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[First, if you need physio attention, and you don't need to be substituted, then you will spend one minute on the sideline from when the game is restarted. No exceptions. No hard luck stories. Same rule for goalkeepers. Attempt to return before one minute and you get an automatic black card. This could be written into the rules as a player welfare need, at the drop of a hat.]

A couple of simple fixes.

First, if you need physio attention, and you don't need to be substituted, then you will spend one minute on the sideline from when the game is restarted. No exceptions. No hard luck stories. Same rule for goalkeepers. Attempt to return before one minute and you get an automatic black card. This could be written into the rules as a player welfare need, at the drop of a hat.

Extend the black card rule to include "clear and obvious timewasting" and "attempting to gain an opponent an unwarranted card". Referees would almost never use this tool, but the threat of it should keep our game more honest .

Only issue i have with this is if a player has a genuine injury such as cramp or a knock i.e something that can resolve fairly quickly why should their team be punished by having to play with a person down for a minute?

Or a player is milled by a fair shoulder, why should a team have to play with 14 men just because one of their players came off worse in a collision.

Don't think its at all fair to compare GAA and soccer with physios tending to players. Soccer is now next to a non-contact sport, there's seldom really heavy collisions like in GAA or Rugby where guys a competing really hard for loose possession. I think it would be highly unfair if a midfielder contested a ball didn't win it but took a hard knock whilst trying to get the ball and then had to go off for 1 minute and have his team compete with 14 players.

If a young lad of 16/17 identifies as a woman does he get to line out for the local clubs girls minor team? what's the solution there?

[well-organised crime group]

The Irish News understands that some of those arrested in the last week have alleged connections to a well-organised crime group.

Jesus Christ what kind of halfwit wrote that article? A well-organised crime group? 

Looks like the wales players climbed down. They could soon regret it, only a fool makes threats he can't carry out.

Thoughts with the poor man's family.

I don't know who's more deluded, the arseholes who think assassinating a cop pursues some political agenda or the clowns on here who's first reaction is "oh this suit the DUP, it must have been MI5. Ussuns wouldn't do something like this so it had to be themmums"

It's not a penalty. Unless we are now giving penalties for every time a player gets touched by a keeper after a shot.

Banshees looks nice, promises much but has the worst ending of nearly any film I've seen. Only over thinking arthouse gobshites could infer any meaning from that ending. I seen mark kermode singing its praises, a sure sign it's cat.

[Someone was always going to extract it and create those jobs]

The 1.65bn is what they are saying it 'could' rise to - which Noonan himself thought that was dodgy going by that article - I meant though what 2% on each insurance premium comes to over 10 years. I would have thought even those estimates would be rightly covered by now

Yeah I agree with you. The 2% levy is bound to have covered the loss at this point.

Any numbers?

June 21

However, since 2010 the amount collected under these specific stamp duties is c.€1.6 billion
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-06-02/98/#pq-answers-98

If I was you I would read that article again.It differentiates between the levy and the stamp duty. You appear to be extracting an answer about the stamp duty to provide information about the levy.

Quinn's lasting gift to Irish society is the levy. The stamp duty is a separate debate

He also left another gift, 1000s of jobs still in place in the Cavan/Fermanagh area, 100's of families able to put bread on the table and put their kids through school and not have to emigrate or move away to cities. I accept he made a massive mistake and we must all pay for it now but you also need to accept the good that he did too in an area all but abandoned by governments north and south.

This is partially true. The jobs in insurance and the hotel were brought to the area. The gravel/sand jobs were always going to be where sand and gravel where. And the glass jobs where always going to be where the raw material was. Someone was always going to extract it and create those jobs. Quinn had head start but I absolutely give him credit for growing it.

I wouldn't have a misty eyed view of how workers where treated. Some treated very well. Others not so.

Absolutely not. Nothing unique about the geology that couldn't have been done in some other area of the country. What was unique was the man with the drive/ambition to take on a cement cartel and actually win.

On the jobs, I remember at the time promises being made that Liberty would not move jobs. Within a year there wasn't an insurance job left in Cavan. And if moving Hotels and Cement Plant was as easy as moving a few books and accounts, none of those other jobs would still be in the region either.

Sorry, are you saying there are economical viable aggregate deposits everywhere?

And I did say he brought the insurance jobs to the area.

I am drawing a distinction between what had to be or least made sense to do in the area and those jobs be brought to the area.

I am neither slavishly praising the man nor ignoring the good that he did do. Nor am ignoring his undoing of part of it and the wider consequences of that.

Pretty much every province has the limestone/gravel deposits that Quinn exploited in Fermanagh. Mid Tyrone has arguably quarried as much as Quinn in Fermanagh but no-one there created a multi billion business model. To suggest that it was inevitable that a glass factory would be built in ballyconnel is incorrect.

Kilcoo with the novel tactic of tackling your own man to win a free.

Jesus the victim culture about nowadays is taking the piss. I've no love for rings of power in fact it's absolute shite but f**k me anyone insulted by them using Irish accents needs a boot in the hole. Sure they use scottish accents for the fat, beardy, greedy dwarves. Yorkshire accents for the muck savages of men who join the side of evil. The lying/snooby cnuts of elves speak with home counties accents. Literally anyone from any of those places could infer some form of slight or insult by the depiction of the characters using their accent.

The attempts at irish accents are decent, lenny henry and your wans mother excepted. There's a round faced girl from london has it off to a tee. Millions of people are on the brink of starvation in Africa and this is the shite that The Guardain gets in an uproar about.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/1006/1327436-tralee-investigation/

Who brings a blade to a funeral?

Would you have to ask?

Teachers are well underpaid when you consider the money handed out in sectors like construction, finance, IT etc.

Yet to see a teacher pack it in to go plaster houses.

The useless hoors should be hanging their heads in shame after the stunts they pulled during the lockdowns. Looking for more money now.

https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2022/0810/1315030-teacher-union-ballots/

Well since 50% of teachers died during covid due to the extreme "twin tower" like danger of the role, I think that a small extra increase will not effect the overall bill to the state.

Cost of living is affecting everyone, I'd say teachers are well under paid

If they worked 39 hours a week, 52 weeks of the year with 20 days hols like other workers then maybe they could claim to be under paid.

Its the unseen hours they do, most teachers arrive into work 8.30 not home till 4.30 ish.. They do work at home, marking and preparing tests and so on, reports and whatever else they are at. If they stayed on in the school to carry out these things it would probably go beyond the 39 hours a week, the hols are just that, the kids need a break so what would you have the teachers doing during that period?

Yeah only teachers do unseen hours.

Would the coroner not have picked up on any foul play when the autopsy was done ?

Good point.  Surely if foul play was suspected, then the post-mortem would have confirmed that.  The young lad was found naked in a storm drain, I'd be pretty certain he did not go there on his own, or as someone said earlier, his body was placed there.  Public Enquiry needed, it is beyond weird at this stage.  God help the poor mother, horrific.

Was he not seen by members of the public cycling naked through the streets? Or is that incorrect?