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A club is singular, a team is plural.

What?

Thomas Davis.

I despair.

Brexit is Brexit, it's red, white and blue
Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, thick Brexit stew
Full English Brexit, it's served with a T
Toast's what the UK is going to be

Brexit with Kippers, you know it's a cod
Served up with a pint and a wink and a nod
When the stakes were so high Farage was everywhere
Now sightings of Nigel are medium rare

Ulster Fry Brexit, and Scotch Eggs-it too
Nexit, Irexit, even Legs-it will do
French Fries are out, Britain's serving up chips
On the shoulders of fools bent on apocalypse

Continental Brexit is top of the menu
The Houses of Parliament today's dining venue
But just what is Brexit, well nobody knows
Though it strongly looks like emperor's brand new clothes

Experts are idiots, so says Mr. Gove
Now they're hated from Carlisle to Brighton and Hove
Knowledge is ridiculed, ignorance bliss
Little England prefers to talk out of its Swiss

Englishmen don't like their cucumbers straight
Imaginary rules are a reason to hate
The tabloids are like a great shoal of piranhas
The Brits have decided to go straight bananas

Tommy doesn't like foreigners, he says "get 'em out"
But the irony is that the Queen is a Kraut
Boris is Russian, Farage is a Frog,
Descended from Frenchies, not from a bulldog

Churchill is dead and the empire has gone
But the Brits can't accept that the world has moved on
"We'll stand on our own feet, Britain is first"
How long for the delusional bubble to burst

Braveximo!

The third seasons of Better Call Saul and Fargo are both coming in April. Ewan McGregor plays two roles as brothers in Fargo - some teasers here.

[Women would use a shorter stick, at one stage described by the diminutive form camóg]

The name was invented by Tadhg Ua Donnchadha (Tórna) at meetings in 1903 in advance of the first matches in 1904.  Men play using a curved stick called in Irish a camán. Women would use a shorter stick, at one stage described by the diminutive form camóg. The suffix -aíocht (originally "uidheacht") was added to both words to give names for the sports: camánaíocht (which became iománaíocht) and camógaíocht. When the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1884 the English-origin name "hurling" was given to the men's game. When an organisation for women was set up in 1904, it was decided to anglicise the Irish name camógaíocht to camogie

Thanks for that research Walt - good work.

Kildare won according to Hoganstand.

LMFM reported a draw!

Clare have thrown a cat (well a kitten) among the Div. 2 pigeons with a draw against the horsemen.

Full time:
Meath 3-15
Fermanagh 0-6

Half time:
Meath 2-6 against the wind;
Fermanagh 0-4.

Terror incident?  Guy with a knife?  Bullshit...a nutjob either thinking he is someone or a domestic violence gone crazy.

I should state that he was a self radicalised nutjob thinking he was someone. ISIS might claim him but he was a life criminal involved in petty crimes. According to the senior office in counter terrorism "Our working assumption is that he was inspired by international terrorism'. He was 'inspired'...not directed, not ordered, not under instructions but inspired. Some days I'm inspired to sing songs...it doesn't make me a rock star. To call him a terrorist is wrong as it creates a mystique around him that makes him a martyr for the cause. He should be clearly made out to be a crazed lunatic who has used a set of circumstances to fulfill his innate desire to cause trouble. No freedom fighter here only an ill educated fool who has caused mayhem and destruction for a cause he probably doesn't even understand

Spot on. And as for the this being an example of islamic immigrant killers "flowing" in, like wine no less, his name was Adrian and he was born in Kent.

But they only do it in the street.

Great speech by Clinton.

Just what we need ... more scaremongering from the Foxnews crew... I'll bet this was top story there all day ignoring the dozens of a Americans killed by guns at the same time!

That was a horrible ordeal in London today and my heart goes out to the families who have suffered a terrible and senseless loss!!

Fewer than ten people have died in Britain in "terrorist" attacks in ten years. In the same period over 21,000 have died on the roads. But commentators seem unable or unwilling to accommodate the conclusion that the threat to the individual from politically motivated attacks is 1/2000th of the threat from motor cars. On the contrary, the news media collaborate with the deranged lunatics who carry out these attacks, and with the deranged right-wing nutcases who will feed their xenophobia on this news, by providing them with the achievement of their objective. Non-stop coverage on the BBC throughout the afternoon. Extended news programmes. Hours of coverage again tonight.

In a mediascape with a sense of perspective, wouldn't the ten o'clock news have been, "Five people died today when a man attacked passers-by and police in Westminster. Five people died today in road accidents across Britain. And in sport ..."? Of course I'd still not expect any coverage of the murder of expendable foreign civilians in drone attacks etc.

One of the few categorical judgments I can make is that there was (surprisingly, to me) a very  large Meath contingent in attendance. Not far off matching the locals in decibels.