The general reaction to reports that a £1m bid has been received for Leigh Griffiths is that the figure undervalues the player. Early in the season the story was different. Leigh, who joined in January last year, was behind new arrivals John Guidetti and Stefan Scepovic. His perceived value was close to zero, alongside most players sitting on the bench or in the stand.
We were panicked on 31 August last year. Having signed Amido Balde and Teemu Pucki a year earlier we were desperately short of a striker, the arrival of Scepovic, then Guidetti was cause for celebration. Neither brought much to the club, we would have been better, with more money available for the next window, if we’d prioritised Leigh and given chances to a youth player.
If Celtic choose to sell Leigh this summer, it will not be for £1m. He’s worth much more than that, probably more than Leeds United can afford. He’s under contract, first choice and scoring goals. But Celtic will also put a great deal of effort into recruiting a striker in the coming weeks.
There are no guarantees Leigh will get an extended run in the team next season. Celtic should sell players at peak value, when they have reached the point they are no longer developing, before they become an overhang on resources. Leigh is probably at peak value, and unlikely to further develop, but he’s no overhang. That scenario won’t happen until a couple of new pretenders have proven they are better fits than Balde, Pukki, Scepovic and Guidetti.
Keep an eye on Frank McGarvey’s 1985 Scottish Cup Final shirt, which is being auctioned to benefit Maryhill Food Bank. It closes just before 8pm tonight.
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jg,
You were right, I couldn’t find the American made weapon manufacturer that brought down MF17, turned out only dodgy issue was Ukrainian fighterjet returning without missile payload.
MrZ
I will never agree your terms, if you want to continue to profess CIA propaganda I will always challenge your fascist crap, want a war ?
clogher celt
00:32 on 18 May, 2015
Just emailed you back, as far as I know Mrs GFTB quite fancies Dublin 16 and so firs wee Emilyfaethebrig so hopefully we will make it, ni need for places to stay but if possible email me dates so that we can try and be there much as possible
just saw skippy sending off..shocjing..and dallas behaviour should see hin banned..bigot if the highest order(sic)
Ok Gerry,
I will come back to you tomorrow. No hassle Gerry, I will e mail you.
No pressure,
Take your time.
Clogher
Jg,
There was the reports that US and NATO were supplying arms to the fascists before the country degenerated into civil war, then the appointment of newly naturalised Americans to ministerial positions, then again that May have just been coincidence, or no, Europe is the biggest threat to the US, divide and…. What’s the term ?
Information clearing house, free press by comparison
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
http://news.yahoo.com/poland-makes-payout-alleged-victims-cia-renditions-100705242.html
Poland eh
Bad Russians
These guys are sweet as nuts
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk
Night timdom, something’s just grind my gears and warmongering g is one of them things.
Paul67 et al
And that was a political broadcast from the Canamalar Party.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41843.htm
Good to know, like being banned, there are ways round their censorship
Viva la revolution
Celtic Mac ..
He’s no a daftie ..
Honestly :)
Nite .. Tim Land
Celtic Mac,
Party politics are no allowed to mention socialism any more, how stupid is that ?
It was a world political broadcast by the canamalar party stupit get it right ffs, fascists eh too stupit to make their views clears and too sleekit to make their views clear what’s to trust eh ? Tim my arse
Borrowed from Don’t Let it Be Forgot
……………………..Roaster…………………..
I had one of those strange conversations which occur from time to time this week. I was sitting on a crowded bus minding my own business when noisy man got on. Noisy man was one of those people who talked at twice the volume required for the context and seemed to want the whole bus to hear every thought passing through his head. Dressed in an ill-fitting tracksuit and dirty white trainers, he glanced around the bus. He looked more annoying than dangerous and confirmed this by saying in a loud voice to no one in particular, ‘Aw day ticket over four quid? Think we’re aw millionaires?’ He then scanned the lower deck looking for a seat. The woman across from me slipped her handbag onto the empty space beside her with practiced ease and without even looking up from her Metro. Alas, noisy man wandered up the aisle and plonked himself beside me. ‘Some weather eh? Aw four seasons in wan day!’ he said to me his breath hinting that a fair amount of tonic wine had been imbibed recently. I tried to keep the conversation at a minimum but he was up for a gab and had that annoying habit of poking you with his elbow when making a point. ‘Here, that Nicola Sturgeon’s a nippy sweetie eh?’ he said, bumping me again, ‘Widnae like tae go hame tae her wi the wages opened.’ He then proceeded to laugh as if he was the funniest man on earth. Of course the rest of the bus smirked away as they could enjoy the show whilst yours truly had to interact with noisy man and they didn’t.
