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I see the operators of the Ambassador Theatre on Parnell Square have applied for PP to install railings around the building, presumably in line with those in front of the hospital. Whilst, viscerally, I am opposed to this closing off of what has become public realm, when you read about the problems...

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I’d take an AfD on 10% over Sinn Féin on 30%.

Same trash as far as I’m concerned.

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nardol wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:01 pm Duff has headed off straight to wiki to edit their page

Check out notable former pupils bit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present ... lege,_Bray

The school cost €130m to build.

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:25 am Is this show worth watching? I haven't seen drive to survive either.

Yeah absolutely.

Galthié , Porter, Fickou, Crowley and Negri are characters many won’t have been aware of.

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Ah he was. Gillette adverts the lot. He couldn’t go out without getting mobbed around 2003. In the UK. FFS yes no one had heard of Wilkinson, apart from the 10 English fans who watched the final;. Fortunately my mum was one of them, the only person who played rugby other pan me she could name. The ...

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:39 am
Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:21 am
Big Nipper wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:38 am

Not outside the UK
Big enough in France.

Reasonably well known in most rugby countries I'd say.

Not near Lomu level.
Ah he was. Gillette adverts the lot. He couldn’t go out without getting mobbed around 2003.

In the UK.

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Big Nipper wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:38 am
RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 1:31 am
Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:01 pm

The same with Wilko.

Celeb types like Cipriani aside, the only one is Lomu.
Absolute nonsense. Wilko was absolutely massive.
Not outside the UK

Big enough in France.

Reasonably well known in most rugby countries I'd say.

Not near Lomu level.

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:14 am
Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:01 pm
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:58 pm No one has heard of BOD outside of Ireland unless they’re a rugby fan
The same with Wilko.

Bollocks

Certainly in America. But Wilko is known outside of England by non rugby fans too. Even if it’s just having heard of him.

He's known as a rugby player in rugby countries.

That's it.

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:05 pm
Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:01 pm
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:58 pm No one has heard of BOD outside of Ireland unless they’re a rugby fan
The same with Wilko.

Celeb types like Cipriani aside, the only one is Lomu.
Carter.

Not really. In France to an extent once he went to Racing.

He was poorly marketed during his NZ career imo.

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:58 pm No one has heard of BOD outside of Ireland unless they’re a rugby fan

The same with Wilko.

Celeb types like Cipriani aside, the only one is Lomu.

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I'd imagine within the sport Finn Russel has more neutral fans who love to watch his brilliance, but I'm sure Sexton has more Irish fans and I'm sure Sexton is better known among more casual fans. Honestly, I think you've forgotten the first half of his career but either way there's no way Russell ...

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Zakar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:33 pm
iarmhiman wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:01 pm Watched episide one.

It's okay. Trying to be like Drive to Survive.

That Finn pass against England for Duhan's last try was brilliant
It's made by literally the same people.

The criticisms are so weird.

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Not sure going off FTA tv is as fatal to the popularity of the game as all that. No one young watches those channels any more anyway. Why do you think the NFL insists that many of its games remain on FTA? Why are NBA teams foregoing revenue in order to get games on FTA? The UK market is different t...

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Not sure going off FTA tv is as fatal to the popularity of the game as all that. No one young watches those channels any more anyway. I don't think going to Sky would be anymore. I think the benefit would only be there if Sky threw themselves back into rugby properly. Prime or TNT would be awful.

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Just seen the first episode They make little attempt to sell the sport or the tournament, the games are barely 10% of the runtime. Instead it's all about making it as personality-focused as possible. Which is a shame because the people featured have zero charisma or anything interesting about them....

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I watched the first episode there, thought it was very good. The various rugby pundits with criticisms seem to miss the point of these docs. Overall a good narrative with the Scots. Russell isn’t the most likeable of people but they tell his story well enough and show him off as a player. Smith stuf...

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Sports that have benefited from being taken off FTA: - Football - Darts Any others? The only thing that left FTA was one English league game a year and latterly the Champions League. There is a tonne of FTA football. Darts still gets FTA coverage. Indeed it is only the last few years where the the ...

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How much "growing the game" has the 6N being on BBC really done? Surely growing the game involves converting the casuals that tune in once-a-year (typically while drunk at the pub) into regular fans? Especially given the potential revenue left on the table by not putting it on paid TV As much as I ...

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Was watching Room to improve on Sunday, decent size 3 bed in Knocklyon bought in 2019 for €500k built in 1982, a few cold rooms including extension built a few years ago. Around €140k spent to get some heat in house, new windows, insulation, upgrade couple of bathrooms, do the usual knock down wall...

