I wonder how many Europeans have been to a baseball game? I haven’t – it seems to take forever for a team to win – and it would appear that the crowd/audience/supporters are all drinking beer and eating hot-dogs for the duration. Backstop is a baseball term, yet, it’s used in Ireland and the UK in reference to Brexit, namely the border issue of NI and ROI. Has everyone been drinking beer and eating hot-dogs for the past 3 years? I’ve given up, pretty much, politically. Boris Johnson, who’s splashed (no Tory pun intended) all over the British press is the answer? Also – Tyrone on Saturday- I mean, kinda poor.
I was taken to a baseball match in wrigleyfield many moons ago. Boring AF. I drank beer and we left early. I think the Cubs were playing but couldn’t be sure.
Gabby
Stick to Chinese checkers. You can leapfrog over your opponent that way.
Hi Shayna
There’s a baseball league here in Blah Cliath
The City Council pitches here in Crumlin get re-marked into Baseball Diamonds
2 on each pitch – when the soccer season ends and they’re done with them,
opposite corners like and TBF the pitches are well maintained by Council greenkeepers
Going by the crowds and the set ups they bring with them it’s definitely well attended and supported
Deckchairs, kits etc
Mixed teams play with the softball
They’re all shy rhymes with kite mind you
Kicks off from the June BH
Training and development most weekday evenings
Matches on Sundays
Lorcans nearby who also use the pitches for training
Are often seen rocking up to make up the numbers
Last night I saw some of the neighbours and their kids join in
Although they were insisting they were playing Rounders
Just to wind up the yanks like
Sum’ting else, they always cleans up after themselves
Unlike the soccer crowds – leaving rubbish like
Seriously, if ya fancy giving it a lash
Or just a nosey
Gis a shout
But it’s definitely a thing here now
Increasing Displacement
I was at one. Bored me to tears so I had a few beers and banter with friends.
The game itself was irrelevant after a while.
Charger Salmons
Boom !
Welcome to Prime Minister Boris.
Now he just needs to school some manners into the Peacock Taoiseach and remind him how much Ireland really depends on the mainland.
“school some manners into the Peacock Taoiseach and remind him how much Ireland really depends on the mainland.”
Nice to see the Sasamachs have learned exactly nothing from the past 2 something years of negotiating with the EU. But then, the tea boy is promising to renegotiate the deal he negotiated and that May failed to renegotiate several times already so intelligence is clearly lacking among the Sasamachs.
Experts find a no deal will have a huge impact on NI businesses just as the conservatives are planning on installing the “f- business” tea boy as their Taoiseach. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic.
eoin
The internal FG review by whats-his-name SC of the Maria Bailey dodgy swing compo business is due today. While it’s unlikely to address Bailey’s Aer Lingus compo claim in 2005, it is supposed to look at the role the FG culture minister Josepha Madigan played in the swing compo business and it should also look at the merit of a case which was grounded in false statements about the extent of injuries, and quite possibly a lot more. Will Maria Bailey last the day or will she be suspended? What about Josepha Madigan? Why not make it 3-for-3 and kick Alan Farrell out for his dodgy compo claim as well?
Or will this review be extended as well….
eoin
The press-Gardai crossed a line yesterday by identifying the citizen (Mago Gately) as the person who was raided by the Garda criminal assets bureau, which seized a blue Golf GTI (number plates blanked on the pics) and a dodgy looking “rolex”. Early yesterday, RTE jigsaw identified Gately and later the Indo published his name.
Is this the first time the CAB have named a citizen on the day the citizen was raided? And if you’re going to name the citizen, what’s the point in blanking the number plate on the car you’re seizing?
And remember this is the country where the media still shamelessly refers to “Mr Flashy” and “Mr Big” and where Noeleen Coakley Hutch is suing the Star, Jonathan Hutch is suing TV3 and Nikita Murtagh is suing the publishers of the Irish Sun/Times Ireland.
eoin
The sleazebaggery in FG grows whiffier by the day. Yesterday Leo tried to defend the government decision not to ban smoky coal which is transforming some towns, like Enniscorthy, into New Delhis for air quality. Leo says he’s a-scared of the coal companies taking legal action. Since when did Irish coal companies become more powerful than the farmers or vintners?
And yesterday also, the government tried to defend its decision to block a Bill which would ban drilling for oil. The Times Ireland reports “The government opposed a bill to ban future fossil fuel exploration for fear of legal challenges from companies with oil and gas licences, a junior minister has said…Mr Canney said that there were costs associated with the bill, including refunds for application and licensing fees, and that legal challenges would be likely.”
I would love to see what lobbying is taking place at the moment.
