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How many of you guys drive your car for a living?. Well not for a living as such but I do use my vehicle to get to sites scattered all over the country to which I'm paid £0.45p a mile. This hasn't been increased in 15 years and it costs me money to drive to site, I can't go to my employer about this as it's a Government figure that only they can change.
I was also told in the late 90's people were paid £0.52p a mile for a 2.0 litre car or above then, how can the Government still be paying £0.45p a mile for travel almost 2 decades later?.

Why cant you go to your employer?  I'm sure you can ask for more regardless of the "approved" government figure. even if you work for a contractor who is completing work for the government I'm sure the rate they charge for completed work will have certainly gone up in the last 15 years..

Yeah, you can approach your employer but any mileage rate over the £0.45p is taxable so no real point in doing that and giving it back to the Government. How can it be the same rate as 15 years ago...Madness

Anything over 45p is deemed a benefit in kind and is taxable, but if it's costing you money to do your job it really is up to your company to up that rate including the tax implications in to that calculation to ensure you aren't at a loss.

As for Donegal to cork that exactly what we need. Energy production built where no-one lives. 🙄

Imagine if, get this, there was a way of moving said energy from one location to another.

We need a modern day Nikola Tesla to sort this out for us.

[Zionists can't win the presidency when 60% of Americans hate Israel.]

Yep and no one is doing anything about it. Polls mean nothing.

84% Dems under 50 hate Israel mmeans change in the party

57% GOP under 50.hate Israel means change in the party
https://x.com/j_fishback/status/2041177358778994928/

Harris and Trump were the last Zionist candidates. Zionists can't win the presidency when 60% of Americans hate Israel.

Polls matter now.

They most certainly can win when both candidates put forward are bought and paid for by AIPAC and others.

The change needs to happen in the primaries when the candidates are being chosen, but they will all be hand picked at that point.

Apparently chinese ones are going through already... (apparently though who knows what to believe any more...)

Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, and more were exiting the strait for weeks now once they got approval from Iran.

The others, who supported the US and Israel were not going through.

well done Rory, all of Holywood is so proud of you.

"I know Iran are not our friends"

They are laying their lives down whilst dealing literal death blows to the greatest evil in our world today.

At minimum they deserve to be respected.

They are correct about fighting a Satanic force.

Lad you are deluded. Deluded. It's ok to not like Trump whilst also awknowledging the Iranian regime is a brutal theocracy. They are not mutually exclusive stances.

In terms of brutal theocracy Iran doesn't hold a candle to our "allies" Israel .

How mad was that presser from Melania yesterday?

Things are going so bad in the Middle East they want to distract people away from it, back to the Epstein files, the very thing everyone thought the attack on Iran was to deflect from initially.

Some shít show.

What was the jist of it?

She says she never knew Epstein and Maxwell in any real way and they only mingled in the same social circles in Palm Beach and NYC but weren't besties.

It's not what she said, it's why did she feel the need to say something now about something which she says is nothing.
What is she trying to get ahead of?

Is that another generation of Clarke goalie for Down u20s JC?

yes indeed, it is. Grahams son.

How mad was that presser from Melania yesterday?

Things are going so bad in the Middle East they want to distract people away from it, back to the Epstein files, the very thing everyone thought the attack on Iran was to deflect from initially.

Some shít show.

I will tell you how mush of a farce the all star trials are, a player who played outfield all year in the Mageean Cup for his school went to the trials as a goalie & may have got one. Haven't heard

He did and is a fantastic keeper.

Nicky Quaid plays outfield for his club as does Eoin Murphy.

In this case you aren't really comparing like for like, they play outfield at a different level & different competitions. 

What happened in the All Star trials is like Nicky Quaid playing outfield all year for Limerick and then getting a goalkeeping all star.

Why didn't his school just nominate him to go and try out as an outfield player ? Maybe they did. But he played outfield in the competition. It's a bit bizarre.

So, if you played fullback for your school, you shouldn't be considered for corner back at the trial, is that what you are saying?

Why make this solely about an outfield/goalkeeper difference, it's the same analogy, same transferrable skills.

I know the lad in question that Saffrongael is alluding to and guess where he was playing last night for Down U20's?

He is an out and out goalkeeper, who happened to play outfield as his school team wasn't that strong and he has played outfield for us at juvenile level as well for the very same reason and a younger lad will take less hurt in goals.

Also,
  They seem to be picking these College Allstars on the basis of the trial games, not the actual competitions themselves so why shouldn't a player selected to attend by his school decide which position best gives them a chance of selection?

SaffronGael. You are referring to my son. The current u20 Antrim goalkeeper. Who has done goals for Antrim from he was u14. Hiding behind a false name and slabbering about young lads on this platform. What a w**ker.

There must have been two lads who've played outfield for their schools and then trialled for the goalkeepers position as the Down U20 keeper got a Colleges All Star for 2025

I will tell you how mush of a farce the all star trials are, a player who played outfield all year in the Mageean Cup for his school went to the trials as a goalie & may have got one. Haven't heard

He did and is a fantastic keeper.

Nicky Quaid plays outfield for his club as does Eoin Murphy.

In this case you aren't really comparing like for like, they play outfield at a different level & different competitions. 

What happened in the All Star trials is like Nicky Quaid playing outfield all year for Limerick and then getting a goalkeeping all star.

Why didn't his school just nominate him to go and try out as an outfield player ? Maybe they did. But he played outfield in the competition. It's a bit bizarre.

So, if you played fullback for your school, you shouldn't be considered for corner back at the trial, is that what you are saying?

Why make this solely about an outfield/goalkeeper difference, it's the same analogy, same transferrable skills.

I know the lad in question that Saffrongael is alluding to and guess where he was playing last night for Down U20's?

He is an out and out goalkeeper, who happened to play outfield as his school team wasn't that strong and he has played outfield for us at juvenile level as well for the very same reason and a younger lad will take less hurt in goals.

Also,
  They seem to be picking these College Allstars on the basis of the trial games, not the actual competitions themselves so why shouldn't a player selected to attend by his school decide which position best gives them a chance of selection?

I will tell you how mush of a farce the all star trials are, a player who played outfield all year in the Mageean Cup for his school went to the trials as a goalie & may have got one. Haven't heard

He did and is a fantastic keeper.

Nicky Quaid plays outfield for his club as does Eoin Murphy.

[UN law]

That's pretty much illegal under UN law. Countries bordering a straight are not allowed to charge simply for passing through. They can only charge for specific services like piloting / towing. Easy got round i suppose.

Safe passage?

who follows that now anyway? Might is right.

The rules based international order, if it ever existed is well píshed up against the wall by the Trumpmeister.

Panama & Suez are both wholly within 1 jurisdiction, the straits of hormuz certainly aren't, dont see how that 'we have dominion' over the strait / ability to charge a toll is going to wash in the long run.

It's a Trump tariff and Iran have kindly decided to share it with the Omanians.

So much winning for Donny:




14M Chinese Yuan ($2M) per boat out of there is some deal.

No one has agreed to $2M per boat, that is just Iran's initial demands.

Well there's lots of countries already paying it as boats were passing before this deadline.