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Just incredible. It looked effortless for him. He has such a relaxed fluid running style. Great to be alive to see this.

Always found Eamon to be a real gentleman. Desperate sad news.  RIP

Majorca 312 booked, 4500 spots gone already - opened this morning

A few friends done this last year and thought it was fantastic. Hard going though!

First song at a bride & groom's wedding reception... 👰🤵

https://www.twitter.com/ludovicodarko/status/1180221159075405826

...make sure to turn up your speakers. 🤢

It's bred into them

Just one question. If they do get divorced will they still be cousins?

I'm beginning to think this WC is a fix.

World Rugby has come out this week and said the penalties against Ireland in Japan shouldn't have been given.

I'm the match against Samoa

1) Samoa knew they were going to be able to do nothing from their own 5 yard line.

2) A crooked feed into the scrum giving Japan the scrum resulting in the try.

An absolutely bizarre decision by Samoa to scrum under their own posts after being under pressure in the previous scrums. 

Was the penalty for a crooked feed? Cant remember the last time ive even seen a call for that.  Or was it for no attempt to hook? I didnt hear his reasoning.

Anyway, its entirely Ireland's own fault for the position we are in. Took the Japanese challenge too lightly and paid for it.

I think that win means Japan can still loose against scotland and qualify provided they get a loosing bonus point? I assume Ireland have to win with a bonus point to ensure they qualify?

A lot of very dangerous hits also take place around rucks. Players from both sides hitting the opposition rucks where the players are bound with their heads in very vulnerable positions.

Samoa still in with a shot of upsetting the odds here
             
           

My initial thought was harsh but on second glance it's technically a red. Unfortunately we have to go through these changes/decisions or lawyers will have it turning into tag rugby.

It was interesting to see how Owens reviewed the tackle on video before giving the red. I think he mentioned the perceived intentions of the tackler and that he hadnt made enough of an effort to go lower and had led with the shoulder.
              What was lost in the video slo mo was the real time speed of the tackle, which all happened in a fraction of a second. The big lock was just too slow to react to Farrell dipping to evade.
              The rugby hierarchy had to respond to the issue of head injury and this was their response.
               Can they bring the sport back to one of evasion rather than collision, without spoiling the spectacle?
             

Lots of handling errors both sides. Red card. Clumsy more than malicious. Farrell dipping down and there is a clear height difference, but thats the rules

Argentina look up for this one. Ref will have a massive say in this one. Particularly how he refs the breakdown.

Do Ireland qualify if they beat Samoa with a bonus point? What are the possible permutations given scotland now play Japan?

You have got to give it to the Welsh. Appreciate it is only the pool stage but they have definitely got a resilience and doggedeness that Ireland are sadly lacking at the minute.
         Wyn Jones was fantastic and is the heart of the team.

Viciously abusing children is an integral part of mainstream right-wing ideology

This applies to sexual abuse, putting children of refugees in concentration camps, claiming that survivors of school shootings are "crisis actors" and vicious verbal abuse of a young environmental campaigner

Right-wing politics is totally bankrupt of ideas

It has no vision whatsoever for improving the lives of people, well, no vision whatsoever for improving the lives of people who aren't already filthy rich at any rate

So shameless abuse of the weak, marginalised and those who are campaigning to change society and the world for good is now all it has left

Trump, Johnson and the other hard Brexiteers, Putin, the DUP, Netanyahu, Bin Salman, Orban, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Erdogan, Salvini, Le Pen, AFD etc., they are all the same thing - they are part of a loose, and often less loose international alliance of kleptocrats and sadists who are out to protect untramelled privilege and power at all costs, and they have no problem dragging the world into a new dark age to do so

Don't usually agree with all you write but that is spot on.
   However I'm not sure of the merits of having a child being placed front and centre for this campaign. And you can be damn sure someone or a group of powerful people have pushed her out into the limelight to face the shi T storm.
   

Anyone been to Fuertaventura, heading there soon for a week, any info greatly appreciated

Stayed in corralejo in the North of the island about 5 years ago. Much like Lanzarote but a bit quieter. Not a while pile to do. Lots of watersports if that's your thing. I did a little cycling while I was there, which was a nice way to see some of the smaller villages and the lunar like landscape.

He has a good chance of staying well for many years. Apparently a tabloid threatened to reveal it. Bloody vermin.

They really are the lowest of the low, makes my blood boil. An early  HIV diagnosis is now eminently treatable given the right treatment and medication. In many ways akin to a diagnosis of diabetes.
       In the future, like diabetes it will be a curable condition. It will just take time, money and research. But it will happen.
       

This is really taking the piss.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/gold-toilet-worth-47m-stolen-from-blenheim-palace-950820.html

Update...

The police believe they may have a solid lead as the thieves left a definite paper trail.