News that Southampton FC have nominated Mary’s Meals as their official international charity partner is a genuine great football story, and a significant landmark for the Scottish-based charity which now feeds over a millions children per day.
Mary’s Meals were in touch on Friday with news and photographs from the fourth school kitchen paid for by Celtic Quick News readers, in Chibwata, Malawi. Since the kitchen was built, school enrolment has increased by 34% to 1226 pupils. Each day over 4,000 pupils are fed in school kitchens built by CQN readers.
The school role has increased because of the availability of a daily meal, but as well as being better fed and healthier, hundreds of pupils are now getting an education who previously missed out. Benefits are not limited to food today, there are lifetime benefits of getting a primary education, which will help the pupils and the nation as a whole for decades.
Those of you who have put the occasional £1 into Appeal alongside the Magners’ competitions we run, or who have put significantly more than this on occasion, should be enormously proud of what you’ve achieved. It is a stunning testament to the Celtic support. Thanks for all your help.
Celtic have done enormous work with Mary’s Meals in the past through the Foundation but let’s hope this break into English football opens up many more opportunities for the charity.
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Sipsini
Mate thats a very good point btw. Even with the size 4’s at times they are like rocks. No give in them at all
Tet,
Aye that’s an incredible amount of hours wasted.
Back in the day when I was brave enough to mention to her, all I’d get in return is ‘aye but what about your fitbaw!?’
Followed by the stink eye :))
HH
TET, Herbo
Size 5 rubber Mouldmaster, red ash pitch and leather studded boots…
I was stuck in as centre half in St Dominic’s primary school reserve team in Castlemilk. (No, I never met DCK)
I was the only one who could batter the ball up in the air into their half, where it usually stayed for 10 mins.
Full size goals, full size pitches, no nets, no corner flags, no “fishell” refs…
My sons couldn’t believe what I was telling them…
Scarred Knees CSC
Rwe
Centre half?
You know nothing about fitbaw :-)
Does this mean Southampton are buying CQN as well…….?
RWE…
St Doms had a good team when I played with St Julie’s…still, not a match for us :))
Sipsini RWE
St Sixtus of the ghetto
Glasgow Cup winners 1987
I only got 3 in the final. Ref was a ken dodd
Sips
Must have been sore when yon lace hit your napper
My data is getting used very quickly most months I’m topping up. Got told it was because I was using 4g instead of 3g. Contract up on Thursday on my HTC phone. Was going to increase my data use. Reading you can do it for free. How do I do this ?
Geordie Munro
Thanks for reply.
I’ve installed mozilla Firefox and added an ad blocker….hope that works.
I was due an upgrade on my mobile so increased the data allowance too.
Wish hamiltontim had raised the issue earlier :-(
Will FIFA be allowed to buy their assets and history ? …..no, they’re no re peepul
Anyone watching Panorama?
No wonder it’s so hard to clean up the game here.
Those FIFA and UEFA guys are total scumbags
HH
Just noticed the Stranraar game is a 3:15 kick off. Yullday!
Expect a concert
BT…
Haha, no laces in the mouldmaster, did have a laced up bladder when a pup, now I just have a weak bladder :(
HERBO~RWE
We wanted to make it fun for the kids, half the pitch and the ball size, it worked, nothing worse than seeing 20 weans chasing a ball on a full size pitch.
Once they realised that it was fun, they started to listen and understand without the bollix they were getting from the school head, it was a good feeling to see them happy and enjoying the game.
I often watch the kids here, they are light years ahead of what by all accounts is happening back in scotland, the weather has a lot to do with it obviously, but they still play footy in the street, a lack of money also has much to do with things as well I reckon.
HH
………………………..
GM
I gave up years ago, she does what she does and I don’t complain, it’s really no worth the bother, they always win :-)
HH
Re data usage. If you are on iPhone go to Settings – Mobile Data and go to very bottom – turn OFF wifi assist. Problem solved. On a recent upgrade they put this ON and it is using data when not necessary.
