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Might have been mentioned on one of the you tubes above, but anyone remember "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" from around 1985 - ran every day for a couple of years, or maybe it was a weekly?

Yes Fishbat!  Esteban (sp) was the little boys name.  God that was a great cartoon, the music was great (well at that time)

Aye thats the fella, yes there was a lot of lads singing that tune in class after the show - big topic of discussion back then!

Not sure of that one Fishbat, but this used to be the highlight of my summer hols!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGKSjiw0HQ

Yip, another one - think it was on shortly after the pink panther and that aardvark yoke - great tune too

I was just on the phone to a supplier in America, and he's mad to export because the American economy is in bits at the minute...... In order to work our way out of this we need to find a competitive advantage in terms of the world market. What was a relatively cheap, well educated workforce has become an over-expectant one, which turns its nose up at menial labour.

I think that attitude is about to change.

Indeed, strange how this form of snobbery has risen its head in Ireland, its actually a bit on the bizarre side. 

There is a class system in Ireland though and its truly laughable

people have crucified themselves as Lone Shark (ironic name there) says,  to keep up with the Jones - one car is not enough, must have the flatscreen in the jacuzzi, and the fish pond - they are now total slaves to the banks for years to come - thats no way to live.

Houses going in wee piss arse villages for 250k up and people actually buying them is hard to believe.

And as another said - the build quality is shite -  damp shitholes in 10 - 15 years.

But its not all bad news - we can look forward to the lads coming round the houses with the Turf and Blocks and perties again, plus the Pollen salesmen from Lough Neagh might start calling round the doors again - and of course the fella's selling the homemade yuletide logs with the icing sugar for snow at Christmas!

would "The Departed" qualify?  or 'State of Grace" , "Gangs of New York" dodgy accents abound but good films

Homemade - "Run of the country", "Man about Dog", "Divorcing Jack"

Thought "The Magdelene Sisters" was great too

"Cal" is another older one

Anyone remember a mini series called "The Price" - think it was loosely based on Dessie O'Hare and the Kidnappings.

Or "Braveheart" - filmed in and starred half of the Irish Army Reserves

Might have been mentioned on one of the you tubes above, but anyone remember "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" from around 1985 - ran every day for a couple of years, or maybe it was a weekly?

Heading up to Brisbane for a week in August

Surely you mean Brisburn?

john wayne is the best, they even callled an airport after him..

Who? Wayne or Best?

Bonanza baighs, Bonanza

Would it be fair to say that the Derry ones are a little edgy this year?  Expectant almost

aside from all the chat, has anybody found a way to watch the rte web games for people outside of ireland.

No, pretty sure it can't be done

What about videoing it and putting it on You Tube straight away - delayed coverage

I've actually been at a qualifier draw in the past which took place at the end of the press box in Dr. Hyde Park last year - think it was after the Connacht Final. No rigging goes on but basically there's only so many permutations you can have and has often been the case in the past on this board it can easy be possible for somebody to predict the qualifier draw.

Same year in, year out there's always the conspiracy theorists!

Its rigged.............................and you're in on it!

Do you want to be buried with our people?

class!  forget marrying into the family - fancy burying into the family? could be the new one

Or at the wedding speeches it'll be "i wouild like to welcome Jane into the family..................plot"

[Anyway, it is impossible, so I will agree with a few posters from earlier and plump for Eddie the Eagle! Any man who fcuks himself off the edge of a hill like he does deserves great praise, when they do it without knowing how to do it the deserve canonisation!]

You can never really picka best sporstman ever as there are so many different skills involved in each sport.  Athletics, can you pick Lewis/Johnson over the endurance of Haile Gebrselassie or Hicham El Guerrouj or a plethora of Kenyans.

Boxing, the different weight divisions make it so hard, liek somoen before I prefer the middleweight division of them all and Leonard/Duran/Hagle were to my mind the greatest boxers ever.

Lance Armstrong, the doubts are always tehre, Delgado was something special.

Snooker, what do you go for, Hendry's monotonously brilliant gameplay or O'Sullivan's or Higgins' audacious flair.

In tennis you have Federer playing with the top coaches and best equipment dominating or Borg with his undoubted class and supreme athleticism at a time of amatuerish preperation.  Certainlyit was more enjoyable back then with bigger rivallries.

In Golf, Tiger Woods is stand out at the minute.  He will eclipse all records in my mind and will truly be the greatest golfer.

then when you go to team games, the likes of Jordan, maradona, Zidane were all fantastic players, but they also had many excellent team mates which made their jobs that bit easier.  That is a reason why Canavan of the mid 90's is high up on my list as he had a crap team (bar 1 or 2) around him and still got to within a cat's whisker of the big one.

Anyway, it is impossible, so I will agree with a few posters from earlier and plump for Eddie the Eagle!  Any man who fcuks himself off the edge of a hill like he does deserves great praise, when they do it without knowing how to do it the deserve canonisation!

Good point! plus the Egret was mostly blind into the bargain - a total genius

[1. Which county has lost the most AIFs?- Kerry (18)]

Already fully answered:
1.   Which county has lost the most AIFs?
- Kerry (18)

2.   Name all counties with a 100% record in AIFs.
- Down, Donegal, Limerick.

3.   Name all counties with a 0% record in AIFs (not counting those who've never appeared).
-  Laois, Monaghan, Antrim, London, Waterford, Clare
(Moysider correct)

5.   Which county has waited the longest since its last All-Ireland win?
- Limerick (since 1896)

6.   What's the highest winning score in an AIF?
- Dublin 1977 (5-12) and Kerry 2006 (4-15)

7.   What's the highest losing score in an AIF?
- 2-13 Galway 1973

8.   What's the highest number of goals scored in an AIF?
(I meant total goals)
- 8 in 1977 and another year not answered

Remaining unanswered:
4.   How many AIF's have been drawn?

Has anyone else any questions? The place is infested with questions about soccer and songs and gayness and more soccer, which is just a form of gayness anyway.

I've a question Hardy - an open question really - How in the name of St Brendan can Kerry claim to be the Kings of Gaelic football with a record like that - 18 defeats??  A complete disgrace - a boxer with the same record would be classed as a bum - Rodel Orais for instance - who?

They have more defeats than the French and Italian Armies combined.

Who else has a record of 18 defeats?  i'll tell you who - Wigan "Athletic"

Kerry - the Wigan of Gaelic football

go up to a girl. 
stare at her.
then stare at your crotch.
then the killer line.
"It's not gonna suck itself"

Always a winner

Almost as big a winner as "fancy going halfers on a bastard"

Why would you eat a beef sausage? An abomination.

Thats just southern Sausages...... and bacon,  - our Ulster pastures being greener and lushiest provide world class carcasses - ask Richardsons fertilizers.

Would concur with the Ulster fry brigade - but there needs to be a wad of pudding threw in too.....and a dollop of Mayo, plus pot of Tae.

Premises dispatching such treats include The Moy Inn, and for the professional fry guzzler - BJ'S Diner, O'kanes roundabout, Armagh City