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As noted on the modern music thread, not all the old stuff was good, although the average was better than the present.

Number 1 in the hit parade of horror
Disco Duck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNx1pMgW4fw

it is a bit damp out there

this will slow down Kilkenny hurlers


Does Cake Curran still own that sandbag business? Good line to be in.

RTE have a programme with a sting operation with some councillors offering to help for a generous contribution.

Fair play to RTE for doing the legwork here.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/majority-in-north-favour-all-ireland-soccer-team-1.2453288

http://www.ulster.ac.uk/comm/sesni/

Basically narrow majority of NI in favour of All Ireland soccer team.
Protestants disconnected from GAA.

Narrow Water castle in the news.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/owner-extremely-annoyed-erotic-festival-is-being-held-on-grounds-of-co-down-castle-685612.html

Clerys of O'Connell St, Dublin 1, home of a department store since 1854, has closed,

Will there be no relic of the oul dacency?

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/quick-quiz-six-questions-to-test-your-irishness-680815.html

MCQ, you should be getting half of these by just guessing!

Go to Google images https://images.google.ie/
click on the camera icon, upload a head and shoulders of yourself, see who you resemble.

I'm not sure if this algorithm is much use, with different pics I get quite different results, including Obama, John Major, Bill Clinton, Kim Jong-Un, Sammy Wilson, Michael McGimpsey and frighteningly Jimmy Saville and Eddie Hobbs.

It seems that these people look like me, so now you know

Fair play to the Gardai for getting a conviction of Graham Dwyer.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0327/690094-graham-dwyer-court/

If you are going to murder someone, sending a lot of text messages about your wish to do so is probably not the best idea, no phone is anonymous.

Any of yous got a Lotto ticket in the back pocket?

The National Lottery has said a winning €3m lottery ticket has yet to be claimed.
The ticket was purchased in Claremorris in Co Mayo on 29 November.
The winner has until Friday 27 February to claim the prize.If the winner does not come forward by then, the money goes back to the National Lottery.

I have to go to a funeral in Sligo on Monday monring, which will entail traversing Fermanagh east to west. What's the traffic like in Enniskillen at bit after 9am, if I come from the Maguiresbridge side? How long to go through the town? I could aim for Derrylin without passing through Enniskillen, but lesser roads might be icy on Monday morning.

Quinn's pub in Drumcondra swimming in shite.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/horror-of-quinns-pubs-sewagecovered-cellar-on-allireland-match-day-30906553.html

Cavan people, wealth is on its way!
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Tests at a site in Cavan show it's likely to be suitable for mining gold.

Irish mining company Conroy Gold says an independent structural study carried out by geologists at its Slieve Glah gold target have returned positive results.

The study shows the area is associated with a major geological structure, the Orlock Bridge Fault, which could contain gold mineralised faults.

The site is located around 40 kilometres to the south east of the Conroy Gold's proposed mine at Clontibret.

It seems that the 6 counties might get some sort of deal on the Corporation tax provided that they do a deal otherwise and reorganise the finances.
I'm not sure of the details of this, but it will require some maturity from the folks on the hill and that would be very welcome.

If it works, it makes the 6 counties more like the rest of the country and so helps remove the economic basket case issue from the border debate.
If it doesn't work because of limitations set by London etc it illustrates the limitations of the present constitutional setup.

http://djrioblog.com/2013/11/26/new-wave-artists-aging-gracefully-an-80s-world-gone-by/

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/peter-robinson-announces-major-dup-reshuffle-edwin-poots-and-nelson-mccausland-out-30609545.html

In a "major" DUP reshuffle, Robbo has decommissioned Nelson McCausland. This couldn't happen to a nicer person, not only a bigot but a corrupt bigot!

http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/how-well-do-you-actually-know-ireland-1651749-Sep2014/

At least one of these questions is a bit suspect, but I got 8.

I think this deserves a thread of its own, given the importance of the deceased to the peace process.

Albert Reynolds did a great deal to bring about the conditions for the 1994 ceasefire, which set the wheels in motion that led to any subsequent progress. This concentration on the peace process probably distracted him from other issues and may well have contributed to his short tenure as Taoiseach.

He was a businessman, he did great work in the previous decade in bringing Irish telecoms into the modern era in part because he realised the important to business of this. I imagine that had he continued to have influence in more recent years that he would not have been so quick to build an economy on people building and selling houses to each other, but might have shown some concern for the real economy and so limited the damage caused by speculators.