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by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 9:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562467
Views: 32922317

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

RWC2015 wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 9:24 pm Could see us missing the conversion
You just knew he was going to miss
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 9:00 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562467
Views: 32922317

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

No chance he was onside
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562467
Views: 32922317

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

themaddog wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:26 pm
Winnie wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:18 pm Shane Horgan on the royal box
Threesome with Tindall and the missus?
The royal box such a load of British wank
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Winnie wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:44 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:43 pm
themaddog wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 7:22 pm Terrible news for Ciara Mageean. She has been diagnosed with cancer. You could only wish her well. She is a genuinely decent person.
fudge very young and on the back of an amazing year
Is she the runner that missed the Olympics?
Yip
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

themaddog wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 7:22 pm Terrible news for Ciara Mageean. She has been diagnosed with cancer. You could only wish her well. She is a genuinely decent person.
fudge very young and on the back of an amazing year
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:41 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Oasis Reunion Tour
Replies: 15
Views: 330

Re: Oasis Reunion Tour

Premier Red wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:34 pm https://www.youtube.com/live/jU0xMpEK7F ... Eh-KHhUKQf

Lad streaming it live.....
That’s mad
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Oasis Reunion Tour
Replies: 15
Views: 330

Re: Oasis Reunion Tour

those were the days in the 90s- oasis,blur,pulp,supergrass,radiohead,suede,the verve,reef, manic st preachers,cast,the lightning seeds,garbage,the prodigy,skunk anansie etc Dont quite know where all the new bands have gone in recent years great times to be a teenager-they were also the best days of...
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 6:53 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: IRB U20 World Cup 2025
Replies: 438
Views: 10447

Re: IRB U20 World Cup 2025

polyallstar wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 6:12 pm Some freak athletes in this SA team!
That’s a euphemism now isn’t it
by Duff Paddy
Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 46336
Views: 2277023

Re: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents

I think there has to be a tipping point. When you have a bunch of billionaire sociopaths who just want hoard money and watch the world burn, eventually something has got to give. Correct. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1w90womkLG-h-M-jLx-AenRh0t5RM1381ug&s Meh... The 1% aren...
by Duff Paddy
Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:41 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 46336
Views: 2277023

Re: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents

Got to fund those tax cuts for billionaires somehow. Those eprivate jets and multiple holiday homes aren't going to pay for themselves. I think there has to be a tipping point. When you have a bunch of billionaire sociopaths who just want hoard money and watch the world burn, eventually something h...
by Duff Paddy
Thu Jul 03, 2025 9:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

themaddog wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 9:00 pm
feckwanker wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 12:38 pm Lads importing a car from the UK - do I have to declare it at customs in Holyhead or what?
You have a week to reregister through the NCT.
I gather it’s cheaper to buy a house in wales than pay VRT for anything half spicey
by Duff Paddy
Thu Jul 03, 2025 8:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: MIchael Madsen gooooone
Replies: 9
Views: 431

Re: MIchael Madsen gooooone

Complete f**king legend RIP
by Duff Paddy
Thu Jul 03, 2025 6:57 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Liverpool's Diogo Jota dies in car crash
Replies: 44
Views: 1059

Re: Liverpool's Diogo Jota dies in car crash

DragsterDriver wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 1:36 pm 12:50am in a Lambo- not a stretch to think he was shifting.
They’re really dangerous cars
by Duff Paddy
Thu Jul 03, 2025 1:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Your 15 most favourite (important to you) bands
Replies: 113
Views: 2015

Re: Your 15 most favourite (important to you) bands

15+1 favourite band/singers at the moment has a much greater recency bias (unlike most of you classic radio plums). I guess they're important to me. Glass Beams - best band to come out of Australia in years. Boy Harsher Lana Del Ray Chelsea Wolfe Floating Points Hurray for the Riff Raff Nosaj Thing...
by Duff Paddy
Thu Jul 03, 2025 1:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Your 15 most favourite (important to you) bands
Replies: 113
Views: 2015

Re: Your 15 most favourite (important to you) bands

message #2527204 wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 7:51 am The pogues are less Irish than ac/dc is scottish.
Culturally Irish - ask Ed Sheeran
by Duff Paddy
Thu Jul 03, 2025 1:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Your 15 most favourite (important to you) bands
Replies: 113
Views: 2015

Re: Your 15 most favourite (important to you) bands

The Queens of the Stone Age
Pixies
Pearl Jam
Radiohead
George Michael
Joe Jackson
Steve Earle
The Smashing Pumpkins
Fleetwood Mac Nicks/Buckingham era
The Clash
The Beastie Boys
Crowded House
U2
The Pharcyde
by Duff Paddy
Wed Jul 02, 2025 7:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

triplebogey wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 7:12 pm Microsoft doing another massive round of layoffs, ~10k worldwide. Ireland will surely be impacted and you'd also worry other big US companies will follow.
And Intel the week before.
by Duff Paddy
Wed Jul 02, 2025 7:10 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

What's the story with McRapist's case now? talk of possible perjury. McGregor "found" a neighbour who was agreeable to testify that Hand's then partner could have been the one to hit her, but they've backed out now, and it looks like McGregor is full of shit and lying? Allegedly, allegedly everythi...
by Duff Paddy
Wed Jul 02, 2025 10:33 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562467
Views: 32922317

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Son-Of-Ulster wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:30 pm Do refs (in Irish rugby anyway) have a union do turn to in a similar manner to the players union, or is it every ref for himself?
They should have, and all refs should have boycotted the following weekend’s matches until Hansen was given the long ban he fully deserved
by Duff Paddy
Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

George Gibney arrested in the states yessss get the bastard
by Duff Paddy
Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lucy Letby
Replies: 361
Views: 78919

Re: Lucy Letby

Three former senior staff at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted to kill seven others have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. All three suspects worked on the senior leadership team at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 20...
by Duff Paddy
Mon Jun 30, 2025 6:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2025?
Replies: 12443
Views: 1519599

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2025?