Mrs TET is having bother with her iphone, she doesn’t use CQN, it’s telling her that she has no memory left, she has emptied the phone, but she can’t take a pic sometimes, is it related in any way ?
Winning captain
Any advice for Android users?
Tet
Thats absolutely the case. We are over 100 quid a month for the weans fitbaw. Add to that his boots every few months, fundraisers, and goin to see Celtic. Its no easy. Im a chef shes a hairdressers, we’re no millionaires. Still, ye find it. Thank god for Aldis swally
Summer fitbaw is definitely the way imo. In saying that. Thats the wee man finished last weekend till february so theyre getting there
BT
Laces?
We had clogs and rubber mitres…
We used to pray for laces…
:o)
LENNON’S PASSION….
I use my 4g Samsung in work, I hook into the works wifi for reading CQN.
Funny thing is…like YouTube and other sites, hunmedia is blocked, that tells the story in my work, too many huns on their sites, whilst I go under their radar :)
Burghbhoy
Yes, I watched Panorama. The sheer scale of corruption is ‘off the radar!
Ironic, that Andrew Jennings who has been chasing FIFA for more than a decade, is Scottish.
Small Fry csc
Is Freemason David Will still involved in the FIFA cabal?
HERBO
Fair play to you mi amigo, the weans always come first.
And the Aldi swally here is superb and as cheap as chips :-)
HH
Herbo
I knew nothing then and know less now it seems…
No football influence or support at home for me…just the way it was…
BTW we never headed the ball since the blooming thing rarely got in the ai.
TET
small pitches, ball and nets a size that is relative to the kids’ physique and size etc.
plenty of touches and working on both feet…
Jinky’s fav trick…dribbling off the outside of either foot..banjaxed defenders all over the world AND Govan
NOWA
SIPSINI on 7TH DECEMBER 2015 9:40 PM
Don’t have that option at work. Have my data on 24/7 didn’t know your phone used data when your not using it. Seems strange but will turn off and only use when needed see if that helps.
Can I ask for a favour please with regard to some thoughts and prayers for Fr Neil Donnachie, parish priest at Holy Cross in Dixon Avenue , Glasgow.
Fathet Neil suffered a stroke last week and has lost his speech. He is a very good man and i hope and pray he makes a full recovery.
Thank you.
RWE
When I first started watching the weans here, I got a massive shock at how good they were, one of the things that amazed me was how they coach the kids ball control.
One team have the ball, they are situed in 6 foot circles, they can’t leave the circle, and are only allowed two touches, one to control the ball and another to pass to a team mate in another circle, the oppo try to get the ball, if they do, they change, it’s amazing watching them do this at speed.
Jinky was and always will be my favourite player, I doubt we will ever see his like again, mores the pity, still prob the best I have ever seen, and that includes seeing players on the tele, imagine Messi putting up with what he had to from the cloggers back in them days.
HH
Dallas
as an ex Holyrood bhoy will be pleased to add Fr Neil to my cqn prayer list
Brian McNally @McNallyMirror 2m2 minutes ago
Brian McNally Retweeted Adrian Warner
Jennings steadfastly defied the likes of PM David Cameron & fellow hacks who told him he should move on.A true hero! Brian McNally added,
Adrian Warner @adrian_warner
The lesson Andrew Jennings gives to aspiring investigative journalists is that he was obsessed with FIFA. He never let go. He never tired.
Lessons for all internet bampots never give up
TET
How ya doing?
As someone who was too young to have seen JJ in the flesh …. let me ask you …. do you really think the cloggers were worse then?
For me, I cant imagine a dirtier/harder player than ?Claudio Gentile ….that world cup (82?), his treatment of Maradona (never one of my favourites) would have made Hannibal Lecter proud. didn’t they call him ‘the butcher of bilbao’? or something like that?
I think the game has cleaned up/softened a bit since then …. but still think you would go some way to finding a dirtier/harder player than CG!
DD
Thoughts with Fr Donnachie, hope he pulls through.
HH
Gene, thank you.
His genoristy letting SANDS ( the stillborn and neonatal death society) have their memorial service at Holy Cross every two years is magnificent.
