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    Qatargate

    I don’t think we’ve anyone stuck in this? We might have a couple kicking themselves for not knowing it was a thing.
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    Pete St John

    passed away. Rare auld times > the ferryman > fields of Athenry.
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    The Langer Prize for …

    Get to it people. $100k - surely we’d have an advantage here? https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/langer-prize-innovation-and-entrepreneurial-excellence winners get to be Langer Fellows.
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    Jim Steinman, never saw the sudden curve..

    And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell...
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    Alcock and Brown

    Landed in Clifden 100 years ago tomorrow. I thought there'd be a far bigger deal made out of it. BBC have a nice writeup - it's like a secret on RTE.
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    Eugene McGee RIP

    Took ill at a family function last night. https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0505/1047615-eugene-mcgee-offaly/
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    Vine goes Bang

    http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13437576/twitter-killing-vine plenty of other short videos of cats doing adorable things out there though
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    Favourite GAA cliched moves

    1 whipping off the corner forward 2 booking both lads involved in a schmozzle 3 refs using the 'big lad should be able to mind himself' argument 4 ...
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    Ducksie Walsh RIP

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2016/0804/806934-legendary-kilkenny-handballer-walsh-dies/ sad news.
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    is the boom over?

    Business headlines on RTE today - July tax take below forecasts, decreases in unemployment have stalled, consumer sentiment falls. (but not as much as it should have - dopey consumers). the other headline is that whitegate got sold as a going concern (when the whole world crashes we might...
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    Do we need the special criminal court?

    I would think yes, Yes and again yes. What do the citizens of the proc think?
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    Back to the future day

    What a time to be alive http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34569759
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    China!

    Are we doomed? It seems the lads in Oz think their fundamentals are OK. "I think it's important that people don't hyperventilate about these type of things," said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose country is heavily exposed to China, the biggest consumer of its commodity exports...
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    Shirley Temple

    Has boarded the good ship lollipop. Bang!!
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    Cork Scientist wins nobel prize.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/son-of-irish-emigrants-wins-nobel-prize-for-medicine-1.1953627 C'mon the rebels. Although Neuroscience is a made-up discipline, and I have reservations about Newmarket.
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    The Banteer defence

    did well against Castlemagner recently http://www.banteerlyre.gaa.ie/home
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    The US just doesn't "get" bantz.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/embassy-apologises-after-white-house-cake-prompts-row-1.1908255
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    Pearse

    In full flight was a terrible beauty. And any man that could get Darragh O'Se that riled up is worth a lot.
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    James Herbert

    "Rats" scared the living shit out of me http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21870413 Always good for a bit of an old sex scene in the middle of the horror as well. Essential teenage reading.
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    manchester for a weekend

    Im going across between Friday and Sunday and I want to stay out of the pubs for as long as possible. I see Man Utd and Spurs are playing on Saturday evening - but I assume tickets would be all wrapped up for that? (I was at Spurs v Man Utd in london in Sept 1991 - Giggs was playing, I cant...
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