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Question re: Dodgy pints in Dublin. I am over with work in Dublin and I was in Sinnotts last night and had 3 pints. In bed for 10:30. Woke up at 1:30am and puked. I never, ever throw up and I told my brother and apparently a few places have had it in the last year with dodgy pints. Basically when a...

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https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2024/04/02/nta-considering-proposals-to-end-direct-rail-services-between-wexford-and-dublin/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter This 100% won’t happen once the politicians get involved. The alternative is a new alignment/tunnel through Bray Head, which will p...

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The money is not worth the invasion of your and your family's privacy.

The nastiness that has came with PBP and SF, and now the right wing wing nuts, is entirely distasteful and worrisome.

Murphy, mentioned above, is a loss to Irish politics.

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For the Ulster lads on here, strong suggestions on Babbling 'Brook that three Leinster members of the Ireland U20 squad are headed to the Ulster Academy next year :
Sam Berman, Centre
Wilhelm de Klerk, Centre, and
Jack Murphy, Out half.

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Personally I'd start with John ford... He's really the GOAT when it comes to westerns. 'The Searchers' and 'the man who shot liberty valance' are probably his masterpieces but are better enjoyed having seen his earlier (more traditional) stuff like 'stage coach', 'fort Apache', 'she wore a yellow r...

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https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2024/04/02/nta-considering-proposals-to-end-direct-rail-services-between-wexford-and-dublin/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter This 100% won’t happen once the politicians get involved. The alternative is a new alignment/tunnel through Bray Head, which will p...

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I suspect that Ulster's new coach wants to spend the £ 500k that Kitshoff earns elsewhere in his squad.

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Creamy Wednesday afternoon pints in somewhere like the Long Hall.

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I missed the first half. Did McGrath knock himself out tackling a try scorer? Wasn't clear on the highlights. Yeah. Awful "tackle" and he should have been sent off. IMO this is exactly the type of tackle that these new law interpretations were brought in to stop https://twitter.com/jim_demps/status...

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Osborne is a really impressive player and constantly improving. Henshaw looked like a child beside him. Larmour had a great game apart from the dodgy fielding of kicks. Seems to have a bit of confidence with the ball in hand and is in fine form. Pack stood up well to a beefy enough Bulls pack. Happ...

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Well that was a statement win.

I hope we can send a full squad to SA next year, because the Bulls will be planning, and waiting for us.

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The BBC reporting that Donaldson has been charged with rape and multiple other historic sexual offences after two women came forward.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68686691

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Politically Donaldson is a goner. He'll have to resign from Parliament, and I suppose Saoirse Eastwood of Alliance would be favourite to take the seat. Which would leave the electoral arithmetic as follows : DUP 7 UUP 0 SF 7 SDLP 2 All 2 Talk about Black Swan events. My sympathy to his daughter, who...

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It won't have been a shock given the rumours that swirled around his political mentors Molyneaux and Powell. Also weren't there rumours a couple of years ago about what he got up to in his Westminster flat when ostensibly on his own ? The journos will have been sitting on stories they will now gleef...

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Now confirmed. From Amanda Fergusson twitter : NEW from DUP: “The Party Chairman has received a letter from Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP confirming that he has been charged with allegations of an historical nature and indicating that he is stepping down as Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party with im...

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I see that a NI story is now on the front of the IT, RTE, and BBC news sites.

There will be an awful lot of digging going on, and lawyers being consulted.

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DragonKhan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:10 am I hope the victims get the justice they deserve. That is what matters the most in all of this

+ 1

Very much this.

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Another day, another anti-metro headline from the IT: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/03/27/metrolink-plan-is-seriously-flawed-says-environmentalist-and-architect-duncan-stewart/ Duncan Stewart trying DESPERATELY hard to remain relevant. Christ, he really is an insufferable cûnt I hadn't ev...

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They were cúnts. They used to drive 6-inch nails into trees, and nip off the heads so that it wasan't obvious they were there. With the result that any contractor trying to cut down the trees with a chainsaw, risked the chain breaking on the nails, and consequent serious injury from the flying chain.

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Another day, another anti-metro headline from the IT: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/03/27/metrolink-plan-is-seriously-flawed-says-environmentalist-and-architect-duncan-stewart/ Ah it will but just like the children’s hospital you’ll have every crank and well intentioned idiot giving their...

