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So what happens when the DUP refuse to form an executive?

Once the planters realize the game is up, they'll probably start calling for repartition. They think they're entitled to a little homeland in which they get to call the shots.

As long as they give us back the land they took, sorry, stole. And all the bales!

I can see the rising of the moon tonight! Dóchas na gealaí!

In Foyle, the people of Derry have put the pro Brexit pro Putin PBP guy ahead of the second SDLP candidate. I reckon the UU guy  will get the last seat now.

Tell us the 'unionist' population of the city - how many thousand do you think?

It is an overwhelming pro protocol endorsement?

It's a pools win for polarisation

Seafóid.

Christ this is a long count! Did they bring in the key stage 3 maths counters?

Counting in Ulster Scots takes wan a weee bit langer!!🤣

No penalties needed @27 now!

24-23! Could go to penalties!

All roads lead to Magherafelt!! Is Mary Lou wearing red, white and blue?! Jaysus! Might be the 'colour-blindness'!?

If there is a God up there, and he's both omnipresent and omniscient, and also in our image, there is no relatable way that he/she/it could attain fulfilment from a billion catholics standing, sitting, kneeling on repeat for an hour, while mumbling through words they've never paused to think about.

Religious services may lack variety, but the motivation for collective activity is not so different as the motivation to go to GAA games and where the whole parish get together to cheer for the one team.

Is that why Peter Canavan is called God?!! At least Peter is real.

I read Gallagher is getting great praise for his tactics last Sunday from the GAA pundits and rightly so. Also for his encouragement from the sidelines. Apparently the players feed off his passion and engagement. He certainly has restored pride in the jersey for Doire and brought great hope.  Would be great to possibly update 1998!

Our little ones will never see the inside of a church as long as I have anything to do with it.

Perhaps they'll have the same respect for your views as you had for your parents.

Our parents, grandparents, priests and nuns were all conned and indoctrinated. The Catholic church had us by the balls (literally in terms of reproduction!) from conception to death. Scared the wits out of us from knee height with threats of hell and took superstitious advantage. By the way, if you don't believe but want to be buried in full or in ashes with your own people or clann,  it is not hypocritical to be buried in your  local Catholic graveyard - it is your ancestral and cultural right.

I haven't been regularly since I was mid teens, lapsed catholic and not really bothered with religion to be honest, each to their own and I have no issues with people who feel that religion is their way of getting through life and if it comforts them and helps with what life throws at them then brilliant.

As for the actual Mass service, when I'm at either weddings/funerals or the odd christening the same routine more or less has been the same for decades, unless they can change or modernise it, it will continue to lose it's flock, when I went, the mass was packed from 7am through to the las mass at 1pm on a Sunday, the Sat mass was also packed.

Factor in what's happened these last 40 years and the church in all that time never moved with the times and views of a modern world, it was never ever going to maintain the numbers or attraction.

RIP

What can be done to modernise Mass?

I don't tbink people stay away from mass because its not modern. I think its because many have evolved to see religion for the irrelevant bullshit it is. Modernise away, it won't bring me or my likes back.

Couldn't agree more. One of the biggest cons in the history of the human race and still the wee ones are indoctrinated daily in our schools. No wonder some grow up with guilt and a lack of self-esteem - "weeping and mourning in this valley if tears".

if a united ireland is voted for or near id expect loyalsits doing attacks inside the republic to make the south think twice if voting for it  it

The days of a minority of planted supremists on this island dictating the terms are over.

Well said.

I go to mass but don't beat myself up if I miss it now and again.  Maybe my view is different but I see mass as part n parcel of being an irishman.  It didn't do me any harm and it won't do my kids any harm either.  Each to their own though

Not sure that the United Irishmen would agree with your parcel! It is possible to detach nationality from religion - just takes a bit of courage.

Muineachán will rightly be favourites as they have been achieving consistently at a higher level than Doire for some time. Could be close though - big test for Doire. Does the truth lie nearer the Tyrone display or the Galway one? I doubt if Muineachán will let Doire go short from the kickout as Tyrone did for too long at the start. Likely to put at least one defender up front to stop Rodgers bombing forward or Doherty. For the first time in a number of years Doire's strength and conditioning will match Muineachán. Referee and interpretation of rules will have a big say in this one, I think.