He then started talking about football and at this most of the men on the bus tuned in to hear if his opinions were as off the wall as he sounded. ‘Ye like fitbaw big man? That wiz a liberty what happened tae Rangers eh? Aw they Karflicks laughing like feck when we wur relegated.’ Like a fool I took the bait and replied, ‘They weren’t relegated they were liquidated and the new club started where all new clubs should; in the bottom league.’ Half the bus smiled a little at this and half had troubled looks on their faces. ‘Wit?’ replied noisy man, ‘You saying Rangers died?’ I was in too deep to back out and replied, ‘The facts don’t lie Buddy.’ The look on his unshaven face changed and he uttered one of those quintessentially Glaswegian sentences, ‘Well feck me wi the jaggy end o’ a pineapple, we’ve got a real roaster here.’ As I mulled over being called a ‘roaster’ there was an audible snigger from a few on the bus as he continued his diatribe. ’Bet yer a karflick?’ he went on as if that was somehow pertinent to the debate. My silence seemed to antagonise him a little and he muttered, ‘A club canny die!’ as if it were an unwritten truth. ‘Third Lanark died.’ I replied. He was silent for a moment as if confused by my logic, ‘Aye but Rangers wur bought by new guys and the SFA said they wur the same club.’ I was not inclined to go into the convoluted machinations of the SFA as they bent over backwards for the newco so I said simply, ‘If you want to believe that then that’s fine but I don’t.’ Noisy man then looked around the crowded bus, ‘Anybody getting aff coz I canny sit beside this roaster any mer?’ There was more quiet laughter as he looked at me, ‘Nae offence big man but yer aff yer rocker.’ He got up with the air of one who has been insulted and sauntered down the aisle before taking a sharp right turn and heading upstairs. At that point the bus hit a bump in the road and he half fell back into the lower section again much to the amusement of a few of the passengers. As he headed upstairs again I looked out the window happy to have peace restored.
The bus reached the city centre and I got off. As I prepared to continue on foot I heard a banging sound and looking up saw noisy man thumping the upstairs window. I smiled as he shouted out at me, ‘Roaster, yer a feckin roaster!’ The bus pulled off and I watched him disappear into his alternative reality.
It’s some town old Glasgow.
Don’t worry. Be Efe.
http://youtu.be/d-diB65scQU
David Rutter CHICAGO TRIBUNE
On some days, the old Irish blood in my veins races.
The rising anger and hope of the McGlones and McCrystals was powerful, especially when it came to “an Gorta Mor,” a Gaelic term.
If you do not know “an Gorta Mor,” then you paid cheaply to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. If you do remember, the knowledge diminishes any excuse for the drunken bacchanalia that everyone else celebrates.
The McGlone and McCrystal private distaste for all things English was visceral because of “an Gorta Mor.” It was The Great Hunger.
The English would have let the McGlones and McCrystals starve to death. Tried to. But we beat them to the boats and escaped the Potato Famine in the middle 1800s.
Great-grandfather McGlone was luckier than most Irish. He could read. He was a civil servant on an island of 8 million souls, 1.5 million of whom starved to death in six years under British feudal stewardship.
But great-grandpa would not forget a deep affirmation that the English would face justice one of these days because the Irish nurture long memories and longer grudges. We brought both from Ireland with us.
Dropping a small but efficient thermonuclear device on “Downton Abbey” does not seem too stringent an outcome.
The Ireland most Americans recognize now was not an Ireland that ever existed. America’s St. Patrick’s Day is the March 17 celebration of that made-up country.
The true Ireland was a poor, miserable, medieval land that Patrick’s religion did not raise from destitution. In the Ireland of 1880, a quarter of the population could read and write. Life expectancy was 40. Teens married by 16 and produced platoon-sized families. Infant mortality was heartbreaking.
The country was gorgeous, but life was abysmal.
Half the rural families in Ireland lived in single-room, windowless mud cabins without chimneys. A dozen relatives lived inside and slept on hay-covered mud floors.
The Irish learned hard drinking less as a joyous celebration than a reprieve from reality.
The country was owned by English and Anglo-Irish hereditary gentry who held title because British conquerors such as Oliver Cromwell took it. Protestant landowners lived sumptuous, imperious lives far from Catholic peasants.
The Irish wars between Protestants and Catholics reflect an ancient feud over a stolen land and centuries of servitude enforced from the pulpit. There is nothing in that history to make the Irish a happy people.
