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I moved house a few months ago. Finally have my own space. I've been renovating since last year and it's mostly done now apart from painting the interior (which I'm dreading), the exterior (probably get someone to do that given the finish on the walls) and buying the rest of the furniture. No TV yet...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:26 am Pretty sure you can turn it off?

But yes, people do pay attention to that shit, which is why there's so much of it out there.

Rhetorical question, my friend. And I keep it switched on so I can keep in tune with the shitegeist.

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I switched to Firefox last year and have that News Panel thingy opening when I open a new tab; a default page. It has headlines and links to articles they think is interesting/they've got some dollars to do A/B testing with/are popular at the moment. Some of the shite, is unreal. There's constant bo...

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IBWT wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:57 pm 9’s are a protected species now. Pretty much a perfect counter ruck penalised.

The first game with the new laws highlights how stupid they are.

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Despite the game being a bit gash I'm much preferring this to any senior game I've seen recently.

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bw245 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:07 pm How is the second one not a yellow??

Because the new laws have streamlined things and allowed for fairer judgments, encouraging the referee to take decisive action and not be afraid of ruining a game by reducing a team's players.

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Might also have something to do with their whiskey being so mediocre even the D4 Sindo crowd who got hyped about it abandoned them. Waterford have plenty of good liquid in their stocks, it's just never released because of Reynier's obsessions. I've had cask pulls of stuff that will never see the li...

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Might also have something to do with their whiskey being so mediocre even the D4 Sindo crowd who got hyped about it abandoned them.

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Waterford Distillery have released their first two single malts (the third will be released next week with only 1,400 bottles available exclusively in Ireland). It is literally selling out in minutes due to demand. Stock should be hitting Dublin tomorrow, but I can't see it lasting more than a few ...

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The realpolitik means we can't say too much. Israel has a stronger hand than us. That's a fact. Now we may want to be seen as upholding international law and criticising a country that breaks every law under the sun But I fear we're stretching and could pay a price. Just don't know what that price ...

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I agree with the broad sentiment of this thread. I, too, think it's ridiculous Ireland is opposed to genocide!

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https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/12/09/leo-varadkar-says-many-in-politics-do-not-understand-numbers-or-percentages/ Wow, Leo comes out swinging. We all know he’s referring to Simon Harris and Eoghan Murphy when talking about the lads who haven’t a notion when it comes to figures right? Murp...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2024 4:20 pm I see Mcgregor is considering leaving ireland for good. Ah Conor, please don't go, really,

There's cocaine dealers weeping in their Weetabix today. They have kids to put through university!

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I hate it I have to say. I use it because I don’t have much choice but compared to being younger and spending hours in HMV and Tower and coming home with new music, building a collection, having physical media and following a band as they evolved album by album - it’s just a completely shite unfulf...

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I went into Golden Discs a few weeks ago, the vinyl section. Staff were top notch. No longer filled with spotty students being bate around the place by a manager focused on spreadsheets rather they actually knew about music. They had a tiny jazz section, I explained what I was looking for and said t...

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It seems you need an "app" to do this thingy. So considering I'm not some zoomer that'll be a big no from me. It’s a world of music in the palm of your hand. It’s f**king amazing. Do you own a smart phone? I do. I rarely travel long distances and if I do I have a laptop. I have the spotify software...

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It seems you need an "app" to do this thingy. So considering I'm not some zoomer that'll be a big no from me.

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A lot of people couldn't be f**ked voting once, I'd say there's very few, if any, travelling the length and breadth of the country to vote multiple times.

Pretty much every western democracy who's done investigations into voting fraud has found it doesn't happen.

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https://www.thejournal.ie/low-voter-turnout-irish-general-election-2024-6561800-Dec2024/ Flynn’s analysis found that there was roughly a one-to-one ratio of eligible voters and registered voters, which he said was not the case. He estimated the actual percentage of registered eligible voters to be ...

