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whelan2 · 22-07-2019 3:03pm

Brought the kids shopping this morning. My dad said he'd do the herding. 3 groups of cattle mixed. The one day we are not around. Just spent the last hour unmixing them . There are good fences . Just barbed wire got wrapped around electric fence wire.

_Brian · 22-07-2019 5:14pm

Bad time of year to let the lawns sway ahead of you 😒
Wish the ground closed for second cut was growing as well.

wrangler · 22-07-2019 6:56pm

Bullocks wrote: »

Same as that , it was on the Tommy Tiernan show I got a feeling of what he was like . Just the kind of person you would like to see representing Ireland in any sport

Good one on twitter, Shanes' win yesterday put to Micheal O'hehirs commentary of the match in 1982 that Shanes father played in

https://twitter.com/Darth_Monty/status/1152991069220614144?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

L1985 · 22-07-2019 7:25pm

Can you cut hedges or not at the moment? We have the hedges on the road that are getting v wild and not the safest.... but I’m confused if we can actually cut them!

MeTheMan · 22-07-2019 7:37pm

L1985 wrote: »

Can you cut hedges or not at the moment? We have the hedges on the road that are getting v wild and not the safest.... but I’m confused if we can actually cut them!

It's a bit of a grey area, you can cut on safety grounds but I still wouldn't go near trees branch's or thick shrub. Strim the grasses a few feet up is all Id chance. Our lane is getting the same way. The few bends and house entrances are more of a blind spot/danger so I'll be strimming, just the grass/briars though.

Muckit · 22-07-2019 7:49pm

_Brian wrote: »

Bad time of year to let the lawns sway ahead of you ðŸ˜’
Wish the ground closed for second cut was growing as well.

At least grass headed out now so not so bad!! My mother has me blackened "and the state of the place."
"You mind the kids so and I'll get cracking."
Mother shaped hole in the back door.

Birdnuts · 22-07-2019 10:12pm

Great day out had on the heritage breeds farm at Newbridge House in Donabate Co/ Dublin. Some fine stock of rare breed cattle,sheep, pigs and poultry. Lovely display of old farm machinery and traditional farmyard buildings too. Fine beach nearby too.

Say my name · 22-07-2019 10:20pm

If you have a sense of humour, turn on RTE 1 now.
If not, turn on RTE 2.

Base price · 22-07-2019 10:49pm

Birdnuts wrote: »

Great day out had on the heritage breeds farm at Newbridge House in Donabate Co/ Dublin. Some fine stock of rare breed cattle,sheep, pigs and poultry. Lovely display of old farm machinery and traditional farmyard buildings too. Fine beach nearby too.

It is a great facility for urban families living in NCD be it going for a picnic/walking your dog or bringing the children to the playground. Unfortunately most people that visit won't pay to go into the farm.
In my younger days I used to draw bales of hay from there (small squares and laterally rounds) behind the 784. I wouldn't do it nowdays as there is little or no respect for farmers around here anymore especially when driving a tractor on the road. It's ironic considering the dairy/veg/tillage farmers in this area provided the food that most of these people were reared on.

Say my name · 22-07-2019 11:12pm

Say my name wrote: »

If you have a sense of humour, turn on RTE 1 now.
If not, turn on RTE 2.

To reply to myself that's the best piece of television I've seen in a long time.

If ye haven't caught it. Go on to the rte player and watch "The Man who wanted to Fly".

Good man Bobby!!

Base price · 22-07-2019 11:21pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

All the twins are flying along!

I'm smiling looking at the pic where the three sets of twins are coupling together. Lovely pic.

Lady Haywire · 22-07-2019 11:35pm

Base price wrote: »

I'm smiling looking at the pic where the three sets of twins are coupling together. Lovely pic.

The younger sets can almost always be found lying together in their pairs, older ones seem to be hitting the teen phase & it's uncool to lie next to your sibling :pac::D

Lime Tree Farm · 23-07-2019 12:07pm

Prime Minister UK 23 July - Midday

Conservatives - 159,320 eligible to vote, 87.4% voted, Rejected 509,

Boris Johnson = 92,153 votes
Jeremy Hunt = 46,656 votes

Johnson totally “Carried” it to No 10

As anounced by Dame Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan DBE

Say my name · 23-07-2019 4:05pm

You'd almost feel sorry for the butterflies when you'd be cutting thistles...

Small tortoise shells and small whites.

ganmo · 23-07-2019 4:11pm

Say my name wrote: »

You'd almost feel sorry for the butterflies when you'd be cutting thistles...

Small tortoise shells and small whites.

