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The Far right are all emotion and no solutions.

How glib can you get?

Show me a plan that the far right have for housing or climate.

They are spoofers

https://x.com/FootballTalkHQ/status/2010371111633158166

George Best's story about Ferenc Puskás in Australia: "I was with (Bobby) Charlton, (Denis) Law, and Puskás, we were coaching in a football academy in Australia. The youngsters we were coaching did not respect him including making fun of his weight and age. We decided to let the guys challenge a coach to hit the crossbar 10 times in a row, obviously, they picked the old fat one. Law asked the kids how many they thought the old fat coach would get out of ten. Most said less than five. Best said ten. The old fat coach stepped up and hit nine in a row. For the tenth shot, he scooped the ball in the air, bounced it off both shoulders and his head, then flicked it over with his heel and cannoned the ball off the crossbar on the volley. They all stood in silence then one kid asked who he was, I replied, "To you, his name is Mr. Puskás

The financial crisis that just started will result in higher mortgage rates.

The Far right are all emotion and no solutions.

The US and the UK are in very bad shape politically and economically.
So is France.

If the Dems get in during the midterms they will have to deal with a debt crisis.
The US has 40tn in debt and interest rates are going up and they have a deficit of 5%.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/30/houses-in-england-worth-less-than-they-were-20-years-ago/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_li_they-were-20-years-ago/

.In London, the average house is now worth £168,000 less than the 2017 market peak in today's prices.
A typical home in the capital sold for £553,870 in June, down 23pc in real terms in more than nine years and on par with real values in 2007.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/08/31/blunders-of-two-ex-chelsea-managers-have-handed-their-old-club-an-advantage-in-title-race/
Another factor is that the very best players – the elites for whom Premier League clubs would be ready to pay Morgan Rogers-type transfer fees – don't want to come. This class of player is already good enough to play for one of the small handful of non-Premier League clubs that can pay Premier League wages, and can afford to take a more holistic view of what's on offer in the English top flight.

Time you took your tablets Seafoidín.

I work with people like them Ros. They are awful gobshites.

"Only geographical pedants can quibble with the English Premier League being this country's winter national pastime. Nothing else comes close to commanding the attention of so many, so thoroughly, and so widely, across the sporting spectrum."

When you look at the shit show that the Premier League has become with clubs just out to earn money, players not giving 2 shits and fans getting shafted left, right and centre, I'm delighted we have it and long may it continue

6 posts. It took just 6 posts for the GAA versus soccer shite to start.

It's an extremely valid point though

It's a valid point if you live in England.
There are plenty of good decent people involved in the Amateur Soccer scene in Ireland. Many do as much if not more than their GAA counterparts with less cultural or financial support.

He doesn't though.

There are plenty of people involved in amateur soccer in England too.

If your gra for the GAA is expressed primarily in opposition to a league in another sport in another country....

I agree. The EPL is rotten with money
The LoI is not.

"I had no problem with rugby and soccer being in Croke Park when they had no stadium, but I'm scratching my head when we cut our calendar back and our kids are going back to school and talking about going to see Manchester United at Croker.

is very good 

What are they doing in that team? Do they know anything about the games?The people at the ground level are admirable and the sports are world class but the organisation is being led by arseholes.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2026/08/29/why-are-we-so-wedded-to-the-county-system-a-british-system-pat-gilroy-on-the-gaas-future/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The initials of Croke Park are CP and I call it Caesar's Palace. Now I was on the Croke Park Board, I was on the Strategic Review Committee and the people who are involved in management there are good people. Peter McKenna could run any stadium in the world.
"I had no problem with rugby and soccer being in Croke Park when they had no stadium, but I'm scratching my head when we cut our calendar back and our kids are going back to school and talking about going to see Manchester United at Croker.
"Yes, it does generate revenue, but for what? The more money we have, the more we're going to put more demands on the players, and then it has to become professional. I think these are all unintended consequences.
"Man United v Leeds ... that's why I call it Caesar's Palace because it's just a revenue generator, and that's not Peter McKenna's fault. He's doing a great job, but he's doing it with the hand he's dealt, which is 'we need more money'."

But we need radical moves in other places. The GAA is now run like an American multinational with a board of directors and a CEO and all that. In 1980, I think maybe the GAA had five full-time employees. Now, there's a wage bill of around €20 million. How did that happen? Is all that for the good?

The argument is always made that the bulk of the money generated by Croke Park is pumped back into the games. Gilroy, though, feels that much of it is spent on ever-increasing bills for things such as S&C and nutrition, and that the gaping money pit is there at club as well as county level.
We trained hard but I got rid of the GPS units, took a light touch to nutrition, did the S&C between myself and the physio. We wanted to give them some of their lives back," he said.
"I think some of them missed their trinkets and, after I left, the trinkets were back the following year. Vincent's didn't do as well. To me, that showed how confused we are as an organisation.
"What I call the GAA's Junior B problem is an issue. Bar Jarlath Burns, how many running the show have played at intercounty? Now, you do need the full range. You need the guy that was only a Junior B player but got involved in administration very early.
"But I think you need people too who have the intercounty experience. You need a balance. You need people who were strong club players. You need junior players and intercounty hurlers and footballers.
"With the GAA now, there's a higher level of people who played at a lower level. They're highly capable but they almost get hypnotised by the intercounty razzle dazzle and think 'oh, we better not touch that'. They're star-struck by intercounty and don't want to tackle the runaway train."

If GAA people want to go the Caesar's Palace route and go professional, I'll stay as a member but I'll probably get involved in something else because I like the amateur ethos. I like what it brings to people's lives. There have been times in the last year when I've thought that I should have encouraged my kids to play other sports, because they were good at them. The way it's going, they might have been better off at something else.
"For 10 years, I have tried to influence the GAA from the inside. It's time to try other things. I trust that the GAA will end up where its members want it to be and that's not up to me to decide. I could be wrong on the pro thing but my eyes tell me I'm not."

Alan Hawe ten years ago.

That is still shocking

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0829/1589679-gordon-brown-united-ireland/

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has said it is inevitable that Ireland will become united at some point in the future.

He added that it would be a "long process" and have to be based on mutual agreement.