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lemonhead wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:44 pm
Be far better off with a Jaguares type gig.

When Wales cull their pro sides the URC will probably look to add the Iberian Supercup sides to the the league, imo. Maybe only makes sense geographically but with the right backing etc....

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You have to wonder what the point of this is. Still a massive honour to play for your country, whether you're Irish or Portuguese. It's a pity the way this game has gone but they'll all be proud of their caps. Tier 1 should play these games more, imo, even if the results are verging on forgone conc...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:37 pm
JoeyFantastic wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:36 pm Surprised they are keeping Crowley on the pitch, his right leg is pretty heavily strapped.
Strapped last week too. Looks like a knee brace. Precautionary presumably.

Zero reason to be playing him at all in either of these games if he's carrying a knock though.

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Surprised they are keeping Crowley on the pitch, his right leg is pretty heavily strapped.

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:23 pm Yeah Casey should have just eaten that.

Casey is fighting for his Irish jersey, he isn't going to let up in fairness, just one of those things.

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themaddog wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:19 pm No TMO? That was a clear Irish knock on in the tackle.

Yep, TMO doing them no favours

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:(( Graduate hiring down in the past few months according to reports today. The Big 4 accounting companies are hiring fewer new grads as AI has replaced them. This is just the start and we are heading down a very scary road. https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0710/1522749-job-vacancies-ai/ For l...

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Lads, the Japanese ambassador to the UK is tweeting his visit to Northern Ireland, and it’s some of the most wholesome positive content on teh internetz right now, even if he is eating the wrong colour taytos. https://x.com/AmbJapanUK/status/1942865650621276641 Guinness and Irish coffees*? Are the ...

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giojuarez666 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:16 pm
I heard the commentator alright! I always thought Minogue seemed a bit small

Please god they get some competent management in next year

Do you mean Ireland u20's or Munster? Munster haven't been hectic at bringing backrowers through recently, imo.

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Weren’t our ancestors legal you thick f**king twat? That's not how we (the invaded) feel about it - get back in your boats William. You’re ancestors (the gaels or whatever the group is called) settled here as well you wingnut. Yep, and now the people in small boats are settling the UK, isn't that h...

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themaddog wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:05 pm Meanwhile, in thinks that really matter, the news I'm hearing about Ciara Mageean is not good. This will be her toughest battle.

I don't mean this is a lousy way but is this really news people should be sharing?

I'm gutted for her, she's never had much luck, imo but this is a disaster.

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Surely you should be encouraging people to enter into the UK legally and not being smuggled illegally & without documentation? Surely you should be all for plantations? Weren’t our ancestors legal you thick f**king twat? That's not how we (the invaded) feel about it - get back in your boats William.

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Wonder will we continue to sink more time into Doak with the u20's or will we just kick him upstairs somehow?

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Yeah TH lock is such a concern. With Baird at 6 you could easily afford one on this Irish tour but who? There's not really anybody at Ulster once Hendo is out. Nobody at Connacht. Spicer is probably a season or two away. Hopefully EdEd can come in and do that job for Munster but obviously he'll be ...

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Pinning international hopes on Prendergast is outrageous, Ireland will never win anything top level with him at 10. He had a good game yesterday, not sure what this is about.. Directly set up 3 tries and kicked 7/7 He's a Leinster fan having absolutely wild and mad laughs at everyone thinking he's ...

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I'd give my right nut to see them on this tour. I believe that's roughly the cost, plus booking fee. Not really my thing tbf- i think Blur songs have aged better. You can keep Blur AND Oasis. Give me Supergrass and Pulp, live or otherwise. Saw Pulp last summer, still got it. New album out last mont...

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Lads Busby was a woeful referee, there is probably a referees assessment in the background that suggests Hansen might have had a point. The game is impossible to ref at the highest level, imo. There's too many moving parts in an instant of the breakdown to get even half the things happening, not wi...

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Iran remains calm with no new explosions reported as state media celebrate what officials called a ceasefire “imposed” on Israel. State television said the Islamic Republic’s “successful resistance had forced enemies to halt attacks.” Iranian officials claimed Israel’s war failed and only created “...

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He remembered he wants a nobel peace prize. He and Putin should get it jointly for not nuking anyone. Surely no one thinks Trump is being honest in his calls for diplomacy and peace? Or anything else he ever says tbf. Yeah, his word is not his bond etc, but don't see how Iran can really believe the...

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Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:10 pm
He remembered he wants a nobel peace prize. He and Putin should get it jointly for not nuking anyone.

Surely no one thinks Trump is being honest in his calls for diplomacy and peace?

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I see Ash are playing on the Friday - great band didn’t k know they had reformed Playing Dolans in Limerick this December Duff, come along and see them up close (only 200 or so capacity at the venue)! Can I wear my 2001 Leinster jersey Absolutely - that was a decent jersey. Heading myself, if I spo...

