if anyone one can settle an argument....
20 cards in a deck no 1-20 whats the chance of pulling a 7 if you have 12 attempts
20 cards in a deck no 1-20 whats the chance of pulling a 7 if you have 12 attempts
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#42
GAA Discussion / How not to promote GAA
March 15, 2009, 10:07:33 PM
4k at the dublin v derry (league champions) on a beautiful sat night is sad. why must league games be shown on setanta and tg4? micky mouse will draw 10 times that on rte 1 or 2. someone is asleep at the wheel here when league games are lost on obscure channels while shamrock rovers (fair play to them) have rte 2 on friday nights. the gaa need to get serious about promoting the gaa
#43
General discussion / TSB Mortgage Interest rate
February 28, 2009, 08:44:58 PM
anyone here with a home loan with TSB? mine is there and the rate is 4.5% (not a tracker unfortunately) and i'm wondering if anyone here has a better non tracker variable rate with them..
#44
General discussion / Win Win With Boad Gais
February 23, 2009, 07:54:53 PM
i know there was a thread on this earlier but its an idiot proof decision. You need your bank details, last esb bill and 3 minutes to save significant bucks and encourage competition. according to todays times theres no down side - 12% cheaper year 1 plus 7% year 2 and 3 (with direct debit option). as esb prices are expected to fall 10% in the coming weeks you could reduce yor bill by almost a quarter by switching. also bord gais will be available in the north in the comoing months.. have a look
https://www.thebigswitch.ie/?gclid=CICE-OO185gCFUYJ3wodqlz91Q
https://www.thebigswitch.ie/?gclid=CICE-OO185gCFUYJ3wodqlz91Q
#45
General discussion / New Garda Speed Enforcement Zones
January 01, 2009, 07:53:51 PM
with the ongoing carnage on our roads i'm not posting these to help people duck points but to realise that there is a good chance you will get caught if you dont slow dowm... so slow down.
http://www.garda.ie/sez/Speed_Enforcement_Zones.htm
http://www.garda.ie/sez/Speed_Enforcement_Zones.htm
#46
General discussion / The Apprentice on TV3
November 30, 2008, 11:08:30 PM
pretty good show so far, anyone know what type of mobile phones the contestants are using? seem to have good speakers which i could do with
#47
General discussion / About a Roy (keane)
November 29, 2008, 08:53:36 PM
todays was roys 100 game in charge at sunderland where he has spent e83m putting together his team. is he any good?
#48
General discussion / Ireland v Poland
November 19, 2008, 11:30:11 PM
cant believe there isnt a thread on this. anyone at the game?
#49
General discussion / Czeck Mate
November 12, 2008, 07:23:22 PM
cheeky czech president vaclav klaus has absolutely no manners by meeting declan ganley for dinner last night. what a bum, didnt even pay for the meal. now if the french president comes here thats interferring in another states affairs.....
Czech president backs Libertas line at meeting with Ganley
Czech president Vaclav Klaus meets Declan Ganley, founder of the Libertas organisation for a dinner at thehe Shelbourne Hotel last evening.Czech president Vaclav Klaus meets Declan Ganley, founder of the Libertas organisation for a dinner at thehe Shelbourne Hotel last evening.
Photograph: Bryan OBrien
HARRY MCGEE, Political Staff
THE PRESIDENT of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, has warned of a shift towards "supranationalism" in Europe which he says is supressing freedom and democracy.
Mr Klaus, an outspoken critic of the European Union, also said last night he was "not happy" with what he described as attempts by Europe to "forget the Irish referendum and to change the result".
The Czech president was speaking at a joint press conference in Dublin with Declan Ganley, the founder of the anti-Lisbon Treaty group Libertas. They were speaking ahead of a private dinner in honour of Mr Klaus in the Shelbourne hotel, hosted by Mr Ganley, which had generated controversy in diplomatic circles.
According to Government sources, the Department of Foreign Affairs had - while making no official complaint - expressed surprise to Czech officials at Mr Klaus's attendance at the private campaign meeting, suggesting protocol was not being observed.
