The Irish

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/chaos-for-city-of-culture-festival-as-three-quit-29882013.html

good oul limerick. always making the headlines for the wrong reasons. the NYE gig was an absolute shambles actually. everyone was shunted into the courthouse yard like cattle, could barely see the stage, gargantuan queues for the bars (and not enough of them) and they even fucked up the countdown! i had left a long time before that, after spending over 20 euro for a ticket. doesnt bode well for the city of culture.

i never heard irish in the aussie accent before but there's a guy talking about stars on dara o'briain programme atm and he's somewhere btwn meblourne and the ardoyne between coughs

Darragh, I brought this up on Mordy's Aaliyah thread but I'll bring it up up, more oppositely, here; what was the deal with Ballyshannon? The partition deprived it of a rail connection to the Republic and then...?

Aaliyah! A++

i dunno the deal with ballyshannon, unless you can narrow down the question! it was a regular border checkpoint for me is all, though we were driving from donegal to mayo (within the republic throughout, as far as i was ever aware)

i never heard irish in the aussie accent before but there's a guy talking about stars on dara o'briain programme atm and he's somewhere btwn meblourne and the ardoyne between coughs

he could possibly be just a dickhead too

nah i think he's sound

he's a sight better than yon nerd just there

im not watching it - a new stand up comedy show is it?

jesus christ

https://mobile.twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/422505703631118337/photo/1

this story has been getting stranger all day.

beaten to death over chess match, details make it reasonably clear we're dealing with lovers, then its around that he's a researcher for the fuckin IONA

now apparently its cannabalism

is there a reliable source for cannibalism claims

gonna interpret that as a burn on the indo

Couple of different outlets carrying similar, differ btwn heart/lungs tbf

so Una Mullally's going to be writing the entire paper in a few years I guess
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/humble-pie-on-the-menu-for-manchester-united-1.1652763

Shes welcome to IT, a pile of shite.

Podcasts are my new entertainment source at work.

would read the indo before the times tbh

oof

Its getting closer but if thats a claim extending back longer than a year then no wai u mad etc

im going by recent saturday editions of times and indo - times is much poorer in comparison

Ive not found anything great lately. Back when i was going to actually use the BBS id get the business post (maybe thats under new running now too?) but i paid for an indo once in my life and not never again, the reaction i took against it was that strong.

Mar ya things are that bad that we get the sunday times now and try to make it last the week, an awful shtate of (current) affairs

deeply amused (but not at all surprised) by Mr Flahavan being there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX08J6hnr3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trl-Bi-WgZ8

I was to bump this today but it'll wait

Whatm i missin in yon clip

just a slice of life you know

Letterkenny is kickin off have ye ppl local and are they safe

one can never assume

the irish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmPFbD2BuUI

*Passes driving test*

*Immediately begins to drive while precariously perching an iPhone on his clutch foot and glancing down at it every 5 seconds*

lol

we drive on the left?

I have no idea tbh and I actually can't begin to parse who's driving what in that video

My first thought tbh was dang, Robb Stark learned how to drive

i say it in the full and sure knowledge that he'll never read it, but meself and herself saw an awful lot of her aul fella in the reaction.

dont watch GOT but have had a pint with jack gleeson (i have luvvie theatre friends now i live in dublin doncheknow) and he's a grand fella

Punch him in the face for me

Actually he's one of my favs. I love how much people love to hate him

arah i couldnt punch the lad in the face, sure i hardly know him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbeiU6hKV28

mind yourself

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/they-said-theyd-never-seen-orange-hair-in-sierra-leone-622353.html

Spent the morning explaining the verbal tics 'mar ya', 'musha' and the lapse into the hard 'wh' at the start of a question that seem to ever more consistently pepper my dialogue the longer and further i live from the homestead. There's a thesis in when and why 'and' follows 'mar ya' but i haven't all avenues explored to my own satisfaction yet, suffice to note that the hibernian-irish grammatical particle has ways and means never bestowed upon it from the oppressor, back alley routes and sleights of hand conveyances that possibly were forced either in the pressurised melding of mothertongue to father or emerged out of a guerilla mentality up the hills of cavan to bushwhack tommy with his prepositional inflexibility

hibernian autocorrect

It is seachtain na gaeilge but i'll be damned if i write in again about them after the last time, i was checkin under the car for months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh,_County_Fermanagh#Slater.27s_Directory_1870

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHD8QQXo_s

Can we fight about the gaeilge

I actually had a question about The Irish last night.

If Ireland was under military threat, would the IRA or other 'dissident Republicans' come to the aid of their historic enemies, The Irish Army?

in such a ridiculous hypothetical scenario, im sure it would be a case of bygones be bygones from all concerned

Oof
idk, depends maybe on the identity of the threat?

Could see the idealist hardcore groups staying out of the fray as a strategic measure, with yr common garden local thug maybe inclined to join up to crack skulls legitimately

But, here, looksee now, i want to fight about the GAEILGE

cén fáth

Seachtain na gaeilge agus na litiri in the fuckin t-amini iriseach

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Speaking of SnG, Facebook slapped a name change restriction on me after me switching to the Irish version the past few years. Who knew?!

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