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Down v Ros worked fine in Australia. Couldn't get past 5 mins into the catch up on Tipp v Dublin before it froze.

Every catch up starts with 20-30 minutes of dead time - is no one capable of cutting that out?

[Tyrone]

Donegal v Tyrone
Kildare v Dublin
Mayo v Armagh
Monaghan v Kerry

Offaly v Meath
Cork v Galway
Down v Roscommon
Clare v Derry

Wicklow v Limerick
Laois v Antrim
Longford v Fermanagh
Louth v Westmeath

Tipperary v Sligo
London v Wexford
Cavan v Carlow
Waterford v Leitrim

[Thousands of baptisms invalidated by priest's use of one wrong word]

Thousands of baptisms invalidated by priest's use of one wrong word
Priest in Phoenix, Arizona, resigns after mistakenly using the phrase 'we baptize you' instead of 'I baptize you' for years

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/arizona-baptisms-invalidated-priest-uses-one-wrong-word

Also invalidates their First Holy Communion among other things - so they'll have to do that again. Which means double Communion money! 

[Armagh]

Armagh v Monaghan
Dublin v Mayo
Kerry v Donegal
Tyrone v Kildare

Derry v Cork
Galway v Offaly
Meath v Down
Roscommon v Clare

Antrim v Wicklow
Fermanagh v Laois
Limerick v Louth
Westmeath v Longford

Carlow v Waterford
Leitrim v London
Sligo v Cavan
Wexford v Tipperary

[Kerry]

Kerry v Dublin
Armagh v Tyrone Draw
Monaghan v Mayo Draw
Donegal v Kildare

Down v Galway
Cork v Clare
Meath v Roscommon
Offaly v Derry

Antrim v Limerick
Laois v Westmeath Draw
Longford v Louth
Wicklow v Fermanagh

London v Waterford
Sligo v Carlow
Cavan v Wexford
Tipperary v Leitrim

What happened the wee girl was awful and sorry for slightly off topic but the media (social & MSM) definitely drives or determines who gets mourned and who doesn't. Compare Aisling to the Mongolian lady stabbed in Dublin....another one is Sarah Everard to the Muslim girl in South East London. One all over the papers, the other hardly mentioned despite being weeks apart.

Yeah absolutely, occupation always gets mentioned in the first line of the story. Marketing executive Sarah Everard, Teacher Aisling Murphy etc. You don't really see that when it's someone unemployed or doing menial work murdered. It's been like that for years now I suppose. There is certainly a hierarchy of victims

And a hierarchy of assailants too. I wonder what the narrative would be if the alleged killer was a 30 year old GAA, rugby or soccer star from the town?

Do you mean he'd get a easier time if he was a local star or a worse time.

I genuinely don't know but I suspect an easier time.

Two parts to that one:

Does it make a good story? 'Local star' would definitely be a big story and get the coverage, same as 'recent immigrant' has.

Does it make the alleged criminal more relatable to the average reader/viewer/journalist? 'Local star' definitely more relatable so you tend to get the mitigating factors rolling out - he was under pressure in some way, partner recently left him, financial issues etc. Makes it easier to separate ourselves from him but also starts to give the perpetrator an out - wasn't really his fault in some way.

[Dublin]

Round One- 29/30 January

Dublin v Armagh
Kildare v Kerry
Mayo v Donegal
Tyrone v Monaghan Draw

Derry v Down
Clare v Offaly
Galway v Meath
Roscommon v Cork

Limerick v Longford Draw
Fermanagh v Antrim
Louth v Laois
Westmeath v Wicklow

Carlow v London
Leitrim v Cavan
Waterford v Tipperary
Wexford v Sligo

Impressive run by Mayo's Sinead Diver in the Marathon today - top 10 finish for a 44 year old

Italy really improved over last 30 years. New Zealand by far most impressive when considering their population

San Marino I think are leading in medals per capita - about one for every 11,000 people.

Ange is a rebuilder - more or less every team he's gone to, he has cleared out the dead wood quickly and then moved on from there. His teams play a good style of football with an attacking focus.

While the Scottish Premiership is a step up from the A League and the J League, it's not as far as some are making out.

The risk is this - apart from when he's moved to a bigger job, he has generally left clubs not for a lack of success but because he upsets the suits. Hope the board are ready to back him.

I heard he had 'I told you I was ill' on his headstone.

Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite

In the middle there somewhere - I think they wouldn't let him have it as béarla

Never the same after Willie Carson left

Think it was Coolidge or Hoover back in the 20s who coined "normalcy".

Why, I don't know.

WTF is wrong with "normality"?

I refuse to use the word "normalcy".

Warren Harding. Although it was around prior to that, his campaign slogan used it - "Back to Normalcy". It got mocked at first, then it became the more common word in the US.

Conor McKenna tests positive - Essendon v Melbourne AFL game postponed as a result.

WATCH our latest #Flashback full-match video, the 1991 All-Ireland SFC Final between @OfficialDownGAA and @MeathGAA. Ross Carr gives a very revealing insight into that dramatic season in the accompanying written feature #LongReadSunday #GAA

https://www.gaa.ie/football/news/flashback-1991-all-ireland-sfc-final-down-v-meath/

Analysis of the game and an interview with Wee James on Wooly Parkinson's podcast this week