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- Wed May 08, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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I'm an owner occupier and not a landlord so i don't know why a landlord would be against the following What would it take to copy Europe and move to a long term renting culture? 10 - 20 year leases. Something that would give some peace of mind to renters ( not taking into account extortionate rent ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Eurovision 2024
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- Views: 309
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Eurovision 2024
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- Views: 309
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146572
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Man shot dead in Drimnagh gang-related violence was facing cocaine-dealing charges https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/05/07/man-shot-dead-in-drimnagh-gang-related-violence-was-facing-cocaine-dealing-charges/ The Drimnagh shooting sounds like highly incompetent wannabe gang-bangers. Possible ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Yep.irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 7:18 pm from what i remember ulster fans were not happy about signing Cooney.
Both because of who he was replacing - Ruan Pienaar, and because not only was Cooney a Leinster castoff, but also a Connacht one !
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Rumour on LF's that Ed Byrne is off to Cardiff.
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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I don't think we'll ever sort housing. Basically developers would need guaranteed long contracts ...many years. Will they take that risk? Government wants property prices to remain high as this is one of the ways to get wealthy in Ireland. Increase in supply will bring down values in property. I'm ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Lads, someone on here recommended a hotel in Rome to me a couple months back, and I haven’t a clue who, but if you could please remind me which one, or if anyone else has a lead on a good place, central, close to train station and attractions, suitable for kids, much appreciated. Wouldn't have been...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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And SF appear to be returning to their fíorghael roots. How that will play out with the 'woke' wing of their supporters could be interesting. No doubt party members will stick to a party line, but keeping the coalition of supporters together is about to become extremely difficult. Especially if the ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Cramp afaik, probably not helped by the knee to the small of the back he got a few minutes before.
- Sun May 05, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
The dodgy clearout I referred to this morning. Whatever about Raynal, surely the TMO should have intervened ?
https://twitter.com/ShaunMcGoldrick/sta ... 0446461076
https://twitter.com/ShaunMcGoldrick/sta ... 0446461076
- Sun May 05, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Great.
It doesn't change how the Unionist establishment treated Magennis.
It doesn't change how the Unionist establishment treated Magennis.
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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And that was, allegedly, because he was rather fond of shooting German/Italian soldiers who'd surrendered. Not going to comment on his morals, as war is hell, but it was enough to make the War Office very sniffy about him.
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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What on earth are you basing this on? :lol: The 36th Ulster division where the only regiment of the British army to fulfill their obligation at the battle of the Somme. There is even an Ulster tower in France to remember the fallen soldiers from here. We're talking ww2 here Willie. No dispute that ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
I haven't looked at a recording of the match yet, but there was one Northampton ruck clearout in the first half that looked very near a shoulder to head and prompted a bit of booing at the stadium. The ref ignored it. Was it as bad as it looked ?
- Sun May 05, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 529493
- Views: 28935925
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
We were up high in the Hill, so could see everything, but very far most of the time. Watching Ross try to run after his intercept was hilarious. The important thing is that he had the rugby nous to make the intercept. That turned Northampton attacking ball into Leinster attacking ball. Personally I...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Students4Change is a collective of socialist students, who work actively to dismantle the corporate university, as well as the racist, imperialist, white supremacist, patriarchal and cisheteronormative systems it reflects and reproduces. :lol: All nice middle class boys from fee paying schools, no ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Ah, will be standing for PbP soon so.
- Fri May 03, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: I’m serious as cancer when I say that rhythm is a dancer…
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- Views: 1442
Re: I’m serious as cancer when I say that rhythm is a dancer…
[Verse 1] I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together See how they run like pigs from a gun See how they fly I'm cryin' [Verse 2] Sitting on a cornflake Waiting for the van to come Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday Man, you've been a naughty boy You let your face grow long...
- Fri May 03, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146572
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https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/three-irish-men-named-in-court-over-1m-burglary-spree-in-melbourne/a277913232.html Our revelling friends continuing traditions on the other side of the world..... Surprised I am I tell you to find that there were two Mr.McDonagh's, and one Mr. Connors involved.
