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4 hostages in good health rescued. How many civilians slaughtered in the rescue? Only a sick f**k would celebrate it.

 The amount of anger you have going on isn't healthy.

Aul boy used to say, if you've nothing nice to say, say nothing

How many civilians died in the rescue? Do you think it was worth it and should be celebrated? 2 questions for you there.

I wasn't discussing it, I'm talking about the head space you must be at based on your posts

4 hostages in good health rescued. How many civilians slaughtered in the rescue? Only a sick f**k would celebrate it.

 The amount of anger you have going on isn't healthy.

Aul boy used to say, if you've nothing nice to say, say nothing

How many steps does a player need? The complaining most weeks are about throw balls and steps..

Colm Parkinson not happy which makes any Laois defeat good.

In general or about the game? Did he ever play hurling?

That's tough on Laois, in an evenly matched game the fine margins in winning and losing make the difference

The wide count by Laois was the losing of the game..

I'm seriously concerned for Jaralth come the final of senior football final! I think his head will actually blow up come the speech

Jarlath tries to hard. No mention of Laois (from what i remember).

He did mention Laois, and talked about their comeback I. The second half from 7 points down

Great job Collie McDonald in the McDonough Cup final. He got high praise from commentary team on RTE Radio.

Did very well and that last one which the lad was into his 8th step before he blow for over carrying couldn't complain when looking back.

That's tough on Laois, in an evenly matched game the fine margins in winning and losing make the difference

The wide count by Laois was the losing of the game..

I'm seriously concerned for Jaralth come the final of senior football final! I think his head will actually blow up come the speech

Offaly pulling away in the second half here..

Will take some comeback from Laois

They did well, flattering or not, first male tournament final since 66, to lose as they did, that's not a bad effort, considering that they ain't that good, a top 6 team will get to or win a tournament every now and then, Denmark and Greece in my recent history are your shocks

He invaded Poland first

[I doubt it very much, these lads willingly put themselves up for that]

BBC NI "News" devoting its entire programme, save about 90 seconds on a Lyra McKee story to talk about the D Day anniversary.

Never watched it but been in the car today and it was nearly walk to wall stuff, in fairness there won't be too many left after this year.

80 years is a serious anniversary for those still alive, who won't be about to remember it.

I'd a few late 90's and even one lady who was 101 and chatted about those periods..

Crazy times, knowing you were heading to possible death, would that happen today? I doubt it very much, these lads willingly put themselves up for that

Most of them didn't though, they just had normal jobs at the time and were conscripted - saw an interview with one the other day and he said none of them wanted to be there as they knew there was a good chance of being killed, but nothing they could do about it.

But I take your point about nowadays, boys would be coming up with all sorts of disabilities to make sure they couldn't go

Aye, and they'd be  dead right too

Did you fight for your country? Or did you make up that you had a disability? or was the war over before you left primary school?

Would you willingly  join the British , American, other regimes in their phoney wars?  How many   soldiers  died in Iraq ?  Were  they making the ultimate sacrifice  for British/American freedoms, or was it all based  on a lie?

I asked you a simple enough question, you can answer it or deflect with another question.. WW2/D-Day landings I don't think was a 'phoney' war.

We could be here  all day  with the ins and outs  of it all.  Ireland aren't at war with /invading  another country , and conscription wasn't  compulsory in  the north in the past.

The original  point was about     National service  in Britain . I'm sure many British ,  no matter how patriotic ,  seen the lies that  went on regarding Iraq and Afghanistan.  Could you blame them for  doing whatever it took to avoid being sent somewhere  just to  become cannon fodder?

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 BBC NI "News" devoting its entire programme, save about 90 seconds on a Lyra McKee story to talk about the D Day anniversary.

Not conscription but that came after my post. It was also about the D-Day landings and not about Iraq or phoney wars or lies being told. That's entirely true but not relevant 

Ireland, to some, have been at war with the Brits to put in place an United Ireland, the place is still occupied 

And to top it off, I'm not a big fan of wars, but the second world war did happen and these lads (40%) volunteered to go.

Has anyone watched Bodkin. A few Oirish stereotypes but I thought it was ok

I liked it. The red headed bearded lad was excellent.

David Watkins. A brilliant actor, been in loads of Irish films, the younger priest in Calvary and the Ra man in '71 come to mind. 

David Wimot?

I can't see any reason why a toe tap and punch/flick to the net would be illegal, and under what rule would you penalise a player for punching to the net after a player has bounced on the ground?  I appreciate you mention "deliberate" but these are both scenarios I always considered legal regardless of any intention.  I've never seen anything to specifically cater for it in the rules, and as such, that deems it legal to me.  However I could have missed it.  I'm fully aware a referee is very likely to blow either as a foul (especially a bounce and flick to the net) as it is such an unusual scenario that they may not have considered the rules for it until they are faced with it!

Gianni, a lot of the questions you raised there were probably not answered because they are of no benefit.  Nobody, playing seriously, would try these.  It's probably easier to understand the rules by watching the games and then applying the rules to it, rather than the other way around.  Because if you are applying a strict interpretation of the rules to how the game is actually played, it will get very confusing very quickly!

I've mentioned 'in possession' a few times to make my point, the one on the goal, I did say I have questions over it myself and would apply the rules at the time as I seen it, if I felt he was out of control of the ball then no probs, if he bounces and retrieves the ball and then flicks, no goal, the grey area is bouncing it down to retrieve it and then flicking ball into net... That goes for toe tapping and not taking backing into hand before flicking it.

Logically its legal, sure who applies logic 

I'm looking at the lesser of two evils 

[I doubt it very much, these lads willingly put themselves up for that]

BBC NI "News" devoting its entire programme, save about 90 seconds on a Lyra McKee story to talk about the D Day anniversary.

Never watched it but been in the car today and it was nearly walk to wall stuff, in fairness there won't be too many left after this year.

80 years is a serious anniversary for those still alive, who won't be about to remember it.

I'd a few late 90's and even one lady who was 101 and chatted about those periods..

Crazy times, knowing you were heading to possible death, would that happen today? I doubt it very much, these lads willingly put themselves up for that

Most of them didn't though, they just had normal jobs at the time and were conscripted - saw an interview with one the other day and he said none of them wanted to be there as they knew there was a good chance of being killed, but nothing they could do about it.

But I take your point about nowadays, boys would be coming up with all sorts of disabilities to make sure they couldn't go

Aye, and they'd be  dead right too

Did you fight for your country? Or did you make up that you had a disability? or was the war over before you left primary school?

Would you willingly  join the British , American, other regimes in their phoney wars?  How many   soldiers  died in Iraq ?  Were  they making the ultimate sacrifice  for British/American freedoms, or was it all based  on a lie?

I asked you a simple enough question, you can answer it or deflect with another question.. WW2/D-Day landings I don't think was a 'phoney' war.