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When you know your about to loose your job and can do f**k all about it...

People that don't know the difference between loose and lose. Do you make the same mistake with noose and nose ?

Possibly but when i'm smashing someone's nose in i can tell the difference

Im a pacifist myself.

Question for you racing heads - how crooked is the sport ?

MIB its probably the fact that they're so vulnerable in comparison to me or you.  We could put up some sort of defence or withstand an attack a little better.  One blow to a frail pensioner could seriously injur or even kill them.

To me, burglary is a terrible thing, but anyone that targets the elderly couldnt spend long enough in prison if you ask me.  Really hate reading stories about this, makes me sick.

I know what you are saying - the targetting of the elderly is despicable. Its not a crime that carries anywhere near enough of a sentence. The good old fashioned knee capping was too good for them.

When you know your about to loose your job and can do f**k all about it...

People that don't know the difference between loose and lose. Do you make the same mistake with noose and nose ?

Very simply club ticket allocations will always be insufficient to meet demand. There are people in clubs who look after teams, committee members etc who have first call (and this is how it should be), but when these are sorted out there are very little left for the rest of us, and you have to take pot luck in a ballot.

I saw a few people on Sunday with copious amounts of tickets (one old Cork guy was prepared to swap two "inferior" tickets for one "good" ticket). I wondered how this could happen and how do some people get access to relatively large quantities of tickets.
Its this anamoly the GAA needs to sort out

Its easy when you know how and who.

What galls me is this bull of giving tickets to the clergy. WTF ?

Proper fans rarely have a problem with tickets on all-ireland day

No they dont.
The average Mayo club got 12 tickets for the All Ireland final, with Mayo being in the Minor final.

To say that proper fans rarely have a problem is ignorant and out of touch with the situation.

How do you divide 12 tickets among a huge club like Castlebar Mitchell's or a club with two minors playing like Ballintubber?

I know people that go to every Mayo Senior, U21 and most minor games and they often find it hard to get sorted. The same people have county board tickets, and contribute at club and county level and can still be left ticket-less.

So explain how ive got a ticket every year for the last 20 without any effort 50% of which have been on the day just asking around. Its always tough work but i get there in the end.


One game a year merchants dont tend to get looked after.

Its the one game a year merchants who seem to get all the good tickets

Seen people I know at the finals who wouldn't know if the ball was stuffed or pumped

Ive seen that as well. Money talks in a lot of cases

Here's an example of how the law is geared toward the perpetrators of Crime.

A pensioner lady who lives along the Fermanagh/Leitrim border returned home from the shops wither her daughter to discover 2 men in her house.   They men scarpered out the back door and hid an outhouse.  Thankfully if had a steel door which the daughter bolted.   They called the cops who said they had to release the men.  They told the cops where to go and the cops arrived double-quick.  Wehn they arrived they set the men free taking their names and swallowed the excuse that they stopped to ask for directions and the door was open.

The cops then cautioned the pensioner and her daughter and said they were lucky not to be charged with false imprisonment.

That's the protection we have from burglars the likes of the men who killed Keith Barry's grandfather.

As someone that has been burgled i dont need lecturing on the level of protection afforded to the perpetrators. However my point is that i dont see the difference between a pensioner getting burgled and me or you getting burgled. Id love to hang the bastards from the nearest tree to be honest.

Have been lucky enough always to get sorted with tickets before but in an unprecedented move yesterday I chanced a visit to Dublin ticketless. Wasn't looking good on O'Connell St mid morning, tickets scarce and touts looking 200 quid for one. Made my way up to the Big Tree and met a mate who advised me to go on up to Quinns. Just as I'd left the Big Tree I spotted a Cork man on the phone and the upshot was that he sold me his ticket (a ten year Upper Cusack halfway line) for face value Then had to get another for the missus so I spotted John O Mahoney and asked him. He explained he didn't have any but would gladly have given me one if he did. Then asked numerous people including a prospective Armagh manager of my acquaintance before finally getting sorted with another at face value from a Fermanagh man. Thanked God, Allah and just about every other diety, pagan as well, for my good fortune.

