I was discussing Beram Kayal during the week, specifically how he was keeping Victor Wanyama out of the Celtic team before that ‘tackle’ from Rangers’ McCulloch put him out of action for months. The player has never recovered his form but has never had a sustained run in the team either.
Nir Biton has made the holding position his own in recent weeks and, as a consequence, we’ve watched his form improve. News that he picked up an injury when playing for Israel against Slovakia last week, which is likely to disrupt his appearances for weeks, has come at the worst possible time. If he is to make this position his own, he needs performances between now and the end of the season.
Young players especially need games to reinforce their craft and build confidence, as well as to ensure fitness.
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Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches tomorrow (rumours suggest I might get my hands on mine today).
“”Claire, where is my passport?” I was frantic now as I pleaded with my wife. She must know I thought. Claire, my wife of twelve years, suffers my trips away to support Celtic without a single moan. Not this time though as Claire would not give me her blessing to go on this trip telling me that our bakery was now at critical point, busy and with too many European away days this year they had taken their toll.”
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bournesouprecipe
He had everything…sighs..
Corkcelt 20.27
The Irish Independent would appear to be part of my “ilk.”
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/state-must-apologise-for-de-valeras-morally-repugnant-error-of-judgment-over-hitler-26006107.html
embramike
i said we should play at kilmarnock if we are only going to get 22000
moving it to auld reekie for the sake of 4000 fans seems not right
but if we can get 30000 or more then its the right thing
i work in edinburgh so no skin off my nose
though now you mention it, playing at snake mountain might have been a shout. remember it will be summer and very warm, and with the roof issues they currently have it seems like that stadium might be a cabriolet by then so it will let the cooling air in
Dint tell him you say Minx!
Too late hen
Maybe de Valera should have apologised over Michael Collins’ awful murder before anything?
Hmmmmmm
That would be a dam shame my friend
Your an important poster
HH
Queen Victoria’s grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II didn’t have much time for his grandmama’s subjects.
corkcelt- SUPPORTING THE DAM 5
20:27 on 13 March, 2014
Eamon de Valera’s Response to Winston Churchill
http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/681-history-of-rte/684-rte-1940s/289798-eamon-de-valeras-response-to-winston-churchill/
macjay I have the same respect for The Irish Independent that most on here have for The Daily Record. Alan Shatter is Jewish and obviously has his own perspective which he is entitled to. By the way, he is a crap Minister for Justice and the sooner we are rid of him the better.
Vhman,
That series is heartbreaking. It ought to be shown in every school. The fact that this prejudice is still widespread doesn’t reflect well upon humanity.
My apologies if previously posted.
Arrived back in Glw this evening to hear of the sad loss of George Donaldson.
I went to school with George, he turned 46 last month.
You may George through music, he sang with Celtic Thunder and around pubs & clubs in Glasgow. A great boy & man from Riddrie. From a lovely family. They do look in.
A wee secret perhaps… George played a private gig for Obama to celebrate St. Patricks day.. Allegedly.
I spent last night in Broad St with older colleagues hearing life’s too short, let’s stay out, go here, drink this. You may recognise it.
Back home, someone who I can’t say a close friend, we all grow apart after school, left this world. And his family.
To his family & friends, from panel beater to world beater, we’ve lost a star.
George, walk on. You loved Celtic, you loved music, I know you loved your family.
Life’s too short… Like me George is 46.
hi cowiebhoy do u know david forsyth from cowie he was from tillycoutry as kid if so could u get back to me m8 im his dad
Corkcelt,
How do you know he is Jewish?
macjay1 for neil lennon
20:07 on 13 March, 2014
What European nations were “neutral” in W.W.11?
Sweden…….Democratic,I think.
Spain ——Fascist
Portugal—-Fascist
Ireland
Switzerland ——pro-German.Hitler`s banker.
Any others?
Sweden – Democratic?
They were the source of over 75% of the reichs iron ore before 1942. They made a feckin fortune.
Lads, without getting involved in the debate with Macjay and CorkCelt
…can I echo CorkCelt’s dim view of the The Irish Independent………
…..it isn’t……
As far as it’s credibility it’s on a par with the Daily Express imo.
HH
Ryecatcher and Bousnesouprecipe
The “floodlights” claim may well be based on this.
