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Post by seamus on Mar 21, 2016 15:30:47 GMT
He failed the Bovine handling course requirement for the Minister for Rural Development at the weekend. Lost touch with the common people already and was reported to have been seen eating his dinner at 7pm in a Dublin restaurant last week.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Mar 21, 2016 20:13:03 GMT
That was Deenihan's Bull McCabe, in the field that is, not on the plate in the Dublin restaurant at that unearthly hour of the day to be atin the dinner!
And if The Bull is doing his rounds well ain't I lucky to be in far north Donegal. Maybe Jimbog will have McCabe text The Big Brown Bull of Cooley? Ah maybe it was Red Bull, or maybe The Red Cow as Mickmack says? Either way it will pick it's opponents more carefully in future!
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Post by Mickmack on Mar 21, 2016 22:00:52 GMT
Plenty of mirth today at work about poor MHR and the cow and someone asked was it the "red cow". Then someone says that their uncle got killed in the same circumstances and that was the end of the hilarity.
I hope our Donegal posters are unaffected by the shocking tragedy in Donegal.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Mar 22, 2016 1:23:46 GMT
Donegal tragedy is hard felt everywhere, it was a most beautiful day here and I recall remarking near 7pm that it was still bright and which would have been precisely when those unfortunates were anticipating sundown at that most beautiful spot, facing west. Buncrana is probably to Derry what Banna is to Tralee, so you get the picture, first day of Summer adventure by the sea. The Inishowen peninsula has had more that it's share of tragedy down the years and they have had a significant number of multiple-fatality car accidents, including the worst ever on record that claimed 8 lives. RIP.
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 10, 2016 3:02:06 GMT
There is some interesting stuff in the media lately by a John Moran, ex Secretary of Dept Finance. He calls it as it is and he explains the trade-off between national prosperity and rural depopulation. If people understood this then we would be one step towards a solution.
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 27, 2016 14:49:22 GMT
I came by a few articles recently that pointed out that this sense of entitlement by vested interests is a major stumbling block in correcting geographic discrimination. I often hear older folk complain of the youth having lofty expectation and you'd wonder why they don't get their own house in order first. I know of a local case recently where businessmen believed they could plunder the fruits of the labours of a younger generation. Some example they were giving off and you can be sure they wouldn't be so generous with their own profit. What was even more worrying is that they aligned themselves with the auld gombeenism ilk as they sought to court public affection for unpopular decisions they themselves made and out of self interest. It is one thing to look after number one but to be hypocritical by kicking another man and then cowarding into a corner and throwing their toys out of the pram when it all backfired is a bit much. All a bit unfair one might say and it just goes to show how difficult it will be to reverse this trend of rural Ireland being emptied out. I see we now have a rural affairs Minister so at least the powers that be have now acted. I think Spillane could be a good mentor in this area but he really needs to be briefed of the underlying causes to play an effective role and I don't think he would let us down.
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Post by glengael on May 27, 2016 18:42:17 GMT
No Ministerial recognition for Kerry in the new administration or today's Seanad nominations. On the one hand it can be seen as reaction to the fact that we had a Minister in the outgoing govt but didn't see fit to re-elect him, on the other it can be seen that other counties are now being prioritised when the jobs are being given out, possibly with a view to future election prospects.
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 28, 2016 2:58:28 GMT
No Ministerial recognition for Kerry in the new administration or today's Seanad nominations. On the one hand it can be seen as reaction to the fact that we had a Minister in the outgoing govt but didn't see fit to re-elect him, on the other it can be seen that other counties are now being prioritised when the jobs are being given out, possibly with a view to future election prospects. We are told that every Kerry TD could have held high office, FF & SF refused, M Healy-Rae refused Minister for Rural Affairs and Deenihan himself said he wasn't interested in being senator. Well Brendan Griffin is the exception and maybe he is tender in years yet. What will happen if we had a quick election? Have FF any shadow ministers in Kerry? And Donegal thinking it was the official Forgotten County. With jobs shifting out of the county and farms getting bigger, Kerry is fortunate to have such a natural scenic landscape for tourism. Are we back to where we were "with mountains behind us and the Atlantic before us, we had to do something". What will we do? What will happen rural clubs, bearing in mind they represent a big percentage of clubs?