But Mr Klaus last night denied that protocol had been breached and said that during the first two days of the visit - during which he met Taoiseach Brian Cowen and President Mary McAleese - "no one mentioned this evening's [event]. It's a creation on the part of the media that it was a problem," he said.
He said that, as the president of his country, there was be no question of him joining Libertas. However, he added: "If Mr Ganley wins the European elections I will be the first to congratulate him."
A spokesman for Libertas said last night it was in talks with the Eurosceptic French party Mouvement Pour La France (MPLF) about aligning itself to a Libertas pan-European party. Two MPLF MEPs were in attendance last night, including leader Viscount Philippe de Villiers.
About 80 people attended the dinner, from which reporters were excluded. Guests included the Austrian MEP Hans-Peter Martin; Independent Munster MEP Kathy Sinnott; former MEP Patricia McKenna of the Green Party; Anthony Coughlan of the National Platform; newspaper columnist Bruce Arnold and Libertas spokeswoman Caroline Simons.
Mr Klaus, whose country assumes the presidency of the EU next month, told journalists that the developments in Europe in recent years had not been positive for democracy.
"There has been a radical shift from integration to unification, from intergovernmentalism to supranationalism. The European Constitution, now called the Lisbon Treaty, is something which accelerates the shift," he said.
"I'm afraid that freedom and democracy will not be enhanced by ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. On the contrary. On this issue we share the views with Mr Ganley and Libertas."
Fine Gael's foreign affairs spokesman Billy Timmins said the Minister for Foreign Affairs should lodge a formal complaint with his Czech counterpart over Mr Klaus's "inappropriate behaviour in creating a very definite perception that he is strongly sympathising with groupings and individuals who are opposed to Irish Government policy".
Czech president backs Libertas line at meeting with Ganley
Czech president Vaclav Klaus meets Declan Ganley, founder of the Libertas organisation for a dinner at thehe Shelbourne Hotel last evening.Czech president Vaclav Klaus meets Declan Ganley, founder of the Libertas organisation for a dinner at thehe Shelbourne Hotel last evening.
Photograph: Bryan OBrien
HARRY MCGEE, Political Staff
THE PRESIDENT of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, has warned of a shift towards "supranationalism" in Europe which he says is supressing freedom and democracy.
Mr Klaus, an outspoken critic of the European Union, also said last night he was "not happy" with what he described as attempts by Europe to "forget the Irish referendum and to change the result".
The Czech president was speaking at a joint press conference in Dublin with Declan Ganley, the founder of the anti-Lisbon Treaty group Libertas. They were speaking ahead of a private dinner in honour of Mr Klaus in the Shelbourne hotel, hosted by Mr Ganley, which had generated controversy in diplomatic circles.
According to Government sources, the Department of Foreign Affairs had - while making no official complaint - expressed surprise to Czech officials at Mr Klaus's attendance at the private campaign meeting, suggesting protocol was not being observed.
But Mr Klaus last night denied that protocol had been breached and said that during the first two days of the visit - during which he met Taoiseach Brian Cowen and President Mary McAleese - "no one mentioned this evening's [event]. It's a creation on the part of the media that it was a problem," he said.
He said that, as the president of his country, there was be no question of him joining Libertas. However, he added: "If Mr Ganley wins the European elections I will be the first to congratulate him."
A spokesman for Libertas said last night it was in talks with the Eurosceptic French party Mouvement Pour La France (MPLF) about aligning itself to a Libertas pan-European party. Two MPLF MEPs were in attendance last night, including leader Viscount Philippe de Villiers.
About 80 people attended the dinner, from which reporters were excluded. Guests included the Austrian MEP Hans-Peter Martin; Independent Munster MEP Kathy Sinnott; former MEP Patricia McKenna of the Green Party; Anthony Coughlan of the National Platform; newspaper columnist Bruce Arnold and Libertas spokeswoman Caroline Simons.