It's the bumble bees that do be at them when I'm cutting them

Say my name · 23-07-2019 4:26pm

Fact of the day!

If anyone remarks to you that it's amazing the difference in landscape on this island and that it changes when you drive from the southeast to the northwest or viceversa and the dividing line is around Portloaise.
Tell them that's because you're travelling from one continent to another. That Ireland was in two different landmasses and that that join is called the Iapetus Suture.
Nenagh, Silvermines and Navan is also on this join.

So now... Iapetus Suture.

Say my name · 23-07-2019 4:27pm

ganmo wrote: »

It's the bumble bees that do be at them when I'm cutting them

Didn't see any of them.

But I did hear a cricket when I turned off the tractor.

whelan2 · 23-07-2019 6:05pm

Say my name wrote: »

Didn't see any of them.

But I did hear a cricket when I turned off the tractor.

That was probably just your knees cracking

AntrimGlens · 23-07-2019 8:22pm

Day 2 done of coaching at Cul camp. I’d say the kids will sleep tonight, my two were wrecked from the heat and the running about. It’s the first year the club have ran a Cul camp, sixty kids at it and we’re a fairly rural hurling only club.
Tbh I said to the club chairman today if we’re doing it next yr, I won’t be doing it if it’s the official Kellogg’s one again. £50 a head, the official coach provided by the Gaa, is on holiday until tonight, they have no casual coaches available so it’s left to the club coaches to deliver the whole thing. I said we’d be far better off charging £30 a head and doing it unofficially ourselves and forget about providing rucksacks and tops. At least the club would get the money. All of us have taken the week off work to do it voluntarily anyway, so again the Gaa getting away with it.

Odelay · 23-07-2019 9:01pm

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Day 2 done of coaching at Cul camp. I’d say the kids will sleep tonight, my two were wrecked from the heat and the running about. It’s the first year the club have ran a Cul camp, sixty kids at it and we’re a fairly rural hurling only club.
Tbh I said to the club chairman today if we’re doing it next yr, I won’t be doing it if it’s the official Kellogg’s one again. £50 a head, the official coach provided by the Gaa, is on holiday until tonight, they have no casual coaches available so it’s left to the club coaches to deliver the whole thing. I said we’d be far better off charging £30 a head and doing it unofficially ourselves and forget about providing rucksacks and tops. At least the club would get the money. All of us have taken the week off work to do it voluntarily anyway, so again the Gaa getting away with it.

I don’t understand where the money in the gaa goes? It’s money and funding raising for everything yet very few get paid. We’re does it go?

Grueller · 23-07-2019 10:07pm

Odelay wrote: »

I don’t understand where the money in the gaa goes? It’s money and funding raising for everything yet very few get paid. We’re does it go?

The wife here is treasurer of the local club and has been secretary for a good few years previous to that. It costs €65 - €75,000 per annum to run our small rural club. Insurance, affiliation, maintenance, lighting, equipment etc. It all adds up over the year. That figure does not include any capital spending at all and almost all labour is voluntary.

AntrimGlens · 23-07-2019 10:20pm

Odelay wrote: »

I don’t understand where the money in the gaa goes? It’s money and funding raising for everything yet very few get paid. We’re does it go?

I’ll wait to our next monthly meeting to see how it fairs out. The club paid for a bus to get the kids to and from the 2 villages, copious amounts of fruit and water, bbq on Friday. Sticks, balls, all equipment provided by the club. I printed/photocopied over 300 pages for art/colouring in for kids and the Cul coach hasn’t even forwarded any type of schedule or programme. It’s the discrepancy in how it was sold to the club n promises made, to reality on the ground.

whelan2 · 23-07-2019 10:28pm

Odelay wrote: »

I don’t understand where the money in the gaa goes? It’s money and funding raising for everything yet very few get paid. We’re does it go?

In our local club the money was being pocketed by a committee member. That was about 5 years ago and tbh the club has never recovered from it. A figure was repaid but no one knows how much was taken as alot of the money was cash. Sickner for the loyal life long supporters of the club.

giveitholly · 23-07-2019 10:31pm

whelan2 wrote: »

In our local club the money was being pocketed by a committee member. That was about 5 years ago and tbh the club has never recovered from it. A figure was repaid but no one knows how much was taken as alot of the money was cash. Sickner for the loyal life long supporters of the club.

Thats a sickener,does that person still live in the locality?

Odelay · 23-07-2019 10:33pm

Grueller wrote: »

The wife here is treasurer of the local club and has been secretary for a good few years previous to that. It costs €65 - €75,000 per annum to run our small rural club. Insurance, affiliation, maintenance, lighting, equipment etc. It all adds up over the year. That figure does not include any capital spending at all and almost all labour is voluntary.

