@deedub93 Glad you felt able to share on the board mate. All the best over the bext month. Hope you and your daughter are not too distressed and hope Mrs Deedub continues to recover well. Take care
To the contray, Tipperary Senior Football Team went up to Cavan today and despite being six points down at half time ended up running out comfortable victors. The county isn't really known for its footballing ability, but it's the second year in a row that the teams beaten a big name opponent above in Breifne. People are calling it Tipperary's greatest ever footballing win, though I wouldn't go that far it was definitely a considerable one. The Hurling team followed suit shortly afterwards by beating seven shades of **** out of the visiting Dublin team. I wish I could say I was there, but unfortunately the good weather means its turf season so I spent the entire day out on the bog. I highly recommened anyone with Sky Sports to give GAA a go if you see it listed, both sports are amazing specticals.
Bloody hell deedub. Hope it all works out for you. If it's any consolation, I know a bloke who could write the screenplay for a film. When you're ready of course.
Most of my mates reckoned that I should write an autobiography before this, I may not have a choice now.
I really got into GAA when I was working in Tipperary (Nenagh). I've let it slip now perhaps I should re-visit it. I once made the mistake when discussing the match, after a close victory for Tipperary over Cork, by saying Tipperary were lucky. I was in quite a famous bar in Nenagh, it was frequently on Irish television for their folk music. The barman asked me what the f*** I was talking about and was I trying to get myself barred? He was serious.... I think. The evening finished well, he taught me how to drink Guinness. Apparently I'd been doing it wrong for 30 years so he advised me that I had to start again. I had never realised that it was compulsory to drink a large whiskey whist waiting for the pint of Guinness to settle.
Just drove back from Manchester and might have got here a bit earlier if they hadn't been installing a "smart motorway". For those that haven't experienced such a thing, it's where the "smart" thing to do is set up an 18+ mile stretch of 50 mph limit (average speed camera controlled of course) for two years to build the thing - not that anyone is working today of course. And what exactly do you get, well apparently it allows them to let you use the hard shoulder at times of high traffic. Wow. Two years to do that! I checked the costs and wiki says "A [?] contract was announced to extend the scheme to sections of the M1, M4, M5, M6, M60 and M62"... extended because apparently it was really good on the two sections of M6 they've already installed it on. I've put [?] so you can guess how much this is costing. V V V V V V V V Well it's £2 billion. I'll type that again. £2 billion. No money for the NHS though! I'm not sure how many miles of smart motorway you get for £2 billion though. Also I'm not sure if this is from the magic money tree or some other source. Don't think I heard any hack ask how it was to be paid for though. I think the ironic thing is that I'm not sure larger capacity roads make too much difference anyway. Also, how much less would it cost to enable them to switch from a three to a four lane at their discretion (when the hard shoulder becomes the fourth lane) then simply building an extra lane? I wonder if this has been properly thought through and it's providing (1) capacity that will really make a difference (2) capacity that can be provided in the cheapest way possible and most importantly (3) the best use of £2 billion!!!
Having driven the M3 recently I can attest that the bulk of that £2billion has been spent on traffic cones. That or they've found a way to breed the things.
There have been roadworks on a stretch of the M60 north of Manchester (Rochdale to Bolton, both directions) for this "smart" motorway for around 4 years, I think. This is one of the busiest stretches of motorway outside the M25. That's just dumb, not smart.
Drove that stretch of road at 5pm on a Friday night. A fecking disaster. It would have been quicker to walk................... backwards.
