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Beirne is so good

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Four minutes to get a 3 & 5 year old asleep. Anyone got any quick chloroform recipes?

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The Portugal - Georgia game was great but you could probably bring it down to 16 teams and it would make for a more entertaining tournament.

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Get rid of automatic qualifications for all teams but the host and bring the Lions tour to the first year of the cycle. Have baseline qualification regions as Europe, Africa, Americas and Asia/Pacific. Year 1: B&I Lions tour. Standard tournaments like RC, 6N, and July/November tours. Preliminary qu...

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Thomas wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:26 pm In 1995, NZ beat Japan 145-17.

20 years later, Japan beat South Africa.

4 years after that, Japan beat both Scotland and Ireland at the world cup they hosted.

It's called development of the game.

In 2003 Australia beat Namibia 142-0.

20 years later Namibia lost to France 96-0.

This grim.

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It's a case of 'be careful what you wish for' with SF and the lefties who encouraged this during austerity. I'm sad not to have seen Paul Murphy involved as a victim, just this once I might have turned a blind eye . That's pretty shitty. I saw that Brian Garrigan chap wandering around the crowd wit...

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It's a case of 'be careful what you wish for' with SF and the lefties who encouraged this during austerity. I'm sad not to have seen Paul Murphy involved as a victim, just this once I might have turned a blind eye . That's pretty shitty. I saw that Brian Garrigan chap wandering around the crowd wit...

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It would appear that SF have been sitting on a vacant house in Carlow for the last 5 years, refusing to spend the money to get it into a habitable state, and trying to off load it onto the local council. Does this make them landlords ? Or , worse still, rapacious developers using the 'housing crisi...

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Conspicuous wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:58 pm
alliswell wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:33 pm
Floppykid wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:28 pm
How far out is an election realistically?
Just a year probably
They can wait until March 2025 if they wish

They can but someone will get an itchy trigger finger before that

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Floppykid wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:40 pm
alliswell wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:33 pm
Floppykid wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:28 pm
How far out is an election realistically?
Just a year probably
Polls aren't that relevant yet then surely?

Depends on what the poll says.

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The reporting over the polls is hilarious. So, in other words 'FFG' (as SF supporters love to use) are 6% points ahead ? Before you add the Greens. All of these polls, as they have been for the last two years, are just doing the margin of error 'hokey-cokey'. 'Senior hurling' will start with the ne...

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Sure you'd fancy anyone on that side of the draw with the exception of the English. The English will only get more confident after they steamroll Chile, put a bonus on Samoa and probably win their quarter at a canter. It would sicken your hoop.

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This f**king draw...

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You started it tbf.

Great result that. Definitely winning the world cup

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Yep. Links with IR/DART + west/DART + southwest (through PP tunnel) at Glasnevin. Links with IR/DART at Tara Street Links with LUAS Red and green lines at O'Connell Street, ends with a link to Charlemont stop LUAS green line, and Glasnevin station is one stop away from LUAS Broombridge stop. I'll b...

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triplebogey wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:28 am Prediction - Joe McCarthy will make the 23 for the SA game.

This is it. The Ulster contingent are so worried about Earls and Stockdale that they haven't noticed Big Joe is about to boot Henderson out of the 23

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Sexton just 9 behind O'Gara after today. Also into our top 10 try scorers. It's great to see him back looking hungry.

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When did Heaslip turn into Saw era Carey Elwes?

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I was trying to bait you there so well done for spotting the obvious trap re position. You are a teeny guy for a 6 tbf lols. Are you trying to troll? Because it's working. I am not a teeny guy. :x I'm a god damn specimen. Thor-like. Iirc from some other random argument you were fighting ages ago ab...

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Wing... The answer is wing. It's the position anyone almost anyone on the team can fill in in an emergency, as long as you're not completely slow and fat. This. If you're coaching a team at lower levels you stick the guy who has never played before on the wing in front of you and you can talk him t...

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That's Dr. Kelly to you

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https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/202 ... eadership/

Burton gone! Serious hagiography here.

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Distance and time Fellow host Ciara Kelly said a "romanticised notion" of rebels and rebellions was an inevitable part of the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. "The distance and time was always going to do this," she said. "It has become sort of folk legend or something and there is a romanti...

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The guy is pushing 60. If he tried one of his oh so powerful kicks on an actual human his perotic old man bones would shatter like sugar glass.

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Rugbynut2 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 8:09 pm https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/terraced-h ... -7/5380625

Who here thinks this is a good deal?

Looks ok. Looks to be some water damage in one of the bedrooms though and it would need plenty of other work.

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They justified it by saying that their riding instructions didn't include future proofing. I agree that we need a referendum to move from 1 deputy per 20k - 30k, to one deputy per 30k -40k. I wonder is the south Wicklow north Wexford constituency a test case. I doubt it. They were keen to stick to ...

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Willie is by far the most knowledgeable of all the Ulster posters. Don't let the bastards grind you down big man :thumbup: :thumbup: Thanks big man. As a gift of appreciation, I'll let you go for a walk with the Mitchelburne club, Cookstown branch (I am a member, but didn't go) as we end an almost ...

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Willie is by far the most knowledgeable of all the Ulster posters. Don't let the bastards grind you down big man

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CM11 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:33 pm What's the answer? Just throw one year under the bus?

They should look to pilot a new curriculum in selected subjects and schools next year and move to a hybrid in three. Keep the existing system on life support til then

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They need to get a move on with the LC reform. There's been no perceptible movement on it but I'm sure they're working away.

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:16 am https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41212084.html

Norma Foley has ordered grade inflation for the leaving cert results this year what an unbelievable moron

It's a pity we can't discuss politics these days without resorting to childish name calling

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:lol: :lol: My missus was grading papers this summer. The standard was shite. These are kids who mostly didn't do the JC because of COVID, and it really shows. The supervising graders had to adjust the marking scheme a couple of times on the fly to be more generous in what they'd accept as the corr...

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Short Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:51 pm He's almost exactly the same size/shape as me, although I'm a few kgs heavier/fatter. That's a picture of him standing next to 6'6 Jake Roberts, for perspective.

Billed as 6'6. I never knew Rogan was so tiny.

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They're going to get marauded so hard

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What an excellent use of Garda resources :thumbup: They can’t win with people like you can they https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2023/08/15/bank-of-ireland-working-to-fix-technical-issue-as-customers-report-being-unable-to-access-accounts-online/ There should be a law against emigrants com...

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 10:56 pm Seems there are Gardai at ATMs around Dublin preventing withdrawals after a glitch in the BOI system allowed people to withdraw cash even if they hadn't the balance.

The ap has been down most of the day.

What an excellent use of Garda resources

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https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl ... -collapse/

And flipping callooh callay

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He was generally given kudos, as much as anyone could, in health. Seems to have done plenty in higher education and was well respected by all accounts in justice. I could be reading the wrong articles/opinions but that's the impression I've gotten. Not a lot of vitriol aimed in his direction. As fo...

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Harris has done better than most in all the departments he's been Minister of. Going to have to call out 'the public' there if they don't rate him. Evidence, please? He was generally given kudos, as much as anyone could, in health. Seems to have done plenty in higher education and was well respecte...

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Melbourne wasn't hosting, they wanted to build new facilities in Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo etc. Why not just take it to Melbourne then. Although the facilities might be very beneficial to those rural cities. Cancelling is a cheap political stunt. Isn't hosting it just an expensive political stunt?

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