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  • #6602
    jr86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭jr86


    After 2017 I have to agree. Everything about that Mayo performance (one of the best I've ever seen in a final) suggested a victory but Dublin took all the pressure and kept responding, and ultimately nudged themselves over the line in the end

    I reckon Tyrone of the 00s could rattle them but I'd still fancy Dublin every time. That Tyrone side were very physical, fit and had exceptional players. Kerry had a great side in the 00s but given their style of play I actually think this Dublin side would beat them comfortably enough


  • #6603
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Would agree on Tyrone. They had a steel in them that wouldn't be phased by Dublin. They also had several exceptional talents who could deliver scores when against the odds consistently which Mayo lacked.

    I think Dublin would win 7/10 but if they were about today, Dublin wouldn't be going for 5 in a row.


  • #6604
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Go Fund Me have removed Folau’s page and refunded the donors, looks like Izzy will have to pay his own bills. My heart is bleeding for him at this moment.


  • #6605
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Stheno wrote: »
    You worked in the Cock? Upstairs there is my favourite place to watch rugby after the Forty Four.

    Staff are fantastic and the food is good!

    Yep, a long long time ago. Upstairs was just store rooms and an office then. The family who owned it then actually lived upstairs previously. Was a great place to work, we had great craic.

    Deleted User wrote: »
    Upstairs in Zzippy's cock is a great place to watch a game.

    Ah Venjur, it was teed up for you to knock it out of the park and you struck out... not one of your best efforts!


  • #6606
    Miriam Handsome Salon
    Posts: 0 ✭ Miriam Handsome Salon


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Go Fund Me have removed Folau’s page and refunded the donors, looks like Izzy will have to pay his own bills. My heart is bleeding for him at this moment.

    Good on them.


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  • #6607
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Sloane Nutritious Ham wrote: »
    Good on them.

    A bunch of other outlets have reached out with their support. I think it's best for this to run its course. Allow Falou to waste his and other people's money. Let him fully wither in the public eye.


  • #6608
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    LCY is such a class airport. 5 minute walk from the plane seat to the DLR which runs every few minutes. Pity Dublin doesn't have similar to compete with DUB, perhaps had the boom last longer we might have seen one built?


  • #6609
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,741 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    LCY is such a class airport. 5 minute walk from the plane seat to the DLR which runs every few minutes. Pity Dublin doesn't have similar to compete with DUB, perhaps had the boom last longer we might have seen one built?

    Dublin Airport is as good a location as LCY, just really poor planning in terms of public transport. It's a point that's been raised constantly that we've one of the worst transport links to our airport but other than the proposed Metro, and a previous proposal to extend the Luas line, nothings ever really materialised.

    The problem isn't even a funding issue, it's mostly around the fact our governments have never fully committed to doing it. It's something always brought up around election time and falls through once the new regime gets into power.


  • #6610
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Run a track out to the M1, then down the middle of the Motorway to the port tunnel. Then stick a track along a lane of each tunnel and allow light rail and vehicles dual access like they do all over Europe. Then link it up with the Red Luas at the Point. It's so easy even we could bloody do it.


  • #6611
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,651 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    LCY can be an absolute nightmare to fly out of a lot of evenings as it simply can not handle the throughput of passengers it gets.


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  • #6612
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Run a track out to the M1, then down the middle of the Motorway to the port tunnel. Then stick a track along a lane of each tunnel and allow light rail and vehicles dual access like they do all over Europe. Then link it up with the Red Luas at the Point. It's so easy even we could bloody do it.

    It's beautiful and I think we could and should do it. That said - on the Luas Red line from the Point its still a long enough time to get lots of places. Grafton St for instance would still be 35 minutes on the Luas from the Point. The likes of Sandyford well over an hour.

    I live near Charlemont St so I get the 757 bus a lot. It starts at the Bleeding Horse pub on Camden St, takes a slightly but not overly convoluted route to the tunnel and in to the airport. Off Peak it can often do it in 35 minutes, not bad for 13 euro return. I'd take that service over getting one train to the point, changing trains there, to Abbey Street and changing trams there to get home.

