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I bought a Lidil telescope about 4 years ago and found it pretty good. i never really got mad into it but still take it out the odd time on a clear night.
the quality of the telescope itsself is pretty good  and since i got mine they have introduced a new digital model which you can plug into your p.c and it  will find find the stars for you.   the last time they were on sale they were retailing for less then €200.00 i think.
  I think it also comes with a camara attachment for thaking pictures of what you can see.

was in the book shop on saturday just looking aroung when i spotted  ''for whom the bells toll'' by hemmingway and i realised i had never read it. so i bought it and went home and starting reading.

Jesus Christ, what a book and what a writer. for anyone who has not read it put it on the holiday book list.

it has spread to sligo as well, and i believe it is common in limerick

despite what some here might think being a TD is a very very time consuming job. I think Johhno will finish out this season and after that resign.

to go off topic was anyone esle a bit disapointed with the new wembley.its looks good from the outside with the arch and what have you, but the inside lacked the wow factor i expected it to have.
i know its hard to tell on the telly but it all seemed a bit cramped. it did not come across as impressive a stadium as cardiff.

watch out for the 7 ages of rock on BBC over the next few weeks. the firs part was on last saturday and  was quite good.

on the ITV lunchtime news they said it was the cesspool that had been drained.

There was a very interesting interview on morning Ireland this Morning. They had on a British cop who was ex-head of the flying Squad from Scotland Yard. He was of the opinion that the police in Portugal have from day one been convinced that the child was taken by a local and is still being kept local.
  He reckons all this talk of international peadoohile rings is just a smoke screen

What a shame  tuam was not redevoloped instead of Salthill. the traffic is so bad that  I have decided not to go to this game. I just cannot face sitting in the car  for 3 to 4 hours afterwards. Last year i was getting home from croker (to ballina) quicker then from galway.
it must be the worst single spot in the whole of county Galway to build a stadium. in a housing estate by the sea with one road out.

what happened to him ziggy?

I think the very fact that posters here are defending the use of that banner completly discredits them. Firstly, anyone who would put the word f**k in a banner is an Idiot. and anyone who defends it is an idiot. secondly, wishing death on others in a banner is so base and disgusting that there is no real need to debate with anyone who supports its use. their very support finishes their argument .

Morvyn Connolly

Who the Hell is this Guy? and what sort of name is MORVYN ?

england 152 for 4 after 36 overs

As for young McAnespie, I freely admit that I learned something from the moving account of his shocking death. However, as an ordinary individual, going about his lawful business, he no more represented one "side" in the conflict, than e.g. Jonny Wilkinson does the "other" side. As such, neither deserves to be used (and abused) by politicians who are only concerned with serving their own Agenda.

well said EG

ust on  a point of reference
"One would think that Tom is the died-in-the-wool ground-roots GAA man that we should all aspire to be. Other than going to watch a few under-14 camogie matches and regularly being in attendance at club and county games that he probably gets in free for, I'd like to know what makes him so special that he feels he has the right to diss me and tell me to keep my opinions to myself. Is he in the fields on a saturday morning with a gaggle of kids setting up drills, carrying water, offerring pearls of wisdom from his vast exposure to our games over the years? Is he putting up nets, putting down flags, ringing players, ringing the opposition to arrange games, organising lifts, washing jerseys?"

tom did that with the camogie team he trained not that in my view it's relevent to the argument because i don't think it is. tom writes his own column and to be fair he's entitledto his views - and i'm not saying everyone has to agree with them.

Tom?

on a relataed issue did anyone hear Ray Silke on the last word on friday evening. it seems he was at a wedding on friday and i got the distinct impression he had a few on him during the interview.
now while Ray talk pure drival at the best of times on friday he was just rambling on with utter horse shit.