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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Ah the benefit society and their callous attitude.
The new ground if it goes ahead will be from money given as a result of people suffering and dying - do check this.
Do not use ' free money' to inflict more suffering you monster.

[A network of 'homes', where children's happiness was relentlessly destroyedOpinion: It was said the boys would find ease in heaven as they had certainly done their purgatory on Earth]

The association has to be protected at all times. That's how it works.

This appears to be a quote from the 'new' Catholic Church which is taking the place of and becoming dangerous already in how much sunlight people are allowed in their lives along with restriction to their home area and subjection to noise.
No lessons seem to have been learned from the previous occupants of this role.
A horse and two stripes on the shoulder and ride all the way to Hell.
A gap has emerged post Catholic Church power over people which the GAA seem to be willingly able to fill with as many zealots unable to comprehend any suffering/lack of rights lost/unconferred to those not in agreement to be given a good enjoy darkness in the summer - and indeed all year. noise - yes money making involves concerts and all that goes with it.
Tough.
We are the GAA.


A network of 'homes', where children's happiness was relentlessly destroyed

Opinion: It was said the boys would find ease in heaven as they had certainly done their purgatory on Earth

When I was nine or 10 my mother decided to try to make us one of these rosary families. We managed for months before surliness crept in and the project was abandoned. While it lasted, every decade was said for a particular intention, for success in an exam, recovery from illness, the repose of the soul of a relative or neighbour, occasionally for the souls of Hitler or Stalin or the Black and Tans on the grounds that some of these villains might be in purgatory rather than in hell and they needed the prayers more than anybody else.

But always, the fifth decade was for: "The home boys, God help them." The home was St Joseph's, Termonbacca, just outside the Brandywell area, run by the Nazareth nuns.

Somehow this was got away with in the time that it took place but people must have known.http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/a-network-of-homes-where-children-s-happiness-was-relentlessly-destroyed-1.1672331

Do not take the light from the lives of children around Casement.

Do not torture their nights with noise.

Do not say in 20 years time - it was a different era - We did not realise - Forgive us

It will be too late then.

And a wrong thing to do by the way.

Do not abuse good people!

They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half.
They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything;
but the fools, the fools, the fools

A Public Limited Company gets out of debt.

And tries to link this monetary happening to a volunteer organisation.

Pathetic.

Is there a choice ? No ?.

I didn't think so in which case the question is academic.

Panic boys were a jest in the 'Reagh.
Hardly had time to roll our sleeves up or get coffee in a paper cup to show how serious we were when your ilk were signing already.
Blowing smoke in your face was gratuitous fun though.

Unbelievable!
Is this going ahead?

[What?]

The GAA better not kowtow to shite like that if they want to get anything done in the future.

What? How dare you!
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/mr-gaa-jailed-for-two-decades-of-sexual-terror-26103328.html


A FORMER top GAA official who carried out a reign of sexual terror against children over more than two decades from 1957 to 1978, was jailed for three years yesterday.

Former Ulster Council Secretary Michael Feeney (68) of Glenfield House, Corfad, Ballybay, Co Monaghan dubbed for many years "Mr GAA" in the North was sentenced by Judge Matt Deery at Monaghan Circuit Court when he pleaded to the litany of offences involving indecent assault and sexual assault on young girls and boys then aged between seven and 15 years.

The offences took place while Feeney was a primary school teacher, before he took up his GAA post.


Some of the victims travelled from Australia to give evidence. They also waived their right to remain anonymous so that the accused could be publicly exposed and named.



The judge had reserved his decision on sentence until yesterday, following a hearing last Tuesday during which the catalogue of sex assaults was outlined in court.



Feeney was removed from his GAA post in 1997 in the wake of the Garda investigation. Yesterday the GAA expressed sympathy to the families of those abused.



Some of the young girls and boys were sexually molested as the accused sat beside them in a school classroom.



One female, now aged 49, was frequently abused over a five-year period when she travelled with him in a car, when he visited her home, and also at a local hall.

Another victim described how she was sexually assaulted when she visited Feeney to collect money for newspapers.