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Post by kerrybhoy06 on May 28, 2016 7:43:09 GMT
It's mainly because we vote in guys of questionable ability and character who can add very little at a national leaving- you reap what you sow and all that
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2016 7:44:36 GMT
It could also be reflective of the calibre of candidates elected.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on May 28, 2016 10:34:15 GMT
Yerra we take care of our own. Don't be looking to Dublin.
We can paddle our own canoe.
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Post by Ballyfireside on May 28, 2016 11:05:55 GMT
I don't think Kerry candidates are below average, although some are beholden to vested interests and we do shoot ourselves in the foot in that respect.
Union told to find €500k cutbacks at Cadbury plant in Rathmore - This Examiner headline today is typical of the potentially devastating effects of what I have referred to in the past, and my point is that if we could eliminate the cost burden of vested interests then we would see fewer threatening headlines like this, and maybe more job expansion announcements. And we hardly need reminding of how Rathmore has saved our bacon on the field on many a day when the tide was against us.
A friend in Kerry tourism tells me that the level of business would double if our cost base could be further improved by even a few percent. I suppose we will get there but when, and what will be lost meanwhile that will be lost forever? We shouldn't have to be a nation of forced emigration, and that is one of the saddest things for many GAA folk. I recall seeing young guys in London in my day, heartbroken because they weren't at home to scoot up the road to big games, try as they may to conceal it you could see it in their eyes and we were all the same. And then you have the older generation, many of whom have never been able to make it to a football match involving their home county. I know some officials were put out when I was vocal on the "Sky-high" deal but I wouldn't be true to my beliefs if I didn't call it as I saw it. Now maybe people think I am just throwing in my tuppenny bit, but that is simply not the case, I know the background here and some from unfortunate experience.
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Post by kerrybhoy06 on May 28, 2016 17:44:05 GMT
Yerra we take care of our own. Don't be looking to Dublin. We can paddle our own canoe. I'm not sure what you mean by this? Or are you just quoting the Boss for the weekend thats in it? We need to elect guys who can get some jobs created in the county- not 2 laughing stocks and a man with a 'Republican' past. This whole idea that these lads will look after Kerry is complete nonsense- they will look after minuscule issues as thats all they can handle and not look after bigger issues- because they are not able. Then when said bigger issues are not looked after- they will blame everyone else and get reelected. Imagine the scenario- the head of investor relations from a big pharma company comes to Kerry looking to create a few jobs and meets the boyos. He then asks about their stance on certain issues and their pasts- man leaves room within 10 minutes and builds plant in Cork/Limerick
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Post by kerrygold on May 28, 2016 19:24:40 GMT
Yerra we take care of our own. Don't be looking to Dublin. We can paddle our own canoe. I'm not sure what you mean by this? Or are you just quoting the Boss for the weekend thats in it? We need to elect guys who can get some jobs created in the county- not 2 laughing stocks and a man with a 'Republican' past. This whole idea that these lads will look after Kerry is complete nonsense- they will look after minuscule issues as thats all they can handle and not look after bigger issues- because they are not able. Then when said bigger issues are not looked after- they will blame everyone else and get reelected. Imagine the scenario- the head of investor relations from a big pharma company comes to Kerry looking to create a few jobs and meets the boyos. He then asks about their stance on certain issues and their pasts- man leaves room within 10 minutes and builds plant in Cork/Limerick They seem to have climate change cracked all the same! Maybe that is why Kerry Group shagged off up to Naas with 2000 jobs?
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Post by Ballyfireside on Jun 6, 2016 20:50:46 GMT
I just seen this on Radio Kerry site, it claims tourism is worth €400m to Kerry annually while agriculture is only €6.5m. This latter figure sounds very low?, a mistake?
Tourism worth over €400 million to the Kerry economy A new report claims that tourists are worth over €400 million to the Kerry economy. The figure is contained in a new study by DCU’s Tony Foley which was commissioned by the drinks industry. His “Hospitality employment in Dail constituencies 2016” claims that that over nine-and-a-half-thousand people are employed in the hospitality industry here. It also suggest there are 435 pubs in Kerry, as well as 50 hotels, and 138 restauraunts within the county at present. The reports claims agricultural output in the county is also worth €6.5million.
