I know squad numbers are limited but I’m disappointed Eoghan O’Connell has not been retained. In his performances early last season he displayed the attributes of a modern-day footballing central defender. He has a future in the game and will do well wherever he goes next.
The perennial dilemma of youth development is that while teams want to improve performances NOW, they also need to leave space for worthy development squad candidates to grow into. Kieran Tierney got there, but the truth is, Celtic had been trying to sign a left back for year but were unable find anyone of the necessary standard. If we did, Kieran, Eoghan, would never have had the chance.
Listen to the pilot episode of the @CQNMagazine podcast A Celtic State of Mind with Paul Gallagher @stockholmonster https://t.co/GcqBRsupLY
— Paul John Dykes ⭐️ (@PaulDykes) June 11, 2017
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hi bhoys good morning bhoys from a very wet but tory free west cheshire yipee hey jobo get back here us weathermen need you.
IanBhoy929 @6:41 am
Glad to see somebody keeping up CQN traditions.
Unlike the slacker from East Kilbride who gives up after a mere 7 years or so.
Thank you Jobo for 7 years of sun wind rain & snow por cierto.
Petec @ 5:04am
I don’t think I have ever before been so disappointed in one of your comments.
“I am the DUP”.
Just because you agree with 3 very small points of their policy.
Not being a sheep does not afford you the moral high ground on this occasion. More like a wolf in the lair happy to eat your own to survive.
Seriously poor comment buddy.
MWD
Jobo
You have performed above and beyond.
Enjoy your daily temptation. :-@)))
If you find it a struggle to give up I think there is a e-kclimate you can report on just like e-cigs for smokers.
Look forward to reading the rest of your brainstorms.
MWD
I’ve taken a quick look out my window. The caravan hasn’t moved on as it waits for the dog to bark.
Rugby on the radio.
All good luck to Crusaders this morning. My boy had ten good years in Christchurch before he switched to Auckland last year.
These Lions friendly commentators are very irritating.
Heard Dennis Murray talking on Radio Scotland this morning (it’s dreich down here by the way). He was warning about what the Tories allying themselves with the DUP might do harm to the Peace Process. He echoed my own fears. Fascinating what he had to say about how the DUP has treated SF and all the Catholics/Nationalists, even while in coalition at Stormont. Doesn’t make any news over here.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
Many thanks for all the photos, much appreciated mate.
Congrats on your nuptials, Brendan
Hail hail jobo
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 10TH JUNE 2017 9:43 AM
Jonathan Powell (on Sky News) and Alistair Campbell on ( BBC TV Question Time) both made it clear yesterday that the DUP propping up the Tory Government is inconsistent with, and threatens to scupper, the power sharing arrangements in NI.
They also both made the point that John Major refused to seek the support of the DUP even when their support could have saved him.
Gooooood Morning CQN
For a blustery dull and very wet Stirling
Wouldn’t normally post anything on politics, but from the article posted earlier by Garngad to Croy and from the independent
And nothing against people from the gay community who seem to be the focus on the current media to object to what is happening
Northern Irish politics has been thrust from the sidelines into centre stage this morning, as the UK woke up to a hung parliament and a DUP-Conservative coalition. After a disastrous election for Theresa May in which her gamble failed to secure the majority she sought, the obscure Northern Irish party’s support is now required for her to enter No 10.
A partnership between the Conservatives and the DUP will be deeply harmful and destabilising for the peace process in Northern Ireland, which is now being risked by the Tories in an unconscionable way in order to retain power.
Most striking about the Conservatives’ new stablemates is that after running a campaign based on fearmongering and whipping up false hysteria about Jeremy Corbyn and his alleged IRA sympathies, the Conservatives will enter government with the DUP, which is backed by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
The UDA is less known in England than the IRA, largely because they killed Northern Irish Catholics during the Troubles, which didn’t make the news as often as the killing of English people or security personnel. The UDA is a violent loyalist paramilitary group, which is still active today. Just weeks ago, it murdered a man in broad daylight in Northern Ireland. The man was shot dead in a Sainsbury’s car park in front of horrified shoppers and his three-year-old son.
The UDA backed the DUP in this election by issuing a statement in support of the party’s South Belfast candidate Emma Little Pengelly, “strongly urging” people to back her. The news drew sharp criticism from political opponents, including former Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford, who said: “Arlene Foster needs to make clear if her party accepts an endorsement by a group closely connected to the UDA. The electorate, particularly in South Belfast where this endorsement was given, deserve to know.
“It is now 2017 – paramilitaries should not even exist, never mind be giving ringing endorsements of political candidates.”
There is no suggestion that the DUP actively sought the endorsement from the group or that it in turn supports the UDA.
