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God bless the Diaspora 
If any of the Diaspora are based in the Midlands area and are interested in Hurling this year, drop me a message.
Toomevara cunts. :lol: :rolleyes:
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Any of you men able to get RTE, TV3 etc on your tvs abroad or know how to go about getting them? Iād have thought the likes of Fitzy, balbec, Puke, Declan Moffit or a few more might have figured it out. Wouldnāt mind getting them in for the GAA. I was looking at this, but looks dodgy enough and iāve never heard of themā¦
[quote=āThe Dunph, post: 626595ā]Any of you men able to get RTE, TV3 etc on your tvs abroad or know how to go about getting them? Iād have thought the likes of Fitzy, balbec, Puke, Declan Moffit or a few more might have figured it out. Wouldnāt mind getting them in for the GAA. I was looking at this, but looks dodgy enough and iāve never heard of themā¦
http://storesatellite.com/irishsky.php[/quote]
PremierSports channel on Sky is what weāre ready to order for the league and championships.
Iāve Sky up here in the bourg. Scottish fellow hooks everyone up with the whole shebang.
If youāve an Irish sky card, all the Irish channels can be had, if not, he sorts out an english card and you can have rte with it.
Dunno if how far heāll travel though. Drop me a pm if you want his email to ask him.
Does it give you RTE and TV3? What sort of dough are we talking about?
Donāt think heāll travel as far as me but thanks anyway. I was reading that you can get an Irish sky card registered to an Irish address, so i presume they mean you can bring it with you abroad then and it should work? Youād have to think theyād be able to pick up on incorrect signals thoughā¦
Yeah but that live streaming is shit usually and not reliable? I might not be around every Saturday/Sunday either so would just like to sky+ it on the tv. Iād rather watch a match on my massive 40ā tv than my modest sized laptop as well. Have you to pay for that service there?
I think itās in the region of Ā£7 so maybe ā¬10 in youāre case a month on top of youāre normal package. The lads in Oz use it too I think.
Its a sports channel that shows GAA. It also has ice hockey and a few more American sports.
Yeah the two are paired so the Irish Sky Card needs to be in whatever Irish Sky Box for it to pick up Sky Sports etc. It will pick up the non pay channels straight away though.
Iāve got an internet package as well with them though so that will screw me straight away. Unless i went internet only and cancelled the Sky here, then got the Sky sent to an Irish address and brought that card over. I donāt want to be paying out on the double, still not sure this will all work. Iām hoping someone has experience in this. You want the RTE and TV3 too, not just some sports package showing second rate sports like ice hockey and magners leagueā¦
I use Overplay. pay about a fiver a month. only got it about a month ago but works ok so far. easy to use.
Canāt you get a HDD cable to connect your laptop to your massive telly? Though I got one myself and it does not work.
From this weeks Clare Champion
A recent survey in Kilmihil has revealed that at least 87 people have emigrated from the West Clare parish inside the last two years. The vast majority of the recent emigrants are aged between 20 and 30.
Gerry Johnson, one of the local people who put the figures together, has said the deluge of emigrants from the community has led to Kilmihil losing a generation of people. He maintains the current crisis is worse than emigration figures from the parish in the 1980s.
āWeāre missing a generation in Kilmihil now.
āThat generation is gone. Weāve the younger people and the older ones like myself. But weāve nothing in between.
āThatās basically whatās happening in Kilmihil. I think itās way worse than in the 1980s. Things werenāt as bad here as they are now. Itās lasting so long this time and thereās no sign of it getting better,ā Gerry commented.
āMy own son, Neil, is 30 years of age and heās just come home from Australia. He was going out socialising recently and I asked him who was he meeting? He said āIāve no one to meetā. Itās that age group from 20 to 30 that have left Kilmihil. Theyāre the age group that make things happen. They get involved in every activity thatās happening in the parish,ā he added.
Approximately 50% of the recent emigrants from Kilmihil now live in Australia while the remainder are based around the globe in the UK, Europe, the US, Canada, South Korea and New Zealand.
The collapse of the construction industry is a major factor in the high emigration figures from the parish although a sizeable percentage of the emigrants are female. In recent weeks, it has emerged that the Kilmihil ladies senior football team may have to re-grade to intermediate, such is the impact of emigration on their playing numbers.
Prior to investigating how many people had left the parish, Gerry said he believed the figure was significantly smaller than it is.
āWe had no idea. If someone had asked me āhow many were gone?ā, Iād have said probably 15 or 20 people gone from Kilmihil was the maximum. I couldnāt believe it. Weāve 16 male footballers lost and there are 10 of those senior players who played in either 2010 or 2011.
āTo come up with a figure of almost 90 people who have left Kilmihil is shocking. Weāre only talking about 2010 and 2011. Itās frightening stuff. Itās been devastating for the whole parish. Itās across the board devastation,ā the Kilmihil man stated.
Some entire families have emigrated, while Gerry is also fearful that the figure of confirmed emigrants from Kilmihil may rise beyond 87.
āWeāre going to put these findings out to the broader community in Kilmihil and find out the real figures. This is only going to get worse. Thereās two or three families I can think of where thereās six plus of that family emigrated. Thatās an unbelievable statistic.
āWhen we did the calculation around Kilmihil to find out how many were gone, it was really frightening,ā he concluded.
Ironically, the population of Kilmihil village rose by 8.3%, according to preliminary 2011 census figures.
According to those figures, 627 people lived in the village when the census was conducted.
Sounds like Neil is a friendless cunt.
F_O_F might be able to verify this
He owns the shop in the middle of the village Iād be thinking.
Whenever I read reports of the number of Irish people in Aus I always think they seriously underestimate the true number.
Its actually insane over here. Iām out in the goonies working on an Internment camp, the health and safety guy thinks, and admits going by names alone, that 60-70 per cent of the work force is Irish. This is an Aussie government job, stated the most important and sensitive building job in Oz this year and its run by a few Serbs and a shit load of Irish.
As one fella said to me, heās going to make up one of the huts real nice 'cos he could be back there himself soon enough. :lol:
The small time building trade in WA is up in a heap due to young Irish carpenters, and they expect carpentry to be taken off the list of Visa Sponsored trades pretty soon.