I don’t think you would
Want to see the type of lobbying going on I mean
’cause like
The Smokey coal market here isn’t substantial enough or long-term enough to be worth the effort
So you’d have’ta wonder what the real money is looking for
Or who it’s working for
Haliburton’esq almost
martco
and here was me thinking it was illegal to hide lobbying like?
Is PR Advisor
Or sometimes Communications Consultant
eoin
That’s a nasty sky on the front of the Star. Nothing compared to Germany yesterday when hail the size and consistency of golf balls fell, breaking car windows and taking slates and cladding off homes.
The LPT scam now will drill its way deeper into our pockets. Remember that our taxes always paid for local services. Then LPT was introduced, but the existing contribution from our taxes didn’t reduce. And it’s a scam to say that there will be ‘modest’ increases. The base rate might have a ‘modest’ increase, but the councils can increase the actual rate sharply.
And we are getting nothing extra from this tax that wasn’t there when our normal taxes were paying for the councils. It’s a stealth tax. It’s an extra tax. No extra benefits. Apart from it going directly to another waste of public lunds – Irish Water ( an invoicing system, only, that has cost billions )
Remind me again there Gigs
Why wasn’t the ESB or the FloGas crowd’s billing system good enough?
BTW
I wonder how many Councils
Particularly City ones
Will vote to raise LPT now that the elections are over
Imagine cribbing about no funds for housing and services
And then voting to defund yerself
eoin
Pity the member of the Congregationalist Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster lost his case at the Workplace Relations Commission against the National Transport Authority (which had provided free travel to people attending the Pope’s Phoenix Park gig last August). The Flyning Spaghetti people organised a gathering near the Phoenix Park at the same time and demanded religious equality with free travel for their members also. Sadly the Spags lost at the WRC, but only on a technicality by failing to follow WRC procedures. Shame. The NTA was represented at the WRC by top law firm McCann Fitz.
GiggidyGoo
We read about WRC awards. There is one actually reported today about a €20,000 award to a worker who was constantly being called queer by a director of the company.
But we never actually get the company name or the name of the guilty party. Why is that?
SOQ
A restaurant has been ordered to pay €20,000 in compensation to a gay bar manager after a director called him ‘queer’ almost every day at work.
“It [Newsbrands Ireland] also successfully lobbied the government to reduce VAT on printed [sic] newspapers which took effect in January 2019″
” News Corp UK & Ireland [sic] is making most staff redundant and the paper’s print edition will cease publication. Just three staff positions out of about 20 are being retained.”
Apparently thejournal.ie is the #2 online news website, after RTE at #1, in this country
Definitely
And on the wireless there earlier
You could almost hear the Morning Ireland crowd sniggering and gloating
Trying to keep a straight face as they reported it
eoin
Not just RTE,
Irish Times “reports”
“The Irish Times’ success in building a suscriber base for its online news products could point to a public desire for quality Irish perspectives on world events, according to Dublin City University’s Institute of Future Media and Journalism (FuJo).
….
The report noted that The Irish Times achieved a 26 per cent rise in digital sales in 2018, making it the only newspaper here to grow across both print and digital during this period.”
Print declined at the Irish Times in 2018, it’s down 4.8%, and they’re now selling less than 48,000 copies at full price each day.
As for digital, just 20 (twenty) out its 21,000 average daily sales are at full price. You can build digital sales if you’re giving the stuff away!
The Irish Times goes on to report “The report shows that 10 per cent of the 2,013 people surveyed in January and February 2019 cited The Irish Times as one of the main brands they used for news. Some 8 per cent cited The Irish Times, which launched digital subscription products in 2015, as a “main traditional source of news”.”
It doesn’t give context by saying the IT is waaay down the list of news sources.
And yes, that’s [“suscriber”] how they spell “subscriber”
Lurch
I wonder at what point do people really start to panic about climate change and biodiversity loss?
At what point?
We all know that the longer a problem is ignored the worse it gets.
We all know that the effects will be catastrophic; in some countries they already are.
Are we powerless? Can we not stand up and do the right thing and demand a carbon neutral economy?
Can we not demand that our government stop blocking environmental legislation such as the “Climate Action – keep it in the ground” bill? Can we not demand that our government stop using undemocratic “procedural trickery” to prevent these bills being passed?
Irish people are inherently good. I’m proud of our history. I learned that we always stood up to tyranny in the past.
Well our government is on a very different path and I’m worried.
