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Gavin Duffy

If you've a good job you will have, or at least can have, private health insurance. Some would argue you should have. I hear this all the time and I hate to break it to you but private health insurance makes zero difference if you are acutely unwell you will be triaged in A&E like everyone else I w...

Gavin Duffy

If you've a good job you will have, or at least can have, private health insurance. Some would argue you should have. But does that help you in an emergency? Family member has ended up in the public system for weeks because they had the audacity to have an emergency after 6pm, when all the private ...

Gavin Duffy

How about you start by explaining how the Irish government contributing would lead to tolls (unless it was a condition at your end). Who said it would lead to tolls in NI? I said you guys have to put up tolls in the ROI to pay for major transport infrastructure. Was I wrong? Tolls are usual on all ...

Gavin Duffy

If you've a good job you will have, or at least can have, private health insurance. Some would argue you should have.

Gavin Duffy

Scotland and wales (as well as regions in England) also receive more from the treasury than they give. It’s the UK treasury after all. The also contribute significantly more to the coffers than you scroungers do. I’m talking about per head, but also, anyone with a brain cell would realise Scotland ...

Gavin Duffy

That’s what was on the table up until today. big as the difference between £400 million and £800 million. Better pay your taxes Maddog and give it to us. But we haven’t a pot to piss in. Neither you do, you owe my country billions upon billions of ££££ that you got as an emergency to help you stay ...

Gavin Duffy

Gavin Duffy

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:59 pm So Metrolink hearings starting soon.

Lads will this go ahead?

Started already and it will have to get done.

Gavin Duffy

The £400 million is back on the table it seems.

Gavin Duffy

Son-Of-Ulster wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:58 pm
Gavin Duffy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:54 pm There's 0% chance it gets done by 2028 in any event.
The road or the stadium?

The road.

Gavin Duffy

There's 0% chance it gets done by 2028 in any event.

Gavin Duffy

I won't even go into music. Jesus that's f**king atrocious. You need someone strong on the Arts and Sport in charge. Not a Minister for Fun and Games. That's bullshit Celtic Tiger phraseology. Miggeldy has been a nice figurehead, but he's always been someone who's supported arts and culture. I appr...

Gavin Duffy

I haven’t seen this much charisma and natural charm since Obama in 08. You’re looking at a future Taoiseach folks. https://www.thejournal.ie/holly-cairns-speech-national-conference-social-democrats-6302676-Feb2024/ You think obama had natural charm? He always reminds me of Keanu Reeves in dracula.

Gavin Duffy

I threw a few quid at Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk just before Christmas, looking good so far (+30%). Cheers, The Economist. The obesity crisis is good for something after all.

Gavin Duffy

Fellas, years ago I asked some TDs about something, self-employment while on social welfare. Not unemployment benefit or whatever it's called, but anything that means you can't work a "proper" job, but could make some money and find some holistic benefit in selling jam in a market, or making beard ...

Gavin Duffy

Yep, decommissioned peat fired power station sites, peat extraction bogs , existing distribution networks are good places for onshore wind farms. Also will allow the lads to get double pensions. Their peat pension and their wind pension They shouldn't be a involved in any of these businesses as the...

Gavin Duffy

Disgraced sacked MP Peter Bone's potential replacement has been selected for the Tories. It's........Mrs Bone They're both corrupt as shit, red and blue. PR NOW! PR just means that we end up with a f**ked up system like the ones currently plaguing Europe. A system where the losing establishment (in...

Gavin Duffy

It is only a slim recession, although unless you're growing by 2-3% you're starting to take on water. And actually it's worse than a minor negative figure because inflation is running so high. It would seem with the Tories having taken on the mantle of fudge businesses it's one of the few pledges t...

Gavin Duffy

Michelle and Mary Loup? Nah too good looking to be them I’d sling one up that Me shell no problem, and lulu after a few. Hate f uck like. Burst that boil on her face. How does an Irish republican leader have the distinctly Scottish name McDonald anyway? It's just one of several anglicisations for a...

Gavin Duffy

Future RTE should be one high quality TV channel, one high quality radio station and a high quality website.

Gavin Duffy

Pontins were probably worried the travellers would raise the standards too much for their usual clientele.

Gavin Duffy

I haven't watched RTE except for the odd GAA game (that would be on Virgin otherwise) for a decade. Our kids have never watched it. A couple of years ago we dumped the telly and bought a projector to be legally able to stop paying the licence. If the governement finds some other way of making us pa...

Gavin Duffy

TranceNRG wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:19 pm The loon is back..

So you are.

Gavin Duffy

HighKingLeinster wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:10 pm Who the fùck goes on holiday in Drogheda?? The Ukranians will prob head back to Kharkiv once they see the state of the place

Beaulieu and termonfeckin are pleasant enough, the city centre isn’t bad. Places like yellowbatter are extremely grim though.

Gavin Duffy

That really does seem like an oversight in the UN charter alright. I mean, yeah, the UN is and has always been largely useless. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/14/ireland-and-spain-demand-eu-reviews-israel-trade-deal-over-rights-obligations So, what is the legal situation if Israel are i...

Gavin Duffy

earl the beaver wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:15 pm
DOB wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:11 pm
earl the beaver wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:24 pm McCloskey-Henshaw must be one of the biggest centre pairings we've ever played.
We played McCloskey/Aki in the same fixture last year.
Aki is a powerhouse but Henshaw is bigger

Henshaw is taller, Aki is bigger.

Gavin Duffy

Is it true that wales didn't concede a single penalty in the first half?

Gavin Duffy

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:05 pm Lucky win for Ireland

Really?? You don't think other considerations may have been a factor?

Gavin Duffy

She's fairly thin by welsh standards tbf.

Gavin Duffy

Our much maligned health system actually gives pretty good outcomes overall. ER/A&E or whatever its called these days needs sorting but it can be done.

The main problem such as it is in the system is rent seeking and sectorial parochialism. We need to send in some trust buster types with big guns.

Gavin Duffy

Why Ireland never plays 6N matches in Belfast? Ravenhill, the Stadium in Belfast, has a capacity of 18,000; compared with 52,000 in Lansdowne Road. Moneytalks. Explain why the u20s aren’t played in Northern Ireland then please? The venue seems to have gone - Connacht(ish) - Leinster - Munster. Perh...

Gavin Duffy

New dentist and the peelers were called to control the situation.

Gavin Duffy

lemonhead wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:36 pm Send them all to Rwanda. Fabulous prizes to be won.

Safe for teeth, by decree.

Gavin Duffy

What the actual f*ck?

Gavin Duffy

Wimmins would probably object to the knockers though...

Gavin Duffy

Has forward taken on a new definition recently?

Gavin Duffy

Absolutely grim videos coming out on twitter here, thousands of rockets fired from Gaza to cover hundreds of fighters crossing the border where they have been indiscriminately killing civilians, pulling over cars and just shooting all the occupants. This isn't in the settlements this is in towns an...

Gavin Duffy

bimboman wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:33 pm Ireland will win this. But jeez they’re still the most unpleasant team in international rugby.

I'll raise you an england. And a wales.

Gavin Duffy

Gavin Duffy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 8:53 pm Penalise whoever offends first. It's not complicated.

Actually this explains barnes' habit of ignoring multiple infractions until the one he 'wants' comes along. No dice, wayne.

Gavin Duffy

Penalise whoever offends first. It's not complicated.

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