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I'll tell you right now. That Metrolink will never be built. I hear public consultation is reopening again. It's a f**king joke In a very restricted way, only to cover information that was newly introduced by TII at the oral hearing; which in turn was introduced in answer to some of questions posed...

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Don't think secondary level education counts, possibly not even third level. AFAIK, it is based on years living independently in a country. So being in school (or indeed university, typically) here while your parents live abroad doesn't qualify. It is why Vas Artemyiev wasn't IQ despite all his sec...

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Winnie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:41 pm
Jtah wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:44 am Does anyone get the feeling that we’re starting to see general system failure.
Most of US transport infrastructure is in the shitter

In fairness, Winnie, I doubt the bridge piers were designed to take a 200k tonne (2 x 10*6 kN

) lateral load.

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The problem was items of small value regularly going 'missing' from Garda storage at stations; and that fact just as regularly being overlooked. When you then instigate a policy of zero tolerance, in addition to the egregious cases like the cannabis, you are likely to find cases such as the much dis...

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As I postulated yesterday, it appears that Drew Harris has implemented a 'zero tolerance' strategy when it comes to Garda misdemeanors including the traditionally rather casual attitude to items of small value that ended up in Garda storage for one reason or another. Ah, this isn't one of those cas...

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As I postulated yesterday, it appears that Drew Harris has implemented a 'zero tolerance' strategy when it comes to Garda misdemeanors including the traditionally rather casual attitude to items of small value that ended up in Garda storage for one reason or another.

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Lots of questions....

Firstly htf does a piloted ship hit a bridge pier head on ? I presume the shipping channels were mid-span.

Wtf weren't there dolphins protecting the pier from direct hits ?

This reeks of incompetence.

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When SF got closer to power they had to start substantiating some of there everyone gets everything they want and it costs nobody anything except the rich (whoever they may be). That didn't go well. I think it's probably deliberate and a direct command from army council HQ that nobody says nutthin....

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I'm sure "personal reasons" will be cited He seemed confident he was staying at the Q&A last month. Ulster statement was very short and sweet so I imagine there has been a few fights behind the scenes Maybe Murphy in two short weeks has seen what a colossal clusterfúck the whole set up is The Ulste...

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I know people are saying that FG are losing a lot of bodies but the fact that you have a locals/European elections right before a General will be good for them to get people's names out there. I'm sure SF will be testing out whomever they can get to go second in some constituencies. It's going to b...

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https://www.limerickleader.ie/video/national-news/1456140/garda-commissioner-reluctant-to-discuss-detail-of-bike-gate-saga-at-oireachtas-committee.html Surprise surprise Several Gardaí are now being brought before the Courts on serious corruption charges amongst other things. https://www.irishtimes...

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According to the IT, some of Leinster's early season games next autumn are going to be played in Nowlan Park, Kilkenny due to the RDS redevelopment. That'll go down well with ST holders! It is believed Leinster are looking for alternative facilities for a total of 11 matches. As Croke Park would be ...

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Even though the match was over by the time he came on, I was impressed by Gunne's cameo last night. Got to the rucks quickly, and has a nice fast pass.

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nardol wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:53 pm What was the double ulster yellow for?

Henderson for shoulder charge, Hume for fighting.

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Given !

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That was never a try.

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No idea. Maybe to give the voters who could be swung the taste of it. Something like this. When the Scottish referendum was first agreed support for independence was in the 20s. By the time they voted on it, it was up to 45%. It wasn't enough for Scotland, but a similar swing in NI would probably s...

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Winnie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:29 am Well they used to refuse to extradite known terrorists so this isn’t a new thing

You do realise that the reason for that was because the UK was found guilty of of using "cruel and inhuman" punishment (ie torture) on terrorist suspects (ie Irishmen) by ECHR.

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irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:24 pm Paddy McCarthy moving to dev deal after 1 yesr in academy.

Another club sniffing around ?

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Don't merge. Both parties currently benefit from voters flip flopping between the two of them. Centrists that want to punish the sitting govt flip to the other centrist party and back again. These voters would be pushed further out on the spectrum to socdems labour or other pipedream parties. One w...

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