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If you were as visionary as me we'd all be on a bank holiday.....:p It will happen as part of UI deal, might as well do it now on our own terms. 11th night beacons & bbqs, no fleggery, a few games in Croker, a parade down O'Connell Street, what's not to like.

Real business starts tonight, to say we're "shook" coming into it would be an understatement, but sure hope springs eternal. Kenny is due a bit of luck, let it be tonight !!!

Haven't had the time to get into it in detail, but it strikes me as a fairly trivial thing for the Dáil to be focussed on considering the whole world is in a state o' chassis. Did he deserve to be sacked?, I wouldn't have thought so.

First off I should stress that I'm not personally afflicted by this moral conundrum.... Irish Comedy has gone through a bad time. I don't know the...err... ins and outs of it, but I gather guys controlling comedy night bookings are alleged to have behaved badly (by their own admission in some...

No schoolboy sniggering down the back now..... With the Ryanair case it is revealed....quelle surprise.... that 'the main man' is a bit of an abrasive bully. I cannot stand shows like The Apprentice with its Lord of the Flies undertone, celebrity chefs total bullies, and then there's the...

Assault/manslaughter case in Cork. Headline "..rugby player guilty of manslaughter". Case had nothing to do with rugby high up or low down. Not on the pitch, in the bar after, related to a rugby argument, you wouldnt know this guy from rugby. I'm usually aggrieved on behalf of the GAA, but what...

I'm on there in my own name and also had reason to set up a "fandom" style account anonymously. Of course now I mainly fire out pithy observations & bad jokes from the anonymous one & the serious one hardly gets looked at. I dont go in for abusing folk, life too short etc. Grim reading at the...

For me months of the year are in a loop/circle starting at January on bottom left and moving clockwise, if its September and I'm thinking of Christmas its like I'm standing on September and just looking at the next quarter of the loop. Days of the week are more linear, vertical, not really...

Now, I'm nae misery guts but there can be some great songs which are not pure bubblegum pop. I guess Radiohead were a classic example, I was never a huge fan tbh - Leonard Cohen - I know v little about, but a good example is "The Next Life" by Suede, slow and haunting, not necessarily melancholy...

I'm always suspicious when someone says that. It is meant as a compliment for anyone in your life?, a boast about how you've been right?, or just a bit of harmless cliche. If it's preceded by "Over all my life, 90 years young, y'know......" then I think its just lies. I draw a distinction...

Body found near Enniskerry. Worst fears confirmed. Feel so sorry for that poor girl and her family. Then the case in Lucan, more horrors, another family broken. On the guy who got shot, I expect it made no difference to the fate of Jastine, which will be a relief to the detective. And at least...

This is something we're hearing so much about I'm reluctant to dismiss it entirely as 'boys will be boys'. The ante is upped considerably by using the term 'Rape Culture'. Given another thread was taken down there should be no mention in this conversation of a certain recent case. So, though I...

Very sad news yesterday evening. 3 young kids, such great talent, what a loss. Very much the voice of the mid-90s, when some of us were in our teens. I'm not generally one for wallowing for a person who, lets face it, I never met. But I did feel sad, for those left after her, for nostalgic...

On a work trip in Silicon Valley, have weekend off, doing night trip to Alcatraz (finished about 7pm Saturday), would like to stay in the city, have a few pints, sleep it off!, and head back down on Sunday. Ideally would like to stay above a pub, cheap & cheerful is order of the day, will be on...

This refers to Ballyragget, if you haven't heard (where have you been), 2 strippers turned up at a pub on Tuesday, there happened to be a few lads still celebrating a county final win, they happened to still have the cup with them. Cue hysteria..... Firstly strippers are not my thing, its total...

I'd vote Yes. I'd struggle to say why, probably, in the end, for the same reason I'd have voted for independence if I was a Scot - i.e. it feels right, it's the natural order, nationalist sentiment, heart overruling head. Would that have caused me to vote for Brexit if I was English?, don't...

But it seems they did actually exist https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2017/0828/900592-bang-bang/

Have to say I am relieved/delighted they were acquitted, mostly in that it takes the wind out of the sails of the hard left. Dunno much about the others but it would have been the making of Paul Murphy. Plus its still a shot across the bows of those who think a protest is code for doing...

Bit of a shock this morning, hadn't been following the story lately but didn't think he was terminally ill or that it would be this quick. I started by reading the victims & families reaction, understandably many want to point out some grim realities, and there's no arguing with that. One point...

Never has a crisis been so much fun...:) Just wondering if anyone else of this vintage (40) has felt the same irresistable pull? Been a fan of rock/metal since I was a nipper, have put in a few years tipping around with acoustic, which my son is also learning. So really I'm buying them for...