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lilyw

Didn't see a thread. Interesting composition. Telegraph's 'World XV' 1 Joe Marler (England) 2. Agustin Creevy (Argentina) 3. Owen Franks (All Blacks) 4. Courtney Lawes (England) 5. Paul O'Connell (Ireland) 6. Jerome Kaino (All Blacks) 7. Chris Robshaw (England, capt) 8. Jamie Heaslip (Ireland) 9. A...

lilyw

hlvp wrote:23D
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B Owing

I think that this is

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It is an absolutely shocking clue - completely unacceptable misuse of slang.

lilyw

Irish farmers claiming poverty again? For once I think that you have a point. When I compare my "slightly above average" rural area against the neighbouring "very affluent" urban enclave - I know which of the 2 has greater wealth & disposable income (& it's not the town). Of course there are only a...

lilyw

Gavin Duffy wrote:24D
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Well

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Paraphrase

Both correct.

5d was completely new word for me; maybe some of our down under solvers had heard of it before. It is very clearly clued but I had to check that the word existed when I looked at it.

lilyw

FFS - just for once I post a "thought through" response about rugby & I get overrun by an argument about "he said-she said". That's why I stay away from the Irish Rugby thread.

lilyw

I'm not suggesting that having excellent depth in every position is the be all and end all, but I'm interested to hear how posters rate their country's respective depth in the crucial position of no.10. I believe that NZ has never had better depth at 10. Certainly not in the pro-era, even when we h...

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Smith is instrumental to the way the All Blacks play their game. He has one of if not the quickest clearance of any halfback in World Rugby and provides the rapid continuity on which the All Blacks thrive. He is arguably our most important player leading into the RWC. Conor Murray (in conjunction w...

lilyw

This was published in today's Guardian as a reminder of what we miss. Enjoyable, although it's unfortunate that this is the 3rd puzzle with that theme in the past month.

lilyw

6D an ANGEL is a priest. one = I and Catholic. I too am struggling with army leaders bit. I think that 6D is Van(guard) (=army leaders) inside (stopping) eg (= for one = as an example) + eli (=priest) + c (atholic) Another of those clues that you solve from crossing letters & work backwards to the ...

lilyw

On a semi-serious note: I really can't understand how intelligent people can accept a situation where a major position of state (I accept that it has no explicit power, but it has a hell of a lot of privilege & quite a bit of implicit power) is allocated on the basis of birth. To my mind it is just ...

lilyw

Leinster in London wrote:
Petros wrote:Don't forget he also tries to force homeopathy on all and sundry
It can be as effective as medicine

On those occasions when medicine just doesn't work.

lilyw

We win by a knockout - you're stuck with this guy & we got you to take Brian McFadden.

lilyw

Banana Man wrote:Tommy Walsh retired from inter county hurling today

Himself, Hogan and JJ Delaney were probably the best half back line of all time.

Seanie McMahon & Anthony Daly are waiting outside the door for a word with you. Liam Doyle is holding their coats.

lilyw

From anecdotal evidence only I've heard from employees of both UCD and trinity that they are both horrendously disorganized from an administration stand point. Trinity's systems and processes are stuck in the 19th century apparently. Actually they're not too bad. They have some terrible blind spots...

lilyw

Nice going. This guy says thanks Australia. Bet he'll come back to Ireland and start over here now that the recession is slowly receding. A Wexford man has struck gold in boom-time Oz A 30-YEAR-OLD Wexford construction worker has created a €35m construction company in Australia. Declan White, origi...

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Good post but that's not the reality of it. In an ideal world that might be the case but UCD and TCD have to benchmark themselves against an international standard. They matter because they are one of the only ways of telling if we're funding our universities adequately That's my problem. Why do UC...

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Lily we don't judge the worth of a university on the basis of how well they interact with industry. DCU has long been better at this than trinity or UCD in several faculties but the incubator units and some of the pharma research collaborations in those two would be just as important if not easier ...

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Cammy just to clarify that you're trying to argue that the international rankings don't matter to Irish universities. Go home you drunk idiot. Why should they matter? They are drawn up by private companies based on relatively arbitrary criteria. If they changed the weightings even slightly the resu...

lilyw

Lily we don't judge the worth of a university on the basis of how well they interact with industry. DCU has long been better at this than trinity or UCD in several faculties but the incubator units and some of the pharma research collaborations in those two would be just as important if not easier ...

lilyw

Depends on the time of day.

lilyw

2204 wrote:Blimey. First the Irish Catholics and now the IRA. It seems the Republic of Ireland was founded entirely on the foundations of paedophilia .