The club has to pay for affiliation to the gaa?

whelan2 · 23-07-2019 10:34pm

giveitholly wrote: »

Thats a sickener,does that person still live in the locality?

Yup his son plays there and he cant watch him play at home games. Most payments now done online . An example was there was a band booked for a club function. He was found out between the booking and the function. He had an amount he said the band cost that he was getting off the club in reality the band were charging half that. He would pocket the rest

Genghis Cant · 23-07-2019 10:39pm

AntrimGlens wrote: »

. I said we’d be far better off charging £30 a head and doing it unofficially ourselves and forget about providing rucksacks and tops. At least the club would get the money.

Our own club has been doing this near 10 year now. Every Saturday. It's very popular with the kids. Boys and girls , I think from about 6 to 10 year old. They set up a series of stations with a skill being practised at each. And at the blast of a whistle small groups move from one to the next. Usually a coach or two at each station. The odd station may have nothing to do with football or hurling but might be just in for the fun. It seems to work well when you get it up and running.

Genghis Cant · 23-07-2019 10:40pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Yup his son plays there and he cant watch him play at home games. Most payments now done online . An example was there was a band booked for a club function. He was found out between the booking and the function. He had an amount he said the band cost that he was getting off the club in reality the band were charging half that. He would pocket the rest

If I remember correctly that made national papers when the story broke? Or am I mixing it up with another Louth club.

whelan2 · 23-07-2019 10:41pm

Genghis Cant wrote: »

If I remember correctly that made national papers when the story broke? Or am I mixing it up with another Louth club.

It probably did. Everyone was very shocked at the time very hard to fund raise for anything after that

whelan2 · 23-07-2019 10:43pm

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Our own club has been doing this near 10 year now. Every Saturday. It's very popular with the kids. Boys and girls , I think from about 6 to 10 year old. They set up a series of stations with a skill being practised at each. And at the blast of a whistle small groups move from one to the next. Usually a coach or two at each station. The odd station may have nothing to do with football or hurling but might be just in for the fun. It seems to work well when you get it up and running.

Is that just normal nursery though? Well that's what we call it here

Grueller · 23-07-2019 10:46pm

Odelay wrote: »

The club has to pay for affiliation to the gaa?

Yup and registration of players.

Hard Knocks · 23-07-2019 10:58pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Is that just normal nursery though? Well that's what we call it here

Same here

Dinzee Conlee · 23-07-2019 11:04pm

whelan2 wrote: »

In our local club the money was being pocketed by a committee member. That was about 5 years ago and tbh the club has never recovered from it. A figure was repaid but no one knows how much was taken as alot of the money was cash. Sickner for the loyal life long supporters of the club.

Same thing happened in club down these parts - treasurer started pocketing some money. Think they were found out when the GAA lotto was won, and the there was no cash to pay the winnings...
I don’t know what the amount involved was, or if/when the money was repaid. It was handled by the club, no guards involved - which caused a bit of upset...

Apparently the club is down a lot on fundraising now, combination of people not willing to play the lotto or fundraise cos of the whole thing...

_Brian · 23-07-2019 11:31pm

whelan2 wrote: »

In our local club the money was being pocketed by a committee member. That was about 5 years ago and tbh the club has never recovered from it. A figure was repaid but no one knows how much was taken as alot of the money was cash. Sickner for the loyal life long supporters of the club.

Not GAA but club We’re involved with had same. Guy running everything but hiding finances. Took a long time to shift him on, we were continually fundraising and struggling for money. Turned out about €10k a year was going missing over 12-13 year period. No proof though. Glad to have him gone and finances are very healthy, we haven’t fundraosed in two years.

Butcher Boy · 23-07-2019 11:44pm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Same thing happened in club down these parts - treasurer started pocketing some money. Think they were found out when the GAA lotto was won, and the there was no cash to pay the winnings...
I don’t know what the amount involved was, or if/when the money was repaid. It was handled by the club, no guards involved - which caused a bit of upset...

Apparently the club is down a lot on fundraising now, combination of people not willing to play the lotto or fundraise cos of the whole thing...

was that a woman that was involved there.

Genghis Cant · 24-07-2019 12:09am

whelan2 wrote: »

Is that just normal nursery though? Well that's what we call it here

I suppose it is. I think I sorta mixed up what the op was looking for.

Limestone Cowboy · 24-07-2019 12:46am

whelan2 wrote: »

In our local club the money was being pocketed by a committee member. That was about 5 years ago and tbh the club has never recovered from it. A figure was repaid but no one knows how much was taken as alot of the money was cash. Sickner for the loyal life long supporters of the club.

