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Would any of you "blues" men care for a wager?

I'd imagine Harps would be 5/4 and Clans 4/5 

From what i hear they are two 1/1 shots...TBH and i'm not messin here i would put Harps as slight favourites (and don't give me that Div 1 v Div 2 crop) Harps would be 4/6 favourites if i was the bookie with Clans at 11/8 shots

Jimmy Joe reckons the "blues" are good things! Probably be an even money bet.

Captain Pugwash and Magic Roundabout.......god I'm showing my age

[old speckled hen]

getting into nice ales at the minute for the first time. Have been a stout drinker for years but at the minute funds are tight and I/ve been doing more drinking in the house.I'm enjoying old speckled hen lately.

Bet she's delighted with your renewed interest 

Would any of you "blues" men care for a wager?

I'd imagine Harps would be 5/4 and Clans 4/5 

Jack Nicklaus ahead of Woods any day of the week.....based on the facts he won Majors over 3 decades, and equipment, plus he started as a pro with very little compared to Woods 20 million. 

No way should Muhammid Ali be on this list. Hes a ****. He bit the hand that fed him. Without Joe Frazier he was a nobody. Frazier helped him out with money, somewhere to live, even got him his pro boxing licence back. and what did Ali do? call him al lthe names of the day Uncle Tom etc etc..taunting him..Muhammid Ali is a sc**bag. I like everyone else thought he was a legend just having seen him box, showmanship and all, but then i saw the documentary on the two of them, completely changed my mind. hes a ****.

I dont know how anyone likes him either, apart from all that, he's racist too.

Too much black pudding me thinks

White men are the devil and all that 

Prediction time....I'll go with Neil Smyth, Martin McQuillan and Kieran McGurk.

Big fan of John Wayne....especially his line of bog roll.....takes "no shit" from Indians

You have my utmost sympathy. Up until just over 2 years ago I was flying ....out running 4 nights a week, then started to have problems. To cut a long story short I have been admitted to RVH twice and was discharged and told there was nothing they could do for me....

turns out all my major nerves have been damaged and they can't do anything.....I have lost feeling down my left leg and have constant pain in my lower back....

sometimes I feel like reaching for the rope......I get some relief if I swim but it is short lived....

the worst thing for me is because it is not a "visible" injury/illness people think I'm retired/loaded .....but truth is I'm not fit to work in my own business....and this in turn is causing me problems.

I would definately try Sean Boylan....I went to a healer and although it didn't cure my problem .....a large lump/cyst disappeared after the visit.

As the comedian in me says....it could be worse.....you could be married!!


Hope you get sorted.

Never forget it.....only realised there were Meath supporters at the game when the goal went in

As for crap referees...........Seamus Prior.....you are number 1

Don't be alarmed anportmorgfc

The notorious private security company Blackwater, which now calls itself Xe Services, has become the center of a growing storm. In sworn statements filed in a US federal court on Aug. 3, two former employees allege that the company's founder and owner Erik Prince either murdered or arranged the murder of witnesses who were cooperating with federal investigators.

For fear of ending up in the same boat, the men's identities have been concealed, so statements were made in the names of John Doe 1 and John Doe 2. The story that was initially broken by author and journalist Jeremy Scahill in The Nation has been picked up by most mainstream television networks and newspapers and is being intensely debated.

John Doe 1 is an ex-marine who was sent by Blackwater to Iraq to guard American government personnel and now has a laundry list of accusations against his former employer. He says the company smuggled weapons into Iraq hidden in bags of dog food, which were used by persons not properly vetted by the State Department to kill or injure Iraqi civilians. He says his colleagues fired upon vehicles without stopping to check whether civilians were alive or in need of medical care and failed to report such incidents to either the Iraqi authorities or the State Department.

John Doe 2 says he worked for Blackwater for four years and has been threatened by the company's management with "death and violence." In addition, he says, "based on information provided to me by former colleagues, it appears that Prince and his employees murdered, or had murdered, one or more persons who have provided information, or who were planning to provide information to the federal authorities about the ongoing criminal conduct." He further accused Prince of setting up a web of companies to obscure wrongdoing, fraud and other crimes, including money laundering, illegal arms dealing and tax evasion.

In the same statement John Doe 2 alleges that Prince views himself as a Christian Crusader, tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe and to that end he intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, "knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis."

Many of these men, he says, used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades." He claims that Prince's executives considered the killing of Iraqis as a sport, while company employees would regularly use such racist or derogatory terms such as "raghead" when referring to Arabs. He also accuses Blackwater of providing its employees with weaponry designed for maximum kill that had not been approved by the US authorities.

Lastly, he says Prince was a frequent visitor to the company's "man camp" in Iraq's Green Zone and failed to stop his men drinking heavily, taking steroids, and using prostitutes including "child prostitutes."

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who sits on a House committee that has been investigating Blackwater's activities for the past five years, says if the allegations are true then "Blackwater has been a criminal enterprise defrauding taxpayers and murdering innocent civilians."

"Blackwater is a law unto itself, both internationally and domestically," he said. "The question is why they operated with impunity. In addition to Blackwater, we should be questioning their patrons in the previous administration who funded and employed this organization. Blackwater wouldn't exist without federal patronage; these allegations should be thoroughly investigated."

