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Wild. Surely this gets sorted before it comes to that?

By whom?

Who's stumping up the £1.2M

Probably Pay per view

and the scary thing is it would probably break records

New (real) versions of The Running Man coming soon

Completely dystopian shit ... just chatting about it in work. This is scary 

Totally moral bankruptcy by those in power in the US.

They are trying to say there are guns and explosives in garvaghy now.

And Petrol bombs...

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-charges-alternate-tables-34698729?fbclid=IwY2xjawU0nRlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMWhCSXNQMGVVc3lpd3lER2RzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeM0B6dGOXZXa84EM-ahHHCVWNExFEaYz_LDdLmt5q7urLuLWA6PJmLC-JhgQ_aem_MoKsYk_CIdR7luDSJArOqg

Liverpool echo have removed the points City would have won for the time they're being charged and redone the league tables...

Ok, so in that case why is the motion about Zionism rather than about combating/condemning the enablement of genocide by the west?

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of any of it, it is, at best, unbelievably f**king naive from a political perspective.

Believe it or not "the Jewish people have a right to a homeland in historical Palestine" isn't that controversial an opinion in global Jewry. There are many left wing Jews in the UK who would criticise the Israeli state in general and certainly the genocide who this policy now targets.

I can't speak for the Greens but many would argue that Zionism, the Iron wall approach taken by Netanyahu is the ideology behind this genocide.

Benny Ward Derry & Lavey, early 50s maybe ? Very sad. He was a tough character. Couldn't see it mentioned anywhere else

When was DS, what happened?

Hadn't heard that one and it has shocked me, great lad

Just yesterday NAG1, he had cancer apparently and unfortunately didn't have it that long, an aggressive one.

RIP Benny. Sound lad I'd the privilege of playing with at UUJ and have worked with him on and off for 15 odd years.

He'd pancreatic cancer, diagnosed about June time, sad news for Stella and the three kids and the Ward family.

[particularly and specifically care about Israel]

The UK Greens going in hard on the Zionists, rightfully equating them with racists.

There's going to be some dirt digging on Zack Polanski and the "Corbanistas" who've taken over the Greens allegedly.

You don't find it all a bit simplistic and reductive?

It's probably meaningless in the bigger scheme of things, keeps the Israeli genocide in the news for another cycle, that's about it.

The Hasbara crew are digging deep into the Greens since.

They've opened themselves up to all sorts of scrutiny. Define Zionism, for example. It means different things to different people. There are different strands etc. Define Irish republicanism, define physical force Irish republicanism etc.

The easy question to ask them will be why do they particularly and specifically care about Israel and not other ethno-nationalist conflicts. Why don't they have a policy on Christ knows how many African conflicts etc. What could possibly be unique or significant about Israel that they felt the need to do this?

The other bit is they've actually gone beyond the mainstream Palestinian position. They're actively rejecting a two state solution and calling for a singular Palestinian state "by any means necessary".

They have left themselves open to justified criticism, and when the anti-Semitism card is played (perhaps with some justification given the fact they don't care about anything else, i.e. holding Israel to a different standard than other states), no doubt they will respond with the "they're playing the anti-Semitism card" card.

I suppose the reason for that is that the US, UK and various European states are supporting and enabling this particular genocide and we're supposed to be "civilised".

The UK Greens going in hard on the Zionists, rightfully equating them with racists.

There's going to be some dirt digging on Zack Polanski and the "Corbanistas" who've taken over the Greens allegedly.

You don't find it all a bit simplistic and reductive?

It's probably meaningless in the bigger scheme of things, keeps the Israeli genocide in the news for another cycle, that's about it.

The Hasbara crew are digging deep into the Greens since.

The UK Greens going in hard on the Zionists, rightfully equating them with racists.

There's going to be some dirt digging on Zack Polanski and the "Corbanistas" who've taken over the Greens allegedly.

[I watched one Ed Gein episode]

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story on Netflix.

Some spoilers here, but what is the craic with this show? Have they made a "real life" Monster show, and then just made it all up? It appears so. 

I was eager to google so much but left it until I completed the series (which was too long by about half). No idea why they included the modern scenes too which are again a complete fabrication. 

Not often I ignore those big Netflix releases, but didn't watch the Ed Gein one or Lizzie Borden one as they looked silly. The Dahmer one was brilliant and I liked the Menendez one too even though that went a bit silly in places.

Yes the Dahmer one was brilliant and I enjoyed the vast majority of the Menendez Bros one.  I watched one Ed Gein episode and that was enough for me.  I maybe should have done the same with the Lizzie Borden one.

Ed Gein was a tough watch, quite disturbing actually, I didn't watch to the end.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckpdgqp03z4yo

Bastards are still at it. Don't ever let anyone try to convince you that this is an issue that only existed in the past.

Not a lot of detail in that report, but if the Catholic Church didn't ship him off elsewhere to continue his evilness once they found it, then that's progress.

Himself and Jeffrey can read the bible together.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/sport/gaa/hurling/limerick-hurling-manager-john-kiely-confirms-backroom-team-for-2027-campaign-9267341

Kiely has gotten them all back again.

Who can dislodge them in 2027?

No barricades in the boudoir....

It's real Kevin and Sadie stuff.

Zuckerberg getting in on the act after buying his Waterford castle. Three local clubs getting 50k each.

Where's the Irish patriots when you need them to burn this immigrant out of the place?

[very lucky 1 don't receive a red card yesterday]

The two semi-finals were done yesterday and we were made work for our win, but for Cathal Laverty in the Crans goals it could have been over in the first 20 minutes, three outstanding saves from point blank range, although I didn't think Timmy connected well with his shot, he was only 6 yards out, a fine save nonetheless.

Ballycran weathered the storm and got themselves back into the game, helped by some needless frees by our lads, one for overcarrying by our fullback who had all the time in the world and evidently decided he'd take it only to be rightly blown up by the ref.
They did get a good goal and went in at half time up by four and deservedly so.

Second half started well for us, a good goal from our best player on the day, Owen McDermott (who just needs to be more consistent) and a few points to take the lead.
Ballycrans second goal was well taken, but we've a young lad in at fullback, who doesn't yet have the instinct of a full back, went too early off his man to meet a forward coming in the sideline with no one back to cover his man, and that put the Crans back in a 2 point lead. Those kind of situations it's all about timing the moment to go and the angle of the run to cut out the pass if you can, probably not helped by the other corner back not reading the situation well either and bombing into the danger area to help out.

That was their last score of the game and we powered home with another goal from Owen McDermott and a good spread of points from several other players to win out by 7 in the end.

Ports did what they needed to do in the other semi-final, rested some of their key players and will go into the final as the hottest of hot favourites and I'd be a fool not to acknowledge that.

Our lads show glimpses of what they're capable of, but they will need serious improvements in converting scores when the chances present themselves to give Portaferry a game.

We'll travel in hope of a performance we haven't seen yet from them this year, but for once we go into that game with none of our key players strapped to the balls with taping holding them together which has been the case the last two years.

While none of the key players are strapped very lucky 1 don't receive a red card yesterday,  vould be a problem in the final if there's a red nit afraid to call things out.
But overall was a fair decent game galgets always likely to win with the better legs other semi complete waste of time, not sure liatriom are in the right grade tbh 

Yeah, it was down the other end of the field, he definitely swung back initially, but not sure what he did after that. Too far away.

In the round robin game also in Ballygalget there was a bit of stamping on one of our lads and there's no way the umpires or linesman could have missed it, the same linesman that maybe missed our lads indiscretion.