All the victims said they were then too afraid to report what was happening to their parents.



The assaults all related to incidents in which the male victims were fondled sexually.



Before sentencing Feeney to three years imprisonment on each of the 21 charges to which he pleaded, the sentences to run concurrently, Judge Deery commended gardai on bringing what he described as "a sensitive and difficult investigation to a successful conclusion".



He described the assaults with which Feeney was charged as "in the middle range of offences of that particular nature which have come before the courts in recent times".

Extracts from The Final Development Management Report.
3.2 " The need for the proposal has therefore already been established through this goverment commitment and also through the existing use of the site as a GAA stadium"........ We the residents see no need for our area to be entombed by a 38500 concert ready stadium. Also due to falling GAA attendance figures this is unlikely to be filled. So the Government have committed to this. Why then refuse to release the Business Plan after all the days of one party governmemt are over our local politicians surely would not want to be less than open and honest with their electors and taxpayers.

Got Dun Laoghaire correct from a Boomtown Rats LP my Da has but fell for the old 'thinking it was a trick question' as it seems Monaghan town is actually in County Monaghan in Ireland and not 3 miles outside Montevideo in Uruguay. They sure know how to phrase the questions to put people astray.

I often wondered what sort of training they did between the two games.
Maybe Sean felt they needed to be brought back down to earth after the Kerry game so he worked them hard.
I've no basis for that I'm just speculating, but it's hard to explain the lack of energy they seemed to have on the day.

What was the feeling like in the County between the two matches? There may have been an air of expectation amongst the supporters that might have filtered through after such a decisive win against Kerry.

[THE ALL-IRELAND semi-final against Kerry stunned the world of football.]

THE ALL-IRELAND semi-final against Kerry stunned the world of football. The scoreline says it all: Meath 2-14 Kerry 0-5.

No Kerry player scored more than a single point

Galway 0-17

Meath 0-08

Galway have won the All-Ireland football final by nine points, thrashing hot favourites Meath 0-17 to 0-08.

The Tribesmen were even able to overcome some shocking shooting in the first half, with Padraig Joyce in particular guilty of some very bad misses.

Meath started the brightest, and took an early 0-2 to 0-0 lead, but Galway came back and after 12 minutes had levelled the scores.

It was level at half time, and the scene was set for a quiet Meath to burst into action.

It never happened however, and with Joyce looking his old deadly self and Ollie Murphy, Graham Geraghty and Trevor Giles all off-colour, Galway began to establish a grip on the game.

Nigel Nestor was sent off in the 56th minute for a second bookable offence, but two minutes later Meath were thrown a lifeline.

With the scores at 0-13 to 0-8, they were awarded a penalty after John McDermott was tripped in the square.

But Trevor Giles' shot went low and wide and with it any chance of a comeback by the Royals.

The win put the disappointment of last year's All Ireland final replay defeat behind Galway, as they collected the Sam Maguire Cup for the ninth time.

In doing so, the Tribesmen gave a ringing endoresement to this year's All Ireland qualifying series, becoming the first team ever to collect the prestigious silverware after being knocked out of their own provincial championships.

Padraig Joyce was in outstanding form for the winners, scoring 10 points with nine of those coming during the second period, when Meath were torn asunder.

Meath's prospects were not helped on the resumption when they lost talismanic forward Ollie Murphy who retired with a hand injury.

The teams were level five times during the opening period but Galway will feel that they should have been ahead at the break coinsidering that they kicked eight wides to their opponents' two.

However, Meath had no answer to a rampant Joyce in the second period as Galway played their way to the Sam Maguire for the second time in four years.


There are not many teams who have scored 0-08 in an All Ireland Final.
The 'World of Football; may have recovered from being 'stunned' in rather a short time that year.

Cygnet Committee by D Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyDmt-Yrhww

Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI0Zye_ewPE

The Stolen Child by The Waterboys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOzbqY1ABwQ

Cumhaidh an Fhile by Albert Fry which is not on youtube but here is a version by Rosanna Ní Dhónaill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pto6YEzF6w

Arthur McBride by Paul Brady (the slow version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGkhPx529g