Mr Klaus, whose country assumes the presidency of the EU next month, told journalists that the developments in Europe in recent years had not been positive for democracy.
"There has been a radical shift from integration to unification, from intergovernmentalism to supranationalism. The European Constitution, now called the Lisbon Treaty, is something which accelerates the shift," he said.
"I'm afraid that freedom and democracy will not be enhanced by ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. On the contrary. On this issue we share the views with Mr Ganley and Libertas."
Fine Gael's foreign affairs spokesman Billy Timmins said the Minister for Foreign Affairs should lodge a formal complaint with his Czech counterpart over Mr Klaus's "inappropriate behaviour in creating a very definite perception that he is strongly sympathising with groupings and individuals who are opposed to Irish Government policy".
#50
General discussion / what happened the maggie thatcher thread?
October 30, 2008, 08:04:03 PM
was someone bold?
#52
General discussion / I told you not to park there (helicoptor crash in bettystown)
September 19, 2008, 08:07:43 PM #53
GAA Discussion / All Ireland Silver Medalists
September 18, 2008, 09:35:40 PM
really good idea this, its hard to believe that kerry or tyrone players will walk away empty handed this w/e after all the effort they put in...
Waterford hurlers deserve medals
Madam, - For the past decade the players of Waterford have lit up the hurling scene with their performances. This involved many sacrifices for the men and their families, not least the months spent in intensive training. After all, these are amateur players whose disappointments are not mitigated by monetary rewards.
It was sad, therefore, to see them go away empty handed - and demoralised - from the recent All-Ireland final. I don't think anyone in the vast crowd felt that this team, which could well have won an All-Ireland in the past 10 years, did itself justice.
In the light of this situation, I should like to make a suggestion regarding the awarding of medals. The winners of the All Ireland series should win gold All-Ireland medals, the runners-up silver, and the two other semi-finalists bronze. This would follow the pattern of the Olympic Games and give a wholly positive orientation to the immense effort of getting to an All Ireland final or semi-final. Olympic athletes celebrate a medal of any colour and, I believe, our Gaelic players would feel similarly. This mode of awards could be extended to all All-Ireland competitions, including, of course, the women's championships.
Finally, could this new dispensation be applied retrospectively to this year's championship, so that the gallant men of Waterford can be duly honoured? This is the ardent wish of this Kilkenny man - and I doubt if I am alone in such a desire. - Yours, etc,
JAMES O'HALLORAN, Lower Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9.
© 2008 The Irish Times
Waterford hurlers deserve medals
Madam, - For the past decade the players of Waterford have lit up the hurling scene with their performances. This involved many sacrifices for the men and their families, not least the months spent in intensive training. After all, these are amateur players whose disappointments are not mitigated by monetary rewards.
It was sad, therefore, to see them go away empty handed - and demoralised - from the recent All-Ireland final. I don't think anyone in the vast crowd felt that this team, which could well have won an All-Ireland in the past 10 years, did itself justice.
In the light of this situation, I should like to make a suggestion regarding the awarding of medals. The winners of the All Ireland series should win gold All-Ireland medals, the runners-up silver, and the two other semi-finalists bronze. This would follow the pattern of the Olympic Games and give a wholly positive orientation to the immense effort of getting to an All Ireland final or semi-final. Olympic athletes celebrate a medal of any colour and, I believe, our Gaelic players would feel similarly. This mode of awards could be extended to all All-Ireland competitions, including, of course, the women's championships.
Finally, could this new dispensation be applied retrospectively to this year's championship, so that the gallant men of Waterford can be duly honoured? This is the ardent wish of this Kilkenny man - and I doubt if I am alone in such a desire. - Yours, etc,
JAMES O'HALLORAN, Lower Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9.
© 2008 The Irish Times
#54
General discussion / Any OWCers going to watch the All Ireland?
September 18, 2008, 09:12:08 PM
serious question, just curious if any of our owcers will watch any bit of the all ireland this weekend?