MiT
Good thanks
It’s all relative I think, CG was indeed a beast, but he could also play the game when he had to.
I was more thinking about the John Greig kinda player, telling that he is their greatest ever player, thug through and through, not a bit of skill whatsoever, and scotland was full of them at the time, and the hun have carried on that tradition to the present day, cos they can.
Players play to the referee, they know what they can get away with, Diego was an inaboutcomer, they hated him in Italy, so he was fair game, now I can’t remember who the ref was at the game you mention, but I wouldn’t put it past it that he was brown enveloped, it was the norm then, and is now.
And I welcome any ref who wants to sue me.
HH
The SNP has backed one of its MPs who has admitted benefiting from a tax avoidance loophole in a previous job.
Phil Boswell said he had received an £18,000 interest-free loan while working as contracts manager for US energy company Phillips 66.
Mr Boswell has been a vocal critic of similar schemes, which SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has previously described as “obscene and immoral”.
There is no suggestion that Mr Boswell has acted illegally.
An SNP spokeswoman said the Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill MP had always declared his interests in line with the guidelines.
‘Common practice’
She said: “Phil Boswell has always made declarations on his register of interests in line with Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority guidelines and is committed to ending tax avoidance schemes.”
In the House of Commons register of members’ interests, Mr Boswell disclosed: “I benefit from an interest-free loan of £18,308.82, made by Hyrax Resourcing and now repayable on demand.”
He said the loan related to his work as contracts manager for energy company Phillips 66, through support services firm PDI Ltd.
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Mr Boswell told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that such loan arrangements, which are made in place of salary payments, were “common practice” in the industry he was working in at the time.
He said: “I am aware of mechanisms within my previous employment contract which utilised the existing tax legislation. This payment agreement is common practice in my previous industry.
“After finding myself previously employed in such a contract, I decided to utilise my knowledge and experience in my new role as an MP to highlight Treasury management issues.”
But opposition politicians have accused Mr Boswell of “hypocrisy” after pointing out that he tabled a written question at Westminster earlier this year urging the Chancellor to “close the tax avoidance scheme known as the Mayfair tax loophole”.
He also told the Motherwell Times newspaper in August: “Tax avoidance costs the economy nearly four times as much as benefit fraud, yet this government blames the most vulnerable in society for the economic problems caused by a lack of regulation and enforcement in the financial industry.”
Labour MSP James Kelly said: “People will be astonished by the apparent hypocrisy of Phil Boswell, with him preaching about the evils of tax avoidance while appearing to have taken advantage of a tax avoidance scheme himself.”
And Lib Dem peer Lord Purvis of Tweed said it was “shocking that wealthy people who have broad shoulders should think it’s acceptable to use such dodgy tax avoiding tactics”.
‘Tackled effectively’
In February, Ms Sturgeon called for a “zero tolerance” approach to tax avoidance in all of its forms.
She said: “The first step is to have a zero tolerance approach to it and then to have a much more vigorous and effective tax authority that’s going to clamp down on it and prosecute people, and get money back and make examples of people, so we send the right message to anyone thinking of doing it.
“It is awful, it is despicable, I can’t actually think of words strong enough for it, and the sooner we start calling it for what it is, the sooner we might start to see it tackled and tackled effectively.”
Two SNP MPs – Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry – are currently suspended from the party after withdrawing from the whip.
Ms Thomson has been linked to property deals that led to a solicitor being struck off, while Ms McGarry is at the centre of a police investigation into claims that donations made to the Women for Independence group have gone missing.
mike in toronto on 7th December 2015 10:03 pm
Butcher of bilbao was
Andoni Goikoetxea who halved Maradonna when he was at Barca
TET …
funny, I dont remember CG as a player at all.
There were other ()usually, Italian) defenders who were hard as nails, but who certainly could play … Baresi was certainly one. Maldini might be the only defender who I would say was better than him …. although, Beckenbauer might be in with a shout (although, once again, I didn’t really see him at his best).
Look at us …. chatting about footballers on CQN … it’ll never catch on! :)
jc2 … you are right, of course. better memory than me!