In truth, they are often happier than they have a right to be. Irish are indefatigable, but not blithe spirits.
As the eldest son of a “McGlone girl,” I still bear faint marks of her grandfather’s flight and her later survival of the Depression.
First, it was all a matter of food.
I still habitually blanch at larger restaurant meals than one person can consume. And when purchased food is left untouched on the plate, it seems a failure of responsibility and conscience.
She had never been hungry that I know, but had grown up with the constant warning that famine was the legacy of wasteful children. Never waste food.
If you had grown to adulthood with parents like that, they would have constantly embarrassed you in restaurants by forcing you to accept food portions from the plates. They would not eat more than they needed, but would not waste it if a child was at hand, either.
Even their adult child.
Real Irish families took hunger seriously.
There is reason to feel Irish on days attached to the joy of heritage.
Nonetheless I might as well say it out loud. I detest St. Patrick’s Day with a specific loathing. It’s a fake, manufactured celebration.
At least 95 percent of Americans who celebrate St. Patrick’s Day are not really Irish, and the remaining 5 percent are usually County Cork Quislings who have forgotten what it means to be authentically Irish.
They celebrate a diluted imitation of Ireland, hyped by public relations with green-painted faces and fake Darby O’Gill accents.
The Irish should bear a deep, glum sadness borne of centuries of mistreatment and poverty. But they don’t.
We celebrate true spirit. So on March 17, I will pour a single shot of rye whiskey and down it in one gulp as I salute Patrick for at least trying to save the McGlones when no one else would.
But I will drink alone. It is the way a true son of Ireland celebrates with his private, somber memories.
New Orleans, the 2015 site of the International Commemoration of An Gorta Mor
Margaret Haughery: “Friend of the Orphans”
By Adrienne Luck
19th century New Orleanians knew Margaret (Gaffney) Haughery by several endearing terms. The “Bread Woman,” “Friend of the Orphans,” “Mother of the Orphans,” “Our Margaret,” and “Angel of the Delta” are the best known. Personal tragedies experienced both as a child and later as a parent shaped her life-long devotion to serving New Orleans’ poor, especially orphans.
Margaret’s life began in Tully, Carrigallen County Leitrim, Ireland in 1813. (Efforts are underway to establish a museum in her hometown.) When five years old, she emigrated to America with her parents and two of her siblings. The Gaffney family ended up in Baltimore, Maryland, but an 1822 yellow fever epidemic killed both of her parents. Once orphaned, Margaret was taken in by a woman who required that Margaret earn her keep, which started Margaret on the path familiar to many Irish women: domestic service. In 1835, she married Charles Haughery, and a month later they moved to New Orleans. They had one daughter they named Frances. Charles soon fell ill and went back to Ireland to regain strength. He died a short while later. A few months later, Frances became sick and died.
The life of an Irish widow in antebellum New Orleans was not easy. Single women threatened notions of sexual morality and social control. During this period, anti-Irish jokes were commonly published in the newspapers. To support herself, Margaret worked as a laundress for the St. Charles Hotel. She became acquainted with the Sisters of Charity and volunteered her time to the orphans they cared for. She also contributed as much as two-thirds of her earnings to the orphans.
In order to better care for the orphans, Margaret purchased two cows to provide milk. These two cows developed into a dairy herd of forty and a prosperous dairy business. She was often seen making deliveries with her mule-drawn cart. Her success allowed her to contribute a great deal of funds to construct a new and larger orphanage run by the Sisters of Charity. She also helped open St. Teresa’s Orphan Asylum.
Margaret’s business endeavors did not end with the dairy farm. Most New Orleanians are unaware of her dairy business, but “Margaret’s Bakery” remains known for the bread she distributed to orphans and other needy city residents. Hers was one of the early “steam bakeries” in the South. “Margaret’s Steam and Mechanical Bakery” survived through and beyond the Civil War.
Margaret was the second woman in the United States to have a statue erected in her honor. Citizens of New Orleans commissioned a statue in her likeness soon after her death in 1882. Sculpted by Andrew Doyle using Italian marble, the statue has stood since 1884 in the Lower Garden District at the intersection of Prytania and Clio Streets.
cowiebhoy
21:47 on 17 May, 2015
16 roads,
hope your impeccable source isn’t same as mine ? Dropped me a text as I walked out of Church this morning .( can’t say Mass in case it offends some :-))
Anyway, could Aiden play in the KC role sitting behind a striker ?
Hail Hail
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Cowiebhoy – If I told ya the name of my source,I’d have to kill ye mo chara lol.
I’mSayingNothingCSC.