Last time I looked Belfast, Derry, & Armagh were in the UK. Cover-up is an insidious thing - maybe the Chuckle Brothers had more in common than we thought!

lilyw

I think Irish Unis should exist to give irish kids education, not to be in the top 50 Unis in the world. However, if for prestige reasons, the govt wants a top 50 Uni, the easiest way to do it is to amalgamate TCD and UCD. I actually agree with you about the primary function - though I seriously qu...

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If the Unis and government were serious about climbing international tables the best and obvious solution would be to merge TCD and UCD under the University of Dublin brand, probably with some of the outliers like the Institute of Advanced Studies etc. Why would that help (other than the pure mecha...

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Rodney O'Donnell 5 Caps

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If the Unis and government were serious about climbing international tables the best and obvious solution would be to merge TCD and UCD under the University of Dublin brand, probably with some of the outliers like the Institute of Advanced Studies etc. Why would that help (other than the pure mecha...

lilyw

I have somewhat embarrassingly ended up with two tickets to Copenhagen anyone been and if so any recommendations of where to stay where to eat what to see.?? Thanks in advance. I haven't been there in over 30 years. But I've seen Borgen, The Killing, & The Bridge so I think that I'm safe in saying ...

lilyw

Simon Zebo is not test standard. Apart from a fortuitous heal once, he's done nothing in a green shirt. I was sat pitch side at the Saffa game and told my son to keep an eye on Zebo. I contended that a try would be leaked on his wing. Low and behold..... Pietersens try truly exposed Zebo. He has no...

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Lacrobat wrote:Choose your poison...

Poor Switzerland - not a single thing to notice.

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3: Ross. Wasn't too bad really. Scrummaged ok and made his tackles. Did really well to get across on their counterattacking outhalf late on in the game. 6/10 Are we giving him a free pass? He doesn't carry, barely gets around the pitch to tackle, & isn't really a lineout factor - so for him it's al...

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There are absolutely huge profits to be made in drugs, fuel laundering and cigarette smuggling. I know that - my surprise is how much of that market these guys seem to have. How did the Provos let that happen? 30-40m is hardly a dent in the drug trade in Ireland. I understood that travelers have mo...

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camroc1 wrote:There are absolutely huge profits to be made in drugs, fuel laundering and cigarette smuggling.

I know that - my surprise is how much of that market these guys seem to have. How did the Provos let that happen?

lilyw

AND-y wrote:Is this a crossword clue?

I wouldn't say a cross word to them

lilyw

I was shocked to read this. I had assumed that these guys were tipping along at a few million - but €30m turnover (lets assume €10m profit since we don't have to worry about taxes on employment, VAT, or profits) buys you a lot of weaponry. It raises the question - why are they so ineffective? Mendac...

lilyw

18A George Harrison Here go in Garrison I really didn't like this one - I think that it's a clue where you guess the answer from crossing letters & then work back to the wordplay. (Yesterday's Guardian had one very similar. The clue was: Hum discordant note, one interrupting Cliff Richard's opening...

lilyw

26A Parse. 5D is certain = confident. The chess players are in FIDE. N = New and a CONTe (short) is a short literary piece around them. Never heard of FIDE before now ( not into chess at all), that's two things I've learned today then! Cheers globus, and thanks hlvp :thumbup: By sheer chance I was ...

lilyw

globus wrote:
tabascoboy wrote:8D looks like
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= steins
anag tins + e + another 's; from somewhere!
I think it is that. Not sure of full logic.

It makes sense - though not in a very satisfactory way.

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lilyw

It's not often that you get such a chatty article about chess. It does seem to be a bit of a cripple's race at the moment. Disaster Strikes For Vishy Anand In Game 6 Of The World Chess Championship In Game 6 of the World Chess Championship in Sochi, Russia, challenger Viswanathan Anand of India mis...

lilyw

This is a themed crossword; with the theme given in 18a (a relatively simple anagram). Several of the other clues are just defining different types of 18a - precisely why I don't like themed puzzles. The brilliance of 12a is that it references the theme (18) but that the other 2 numbers (8 & 11) don...

lilyw

I fcking hate crosswords, why are there so many crossword geeks on here?> There's only 2 of them. They are no more annoying than all of boobs not moobs threads on anything but rugby. I'm sticking with 6 of us. In a contest for the most annoying threads - I call it a draw between anything to do with...

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I like the way the AB's do the haka. A bunch of white blokes prancing around trying to pay some sort of embarrassed and cap doffing homage to a culture that they decimated. Its like the USA team doing a rain dance around a totem pole. Tacky, cringeworthy and frankly inappropriate. The fact that the...

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