What age is she? Fucking hell, she could have done better than that. Must be of an age where she needs to settle down.
I’d say she is a right thunderous bitch when she is off camera and probably a nightmare to live with.
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Well lets hope our South Afican friend has layed down a few ground rules first.
I wonder will she allow him
keep a revolver in the bedroom?
This cracker that I posted on the Tipperary GAA thread beats all.
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I think this article may have been written in crayon by our canine loving friend.
MIGUEL DELANEY – PUBLISHED 04 MAY 2014 11:57 AM
[SIZE=5]Last Monday, as Frank de Boer celebrated becoming the first Ajax coach to win four consecutive Dutch League titles, he was asked a leading question:. Would Louis van Gaal be jealous of his protégé, given the older coach only won three?[/SIZE]
“No way,” De Boer smiled. “He’ll be very happy. He loves to see me to do better than him!”
That is no doubt true, given their long friendship. However, that feeling may have to be put on hold. With Manchester United[/URL] set to appoint Van Gaal as manager, and De Boer known to be monitored by[URL=‘http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Tottenham_Hotspur’]Tottenham Hotspur despite official statements, the two coaches could find themselves in competition next season. There is a further twist: Van Gaal effectively rejected Spurs for Old Trafford, while De Boer was watched by United.
De Boer owes much of his approach to Van Gaal, who managed him at Ajax, Barcelona and for Holland. The older manager converted De Boer from a left-back to a centre-half after noticing his tactical awareness.
They both favour a tight 4-3-3, passing, hands-on coaching and youth promotion. That does not mean there aren’t differences, though.
Current pedigree
De Boer has won his four trophies since Van Gaal last lifted silverware, the 2009-10 Bundesliga[/URL] trophy with [URL=‘http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Bayern_Munich’]Bayern Munich. Yet the 43-year-old has none of Van Gaal’s vast international experience. Is Van Gaal a little past it? Is De Boer fully ready?
Patrick Kluivert is Van Gaal’s assistant with Holland, and is set to follow him to United. He also played under the 62-year-old with De Boer, and is enthusiastic about both. “Like Pep Guardiola as a player, you could see Frank would become a trainer,” Kluivert says. “He is a big trainer coming. Van Gaal is already a big name, a great coach.”
Figures close to Van Gaal maintain he has stayed fully abreast of every football development. “You cannot call him an old-fashioned trainer,” says David Endt, another former Ajax manager.
Verdict: Van Gaal
Impact and effect
De Boer effectively made a mission statement when he mentioned Spurs’ interest: “I would like to add something to a club like Brendan Rodgers did at Liverpool.” No doubt he would be given time at Tottenham, but United cannot afford the transition season that even the Anfield boss needed, which makes their choice of Van Gaal more appropriate.
Yet while Van Gaal ensures immediate impact, and puts in long-term foundations in terms of tactics and youth, there is a price to pay for the emotional intensity required for initial success. He tends not to stay in a job long because players become exhausted, as happened at Barcelona and Bayern. Van Gaal first placed faith in many of the current stars and immediately won titles, but then lost allies because of his abrasiveness.
De Boer would have more of an eye on the long term. He was always ambitious but never rushed, opting to learn his trade at youth level. His ideas, however, are said to hugely impress his players. He is understood now to want a job where all the elements are right – including the patience to allow him to build.
Verdict: De Boer
Personality
Part of the problem with succeeding Alex Ferguson was personality. United needed someone with a presence big enough not to fear the scale of the job. Van Gaal undeniably has that, and will command respect. Kluivert insists the sergeant-major image is overplayed and that Van Gaal can be warm. “He is very straight with everybody,” Kluivert says. “It’s a pleasure to work with him.”
De Boer is more level-headed than the explosive Van Gaal, but is capable of hard decisions while sticking to the overall plan regardless of temporary setbacks.
Kluivert insists he also shares one key characteristic with Van Gaal. “He is a winner. He wanted to win everything, even card games. That’s the most important thing.”
Verdict: Van Gaal
Overall
Van Gaal seems the better bet now, but that could soon change.
Verdict: Van Gaal
The Shining Light of awful sports journalism strikes again, this time with a preview of the Giro which is he featured page on the RTE Sports website.
Ranging from the factual inaccuracies (apparently some cunt called Roberto Rodriguez finished 3rd on the Tour last year), a clear lack of knowledge of cycling, indicated by vagueness throughout and stupidly short predictions, to just some plain terrible writing. The most important part of the article in the writers mind appears to be the info on road closures
My personal highlight was when an attempt is made to explain the pretty straightforward TTT which takes place in the evening, a quote which @Rocko might consider for Quote of the Week:
“Think of it as a football match under floodlights, only the pitch are the streets of Northern Ireland’s capital, and the floodlights are the streetlights”
Brilliance from the teaboy once again…
“Think of it as a football match under floodlights, only the pitch are the streets of Northern Ireland’s capital, and the floodlights are the streetlights”
Jesus fucking Christ that’s a splendid catch @Blake, what a cunt.
