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At 8:30pm on the 8th of February 1983, a four-man gang of gun toting, balaclava wearing men broke into the Aga Khan's state of the art stable in Kildare and stole Shergar.

Much good with Dire Straits

Brothers in Arms.
Sultans of Swing.
Money for nothing

On this day, 20 years ago, the Battle of Omagh, when two groups of savages used a GAA field for a scrap
https://x.com/ballsdotie/status/2019365166329262223

going to the gym to "keep fit" and then paying someone to wash the car.

driving to the gym, when it is only 10 minutes walk.

not changing the password on your router.

Good on him. Inspiring story

Us Austins are made of  stern stuff

My Da had an Austin, and it was crap, it wouldn't drive through a flood never mind swim.

Nuremore if you want to be precise.

Manys the evening spent in the hotel there back in the day.

The money coming in is being wasted one court case after another, there are enquiries every week, there is bickering over street names in Irish, why the f**k should there be street names in Irish in Loyalist areas, neutral maybe, Catholic yes but ffs cop on..

Street signs are not for the residents, who already know the name of their street, but for visitors. The same signs should be everywhere, bigots should not be able to determine the design of street signs. The waste of money in this is all the ridiculous consultation.

But there is genuine waste and it should be addressed so that money can be spent on much needed things.  A comparison of spending and staffing levels with Scotland and the 26 counties would be informative.

Good to see theirs a 13yr cub in Australia made of the right stuff!

Sounds like the Mum is Irish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IDFIsB2AI

From Monaghan apparently

Carrickmacross to be particular about it.

Any tech guys know how to get around tg4 rights restrictions?

I'm in north, but cannot get tg4 player on, regardless of on/off vpn

What VPN are you using? I have Nord set to Ireland (from Spain) and it's working absolutely grand.

NordVPN is excellent

TG4 is available in the North, all you need is an IP number that actually positions you there. You don't need a VPN, you need a proper ISP.

Meath finally win in Cavan, but narrow margins.

Kerry with No Geaneys, Cliffords or D O'Connor. G White. Best time to get them in the league is early on.

Whereas Donegal eased up in the league last year to concentrate on Ulster.

Exception:
A breach of this Rule does not occur where the player(s) who would otherwise cause the breach
(a) have do so unintentionally
(b) are within 4m of the halfway line
(c) are not interfering with play
(d) are not interfering with the opponent, and
(e) are not gaining an advantage

In the Armagh case, this should not have been a breach at all. The player's intention was to tell the manager he needed to go off, not proceed toward the opposition goal, he was not interfering with play, interfering with an opponent or gaining an advantage (unless you count being substituted as an advantage).

Super game of football.

Finnerty and Murnin put on exhibitions.

Galway had no right to win that game but somehow kind of deserved it.

The deserved it because Armagh did stupid things that they should not do.

However, perhaps some guidance is need on a breach, that determines the place the free is taken from. What constitutes interfering with play, for instance?

Interesting to see Sinn Fein opposing Ireland contributing to the EU loan for Ukraine. And in Europe Sinn Fein MEPs continually refuse to back EU votes condemning Russia.

What is it about this one particular imperialist, land-grabbing, colonial invader that Sinn Fein like, when they've built their identity on violently opposing another?

They can't bear to be on the same side as the Brits.

Exactly. Simplistic immature bollix politics.

A  week or so ago , the 3G signal  was switched off.

I've ordered a replacement  4G compatible Nokia phone (yet to arrive). But  the old Nokia seems to  still  be working fine. No issues with  texts or calls.

Was this "switch off"  a big  con to move  everyone onto smartphones... unnecessarily?

As I posted above, 2G still works for calls and texts, so if you were not using data there was probably no need for an upgrade.

It is not quite a big con, although it is a nuisance. 4G has greater compression etc and can carry more data using the same frequencies than 3G could and having the two mixed reduced the capacity of 4G. 

Why is this in the middle of the playing season? With important games on tomorrow you are never going to get a current player or manager. If it had been in November then perhaps you could.