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Totally new to this mularkey....so I buy a Firestick...whats next step?

1. Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen
2. When a child is born - Johnny Mathis
3. White Christmas - Buble

Is Julie's Kitchen or as we knew it Julie's Armpit still on the go? The Stinx (Sphinx) in Stranmillis was another place we frequented in our later years.

Sphinx going from strength to strength. Won NI kebab of the year recently. Biggest dort place about was the emerald. Got a few of them delivered to Palestine st in my day.

That's no lie there. Theres a chippy a few doors down from the Rose. Think its in line with Agincourt. Was always fond of their sausage supper special. The grease alone kept you fed for a week, till you got up the road for Mummys spuds

Casa nostra??

Together - the finest traditional chippy/chinese restaurant in the land. Always heard great stories about Renshaws. Must've been a great place

Mc curry, Shay Mc guigan and Kyle Coney all took part in recent trials according to Irish news.

Conan Grugan too. Lots of new faces also.

Delighted to hear Grugan was there, a man who I think will start?
Whats the story with Johnny Monroe? Is he for Oz??
Was Canavan at the trial??

Munroe left for Oz last week and is away for a year as far as I know.  I don't think he will be returning for aslong as Harte is at the helm if im honest... be interesting to see if the next county manager (whenever that may be) can persuade him to give it another rattle!!

What was Munroe's issue with Harte? He left midway through his second year on the panel and had got loads of gametime up until then, in both League and Championship - rightly so because he is a great footballer and we have missed him since. I got the impression he left for other reasons, because he wanted to focus on Carrickmore or was fed up of the commitment required for county football, and not due to a fallout with Harte.

He was getting a lot of game time and I reckon his trajectory could have been similar to Hampseys, moving from fringe, to central to key man but as you say maybe it was not for him. It is an amateur sport and we all have lives to live.

Was there not an issue with a ski holiday or something?

Is Julie's Kitchen or as we knew it Julie's Armpit still on the go? The Stinx (Sphinx) in Stranmillis was another place we frequented in our later years.

Sphinx going from strength to strength. Won NI kebab of the year recently. Biggest dort place about was the emerald. Got a few of them delivered to Palestine st in my day.

That's no lie there. Theres a chippy a few doors down from the Rose. Think its in line with Agincourt. Was always fond of their sausage supper special. The grease alone kept you fed for a week, till you got up the road for Mummys spuds

Settler communities are different to normal societies because there is no historical continuity and identity has to be invented in a room somewhere from elements that someone has to define. It has to be hard coded.
Over time identity changes. Eg in the South there was a shift from strongly catholic to more liberal on gay issues. Societies will debate this stuff and then change. Or they won't.  But it won't lead to existential insecurity.   
But for unionists the hard coding of identity is very hard to change. Take out Queen and Somme and there isn't much left and then what would you replace it with ?
Unionist identity is very fragile.

Settlers tend to be easier to scare the shite out of because they know unconsciously that their people  were outsiders who came in by force. They are easier to manipulate
The next few months will be hard for GB but very hard for Unionists in NI.

That's a top quality post.

+1

-1 What a load of nonsense

Knew it was only a matter of time before moaning michael reared his head.

The Lough have no wins over us at senior level. We won the minor championship 3 years ago and have won the past 2 Under 16 County titles but that may count for very little. Our underage is stronger across the board than it ever has been in the past five years. Would i be right in saying that the vast majority of Loughmacrorys young players at senior level were playing on a minor side that got beat by Carmen in a couple of great league games that year?

May count for very little as those minors are 21 now so if they can't do it now they never will.  If my memory is correct we won a minor championship in 2006 and by 2010 8/9 played and won the senior championship that year.

I think we had 7 of the minor team who won that played against Errigal in the championship this year so it is a fairly high turnover. The problem is we completely are missing a middle age. The older lads who are still doing well but we have virtually no mid to late 20s who are doing anything consistent, compared t oother senior teams who have the likes of Petey Harte, Stephen McNallys, Ronan O'Neills etc. Anyone wh ois any good is either retired because of injuries

Finally someone speaking sense. You typically need 3 age groups well represented in a winning championship team, 2 or 3 18-21 year olds, 4-8 21-29 year olds, then the rest the experienced old hands. Carrickmore are struggling because of the 21-29 year olds. Coalisland have a perfect mix at present, as did the great Dromore team of 10 years ago. Taking this formula into consideration what teams are properly set up? Killyclogher appear to be on the wane because of their older men, Trillick and Clonoe the same. Who are we looking at then?

Just finished American Crime Story: People vs OJ Simpson - thought it was terrific.

Sure everyone knows how it plays out - but being young at the time never realized how badly the prosecution bungled the case.

Gonna try the 2nd season now - about the death of Gianni Versace

Not half as good in my opinion. If you're interested in that type of genre, there's 1 about the Menendez bros...compelling viewing

I think this charade has clearly shown that all the DUP care about is waving a union flag and calling themselves British, and to hell with the economy, jobs, livelihoods etc in the north. And that SF don't care diddly squat about anything either, other than trying to get a United Ireland.

Two useless shower of cnuts.

This is completely laughable.SF are saying diddly squat because their opinion doesn't matter. The DUP with 10MP's don't make a button of difference. Jesus christ the amount of bs spouted on here is ridiculous.