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:05 pm I see Ash are playing on the Friday - great band didn’t k know they had reformed

Playing Dolans in Limerick this December Duff, come along and see them up close (only 200 or so capacity at the venue)!

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Last Line wrote: ↑Mon Jun 23, 2025 6:09 pm Fark me. The Iranians have signed their own suicide note.

Meh, once Trump went public with regime change the Iranian leadership were dead men anyhow - question remains can US put boots on there or not.

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Did you read the article ? How many times was the phrase 'a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed.....' used? In other words bullshit. That's a pretty weak defence in fairness - that line is standard journalism since before I was born. Yes Minister even joked about it frequently, iirc.

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Re: Hodnett I get the vibe that outside of the first choice players, Faz and Co. Have a preference for generalist back rows who can cover multiple positions, instead of specialists. This has led to the selections of Prendergast, Timoney, Kendellan and Deegan over specialists like Coombes and Hodnet...

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lorcanoworms wrote: ↑Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:48 pm
Donoghue has the foul stench of Kerry about it.

Hopefully - we could use any talent going tbh.

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To the Munster lot. Thank you for Johann. x Send us that young Irish qualified outhalf and we'll call it quits. Crowley to 12 fulltime is it? I like Crowley but has weaknesses in his game - really hoping McMillan can make the best use of him. Munster's depth at 10 isn't hectic - JJ is mid 30's, But...

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matta25 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 19, 2025 5:45 pm To the Munster lot. Thank you for Johann. x

Send us that young Irish qualified outhalf and we'll call it quits.

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Data driven insights about internal Iranian sentiment are difficult to parse, but they also reveal a clear picture: support for restoring a monarchy inside Iran has remained statistically static in recent years, and remains confined to a large-minority phenomenon accounting for ≈15-22 % of adults i...

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https://www.irishrugby.ie/2025/06/19/ireland-mens-squad-update/ Munster wing Diarmuid Kilgallen will train with the squad as Calvin Nash is nursing an ankle injury which will limit his on-field participation this week. Ulster’s James McNabney suffered an unfortunate ACL injury in training and has n...

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Guess it depends how you define robust civic institutions. Regime change seems to be working a lot better than expected in Syria. I don't really trust Sharaa but he's making the right noises. Didn't work in Afghanistan, largely due to the insane corruption of the war lords in the video linked. Iraq...

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Nolanator wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 7:22 pm I went with my wife to watch it.
She got to watch Glen Powell (so did I, TBF), I got to watch jets go pew pew, and Jennifer Connelly.

By spooky coincidence I ended up in seat F-14 in the cinema...

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Leinster expect their management team to remain in place next season despite reports Jacques Nienaber may be headed for the exit door. The Irish Independent understands that all of Leo Cullen’s ticket are contracted to the URC champions until the end of 2025/26, with the head coach under contract u...

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LandOTurk wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:11 pm
How are the exhiled Pahlavis viewed in Iran?

Haven't a breeze but how often are the sons of despotic kings welcomed back anywhere. Maybe he'll be Charles II and lead to a Glorious Restoration of the Peacock Throne but does anyone really believe it?

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Seems a lot easier in Iran than Afghanistan or Iraq. Not easy and could go sideways, but much more possible based on the culture there. In Afghanistan, you basically only had pedophile war lords as an alternative to the Taliban. I recently watched this documentary from Afghanistan in 2013 and you c...

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anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 4:12 pm
The Adam Curtis thesis is they're just idiots who badly misunderstood Milton Friedman.

Yes, but can we really trust Adam Curtis to reach the right conclusions, or is he just cutting interesting video clips with a serious VoiceOver?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

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I don't think he literally meant "seconds" you know. But in a war I would back the US against China any day of the week. I mean, look at Russia. On paper they look strong but they are struggling with Ukraine. If the US bordered Ukraine it would steam roll through that country in a few weeks. No one...

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MoonBatto wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:14 am
My uneducated guess is that the regime change thing is a fever dream, I can't see were this is going beyond chaos.

Fever dream or not, it's the goal as far as I can tell.

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Iran has one of the biggest militaries in the world, it would certainly have as big a stockpile of missiles as Israel. A. Iran has one of the biggest militaries in the world It doesn't. B. it would certainly have as big a stockpile of missiles as Israel. It doesn't. And if it's true that Israel now...

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Gave Limerick to Murphy and Calvey as they started at Shannon. But okay.. Cork - 9 Clare - 5 Limerick - 2 Leinster - 2 Both are Ardscoil and Shannon (afaik) but Calvey is from Newmarket-on-Fergus and Murphy is from Cratloe - fun fact, Cratloe was part of Limerick until Queen Victoria stole it from ...

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