Horse racing exists so people can gamble on them, discuss!
100%
Not at all. Lads are genuinely passionate about the athletic prowess of the horses. 
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You knew the cunting things time was up when Limerick started winning All Irelands. No one was gonna stand back and ignore it any longer.
“He is as game as a pebble”
Can you tell us more about this individual?
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He loved punting & national hunt racing. Besotted with “the game“ & became very attached to Danoli. I think Danoli paved the way for Istabraq myself. He’d blag his way into the parade ring after Danoli’s successes, I’d see his head in the background whooping & hollering after races in Leopardstown etc. Think he became friendly with the trainer (can’t remember trainer’s name but think he was based in Carlow) over time & would take spins up to watch Danoli on the gallops & bring him nuts & pillows & other racehorse appropriate treats.
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Comments about poster’s other halves or family in general should be off limits.
Usually it is but you’ll always get the few.
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What about make believe ones? I’m asking for a make believe friend.
Oh that’s fair game.
You’d think that would be reasonable but a few of the usual suspects love talking about my wifes job on here.
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That was a seriously well bred winner of the opener in Galway.
By Galileo out of champion hurdle winner Annie power.
That’s only cos a lot of us felt sorry for her being the sole household earner while you lay on the couch for 2 years scratching your hole
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Playing to the gallery there Mac you hook nosed cunt
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What does she do?
Question her life choices daily
She’s a carpenter
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Yes you’re bang on ref difficulties and hurdles ref adoption in this country
N and S
My mate in Derry- civil servant and his woman working in the equivalent of Musgraves down here,
No shortage of bobs n love,
Were on the Catholic register for adoption for 7/9 years,
Only to be told as Sean was 37 and Donna 36 in all probability they’d be classed as too old to adopt a baby, tore them apart.
Sean through work raised thousands for our 
Romanian charity at the time,
N west of Ireland Romanian relief fund.
I picked Sean up in the airport, drive him to the main orphanage we funded,
Casa de copii
Fagaras
Transylvania .
Little girl of 11, Marianna who spoke English perfectly, did the translation fir Sean and introductions to the director etc etc,
Brought him around to meet the girls ( 137)
And staff,
Marianna was let down by an Italian family a month earlier,
Within a week Sean was telling his missus all about her ,etc etc
Sean’s wife Donna and him flew to Romania 6 weeks later ,
Donna fell in love with Marianna
Director owed our charity and we called in the favour,
As both Irish part were passed by the social workers back in Ireland 
,
That little girl was Derry bound 
She’s graduated out of Queens, married a Derry man
And is a mama of 2
Adoption should be made easier-
My mother fostered fir 35 years and adopted 2 little boys .
Personally if I hadn’t children of my own I’d 100 of gave fostered/ adopted
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Cracking listening currently, Brian Warfield of the Wolfe tones debating oo ah up the ra with Eileen.
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