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Wife took a group of first years (12 year olds) to the National Aquatic Centre. She would highly recommend it

A property tax would only make sense if the revenue collected was used to pay for services such as waste disposal etc. The current system whereby residents  pay for bin collection services at source only seems to act as an encouragement to some to dump their rubbish illegally rather than pay to have it collected. THe introduction of a property tax to pay for these services would remove that problem

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!

Tony, that's the first sensible posting on this thread

I'd like to hear Plank ask him the following: ' During your 2003 Party Conference you said the following about this country's current Prime Minister ' I was enraged when I saw that strange character from Dublin coming again to see us."Somebody told me the other day the reason his lips were so thick was that when his mother was bringing him up he was a very disobedient young boy so she used to put glue on his lips and put him to the floor and keep him there and that has been recorded in his physical make up... yes, away with him indeed and if he wants to use his lips to better effect he should do it somewhere else and go to people of like physical looks." Tell me Ian do you think that was a christian way to describe him.

I have a random question...will I be allowed to bring an alarm clock in as hand luggage (I am not putting a case in the hold)...or will they not let me through with it incase they think it's a bomb

I'd be careful with that alarm clock if I were you. You could end up with a good ticking off

Went in to the shop this evening after a very difficult day in the office and noticed they'd Creme eggs out on display, yum yum I thought!

However, much to my disgust I realised the the creme eggs have reduced in size by at least, AT LEAST! 20%! and it's not just the creme eggs either, it's the caramel eggs now too! I'm pretty sure there's less yellow stuff in them as well!


I'm off to pen a harshly worded email. 

Gone are the days when Cadbury can be relied upon!

Pints, As I recall there was a debate one time as to whether you were male or female. Your fondness for chocolate might suggest that you're in the female bracket.

You're a bit touchy tonight Dougal. What'd Tony do on you?

He's done nothing on me at all Zig. Its just having grown up during the Troubles and now having a 14 year old kid who's taking a great interest (more than I would consider to be healthy in all honesty) in all things IRA related, I'm minded how young people can be influenced by the rhetoric of people like Tony who are happy to do the stirring up and even more than happy to stand back and let others who may be influenced by what they say, actually take up the fight

Excellent show, filled with humour and pathos, and more Provies in the audience than there ever was in the Kesh .

Go see it!

People like you take me to the fair. You come across as being the big republican and all that, while in actual fact I'd be pretty sure that your only contribution to the 'cause' is to support Celtiic and the Republic of Ireland, play Wolfe Tones CDs out loud when travelling on your own in the car, and write letters to newspaper editors to wind up 'the other side'

Regardless of a recession or not i believe that there should be a pay cut, but the work practices are just rediculous, what type of a job gives you upto 10 days uncertified sick leave, 35 hour weeks, flexi time, option of a year off, a pension and the fact you will never lose your job. Whats makes things worse is that there is a huge amount of the people on 40k + without a degree or any 3rd level qualification, they are there just so long that they keep getting increases. And to get a job you just need to no somebody, i think the lads in Dell have more skil the most of the civil service!

I find it hard to believe that these clowns feel hard done by.  

By the spelling and punctuation displayed in your posts I think you're the clown and a right wing looney to boot

I'm led to believe that the Late Late insisted that the GAA pay for the Artane Boys Band

I always like to listen to this to remind me of how big a bollox Plank Kenny is:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xFxaVucmE

The programme was a disgrace. I only saw up as far as Brush Shields and fortunately I had to go out and missed the rest. My sports mad kids who'd watch tiddlywinks on telly if it was on also stopped watching at that stage. RTE should be ashamed of itself. I couldn't believe it when they cut out the singing of The West's Awake, despite the fact that Eileen Dunne referred to it specifically. People should be writing to the newspapers to highlight their anger. I'm not from the south but I'd be pretty pissed off to see my license fee going on that sh*te

I'm with Zulu on this one. I'm an Armagh man and I've already bought a family ticket for myself and the wife and the two kids to go to the event. I've heard a rumour that Horslips may be getting together to play a set at half time.

Just after noticing that Gregory Campbell is one of the people who is going to speak, interesting . . .

I hope he's sub titled otherwise you non Ulster folk might have difficulty understanding him as he speaks Irish with a strong Donegal accent

Heard it from good authority that Horslips are re-uniting to provide the half time entertainment. Just bought a family ticket even though I'm an Armagh man. DElighted to hear that Tankie et al will be outside, although I remember in 2003 the opening match of the league was Armagh the then AI champs v Dublin and I didn't hear any talk of boycotts them. I also seem to recall that we hammered the Dubs that day but thats another story