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- Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:28 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly V Down Hurling
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8071
Re: Offaly V Down Hurling
I was wondering would this be brought up. Without pointing out the obvious, all of these permutations are very dependent upon us winning the upcoming group games against both Laois and Wexford. Let's do that first and then concentrate on how (or how not) to play the Anrtim game. Indeed for this conv...
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:44 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: This website
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6302
This website
To the administrator of the main page of this website:
Call me pedantic but perhaps it is time for both Rhode and Birr to be given credit for their annexation of senior titles in 2008.
Call me pedantic but perhaps it is time for both Rhode and Birr to be given credit for their annexation of senior titles in 2008.
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:02 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Cheltenham
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4162
Re: Cheltenham
I second that motion Archangel.
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:38 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Offaly v Carlow, NHL, 08/03/09
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7294
Re: Offaly v Carlow, NHL, 08/03/09
The following is a two sentence review:
Both teams poor.
Carlow were a lot worse.
(On a wider note, this division is worringly bad preparation for the Championship. Small mercies for the fact that when we meet Wexford on the 30th of May they will have had the exact same preparation.)
Both teams poor.
Carlow were a lot worse.
(On a wider note, this division is worringly bad preparation for the Championship. Small mercies for the fact that when we meet Wexford on the 30th of May they will have had the exact same preparation.)
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:27 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
Lone Shark wrote: I know that for the amount of money that it cost to bail out the existing banks, we could have set up a bank of our own, a state bank, with none of the bad debts. That bank would also be a lot freer with the business and mortgage lending than the ones we have. At this stage if we ...
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:01 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
Lone Shark you are right we will never know what the opposition would have done but we can most certainly judge tham on what they said. Again I refer to to the point that over the last 5 years much was said on the health service (and rightly so) but nothing was mentioned from either side of the hous...
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:36 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
Lone Shark, I believe in your story that you were alluding to the money that has been spent by the government on stabilising the financial institutions. You infer these as criminal decisions? I apologise if I misunderstod the metaphor but the resulting point still stands. The vast quantaties of publ...
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:57 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
Interesting piece ar an gClai. I agree completely with the paranoia surrounding the bankers and the financiers and the money that was earned over the last 15 years. Although largely driven by the media, it is a typical Irish response to begrudge and attempt to 'bring down a peg or two' those we perc...
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:45 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
What disappoints me most about the opposition parties is that, despite their protestations to the contrary, they consistently prove themselves to be nothing more than opposition for the sake of opposition. No matter what the government does or tries to do the opposition can be guaranteed to disagree...
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:33 am
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
Magpie wrote: Reduce this argument to the following. Every child that's old enough to buy themselves a bag of sweets pays taxes (VAT). That's a poor argument. Not once did I mention kids younger than 16 or 17 for this very reason. Of course young children do not have the capacity to vote but equall...
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:00 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
The Magpie wrote: Separation. Translation: English to Afrikaans Apartheid. This is certainly new world politics you guys are preaching here :D Let's get the people with the brains to vote :!: If you are as well schooled in politics as the posts above suggest (and they do), you'll both know what Uni...
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:12 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
I second the motion for a mandatory 'Politics Test' for every voting citizen. The idealists would detest it but no matter.
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:45 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Cribben gets the job
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14337
Re: Cribben gets the job
Their grasp of the basics of the English language is so poor I can't make any sense of either post.
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:41 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
Excellent post Lone Shark and it raises a number of interesting points. Since I haven’t quite mastered the quote feature on this forum, for the sake of clarity I’ll attempt to deal with them in roughly the same order as they arose in your piece. The first issue is that of the electorate and the ques...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:12 pm
- Forum: Offaly GAA
- Topic: Niall McNamee running for election?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20441
Re: Niall McNamee running for election?
That's a very good point Lone Shark, all of Edenderry's woes (if they indeed exist at all, I am not familiar with the area) were not created in the last year. People had ample opportunity to show their displeasure, if they had any, in the vote booth. They did not. Now I'm sure the reason the majorit...