WIKI Belfast blitz
Recriminations[edit]
The people of Northern Ireland tended to blame their government for inadequate precautions. Tommy Henderson, an Independent Unionist MP in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, summed up their feelings when he invited the Minister of Home Affairs to Hannahstown and the Falls Road, saying “The Catholics and the Protestants are going up there mixed and they are talking to one another. They are sleeping in the same sheugh (ditch), below the same tree or in the same barn. They all say the same thing, that the government is no good.”
A map showing the location of Belfast Lough
At night Dublin was the only city without a blackout between New York and Moscow, and between Lisbon and Sweden; German bombers often flew overhead to check their bearings using its lights, angering the British.[16] One widespread criticism was that the Germans located Belfast by heading for Dublin and following the railway lines north. In The Blitz: Belfast in the War Years, Brian Barton wrote: “Government Ministers felt with justification, that the Germans were able to use the unblacked out lights in the south to guide them to their targets in the North.” Barton insisted that Belfast was “too far north” to use radio guidance.
Other writers, such as Tony Gray in The Lost Years state that the Germans did follow their radio guidance beams. Several accounts point out that Belfast, standing at the end of the long inlet of Belfast Lough, would be easily located.
Another claim was that the Catholic population in general and the IRA in particular guided the bombers. Barton wrote: “the Catholic population was much more strongly opposed to conscription, was inclined to sympathise with Germany”, “…there were suspicions that the Germans were assisted in identifying targets, held by the Unionist population.”
This view was probably influenced by the decision of the IRA Army Council to support Germany. However they were not in a position to communicate with the Germans. Information recovered from Germany after the war showed that the planning of the blitz was based entirely on their own aerial reconnaissance.
Pod i
Condolences to the friends and family of your pal George,RIP young yin.
Yup….Alan Shatter…..is as Jewish as our holding midfielder….
Born in Dublin to a Jewish family, Shatter is the son of Elaine and Reuben Shatter an English couple who met by chance when they were both on holidays in Ireland in 1948 .[2][3] He was educated at The High School, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. He has always lived in Dublin — he grew up in Rathgar and Rathfarnham and lives now in Ballinteer with his wife, Carol Ann (Danker) Shatter, and two children.[4] He is the only Jewish member of Dáil Éireann.
ryecatcher, Why on earth should any on The Republican side apologise for the shooting of Michael Collins. The Free Staters carried out the most brutal atrocities, have you ever heard of Ballyseedy, or the reprisal killings of prisoners. The Civil War is the saddest most hurtful period of our history, I have no wish to revisit it but it was a war, there were many more casualties on the Republican side, Collins was a casualty on the Free State side.
Can anyone (Winning Captains if you’re lurking) confirm what time the soiree (that’s French for swally…..they even tried to make it sound the same) finishes tomorrow night?
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Martyboy9
Hrvatski jim
Wee change in plan if your agreeable mate I have arranged a lift one of the guys goin with me is tea total, he will pick us up outside the Crow at 1815 let me know if this is ok
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Sounds great – my wife is coming with me so is there enough room for both of us?
To everyone attending the swallython at Celtic Park the morra
Enjoy
Quite why it is relevant is beyond me Ryecatcher. Not sure why Corkcelt mentioned it.
Should we not respect Jewish opinion about The Holocaust?
Should we therefore also not respect Irishmen who discuss Cromwell?
the token tim
Someone said 1 am
HH
John O Neill 20.45, ryecatcher has already answered your query, but what a silly question to ask. I’d hardly guess or make up something like that.
pod i
Regarding George Donaldson, His mum is a friend of my parents. My dad was arranging the funeral today, unfortunately George might be referred to the fiscal so I’ll keep you posted.
Kilbowie Kelt will vote YES
19:48 on
13 March, 2014
BMCUW,
Quite apart from the logistical arguments about Ireland remaining neutral….
Was Hitler worse than Cromwell ?………Both of them nutters
Were the Nazis worse than the Black & Tans ?………….Yes
Were the SS more brutal than the state murderers of Bloody Sunday ?………Yes
No German ever invaded the land of my forebears or sold my people into slavery.
Ireland owes Britain absolutely NOTHING.
…..the missus has just had a go at me regarding my apostrophe errors…………
Corkcelt….
You have your opinion and I have mine mate.
That’s all it will ever be regarding DeValera’s role in a great man’s death.