ON Easter Monday night, Fianna Fáil’s director of elections Timmy Dooley, pictured, returned to his city centre hotel after a long day on the campaign trail with the party’s Euro candidate for Dublin, Mary Fitzpatrick.
The Clare TD changed from his suit into casual clobber and headed out for a late-night dinner with Cork’s Billy Kelleher. But disaster struck as soon as Timmy stepped on to the pavement.
“All of a sudden I was covered in the biggest pile of bird-***** that I’ve ever seen. It was so large that I thought I’d end up with whiplash,” he explained. The appalled TDs conferred, and concluded that poor Timmy had been aerially bombed “by a carnivorous swan which had eaten a rat for lunch”.
Which makes perfect sense, really.
Such was the extent – and scent – of the (literally) flying doo-doo that Timmy had to beat a hasty retreat back upstairs, into the shower and a fresh change of clothes.
“In my fury, Billy tried to console me that getting hit by bird-droppings is a sign of good luck which bodes well for Mary in the election,” he reckoned hopefully.
Judging by Doo-doo Dooley’s description of the swan-present, Mary should top the poll, win the lottery, and end up as President of the EU Commission . . .
Christ, who wrote that
Smart swan. A million people living in Dublin and he carefully chooses to shit on a Roaster from Clare.
Got it from the indo app
From today’s Irish Independent. The following sentence really caught my attention - "The Irish inability to express ‘th’ is a constant source of merriment. " What class of a simpleton cannot pronounce ‘Th’? Can efforts be made to ensure these cunts, and the cunt who wrote this, remain in Australia.
The late Padraig Gaffney had been living in Australia for ten years Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
EOIN MICHAEL HAHESSY – UPDATED 10 MAY 2014 03:13 PM
[SIZE=5]“Drunk Paddy’s $500k flood of tears” screamed the headline, and the jokes were quick to follow.[/SIZE]
“Isn’t that what all ye Irish do down here?”
“Ah, ye Paddys always drinking or fighting.”
No thought given to the fact that the headline was blatant racism - made OK because it was about the Irish.
The Age, one of Australia’s leading newspapers, was the offending masthead and the comments poured in:
“Is this a new style of journalism? Shall we expect titles like “Wogs bash WASPs in nightclub,” said one comment. “Curry Munchers smell up bus,” “Chinks buying up suburbs”?
Within a few hours the offending headline was changed.
Yet it was too late for Padraig Gaffney. The 29 year-old at the centre of that headline and the butt of incessant Australian national media jokes took his life on Thursday night.
Speaking on the day the news hit the headlines Gaffney said “this entire thing has ruined my life completely. I’ve spent 10 years in Australia trying to better myself and in the space of one night everything can be taken away from you.”
Gaffney, like thousands of young Irish men Down Under, worked on the sites.
A carpenter by trade, he flew with his girlfriend to Melbourne for a weekend and it would change his life. He drank too much, he loosened a fire hydrant, he destroyed some floors of a hotel. Two actions undeserving of a national punch line.
Yet racism towards the Irish, cloaked in a smile, is extremely common Down Under.
It starts with your accent and progresses to your pronunciation. The Irish inability to express ‘th’ is a constant source of merriment.
Dubliner Susan Kelly (30) applying for a marketing role with a respected organisation was greeted by the laughing HR manager:
“I must tell you why I am laughing, my colleague said to me ‘don’t mention potatoes’.”
Susan replied: ‘I didn’t think my accent was that strong’. “It is," replied the laughing hyena.
Not something to cause you to flock to the barricades, but would it happen to a Chinese, an Indian, an Indonesian or even a French girl? Would a HR manager make rice jokes to an Asian?
The answer to all these is “no”, because it is acceptable to be racist to the Irish Down Under.
Australia has developed a conscience towards its history and an acceptance of foreign cultures.
“We recognise Aboriginal people as rightful owners of this land” are common addendums at public events or on tv programmes.
Australia genuflects to its historic genocide. Yet despite this cultural leap, Australians still bump gormlessly into moments of racism.
One Irish man, Alan Joyce, heads up Australian’s national carrier Qantas. His nationality has been an easy target for vitriol.
Two years ago The Australian newspaper mocked Mr Joyce’s accent in an article on the statements the airline’s chief made in relation to an investigation into the engine explosion on an Airbus A380.
The Australian reported Mr Joyce as having said: ‘‘Tiz too arly ter judge waaat dat issue is an’ ‘oy long it ‘ill take ter be fixed … It cud be ahn issue wi’ de casin’ or it cud be an issue wi’ de turbo-ines …’’
An on the writer continued.
Four years ago Mr Joyce received the clearest signal that the Irish man was not welcome.
A typed letter, sent to his home, read in part: “It’s coming soon Paddy. You can’t even see it! The Unions will fight you … Qantas is our airline, started & staffed by Australians, not foreign filth like you."
"All your evil plans … will come back to you very swiftly, & kick you (sic) Irish FOREIGN ARSE out of the country,” the note continued.
Many in the Irish community Down Under brush blatant racism off as Australian mate-ish humor. A cultural misstep. A they’re-only-trying-to-be-friends.