I wonder how many Europeans have been to a baseball game? I haven’t – it seems to take forever for a team to win – and it would appear that the crowd/audience/supporters are all drinking beer and eating hot-dogs for the duration. Backstop is a baseball term, yet, it’s used in Ireland and the UK in reference to Brexit, namely the border issue of NI and ROI. Has everyone been drinking beer and eating hot-dogs for the past 3 years? I’ve given up, pretty much, politically. Boris Johnson, who’s splashed (no Tory pun intended) all over the British press is the answer? Also – Tyrone on Saturday- I mean, kinda poor.
shayna, I would highly recommend the following documentary about the golden era of Irish Basketball in the 1980’s
https://www.the42.ie/american-dream-retold-in-documentary-on-irish-basketballs-glory-days-767528-Jan2013/
I was taken to a baseball match in wrigleyfield many moons ago. Boring AF. I drank beer and we left early. I think the Cubs were playing but couldn’t be sure.
Stick to Chinese checkers. You can leapfrog over your opponent that way.
Hi Shayna
There’s a baseball league here in Blah Cliath
The City Council pitches here in Crumlin get re-marked into Baseball Diamonds
2 on each pitch – when the soccer season ends and they’re done with them,
opposite corners like and TBF the pitches are well maintained by Council greenkeepers
Going by the crowds and the set ups they bring with them it’s definitely well attended and supported
Deckchairs, kits etc
Mixed teams play with the softball
They’re all shy rhymes with kite mind you
Kicks off from the June BH
Training and development most weekday evenings
Matches on Sundays
Lorcans nearby who also use the pitches for training
Are often seen rocking up to make up the numbers
Last night I saw some of the neighbours and their kids join in
Although they were insisting they were playing Rounders
Just to wind up the yanks like
Sum’ting else, they always cleans up after themselves
Unlike the soccer crowds – leaving rubbish like
Seriously, if ya fancy giving it a lash
Or just a nosey
Gis a shout
But it’s definitely a thing here now
I was at one. Bored me to tears so I had a few beers and banter with friends.
The game itself was irrelevant after a while.
Boom !
Welcome to Prime Minister Boris.
Now he just needs to school some manners into the Peacock Taoiseach and remind him how much Ireland really depends on the mainland.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1138551562522046464/photo/1
“school some manners into the Peacock Taoiseach and remind him how much Ireland really depends on the mainland.”
Nice to see the Sasamachs have learned exactly nothing from the past 2 something years of negotiating with the EU. But then, the tea boy is promising to renegotiate the deal he negotiated and that May failed to renegotiate several times already so intelligence is clearly lacking among the Sasamachs.
Experts find a no deal will have a huge impact on NI businesses just as the conservatives are planning on installing the “f- business” tea boy as their Taoiseach. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic.
The internal FG review by whats-his-name SC of the Maria Bailey dodgy swing compo business is due today. While it’s unlikely to address Bailey’s Aer Lingus compo claim in 2005, it is supposed to look at the role the FG culture minister Josepha Madigan played in the swing compo business and it should also look at the merit of a case which was grounded in false statements about the extent of injuries, and quite possibly a lot more. Will Maria Bailey last the day or will she be suspended? What about Josepha Madigan? Why not make it 3-for-3 and kick Alan Farrell out for his dodgy compo claim as well?
Or will this review be extended as well….
The press-Gardai crossed a line yesterday by identifying the citizen (Mago Gately) as the person who was raided by the Garda criminal assets bureau, which seized a blue Golf GTI (number plates blanked on the pics) and a dodgy looking “rolex”. Early yesterday, RTE jigsaw identified Gately and later the Indo published his name.
Is this the first time the CAB have named a citizen on the day the citizen was raided? And if you’re going to name the citizen, what’s the point in blanking the number plate on the car you’re seizing?
And remember this is the country where the media still shamelessly refers to “Mr Flashy” and “Mr Big” and where Noeleen Coakley Hutch is suing the Star, Jonathan Hutch is suing TV3 and Nikita Murtagh is suing the publishers of the Irish Sun/Times Ireland.
The sleazebaggery in FG grows whiffier by the day. Yesterday Leo tried to defend the government decision not to ban smoky coal which is transforming some towns, like Enniscorthy, into New Delhis for air quality. Leo says he’s a-scared of the coal companies taking legal action. Since when did Irish coal companies become more powerful than the farmers or vintners?
And yesterday also, the government tried to defend its decision to block a Bill which would ban drilling for oil. The Times Ireland reports “The government opposed a bill to ban future fossil fuel exploration for fear of legal challenges from companies with oil and gas licences, a junior minister has said…Mr Canney said that there were costs associated with the bill, including refunds for application and licensing fees, and that legal challenges would be likely.”
I would love to see what lobbying is taking place at the moment.
I don’t think you would
Want to see the type of lobbying going on I mean
’cause like
The Smokey coal market here isn’t substantial enough or long-term enough to be worth the effort
So you’d have’ta wonder what the real money is looking for
Or who it’s working for
Haliburton’esq almost
and here was me thinking it was illegal to hide lobbying like?
https://www.lobbying.ie/
shure doesn’t all the lobbying get registered here & is it not possible to trace all that activity easily :)
Lobbying as gaelige
Is PR Advisor
Or sometimes Communications Consultant
That’s a nasty sky on the front of the Star. Nothing compared to Germany yesterday when hail the size and consistency of golf balls fell, breaking car windows and taking slates and cladding off homes.
