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If i had my way then there would only be one counciller per area.  each bit up here only needs one MP so why do they need 10 MLA's.  there are 108 (i think) MLA's for a population of 1.5ish million people which i think is stupid.

108 MLAs might be a few too many, but to be represented by just one MP is hardly sufficient either. You're in East Derry - do you think Gregory Campbell is adequate representation for all of the people in your constituency? The same with North Belfast, North Antrim and South Antrim.

Plus all this balls of claiming expenses for their jobs would be banned and punishable with months of hard labour.  if i have to buy a pair of boots for my work or my lunch then i pay for it and i don't see why they can't also because they definately get paid more than me.  i pay for the fuel it takes to get me their but i doubt they do.

Time to put away your copy of The Sun. Do you expect an MP to run a constituency office, pay staff, travel to London, cover accommodation away from home - all genuine expense - out of their own salary?
Yes, some MPs clearly ripped the arse out of the system, but that doesn't mean that genuine expenses aren't a valid entitlement.

As for what MPs get paid, i'm sure plenty of them could be earning just as much putting in much fewer hours. £65k might seem like a lot of money, but plenty of accountants, solicitors and other professionals would earn that money by the time they're 45/50. Plenty of MPs are solicitors, barristers and doctors and could be earning more than £65k if they had stayed with their professions.

fair enough 1 for each region might be too little but it shouldn't take as many as it does.  honestly i don't think gregory represents the whole place but then you need a nationalist and a uniounist to keep everyone happy but the chances are they would argue more than work together and the whole thing goes round in a circle.

In fairness i never said they should have to pay staff out of their own pocket or for the running of their offices. the travelling to london and accomodation are fair enough but how many of them drive their own cars to work everyday? its all the other stuff that they shouldn't be claiming for that rags me and i would suspect that more were at it than got caught but obviously i have nothing to back it up.

Your last part about how many of them left their professions and are now earning less, it was their own choice to do so and shouldn't give them the right to bump up their salaries to the level they were before.

Aw and i wouldn't use The Sun for toilet paper.

the problem i can see is that if you split it up into 5 or 6 then there is always going to be the problem of who thinks they are the boss or who has more sway in a national argument.  Do the 5 counties in connaught have the same say as the 12 in leinster? with ulster i wouldn't see our boys agreeing to it as it is basically a united ireland with no connection to the UK so can't see it working.

What happens with the gardai?  would they be allowed to cross over canton lines and could people be "deported" so to speak if they acted the bolliix in leinster but were from galway?

If i had my way then there would only be one counciller per area.  each bit up here only needs one MP so why do they need 10 MLA's.  there are 108 (i think) MLA's for a population of 1.5ish million people which i think is stupid.  Plus all this balls of claiming expenses for their jobs would be banned and punishable with months of hard labour.  if i have to buy a pair of boots for my work or my lunch then i pay for it and i don't see why they can't also because they definately get paid more than me.  i pay for the fuel it takes to get me their but i doubt they do.

i admit my knowledge on politics and the running of a place is very limited but some of the stuff they have been caught at is outrageous.  thogh i do know they don't all be at it and some do hard work.  from my point of view i live in east derry but for the life of me i can't see what the boys elected here do for my area. 

Graeme Mc Dowells accent 

His brother and his uncles accents are hilarious. why can people in antrim not pronounce the letter "t"

Firstly I like galvin.  i think he is a talented player who wears his heart on his sleeve and doesn't mind bending the rules.  though sometimes he bends them too far and gets busted.  though fair play to him hes not whinging and appealing but taking the punishment.

The thing about niggly things creeping into the game, i think they have been there for a while.  when i was player it was in my head that if i could break my opponents concentration then i had won half the battle and if that meant an iffy tackle or tactic then so be it.  i was out to win and as far as i could see nobody ever remembered you for losing fairly or for winning unfairly for that matter.  if that makes me a dishonest player then fair enough but very few who played didn't do something dodgy at some stage so to slag a man for doing it on tv is hypocritical in my opinion.  every player that steps out knows what will  get them in trouble so if they do it and get caught then tough.

the video analysis i am all for because there is nearly too much happening in the games for one man to keep a track of so they are bound to miss some things.  perhaps a second ref like the AFL would be a solution?  if a goal was not given and video footage showed that it crossed the line then people would be saying it should be used but they are the same who are saying it shouldn't be used when one of their players get caught out and suspended.  cant have it both ways.

[Tyrone 4/1]

Paddypower odds

Kerry           7/4
Cork          11/4
Tyrone   4/1
Dublin   10/1
Galway   16/1
Monaghan   16/1
Mayo   28/1
Meath   28/1
Down   33/1
Sligo   40/1
Armagh   66/1
Laois   66/1
Derry   66/1
Kildare   80/1
Limerick   80/1
Donegal   150/1
Westmeath   150/1
Fermanagh   150/1
Louth   150/1
Antrim   250/1
Cavan   300/1
Wexford   300/1

How do they work that out. they got relegated and beat an antrim team that lay down in the first half and should have had them by the end of it. plus armagh beat derry well but they are at the same price.

could see donegal suprise armagh.  they will be up for it after the way they lost to down

Having my nights sleep disturbed by f**king snoring 
Its getting absolutely ridiculous. I put up with it for a while but now its far worse and wrecking my sleep at the weekends

Know that feeling also.  The brother could rise the dead the way he goes on and no amount of kicking stops him.

Glee is also wrecking my head.  Destroying songs and the sisters have the remote so can't get it off

Any ideas where the field is in Carlow.  don't think i've been in the county in my life

My da would get the odd prob with muscles in his neck/shoulder and he swears by rubbing poitin into it.  not that I advocate the making of poitin but if you know someone who does then it might help.  He even uses WD40 if his hands or joints are sore and he told me the doc told him it would work.  Honest to God its not a windup

Holy f**k, I'd say she had some bother getting into that thing.

You wouldn't mind being the one helping her in or out of it though!

clear as muck as usual then. Have to love the GAA!

Can Derry meet Armagh in the first round of the qualifiers having already met them in the c'ship.  I thought there was a rule that stopped this happening or does that not include the preliminary round?

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Very good sammy

the fans annoy me by the way they act but the rest wasn't really about them. the rest was about the media

How do they act?

Pure arrogance like they are better than everyone and they don't have the best history wiith rioting and stuff.  shows a bit of disrespect for the host countries where this has happened.  thats just my opinion of the thing

[Mike Bassett England Managr]

watched Harry Brown the other day and it was very good. Michael Caine was very good in it.

Also Mike Bassett England Managr is well worth a watch for the laugh and as its world cup time!

4 4 fcking 2!

I enjoyed that part particularly.

Tonka: "Look lads its a jacuzzi....oh bollocks, i've shit meself"

the fans annoy me by the way they act but the rest wasn't really about them. the rest was about the media