Any car from the last couple of years is in KPH. A description in MPH is not always possible.
divide by 8 multiply by 5 farmer
Thats peasant behaviour.
Cant find where I tipped Kildare to beat Derry and Cork to cover the spread against Wexford 
but anyway
I have worse, i walked into Leitrims got talent last year. 
Wes Brownes house is up for sale.
The fuckin automated voice menu system on Eircom customer service.
Did it have any?
None.
some cunts in the dept of finance tried to discreetly put pressure on friends first to give jim power the bullet over the remarks he’s been making about the dept of finance and name
from de paper
The Department of Finance has today denied suggestions that it attempted to have one of the country’s best known economists sacked from his job.
In an address to the MacGill summer school in Glenties, Friends First chief economist Jim Power said the Department made a formal complaint to his employer over his outspoken views 18 months ago.
However, the Department says it merely contacted Mr Power’s employers to find out if his criticisms were being expressed in a personal capacity or on behalf of his company.
A spokesman for the Department also described as ‘rubbish’ claims that it attempted to have Mr Power sacked from his position.
wonder if lenihan or cowan knew about this and if it was on a professional or personal basis?
also in wrong news i see the woman who’s fella lied about being a doctor while she had cancer died at the weekend. the wanker only got 6 years for it too
wrong wrong
The Dept of Finance are always up to craic like that.
I’ve heard stories of ESRI staff being fucked out of it over the phone for not producing positive enough reports.
Not surprising that they turned against an economist. There isn’t a singe trained economist in the entire department. The excitement over Alan Ahearne’s appointment shows how fucked up the mentality it. Imagine that, the Minister for Finance hiring an economist. Incidentally he’s the only academic economist in the entire country that supported the NAMA plan. To a man the rest of them opposed it. Make of that what you will.
There are plenty of economists in the Dept of Finance. They’re just not academic economists. I don’t have much time for this government or for the Dept of Finance but why do people clamour for academics to get hired by the department. Most of those lads are on handy numbers with big salaries and fuck all pressure and have no interest in joining the civil service.
There are lots of guys in the Dept with economics degrees and masters in economics and various other economics qualifications. They’re trained economists. It’s just an odd myth that you have to be some sort of university lecturer in economics to be an economist.
By international standards the composition of our finance department is an oddity.
There isn’t a single person in the department with a PhD in economics, and I seriously doubt you’ll find another finance dept in the developed world where that’s the case. What you have is a department of rubber stampers, and no analysts.
Marc Coleman is a trained economist :lol:
Who lives in a house like this? (it’s not the actual house obviously, just the entrance)
Limericks finest son
Incredible story. You’d want to be careful what bullshit you tell a bird in Coppers.
Palestinian jailed for rape after claiming to be Jewish
A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with an Israeli woman who believed he was Jewish because he introduced himself as “Daniel”.
By Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem
Published: 10:00PM BST 20 Jul 2010
A court in Jerusalem has made international legal history by jailing Sabbar Kashur, a 30-year-old delivery man from East Jerusalem, for 18 months.
He was convicted of “rape by deception” following a criminal trial that has drawn criticism from across Israel
The court heard accusations that Mr Kashur misled the woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, by introducing himself with the traditionally Jewish name during a chance encounter on a street in central Jerusalem in 2008.
After striking up a conversation, the two went into a top-floor room of a nearby office-block and engaged in a sexual encounter, after which Mr Kashur left before the woman had a chance to get dressed. It was only later that she discovered Mr Kashur’s true racial background, lawyers said.
Although conceding that the sex was consensual, district court judge Tzvi Segal concluded that the law had a duty to protect women from “smooth-tongued criminals who can deceive innocent victims at an unbearable price”
“If she hadn’t thought the accused was a Jewish bachelor interested in a serious romantic relationship, she would not have co-operated,” Mrs Segal said as she delivered her verdict.
A conviction for rape by deception on the grounds of racial misrepresentation is believed to be internationally unprecedented, according to British legal experts.
The charge is rarely used in the West. In 2007, a Syrian pilot walked free from a court in Swansea after being accused of tricking a woman into intercourse by saying it could cure her of a sexually transmitted disease.
A court in Massachusetts also acquitted a man who allegedly masqueraded as his twin-brother in order to have sex with the man’s wife.
While forced sex by deception is an offence under Israeli law, legal experts say it is a charge used sparingly in cases involving protracted deceit and a promise of marriage.
Kashur was originally accused of violent rape and indecent assault, but later accepted the lesser charge under a plea-bargain after prosecutors received evidence suggesting the encounter was consensual.
Kashur’s lawyer, Adnan Aladdin, said he had filed an appeal to ensure that the verdict was not considered precedent-setting, adding that otherwise “many men would find themselves in jail.”
Israeli legal experts said they found the verdict disquieting.
“In the context of Israeli society, you can see that some women would feel very strongly that they had been violated by someone who says he is Jewish but is not,” said a former senior justice ministry official.
“The question is whether the state should punish somebody in that situation. It puts the law in the position of what could loosely be described as discrimination. I would feel intuitively uncomfortable about prosecuting someone for something like that.”
Asked whether his client was the victim of racial discrimination, Mr Aladdin said he “would rather not comment”. Others, however, were scathing.
Gideon Levy, a leading liberal commentator, said: “I would like to raise only one question with the judge. What if this guy had been a Jew who pretended to be a Muslim and had sex with a Muslim woman. Would he have been convicted of rape? The answer is: of course not.”
Israeli human rights activists said that Kashur’s actions reflected the deceits many Palestinians practise when in Israel in an attempt to avoid official and private prejudice because of their background.
“It is very well known that Israeli-Palestinians living in Israel disguise themselves,” said Leah Tsemel, a human-rights lawyer. "You change your accent and you change your dress because if you look like an Arab you face harassment.
“If you want to enter a pub, you’d better not look like an Arab and if you want to have sex with an Israeli girl, you had better not look like an Arab.”
The prosecutor in the case was unavailable for comment and officials in the Jerusalem district attorney’s office declined to discuss it.
i could be facing a life sentence at this rate based on this precedent
Surely she should’ve noticed he wasn’t circumcised, Israelis are some cunts after that