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Disingenuous to assert we have not made moves to address appalling lack of talent coming through. We have. I'll accept it was done far too late, but it is being done. However it is where they are coming though from, and both quantity and quality of the raw material provided which remains the crux o...

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Why not go the whole hog and franchise out teams to private owners ? See how long that lasts as the Cork Langers play their derby match against the Limerick Gowls in front of 3,500 people on some sub LoI pitch in the Cork hinterland. We are where we are. The IRFU have essentially let each province ...

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Blind arrogance This goes on like this and I guarantee you the game is dead on the island in ten years What do you want? People are complaining that Leinster have loads of advantages (they certainly do) but then ignore that there has been a massive player redistribution over the last decade. They t...

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Yes, because helping out the other provinces suddenly is at the detriment of Leinster. And that’s fine. Nick Timoney was a fine underage player who would have stayed in Leinster and done well but he went for opportunity in Ulster. He could well have been like a Doris. That’s the way of things, but ...

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All brought through the Leinster system. Cooney surplus at Leinster, but a product of here. Murphy lined out at number 8 for Leinster in the winning final, at Ulster several weeks later. McGrath also lined up at Leinster for back to back finals, gone to Ulster the year again weeks after the 2019 fin...

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IRFU are fukking up Irish Rugby medium to long term. Good for Leinster short term, but fukking everyone else. Hopefully Humph can sort it, but not holding my breath. How ? By fúcking Leinster up ? When I were a lad Ulster would have 6 or 7 players in every Irish team. My father tells me that in the...

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The IRFU can get f*cked, and so can the saps at Ulster Rugby who have tugged their forelock for the last decade You got a stadium paid for you. You got superstar after superstar for years. Leinster used their first bit of outside investment to develop the best training facilities in Ireland (at the...

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Lowe was a project player.

I’m talking about proper pedigree internationals here

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A season long loan is pointless for the other provinces, utterly pointless. If the IRFU will sanction signings like Barrett for Leinster then they simply have to provide funding for the other provinces to improve, otherwise we become even more dependent on one province. How do they think attendance...

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The IRFU can get f*cked, and so can the saps at Ulster Rugby who have tugged their forelock for the last decade You got a stadium paid for you. You got superstar after superstar for years. Leinster used their first bit of outside investment to develop the best training facilities in Ireland (at the...

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I think this kind of signing isn’t an issue if there a redirection of some younger players to fill problem spots in other provinces. Even as a short term basis. Season long loan for tector up north? Osborne or Boyle head down south. Connacht haemorrhaging players. But every indication suggests this...

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Disingenuous to assert we have not made moves to address appalling lack of talent coming through. We have. I'll accept it was done far too late, but it is being done. However it is where they are coming though from, and both quantity and quality of the raw material provided which remains the crux o...

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Great to see us sign some serious and high profile overseas players after nearly 10 years of meh. I’d happily share some of the increased attendance money off the back of this. Realistically rugby needs a strong Leinster as we have seen how poorly the vast majority of the rest of club rugby sides ar...

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Jesus Twitter is unreal. The wokesters have been outnumbered by the far right / bots in a big way the last six months. I didn’t think it could get worse.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/04/04/former-baggot-street-hospital-on-state-register-for-disposal-says-hse/ Would make a great hotel Or educational or research institute. The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies is just around the corner and a bit of a dump now. I'd love if DBS got...

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https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl ... -says-hse/

Would make a great hotel

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Most developed countries / cities have separate intercity and commuter lines. Given the flakiness of the coastal/ dart line we should be thinking about additional lines into dublin that are more inland. Anything in the pipeline on this? If we want it by 2090 it better start in planning now. Plans t...

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An incredibly difficult job that pays a pittance and where receiving vile abuse is standard. Plenty of talented people in Ireland but who on earth would bother with being a politician? The media had the regular "close the Dáil bar" piece last week as well. I doubt there is anywhere they'd feel comf...

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https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/20 ... um=twitter

This 100% won’t happen once the politicians get involved.

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Staying as a TD, not as a Minister.

He probably feels like he might have another run in him but needs a break and wants to disassociate himself if the election goes badly.

Tbh, he has been a poor deputy leader.