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Off of free to air and on to Sky (likely). Government has deemed not to add the Six nations to the Group A category of sporting events that compels the likes of Beeb and ITV to purchase the broadcast rights. They share the rights until end of 2025 tournament. Which essentially means that some greas...

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Was watching Room to improve on Sunday, decent size 3 bed in Knocklyon bought in 2019 for €500k built in 1982, a few cold rooms including extension built a few years ago. Around €140k spent to get some heat in house, new windows, insulation, upgrade couple of bathrooms, do the usual knock down wall...

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blindcider wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:22 pm It might be an insane amount but isnt there like 3 shows a week, 52 weeks a year so the value proposition is very different compared to something like the 6N where its 15 games

They have all of the rights in the UK, not in the US.

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:27 pm
Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:04 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:51 pm

Average first time buyer age is 35 why should they be able to buy so much earlier than everyone else
And that is too old.
Ah relax you won’t be retiring until 75 anyway

Mandatory age of 60 for me.

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I'm glad your here Duff, to tell us that things arw actually grand for civil servants <10 years into their careers wrt buying houses. :thumbup: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/11/28/gardai-eclipsed-it-professionals-as-best-paid-workers-in-state-cso-figures-show/ Don’t believe everything yo...

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Guards in ireland do okay, they also get to retire very early Which is kind of irrelevant to being able to buy or rent an affordable house in Dublin at 27/28/29/30. Average first time buyer age is 35 why should they be able to buy so much earlier than everyone else And that is too old.

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Ever hear of overtime :lol: Probably reasonable if it wasn’t €89k normal salary after 10 years. If it was more like 5, then it would be. Guards in ireland do okay, they also get to retire very early Which is kind of irrelevant to being able to buy or rent an affordable house in Dublin at 27/28/29/30.

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Latest SCSI report is out. This report examines affordability within the scenario of two firsttime buyers (FTBs) employed as a garda and a nurse. The average combined incomes of the two professions (with 10 years’ experience) in Ireland is €89,000. Case studies compiled as part of the survey – see ...

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There'll never be a Gaza State.

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Latest SCSI report is out. This report examines affordability within the scenario of two firsttime buyers (FTBs) employed as a garda and a nurse. The average combined incomes of the two professions (with 10 years’ experience) in Ireland is €89,000. Case studies compiled as part of the survey – see b...

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Musk showed the way with Twitter (80% cut) - tech firms became bloated woke messes. Engineers will be retained as they are the core. Finance firms are also beginning to cull similarly. Twitter is a bad example of this. Musk's ownership has muddied the waters given how poorly it is performing as a b...

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It should be painfully obvious by now that in pro sport a coach is only really the cherry on the sundae. Schmidt is a good coach with a great CV. So was Deans, Rennie & Jones. It won’t count for shit if the ice cream, nuts & fudge aren’t there. With nucifora jumping on board I’m more optimistic tha...

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I am happy but will not comment yet. I was excited for that moron Jones to come back. I hope Oz fans and RA have learned their lesson. Smit is a great coach, as was Deans and Rennie, maybe to a lesser extent. Give the man some time and the support he needs and hopefully the Wobs will start tracking...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ction.html

THIS is why young people can’t afford homes. They’re all at it.

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Can’t believe he’s putting himself through the mental anguish of coaching the Wallabies with all the politics and civil wars going on inside Australian rugby at the moment. However, at least he’s not having to report to that unpredictable nutter Hamish. Good luck Joe Schmidt. He got a lot of shit a...

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Rugbynut2 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:32 pm https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41311549.html

This seems a bit mad? Cork very stretched for student accommodation as it stands.

Roderic's empire building

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Only problem I have with Schmidt, Ireland didn’t start playing the total rugby brand until he left. Admittedly he whipped their forwards into a formidable unit. It was all one out bosh running. Let’s see though. Good luck to him. Can’t be worse than the last guy. We played great rugby with him at L...

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Only problem I have with Schmidt, Ireland didn’t start playing the total rugby brand until he left. Admittedly he whipped their forwards into a formidable unit. It was all one out bosh running. Let’s see though. Good luck to him. Can’t be worse than the last guy. We played great rugby with him at L...

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The rental sector being sorted will automatically lead to more people owning homes. They are connected. It doesn't mean that we will get back to the rates we had. But we have to accept now that we basically have two generations (excluding the Silent Generation who are in their final days) with exce...

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The rental sector being sorted will automatically lead to more people owning homes. They are connected. It doesn't mean that we will get back to the rates we had. But we have to accept now that we basically have two generations (excluding the Silent Generation who are in their final days) with excep...

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I'm not sure how Lawrence Okoye managed to play for so many teams and not make a roster.

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