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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by onefineday - Today at 01:25:34 AM

Not any lover of Tyrone, but it's very unfair a team having to play a big semi-final game just 6 days after a tight game. Def needs a 2 week breathing space between quarters and semi, plus a 2 week space to the qualifiers after the final for runners up

Absolutely. Scrap the group shite, 2 championships of 16 with a back door before the quarter finals or maybe just straight knockout be even better. Push the all ireland back to mid august.

Definitely not, the group stages are when this shadow boxing stops and the real championship begins.
I've seen various calls for provincial champions to go straight into quarter finals and other similar bollox, ludicrously, those calls have tended to be from Ulstermen. Can we not all see how that would simply reinforce the bullshit system we've had for nearly 150 years which sees kerry (and now Dublin too) advance directly to a quarter almost every year whilst the rest of us have to fight tooth and nail to get there?
For me, I'm really looking forward to groups, especially now that we all realise there is jeopardy, progressing is one thing, but progressing as group winners is a serious bonus Vs 2nd or 3rd. It's not perfect, but it's a massive step in the right direction.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by tbrick18 - Today at 12:45:04 AM

I remember at the time it sent chills through the whole  nationalist community. Just listening to Talkback and Trevor Birney talking about and how attacking someone like Sean Brown was a deliberate ploy as he was decent and could not be associated with any paramilitary organisation. It was purely to put fear and Terror through a whole community by striking at its centre.

We had just won the AI and had beaten Bellaghy in the Ulster final before Christmas 1996. There was a crew of us living in Belfast and we had close relationships on and off the field with a lot of the Bellaghy lads. It struck hard. I remember travelling home at the time and we regularly changed out pick up spots etc. Going to matches in Lurgan and that was always a concern as well. How the f**k was that normal? 

Unfortunately we normalised it at the time and adopted

My dad handed me the book The Shankill butchers when it came out

Made me read it before I headed out that weekend, needless to say that put the willies up me for that period of heading out! 

Absolutely horrible book. Really tough. I read the book called committee. Really opened my eyes as a teenager growing up.

Only policeman you trust is a dead one.

Haven't read the Shankill butchers but did read the committee.
Certain well know  car dealerships at the fore.
If I remember right they have the oath taken by orange order members in the back cover too.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Connacht senior football c...

Last post by Gael85 - Today at 12:39:52 AM

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General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 12:14:11 AM

So plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.

So plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.

So plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.

Just keep phoning, the empty surgery.

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General discussion / Re: Holidays

Last post by TwoUpTwoDown - Today at 12:08:58 AM

There's a GAA club called Rome Hibernians. Could try giving them a shout.

Gents, i will be in rome for the Tyrone game on sunday and was wondering if any of you would know somewhere in the city to watch the game?

When I lived there, Abbey Theatre pub showed the GAA, as did Scholars Lounge pub. I preferred the Abbey Theatre personally.

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General discussion / Re: Official Gooners Thread - ...

Last post by Blowitupref - April 23, 2024, 11:54:11 PM

Arsenal are now asking questions of City. 5-0 tonight not only got them 3 points it improved their GD. They have 2 more games out of the way. If City draw - Arsenal have it in their own hands.

Will be surprise if City don't drop points in their remaining games. Could even happen tomorrow night in tricky game away to Brighton.

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General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - April 23, 2024, 11:50:08 PM

So plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.

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General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - April 23, 2024, 11:46:08 PM

If you can afford it you sound like the I'm OK f**k you, more can't afford than can, and as I alluded before I have yet to see anyone in a waiting room whilst collecting prescriptions, maybe we all need a mate on reception.

I said keep phoning or go to A&E


So just so I get right, you are saying they are doing nothing? Sitting in empty gp surgeries doing nowt?

I do work in a GP surgery 5 days a week, I can confirm it's flat out

#9

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Tones - April 23, 2024, 11:34:22 PM

If you can afford it you sound like the I'm OK f**k you, more can't afford than can, and as I alluded before I have yet to see anyone in a waiting room whilst collecting prescriptions, maybe we all need a mate on reception.

#10

General discussion / Re: GP's & Hospitals - What is...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - April 23, 2024, 11:30:15 PM

Imagine if you couldn't afford the 100 quid?

Then you keep calling or go to A&E

But it's not the doctors on the ground in local surgeries that are not seeing people, they are full.

It's like that show about covid the other week, was very good, protests outside hospitals people going inside hospitals and videoing the place saying it's empty!

NHS is crumbling, getting health insurance looks like your best bet if you can afford it.