It has divided opinions of academics and historians for the best part of a century now.
They both went to meet their maker with lots of secrets.
Everyone knows that DeValera was at the meeting where Michael’s death warrant was signed…..nobody knows who actually gave the order…..the balance of probabilities tells me what I think.
A horrible period of Irish history for Green on Green civil war.
Cork,
I never suggested or thought that you made it up. I just wonder why you felt the need to mention it.
Jim Foley, Corkman and Celtic goalie years ago. How many Cork men have played for Celtic’s first team?
corkcelt- SUPPORTING THE DAM 5
20:27 on
13 March, 2014
I have more or less decided to leave CQN but still enjoy a lurk. Saw macjay’s effort, and realise how little I have in common with him and his ilk. There are many good souls on here that I would be proud to call comrades but there are others that I don’t want to be associated with. Just thought I’d quote a bit from Dev’s speech in response to Churchill.
“Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain’s stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliation’s, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul. “
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Thank you – it does make you proud to be Scottish hearing your words
Pod i
Sorry for the loss of your friend I read about it earlier looks like a real sad loss to a lot of people
Thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends
Lads
Re.Earlier comments about Churchill,Dresden and Hiroshima.
The only point I wished to make.
Historical opinions distorted by ideology at the expense of truth.
TTT
WG has transport heading back to ML1 and ML2
SevcoScoreBoard (SSB) reported tonight that NEIL said he was missing oldco…..the club that cheated every club / supporter in Scotland, not to mention every UK taxpayer and creditors…..despicable club / culture……whatever NEIL said, there will be a reason behind it ….. one thing is for sure , he is not missing oldco, or their hoardes of orcs (in particular) ….!! He’s just ‘playing the game’ with them….!!
Really looking forward to CQN10 tomorrow night…….(anyone know where we park and how to access the parking area…??)
ryecatcher
20:47 on 13 March, 2014
Yup….Alan Shatter…..is as Jewish as our holding midfielder….
Whit? Broonie’s Jewish?!!’
Corkcelt. You’ve been missed.
SS versus Black n Tans? Hitler versus Cromwell?
Lethal absolute evil versus lethal absolute evil from different eras.
MoreHeatThanLightCSC
HH jamesgang
ryecatcher, There was an ambush in Béal na Bláth, the driver wanted to accelerate through which was the sensible thing to do. Had he done so Collins would not have been killed. Collins ordered him to stop as he wanted to be involved in the fight, the sad reality is the person most responsible for the death of Michael Collins was himself.
macjay
Ireland did not enter the war in 1939 for several reasons but one of the main reasons was that only 20 years after the war of independence there were still many people who saw the actions of Nazi Germany as not much different to those of the recently departed British and joining forces with the British could have reignited the civil war within Ireland
Shooting unarmed prisoners, rounding up civilians without trial, burning homes and farms in retaliation for resistance activities were not the preserve of the Waffen SS or Wehrmacht.
If you get a chance read a book on Irish neutrality called “Behind the Green Curtain” it covers the subject very well. I can remember a few points which cast a different light on Irish “neutrality”
1) 160,000 members of the British military gave a next of kin address in the Irish Free State.
2) Of 7 seven VC’s won by Irishmen, 6 were won by men from the Irish Free State. The seventh was won by a Catholic from the Falls Road in Belfast.
3) The Irish government placed huge markers along Irelands west coast which could be seen from the air to help guide US and British Aircraft returning from Atlantic patrols safely back to NI airfields.
4) US Airmen and Aircraft which strayed into Irish airspace were repatriated immediately without internment, contravening International law.
5) The Irish government authorised transit of Irish airspace by Allied patrol planes to facilitate convoy protection in the North Atlantic, saving hundreds of miles of flight path which in turn extended the range of the patrol.
6) The only nation which contemplated invasion of Ireland was Britain. After their entry into the war in 1941, 2 years after it started “eternal shame” not withstanding, the US govt also contemplated seizing ports in Ireland but did not pursue the idea.
You called Irish neutrality a cause for shame, what would you call Swedish neutrality they afterall supplied Germany with Iron ore almost to the very last days of the war thus helping keep the Germany war economy functioning and turning out the Tanks,Guns and Railway wagons necessary to prosecute the war and transport millions to the Death Camps.
Might I suggest you learn a little about a subject before you pontificate.