    Metro South was a great solution, but even at that I'd realistically love a Heathrow Express type service. Underground from the Airport to the City Centre direct. The Journey would be like 8 minutes.


  • #6613
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Anyone watching The Inventor on Sky Atlantic. Mad story of a woman in the US who pulled the wool over a lot of peoples eyes, some seriously high profile, for over a decade. Never heard this story before, but not sure how I missed it.


  • #6614
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,069 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    molloyjh wrote: »
    Anyone watching The Inventor on Sky Atlantic. Mad story of a woman in the US who pulled the wool over a lot of peoples eyes, some seriously high profile, for over a decade. Never heard this story before, but not sure how I missed it.

    That about Theranos?


  • #6615
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    awec wrote: »
    molloyjh wrote: »
    Anyone watching The Inventor on Sky Atlantic. Mad story of a woman in the US who pulled the wool over a lot of peoples eyes, some seriously high profile, for over a decade. Never heard this story before, but not sure how I missed it.

    That about Theranos?

    Yep.


  • #6616
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    molloyjh, you should really check out the book by the WSJ journo who first broke the story, it's fantastic: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X


  • #6617
    b.gud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭b.gud


    There's also a podcast called the dropout about it, haven't seen the show but the podcast is very good http://abcradio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/


  • #6618
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    +1 for that podcast. Far superior to the HBO doc. Jennifer Lawrence is playing her in an upcoming film too.


  • #6619
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,327 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Pretty interesting article here on cockpit management and the Air France crash off Brazil 10 years ago

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash#


  • #6620
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,069 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Missus is out this evening so dining for one here, and took a crazy notion to order a kebab tray.

    What was I thinking? Half way through and I feel half dead already.


  • #6621
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,492 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    You'll finish it ... and you'll like it.


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  • #6622
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I still mourn the closure of Luigi's in Ranelagh and it's bizarrely delicious kebab pizza


  • #6623
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,069 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I still haven't found a kebab in Ireland that comes close to kebabs up north. They're all weird down here, and there's no such thing as kebab sauce. It's all garlic or chilli.

    My local up north does the best kebab sauce ever. Don't know what's in it, don't really know what it tastes of, just know that it's luminous orange and it's delicious.


  • #6624
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    The kebabs in mainland Europe are a step above anything in Ireland.


  • #6625
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    A kebab!? A kebab!? We've got a few good Indians, some decent Chinese places and a new pizza place (take out only admittedly) that does pretty good pizzas. Why would you get a kebab?


  • #6626
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,069 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    molloyjh wrote: »
    A kebab!? A kebab!? We've got a few good Indians, some decent Chinese places and a new pizza place (take out only admittedly) that does pretty good pizzas. Why would you get a kebab?

    I took a notion! :D


  • #6627
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    When I lived in Dublin, I really liked the kebabs in the chipper on Dean street, across from Fallons. Think it's called Roma? The hot chili, around near Wexford street, was also good.

    Anyone knocking kebabs needs an immediate cephalorectal extraction procedure.


  • #6628
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    awec wrote: »
    I still haven't found a kebab in Ireland that comes close to kebabs up north. They're all weird down here, and there's no such thing as kebab sauce. It's all garlic or chilli.

    Just clarifying, where have you tried? Zaytoon, Passion 4 Food, Falafel Kebab, Rotana Cafe are all pretty nice. Shout out to Istanbul in Limerick.


  • #6629
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,069 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Just clarifying, where have you tried? Zaytoon, Passion 4 Food, Falafel Kebab, Rotana Cafe are all pretty nice. Shout out to Istanbul in Limerick.

    Zaytoon is crap. They put peppers or something in it.

    I should also clarify that I'm a purely kebab tray man. No time for the pitta bread.


  • #6630
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    If you offered me peak Ruan Pieenar at Leinster but Zaytoon had to close down I'd pick Zaytoon.


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  • #6631
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,069 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    errlloyd wrote: »
    If you offered me peak Ruan Pieenar at Leinster but Zaytoon had to close down I'd pick Zaytoon.

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