Such appeasement allows the Irish to be the butt of the joke, the international punch bag.
Tommy Tiernan, the cultural plasterer of Irish stereotypes, proclaimed Australia as the land where only the dregs of the Irish go.
True, we do ourselves no favours.
In Perth bulging Irish wallets are still shunned. Our reputation as wild tenants precedes us.
A tension between the Irish who come here to make a life, and those who desire to get the leg over, certainly exists down here.
Every crass Irish headline solidifies our good-time Charlie stereotype, and it deepens the Australian pool for water cooler racism.
White and jovial, with a fondness for a drink, we Paddy’s are easy targets.
Padraig Gaffney - lampooned as the poster boy for our global stereotype - snugly fit into that narrative. But its outcome sits awkwardly for all those involved.
Eoin Hahessy, University of Melbourne, flightofthecubs.com
Paddy’s. The plural of Paddy.
The article is a bit OTT but Australians do love the whole turty tree and a turd joke. It’s gets fairly annoying after a while.
Them fucking Oz’s :rolleyes:
[SIZE=4]The editing at the indo online keeps up to it’s usual high standards[/SIZE]
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Paddy Power chief executive Patrick Kennedy has announced his intention to step down from the role in a year’s time.[/SIZE]
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I have always had a personal view that after ten years at the helm, change is good, both for the business and the individual,"Kennedy said in a statement.
William Hill[/URL], [URL=‘http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/United_Kingdom’]Britain’s largest bookmaker, is also looking for a new CEO as the current occupant is to retire by the end of next year.
Paddy Power, used to posting stellar profit growth, said punter-friendly results in March had resulted in its two worst weekends ever for football profitability and would unfavourably affect its first-half results.
Profit growth at the Dublin-based group slowed last year and its shares fell 4.6 percent on Tuesday.
"Given the group’s very impressive track record under his (Kennedy’s) tenure, this is likely to lead to a period of uncertainty for investors,"Davy Stockbrokers said in a note.
For the full year, Paddy Power expects the impact to be largely offset by positive sales growth, the recycling of winnings by customers and the later-than-expected introduction of an Irish online and phone betting tax.
The amount of money staked by customers has risen 15 percent in the year to date and total revenue was 5 percent higher, before a busy period that includes the soccer World Cup in June, when activity traditionally rises significantly.
Meanwhile, Paddy Power profits hit by “two worst weekends ever” for football results.
Two weekends when all the favourites won in the Premier League in January and March have seen Paddy Power profits take a major hit.
Accumulator bets over both weekends came up trumps and ended up costing the Irish bookmaker big bucks.
In an interim management statement covering the period of January 1 to May 11 this year, Paddy Power reported a continuation of the strong growth that led to record turnover last year, although this was dented by a damaging sequence of unfavourable sports results for the start of 2014.
The punter-friendly sports results, already reported for January, came to a head in March, as the statement read: "The adverse results in the period were concentrated in football resulting in our worst two weekends ever for football profitability.
“This contrasts with overall positive sports results in the equivalent period last year, which will unfavourably impact year-on-year first half results.”
However, Paddy Power are expecting to offset those results through the course of the financial year, with overall growth reported as strong.
Independent.ie reported yesterday that one Paddy Power punter landed a €577k bonanza when he correctly predicted nine of the 10 Premier League results on Sunday
Meanwhile, Paddy Power chief executive Patrick Kennedy has announced his intention to step down from the role in a year’s time.
“I have always had a personal view that after ten years at the helm, change is good, both for the business and the individual,” Kennedy said in a statement.
William Hill, Britain’s largest bookmaker, is also looking for a new CEO as the current occupant is to retire by the end of next year.
Paddy Power, used to posting stellar profit growth, said punter-friendly results in March had resulted in its two worst weekends ever for football profitability and would unfavourably affect its first-half results.
Profit growth at the Dublin-based group slowed last year and its shares fell 4.6 percent on Tuesday.
“Given the group’s very impressive track record under his (Kennedy’s) tenure, this is likely to lead to a period of uncertainty for investors,” Davy Stockbrokers said in a note.
For the full year, Paddy Power expects the impact to be largely offset by positive sales growth, the recycling of winnings by customers and the later-than-expected introduction of an Irish online and phone betting tax.
The amount of money staked by customers has risen 15 percent in the year to date and total revenue was 5 percent higher, before a busy period that includes the soccer World Cup in June, when activity traditionally rises significantly.
This
Oh dear
Woeful sub editing.
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I feel they’re not taking us serious Jim.
The Irish Times and RTÉ have had a magnificent contest all weekend, battling to live blog the election counts in painfully humourless and youthful sounding tones.
Here’s an example from the Irish Times this morning, featuring a reference to a tv show for added youth appeal, ignoring any attempt to even link the tv show to an election and including the words “season finale episode” just to betray the fact that the writer doesn’t actully watch many season finales. Oh and that last inverted commas below - that’s there for no apparent reason.
Dublin’s European Race. It’s become better than a season finale episode of Game of Thrones (will Eamon Ryan pull through? Will Brian Hayes survive?). "