Here's my stab at a top 10 of the past 10 years: Chernobyl Succession Can't Get You Out of My Head Nathan For You Orange is the New Black Wolf Hall Better Call Saul Twin Peaks: The Return It's a Sin Top Boy It's hard to stick to 10. Just finished Andor and really liked it. That might sneak in there...
by Duff Paddy
Mon Jun 30, 2025 6:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

danny_fitz wrote: Sun Jun 29, 2025 10:55 pm Rob Smith auditioning for the next Batman film villain.
:lol:
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 9:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

Winnie wrote: Sun Jun 29, 2025 8:59 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: Sun Jun 29, 2025 8:57 pm St Vincent trying really hard to be as cool as PJ Harvey
And failing miserably
Correct.

One of the greatest ever Glastonbury performances in 1995. I don’t think many people will be looking up 2025 performances in 30 years. Maybe Ezra Collective.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T--cMMPz6yY
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 8:57 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

St Vincent trying really hard to be as cool as PJ Harvey
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 4:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

Music Festivals are having a tough time to get anything resembling a passable lineup. This is Glastonburys worst ever. But the signs of the decline have been coming for many years. The greats of yesteryear are either retired, slowly retiring or dead. And what are we left with? ya Olivia Rodrigo’s, ...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 4:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

To be honest, the main issue for this board is that most of us are just too old and out of touch for every act that's basically not a heritage band. I don't like the 1975 but they were good actually, far better than I expected. Are there any bands that aren't 'heritage' bands that could rock Glasto...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 4:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Good work by the Sindo - I thought this sounded like bollox when they were flogging it on the talk radio programmes during the week https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/dcu-centre-that-found-smartphone-bans-ineffective-previously-received-24m-from-social-media-and-tech-firms/a1155527266.html These fu...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 3:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2025?
Replies: 12443
Views: 1519599

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2025?

Definitely one of the best TV shows over the last 10 years. Surely the whole point is that the viewer is meant to feel the tension, stress and exhaustion of what it must be like to run a "Restaurant Gastronomique"... I'll get round to watching S4 over the summer. :thumbup: Interesting post - I’m tr...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 3:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158235
Views: 9101624

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Any recommendations for best takeaway fish and chips in Bray? Haven’t been out in a while but remember most of the chippers were pretty shit - I’d probably get some take away calamari and fries from Platform pizza instead Edit I see you have to go to the harbour bar to Get their seafood now it’s ca...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 3:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2025?
Replies: 12443
Views: 1519599

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2025?

I’ve also come to the conclusion that ‘the Bear’ is one of the very weirdest shows ever . Sooooooo angst filled it almost makes me have a panic attack and I scream ‘calm the fuc*k down’ at the screen. Series 4 . I have no real idea whether I really like it or not - unique. So hyper real I kinda hat...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 12:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: International travel thread
Replies: 345
Views: 39732

Re: International travel thread

i may do in a couples of weeks- gonna drive down to rome, amalfi coast then ferry from bari to either greece or croatia then back up via austria/germany etc. was thinking about looking at dirt cheap montenegro property for a back door eu residency. cheapest option i think. Rome and Amalfi in high S...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

Rod is a mega rich geriatric Englishman who lives in LA. Not sure why he felt the need to introduce his politics but people are free to decide if they feel this makes him a bit of a stupid wit kant or not. Louis Theroux summed it well on his podcast with Adam Buxton - you can still like Michael Jac...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:22 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

Pretty shitty to see an act on the BBC this am say boycott Rod because he supports Reform. So do millions beacuse of the political vacuum. Pathetic from the liberals out there up the hoops I know Rod hasn’t been able to sing for 20 years but I’d be at the pyramid stage if I was there. Probably with...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

Rod is a mega rich geriatric Englishman who lives in LA. Not sure why he felt the need to introduce his politics but people are free to decide if they feel this makes him a bit of a stupid wit kant or not. Louis Theroux summed it well on his podcast with Adam Buxton - you can still like Michael Jack...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:12 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 2: Western Force v B&I Lions OFFICIAL
Replies: 831
Views: 19312

Re: Match 2: Western Force v B&I Lions OFFICIAL

Am I the only one who thought Ringrose looked better than Jones? It's hardly surprising when you consider that Jones is still a bit rusty after 2 months on the physio table. No. You're not. The way Ringrose is playing Daly will have to bench covering 13/15/wing. He's going to CTE himself. He’s an i...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:07 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

JiffyJnr wrote: Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:03 am Pretty shitty to see an act on the BBC this am say boycott Rod because he supports Reform.
So do millions beacuse of the political vacuum.


Pathetic from the liberals out there
up the hoops
Not quite “death to the IDF” is it?
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:01 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: International travel thread
Replies: 345
Views: 39732

Re: International travel thread

Thinking of doing something a little bit different/riskier for a break with the wife in September Anyone ever done Albania or Montenegro Any thoughts/rcommendations i may do in a couples of weeks- gonna drive down to rome, amalfi coast then ferry from bari to either greece or croatia then back up v...
by Duff Paddy
Sun Jun 29, 2025 10:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Glastonbury 2025
Replies: 275
Views: 10618

Re: Glastonbury 2025

To be honest, the main issue for this board is that most of us are just too old and out of touch for every act that's basically not a heritage band. I don't like the 1975 but they were good actually, far better than I expected. On one hand yes we are old and out of touch but on the other hand the 1...