- Fri May 03, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 529493
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
I don't think a lack of effort is an issue for many players at all. As it stands Ulster only have 2 contracted THs for next season (one of whom is regularly in international squads so unavailable and the other is on a development deal) and 2 LHs (one of whom has only about 10 games across the last ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 1:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish unity....?
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- Views: 143869
Re: Irish unity....?
"We believe it's great because of our wildly hopeful assumptions on national debt and ignoring that 27% of employees in NI are in the public sector and a further 18% are reliant on services to the public sector" This has shades of the SNP independence white paper about it. i.e. completely unrealist...
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146572
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Winnie, the 'Brits' are the ones reneging on an international deal.
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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- Wed May 01, 2024 9:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146572
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The asylum seekers in tents on Mount Street are being moved to better facilities. “The IPAS-designated accommodation has toilets and showers; health services; indoor areas where food is provided; facilities to charge phones and personal devices; access to transport to and from Dublin City Centre; an...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Munster chaps, was he any good ?
And if so, how did Munster manage to let the GAA steal him from under their noses ?
https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2024/ ... re-switch/
And if so, how did Munster manage to let the GAA steal him from under their noses ?
https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2024/ ... re-switch/
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
You do know that they're there as a political stunt organised by some of the NGO's who have attached themselves to this issue.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
So, if I have this right, the UK is reneging on an agreement it has made with Ireland on the return of asylum seekers, in order to put pressure on the EU/France to come to an agreement with the UK on the return of asylum seekers. I can see that working........... Or perhaps it's just some cheap ele...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
So, if I have this right, the UK is reneging on an agreement it has made with Ireland on the return of asylum seekers, in order to put pressure on the EU/France to come to an agreement with the UK on the return of asylum seekers. I can see that working........... Or perhaps it's just some cheap elec...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146572
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Words cannot describe the ineptitude of Dublin City Councillors.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl ... lan-fails/
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl ... lan-fails/
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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????????
This was explained in McEntee's original statement.
This was explained in McEntee's original statement.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
We have a deal. It predates the EU (and the EEC), is not dependent on the EU, and indeed has nothing to do with the EU. It is called the Common Travel Area. Which means an open border then. Good luck. Also what has the Common Travel Area got to do with Asylum Seeker returns, also it looks like the ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
You've absolutely no idea what and who is covered under the CTA do you ?
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
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- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
Quite the tasty little mic drop from Chris Heaton-Harris MP, at a press conference with Irish Tánaiste Micheál Martin. There won't be a UK-Ireland returns agreement - if they want a deal, it has to be at the EU level. In others words, SUCK IT. We have a deal. It predates the EU (and the EEC), is no...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: More shame for English Rugby
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- Views: 2239
Re: More shame for English Rugby
Has the phone footage appeared yet ?
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1784264775574188371?s=19 How long until Dublin is majority immigrant? Or all of Ireland for that matter? https://www.oecd.org/migration/integration-indicators-2012/keyindicatorsbycountry/name,218334,en.htm Ireland is in 7th place in the OECD in terms of the share...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
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- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
The reason we're getting a surge of migrants from the UK is down to our own wonderful judiciary. By saying UK is not a safe country, the migrants have started coming here knowing we can't send them back there. There will be legislation very soon to deal with that so we can't have judges making stuf...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: URCR15 Stormers vs Leinster
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- Views: 9222
Re: URCR15 Stormers vs Leinster
That's bloody harsh.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
It seems that many of those travelling through NI to claim International Protection in Ireland have already claimed such status in the UK. The Irish government is now going to change our laws to allow us to simply ship any such people back to Blighty. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-plan...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
- Replies: 672
- Views: 13085
Re: Irish Courts: U.K. not a safe country
It seems that many of those travelling through NI to claim International Protection in Ireland have already claimed such status in the UK. The Irish government is now going to change our laws to allow us to simply ship any such people back to Blighty. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-plann...