The narrative was set for Aberdeen. After six consecutive league wins without losing a goal, their bubble was burst when they drew with Dundee and St Johnstone, but it hasn’t turned out that way. They have scored 10 and not conceded in the three league games since. Out of the Scottish and League Cups, their entire focus is on beating teams less resourceful than them in the league, which is everyone apart from Celtic.
Despite Celtic’s impressive ability to collect points dating back several months, Aberdeen are hanging in there, a remarkable achievement. The only thing which separates the teams are Celtic’s two 2-1 wins in their previous meetings this season. From Saturday afternoon Aberdeen’s complete focus will be on their visit to Celtic Park on Sunday.
By contrast, Celtic will return to Glasgow early Friday morning after their trip to Milan. They will face Aberdeen pretty much as that trip leaves them.
If I was offered a win and a defeat this week, I’d take the win in Milan, but we will need enough in te tank for Sunday’s game.
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macanbheatha Oscar Abú,
I was in the Social myself on Thursday night.
Árd Macha
Broonie with the Donegal Stole – gave him all his power, the golden fleece of Celtic scarves
I do not know if oneofthe70percent receives as much criticism as the likes of Alfie Noakes……but he certainly deserves it for his very Hunnish style when making a point.
Is he a troll?
JJ
On the article,
Two victories, and to hell with performances this week.
Árd Macha
45% of and 84.5% turnout is 38% of the total electorate.
Canny wait for the 18th September……….oh wait………
BMCUW
Not me, I never mentioned singing it in Irish – and I only know it in English myself
BSR
Where can I get a scarf like that?
JJ
DD,
It isn’t an orange one is it? :)
JJ,
Alfies footy posts are usually no bad imo. 70% is possibly Darwin/lawelsacountant and best ignored.
HH
ONEOFTHE70PERCENT
Always wondered about your moniker,but I understand it now.
I didn’t have a vote though I made it plain on here and elsewhere my intentions if I did. Without,I hope-and I genuinely did try-to attempt anything remotely resembling influence of others.
But if the vote was 45-55,are you suggesting only 67%,a nice number admittedly,turned out to vote?
Because 45% of 85% is 38%. No matter how you dress it up.
Welcome to one of the 62%. Nice to meet you.
I take it then that the national anthem of the pygmies of the Central African Republic and surrounding areas should also be banned.
O.G.Rafferty
14:02 on 23 February, 2015
I’ve explained why I think it happens and with that understanding I will not condemn those who do it.
16 roads – Celtic über alles…
Apropos of nothing;
The singing of the national anthem in Gaeilge at GAA sporting events and anywhere else I know, is actually the 2nd half of the song, as far as I’m aware.
I don’t know the words to the 1st half in either language.
Árd Macha
So-oldiers are WEE!
Had pirate pete invested in a proper manager ,instead of the joker we have right now, the game on sunday would be irrelevant as we would be out of sight of the sheepshaggers, now that they are close all the other hun teams are not putting in the effort against them( motherwell at home barely crossed the half way line,and did not kick the shit out of them the way they always do against us,and the refs have adopted them and are giving dodgy decisions like against dundee dodgy pen and a clearly offside goal allowed. RD AND PL OUT OUT OUT
Another add on I always remember was to the men behind the wire, it want like, the men behind, the men behind, the men behind the wire :)
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan. The Vow – Critically Rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
14:11 on 23 February, 2015
‘All this talk of a a free Ireland.
Imagine a Wee Free Scorland.’
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First of all we would have to imagine that Scotland is a colonised country whose people are subjugated because of their nationality.
To be honest with you, I struggle with that.
How about you?
Went even
GM
Haha. Naw.
jungle jim hot smoked
14:12 on 23 February, 2015
I do not know if oneofthe70percent receives as much criticism as the likes of Alfie Noakes……but he certainly deserves it for his very Hunnish style when making a point.
Is he a troll?
JJ
…………………….
Yep. A fully fledged currant bun and we all ignore him.
OGRAFERTY
Fair enough,bud.
If you are who I think you are,I’d be surprised if you knew it in Gaelic.
And even otherwise.
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ernie lynch
14:16
And my original point was if you call yourself an Irish republican then you believe in inclusiveness and so by adding that line about the Pope you are excluding 25% of the Irish population. Being Irish has nothing to do with the church you attend, or don’t
BSR
Can one whistle in sectarian?
***
Only if you have teeth…..or a flute.
The Wild Rover.
Now there’s a proper song, once sang with great gusto by the Celtic away support
Also had the GBTP add-on also.
It’s no big deal, and if something as trivial as that sends the monkeys into a fit of rage… then surely it can’t be a bad thing.
HH.
70%
GTF.
(By the way,that’s not a new model by Volkswagen.)
BMCUW
I’m not who you think I am, I think
Ireland’s Call
(Phil Coulter)
Come the day and come the hour
Come the power and the glory
We have come to answer
Our Country’s call
From the four proud provinces of Ireland
Ireland, Ireland
Together standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We’ll answer Ireland’s call
From the mighty Glens of Antrim
From the rugged hills of Galway
From the walls of Limerick
And Dublin Bay
From the four proud provinces of Ireland
Ireland, Ireland
Together standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We’ll answer Ireland’s call
Hearts of steel
And heads unbowing
Vowing never to be broken
We will fight, until
We can fight no more
From the four proud provinces of Ireland
Ireland, Ireland
Together standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
We’ll answer Ireland’s call
With the Ireland rugby team representing both the Republic and Northern Ireland, “Ireland’s Call” was scripted to help cross sectarian and national divides and adopted as the rugby anthem in 1995. However, at home matches in Dublin the Irish national anthem, the Soldier’s Song, is also sung.