An example of what’s going around Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1mX9qj5-Lg
The LPT scam now will drill its way deeper into our pockets. Remember that our taxes always paid for local services. Then LPT was introduced, but the existing contribution from our taxes didn’t reduce. And it’s a scam to say that there will be ‘modest’ increases. The base rate might have a ‘modest’ increase, but the councils can increase the actual rate sharply.
And we are getting nothing extra from this tax that wasn’t there when our normal taxes were paying for the councils. It’s a stealth tax. It’s an extra tax. No extra benefits. Apart from it going directly to another waste of public lunds – Irish Water ( an invoicing system, only, that has cost billions )
Remind me again there Gigs
Why wasn’t the ESB or the FloGas crowd’s billing system good enough?
BTW
I wonder how many Councils
Particularly City ones
Will vote to raise LPT now that the elections are over
Imagine cribbing about no funds for housing and services
And then voting to defund yerself
Pity the member of the Congregationalist Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster lost his case at the Workplace Relations Commission against the National Transport Authority (which had provided free travel to people attending the Pope’s Phoenix Park gig last August). The Flyning Spaghetti people organised a gathering near the Phoenix Park at the same time and demanded religious equality with free travel for their members also. Sadly the Spags lost at the WRC, but only on a technicality by failing to follow WRC procedures. Shame. The NTA was represented at the WRC by top law firm McCann Fitz.
We read about WRC awards. There is one actually reported today about a €20,000 award to a worker who was constantly being called queer by a director of the company.
But we never actually get the company name or the name of the guilty party. Why is that?
A restaurant has been ordered to pay €20,000 in compensation to a gay bar manager after a director called him ‘queer’ almost every day at work.
Why all the secrecy?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/restaurant-must-pay-20-000-to-gay-bar-manager-called-queer-1.3922299
Can they re-enter Eoin
Feck. How did I miss that
I might have’ta follow that up
…Hi Frilly…if you follow @CoFSM on twitter you’ll get chapter and verse…
Ta Bisto
I’ll definitely folly that up
Tis a great story int’it
ah doesn’t Ser Brienne of Tarth look absolutely lovely there
That smile is unmistakeable
Take pains…… Be perfect
Dodgy report by Reuters on Irish media out today (blame Jane Suiter at DCU for the following commentary).
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-06/DNR_2019_FINAL_0.pdf
“It [Newsbrands Ireland] also successfully lobbied the government to reduce VAT on printed [sic] newspapers which took effect in January 2019″
” News Corp UK & Ireland [sic] is making most staff redundant and the paper’s print edition will cease publication. Just three staff positions out of about 20 are being retained.”
Apparently thejournal.ie is the #2 online news website, after RTE at #1, in this country
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy.
Definitely
And on the wireless there earlier
You could almost hear the Morning Ireland crowd sniggering and gloating
Trying to keep a straight face as they reported it
Not just RTE,
Irish Times “reports”
“The Irish Times’ success in building a suscriber base for its online news products could point to a public desire for quality Irish perspectives on world events, according to Dublin City University’s Institute of Future Media and Journalism (FuJo).
….
The report noted that The Irish Times achieved a 26 per cent rise in digital sales in 2018, making it the only newspaper here to grow across both print and digital during this period.”
Print declined at the Irish Times in 2018, it’s down 4.8%, and they’re now selling less than 48,000 copies at full price each day.
As for digital, just 20 (twenty) out its 21,000 average daily sales are at full price. You can build digital sales if you’re giving the stuff away!
The Irish Times goes on to report “The report shows that 10 per cent of the 2,013 people surveyed in January and February 2019 cited The Irish Times as one of the main brands they used for news. Some 8 per cent cited The Irish Times, which launched digital subscription products in 2015, as a “main traditional source of news”.”
It doesn’t give context by saying the IT is waaay down the list of news sources.
And yes, that’s [“suscriber”] how they spell “subscriber”
I wonder at what point do people really start to panic about climate change and biodiversity loss?
At what point?
We all know that the longer a problem is ignored the worse it gets.
We all know that the effects will be catastrophic; in some countries they already are.
Are we powerless? Can we not stand up and do the right thing and demand a carbon neutral economy?
Can we not demand that our government stop blocking environmental legislation such as the “Climate Action – keep it in the ground” bill? Can we not demand that our government stop using undemocratic “procedural trickery” to prevent these bills being passed?
Irish people are inherently good. I’m proud of our history. I learned that we always stood up to tyranny in the past.
Well our government is on a very different path and I’m worried.