and minor, hurling and football in the 32 counties and then they agreed to pay all the policies they could do it for less than 1Million (960,000) but the real savings to the players could be three times that or 3 Million every year wheras we have now discovered that the 5Million grant the GPA and Bertie can not decide how to allocate has now been discovered to be a once off grant and NOT an ongoing or annual grant.

How many players, actual players are members of the GPA and how many members are not players?

The proposed new arrangement is that three brands pay 1.7 Million each a year for sponsorship which is over 5m.

Less than seven minutes after my post above a banner add pops up with "Axa Insurance, cheap insurance for 18 - 25's, call Axa Now" Theres slick advertisng for ya !

I am seeking a quote for four teams per county with 25 players on each panel of Minor and Senior Hurling and Football based on 400.00 a skull.

That comes to only 1.28 Million so every minor and senior county panel could be insured and with another 1.28 we could throw in a bit of health insurance for the players or a personal insurance & investment policy.  Job done. No more GPA and Bertie, who can't sort out his own finances would not have to get involved in sorting out ours. Dessie could apply himself to more meaningful things like trying to get people into work instead of going on strike and we would be one happy little country again while the GAA decided what to do with the rest of the sponsorship money.

Bank of Ireland are no longer the sponsor of the football - I think, or if looking at their share prices tumble they won't be soon anyway. Me wonders if the new sponsor will be an Insurance Company like Allianze who sponsor the league.  If that were to be the case the GAA should do a deal with both sponsors whereby inter county players and those that train with their county teams be looked after with cheaper car insurance. A lot of young lads between 18 and 21 are paying house mortgage prices for car insurance and incentives like this for players would make the need for the GPA redundant.  If Gaelic Telecom can provide incentives for every gaa member then a database for county players would be easy.  I know I woukd be pretty pissed off if I was a responsible young lad of 18yrs looking at Allianze advertising hoardings around me while I gave my all in training or in Croke Park and then have to bite the bullet at the annoyance of having to pay up to Euro, 2000,00 in insurance for the privelage of driving a car of half that value.

I am sure that statistics will show that your average young gaa player is a safer bet than the boy racers. The other advantage would be when a young lad wants to buy a car the Da would be telling him, grab yourself a hurl son and get down to the Gaa club or you wont be getting it !

I will probably still buy it or find it in at the end of the bed in Santa's bag on Christmas morning but I honestly don't think I will find anything in there that I don't know already.  I'd like to know, if board members had a choice of who they would like to write a book, who would we choose to write one?  I'd like someone to produce history on clubs like Crossmaglen and how they got through all the hassle they endured from their unwanted neighbours and their helicopters during the troubles or the history of all the clubs in the six northern counties during that time. I suppose on second thoughts it might be a bit controversial and perceived as stirring it up if such a book was published and if there is one thing Bud does not like, it is stirring it!  I would love to see a book about Brian Cody but not written by Brian Cody. That bagman the cats have had for years, I forget his name, is one nice fella and has some stories to tell if it was done through a journalist. I can even see the name on the cover "Cats Out Of The Bag" !!

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Jeez Mod3 I thought I was in trouble again having seen your post rolling in after my one 

I think there are too many books flying about and it is a bit like the Eurovision, all downhill for those appearing afterwards. Over exposure or whatever seems to have got me fed up with Michael O'Muircheartaig after the book and the DVD and the TV. Sure he was great, but not that great.

Micko's book is all lies according to aself proclaimed member of the Dublin County Board who alleges on another thread that Laois "paid six figures to bring in a gaa legend from Kerry." 

Anyhow, I go against the grain and would like to see Dublin split into two teams for the O'Byrne cup - North and south Dublin.
Would make it v interesting.
Also think North Dublin would be as good as the current dublin, maybe even better  than the present team!

What is the percentage in terms of representation on the county team (roughly) including the full panel. Are there more North or South Dublin players?

Even if it is the Rackard Cup and not football, what is the principle behind the idea

(Laoislad, ignore those with the chips, all I asked was a simple question and the personal insults came again and had to be edited, "I can't read a paper " I am this, I am that, Colm Brown is a bollox etc- hard to make out the grammar but someone is a bollox"  Just ignore them or they will do like the last thread and bring DJ Careys personal life and spread scurrilous rumours all over again. Have to say I got a laugh out of the post that said I can't read considering where it came from)

 Moderator, I just asked a question about the idea of Dublin fielding two teams in the championship, went off to do a days work and come home to find a personal attack on me by GNevin and  if he can call me a fool why cant I use the expression dimwit which slotted nicely into place the last time I used it but had to remove it?  Will you ask GNevin to do likewise.

What I wanted to know was on what basis was the idea of two teams drawn up, was it North Side v South Side or was it Blue Star v Rest type of scenario, ie, Dubs would pick their best team and then there would be a second team from the rest. Why was the idea put forward, was it because of population etc?

For example, GNevin reminds me that Dublin can beat Laois but we have a population of less than 52,000 !  In the entire county we have just a few clubs so despite all this we still have our share of Minor, U21 and senior success.  Last year was a bit of a disaster allright and been beaten by Dublin made it worse since their calibre can only be judged by the fact that they still went nowhere after the Leinster and in fact found it difficult to beat teams like Longford to even win the Leinster and yet, despite our disadvantage of only being able to field one county team it is not that long ago since we did beat Dublin in a Leinster Final.

On the subject of the software, will we have an addition to the bigger counties backroom staff when it is released, will we have a Maor Computer, along with the Uisce man and how will it work?  Is it plugged into the players and does it give a security alert when the 'keeper solos out past the 20 mtr line or does it come on a memory stick where you can call up the score if you are too far away to see the board?

Remember early in the year, or was it last year when Dublin were (or at least they thought they were) strong contenders for the Alll Ireland and it was mooted that they wanted two teams to contest the championship?  Is that idea now abandoned and what was it derived from? Was it because of population or where did the idea come from and where did it go or has it been binned because they have no hope of winning Sam with the one team they have.  And what happened Cork, were they not going to do the same?

Also, has anyone got information on the software program being released for GAA training and monitoring training methods that is being, or has been released.