Bell made the right choice. The Steelers were planning to run him tho the ground this season. I hope more players treat this as a business and forget about the nonsense eminating from teams and supporters.

How is leaving $855,000 a week on the table a good "business" decision? that money can never be recovered. His agent and the NFLPA advised him against it.

The Steelers raved about Conners in training camp, he was going to get touches this season

To clarify, I hope nothing untoward happens Conner as its a great story. I do want the Steelers to fail though because of what they done with Bell. If you are the de-facto best RB in the league, and maybe the 2nd best receiver on your own team, surely you should be offered more than 1 guaranteed year. Basically the Steelers were banking on Bell having another MVP like year, then cutting him loose or worse hoping he gets hurt. Bell done exactly what the rest of us would do in the same position.

This looks like it's going to be a slap in the face for the DUP. Currently reactions seem to show that just the North stays in the common market. SNP jealous, Arlene raging. The North has now been effectively split from the UK.
The writing is on the wall, how can any future UK government justify the block grant for a non constituent UK country?
The will of the UK voter to retain any interest in any part of the island of Ireland will surely be tested and questions will soon be asked by Labour as to why they pay 10 billion quid annually to keep the place afloat...

Every possible outcome is now in play. From this deal, to No Deal, to remaining in the EU, to a second referendum. There doesn't appear to be the numbers in Parliament for any outcome to be voted through. 

IF May can pull this deal off, and IF we can get our politicians to implement it correctly the North might just become one of the most prosperous regions in the UK.

Last bit, I thought the same. Try telling that to a deluded lot in the DUP though.

If it happened, after decades of Britain's policies helping to fcuk the north up in many ways, resulting in it becoming a basket case, now brexit could reverse that.

A lot of football to be played yet though.

Can someone explain or post a link about how this makes the North some kind of golden egg? I'm no economics whizz so I need help.

I don't think he's entitled to FA next year either.

No he can hit free agency in March, a year older and down $14.5m

Yeah or get the 15 million a year guaranteed that he is entitled to. The Steelers low balled him and he has called their bluff. Can't wait for Conner to mess up in Foxborough.

So Le'Veon Bell will miss the entire season after failing to report and sign tender, you would wonder what advice he is getting.

Perfect advice. Only need to look at Ronald Darby with the Eagles to see the risks associated with non-guaranteed contracts.

[DUP's evidently doesn't either]

If SF were in any way concerned about the impact of brexit, why didn't they take their seats in Westminster?

Issues regarding anti-Irish/catholic attacks and Irish language had to be brought up by the Scottish parliament and that Welsh party recently. SF are the only ones able to speak out about the DUP/Tory deal and it's impact on brexit, so why the f**k aren't they doing it?!

Thankfully they are not in Westminster.

Imagine them on the floor of Westminster criticising the Brexit process and trying to frustrate any decision making. The pro Brexit red top English papers like the Sun the Daily Mail and the Express would have a field day given their old connections with the IRA. It would only add to the little Englander mentality and harden attitudes even more over there. The best thing they can do is stay completely out of the process and watch it all unravel.

That's it in a nutshell. Be part of the process inside Westminster and become the bad guys, or stay out of it and watch the world burn.

There'll always be a little Englander mentality. Surely they could call the tories/DUP out on their antics, and if they're so concerned about lgbt or Irish language, then go and highlight them where they can affect it most. Make their voices heard.

What is the hangup about the abstentionism? All SF voters realise when they vote for their MP's that they won't be represented. Look at Corbyn's treatment about being anti-Semite or zionist. Now imagine what'd be said to the SF representatives especially on Brexit. Their voices wouldn't make a difference in Westminster, as the DUP's evidently doesn't either.

You realise the DUP are keeping the the Tory Government in power?
SF are pro Brexit. They want an extremely hard Brexit. They are prepared to sacrifice business, prosperity, growth etc for a UI or at worse complete chaos in NI. They will keep their coffers topped up with racketeering and illegal smuggling.

Keeping them in power for how long? The leaked letter shows exactly how worried the Tories are about the DUP.

Don't understand how SF are involved in racketeering and illegal smuggling?

If SF were in any way concerned about the impact of brexit, why didn't they take their seats in Westminster?

Issues regarding anti-Irish/catholic attacks and Irish language had to be brought up by the Scottish parliament and that Welsh party recently. SF are the only ones able to speak out about the DUP/Tory deal and it's impact on brexit, so why the f**k aren't they doing it?!

Thankfully they are not in Westminster.

Imagine them on the floor of Westminster criticising the Brexit process and trying to frustrate any decision making. The pro Brexit red top English papers like the Sun the Daily Mail and the Express would have a field day given their old connections with the IRA. It would only add to the little Englander mentality and harden attitudes even more over there. The best thing they can do is stay completely out of the process and watch it all unravel.

That's it in a nutshell. Be part of the process inside Westminster and become the bad guys, or stay out of it and watch the world burn.

There'll always be a little Englander mentality. Surely they could call the tories/DUP out on their antics, and if they're so concerned about lgbt or Irish language, then go and highlight them where they can affect it most. Make their voices heard.

What is the hangup about the abstentionism? All SF voters realise when they vote for their MP's that they won't be represented. Look at Corbyn's treatment about being anti-Semite or zionist. Now imagine what'd be said to the SF representatives especially on Brexit. Their voices wouldn't make a difference in Westminster, as the DUP's evidently doesn't either.