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Actress Pauline Collins, 85.

Did Conaty miss many games? I watched a fair bit of Mulroy this year, he'd be winning one as a reward for Louth and not reaching the level of the likes of Conaty.

He was exceptional in every game I saw him but there's always so called big name players in every sport that always seem to get awards despite not deserving them.

Sean O'Shea likely to win a 4th All Star for performance which was outstanding but thats not enough to win an All Star.

His performance against Armagh was as good as you're likely to see, but he was left unmarked all day for some strange reason. Don't think he had a big final or semi final did he?

So it proves yet again -  one  memorable  performance will  get you an all star.

Was at  Malin Beag once. Lovely beach , but   a strange one too. Can't explain it.

Reminded me of  the Goonies for some reason .

Always liked  Downings beach. And Portsalon

Take away the DLA cars , force a few people from the dole  into work. Will that  miraculously fix everything?  No.

Double everyone's tax bill overnight. Will  that fix everything? No.

I don't understand people's obsession with  someone  claiming a benefit or,  getting a DLA car. So bloody what. 

The system will  never be fixed.  Because those in charge can't, won't  , don't want to or aren't capable  of it . There will always be people taking the  piss, from those on  benefits , to the  billionaires  to  the gangsters running the country, to everyone in-between

Just worry about yourself. Nobody else will

The EA are spending £40 million a year on getting precious to school in taxis, no wonder you can't get a taxi at night they don't have to work - society is fucked, the perception is everyone is owed, free prescriptions, free water, a bit stressed and you are off work getting more money that folk bursting their holes going to work 6 days a week.  The only way it will end is if benefits are addressed ffs luxury cars for DVLA ridiculous.

You're only half correct.

The only way this can end is a realignment of the housing market so that housing cannot be traded as a commodity.

We have reached a breaking point in the value of working for a living. All caused by the trap whereby man and wife both have to commute and spend 40 hours a week in an office just to earn the right to have a roof over their head.

Can we really blame anyone for thinking there's a better solution whereby they get a roof over their head for not working?

Good point.

its every man and woman for themselves. As you say , if  working your ass off gets you little to no more  advantage than  someone not , then  that's something to consider. All this talk of an honest days work is bullshit if you're  actually worse off.

As you say , if both parents are working theirvasses off  and  it's just about putting a roof over their heads  , you have to wonder , what is the point?

[Pig slicer Darren Jackson]

2 more heroes of the right making the news today
Pig slicer Darren Jackson and McGregor supporting Councillor Sutcliffe.

I'm off down  a side  road here , but that film was one big  pile of shite.

Watch the TG4  highlights on Mondays, and  you'd be  amazed  how many Irish  women are playing  Aussie Rules.

[seen internationally as a soft touch]

So likewise if your hearing about properties being burned out and people threatened or attacked and your reaction isn't sympathy for the people involved but rather trying to justify the (lack of) reasoning behind it then your kinda showing yourself up as well. It's the same principle.

Who said I don't have sympathy or I don't condemn it

Just because I don't play certain posters game of constant deflection doesn't mean I don't condemn it

Their response to a grown man (who was ordered deported a year ago) allegedly raping a 10 year old girl is -look over here at what an Irish person did....condemn it or you're a racist

My assumption is that they are pointing out that it was who committed the crime that was your issue and not the impact of the crime itself. I can certainly understand their reasoning if that is their thoughts (I didn't post anything regarding this, just to be clear. Point scoring on incidents like this isn't a good look)
With regards your sympathy or lack of it regarding the incidents against the asylum seekers, I don't recall you being vocal against in your condolences. Maybe you were and I missed it.

My issue was/is that the person shouldn't have been in the country to begin with-he was ordered deported a year ago

Many's Peoples anger (mine anyways) has nothing to do with the persons race and everything to do with the government not enforcing its bloody laws and essentially enticing people to come here by allowing all theses loopholes to exist and being seen internationally as a soft touch

Is that not the same  with Britain?

You'd think when  these people make their way  across the Mediterranean from Sudan, Somalia or wherever, that once they reach  Italy or Southern France , they'd think, right we've made it...let's claim  asylum here. 

The fact that they  then make  their way to northern France, then risk their lives on a dinghy to Britain, suggests Britain's  system is a softer  touch?

Any more for Johnny Cash?

[starting]

I am starting to think that it doesn't really matter who is in power any more.
Somehow or another, i had expected things to change a bit in July 2024, after everything we had to put up with from 2010-2024, but Starmer & Reeves are both completely incompetent & neither of them are up to the job.
The Western political & economic model is clearly not working any longer & social cohesion has completely disappeared, under the influence of neoliberalism.
I am just wondering....how are the UK state finances still a completely busted flush, after everything that wasn't nailed down being privatised since 1979; the North Sea oil revenue bonanza; the era of austerity & then all the benefits & savings Brexit was to generate?

Starting? What took  you so long? Bunch of gangsters, the lot  of them

The UK is heading  for a bail out.

Alan Partridge's new series.

The old cross at Ardboe.

The Donaghmore Cross

Man has a serious problem with crosses

A bit like Onana 

[that has come about due to the lack of money the Gov has to help with the after effects of people that for their own reasons joined up]

Its a stupid tax for English Nationalists, when pressed on funding for veterans I think it was David Cameron who basically said 'thats what the poppy appeal is for' after all why should sent to war come back and expect to draw from the same slush fund as the Tories

Exactly.

 I remember there were probably a million or more  who protested in London (and  other cities) against invading  Iraq. How many of those protestors  continue to buy  poppies? A huge amount of them I'd say.

 So they're inadvertently supporting war , and paying for  soldiers aftercare sustained in a war they were opposed to.  While the government who sent them there  continue to push the poppy appeal , so they don't have to pay for those soldiers. The  gullible British public do. But most are  probably  too stupid to realise that.

Strip away the fascist poppy agenda and at its core its just charity, and whether we like the poppy shoved in your noses from Sept through to xmas, its just a huge charity organisation that has come about due to the lack of money the Gov has to help with the after effects of people that for their own reasons joined up..

Well that's  the thing.

 Even if the average Brit  supports their servicemen,  do they not see the neglect by their own government looking after said  servicemen?  The poppy appeal has been going 100 years or so , and  was set up for that very reason - government neglect of servicemen.

British politicians  will stand silent, heads bowed  in November, pretending they actually give a f**k, while they and their propaganda  wing  in the BBC , push the  poppy appeal. Meanwhile, "patriotic" Brits continue to  fill that  hole with their  donations.

Its a stupid tax for English Nationalists, when pressed on funding for veterans I think it was David Cameron who basically said 'thats what the poppy appeal is for' after all why should sent to war come back and expect to draw from the same slush fund as the Tories

Exactly.

 I remember there were probably a million or more  who protested in London (and  other cities) against invading  Iraq. How many of those protestors  continue to buy  poppies? A huge amount of them I'd say.

 So they're inadvertently supporting war , and paying for  soldiers aftercare sustained in a war they were opposed to.  While the government who sent them there  continue to push the poppy appeal , so they don't have to pay for those soldiers. The  gullible British public do. But most are  probably  too stupid to realise that.

Sad to hear about Nudie. One of the few GAA men  recognisable by the  one name. I wasn't aware he was ill.

Very sad. RIP Nudie.

He had been ill for a while and discussed it on the GAA Social Pordcast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ks1r2t

Oh right. I'm  about two years  behind  with those podcasts.  Need to catch up