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If I remember correctly this attack was carried out by the " south Armagh reaction force" or something like that. Perhaps the local sinn fein organisation and all local GAA clubs etc should ask wee willie to be allowed to march along side him for this, in order to commentate the kingsmill massacre but also the heinous crimes carried out against the Reavey family days before.
See how willie takes to marching with the locals.

Will this new Mayor of Dublin title be paid for by the people of Dublin only, I seriously hope that none of the taxation of this state should support this new role, Dublin taxpayers should pay for it.

Makes little difference, the Dubs are the only ones who pay tax in the country anyway.

Said a little prayer for the youngfella' this morning.

Lads,

Will ye calm down about crucifying min wage workers.

In Dundalk a min wage worker working a 35 hour week will get 8.65 x35 = 302.75 . The 1% levy and 20% tax after basic allowances takes him off 50.03 euro  . Net pay =252.72 euro. Effective ROI tax rate is 16.5%.

A min wage worker in Newry working 35 hours would get 250.68 euro gross and pay tax and ni of 42.97 . net is 207.71  ( a coversion rate 1.25 used) The Dundalk min wage worker has 45 euro or 22% more take home than his Newry equivalent. The effective uk rate of tax is 17.1%

There is of course another issue about the level of benefits ...

I can't figure out how you got this ROI net pay figure of eur252.72.
Have you included the basic weekly tax credit of eur70.39 for a single person, which means that he is basically paying no income tax at all? Only reinforces your argument I suppose.

Any 0ne hear drive time this evening where they recorded some of the action on the hill from yesterdays game .Funny sad desperate

After the reports of drug dealing on the Hill last time RTE sent a reporter with a mike onto the Hill to investigate. Apart from someone smoking some dope, all she could find was "vulgar" language. It's hardly primetime news that Dublin supporters on Hill 16 are shouting abuse at a referee and umpire, is it?

Good advice Darbyo so while you're at it I might pick your (and others) brains a bit more.

As my football season may be over quite early this season I'm toying with the idea of doing a local 10 mile race. Fitness, while not brilliant, wouldn't be the worst but I've no experience whatsoever of distance running. My main problems with running have been (a) think its boring and (b) suffer with pain in my shins from running on tarmac/road. I reckon I can deal with (a) for a couple of months and my brother, who does quite a bit of running reckons you get over the other problem after a while. Any advice?

There is a good website called www.mapmyrun.com
You can map any route and it will tell you the distance, with markers per mile / km. I find if you pick land marks along your route every mile and keep track of your speed per mile it breaks the run up a bit and dosen't get as boring.

http://www.activeeurope.com/home/index.cfm?STS=AE

You'll have to apply filters for "running" and the whatever region you are interested in.

Most organisers of road races in the Dublin region are listing the races on this site, don't know about the West though. It allows you pay the entry fee by credit card.

Best of Luck

Not bastards just good tactics.

Higgins only lost by 400 odd votes. I think his biggest problem was poor turnout from his strong areas. Some parts of mountview and fortlawn which would normally be strong areas for him only had about 45% turnout yet at the Castleknock end of the constituency turnout was at 75%, traditionally strong a FG area.

FF also deliberately ran Gerry Lynam who would have swept a lot of votes from JH, as they are both from Mulhuddard. Throw in Sinn Fein, and there just wasn't enough working class votes to go around.

the only relevant facts you have are the average attendance at Galway Utd home games for last season and the sum for Paddy Powers sponsorship of St Pats for this year. The rest is just one assumption after another.
You don't take into account that after they got relegated in 2004 they had to let go nearly all of their players on professional contracts. Also they were only kept running by the contributions from the fans. Which all bears no relationship whtsoever with Galway Utd.
Anyway I can't excatly see the revenue setting up another tribunal on the basis of your complaint.

But yet you are prepared to petition the revenue to investigate rovers based upon the discrepancies between GR's boastings and someone else estimate of attendance's from foot.ie. Concrete evidence indeed.

Lone Shark,

I hope you mentioned in your email to the revenue about the salary paid to inter county managers, because I just know that all that money is declared!
You could also mention the proposed "expenses" that the GAA and GPA are asking the govt. to pay.

Firstly as it is public money involved, all taxpayers will have an interest.

If Thomas Davis argument is that because public money is involved in developing the stadium, therefore it should be open for all sports to use, can soccer and rugby clubs all over the country make the same argument in relation to any GAA ground that has received any public funding?

Will the revenue commissioners in the north accept the fact that these payments are for reimbursement of expenses and not subject to income tax?

Also, I would have thought that if government approve these payments, other codes like soccer & rugby will be asking for the same treatment.