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For all the people demanding higher taxes across lower incomes and bringing more into the tax net I have a single suggestion; Universal Basic Income. Make a level of "social welfare" payment available to all, with extras for cases where work is extremely difficult or not possible, and raise the taxe...

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If they did that they’d all be out of a job at the next election. It’s not their fault it’s our very immature society. Maybe but I would suggest solving housing transport and health might make a few people happy also You'd have to be blind to not see the efforts being made with transport and the im...

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Mick Barry conceded.

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I'm getting FF: 21.9% first pref, 47 seats (27%) FG: 20.8% first pref, 38 seats (22%) SF: 19% first pref, 39 seats (22.5%) Ind: 13.2% first pref, 16 seats (9%) SD: 4.2% first pref, 11 seats (6.3%) Lab: 4.1% first pref, 11 seats (6.3%) Aontú, 3.9% first pref, 2 seats II, 3.6% first pref, 4 seats Gre...

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Broad point re some of the voting trends: I think people understate the effects of "the world in general" on our politics. Especially in forums like this where us posters have some clue about (and biases towards) what's going on. This is in regards to both elections and how things happen in the coun...

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O'Gorman elected. Aontu miss out.

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No-one likes you. Go away!

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Mick Barry PBP could have a problem in Cork North Central. His decision to drop the local whinge-radio appearances from every 6 hours to every 12 hours might be backfiring. Barry is toast. He'll pick up fúck all transfers from Gould and next to none from the remaining candidates. Good riddance.

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Mick Barry PBP could have a problem in Cork North Central. His decision to drop the local whinge-radio appearances from every 6 hours to every 12 hours might be backfiring.

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 4:32 pm Marie Sherlock elected.

Gonna put Tony Soprano in for the next election to build the grassroots.

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Seamus McGrath for FF elected in Cork South Central. Two from FF in now. It'll be tight for the last seat between Buttimer and possibly Mick Finn. A lot will come down to how the Green transfer goes to see if Buttimer gets the buffer to withstand the transfers from Aontu and potentially the SF candi...

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Greens were never voted in for climate reasons. They were a leftish alternative for former FF and FG voters. SDs are the same.. They lost out because those voters have moved on because that's what happens to minority coalition voters. It's this. Climate change is important to a lot of people in Ire...

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You have to laugh at Catherine Martin’s speech - she hopes that climate change AND social justice will be at the forefront of whatever new government is formed. Literally the electorate could not clearer that’s not what they wanted so why would it be at the forefront of whatever government they hav...

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The RTÉ live tracker is a f**king pain in the arse. Every constituency getting text updates. Finally see something from Cork South Central and it's "Enable some techy bollocks bloatware and give us permission to track you to watch Plastic Sheeting mumble through his rubbish."

FFS!

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AND-y wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2024 7:32 pm The drug for gobbie wit kant is biggest in UK and Australia? Shocking.

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That you can make a very simple moral distinction - regardless of the means employed which we can all agree were utterly sadistic, barbaric and unjustified - that fighting for freedom is morally right and fighting to maintain power over people who don’t consent to it is fundamentally unjustifiable ...

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Voted all the way down bar 3 on my ballot. Candidate got a preference if I felt they didn’t want to put immigrants* in concentration camps *cork wit kant excluded Cork and Dublin can unite and we'll both fund building the wall at the Cork border. Stop all ye hooers coming to the Jazz Festival and w...

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I didn't get very far into the article so excuse me if it's already covered. I fully agree that for the majority of Ireland there was no crisis. The problem was that the gap between the haves and have nots massively increased and if you weren't in a good position prior to the inflationary hits then...

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It'd be nice if the spoofer realised tabloid headlines don't work here.

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Got something through the door saying the Labour wan here was part of the Students Union in her university and was some bigwig in the USI.

Amazingly this wasn't the beginning of outright attack based campaigning in Ireland but voluntarily put on her own material.

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