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I would love to see Mayo beating Kerry this year. The patronising attitude Kerry football people have must drive  Mayo people  up the wall. Tomás  Ó Sé is full of it in the Indo today. Love their gah but they can't win.

Tyrone haven't beaten any of Dublin, Kerry or Mayo in yonks. Canavan obviously believes they can beat two of them, and maybe he is right. But I wouldn't agree.

As for Galway, they haven't won a game in Croke Park for 15 years. I expect that to change tomorrow, but that will probably be the end of their run. And that would be a very good year for them considering most of their supporters didn't give them a chance against Mayo.

But 4th best team! Nonsense. Donegal would eat them alive in Croker as, I think, Mayo will do in the semi final.

Good man Muppet. No surrender.
Just on not winning in CP in 15 years. I think.it was the same in 98.

Meanwhile county players are f**king off to America for more "nutritional payments" leaving their clubs in the shit and your average club player is wondering what is the point of committing to training all year, indeed many are voting with their feet as the clubs die.

Are clubs merging in Cavan like in Longford?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/29/the-trouble-with-the-olympic-games

US q2 growth is an annualised 1.2%. Which is appalling.

Mayo will be happy in 6th


Like a dog lying in the corner
They will bite you and never warn you: look out
They'll tear your insides out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcBH4C5RtR8

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/mounting-gaa-concern-over-the-decline-in-attendances-1.2737954
The GAA may have to look at championship structures if attendances are to rise in the future. Feargal McGill, the GAA's head of games administration and player welfare, also said that the association is "concerned" about declining crowds in Leinster.

"Realistically in terms of attracting higher attendances you're at the mercy of two things – competitiveness and who's going well – because the more teams that are competitive the better and you need diversity, a new county coming through," he said.

"The second thing is that you're probably at the mercy of the championship structures.

[mislead the public about the true health of Anglo.]

A few of bankers going to the big house. I'm not sure why it took so long to do this.

Three former bank executives have been given prison sentences ranging from two years to three and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin for their part in a €7.2bn conspiracy.

Former Anglo Irish Bank executives John Bowe and Willie McAteer and the former chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey, were found guilty last month of agreeing a scheme to mislead the public about the true health of Anglo.

Judge Martin Nolan sentenced Bowe to two years, McAteer to three and a half years and Casey to two years and nine months.

Was this not part of Sean Quinns defence that he was duped by their financial reporting when buying his CFD's?

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/i-don-t-feel-ashamed-but-i-do-feel-regret-very-serious-regret-1.1276960

Fitzpatrick thought Quinn was a "real 1960s Irishman. He was one of those hail fellow well met, ah sure I will go down there and play the old cards, five or six lads for 10 bob, or whatever it was. He was always producing all that and would be nearly blessing himself. Everything will be all right. He was very human but, I didn't easily like him."
On March 25th, 2008, the four men met again, this time in a room in Buswells Hotel in Dublin. The ongoing fall in the Anglo share price was threatening the Quinn business empire and the bank. At one stage Quinn and FitzPatrick were alone in the room.
"He was very close to tears. He could see what was happening."

2 anglo bankers and the former CEO of Irish life have been jailed over the green jersey deal

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/three-ex-bankers-jailed-over-7bn-anglo-conspiracy-1.2738637

There was something on another discussion abut Kerry not being afraid of Cork, Galway or Mayo
and then Tyrone have a bad record when it counts against Mayo. What other bogey teams do counties have ? 

In fairness most of the dismissing before the Mayo match was from Kevin Walsh. Which the media and probably Mayo team fed into. This tie is a potential banana skin as it's the first time Galway are favourites. Galway are still not really getting credit for winning Connacht. But this is good as it sort of keeps them under the radar.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/ciar%C3%A1n-murphy-apathy-draining-the-life-from-galway-football-1.2685965
"But Mayo found their man in October 2010, and the gap looks more and more intimidating with every passing year. The further ahead they are in terms of preparation and physical conditioning, the less enticing a prospect it is for a young Galway footballer to put in the effort to start to claw back some ground.  But it has to start somewhere, and relying on Mayo to come back to the pack seems like a forlorn hope at the moment."

How many.players does the GPA represent?

Nutritional expenses is up there with the finest of euphemisms.

In fairness most of the dismissing before the Mayo match was from Kevin Walsh. Which the media and probably Mayo team fed into. This tie is a potential banana skin as it's the first time Galway are favourites. Galway are still not really getting credit for winning Connacht. But this is good as it sort of keeps them under the radar.

Common knowledge was that Mayo were miles ahead. Galway had a mediocre D2. Mayo D1. Sure Mayo would walk it.

We have to oblige by our EU commitments on immigration, or we either change the agreements or Irexit.

However, I don't understand why, for example, nearly half of our immigrants came from outside the EU last year. Why are we taking in so many? The US, Australia, Canada and a few other places where we emigrated to, I can understand. But the rest? I am not sure we need to be so open to countries that may be hostile to any western country.

It should be mentioned though, that we still have net emigration. I believe that everyone putting up borders will impede us more than it helps.

A lot of nurses and IT workers come from India.
For the jihadi stuff you need a Muslim precariat. Ireland's local precariat does the nihilism thing with drugs.The brutality of the drugs gangs is up.there with what IS do but the victims are typically poor so middle class people don't pay much attention.

NI doesn't need IS cos it has the paramilitary history.

She has shag all credibility. Zero. Full stop.
Listening to Kaine talking now about how she is worried about poor and underprivileged is a fin joke.
Google Clinton foundation for some interesting info.
Liberal media in overdrive.
It is now Russia's fault.
Trump not my first choice, but four more years of this and we are fuc*ed.

Shouldn't we be fucked by now after Obama's reelection?

Given the hand he was dealt he's done a decent enough job, but the long term prognosis of the outstanding federal debt is terrifying

https://informationstation.org/kitchen_table_econ/the-u-s-is-now-18-trillion-in-debt/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlegrants2015&gclid=CLKKu6e3ls4CFUFZhgodOQwC4g

They can reduce its value by having inflation and zero interest rates like they did in the 50s