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Short Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:48 am Swift has a bunch of catchy pop tunes but she’s not come anywhere near the same impact that MJ had. For instance, I couldn’t name one of her albums. I might name 3 of her hits…

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Eh she has a lot more than just pop

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I know people are saying that FG are losing a lot of bodies but the fact that you have a locals/European elections right before a General will be good for them to get people's names out there. I'm sure SF will be testing out whomever they can get to go second in some constituencies. It's going to be...

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feckwanker wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:14 pm Genuinely was there need for an individual thread for this?

No harm

Gets a broader discussion, the Official threads are a bit of a pox imo

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Oh that's interesting. Nice little shoot out with Geoghegan in Dublin Bay South or a spot in the Seanad? They should run one of them instead of Madigan. Fine Gael not having a seat in the DBS constituency is mental and splitting their vote is not smart. I can't see splitting the vote being an issue...

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Simon bring sexy back :thumbup: https://m.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/kate-oconnell-invited-to-return-and-paschal-donohoe-has-choice-to-make-simon-harris-era-has-begun/a2052430416.html Oh that's interesting. Nice little shoot out with Geoghegan in Dublin Bay South or a spot in the Seanad? They ...

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Simon Harris is a wet blanket but the social media campaign on him over the weekend has been hilarious, topped off with a typical Una piece in the Irish Times.

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FFFG merger. There is very little of substance to differentiate between both main parties. Both of them appear to sing from the same hymn sheet and have done for the past decade. Both parties have abandoned their hard core support, leaving them closer to one another in reality. What was the differe...

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Varadkar is gone

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More nimbyism. We now have a Artane resident threatening to take a JR of permission for one of Dublin's Bus Corridors, because as part of the works the current bus stop nearest to her will be moved. How this sort of nonsense is even allowed to get to a JR is beyond me.https://www.irishtimes.com/ire...

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‘It’s like the Hunger Games’: Parents battle for places in oversubscribed schools https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/03/18/its-like-the-hunger-games-parents-battle-for-places-in-oversubscribed-schools/ Something off about this story. She says she had his name down since he was one but...

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Quite amusing to see some of the “I won’t darken the door of the new Clerys types”.

We have quite a few simpletons living here. Thankfully it seems to be doing great.

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My actual experience, over many years of being involved in preparing planning applications, is that when you write to Dublin Bus/CIE with regard to providing a bus service to a new development, is that they will send you a letter back saying simply that if the demand id there that they will provide...

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Actually another thing that concerns me is with the government capitulating and free spending on social houses that we are just repeating the mistakes of 60 years ago. There's an example on Portland Row in the north inner city that desperately needs private housing. In fact Dublin City Council expre...

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This is all fine for stable growth. My point above is that I can see the population hit well above stable growth in 50/100 years. We're already behind projected "stable" growth. Check out the CSO projections from Census 2016 . The scenario with the assumptions leading to highest growth estimated th...

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BB, Metrolink will help but it's still reactive and overdue. I'm in favour of existing towns being expanded as opposed to new towns being artificially made. These are mostly brownfield sites and various bits of infill. Green field is Metrolink. Mostly all on existing light and heavy rail and within...

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BB, Metrolink will help but it's still reactive and overdue. I'm in favour of existing towns being expanded as opposed to new towns being artificially made. These are mostly brownfield sites and various bits of infill. Green field is Metrolink. Mostly all on existing light and heavy rail and within...

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The future population? They won't all be refugees and won't all be on social welfare. I've no idea how it'll happen without it all going to shit though. In terms of putting them somewhere, well that's probably beyond our planning ability. My point is that we are struggling to meet housing demands f...

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Another pisstake with an amenable judge High Court overturns permission for 227 homes in Goatstown on public transport ground https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/03/12/high-court-overturns-permission-for-227-homes-in-goatstown-on-public-transport-ground/ That is f**king outrageous. 1.7k from t...

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You think it's true that the government have deliberately engineered a situation where we've a tent city 5 mins from Leinster house? Wtaf? Statto, you really aren't this stupid, so why do you manage to do such a good impression of a moron? Several weeks ago, Second Captains - fairly standard journa...

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Another pisstake with an amenable judge

High Court overturns permission for 227 homes in Goatstown on public transport ground

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/202 ... rt-ground/

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