Messages

Did some laughing when I first heard the Presbyterian Mutual Society was gone bust and am still laughing, God works in mysterious ways but they shouldnt worry read the bible and they will be grand.

There is nothing funny about anybody losing money, this hurts people and there is simply nothing funny about it.

Whoever said that the board was depressing at times was right.

Have to agree. Idiots here are so jealous of people actually having a few quid to put aside they can't help themselves when people lose out. If they're prods then it's doubly exciting. I'm starting to think fivetimes had a point! People losing their life savings is no laughing matter.

Sure plenty of the Connacht lads head over to New York for the Connacht championship every second year and it offers the chance for many Irish people to reunite after numerous years away from each other. Obviously it would mean that many Irish people wouldn't get to the final from here but many more from the US could make the final. It would easily sell out a stadium holding 80 - 100,000 people and it would give us massive publicity it the US, which would help the GAA community over there. I think we should definitely look to play league finals and AI finals outside of Ireland every now and again, there is great work being down all around the world by Irish and non-Irish to promote the games, bringing our best players and the biggest occasion in the Irish sporting to their backyard would provide them with a tremendous boost and a fitting reward for the work they do.

Just what is required in the midst of an economic meltdown!

You never answered me, what has where I'm living got to do with it?

Im not living amonst the enemy because I've yet to meet one of them that gives a shit.

Jesus Pints if the southerners don't give a shit and the English don't give a shit who do you moan to?! Oh right now i know!

Awe the poor wee ones up North are upset because some idiot doesn't understand their history and . Sure that's evidence the whole of Ireland doesn't care about the North.

Pints is upset. The rest of us couldn't give a shit about youse!

Pat Kenny is chief revisionist historian in Ireland now. Compressed the 125 year history of the gaa into the 70s and 80s and has now airbrushed Paisley's malevolent influence from the history of Northern Ireland.

In the current climate if this was on the bbc there would be hell to pay!

I have to agree that Irish people have started to adopt a lot thats common with British culture, Its in the way people speak, dress, what news they watch, what music they listen to. Now I know we have a shared history with Britain, you only have to look at the Georgian buildings in Dublin to remind you and thats fair enough, its history. But there are aspects of modern British culture that are now very much a part of Irish society. Traits that you dont see in Norway, France or Germany. The traditional Irish pubs are dissappearing, well the buildings might still be there but the redeeming features have been exchanged for flat screen TVs in every corner and booming music. Local brews have dissappeared and its all the piss of Carlsberg, Bud and Hieniken and all that shit. Now these arent nessessarily British influences but what I want to know where is the Irishness going?

Despite myself located in Britain (temporarily) I have held on to Irish culture dearly while Im here. I try keep my Gaelige up to a decent level, play Irish music, join the local GAA clubs. But when I go home when I meet my old friends and brother and sister, it seems like I'm so much 'more Irish' than they are. Or perhaps more immersed in Irish culture, and that doesnt nessessarily mean I'm more Irish than them. It bothers me because once we lose our culture or bury our history or destroy our beautiful landscape which we have been guilty of during this so called boom years, I feel we've lost a piece of our idenity, sold it for a bit of corporate moolla.

Thanks Im done now. Of to the pub

The Celtic tiger showed the world that Ireland and Irishness was for sale. I thought that was the deal everyone in the 26 signed up to 15 or 20 years ago in exchange for inward investment, jobs, the latest Merc and a flat in Bulgaria!

Should the Cork hurlers continue to say no, never, never, never? Or should Donal Og embrace (oh er) his enemy McCarthy and work for the common goal of getting within ten points of Kilkenny?

Another question, if you had a choice to save Willie Frazier or Ian Paisley Jnr from falling into shark infested water, who would it be?

[how would you know if i would or not, you know f**k all about me!!]

how would you know if i would or not, you know f**k all about me!! wind your neck in! some of us work damn hard for a living, getting paid a lot less than 10% of what he is taking home, even after his so call pay cut. i wouldn't care if he refused, but some one coming on here glorifying a man who takes a cut from a wage that is already totally unjustifiable (sp), now that annoys me!!

Apply that thinking to Dunphy. Not unless you are big pals.

[Richard Dunne]

Although I don't agree with everything that Dunphy says I would say that he has principles and i think he did this in good faith.
I heard it was Richard Dunne who complained/refused about going to the children's hospital, although I read one of Humphries' books and he had a good cut at Carr and left me with the impression he was an a**hole also.

Both Dubs - brought to you with no further comment 

[Whatever his motivation or what you think about Eamo I say fair play to him.]

Even by the normal low standards of the average Premiership player this takes a bit of beating.

I'd have thought the average Premiership player is sound enough and that it's a minority that have low standards. Whatever his motivation or what you think about Eamo I say fair play to him.

I agree - I don't make a fraction of his wage but I don't have a f**king chip on my shoulder about it either! In this case certain individuals are focusing on the personality rather than the deed.

[obviously]

Calm down stpauls, calm down 

I wouldnt say he is being glorified as such, moreso highlighting that he isnt a bad fecker
If he had come out & said he wasnt taking a pay cut what would you say?

He'd probably be okay with that as Dunphy obviously  isn't the problem.

[Tony you really are a hateful peace of work,]

Presbyterians allegedly believe in the Bible and its denunciation of wealth.

Therefore they should fear not as the good book says the Lord will provide, and they are better off spiritually without riches or money in any event.

Tony you really are a hateful peace of work, who can't see beyond their blinkered point of view. If this place goes under the ripples which it will spread out in to the economy will not ask your religion .

Well spotted!

Always remember Sweet Sixteen by the Fureys being played at my father's funeral - last piece of music in the crematorium. Banjo notes bring a tear to my eye still. 

I agree. Also "The Greasy Chip Butty Song" aka "Annie's Song" by John Denver.

I know prods that say "haitch" and catholics that say "aitch". What are we to do about them?!

I've never heard anyone say Mack-er-a! Is this a myth?!