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Post by westmeathman on May 8, 2015 22:26:44 GMT
Good interview on the late late from good old pat.the part about the armagh man sending the letter addressed to "pat the bollix co kerry"and it landing in pats letter box was just halarious.hats off to you pat atleast you werent denieing it lol
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 9, 2015 0:21:44 GMT
It showed just how uncomplicated he is, the key to success, keep it simple, the audience really appreciated this and maybe TSG viewers would clap a lot also. No man is perfect and Pat is as good as it gets.
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Post by Mickmack on May 9, 2015 2:50:23 GMT
I didn't see it but a bit surprised that he is still telling that ould yarn.
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Post by kerrygold on May 9, 2015 9:14:23 GMT
A very passionate plea from Pat to the Government to improve the plight of rural Ireland and it's people. Fair play to him. The interview was interesting.
Seems the commissioned report he chaired on developing rural Ireland has been pushed into a cupboard somewhere and is gathering dust?
For a small Island with a tiny population in world terms, even measuring against the largest UK cities, we are delightfully delinquent at getting things right for the betterment of the people, more so in the rural outback.
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Post by kerryexile on May 9, 2015 22:41:15 GMT
I recently had a discussion with a friend, who is of the economist mentality, who could not understand why the post masters were planning to put people forward for election. I tried to explain why they might. I got nowhere. This morning I sent him a clip of what Spillane said. I thought he was brilliant. The biggest problem with this country is that they are all in there for the money/publicity/ego/what ever else.
Since the foundation of the state, and that's close to a 100 years, we have yet to produce a statesman or stateswoman.
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Post by westmeathman on May 10, 2015 9:10:42 GMT
I didn't see it but a bit surprised that he is still telling that ould yarn. Turbity drew it out of him in fairness
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 10, 2015 12:54:12 GMT
I saw a bit of what that project was all about and I even know of very valid contributions that were rejected. IMO they were dealing with the symptoms while ignoring the underlying issues. The root cause is the same as the challenges the GAA increasingly faces, and of course players and voluntary help is disadvantaged most of all. Basically globalisation addresses inequality between states BUT creates further inequality WITHIN states. The vested interests are the problem and the guilty ones even tried to bolster their support by trying to include the care professions of doctors and nurses in their lobby, and which misrepresents the situation. Funnily enough, I raised the issue a while back and the mob came after me, and which of course proves they were worried. And I am not a leftie as they suggested, nor do I think Ireland should pay money to anyone it doesn't owe money to. And I don't know it all either but none of us are stupid, nor are we naïve any longer.
The issue of rural depopulation that Kerrrygold alludes to is another symptom of globalisation while the solution to Kerryexile's point about our inability to organise ourselves is self-regulation and where the Troika (i.e. IMF, EU and ECB) told us to solve it and the economic benefits would be of the order of €10,000 per person pa. Now that would solve a lot of problems in society, just imagine your average sized family being €50,000 better off every year. Now that Sean Quinn is out of the way the ambulance chasers are kicking off again with the number and size of insurance claims both on the increase again. On top of that just imagine what the GAA alone would save say just on public liability cover annually; it could be used to accelerate the provision of facilities in local communities thus reinforcing the status of the GAA as a community sport.
Ah sure, the smell of cut grass today reminds of only one thing, another odyssey that is The Championship and King Henry on the hurling will be sweet, maybe he'll help entice The Kingdom towards the steps of Hogan on the pen ultimate All Ireland final, maybe we'll do the double. 1-23 v Meath is some tally.
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Post by glengael on May 10, 2015 14:10:15 GMT
Ah sure, the smell of cut grass today reminds of only one thing....
Where are you living? Is your fireside in Florida? Tis flaking rain with a gale force wind where i am this afternoon!
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Post by Joxer on May 10, 2015 18:28:16 GMT
Seems the commissioned report he chaired on developing rural Ireland has been pushed into a cupboard somewhere and is gathering dust? Hardly surprising KG. Isn't that what happens to most reports or at least all of those that might have a benefit for people outside the 'elite'? For a small Island with a tiny population in world terms, even measuring against the largest UK cities, we are delightfully delinquent at getting things right for the betterment of the people, more so in the rural outback. Absolutely agree..although not sure about the 'delightfully'!
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Post by glengael on May 11, 2015 12:59:14 GMT
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Post by Mickmack on May 13, 2015 23:28:24 GMT
Growing up in Kerry in the 60s and 70s, most rural people seemed to get by on small farms and the farmers dole thanks to Charlie Haughey. The term farmers dole implied that people were idle but they were far from it. That payment was no different to the subvention that big business got and still get.
The milk quota and strict rules and regulations forced people out of milk and the co-op that the small farmers (the hurling community mainly) had set up evolved into food production. At that time too, lots of people were employed in blue collar jobs in Clash industrial estate. All such jobs have gone to China and elsewhere now. They are lifting the milk quota now but I can see a lot of people getting back into milk given the start up costs etc.
Yet, food production has to be huge in the future given the way the world population is rising. How can that be turned to Kerrys advantage.
It saddens me to see the big building outside Newbridge by Kerry Group. I believe that tax system should be used to make it advantageous to put industry in counties along the western seaboard. For exampple, employers PRSI is a tax on jobs... if that were abolished for manufacturing jobs in Kerry etc it might help.
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Post by Ard Mhacha on May 14, 2015 0:34:29 GMT
Pat made more sense on the state of Ireland than he did about football! But he's dead right. Europe has screwed fishing and farming in Ireland and many other places.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on May 14, 2015 6:35:45 GMT
MM it's Broadband all the way for vigorous rural SMEs.
To be fair to K-Man if he was discussing this he would be censured.
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 14, 2015 22:10:19 GMT
Ah sure, the smell of cut grass today reminds of only one thing.... Where are you living? Is your fireside in Florida? Tis flaking rain with a gale force wind where i am this afternoon! That was my 4th crop and the 5th is now safely in the compost bin as of an hour ago.
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 14, 2015 22:12:44 GMT
MM it's Broadband all the way for vigorous rural SMEs. To be fair to K-Man if he was discussing this he would be censured. Are you ok there Tómas, your compliments worry me! Spillane is on the road long enough and should understand the system at this stage.
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Post by Mickmack on May 15, 2015 7:07:48 GMT
Ah sure, the smell of cut grass today reminds of only one thing.... Where are you living? Is your fireside in Florida? Tis flaking rain with a gale force wind where i am this afternoon! That was my 4th crop and the 5th is now safely in the compost bin as of an hour ago. K-Man someone on Donegal is selling a ride on mower....
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