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RBS, Standard Life all being lined up to say they'll move jobs out of Scotland to London, all the big shots are being fired now that its getting a bit too close for comfort for Cameron and Co.

Moving registered head offices (RBS anyway) to London, operations to remain in Edinburgh, Greenock etc. More scaremongering.

The BT campaigners have been utterly pathetic but it seems their scare tactics will come out on top. Shame really!

Bit of an upset in the Armagh IFC tonight: Middletown 0-10 Culloville 1-6

QF line up is

Forkhill Peadar Ó'Doirnín v Clan na Gael Lurgan
Naomh Pól Lurgan v Silverbridge Harps
Clann Éireann Lurgan v Mullaghbawn Cúchulainn's
Grange St Colmcille's v Middletown Eoghain Rua

And his views are relevant because...

PaddyPower had Mattock Rangers at 10/1 instead of 1/10 about 3 years or so ago in a Louth SFC game.

Not saying how much I put down but the f**kers only won by a point in the end!

Armagh used to have it in a bit of a mess ie at one stage a few years back a Division 2 club was playing Junior and a Division 1 club was playing intermediate, Division 3 club played Senior etc. This has since been tidied up where clubs now play in the championship in line with their league status: SFL->SFC... IFL->IFC... JFL->JFC.

Senior championship looks set to go to Cross - unless Maghery, Cullyhanna or possibly Armagh Harps can provide an upset. There is also a back door in this year's championships so if the upset is to come let's hope it waits til the QF stage.

Intermediate looks quite competitive, half the teams involved in this division will have genuine and realistic ambitions of winning it. (Culloville, Wolfe Tones, Clann Eireann, Clan na Gael, St Paul's, St Peter's, Forkhill, Grange and even Silverbridge)

Junior I know less about though my tip would be either Collegeland or Keady.

Made In Belfast is an excellent alternative to the overpriced TGI Fridays, Nandos etc shite.

"Ye can't kick a weight over the bar"

Well done Donegal, probably the better team but only just. Go on and win it now!

With a few tweaks Armagh should come back stronger next year. Harsh to single out McEvoy, if he came improve his kickouts he's a good enough shot stopper to keep his place.

Thought Joe McQuillan was a bit one-sided but other than that a gallant performance and plenty of positives to take away from that game. So hard to lose by a point but it will hopefully bring this team on.

The Palestinians have been compromising for quite some time now whitey.

I think what I want more than anything from this Armagh team is another performance. They have produced results so far and confidence finally seems to be there.

I always reckoned for the last 3/4 years that Armagh had the players capable of making the last 8 and it's finally coming to fruition.

As for Donegal - no man will admit it but they think they have this in the bag (not without good reason mind). I think Armagh will match them for fitness but physically might be a bit lacking in some departments. I wouldn't want to see Morgan take McFadden for example. Nullifying Murphy will take some doing also!

Will lead to an intriguing encounter anyway; just pray there are no more injuries.

Sheehy trying to defend in indefendable. What a lowlife. Wrongs on both sides but what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is sickening. The stats don't lie Sheehy you reptile.

General Lee, you clearly do not know Dungiven!

I know it well enough! Speaks volumes that an OO parade can take place in a town like Dungiven! But he said region. Plenty of steel rods in Limavady. Which isn't far away.

Just when I thought it was all dying down and ye Ourma boys were trying to concentrate on the next game.

Your last paragraph actually made me LOL.
Your first is totally unreal. The man runs 20 yards to elbow a man who was acting peace maker. Unreal

What exactly is your definition of 'elbowing' someone?

Usually entails the swinging back of the arm with the elbow aimed at the person on receiving end. McKeever clearly ran at Cavanagh leading with the arm up. Elbow? Nah bai.

Yes he's a thug - just watch him for his club he acts the cnut on numerous occasions with little or no provocation - it's just his game and 9 times out of 10 it works.

What he did on Sunday was sly enough but there has been far far worse done and you are exaggerating the fcuk out of this.

[very few unionist/loyalist/oo live in the region]

Good column by Alex Kane in Irish News yesterday about need to turn a blind eye to things like parades etc that you don't like or currently get wound up by.And an excellent column by Rev Brian Kenneway, a former Orange Chaplain, in Belfast Telegraph about differences in Belfast and rural parades which allows major parades to be held in republican hotbeds like Newtonhamilton without any hint of trouble.

Instead of the current furore over parades, bonfire effigies and posters etc,I am of the opinion that if these issues were completely ignored by nationalists everywhere (including N Belfast and Drumcree) their frequency and publicity would reduce dramatically.

The orange parade in Dungiven a month or so ago imo proves that.
there has never been a loyalist/unionist/oo parade that I have heard about before through this republican/nationalist town - very few unionist/loyalist/oo live in the region let alone in the town.

Plenty in Limavady and surrounding areas - only up the road!

I say let them march, if there's no contention, or if agreement/accommodation can be made then let them at it.

When this country's eventually united I'll let them march round my back garden for all I care.