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As someone who is retired I would just make this reflection, when you're young with a young family you have little money and lots you could spend it on, when you're older you've plenty of money and a lot less to spend it on. My advice therefore is to enjoy life when you're young and don't be scrimping on things in order to have jam tomorrow

I remember in the mid 90s fixing for 10 years at 9.5%. I just wanted certainty. I think for most of the time I was up money

If you want to hear a complete assault on the language watch an episode of Bargain Hunt with Danny Sebastian presenting

What were stage times like. I'm heading so want to be in and settled for all of Richard Ashcroft.

Ashcroft was excellent. I thought it was just gonna be a solo acoustic set but he had a full backing band with him. Get in early and enjoy him, you won't get a chance to do this again tomorrow

Anyone here attend tonights first concert in Croke Park?

Yeah I was there. Great gig

Ozzie Osborne aged 76

As part of Féile an Phobail, two Belfast GAA Clubs are running the Joe Cahill underage tournament, thus playing right into the hands of the Orange Order who can use this to justify their opposition to the East Belfast U12team participating in the North Down Cricket Club cross community sports event last Friday. You couldn't make it up

Is there anywhere else to watch it other than Sky. That accent of McDowell's would do your head in

I'm not one for conspiracy theories normally, but is there possibly someone on the inside of DFI deliberately messing up the plans and leaving loopholes for the objectors?

That point might not be as daft as you might think. Not necessarily deliberately messing things up but perhaps passing inside information to the objectors

Well if it's that easy to resolve, and I'm obviously not disagreeing with you, why are they starting to return the land to the landowners?

The problem that I have with the environmental issue is wait to you see the bonfires in about 3 weeks time. The amount of rubbish and tyres etc. being burned is crazy.

Not only that but the amount of farmers and companies poisioning fish in rivers ever other month is mad. Then a token fine.

Plus the amount of sewage being pumped into the water ways is crazy also.

I could go on but what's the point.

Either work to clean the environment or don't basically.

100% or nothing. 

The people involved couldn't give one f**k about the environment. Its to stop the fenians getting anything. Plain and simple

It's more to do with the perception of strengthening connections across the island of Ireland than 'fenians' getting something.

Certain backward looking unionists will probably see this as a road from Dublin going right through our wee country.

Objection to the Carlingford bridge comes from the same mindset.

I don't think you're comparing like with like. Narrow Water bridge is primarily a vanity project which is going to do little to alleviate congestion on the approaches to Newry. I don't recall there being any big unionist objection to it

Going back to the topic, did SF/SDLP/Alliance shoot themselves in the foot here by supporting the Green Party's proposed Climate Change Act which included the 2050 target of zero emissions, rather than the DAERA one which had a more realistic and achievable 82% reduction?

On a side issue, when they were upgrading the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick, why did they place the floodlight pillars at the front of the terrace rather than at the rear. Their positioning would appear to create a lie of restricted viewing areas

Can't understand why the Cork/Kerry match, which was by no means a sellout, was on live on GAA+ while Down/Louth, which seems to have sold out, isn't available

Strange that there should be 2 Israelis shot in America just as wider public opinion is turning against them