Bathing my aching limbs in the cold crisp flowing waters of Mahon Falls.
Sitting here with a can of Smithwicks after watching Irishman Rory McIlroy win the British Open
Lough Gur on a Summer’s evening
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[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 986416, member: 129”]@Ebeneezer Goode[/USER] [USER=361]@Tassotti
Sitting on my bed listening to the Brazilian music my band will be playing while on old-skool mephedrome.[/QUOTE]
Still haven’t gotten a wink of sleep. TBF, I took all 5 tablets and what the dosage was I do not know. Felt ok yesterday amped up on benzosThejnn wenr ro bed and git in badoo and got talking to a beautiful Croation girl who was a historian and we discussed philosophy and history for hours, took ages cos my hands are sj=haking and I still can’t really see the keyboard, by r=the time we finished I didn’r=t feel like sleeping.
sliding away now thougghh after some more vallys
FFS!!!:mad:
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 987083, member: 129”]Still haven’t gotten a wink of sleep. TBF, I took all 5 tablets and what the dosage was I do not know. Felt ok yesterday amped up on benzosThejnn wenr ro bed and git in badoo and got talking to a beautiful Croation girl who was a historian and we discussed philosophy and history for hours, took ages cos my hands are sj=haking and I still can’t really see the keyboard, by r=the time we finished I didn’r=t feel like sleeping.
sliding away now thougghh after some more vallys[/QUOTE]
some great trance playlists on Spotify that will help you when you come around mate.
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A lovely spot. Must climb the hill with the lads when I’m back in August.
U ok hun?
Do that and go to the stone circle as well in the evening time.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/top-marks-for-odonoghue-as-hes-called-to-bar-30431148.html
good to see the civil servants standing up to the gahliban quislings
Civil servants warned Taoiseach Enda Kenny the GAA was receiving “substantially”more State funding than other sports when Mr Kenny expressed interest in supporting the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in [U]Cork[/U]. The Government eventually granted €30 million towards the €70 million project, which will mean the ground being redeveloped into a 45,000-seater stadium.
Officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport warned late last year and earlier this year they would not be able to afford the upgrade of the stadium from their existing funds. The Government subsequently allocated additional money through a stimulus plan announced during the local and European election campaign.
Páraic Duffy, director general of the GAA, wrote to Mr Kenny last October seeking €30 million for the project. Sources in the department expressed annoyance privately over what they saw as the GAA going over the department’s head and pitching directly to the Taoiseach. However Mr Duffy’s letter, while addressed to Mr Kenny, was copied to Minister for Sport Leo Varadkar and Minister for Public Expenditure [Brendan Howlin](‘http://www.thefreekick.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Brendan Howlin&article=true’).
Mr Howlin also met the Cork County Board of the GAA, along with Minister of State for Education Seán Sherlock, and indicated he was “well disposed” to the project and would consider it in the context of additional spending plans.
However, internal emails between officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and and Sport, obtained under Freedom of Information, show annoyance at the GAA not paying them the “courtesy” of informing the department of their plans.
“Stimulus funds are a matter for the [Minister for Public Expenditure] and I understand that Cork County Board have already met with the Minister,” one email noted. “We have not been asked or given the courtesy of being informed of any request for funding from the GAA or the Cork County Board. We should emphasise that we could not possibly support a funding request of this size from the paltry allocation we receive under the SPC [sports capital grant].”
Mr Kenny, who wrote to Mr Duffy asking to be kept updated, asked the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for more information on the proposals. He also told Mr Duffy that a redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh would be important for the bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup
[QUOTE=“Young Ned of the Hill, post: 987279, member: 80”]good to see the civil servants standing up to the gahliban quislings
Civil servants warned Taoiseach Enda Kenny the GAA was receiving “substantially”more State funding than other sports when Mr Kenny expressed interest in supporting the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in [U]Cork[/U]. The Government eventually granted €30 million towards the €70 million project, which will mean the ground being redeveloped into a 45,000-seater stadium.
Officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport warned late last year and earlier this year they would not be able to afford the upgrade of the stadium from their existing funds. The Government subsequently allocated additional money through a stimulus plan announced during the local and European election campaign.