Don't ever want to go through that experience again. Is it always that hard or do tickets free up a bit just before the senior game on All Ireland Finals day?

PS They were championing the season tickets scheme in the match programme yesterday. Pity they didn't look after the Mayo and Armagh season ticket holders.

Proper fans rarely have a problem with tickets on all-ireland day

were you at the 2006 Football final? thousands were outside including myself (shame we are not PROPER fans)

Yes, i had six tickets that day and passed them all on to lads outside the red parrott. One lad insulted me by pushing 200 euro into my hand, that really pissed me off, wanted to sell the ticket to someone else then. In hindsight people should have been paid 200 euro to watch that shit.

Why could you not get a ticket through your club ?

[Magician Barry's grandfather dies after Waterford attack]

I find this story particularly sad.


Magician Barry's grandfather dies after Waterford attack

The grandfather of magician Keith Barry has died in hospital from injuries he sustained during a burglary at his home in Waterford last week.

Eighty-four-year-old Paddy Barry suffered serious head and facial injuries, as well as a broken arm, when he was attacked by three men who called to his home on Mount Sion Avenue last Wednesday evening.

He had been unresponsive since the attack and died in hospital at 5.30am today.

A post-mortem will be carried out to determine whether he died as a direct result of his injuries.

A man who was arrested by gardaí in relation to the incident was arrested and released. A garda spokesman said a file has been prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Mr Barry had lived in the Mount Sion Avenue area of Waterford for 60 years.

At the time, his devastated grandson Keith, who has staged sell-out shows in Las Vegas, hit out at the justice system and said other pensioners living in the quiet part of the city were petrified.

He called for mandatory three-year prison sentences for criminals who break into pensioners' homes.

"I think anybody who enters a pensioner's home uninvited – that's anybody over 65 – it should be a mandatory sentence, without bail, without excuses," said the entertainer last week.

"These thugs have no fear. They have no fear for the law, they have no fear for the justice system and they have no fear of us in our homes."

Gardaí have appealed with anyone with information to come forward.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/magician-barrys-grandfather-dies-after-waterford-attack-427251.html#ixzz0Rp7vZWME

From a legal perspective what is the difference in breaking and entering a pensioners home or a young family for example. I dont think there should be any.

How would you have this knowledge Stew as you haven't been living in Ireland for at least 15years. Far away eyesight and slander doesn't always go down well. stick to your chosen sport soccer and baseball 

His knowledge seems to be on a par with the Armagh locals.

he is an average player at an average club having a couple of good seasons. Let him rot the ballix

Surely there have been similar characters to Indy, Stanley for example.

Stanley is a very interesting character, and a bit of a shit by the sounds of it.

He was of his time i suppose.

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Interesting essay from this guy, takes a bit of time to read through though.

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/poseur3.html

With that essay the question you have to ask is,  do the "prieure documents" have validity?
No credible historian has been able to verify anything other than the total implausibility of those documents, after long investigations failing to even find a morsel of substance.
The Da Vinci Code accepts these documents as historical fact.

it is as incredible as Indiana Jones.
Or do people believe in Indiana Jones?

Surely there have been similar characters to Indy, Stanley for example.

Proper fans rarely have a problem with tickets on all-ireland day

No they dont.
The average Mayo club got 12 tickets for the All Ireland final, with Mayo being in the Minor final.

To say that proper fans rarely have a problem is ignorant and out of touch with the situation.

How do you divide 12 tickets among a huge club like Castlebar Mitchell's or a club with two minors playing like Ballintubber?

I know people that go to every Mayo Senior, U21 and most minor games and they often find it hard to get sorted. The same people have county board tickets, and contribute at club and county level and can still be left ticket-less.

So explain how ive got a ticket every year for the last 20 without any effort 50% of which have been on the day just asking around. Its always tough work but i get there in the end.


One game a year merchants dont tend to get looked after.

too funny, love that you got urself sorted FIRST, then got one for the missus!! classy..........and u told it as well

Sure didnt the same buck take a ticket off his own mother and left her standing.