Babbling 'brook

Jabba the Health sprayed with red paint by protestors today. A taste of things to come? That was bang out of order, no place for that. Harney should have walloped her with the shovel..I would. She has the poisoned chalice of portfolios and is actually one of the better ones out there. and a SF coun...

Did anyone notice in Thomond Park this evening the RTE cameraman making a mad dash to get behind the posts followed by the assistant dragging about 300 feet of cable everytime there was a penalty or a conversion ? I have yet to see the tv coverage of the game so I cant comment on the quality on scre...

You should let people pick more than one option for a truer reflection... I considered that but then thought that it might cloud the issue, so I decided to try and cover most bases. If you could pick as many options as possible and ticked Sky, Setanta and ESPN then it may have been three separate p...

as a committed lifelong supporter of Israel I find I am just at a complete loss these last number of years.

what a joke, contrast with Ribery appeal and we don't look so good. We are getting worse than the GAA for tayloring punishments to meet local needs

I still have problems with the inclusion of Rocky. Top team last season, no question. But he has only played 1 season in the HEC and to include him ahead of others who have had far greater involvement, baffling. :? I agree on the one season thing. However he did play 10 times better than most other...

You're wasting your time Orfeo - apparently describing people as Unionists or Nationalists is inherently sectarian and it's great that all the DUP voters were voting for a pro-devolution party, except in Belfast East where Robbo was rejected because he's anti devolution...oh, if more than one perso...

But I think we will just have to agree to dis-agree as you wont answer any questions in the spirit in which they are asked , there is no point in saying the Alliance Party are a cross community party etc etc, they are a Unionist party as you well know . don't you mean I wont answer any questions in...

Myles , The Unionists have known since day 1 that the game was up since then everything has been about putting off the fatefull day, that is why they took six counties instead of nine. Everything is about saying no and delay delay delay and it has been incredibly sucessfull, even Michael Collins ass...

Myles , first up- I don't mind a bit of banter, humour and irony, but does everything have to descend into a slanging match. I don't agree with your views but I respect your right to them and you might accord the same in return. Now back to the discussion - a couple of questions and a comment for yo...

Myles why would you say I '' am aghast at the possibility of change'' in Northern Ireland ? I fail to understand how you can draw any conclusions at to my point of view just because I dont agree with the your analysis of the whys and wherefores of the election. Can I also ask do you classify The All...

hold on a second....when presented with the facts...do you finally ACCEPT that the unnionist voters in east belfast swung overwhelmingly towards a non-unionist party? . But you never said "swung" Myles, you said " [East Belfast] Unionist voters voted overwhelmingly in favour of a non...

I can think of a lot more people that could be jailed for treason before I would worry about this mob, for a start how about the currupt planners, the venial politicians , the dodgy developers, the shady auctioneers and solicitors , the money-men in their homburgs and year round tans swanning it up...

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I can think of a lot more people that could be jailed for treason before I would worry about this mob, for a start how about the currupt planners, the venial politicians , the dodgy developers, the shady auctioneers and solicitors , the money-men in their homburgs and year round tans swanning it up ...

Another eagle poisoned in Kerry ,this is the 19th eagle deliberately poisoned , what are we like ?

. Either way, I think we all agree that if somebody murders somebody and gets life, they should never see the outside of a prison again. Sod light sentences, sod concurrent sentences, sod being fearful of infringing upon their human rights. No , we cant all agree they should never see the outside of...

We are fast approaching the 100 anniversary of the foundation of this state and we still vote along civil wars lines ! Hopefully this current recession will at last put all that cr@p to bed and we can join the ranks of ''mature'' democracies and align left/right/centre-right of left etc. I remember...

....to draw any conclusions such a short time after the election is premature and to say the shift from sectaranianism to voting on merit is just downright naive you maybe right...perhaps I'm being too optimistic in my interpretation of the results. some commentators have remarked that there was a ...

Paul Chambers has been found Guilty at the Twitter "bomb hoax" joke trial http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/05/paul-chambers-bad-joke-and-bad.html UK has become the most over-surveilled democracy on the planet , and they has lost their sense of humour along the way. They now have more a...