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Post by onlykerry on Jun 7, 2016 12:52:20 GMT
Those numbers look very dodgy to me - there must be 30+ hotels in Killarney alone and another dozen in Tralee ever before one starts counting the rest around the county. And the figure quoted for agriculture is total nonsense - the 2010 census on farming returned 8412 farms in Kerry with average farm income at €17.7 giving a value of close to €150 million for the sector. Makes you wonder about the purpose and intent of the report....
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Post by Ballyfireside on Sept 24, 2016 12:52:56 GMT
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Post by Ballyfireside on Sept 29, 2016 19:45:23 GMT
Rural Ireland is plagued with Gombeen Ambulance chasing solicitors who were identified by The World Bank and The IMF as 'the dearest in the world'. The solicitors went into denial and low and behold but some of our politicians, even farmers and a few other fools backed up some of the most notorious claimants.
Now we are told that not alone are they the most expensive but here is the headline from The Irish Times -
Irish premiums per capita four times higher than EU average, IMF says
Isn't there a young man from near Tralee also championing this? I suggest that the firms involved be boycotted, and it isn't as if their carry on is limited to insurance scams. One of them cost the state €30.5m in a now not so recent and notorious case. Then they use local radio to say they won an award 'for services to the community' when in fact it was for their Trojan efforts in the use of computers in rural Ireland 'by comparison with firms on the East coast'.
If this problem was eliminated then it would put thousands in people's pockets each year, it would boost tourism and now with Brexit we would have more jobs as they are trying to get for Limerick.
Otherwise the prospects for small Kerry towns is grim. If the above article by Jack O'Shea is anything to go by and if Cahersiveen is struggling then what hope have places off the beaten tourist track. The longer it goes on the harder it will be to solve and the GAA is a big loser as rural clubs are decimated as the local economy deteriorates. The enemy within is of courser the problem and some say the GAA could become a target, not to say it isn't already fleeced with extortionate insurance premiums. So out with our placards to decontaminate rural Ireland of ambulance chasers.
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Post by glengael on Oct 4, 2016 16:07:53 GMT
Excellent article, well worth a read.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Oct 4, 2016 17:05:56 GMT
The biggest obstacle between Mayo and glory? Their locationLow and behold but this is yet another article that sheds light on the urban/rural imbalance. The Jack O'Shea article I referred to above looked at the same issue from the ground up, while this one sees it from the county team angle. My own original view was 'top down', i.e. the GAA is merely a victim of the wider structural issue. All three views are really saying the same thing and collectively they provide a rare insight for core GAA supporters to 'off the field' issues that bestow 'comparative advantage' and so can determine what teams do well. This one details the logistics of training for Mayo and bear in mind that there are many teams who would be must worse off, and very few better off. It refers to a Sport Canada Report of 20 years ago; I will look into this and report back. It is an ideal time of the year to focus on this issue and which is near enough the root of many other challenges facing rural Ireland today and of which the GAA is an accurate baraometer. Fellow forum members might start with the Jack O'Shea one, it is a beautifully told story that we can all relate to, although the maestro does stoke a few memories that will do the heart no harm at all. Chat soon agus slan go foill a chairde ó an great Contae Chiarraí. P.S. In my endeavors to root out that Canada Sports article I learn that Dr Ed Coughlan, the author of The Examiner article is no stranger to GAA.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Oct 15, 2016 2:13:12 GMT
The following article is but another lesson for rural Ireland, albeit one we didn't anticipate but if the house isn't in order one will always be vulnerable. The bottom line is that while rural Ireland only gets the crumbs as regards jobs, 80% of the job losses as a consequence of Brexit will be outside Dublin. Food is the big one and of course tourism with Sterling falling, so hardly the best news for Kerry. Now I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, and indeed Kerry is far and away the strongest in these sectors anyway, but structural issues will again be the bane of our community. Fishing is unique and other food areas such as mushroom farming were immediately decimated, so it is testing times.
Five sectors most exposed to Brexit employ 94,000, says department Companies involved largely based outside Dublin, Department of Finance analysis finds
The five sectors in Ireland most exposed to Brexit and the fall in sterling employ 94,000 people, according to a special analysis undertaken by the Department of Finance.
Apart from the pharmachem sector, the bulk of the companies involved are low profit and largely based outside Dublin, while many are SMEs.
