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Cillian "Elbows" O'Connor.

His numbers speak for themselves.
A great servant.

The game is up for blanket defence football. It's a young man's game.

Was he not off side when the ball was played, forcing Scales to intervene?

Interviews are scripted. Guests are recycled. Guests are not big names. There is no current affairs covered anymore. The Government is the main contributor to RTE - €720,000,000. Quite a sum of money. Nobody under 45 watches it. Kielty is going through the motions - collecting the money.

Kielty is a nice lad but is out of his depth on a show that is well out of date.

There is such a void in the market of decent young live bands.

What we are left with are old cronies doing come back gigs (or not going away gigs) and a plethora of cover bands filling out small venues.

Is Rock and Roll nearly dead?

Pretty difficult for a guitar band to make it now without some viral moment on TikTok etc.

The album, Single, Charts and band T-shirt culture is gone. There are no Goths, Metallers, Mods, Punks and so on. My teenage kids listen to random music and have little or no affinity to any artist.

There is such a void in the market of decent young live bands.

What we are left with are old cronies doing come back gigs (or not going away gigs) and a plethora of cover bands filling out small venues.

Is Rock and Roll nearly dead?

But, but - Man City won their trophies on the pitch. 

I found the Ed Sheeran and Republic of Ireland stuff tedious the last week. Jez, talk about expecting a bit too much from young uneducated lads who happen to be good with their hands or their feet to be politically inspirational.

Keyboard warriors who buy Scooby doo products day in day out who support/fund the tyranny. Looking for this person to do this and that person to say that. And when they do it - it's because they were told to do it or say it and they'd never have done it otherwise or they didn't go far enough.

It's just a no win situation. And most of the time the hate gets directed at the complete wrong people and the Scooby doos just look on and laugh at us.

U2 were for Ireland like The Beatles were for England in breaking the US market.

A fair achievement.

For the Irish - Bono's ego has been often hard to square coupled with his "Save the World" malarkey, his mingling with dodgy types and his accounting decisions.

Longevity has been their biggest achievement.

MON should have stayed away and left it to locals to represent themselves. We all know whose side she is on - but she has lost credibility selling herself as a First Minister for all.
As said here earlier the DUP have got their siege mentality vote back from this and it's a perfect distraction from the Robinson disgrace.

Meanwhile the rest of the world (we just probably Ireland and the UK) looks and shrugs its shoulders at the stupidity of the situation.

Great result. Always said the best way to deal with them was to avoid acknowledgment and give them a good hiding. Mission accomplished.

F-ing brilliant

That's the f-ing stuff!

Anyone find the dynamic between Catherine Corless and Liam Neeson strange on last week's LLS? For the entire interview Catherine had her back turned to Liam - even at the end.

Liam's solo interview before Catherine came to join him was cold and distant to Pat Kielty.

https://youtu.be/LF0xXwfhaJE?is=GPcYjuwoNAbFuc29