There's some awful crooks out there. Our chairman a few years ago fixed a race night so that all his family members won all the races. I don't know how he thought nobody would notice. He admitted it after and stepped down. I had sold around 1k worth of tickets for it and not one person I sold them to won anything. Disgraceful carry on and he really fecked up fundraising for the club for a few years.

_Brian · 24-07-2019 8:15am

Place I was contracted in to do maintenance had an account running in a hardware store across the road.

They had a review of the account as it was spiralling out of control.

Turned out another maintenance contractor was billing stuff for his house build and the extremely last maintenance manager was co signing the dockets without looking. I heard it was over €100k of goods but was swept under the carpet as the maintenance manager would have been in deep ****.

Crooks everywhere

patsy_mccabe · 24-07-2019 9:17am

I got 2 bills from the local COOP last month. One was in the name of my father who is dead over 15 years. It was for a few bags of meal, the same type I would get myself. I keep all receipts for signed stuff on credit and I couldn't find the receipt for this. I went to COOP and asked to see the signed receipt on the system. Turned out a new employee had made a mistake and mixed up accounts with a similar name. Just shows how important it is to check everything.
What is anoying me most is, we spent years at the time trying to get them to close my fathers a/c and we thought it was well closed by now.

whelan2 · 24-07-2019 9:24am

There can be genuine mistakes but cashing club cheques, pocketing fundraising money and members subscriptions are not a one off. To be doing that and to walk around the club knowing you are robbing everyone there is a bad act.

grassroot1 · 24-07-2019 9:27am

Grueller wrote:

The wife here is treasurer of the local club and has been secretary for a good few years previous to that. It costs â‚¬65 - â‚¬75,000 per annum to run our small rural club. Insurance, affiliation, maintenance, lighting, equipment etc. It all adds up over the year. That figure does not include any capital spending at all and almost all labour is voluntary.

The financial model in the GAA is unsustainable. Far too much pressure on clubs to try and fund excessive (70 to 80 k a year)running costs. Lots of money goes to the Croke park a way will have to be found to distribute it fairly to clubs
Our club raised 137k in February but asked for parents to raise more to fund the Feile team to Cork. That sort of thing really gets peoples goat

whelan2 · 24-07-2019 9:31am

grassroot1 wrote: »

The financial model in the GAA is unsustainable. Far too much pressure on clubs to try and fund excessive (70 to 80 k a year)running costs. Lots of money goes to the Croke park a way will have to be found to distribute it fairly to clubs
Our club raised 137k in February but asked for parents to raise more to fund the Feile team to Cork. That sort of thing really gets peoples goat

Another thing that bugs me is the major fundraiser here is at back to school time. Most parents are broke enough at that time of year another smaller one at Christmas. I have mentioned it to them a few times.

Nekarsulm · 24-07-2019 10:08am

Hi Whelan, just a quick question if I may.
How did you get on with the online application?
Did it go smoothly, and how long did it take to arrive?
kind regards, Nek.

whelan2 · 24-07-2019 10:22am

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Hi Whelan, just a quick question if I may.
How did you get on with the online application?
Did it go smoothly, and how long did it take to arrive?
kind regards, Nek.

The passport. Applied on the Sunday and had it on the Wednesday

Dinzee Conlee · 24-07-2019 11:50am

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Hi Whelan, just a quick question if I may.
How did you get on with the online application?
Did it go smoothly, and how long did it take to arrive?
kind regards, Nek.

Got a new passport as well in May, only took about 2-3 weeks to arrive, was very quick and painless...

Genghis Cant · 24-07-2019 3:15pm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Hi Whelan, just a quick question if I may.
How did you get on with the online application?
Did it go smoothly, and how long did it take to arrive?
kind regards, Nek.

The woman of the house renewed my passport last year through Passport Express. She says she sent it off either on Sunday or Monday night and had it back on the Wednesday in the post. Rapid turn around.

MeTheMan · 24-07-2019 8:09pm

This Farming Life is starting again tomorrow at 8 on BBC 2.

Nekarsulm · 24-07-2019 8:51pm

Anyone having problems getting Eircom web-mail to open?

whelan2 · 24-07-2019 8:57pm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Anyone having problems getting Eircom web-mail to open?

Ye. Has been a bit dodgy this last few days. Cant get in at the moment

Base price · 24-07-2019 10:03pm

Sad to hear that Rutger Hauer has died, RIP. The first time I saw him was in Bladerunner and he made a fair impact at the time and we were all talking about the nasty replicant.

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