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General discussion / Re: Is Edwin Poots....

« on: May 10, 2013, 08:16:14 AM »

I actually disagree with most on here.


Poots is a smart man and has a very difficult portfolio. He is not afraid to tackle issues head on, and there is no easy answer to continued budget reduction. Plus I think he is much less bigotted than his cohorts.

Not sure I could agree with that. He failed in 2 previous Departments due to his inability to act strategically DOE over Review of Public Administration the issue being that he wanted to go against the Boundary Commissioner over which parts of Castlereagh should go to Lisburn and in DCAL over the Maze Long Kesh issue. Promoted  above his ability if you ask me

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General discussion / Re: Stuart Hall...Its a lockup.

« on: May 10, 2013, 12:34:37 AM »

Terry Wogan

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General discussion / Re: Stuart Hall...Its a lockup.

« on: May 09, 2013, 11:32:00 PM »

Old Alf Garnett was ahead of his time       http://youtu.be/-yv4Nmrwtg4

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General discussion / Alex Ferguson

« on: May 08, 2013, 08:11:35 AM »

Is he about to leave?

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General discussion / Football Boots

« on: May 07, 2013, 11:31:52 PM »

My 18 year old is looking to buy a pair of Adidas Predator Mania football boots off EBay costing £299. He's a pretty good footballer but I find it hard to justify spending this amount of money on boots. Any views?

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General discussion / Re: Tablets

« on: April 27, 2013, 01:58:02 PM »

After telling Amazon what it could do with its Kindle Fire HD I got an iPad Mini. Great piece of kit. Well pleased with it

How do you find the display in it Dougal?
A lot of fuss being made that its not a Retina Display.

. I find the display dead on. The sound mind you is much more inferior on the iPad than it is in the kindle

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General discussion / Re: Where might this guy find a decent publicist?

« on: April 27, 2013, 12:18:39 PM »

I think he's being framed. There would be a cast of thousands I'm sure who would like to see him get his comeuppance

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General discussion / Re: The Official The Rangers FC Thread

« on: April 20, 2013, 10:02:47 AM »

How serious is this latest development for The Rangers and what might the consequences be?

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General discussion / Re: Margaret Thatcher....

« on: April 18, 2013, 12:10:03 AM »

What's with the Star of David across his chest? Is he Ball de Beaver in disguise?

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General discussion / Re: When legends talk about you!

« on: April 16, 2013, 07:54:44 AM »

 

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GAA Discussion / Re: Leinster Minor 2013

« on: April 10, 2013, 10:25:52 PM »

They need 2 given that unlike Ulster they have a full qualifier competition. Well need 3 for Munster

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General discussion / Re: Less than two weeks to go to Nathan Carter concert at Athletic Grounds.

« on: April 10, 2013, 01:36:01 AM »

Hav I got this rite? Our Ma cb can't shift tickets for the gig so they giv them 2 clubs to sell n if clubs can't sell them they still have to pay the cb for the tickets? Lol

Tell me this is a joke. Ther are many cb's in ulster that are dodgy but I have never seen one b so blatant

Nope, it's true alright.

My understanding is that the ECB used this very example when justifying the terms of its bailout to the Cypriot Government

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General discussion / Re: A5 WTC (New Road from Aughnacloy to Derry)

« on: April 09, 2013, 09:34:02 PM »

 

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General discussion / Re: A5 WTC (New Road from Aughnacloy to Derry)

« on: April 09, 2013, 08:39:18 PM »

I don't think Interreg criteria is designed to give one section of a border region an advantage over another. I'm above political bias in this case in the same way SF elected reps were when discussing the merits of John Lewis Sprucefield v John Lewis Dublin. But look lets just agree to disagree

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General discussion / Re: A5 WTC (New Road from Aughnacloy to Derry)

« on: April 09, 2013, 07:33:46 PM »

I agree that Sammy doesn't give 2 fs about Newry and the southern relief road but regardless of this the fact that the Narrow Water bridge scheme might fall between the cracks is no justification for funding it. As I said earlier there are no traffic or economic grounds on which the scheme can be justified, at least fron a Newry/Warrenpoint perspective and if you speak confidentially to any officials in Newry Council or any of the directors of WHA they will tell you that. The fact that the scheme has been promoted by LCC should also surely set the alarm bells ringing in terms of who has most to gain from its construction