HH. :)
Celtic FC Foundation’s Ability Counts Shortlisted for National Award
Tuesday 12th May 2015
THE Charity Awards, which announces its shortlist today, is the charity world’s most prestigious excellence recognition programme and Celtic FC Foundation’s Ability Counts project in partnership with Down’s Syndrome Scotland has been shortlisted under the Disability category, making it to the final three.
All shortlisted projects have scored highly against the 10 Hallmarks of Excellence, as decided by the 10-strong judging panel of voluntary sector experts across a variety of fields.
Celtic FC Foundation and Down’s Syndrome Scotland met in 2010 to discuss joint working, and both partners quickly realised that they shared similar values and goals and agreed to design a project together, which would benefit children and young people living with Down’s syndrome.
This would engage within the heart of the community, offering those with Down’s Syndrome an opportunity to develop motor skills, ball skills, team-working and to play football and in a fun but challenging environment.
The Ability Counts Project launched in February, 2011 and was the first of its kind in Scotland and has now grown from strength to strength.
In addition to the weekly football coaching, we have now introduced a successful dance element, and last year Ability Counts was the main benefactor of Celtic FC Foundation’s Sporting Dinner, which raised enough funds to secure another two-years’ of delivery.
As a club open to all since its formation in 1888, Celtic promotes inclusion and diversity through its charitable arm. The Ability Counts project has been a perfect way to celebrate diversity and promote friendship between the children and young people involved, through a common goal and interest.
Tony Hamilton, CEO of Celtic FC Foundation, said: “I’m delighted that we have been shortlisted alongside some fantastic national charities who add real value in their respective communities.
“Ability Counts is our own project and one which we are enormously proud of. This latest recognition is testimony to the commitment shown every week by the staff of both Down’s Syndrome Scotland and Celtic FC Foundation. Thanks must also go to the club who facilitate us in this and every other project we deliver.
“We have shown positive outcomes with the children and young people with Down’s Syndrome that we work with over these past four years and we’re hoping that our Autism and Disabled Sports projects will in time prove to be just as beneficial for those people who we are trying to engage.”
The 10 category winners, plus the recipients of the Overall Award for Excellence and the Outstanding Achievement Award, will be announced at a dinner in June in London.
The black-tie evening will be hosted by world cup winning rugby star, Will Greenwood who will be joined by representatives of the shortlisted charities, alongside a ‘who’s who’ of charity leaders and celebrities from the worlds of theatre, television, music and sport.
Tania Mason, group editor at Civil Society Media which organises The Charity Awards, congratulated Celtic FC Foundation on making the highly-coveted shortlist.
She said: “We had an almost record number of entries this year – just four fewer than our all-time high in 2011 – and the standard was excellent, so Celtic FC Foundation should be very proud to have made the shortlist.
“For 16 years The Charity Awards have been identifying and celebrating the fantastic work that UK charities do, and the rigorous judging process ensures that only the very best-run charities make it through.
“We wish Celtic FC Foundation all the very best of luck on the night.”
Tommy Burns: Glasgow, Loaves and Fishes.
Anyway, a decent wee documentary that might be of interest to the crew whom attended the Beal Feirste hootenanny.
Yous will probably recognise one or two of the places.
Forgive Gerry Armstrong’s strange accent though:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sV8kw6eDhFU
KTF.
Kitalba – I have always maintained that CQN is an education, if anything.
The material that ye have been posting is off the scale, incredibly interesting.
And here I was thinking that I knew a wee bit about Irish history, only scratched the surface.
Thanks a million for sharing your knowledge.
HH.
16 roads – Celtic über alles:
Cheers but for the record it is not my knowledge, it is other people who do the research and do the writing, I just blag it and post it on here hoping that it may be of some interest to some people.
I could post tons of the stuff but too much tends to put a few noses out of joint.
This morning I was reading about the invasion of Grenada, that is worth reading.
I was hoping PJBhoyNYC was going to be on so I could ask him about the RCA in Atlanta, an amazing approach to teaching, and him being a teacher too.
The Charity Awards, which announces its shortlist today (11 May) is the charity world’s most prestigious excellence recognition programme. All 30 projects have scored highly against the ten Hallmarks of Excellence, as decided by the 10-strong judging panel of voluntary sector experts across a variety of fields.
The ten category winners, plus the recipients of the Overall Award for Excellence and the Outstanding Achievement Award, will be announced at a dinner on 18 June at the Park Plaza Hotel, Westminster, London.
Celtic is the only football club nominated. I’d love it if I knew how to have Mary’s Meals nominated though I don’t know if they would meet the criteria.