However, concerns were further fuelled when it emerged that the DUP’s leader Arlene Foster met with the UDA’s chief during the election campaign, just 48 hours after the murder of a local man in a supermarket car park. She defended the meeting, saying that the party did not support any terrorist groups or actively seek endorsement from them: “If people want to move away from criminality, from terrorism, we will help them to do that, but anyone who is engaged in this sort of activity should stop, should desist, and if they don’t they should be open to the full rigour of the law.”
When challenged on the issue during the live TV debates, the DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson said that the party would “divorce” itself from any association with terrorist or paramilitary groups.
However, considering all the Conservatives’ talk about Corbyn and the IRA, it is now they who are entering coalition with a political party that has been backed by a terrorist organisation.
Such a move will have dire consequences for the peace process. In so doing, the Conservatives are essentially telling the DUP that they will turn a blind eye to it returning to the dark days, when Northern Irish politics was intertwined with bloody violence. This may embolden paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland who feel that they have been given a get-out-of-jail-free card from the Tories’ deal with the DUP.
The uncomfortable coalition of the Conservatives and the DUP has many more worrying implications for the peace process. An essential element of the peace process has been that the British government is, ostensibly at least, a neutral broker in talks between the Catholic and Protestant parties. Now however, the power balance has been permanently toppled as the DUP hold the cards in deciding whether the Conservatives remain in office. They no longer have any credibility of being neutral brokers in the Northern Ireland peace process. This will alienate Catholic/nationalist people in Northern Ireland who can no longer consider their position and status as equal in the British government’s eyes.
What the DUP stands for and will bring to parliament
Lastly, amid all the general-election buzz it has been easy for many to forget that power-sharing had collapsed in Northern Ireland. Stormont fell in January when Sinn Féin pulled out of government with the DUP. Fresh elections were called in March in a bid to elect a new government willing to share power, but the same parties were returned and they have continued to refuse to come back to power-sharing. The latest deadline for an agreement is the end of this month.
Under a DUP-Conservative coalition, any chance of resolve is reduced even further. The DUP has little incentive to return to Stormont if it has far more power and influence than it could have ever dreamed of across the Irish Sea at Westminster. Similarly, Sinn Féin (which is vehemently anti-Conservative) is likely to feel alienated and mistrustful of the Conservatives and may boycott talks.
When she called the general election, it was clear that Theresa May had little idea of the damage such a poll could cause Northern Ireland at a crucial time for power-sharing. By entering into a coalition with the DUP, it is even more apparent that she does not consider peace or stability in Northern Ireland a priority. Instead, she is sacrificing years of work on the peace process in order to get the keys to No 10.
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Jonathon Powell is author of Great Hatred Little Room where he sets out the path to the NI peace agreement and his part in it.
He more than anyone will understand the threat this unholy alliance of Tories and DUP constitutes.
An all party arbitration or oversight committee should be established and power to resolve any differences passed to them to avoid any threat to peace.
Just a small point, and in the grand scheme of things not very significant, on the DUP.
In the 80’s and 90’s in DUP controlled local councils every Saturday night council workers would be sent around the local children’s playgrounds to padlock and chain the swings etc as they believed the sabbath was for prayer only not work or play.
Lovely people you will agree, they almost make the tories look human.
Scotland V England used to arouse the same passion in me as Celtic v Rangers once did. Now, I have very little interest in the game. That diminishing of interest is not solely because of the corrupt nature of the SFA but also because of the underlying social mores in Scotland born of the Masonic influence and Protestant Scotland nature of this country.
With that in mind, I had a little Google and came across this article ( Big Nan of CQN , I believe) related to the subject of institutionalised sectarianism/racism in Bonny Scotland. Some interesting points:
http://www.tomminogue.com/tom/?page_id=623
JJ
Owen
Isn’t it ironic that we spent millions trying to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan and now the UK Government are going to be manipulated by the Irish Branch of the Taliban. Although, of course, among all the things they don’t believe in is that they are Irish!
let’s sell the club to craig whyte
let’s have an election
hmmmmm, which one was the bigger own goal
Just to stir the shit.
Mrs May will inevitably be mutualled by the Tory Party.
Should the smoke filled rooms produce Liam the Fox as leader whither the DUP?
Billy bhoy,
I was watching the telly this morning laughing as Tory voters were shown the DUP manifesto. Theresponse on their faces was a delight, yes which century are we in :0)
Theresa will never be permitted to lead the Tories into another election.
I heard this chap called William from Armagh on Radio 5 this morning about ten to nine.
He was telling all and sundry the DUP were the the party for the union and the party for families . He then started quoting scripture then saying that as Britain was a Christian country and Briitish people should be supporting the Tories and DUP aligning with each other.