The company has denied the allegations, adding that it will respond formally on Aug. 17 in a federal court within the Eastern District of Virginia.

The reclusive Prince and his company were embroiled in scandal after scandal before these latest revelations. In 2007, Prince was called before Congress to be questioned on circumstances surrounding the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians by a Blackwater security detail. In September of that year, federal prosecutors launched an investigation into employees of Blackwater accused of smuggling weapons into Iraq that were later allegedly transferred to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which the US and other countries consider to be a terrorist organization.

Yet despite its murky reputation, the Obama administration has signed contracts with Blackwater for security services in Iraq and Afghanistan to the tune of $174 million plus untold millions more for aviation services. Just last month, Blackwater's Presidential Airways received a US Army contract for aviation services in Afghanistan worth $ 8.9 million.

At the same time, the company feels free to bid for further US government contracts and is currently doing so. In the heat of war perhaps former President Bush can be forgiven for seeking the help of one of his evangelical cronies without too much oversight but what excuse does President Obama have for his failure to be discerning?

Even if the John Doe allegations turn out to be exaggerated it is well documented that Blackwater thugs have been involved in hundreds of shooting incidents inside Iraq, including the killing of a vice president's security guard that resulted in the inebriated killer being quickly shipped out of the country and allowed to walk free. Isn't it time that the families of those victims were given their day in court so they can seek justice? The problem is so-called US contractors were given immunity from prosecution but this should not prevent their boss Erik Prince being called to account in an American court.

Speaking to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Jeremy Scahill characterized Prince as "a guy who comes from the powerhouse of the radical religious right" who viewed Blackwater as a neo-Crusader force from the beginning. "And then we have his force employed in Iraq as part of a war against a Muslim nation that George Bush characterized as a crusade," he said.

Congresswoman Rep. Jan Schakowsky D-Illinois has urged US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to enter into further contracts with Xe and to immediately review any existing contracts. In a letter copied to CNN, she says, "the behavior and actions of both the company's leadership and a number of individuals employed by the company have harmed our mission in Iraq and Afghanistan and endangered the lives and welfare of our troops and diplomatic personnel serving overseas." Good for her! But why isn't Congress in its entirety up in arms when America's reputation as a force for good is, surely, at stake?


I'd love to know what their mission is.



 

[Harps]

come on TAC, harsh sending off! 
he shouldered ciaran trainor in the face and then as christy kane was running past he buried him. lad should get a heavy suspension.
this wasnt the only incident. later on another ogs player got a late shoulder in the face, lucky he didn't break his jaw. marty mcquilan came simply to hit people as well. lucky you ended the match with 14 never mind 15.

I was right in front of the incident and seen it clearly. There was little enough contact. I was genuinely surprised he was sent off. You see them tackles all the time, particular in B football which is always hard hitting. Reminded of the challenge Marty O'Rourke got a second yellow for against Down last year. McQuillan made one challenge in the whole match I think. At 46 he's hardly going to be much of an enforcer. The tackle when a Pearse Ógs fella came flying in near our goal hich caused a pushing and shoving match was at least as bad as the sending off incident.

These things do happen though, I accept you don't always agree with the referee and I'm not going to start making wild allegations about biased referees. Pearse Ógs won the match because they played the better football, no doubt about that.

I know that you can get some controversial decisions in matches and both sets of players and supporters can see their own view of situations but the boy deserved to be sent off. Two dirty tackles in the one play and it was clear as day. The Ogs had just taken control of the game and St. Pats tried to rough it up. It's a common enough thing in football now where teams try to rough up the team that goes in front instead of playing their way out of it. The sending off definitely helped the Ogs but they were the better time anyway

Switch the jerseys round and I'd say you'd have a different view. Anyway no point in going on about it.

Predictions for this weekend

Ballymacnab v Armagh Harps (Jim Burns) at Athletic Grounds Harps
Killeavy v St Patrick's (Ger Devlin) at Carrickcruppen St Pat's
Dromintee v Granemore (Barney Henry) at Silverbridge Dromintee
Crossmaglen v Tir na nÓg (Tony O'Hare) at Athletic Grounds Crossmaglen
Maghery v Whitecross (Jimmy McKee) at Athletic Grounds Whitecross
Clan na Gael v Mullaghbawn (Jim Slevin) at Athletic Grounds Clan na Gael
Carrickcruppen v Pearse Og (Mickey Leonard) at Ballymacnab Pearse Ógs

I'll go for Harps, St Pats, Dromintee, Cross, Maghery, Clans and Cruppen.

Lads lets not air our dirty laundry in public please......support is what we need now.

Big game coming up and I think Harps will win. Plenty of talent so keep the faith.

Apologies if this has been on before

A widower and widow had been friend for years and finally decided to get married. They had a business style lunch to discuss details like which house they would live/sell, joint bank accounts, wills etc.....over coffee the woman says to the man.....you look troubled what's on your mind?

he says how do you feel about sex?

She replies "to tell you the truth I would like it infrequent"

He pauses and then says "Was that one or two words?"

Never liked gaybo....should have run the f**er over when i had the chance in tralee all those years ago.....never forgive myself, but there were worse including
Eoghan Harris and Ruth Dudley Edwards