Páraic Duffy, director general of the GAA, wrote to Mr Kenny last October seeking €30 million for the project. Sources in the department expressed annoyance privately over what they saw as the GAA going over the department’s head and pitching directly to the Taoiseach. However Mr Duffy’s letter, while addressed to Mr Kenny, was copied to Minister for Sport Leo Varadkar and Minister for Public Expenditure [Brendan Howlin](‘http://www.thefreekick.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Brendan Howlin&article=true’).
Mr Howlin also met the Cork County Board of the GAA, along with Minister of State for Education Seán Sherlock, and indicated he was “well disposed” to the project and would consider it in the context of additional spending plans.
However, internal emails between officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and and Sport, obtained under Freedom of Information, show annoyance at the GAA not paying them the “courtesy” of informing the department of their plans.
“Stimulus funds are a matter for the [Minister for Public Expenditure] and I understand that Cork County Board have already met with the Minister,” one email noted. “We have not been asked or given the courtesy of being informed of any request for funding from the GAA or the Cork County Board. We should emphasise that we could not possibly support a funding request of this size from the paltry allocation we receive under the SPC [sports capital grant].”
Mr Kenny, who wrote to Mr Duffy asking to be kept updated, asked the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for more information on the proposals. He also told Mr Duffy that a redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh would be important for the bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup[/QUOTE]
+1. Great to see the GAA going straight to the top and not pissing around wasting time pandering to the egos of career wasters in the Civil Service.
[QUOTE=“Young Ned of the Hill, post: 987279, member: 80”]good to see the civil servants standing up to the gahliban quislings
Civil servants warned Taoiseach Enda Kenny the GAA was receiving “substantially”more State funding than other sports when Mr Kenny expressed interest in supporting the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in [U]Cork[/U]. The Government eventually granted €30 million towards the €70 million project, which will mean the ground being redeveloped into a 45,000-seater stadium.
Officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport warned late last year and earlier this year they would not be able to afford the upgrade of the stadium from their existing funds. The Government subsequently allocated additional money through a stimulus plan announced during the local and European election campaign.
Páraic Duffy, director general of the GAA, wrote to Mr Kenny last October seeking €30 million for the project. Sources in the department expressed annoyance privately over what they saw as the GAA going over the department’s head and pitching directly to the Taoiseach. However Mr Duffy’s letter, while addressed to Mr Kenny, was copied to Minister for Sport Leo Varadkar and Minister for Public Expenditure [Brendan Howlin](‘http://www.thefreekick.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Brendan Howlin&article=true’).
Mr Howlin also met the Cork County Board of the GAA, along with Minister of State for Education Seán Sherlock, and indicated he was “well disposed” to the project and would consider it in the context of additional spending plans.
However, internal emails between officials in the Department of Transport, Tourism and and Sport, obtained under Freedom of Information, show annoyance at the GAA not paying them the “courtesy” of informing the department of their plans.
“Stimulus funds are a matter for the [Minister for Public Expenditure] and I understand that Cork County Board have already met with the Minister,” one email noted. “We have not been asked or given the courtesy of being informed of any request for funding from the GAA or the Cork County Board. We should emphasise that we could not possibly support a funding request of this size from the paltry allocation we receive under the SPC [sports capital grant].”
Mr Kenny, who wrote to Mr Duffy asking to be kept updated, asked the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for more information on the proposals. He also told Mr Duffy that a redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh would be important for the bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup[/QUOTE]
the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport:rolleyes:
“Stimulus funds are a matter for the [Minister for Public Expenditure] and I understand that Cork County Board have already met with the Minister,” one email noted. “We have not been asked or given the courtesy of being informed of any request for funding from the GAA or the Cork County Board.
issue looks to be inter departmental rivalry
I think the amphetamines that were in those pills I was eating up until yesterday morning have kicked back in somehow, maybe it’s adrenaline.
Feeling nicely wired and energectic again.
It’s not inda kinnys money to spend. If they are going to spend 30 million that someone else has earned, surely there should at least be due process. Kenny should not have the wherewithal to even consider such a request. More pork barreling. Using taxpayers money to buy themselves votes. Bertielike.
Agree. Fuck Cork.
Enda is the democratically elected leader of this country. You didn’t vote. You don’t get a say.
Yeah, good ole enda and his wealth of private sector experience :rolleyes:
Kenny is an archetypal career waster between teaching and then surfing into the dail on daddys coffin and doing shag all in the dail for 30 odd years
No he wasnt; 73% of those who voted in the GE didnt vote for FG