whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
not to forget the excise on fuel going up on Monday
He needs to have a good long walk in a few breakers yards
A 14 year old Mercedes, has to be a genuine part as the spurious parts won't fit right in the housing
What in the hell has a €98 fuel filter? 😂. Just so as I never make the mistake and buy that car.
Paid 600 odd for a recent main dealer service. Additional diagnostic for recalibrating a system was an additional 240 per hour.
I was "lucky" it only took them half an hour so it was only 120… on top of the 600.
A man was telling me today he failed his nct due to a back light, 1000 euro to replace the light. He got a lend of rhe light to get it through the test and returned it this evening
Is the price of things ever goin to stabilise nevermind reduce
I see phone & broadband on the rise again
Servicing a car today, fuel filter was 98euro😱
You'd have to wobder are all these processing facilties we're paying for ever going to be fully utilised..
A haulier who'd normally be on 5 loads now are still at 3 loads and no night time collections. They must be starting to put two and two together or at least you'd hope so.
Not sure if this is indicative of whats being said above but there seems to be a hell of a lot of leases for big blocks of land being advertised over the past number of weeks. Im on the watch for a bit more grazing ground so have an alert on Daft and tbh i had to turn it off as i was sick of the email notifications coming through.
Milk futures are after hitting a nice blip the last month but you'd hope our own crowd having been the worst payers by 4-6 cent compared to European processors will at least put base price up to 43 plus cent for may/June peak milk, if they stall the rises their going to destroy already poor dairy farmers confidence
Talking to a few their bank balances were built up 3 years ago. Then costs went up. We all know the electricity and the rest. Milk price has gone down. But the costs have stayed there. Everyone is saying their bank balances have never been as low as this year.
There was a clearance sale in the local mart yesterday, another in another local mart next week 240 head.
If the processors increased the price to 50cent it might stem the exodus. But they haven't and people's accounts are low so they are getting out.
Theirs a couple of big operators locally who you'd think would be fairly strong financially, but all of them are put of silage two weeks plus, and basically on-off grazing/ploughing paddocks with cows stood off on cubicles for the rest of the day/night, these men are on wet ground to add context....
Cows been dried off early last backend and no income coming in has drained alot of current accounts and this spring is capping it off
Well i'd depend on him, but I was amused at all the phone calls. He's always expanding so probably sails a bit close to the wind sometimes.
Never a problem with him here.
i didnt play minor football in my final minor year as i was playing a lot of hurling and was busy etc. The club won the minor football league that year lol...
Sadly have that t-shirt, was captain one week and dropped the next. In between I had to stop the coach’s son bullying another player, he had a different sob story for his mother. I was minor at the time, wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of walking, played little minor but every junior and a few senior games that year.
i did a very good coaching course with Kildare GAA last weekend in the home club (I dont coach but attended as was open to all in the club). All about bringing kids along and keeping them interested as they go up the age groups etc. The standard of coaching in my club has improved immensely in one generation. All we did at u14 was run laps and play a match. Ive never seen my young lads age group run laps but they are seriously fit. They train for an hr and a half up to 3 times per week and everything seems to be done with the ball which keeps them interested.
Re coaching youngsters: there’s a fella on Twitter who I think is very good. ShaneSmith197 is his name. I can’t post the direct link for some reason.
He’s all about keeping them involved and moving away from the “match at the end of training”. That’s a particular bugbear of mine - the same few big lads dominate (and develop bad habits) and the young/smaller lads only get to stand around watching them
"5 county finals and never won one" - poor Ger Loughnane was involved in 13 Munster Finals up to '95 as both a mentor and player and lost all of them.
No offense ment....just lightining the mood
Morbid curiosity now is it the construction man/high flying dairy farmers leasing from him, that are supposedly in trouble...
They where Teflon farmers with all his ramblings about them down through the years how great they are/where
We do know there is more rain here now, esp inthe SW. This is because the sea is warmer, thus the air is warmer and can hold more moisture. Yes, I vividly remember 86, trying to salvage silage and hay. But scientific fact shows, we're generally having higher rainfall.
To ramp up the interest minus auctioneer fees, clever man wrangler..
No that's not what you did
That's shocking 😲
Ya those were rough years we were lucky enough to pick up up first cuts In Early June as far as I remember
Worst I saw a kid being treated was a couple of years ago. He had been goalkeeper for his team for years and was good enough. Always played. Turned up for a semi final and they'd brought a lad 2 years below who doesn't even play in nets for gaelic in in his place. First he knew of it was when jerseys where being handed out. They were hammered. Him or his family have never set foot in the club since. Awful way to treat a child, the parents of the other child were worse for letting him play
Why would you be broadcasting that above snippet, you might aswell of took a ad out in the journal with the above putting that rumour on here
Back up a wee bit, I never provided any example about what the general public are doing, you initially stated that the climate change programme that was on was largely overblown
I disagreed & simply stated that the scientific evidence that's there now shows how fast we are increasing it
It's a separate debate about what we are to do about it
Silage has gone to July a few times around here since 86. 98 and 2002 iirc, might have been another in 2008?