LB
bournesouprecipe
13:20 on
23 February, 2015
Obfuscation is a lot older than Sevco.
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Well said.
PS. Scarf photo. Wore mine in Barcelona,plenty of offers to sell,still very popular.
70%, put your fishing rod away,
I voted yes, not for Salmond, nor the SNP but for self-determination. Where have I to bugger off to?
Knobend
H H
Paul67
If offered a win and a defeat this week, my choice would be the opposite of yours.
You seem to believe that they will continue to beat other teams, so I don’t fancy having to beat them at Pittodrie later in the season to maintain any advantage we may have by then.
No disaster going out of the Europa league, but losing the Scottish league with the financial advantage we have?
16 ROADS
Why would Micky Dolenz be upset about it?
Otherwise-good point,ya Prince of The Emerald Isle,and Beltor of a tipster…
I said that 70% of the registered voters did not vote yes ,the 55% no voters + 15% who did note vote,so effectively only 30% of the population voted yes and quite a lot of them were the idiots who disgraced themselves for night after night(waving a daft christian flag and a royal flag) most had no idea of politics and economics and just believed all the shit the snp put out
árd macha
14:16 on 23 February, 2015
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You could very well be correct, technically speaking.
So in the big games, you only really hear the first part of the second half of the anthem then?
About a quarter, before the crowds start roaring and cheering.
I hope that makes sense.
HH.
Mind you, I won’t be saying “aw naw!” if we prevail on Thursday night!
Peadear Kearney was born in Lower Dorset Street, Dublin in 1883. He grew up in Dolphins Barn and was educated at St Joseph’s Christian Brothers School in Marino. He left school when he was 14 and worked in a puncture repair business during the day, while in the evenings he was bringing suppers to the performers in the Gaiety Theatre. He eventually carved out a career as a house painter.
In 1901 Kearney became a member of the Gaelic League, an organisation established to promote the use of the Irish language. He taught night classes at the league and the writer Seán O’Casey was one of his pupils. Kearney also joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in 1903 which was dedicated to achieving an independent Republic of Ireland.
Kearney had always been interested in music and had a great talent for song writing. In 1907 he wrote the original English lyrics for The Soldiers Song to a melody composed by his friend Patrick Heeney. It was published in Irish Freedom in 1912 by Bulmer Hobson. The song became the anthem for the Irish Volunteers, the organisation behind the Easter Rising which took place in Dublin in 1916. He wrote other popular songs including The Tri-Coloured Ribbon, The Foggy Dew, and Erin go Bragh.
In the weeks before the Rising broke out, Kearney had been touring England with the Abbey Theatre as an odd-job man and small parts actor. He returned to Dublin in time to take part in the rebellion and fought with Thomas MacDonagh at Jacobs Factory. After the surrender, he managed to escape before the rebels were taken into custody.
In the years that followed the Rising civil unrest continued all over Ireland and when the War of Independence broke out in 1919 Kearney saw active service. He was arrested in November 1920 and was imprisoned for 12 months.
In July 1921 a truce was called between the British and the Irish Republicans and an Irish delegation of plenipotentiaries was sent to London to negotiate a treaty. They were fully authorized to represent the Irish government. Arthur Griffith led the group which included Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy. Robert Erskine Childers served as one of the secretaries.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on the 6 December 1921. It established an Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Commonwealth. But it also included an oath of allegiance to the King and agreed to the partition of 6 counties in Ulster, which would remain under British rule. Griffith believed that it was the best that could be achieved for Ireland at that point. In the debates that followed in the Dáil, he defended the Treaty as giving Ireland an opportunity to advance to full independence. The country was split into those who supported the Treaty and those who did not.
Kearney backed the Treaty and took the Free State side in the Civil War that broke out following the ratification of the Treaty. A personal friend of Michael Collins, he witnessed his death when he was shot in Béal na mBláth in Cork in August 1922. Kearney had been travelling in the front vehicle of the convoy. During the Civil War he was offered a job as prison censor, he did it for a week and resigned.
In 1926, the Irish translation of his song The Soldier’s Song, Amrhán na bhFiann was adopted as the Irish National anthem, but Kearney never received any royalties.
After the Civil War, Peadar Kearney no longer took an active role in politics.He returned to his house painting job and settled in Inchicore in Dublin where he died in relative poverty in 1942. His sister Kathleen was the mother of writers Brendan Behan and Dominic Behan. A monument to him stands on Dublin’s Dorset Street, where he was born.
Enjoying a copy and paste session today.
LB
LiviBhoy,,
Ireland’s Call nearly, very nearly gets as much respect in my house as the British national anthem: Muted
Árd Macha
OGRAFFERTY
Be good if you were,some mutual friends!
Disnae matter. We might meet up some day at one of the regular outings on here. Disagree,argue,make our points,get the beers in.
It’s what Celtic fans do. It fills the time till the next game!