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Could never warm to Belfast

I know, the bright lights of Londonderry is difficult to beat 

LOL don't think anyone who goes by sheugh water is from a town.
Do you know what a sheugh is MR2,

Nah he got me, Derry people know their sheugh from their ditch. We are all from Inishowen sure.

Could never warm to Belfast

Thread bump!

Folks, having a problem with these little buggers at the mo.  Been in new build since end of April...heard scratching from the loft on the Friday night two weeks ago and promptly laid traps the next morning.  Caught 9 in the first week and a further 3 from last Friday up until this evening when I checked...the last 3 were on separate days which makes me think I'm finally sorting it but thinking it may just be worth getting pest control out even to check the loft from top to toe?  I've checked round the side of the house and inside downstairs and there is no apparent gaps and any gaps I have spotted have been filled with steel wool.  They are just confined to the loft and has been zero signs of any of them downstairs.  Any recommendations?

If you dont find the hole(it can be tiny) they will keep coming in, get the hole, block it, lay traps, they are not smart like rats and cant resist bait.

Loads of traps might be needed, I caught 16 one winter within 4 days, they were coming in where the oil pipe entered the house, the hole was very very small.

Derry clubs wouldn't be playing their championship teams in Antrim leagues. U16 hurling in Antrim is same night as minor football in Derry for example, at every age they send what they can to league games, championship they are different animals

[we would almost certainly be worse off]

Corbyn is part of the reason the Country is in a mess. . . a load of left wing headbangers joined the Labour Party for 50p now there's no way they can force him out even though he's never going to appeal to the middle ground Labour need to win back Parliament.

Along with that he's a f**king Brexiteer so f**k him anyway. The UK is in severe bother but I actually think there is a way out of this if May sticks to her guns!!

Yep Irish nationalists should stay well clear of Corbyn. Not to be trusted

Nationalism is fine without Corbyn the border poll will be soon enough... the problem will be the Irish taking us on not the Brits casting us aside!!

You hit the nail on the head screenexile, if there was a vote in the 26 counties next week for Irish unity, I honestly think as low as 35/40% would be in favour.

i think it would be more like 55% in favour,  but it would be out of patriotism or a sense of nationalism and finality to the whole partition issue. it certainly wouldn't be down to personal gain because we would almost certainly be worse off.

Why does everyone make this assumption? Economists have looked into this and found that with the elimination of duplicate bureaucracy the island would be a lot better off.  GDP would be up, not down.

It would take time but yes it would be better longterm

Corbyn is part of the reason the Country is in a mess. . . a load of left wing headbangers joined the Labour Party for 50p now there's no way they can force him out even though he's never going to appeal to the middle ground Labour need to win back Parliament.

Along with that he's a f**king Brexiteer so f**k him anyway. The UK is in severe bother but I actually think there is a way out of this if May sticks to her guns!!

Yep Irish nationalists should stay well clear of Corbyn. Not to be trusted

Correct. He's in bed with SF as well. Corbyn is the biggest threat to peace in Ireland.

He is an English politician so and if history has taught us anything that means he is therefore a threat to peace, its inevitable anyhow that peace will be broken sooner or later, again a lesson from history which has been repeated at various intervals over 800 years

Anyone explain why croke park brought in training bans(rightly imo) only for no similar ruling on development squads who are putting big pressure on underage clubs

Corbyn is part of the reason the Country is in a mess. . . a load of left wing headbangers joined the Labour Party for 50p now there's no way they can force him out even though he's never going to appeal to the middle ground Labour need to win back Parliament.

Along with that he's a f**king Brexiteer so f**k him anyway. The UK is in severe bother but I actually think there is a way out of this if May sticks to her guns!!

Yep Irish nationalists should stay well clear of Corbyn. Not to be trusted

Peadar Tóibín overboard.

Id love to see hin form a new republican party

[Labour would walk a GE.]