#55
General discussion / Irishmen in British uniforms
September 05, 2008, 08:58:08 PM
there has been a good series of letters on this topic in the irish times lately and todays one is worth a look (on the day sadly that news of another irishmans death in Afghanistan breaks)
Irishmen in British uniforms
Madam, - Tom Cooper (September 1st) forcefully expresses his disdain for Irishmen in British uniforms, whom he sees as conniving in a long history of British oppression. But the warp and weft of personal family tradition is never quite so cut and dried. As we say in our Protestant family, Irish history is a twisted rope. It can bind us together, hang us, or guide us.
Not long after the second World War, my late father-in-law, Tom Stoney, was a senior pupil at Harrow School. Winston Churchill, who was a former pupil there, was paying a visit and a group of prefects were lined up to be presented to him. When Churchill reached Tom, his housemaster introduced him: "This is Thomas Stoney, from Co Mayo in Ireland.".
Churchill harrumphed and disdainfully remarked: "The bloody Irish, what have they ever done for our wars?" Tom, only 17 years old, drew himself to his full height and retorted: "Thanks to your wars, sir, I have no male relatives; no father - he died in the last war, and no uncle, he died in the Great War." Jaws dropped, and the housemaster bustled Churchill down the line of other blushing prefects.
A little while later, Tom was summoned to the housemaster's study, expecting a beating or worse. He found Churchill, who shook him solemnly by the hand and asked forgiveness for his intemperate remarks.
Tom, a gentleman and a rebel of ascendancy stock, became a Church of Ireland clergyman, and never owned a British passport. He was an Irishman, and his old passport was green. In his years as a priest in the North he confronted loyalist thugs, removing their barricades with his own hands from across the streets of his parish, and loudly played songs of the IRA on his gramophone at the open window of his rectory study window whenever the Protestant marching bands passed by on July 12th.
He was a very fine shot who learned his marksmanship from a worker on the family estate, one Larry McGovern, a commander of the West Mayo brigade of the IRA. He also honoured the sacrifice of his father and uncle, both of whom he never knew.
In 1916, my own great- grandfather, also a Church of Ireland clergyman, was confounded when his son was refused a commission in an English regiment, the Durham Light Infantry, because he came from Wexford. He wrote to the War Office and we have a copy of the letter still. It begins: "At a time when Ireland is accused of not pulling its weight in the great struggle against German militarism, I find it incredible that my son, winner of the All Ireland schools' engineering medal, is refused a commission in an English regiment because of his nationality."
Within a year, Fred was killed at Ypres leading a platoon of the Royal Irish Rifles against a German machine-gun position. He was 20 years old.
One day I may have to explain to my sons about the divided loyalties they inherit as proud little (Anglo-) Irishmen. So I will invite them to respect the sacrifice of soldiers of the old IRA, like family friend Larry McGovern, who fought for Irish freedom, and remember their own forebears in the British forces who died to make that freedom worthwhile; for an Ireland in a Europe ruled by fascists, communists and militarists would have had no freedom worth the name.
I will also go on to say that I give thanks that they, and all others like them, are alive in an age and in a country where they need not take up arms for any cause, no matter the uniform, no matter the flag. As I have explained to British friends, had Ireland joined the Allied side in the second World War, the wounds of the 1920s Civil War would have opened again in Ireland with terrible consequences.
The policy of Irish neutrality established at that time, and the Christian path of peace which informs it, remain causes well worth living for, whether son of the Planter, or son of the Gael. - Yours, etc,
JULIAN ELLISON,
Ardagh,
Newport,
Co Mayo.
Irishmen in British uniforms
Madam, - Tom Cooper (September 1st) forcefully expresses his disdain for Irishmen in British uniforms, whom he sees as conniving in a long history of British oppression. But the warp and weft of personal family tradition is never quite so cut and dried. As we say in our Protestant family, Irish history is a twisted rope. It can bind us together, hang us, or guide us.