The most exposed sectors were pharmachem, food and beverage, traditional manufacturing, materials manufacturing and electrical equipment. According to the department’s analysis, they “have a comparatively large share of employment based outside of Dublin,” with almost 80 per cent of jobs in the food and drinks sector in the regions.
Border region “The highest share of total employment in the exposed sectors . . . is found in the Border region,” it found. Companies in this sector typically rely on UK sales for a hefty 9 to 13 per cent of total turnover. Annual exports in goods and services with the UK amount to about €34 billion, or 17 per cent of Irish exports, the document said. The UK thus remains the biggest single market for Irish exporters, even though reliance on it has fallen from the early 1970s, when the UK accounted for more than 50 per cent of exports.
However, Minister for Finance Michael Noonan said in his budget speech that up to 40 per cent of all exports by indigenous companies go to the UK market.
“Over €1.2 billion of goods and services are exchanged between us on a weekly basis,” Mr Noonan said on budget day. “This trade supports 400,000 jobs, split evenly between the two islands, with many more in the supply chain.”
In the service sector, the UK accounts for a significant share of overseas sales in computer services and insurance/financial services. Another key exposed sector is tourism, where about 40 per cent of trips to Ireland are undertaken by UK residents.
The UK is important to Ireland as a source of imports, with almost 30 per cent of merchandise imports and 17 per cent of all imports originating from the UK. The UK is also a major source of so-called “intermediate” goods – which are used by Irish companies in the production process for exports. In some cases this will protect Irish companies, as they will be able to buy these inputs more cheaply in sterling terms. Complex supply chains
But it also points to the potential complications caused by the disruption to complex supply chains typical in modern businesses. It is unclear what tariffs might apply on imports from the UK in future, but some are possible in the event of a “hard” Brexit.
These could increase costs for those importing from the UK and add another barrier to those selling into the UK market.
How well are the companies involved able to withstand pressure on their margins? With access to Revenue Commissioners data, the department was able to estimate that “the mainly indigenous exposed sectors in manufacturing show relatively low levels of profit as does the services sector of tourism”.
Profits are dominated by the pharmachem sector on the goods side and the financial sector in terms of service exporters, both of whom will have more room for manoeuvre financially.
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Post by Mickmack on Oct 15, 2016 10:01:13 GMT
A quick scan of the Kerry minor panel from 2015 tells us how critical to the GAA the small rural club is. The GAA club is critical to the well being of the small community and the success of small clubs like Templenoe, Brosna, Glenbeigh Glencar etc gives hope to other clubs to organise (to borrow a Phase from the song Joe Hill). They too can aspire to a day in Croke Park. T he tie between economics and the GAA is so close that one only has to consider the importance of the decision of Darragh O'Se's grandfather to return from London and open a shop back West. One or other of the clan has been on every winning Kerry team since 1975.The drift all over the world is for people to move from the Countryside to the village, the town or to the City. A few months ago this topic was raised and Tom from Annascaul told me that high speed broadband would be the key to bringing jobs to rural Ireland. He didn't say how this would be done exactly. What kind of jobs...hardly manufacturing.... so are we talking about tourism? Can anything be done to renegotiate the loss of Irelands fishing rights to get back to something like it was prior to 1972. I was in Dingle in September and I commented to a local that the fishing boats were huge in the harbour. He said that they were all Spanish and the fish was being shipped out to Spain and the same fish was imported and being sold in the local restaurants. Meanwhile the locals have to meet stringent rules before they can fish. I don't know enough about this topic but it does seem crazy. And to those who will no doubt try to say that this topic should be shut down...consider this... Gaelic football was introduced to Kerry by people who came to Kerry to work on the railway line from Killorglin to Caherciveen (I thing it was that line). Laune Rangers grew out of that. One of the these men was Eamonn OSullivans father. Eamonn as we know went on to coach Kerrys teams over 5 decades. would Marc's grandfather come back and open a shop in Ventry in year 2016? T
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Post by Premier on Oct 15, 2016 10:45:52 GMT
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Post by givehimaball on Oct 15, 2016 18:50:52 GMT
Those two bits alone tell a stark tale about the state of rural Ireland.
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Post by kerrygold on Oct 15, 2016 19:43:12 GMT
The 2000 jobs Kerry Group carried up to Millennium Park Naas would have revolutionised Kerry!