The radio 5 presenter did not sound impressed.
The core beliefs of the DUP sound the same as all those tv preachers and right wing militia groups in parts of America with their only the laws of God are those we recognise mantra.
Maye that story of why Hillbillies in the States got that name, is true.
Broonie V Kane.
Can`t wait.
MacJay1
As Margaret McGill says this is about accountability.
The SFA think that Res12 is a pain in the ass. Good. Pain moves folk out of their comfort zone.
Football in general does not want to be accountable because that means transparency and that means it’s harder to do the deals that enrich those in the game at expense of those watching.
Looking back what helped create Res12 was the discovery by Canalamar (where is he btw) of the CFCB and it’s powers to investigate. It gave Res12 an objective.
The CFCB using Res12 looked the very mechanism to get to the truth, but if UEFA themselves decided to let the matter drop in 2011 after talking to the SFA (and they did talk) then just as the SFA do not want to investigate themselves UEFA are not too keen either. Celtic will have been told this by UEFA which is why they were very reluctant to go to UEFA themselves.
The real problem is lack of in effect an overeaching supporters Union to have a say in how the game is run. That capacity does not exist so it needs to be built.
Construction is underway.
What would have happened if The queen had said, “Naw”, when May asked her if she could form a Government with the DUP?
Auldheid,
A powerful Union of Supporters would have many obstacles put in its way and would suffer ridicule from the Media. It is, nevertheless, a cause worth pursuing .
JJ
TTTFO
Would she have to ask permission for that?
JJ
PS Has the MT/TM ( Thatcher/May)connection been pointed out before?
Congratulations to Brendan on getting wed yesterday. Have The Rangers found a money tree as they are now being quoted as having spent 10 million this transfer window and they are not finished yet so say the MSM.So what about Celtic they dont appear to have spent a penny yet and the Champions league qualifyers are nearly upon us am I worried ? not a bit in Brendan I trust. H.H.
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 10TH JUNE 2017 10:50 AM
What would have happened if The queen had said, “Naw”, when May asked her if she could form a Government with the DUP?
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She would have been mutualled.
Unilaterally.
Or sent out to graze.
Same thing really.
AULDHEID on 10TH JUNE 2017 10:40 AM
AULDHEID on 10TH JUNE 2017 10:40 AM
So good I named you twice.
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The real problem is lack of in effect an overeaching supporters Union to have a say in how the game is run. That capacity does not exist so it needs to be built.
Construction is underway.
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That would seem to be a sound strategy .
Without the hun , I take it.
:-)
£10 million….. hahaha!!
Must be Vietnam dong they are spending.
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 10TH JUNE 2017 10:50 AM
What would have happened if The queen had said, “Naw”, when May asked her if she could form a Government with the DUP?
Shares prices of Fleg making companies would have plummeted.
An extreme right wing Tory government propped up by the DUP.
Surely for even the dumbest of Nats, this is proof positive that WE ARE ALL BETTER TOGETHER.
May, Foster , Trump. Truly by their friends ye shall know them.
Hot Smoked on 10th June 2017 10:52 am
Auldheid,
A powerful Union of Supporters would have many obstacles put in its way and would suffer ridicule from the Media. It is, nevertheless, a cause worth pursuing .
JJ
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I think we should give the media a lot less weight than we do.
Taking the election: it is apparent that the toxic messages sent out by The Mail and The Sun were counteracted, perhaps even made counter productive, by social media.
For example if all supporters can reach each other by virtual word of mouth using e mail, Twitter DM, Messenger etc etc and the message is sound then msm are neutered
There is a whole generation growing up with social media as their main information source which has the ability to interact and so challenge mad ideas. Its a whole new world.
The union of supporters will be as powerful as the numbers signing up and participating and the initiative has sound backing from folk concerned about the welfare of Scottish Football.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 10th June 2017 11:20 am
AULDHEID on 10TH JUNE 2017 10:40 AM
So good I named you twice.
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The real problem is lack of in effect an overeaching supporters Union to have a say in how the game is run. That capacity does not exist so it needs to be built.
Construction is underway.
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That would seem to be a sound strategy .
Without the hun , I take it.
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Ironically on a cosmic scale, had such capacity existed from 2000, the main beneficiaries would have been the huns, as in not going to the wall.
If they are too stupid to recognise that and self exclude, hell will keep on mending them.
i’vehadtochangemyname @ 10:28 am
“let’s sell the club to craig whyte
let’s have an election
hmmmmm, which one was the bigger own goal”
Well David Murray was and Theresa May is about to be…….. DUPed
http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2017/06/08/celtic-submits-hotel-and-museum-complex-plan/