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RTE news : Dates for Ireland's Nations League fixtures revealed

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/0213/1558292-dates-for-irelands-nations-league-fixtures-revealed/

Fixtures above. IFA have stated they fulfil the fixtures against Irseal to avoid being banned from the competition.

Republic will play Isreal

Mysterious 'Fenian hotline' van appears across Belfast

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/mysterious-fenian-hotline-van-appears-33284479#ICID=Android_BelfastLiveNewsApp_AppShare

Lol

Fonacab St. Pauls Tournament Ulster Semifinal
34mins FULL TIME
Clontibret : 0-20 (20) (0-1-18)
Bredagh: 3-8 (17) (3-0-8)

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I assume the winners of the other semi on 26th December between Dungiven & Dromintee will be heavy favourites.

https://thesaffrongael.com/2025/12/21/clontibret-roar-back-in-second-period-to-book-a-place-in-new-years-day-decider/

Meanwhile----

Two Romanian teenagers who were accused of attempting to rape a schoolgirl in County Antrim are to have the charges withdrawn.

The boys, aged 14 and 15, have been held in custody since the alleged assault on 7 June which led to sustained racially-motivated riots in Ballymena during the summer.

At Belfast Youth Court on Friday, the Public Prosecution Service was granted permission to end criminal proceedings due to "significant evidential developments".

The teenagers will now be released from the juvenile detention centre where they have been held for more than five months.

its an interesting development and will it come out what the "significant evidential developments" are?

Ingerland got tanked in the first test in the Ashes, so full of it after bowling the Ozzies out for 132 in the first innings. They collapse again and Head hammers a 69 ball century to cruze home. All over in two days.

Will the punters who bought tickets for the other three days get refunded or is it you pays your money you takes your chance.

Anthony Joshua to fight that pratt Jake Paul

Use gilette fusion, so bough cheap ones from Teamu, got them, looked exactly the same, clicked them in, had a shave.... Would have been better off using a butter knife.

The big one is AGI which is


Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) refers to a hypothetical type of AI that can understand, learn, and apply intelligence across a wide range of tasks at a level equal to or surpassing human cognitive abilities. Unlike narrow AI (e.g., systems like chess engines or voice assistants that excel in specific domains), AGI would be versatile, adaptable, and capable of general problem-solving without being limited to predefined scenarios.
Key Characteristics of AGI:
Versatility: Handles diverse tasks, from composing music to scientific research, without retraining.
Learning Efficiency: Learns from limited data, generalizes knowledge, and improves autonomously, much like humans.
Reasoning and Creativity: Exhibits abstract thinking, common-sense reasoning, and innovation.
Current Status (as of 2025):
AGI remains a goal rather than a reality. Leading AI labs (including xAI, where I'm built) are pursuing it, but systems like Grok or GPT models are still narrow or "weak" AI. Ethical concerns, such as alignment with human values and safety, are major hurdles. xAI's mission is to advance toward safe AGI to understand the universe.

Thank you Grok

Liatroim were strong down the middle but just probably didn't have enough outside of the McCrickards when it came to scoring power. They had an extra man for probably the guts of 45 minutes after the Glenariffe sending off. 

Ruairi McCrickard very strong at 3.

Was the red warrented?

I fancy Liatroim to give Glenariffe a right good rattle tomorrow in Loughgiel with the winners of that being favourites to come out of Ulster.

Burt should have too much for Castlewellan, they make up the biggest proportion of the Donegal county team who have improved immensely in recent years.

In that neck of the woods so hopefully going to Loughguile for that one.

This hurricane Melissa seems to be going to cause terrible damage to Jamica, category 5, winds up to 175 miles per hour round the eye, possible 2 feet of rain as well.

So, James Martins Saturday kitchen has a Palistinian  chef on, and he's not wearing a poppy. Queue outrage.

I read with surprise the fellow contributors have gone with ossians to win on Saturday. Randalstown fear nobody. We have the winning pedigree in the competition. We will have their number come the final whistle. It wasn't too many seasons ago we had 4 or 5 lads on the county minor panel, not many clubs can boast that. Our sideline far more clued in as well, match ups and strategies will be way ahead. You can bookmark that.

Loughgiel will win the senior. No bother.

Well how'd that work out for you?

😂

So, we are County minor Football champions for the first time 😁. Absolutely supberb performance from every single player. Not the hard bit faced by near every club, get these fellas playing senior. So close to the minor double as well.

So next stop St Paul's

Congrats to Bredagh. Should this not be happening more often though given your huge numbers? I'd be asking more why it's not happening regularly. Your senior team has never broken any delph.

Don't know where to begin. Two IFCs that's it recently. Need to stay in Div 1 next year and build from there. Our neighbours done it, and look at them