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Linehan suing the MET police after his incident, he is being supported by the free speech union according to an article in the UK Times.

Looks up who the freeze peach union are. Cranks and nutters.

The other thing is that the social media companies need to take a lot more responsibility for this kind of abuse, hate speech and lies than what they are doing currently.

It's their business model.

Hopefully not another massive night of rioting and looting like November 2023.
We really need to be sort out the asylum mess. Big Jim O'Callaghan needs to buy more planes to clean up shop.

They will do their best but they are on the outskirts. Nearest stuff to burn is Jobstown, the far right are thick, but not suicidal

From the Journal...

When asked about Fine Gael barrister who represented clients in other controversial cases, Humphreys said "barristers have a job to do".

"The point I am making is, how can you stand up and give out and criticise and castigate banks and at the same time you're working for them to repossess houses".

But it wasn't 'at the same time'. That's the point.

The legal system and mental health are due for a serious reckoning. bs excuse rolled out constantly.

You try rolling it out and see how far you get....

Cadburys have been fooling us for years - they can't call it a chocolate bar as it does not have enough Cocoa so they call it Dairy Milk.



Palm oil is sometimes used in chocolate to improve its texture, shelf life, and stability, especially in products like compound chocolate and fillings, as it is a cheaper alternative to cocoa butter.

Was this not down to Kraft tinkering with it after they bought it?

Development monies for a sport which got off their behinds and worked  versus free handouts for a permanent moany whingy sport..

With that in mind......

How much hand out money do Horse Racing and the Dogs get?

Answer: Horse Racing €79.3 million and Greyhound Racing 20 million a year

How much to host the Ryder Cup - A one off event?

Answer: €58 million

Which is the more popular Soccer, Golf, Horse Racing or the Dogs?

Horse racing and golf are big employers, they bring money into the country. Greyhound racing shouldn't get as much.
Money for a Ryder Cup has a payback in marketing Ireland abroad.

Soccer is popular, but a lot of that is English soccer. It costs the Irish economy. Irish soccer fans spend millions on tv subscriptions and trips to England.

Both Horse and Greyhound Racing are net contributors to the economy and if you abolished the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund in the morning there wouldn't be a single additional penny of that available for other sports.

Well in that case, let's just carry on with the status quo. No money for facilities for kids, but tens of millions prize money for billionaires.

You're convoluting two separate arguments.

Am I? We have the lowest funding of sport in any OECD country. €220m for 2025. Half of that goes towards horses and dogs. 10m to the GPA. 58m for a Ryder Cup we already have. 10m to the NFL. There is f**k all left and it shows.

That lad throws a lot of unsubstantiated statements in here.

It looks like it...
"The GAA get more than every other sport combined." - FALSE
"The GAA got 100% of all funding until Bertie" - FALSE
"No sport other than Gaelic games got one cent of capital grant funding in the 20th century." - FALSE

1. Remove horses and dogs and they do.

2. All capital grants, yes.

3. 1999 aside, they did.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/sport-wins-three-fold-jump-in-lottery-grants/26144674.html

Apologies. I was a year out.

You haven't a clue what you're talking about.
Show me a year where the GAA got all the grants and every other sport got nothing.

Here is 1993 for example. GAA getting everything?

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1993-04-27/251/

Any chance of addressing this?
You said:
"No sport other than Gaelic games got one cent of capital grant funding in the 20th century."

I was wrong. There was a small amount given in 1999.

You are mixing up Lottery grants with capital grants. The point remains the GAA got all of the Department funding and still gets most of it.

Development monies for a sport which got off their behinds and worked  versus free handouts for a permanent moany whingy sport..

With that in mind......

How much hand out money do Horse Racing and the Dogs get?

Answer: Horse Racing €79.3 million and Greyhound Racing 20 million a year

How much to host the Ryder Cup - A one off event?

Answer: €58 million

Which is the more popular Soccer, Golf, Horse Racing or the Dogs?

Horse racing and golf are big employers, they bring money into the country. Greyhound racing shouldn't get as much.
Money for a Ryder Cup has a payback in marketing Ireland abroad.

Soccer is popular, but a lot of that is English soccer. It costs the Irish economy. Irish soccer fans spend millions on tv subscriptions and trips to England.

Both Horse and Greyhound Racing are net contributors to the economy and if you abolished the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund in the morning there wouldn't be a single additional penny of that available for other sports.

Well in that case, let's just carry on with the status quo. No money for facilities for kids, but tens of millions prize money for billionaires.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/sport-wins-three-fold-jump-in-lottery-grants/26144674.html

Apologies. I was a year out.

[The GAA got 100% of all funding until Bertie.]

Development monies for a sport which got off their behinds and worked  versus free handouts for a permanent moany whingy sport..

So why is rugby getting f**k all then?

Because it's rugby?

The argument is the reason the GAA get the, literal, majority of taxpayer funding is because every other sport is a mess.

I'm suggesting there is a built in state favouritism. The GAA got 100% of all funding until Bertie.

More made up rubbish. Soccer got money before Bertie came along.

The is no favouritism. Soccer can't get itself organised. That's no one's fault except theirs.

No sport other than Gaelic games got one cent of capital grant funding in the 20th century.

Development monies for a sport which got off their behinds and worked  versus free handouts for a permanent moany whingy sport..

So why is rugby getting f**k all then?

Because it's rugby?

The argument is the reason the GAA get the, literal, majority of taxpayer funding is because every other sport is a mess.

I'm suggesting there is a built in state favouritism. The GAA got 100% of all funding until Bertie.

Development monies for a sport which got off their behinds and worked  versus free handouts for a permanent moany whingy sport..

So why is rugby getting f**k all then?

Development monies for a sport which got off their behinds and worked  versus free handouts for a permanent moany whingy sport..

Exactly. The GAA is at the heart of the majority of communities across Ireland, in a way that soccer could never be.

I can assure you, I wish our club had a fraction of the community penetration soccer does. That doesn't hold in towns and cities