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I see that in the US they're complaining about halal meat.

They want their meat to be killed the American way. Seriously, what are the chances of a cow enrolling in high school and being shot by a classmate?

John Sands, father of hunger striker Bobby Sands died yesterday.

Brilliant goal from RVP 1-1

2-1 never a penalty

We might not be there but that doesn't mean that World Cup fever isn't set to grip the nation ahead of tonight's opening game between Brazil and Croatia at 9pm.

Between betting, busters and just sheer general interest, we'll all have our say on the tournament over the next few weeks.

The big question remains whether Dundalk's very own Steve Staunton will have his record broken.

The former Liverpool and Aston Villa star – who played at Italia 90, USA 94 and Japan and South Korea in 2002 – has drawn more World Cup games than any player in the history of the tournament with eight.

The stat was revealed by the good folks over at Balls.ie, who also revealed that Robbie Keane (3) has scored as many World Cup goals as Cristiano Ronaldo (2), Lionel Messi (1) and Wayne Rooney (0) combined and that Ireland hold the record for the highest ever finish at a World Cup despite not winning a match (1990).

Its alot of money to shell out for little gain in my opinion.

Would it not pay for itself? Oil isn't getting any cheaper.

This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!" And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, "Other kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?

RIP The Peoples Poet.

Well done Kildare, today's outcome was never really in doubt.

One more game before the inevitable.

www.youtube.com/embed/PFwA4jaSNZM

Limerick's Andy Lee produced the punch of his career to knock John Jackson out after taking an early beating on the Cotto-Martinez undercard at Madison Square Garden in New York.

John Jackson dropped Lee with a massive right hook in the first round and continued to punish him in the second.

Lee kept Jackson at bay with a long, stiff jab in the third but Jackson was controlling the fight.

It looked like Jackson was about to finish lee off when the Irishman unloaded a massive hybrid hook-uppercut on the chin that knocked Jackson completely unconscious and prompted a wild rush into the ring from concerned medical staff and cornermen.

The fight was Lee's first at Junior Middleweight and the win saw him crowned the NABF light middleweight champ.


http://www.independent.ie/sport/video-irelands-andy-lee-produces-devastating-knockout-to-stun-madison-square-garden-30337753.html

where can i watch the sunday game (9.30) version again on web?

http://www.rte.ie/player/es/show/10288950/

The first minister comes from the largest party so that could very well happen in the next election.

Will MMG stay on to be the first minister of British rule or will he quietly shuffle off with a tap on the shoulder from his old friend Lilly Windsor. Lord Bogside.

Louth team v Kildare. Gallagher,Rath,Finnegan,O'Brien,Reilly,Crilly,Reid,Keenan,Donnelly,McDonnell,White,Maguire,Byrne,Grimes,Fanning

[How could any employer even look at any of these apes and consider hiring them?]

I've commented before on some of the people on that PUL page, but they are absolutely disgraceful. Absolutely ignorant, bigotted, bile filled excuses for human beings. And this isn't even 'trolling'. These people are putting these comments on their own personal pages with names and photos clearly visible. How could any employer even look at any of these apes and consider hiring them?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-27667937

Interesting to see this happen. On one hand you think fair play to him while on the other hand you think maybe you shouldn't have vented so much in the first place.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/preacher-at-ian-paisleys-former-church-denounces-islam-as-a-wicked-religion-30321153.html

Just a week after a scandal was sparked by a preacher slating Islam as "satanic", a second preacher has launched a broadside against the faith.

The minister at Lord Bannside's former church, Martyr's Memorial Free Presbyterian in east Belfast, has blasted Islam as a "violent intolerant wicked religion".

The Rev Ian Brown was speaking at a recent Sunday evening service in defence of Pastor James McConnell, whom he described as a "prophet".

The Free Presbyterian minister told his flock last Sunday evening he felt the situation had become "thoroughly ridiculous".

In an sermon posted on the Martyr's Memorial website, Rev Brown is heard saying: "Now the allies and sympathisers of Islam are up on their hind legs; what we can call that secularist Taliban who dominate our medium, they are sharpening their literary sabres and they are swinging for him, their attempt at their own version of a verbal hanging with a couple of blistering attacks which were passed off as interviews on the Nolan radio and television shows."

He blamed "anti-Christian intolerance" for the row.

"This all becoming thoroughly ridiculous.

Bizarre," he added. "I'm thinking of the core of this controversy, at the heart of this firestorm that has erupted over the past week, is intolerance.

"And this intolerance did not come from Mr McConnell... anti-Christian intolerance is alive and kicking in our world today."

He also attacked Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.

"Is it not hugely ironic that one of his loudest critics is Martin McGuinness, of IRA/Sinn Fein, who now has the nerve to stand up and present himself... whenever the terrorists organisation, of which he was a part, murdered people in this city, such as the young academic Edgar Graham," he said.

"They were judge, jury and executioner in this country, so this is so sweet coming from a leader of a band of murderous thugs who rode to political power on the back of a campaign of terror which left hundreds murdered and thousands injured."

Rev Brown next turned his attention to the main Protestant churches, accusing them as "hollow love and no truth". However the minister reserved his sternest words for Islam.

"People in the west need to know that the image of Islam as a violent intolerant wicked religion is in fact true and growing more so every day," he told his congregation.

"It is violent, it is religion that was born out of violence".

Background

Two Sundays ago Pastor James McConnell told his congregation at Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in north Belfast that Islam was "satanic" and a "doctrine spawned in hell". The sermon was inspired by an incident in Sudan, during which a young mother was sentenced to 100 lashes and death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith.

The pastor's words sparked an outcry and demands for an apology from the Muslim community in Belfast. Police are investigating the remarks as possible hate crime. The row intensified after Peter Robinson said the pastor had his backing.