Kitalba – Ye took the time and made the effort to search for and locate the information.Research.
That’s what historians do.
People read the material, then it is entirely up to themselves. Then they can then decide.
Thanks again.
KnowledgeIsKingCSC.
HH.
Kitalba,
You are too modest. But you are right. I see CQN like a Celtic Pub, you don’t talk football the whole time…but Celtic is the reason for being.
Having said that you can talk politics, economics, history, music, weather even.
The trick is knowing the moment to talk about other things.
You have got that right.
Clogher
Forgot the link…
The 2015 Charity Awards shortlist
Celtic is in the ‘Disability’ category.
Lisa can’t wait to party with supporters at 30th birthday bash
Wednesday 13th May 2015
CELTIC FC Foundation’s preparations for Lisa’s 30th Birthday Bash are well underway and we sat down with the Birthday Ghirl to find out why this end-of-season celebration is not to be missed.
Lisa, fiancee of Celtic star Kris Commons, has committed to raising a phenomenal total of £30,000 for Marie Curie in Glasgow, during her 30th birthday year.
Speaking about how the event came about, Lisa said: “I thought it was a brilliant way to finish off my 30k fundraising challenge and also strengthen my support of Celtic FC Foundation, by celebrating my birthday with the Celtic support.
“Fundraising is something I’m extremely passionate about and spending time with supporters is something I really look forward to and I’m sure on the night, we’ll exceed the overall target and have a proper celebration.
“We have a really exciting night lined up including a professional hypnotist who will be hypnotising myself, Nicholas McDonald and Celtic FC Foundation’s very own Tony Hamilton as well as a few other famous faces.”
On finally hitting the 30th milestone, Lisa joked, “It stung a little bit. Being 30 with three kids makes me feel a little bit old but hey, roll on the 40k challenge for turning 40!”
Net proceeds of the event will be shared equally between Celtic FC Foundation and Lisa’s £30k charity challenge for Marie Curie.
It will kick off at 7.30pm on Saturday, May 23, in the Kerrydale Suite at Celtic Park and include a hot buffet, live entertainment, auction, raffle, DJ and, of course, birthday cake.
So get your dancing shoes on and join us for what is sure to be a magical, heart-warming birthday bash to celebrate all that is wonderful about the Celtic Family.
Ticket availability is now limited so don’t delay! The cost for a table of 10 is £300 or tickets can be purchased on an individual basis at £30pp.To make a reservation or enquire about event sponsorship opportunities, please call 0141 551 4262 or email cfcfoundation@celticfc.co.uk
Clogher Celt – I agree.
Powerful reading it is, for me anyway.
History I find a fascinating topic, Irish history particularly.
Course it can be a wee bit sad to read – So many times I’ve promised myself not to read about Irish history no more, but it is like a drug. Like a moth to a flame,ye cannot help but to keep reading.
Because, no matter how much of it ya think ye know – something else that ye hadn’t ever known or heard about appears.
Then it begins all over again.
Best time on CQN is during the early hours, not many about – ye don’t even have to worry about spelling a word incorrectly.
I’m very weary of posting on here during the day – one minor spelling mistake or typo could be enough reason to have ye crucified lol.
God bless the Celtic of Glesga, that’s what I say!! :)
HH.
Denis Curran (Loaves and Fishes) on Food Banks “People are getting penalised for being poor”
James Connolly Johnstone:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ol68Kr-Ukf0
The greatest ever.
HH.
16 Roads,
You are right, but don’t worry about posting during the day.
I have a load of e mails about Dublin 2016, from people that never post.
I think the next 12 months will be very special.
See you in Dublin.
Clogher
canamalar
01:09 on 18 May, 2015
Jg,
There was the reports that US and NATO were supplying arms to the fascists before the country degenerated into civil war, then the appointment of newly naturalised Americans to ministerial positions, then again that May have just been coincidence, or no, Europe is the biggest threat to the US, divide and…. What’s the term ?
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Canamalar
I think the US biggest strategic concern and focus is likely to be on the east not europe.
The rise of China raises huge challenges to the US with Taiwan a likely flash point. Then there’s the middle East. I won’t pretend to know obama’s inner thoughts but I’d have thought conflict in the heart of Europe was something he could well do without.
The rise of the right in Europe worries and saddens me. Ukraine is a particular case but unfortunately it’s far from being alone.
Seems as though we’re back to the scary 1980s all over again.
HH jamesgang
Barry Douglas, £500k from Lech Poznan. Chip wrappers this morning