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Meanwhile my daughter found a list of Dublin pubs where ID is not an issue.

Thanks you all guys

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Beaches at Portmarnock & Sutton are two of the better ones in Dublin - though they do get filled with youth on a warm sunny day. As a 17yo she will love youth fill beach on a warm sunny day. @backrow. Thanks, she is reading and taking notes, she thanks you for your classy reply but she is really in...

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themaddog wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:45 am Edenmore!! Has she her own knife??

Nah, can’t be worse than certain Milano’s districts.

Or Malta, or Napoli, where she has already been on holiday without me and her mother

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In a few days my 17 yo daughter will travel to Dublin to study English…and do all the stuff a 17 yo does on vacation. She’ll live in a family with a friend in Raheny, near Edenmore Park. Any tip/advice? Cheap but good drug dealers? Pubs where any underage can sneak in and drink? Ok, google could ans...

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I pretty much agree with all the above, my kids went through the whole recorder debacle, but in my head, the worst thing I ever did was indulge my daughter with a drum set. Now electronic sets are way cheaper than 20/30 years ago. Anyway I couldn’t blame my daughter too much, at least she was tryin...

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Piccolo Flute. The highest pitched orchestral instrument. Now my daughter plays it very well, next year she should be the piccolo player in her school sinfonic orchestra. But I wished I was deaf when she started to practice it. I had to explain to my neighbors that no, we weren’t enjoying torturing ...

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These kids pro experience (includes 2nd tier rugby): Italia Matches 2 Starts 0 Passarella was on the bench for a couple of URC matches for Treviso. Odiase and Sante play in Espoirs France, Odiase has a bunch of Pro D2 caps for Oyonnaux too. Some of the others play on the Italian domestic League. So...

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Greatest U20 side I can remember.

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Wow, Just wow.

It's just too much.

All the tournament, each time they get the ball, they go over the gain line,
they are something else

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As against England and BabyBoks, French pressure seems to mount and mount, Ireland likely to crumble in the second half, unless a strike of genius or a brainfart like a head contact or a high tackle from a French player can swing the momentum.

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Textbook obstruction come on

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Jeaneu and Heuss are really something.
Costes too.

I'm lost for words, these guys plays the best rugby I have seen at any level this year

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Lost my jaw with this try. WOW!

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This could be a spectacular final.

As a neutral I'm here to enjoy what the best sides in this tournament can show.

French should win it, but Irish can make life hard to the Galois and if a card comes into play... who knows

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Very bad pitches all tournament to be fair.

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So, Italia dominates the second half, goes to 45 - 15, then after the 70' switches off and Japan scores 2 last tries. Italia not celebrating, they expected more from this world cup. Good match by the Azzurrini, they showed they can play an expansive rugby too, with Casilio SH, still 18 yo, very prom...

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Italia in control at HF, a well earned 26-10.

Funny fact: all the tries coming from backs, well constructed tries by our backs.

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Rolling Stones. Can’t even like one single song. I like a lot bands that have declared to be inspired by them like ZzTop or Black Crowes. But I can’t listen to them, boooooring songs. Satisfaction? Boring and with not well tuned guitars Paint it black? Very ugly song Brown sugar, happy, jumpin jack ...

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At least England made France look human in the FH.

Should be a great final: both teams seems to have absurd fitness level, great skills, high rugby IQ + some pristine talents

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 5:01 pm Boom.

Amazing an Irish underage team just dismantling the South Africans with power

Italia did that too.
And they suffered a lot against Georgia

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Irish wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:43 pm Anyone know a tv channel in Portugal to watch Ire v SA?

World rugby’s YouTube page

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Live On World.rugby.
Fiji obviously won. Deserved completely.
Our defense was a farce.

If it’s sunny, Italia will loose against Japan (or Argentina).

I foresee a red card inside the first 15’ and the Japanese
winning running around our poor defense.

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It seeks me that Battara starts at SH, he has shown in the 6 nations lots of time that in the rucks he has this ethic: never pass the ball until the defense is completely in line.

There is a hole in defense? The good manner is to never explore it. Never. It is unfair.

Bring Casilio on please

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Fiji a looooot better than this Italia. 24-12 at HT despite being in 14 for 10 minutes. The Azzurrini try to maul the Fijians, they run around us eat will, kick behind our defense effectively. In those 10 minutes with the Fijian wing yellow carded, Italia has been camped for minutes to Fiji’s try li...

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Japan will finish bottom. Tafano’s just being a bit over negative after seeing his compatriots performance today . They should Japan handily if they meet I think Italia has the quality to beat both Fiji and Japan. BUT they are not mentally strong enough. As seen against Georgia, a must win match, w...

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Unless some red cards comes into play, I guess this could be
the final standings:
France
SA
Ireland
England
Australia
Georgia
New Zealand
Wales
Argentina
Fiji
日本
Italia

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How many French players should be sent to the bin before it looks like they are struggling?

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Pool C SA win: SA in the semis ARG win <4 tries: Georgia through ARG win 4 tries or more: ARG through DRAW: Georgia through Massive last minute doping scandal for all the teams in the Pool C bar Italia: Italia through Massive last minute corruption scandal for all the teams in the Pool C bar Italia:...

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As things stand FRA 15pts NZL 10pts +23 WAL 7pts JPN 0pts IRE 13pts ENG 10pts +46 AUS 7pts FIJ 2 pts GEO 9pts +23 ARG 5 pts +8 RSA 5pts +2 ITA 5pts RSA have to be the likeliest from Group C. Home crowd, they know exactly what they need to do. A win will be enough. If they are curently on 5 points, ...

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England have 10 points +46 pd
NZ 10 points +20 pd

NZ out of the semis

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They already destroyed them this year.

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Wow...64' Japan 12 NZ 7

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It's over.

Congrats Georgia.

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Georgia scores the 4th try, a very well crafted one.

I'm so depressed by Italia. I think that in sunny conditions we will loose against Fiji, easily and against Japan too.

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CM11 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:40 am How many tries have Georgia scored?

3 tries. One is a Xmas gift from Italia.

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9 min to the end, yellow card for an Italian winger, Georgia 25 Italia 17.

Congrats Georgia.
I lost hope on this stupid, stupid Azzurrini side, so many avoidable basic mistakes.

Porca Puttana

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More shocking stuff from Italia.
After scoring a try, they win a defensive line out near the tryline, but they loose the ball and the Georgians score a gifted try.

Too stupid to win, Georgia deserves to win

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Half time Georgia on 18-10.

Now Georgia are in 14.

Italia can't win this: too nervous, too many stupid mistakes

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20 minutes gone. Yellow card ended.
Good try by Italy, on 10-7 now

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Italia gets a very well deserved yellow card, Gallorini out.
Georgia camped on our 22 since the start.

The Azzurrini will loose this if they do not wake up

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