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Oct 15, 2016 19:51:06 GMT
Negativity is catching.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Oct 16, 2016 0:04:02 GMT
The 2000 jobs Kerry Group carried up to Millennium Park Naas would have revolutionised Kerry! That is not true, and in any event it would be a corporate crime for them not to act 100% in shareholders interests, many of whom are UK and US based global financial institutions, that dwarf Kerry Group in terms of size. That path was chosen when they went public and with that the co-op model went out the back door. But it is not the only company in the world and they themselves have even said that the county's future is not in farming but tourism. I know of a tourism project that was obstructed by prominent Kerry solicitors and I was a bit surprised with how many actually supported them so some will suck dry the blood of the common good. These hobos are a barrier between the county and jobs and they should be weeded out. There was a 50 jobs project won by Tralee a few years back and it is firms like this Kerry should target, but again investors would be scared if there was an inordinate level of cronysim in say legal services and where the protection of Intellectual property is key. Killarney is living proof that there is a massive market for the best product and which they have in tourism. Kerry is renowned for it's creativity and there is no better place in the world to live than on Ireland's west coast. Limerick is now attracting bigger firms and outlying towns are already getting the smaller projects with Newcastle West a recent winner. Cost is also key and there is some serious fat in the system. According to the IMF and the World Bank we actually have the dearest solicitors in the world and as a consequence our insurance costs are no less than four times the EU average. On top of that our Gardai are deemed by Transparency International to be complicit and collusive with white collar crime and that is another national disgrace. If these issues were addressed then it would be a realistic target to eliminate unemployment in Kerry as it would gain with industry as well as tourism and where we have plenty of capacity in terms of resources. But as I said, weeding out the baddies is the first step and that will mean our political parties siding with the people an not as they did with the legal services bill recently, they rolled over en masse. I know a few independents outside Kerry who stood up to them so there can be no excuse. Anyway I suppose we can only let our voices be heard and cast our votes at election time for those who serve them people as opposed to the Gombeens among us who act entirely out of self-interest.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Oct 16, 2016 0:16:58 GMT
Ah class, that's what frenemies are for!
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Post by kerrygold on Oct 16, 2016 21:49:41 GMT
The 2000 jobs Kerry Group carried up to Millennium Park Naas would have revolutionised Kerry! That is not true, and in any event it would be a corporate crime for them not to act 100% in shareholders interests, many of whom are UK and US based global financial institutions, that dwarf Kerry Group in terms of size. That path was chosen when they went public and with that the co-op model went out the back door. But it is not the only company in the world and they themselves have even said that the county's future is not in farming but tourism. I know of a tourism project that was obstructed by prominent Kerry solicitors and I was a bit surprised with how many actually supported them so some will suck dry the blood of the common good. These hobos are a barrier between the county and jobs and they should be weeded out. There was a 50 jobs project won by Tralee a few years back and it is firms like this Kerry should target, but again investors would be scared if there was an inordinate level of cronysim in say legal services and where the protection of Intellectual property is key. Killarney is living proof that there is a massive market for the best product and which they have in tourism. Kerry is renowned for it's creativity and there is no better place in the world to live than on Ireland's west coast. Limerick is now attracting bigger firms and outlying towns are already getting the smaller projects with Newcastle West a recent winner. Cost is also key and there is some serious fat in the system. According to the IMF and the World Bank we actually have the dearest solicitors in the world and as a consequence our insurance costs are no less than four times the EU average. On top of that our Gardai are deemed by Transparency International to be complicit and collusive with white collar crime and that is another national disgrace. If these issues were addressed then it would be a realistic target to eliminate unemployment in Kerry as it would gain with industry as well as tourism and where we have plenty of capacity in terms of resources. But as I said, weeding out the baddies is the first step and that will mean our political parties siding with the people an not as they did with the legal services bill recently, they rolled over en masse. I know a few independents outside Kerry who stood up to them so there can be no excuse. Anyway I suppose we can only let our voices be heard and cast our votes at election time for those who serve them people as opposed to the Gombeens among us who act entirely out of self-interest. Millennium Park is one of the most spectacular Celtic Tiger ghost estate relics, it needed a good anchor tenant.
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Post by givehimaball on Jan 19, 2017 14:26:23 GMT
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