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Duff Paddy

I think it'll turn out to be a 24 team competition with 8 from each league. Welsh and Irish with two guaranteed spots each, Scots and Italians with one guaranteed spot each. The remaining two filled on merit. McCuntery gets his way and shafts ERC and Sky. Looks likely. So basically replacing Scotti...

Duff Paddy

Thanks EC but I don't think he gets the fact that they're aren't actively trying to destroy Celtic rugby, it's that they can't see beyond their own myopic self interest, and as businessmen we have no right to expect anything else. The fact is that the unions are to blame here. I dont believe the cl...

Duff Paddy

P.T. wrote:
Gavin Duffy wrote:

And we were so close to winning too...

Write a ballad.

not bad for a subservient lapdog, not bad at all

Duff Paddy

Evil or good has nothing to do with it, this is a power play by a group of businessmen. The unions are ones charged with entertaining the best interests of the game, and weak unions in those countries have allowed their domestic messes to fudge the game in Europe for everyone else. I understand tha...

Duff Paddy

Is anything stopping the Scots and Irish from dying on their feet if that is what they'd really prefer? Why would they? Administrators are fighting to keep their jobs. This will be death by a thousand cuts, this one is going top start the serious bleeding. I don't know but some of the rhetoric on t...

Duff Paddy

Evil or good has nothing to do with it, this is a power play by a group of businessmen. The unions are ones charged with entertaining the best interests of the game, and weak unions in those countries have allowed their domestic messes to fudge the game in Europe for everyone else. I understand tha...

Duff Paddy

Governance, with PRL and LNR in charge and the unions out of the way the international game is no longer important. The FFR and RFU need competitive neighbours, the RCC organisers dont. I think it would seem logical to everyone that the death of Celt rugby would be counterproductive for everyone. F...

Duff Paddy

The effect on the scottish and italian teams will have knock on effects in the Rabo, further diminishing funding, leading to even further reduced budgets and so forth. That was going to happen anyway. Why are the Mick so resistant to the notion that it is not ERC v RCC, it's RCC v oblivion? Because...

Duff Paddy

The effect on the scottish and italian teams will have knock on effects in the Rabo, further diminishing funding, leading to even further reduced budgets and so forth. That was going to happen anyway. Why are the Mick so resistant to the notion that it is not ERC v RCC, it's RCC v oblivion? Oblivio...

Duff Paddy

...and in more depressing news for humanity: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/confidential-details-about-girl-14-feared-trafficked-to-ireland-were-sent-to-business-with-similar-name-to-hse-29685676.html Confidential details about girl (14) feared trafficked to Ireland were sent to business ‘with...

Duff Paddy

Uncle Fester wrote:
The Sun God wrote:OK which of you lot have liquidated your AIB holding this morning on the back of my comment........trading at 11 down from 15.2 !!!
Maybe the government decided to offload some of their 516 billion AIB shares?

Mitty is the only guy who could make a trade that big - damn you Mitty, damn you

Duff Paddy

Nieghorn wrote:Clearly this was simply a bad child whose original parents actually went through with the "sell you to the gypsies" threat. They made their choice ...

Who knew this oft used childhood threat would turn out to be so wrong. They never paid a penny for those kids.

Duff Paddy

What's the latest on this anyway? Too arsed to go through the last few pages. Don't fuckin bother. Anything that's at all relevant is on page one. The rest of it is a shitfight on how the parents must take the blame for the abduction of their child. Contributory negligence. If they were from a coun...

Duff Paddy

c69 wrote:Ffs a kid is missing.
I would hope this thread is deleted

A child is missing so we shouldn't talk about it? Bizarre.

Duff Paddy

One of the joys of going on holiday with young children is going out to dinner with them - if you want time to yourself you hire a babysitter. No it's not. Small kids have no place in a restaurant. I vividly remember my son pulling down the table cloth with everything on top. Unholy mess and noise ...

Duff Paddy

Not to force the point, but why wasn't she doing anything then? Why didn't she make noise, try to get away? Did he smother her in the apartment and walk out holding her body? Did he drug her? Chloroform doesn't work as cleanly as it does on the television, she'd be awake before she got out of the h...