The Brexit minister Raab has resigned.
It is rather alarming that he is using NI as an excuse, rather than his own stupidity.

The Tory party is going to tear itself apart

But what's going to fill the vacuum? Impossible to see it being Labour under Corbyn. Will a new centre-right group emerge?

According to Luciana Berger MP ,a new poll suggests 63% want a second vote. Corbyn doesn't. If he gets in the way he might be shafted. Labour would walk a GE.

Brexit as a process is like the « new GAA manager for a struggling county «
model. New hope, some of it unrealistic builds up. There might be an O Byrne cup win. Eventually the model meets reality. A hammering in Croke Park.

Would have agreed with this a few months back but now I'm not so sure.  Since he won the leadership, every fibre of me is willing Corbyn to do well as I feel he is a decent man.  But I now get the feeling that he's happy to let the UK go to ruin with a no deal Brexit so he can step in and rebuild it his way.  I'm afraid that's not something I could support.

And like I say, I started out as a fan.

I'd be fairly much of the same view in relation to Corbyn. He is in politics for all the right reasons but is he the man that is going to guard against the economic catastrophe that would ensue follwoing a no deal? I don't think so.

All we need to know about Corbyn is that he doesn't care at all about Ireland

Are you drinking that water!

Prove otherwise.

[Labour would walk a GE.]

The Brexit minister Raab has resigned.
It is rather alarming that he is using NI as an excuse, rather than his own stupidity.

The Tory party is going to tear itself apart

But what's going to fill the vacuum? Impossible to see it being Labour under Corbyn. Will a new centre-right group emerge?

According to Luciana Berger MP ,a new poll suggests 63% want a second vote. Corbyn doesn't. If he gets in the way he might be shafted. Labour would walk a GE.

Brexit as a process is like the « new GAA manager for a struggling county «
model. New hope, some of it unrealistic builds up. There might be an O Byrne cup win. Eventually the model meets reality. A hammering in Croke Park.

Would have agreed with this a few months back but now I'm not so sure.  Since he won the leadership, every fibre of me is willing Corbyn to do well as I feel he is a decent man.  But I now get the feeling that he's happy to let the UK go to ruin with a no deal Brexit so he can step in and rebuild it his way.  I'm afraid that's not something I could support.

And like I say, I started out as a fan.

I'd be fairly much of the same view in relation to Corbyn. He is in politics for all the right reasons but is he the man that is going to guard against the economic catastrophe that would ensue follwoing a no deal? I don't think so.

All we need to know about Corbyn is that he doesn't care at all about Ireland

Paddyjohn

'Donegal? Why in caps?'

Why not?

Why emphasise where the ref is from?

Would be more inclined to emphasise that he is in actual fact a football ref primarily.

Wasn't at the game but I have to say there is a terrible tendency with hurling referees throughout Ulster to blow for every little contact.

We had a visiting club up from Cork during the Summer and they commented on that a number of times during the games played

Predictions time
Dall by 4
Keady by 2
Dun by 7

I was convinced on keady earlier but think st galls could do it with the experience they have.
Castebkayney no mugs but cushendun are on the crest  of a 5 year wave. So they shouod do it.

Dall in the big one.

No Derry club won it, but they are normally the 33rd team in Derry league wise, the Monaghan teams would be 22nd or so, which would be mid division 2 team in Derry who would do fairly well in a ulster junior championship

Doesn't really work like that.

This slush fund was setup when Margaret Ritchie cut funding to the UDA via "conflict transformation". SF and DUP set this up. Funds dished out by OFMDFM to Paramilitary linked groups.
Another example of both parties lining their pockets and enriching themselves.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Raymond McCartney is spinning this one that while the process may have been flawed the actual outcomes were good and referencing eight projects in his constituency, I wonder what they were??

I presume Charter NI are in this mix.

No Raymond is Derry City. No charter NI there. They are all available online to view. Most of the projects in Derry went to community groups under SF control.