Not long after the second World War, my late father-in-law, Tom Stoney, was a senior pupil at Harrow School. Winston Churchill, who was a former pupil there, was paying a visit and a group of prefects were lined up to be presented to him. When Churchill reached Tom, his housemaster introduced him: "This is Thomas Stoney, from Co Mayo in Ireland.".
Churchill harrumphed and disdainfully remarked: "The bloody Irish, what have they ever done for our wars?" Tom, only 17 years old, drew himself to his full height and retorted: "Thanks to your wars, sir, I have no male relatives; no father - he died in the last war, and no uncle, he died in the Great War." Jaws dropped, and the housemaster bustled Churchill down the line of other blushing prefects.
A little while later, Tom was summoned to the housemaster's study, expecting a beating or worse. He found Churchill, who shook him solemnly by the hand and asked forgiveness for his intemperate remarks.
Tom, a gentleman and a rebel of ascendancy stock, became a Church of Ireland clergyman, and never owned a British passport. He was an Irishman, and his old passport was green. In his years as a priest in the North he confronted loyalist thugs, removing their barricades with his own hands from across the streets of his parish, and loudly played songs of the IRA on his gramophone at the open window of his rectory study window whenever the Protestant marching bands passed by on July 12th.
He was a very fine shot who learned his marksmanship from a worker on the family estate, one Larry McGovern, a commander of the West Mayo brigade of the IRA. He also honoured the sacrifice of his father and uncle, both of whom he never knew.
In 1916, my own great- grandfather, also a Church of Ireland clergyman, was confounded when his son was refused a commission in an English regiment, the Durham Light Infantry, because he came from Wexford. He wrote to the War Office and we have a copy of the letter still. It begins: "At a time when Ireland is accused of not pulling its weight in the great struggle against German militarism, I find it incredible that my son, winner of the All Ireland schools' engineering medal, is refused a commission in an English regiment because of his nationality."
Within a year, Fred was killed at Ypres leading a platoon of the Royal Irish Rifles against a German machine-gun position. He was 20 years old.
One day I may have to explain to my sons about the divided loyalties they inherit as proud little (Anglo-) Irishmen. So I will invite them to respect the sacrifice of soldiers of the old IRA, like family friend Larry McGovern, who fought for Irish freedom, and remember their own forebears in the British forces who died to make that freedom worthwhile; for an Ireland in a Europe ruled by fascists, communists and militarists would have had no freedom worth the name.
I will also go on to say that I give thanks that they, and all others like them, are alive in an age and in a country where they need not take up arms for any cause, no matter the uniform, no matter the flag. As I have explained to British friends, had Ireland joined the Allied side in the second World War, the wounds of the 1920s Civil War would have opened again in Ireland with terrible consequences.
The policy of Irish neutrality established at that time, and the Christian path of peace which informs it, remain causes well worth living for, whether son of the Planter, or son of the Gael. - Yours, etc,
JULIAN ELLISON,
Ardagh,
Newport,
Co Mayo.
#56
GAA Discussion / Is There an All Ireland Hurling Final on?
September 03, 2008, 09:17:39 PM
this is one of my pet bugs about the board, the all ireland hurling fiinal is on sunday and a whole 3 page thread is hidden away over in the hurling section. ever since the hurling section was seperated there is not enough discussion over there. can the hurling section be brought back so that the 'casual' gaa supporter might get interested
#57
General discussion / Opening Bank Accounts in the North
August 18, 2008, 07:37:45 PM
living in the south and opening a bank a/c in north, is it easy to do? thx
#58
Hurling Discussion / Tipp v Clare Munster u21 final
July 30, 2008, 09:11:39 PM
was it a point? they'll be war over this yet. Tipp won by a very dodgy point...
#60
General discussion / Premiership or Premiershit
May 12, 2008, 06:58:59 PM
well now that its over for another year how would people rate the season? does the fact that we could all name 4 of the top 6 and 4 of the bottom 6 in next seasons table mean its crap. in the US the NFL have a very successful salary cap system in place which makes it more of a level playing field, would that improve the premiership? any other suggestions that might improve it?