Duff Paddy

camroc1 wrote:
Duff Paddy wrote:
Why is that Creepy?
You generally don't let strangers bathe your children in your absence
They're not strangers; they're friends, with kids of the same age.

She says in the submission that she didn't know them before arriving at the holiday villa

Duff Paddy

Why is that Creepy?

You generally don't let strangers bathe your children in your absence

Duff Paddy

and then this. http://thegaspersstatement.blogspot.co.uk/ What gets me is that they all took turns bathing each others children. Surely that's a bit odd? I'm not saying it is perverted but it seems weird to me. If that's what actually happened then it's really odd. Unless that's what the middle cla...

Duff Paddy

Floppykid wrote:There's something I just don't like about McAvoy, can't totally dissociate him from McGregor would be one thing.

He's very like a young non-sanitised mcgregor circa trainspotting

Duff Paddy

Filth Gnarly, witty and well delivered adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel. MaCavoy is really good, but I feel he's not quite got the age or weight for the character he portrays. Some great moments though, and the supporting cast are awesome. Thought it was an outstanding film. Dark humour at its fi...

Duff Paddy

lucky Ashton has such a thick skull - exactly the type of punch that can kill someone with a ruptured middle meningeal artery, right in the pterion. Average bloke, literally, could have doid.

Duff Paddy

He was in the black door on Saturday night

Duff Paddy

Where are you going with this mullet

Duff Paddy

Where you saw me the other week. Don't want it on here.

Duff Paddy

Wanderers are always looking to gobble up smaller clubs - monkstown weren't stupid enough in the end. Wesley has a feeder school at least but Bective always seemed more vulnerable.

Duff Paddy

Openside wrote:
Duff Paddy wrote:want

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£549!!

Have a sit down:

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Duff Paddy

want

https://www.freezeproshop.com/armada-ou ... 3l-jacket/

Duff Paddy

We live in a country where a junior doctor can earn 153K in a year..... that is were the problem is. Only because they work mental hours. The unavoidable issue is that we have too few consultants, and the reason for that is because we pay the ones we do have far too much. Agreed. When those contrac...

Duff Paddy

The Sun God wrote:
We live in a country where a junior doctor can earn 153K in a year..... that is were the problem is.

Only because they work mental hours. The unavoidable issue is that we have too few consultants, and the reason for that is because we pay the ones we do have far too much.

Duff Paddy

edit - being too much of a prick

Duff Paddy

Uncle Fester wrote:Thoughts on the junior doctor strike?

Inevitable now that the junior ranks are so female dominated.

Duff Paddy

Kenny wants to debate one on one with Martin on Economics? Bring it on. Our primary school teacher is better than yours. God help us. I see Alan "Wiggy" Farrell is fighting with Sinead O'Connor now. And this after Fester sung his praises a few weeks ago . Eh? Don't know the guy at all. :lol:

Duff Paddy

The other point being that Irish people are willing to spend money on shite quality houses

Duff Paddy

It's why the tax, or at least a large element of it should be based on square area, and not just valuation. As valuations fluctuate, and just lead to the same problems the stamp duty tax had. Stamp duty having a square footage element worked out very well. Most of the country is infested with 1200s...

Duff Paddy

It's why the tax, or at least a large element of it should be based on square area, and not just valuation. As valuations fluctuate, and just lead to the same problems the stamp duty tax had. Totally ridiculous tax when a Fireman living in Glasnevin pays more tax on his family home than the Taoisea...

Duff Paddy

Ah Morzine my favourite resort make sure you get up to Avoriaz it's a bit more technical and has the world famous stash obviously - get yourself a nice pair of twin tips

Duff Paddy

It's why the tax, or at least a large element of it should be based on square area, and not just valuation. As valuations fluctuate, and just lead to the same problems the stamp duty tax had. Totally ridiculous tax when a Fireman living in Glasnevin pays more tax on his family home than the Taoisea...

Duff Paddy

If that's the average, you can expect approx half of all houses to sell for less than that.

The average not the median. So assuming rock bottom for a property transaction is 75k and the max is somewhere around 10million these days, that's a massive skew to the 75k-150k bracket.

Duff Paddy

bizarre

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