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I've heard it's to do with women having and maintaining better relationships with friends family and even children than men do. So later in life they are happier being independent than men.

More older Men will say their best friend is their wife than the other way around. So if a spouse dies or relationship breaks up, women do much better than men because they have more life outside their relationship.

It's just what I've heard.

Honest question, what about the womens side in what you've said makes it worse?

As far as I see not settling and knowing what they want makes them better in relationships. Easier does not mean better.

Need to put subs back to three and limit first team squads to 18 players announced at start of season. Can be changed at Christmas. If a player drops out through injury the his place is taken by a player from the youths. This shite of having 2 or 3 world class players for every position needs to stop. The European competitions should be aiming to reduce games not increase them. As with everything else in the world now it’s purely about money.

People complaining about the ticket system crashing for the Oasis concerts must be thick. Sure they're part of the problem. Everything nowadays is 'I MUST HAVE NOW'- there's no patience anymore, only greed. You'd wonder how there were any concerts at all before the advent of online purchasing. At least then you had to physically queue for a ticket. And there'd be no crying if you were unsuccesful.

You can be sure they'll immediately log onto Amazon then to stockpile shite, and if they are lucky enough to get a ticket, will probably spend half the concert looking at it through their phones.

My heart bleeds for the poor craturs.

No, its you who doesn't understand the complaints. People understand that the system crashed due to demand but that doesn't mean people are not allowed to feel that a better system should of been in place like closing the queue earlier.

you can imagine the merch sales in Croker…Oasis on their website they sell very standard T-shirts for 35 euros.

It’s not inconceivable that over 2 nights they’ll sell about 20,000 shirts

That’s around 700,000 revenue in T-shirts over 2 nights, the vast majority of that is profit. Looks to be a dirt cheap Tshirt with a printed logo, set list or tour dates….they’ll have scarfs, hats, lanyards, programs and all the other shït too. So a major cash grab…

Another Paralympic one, I think Joanne O'Riordan should not be doing analysis/punditry for it. She seems like a nice girl well meaning, a mouth on her well able to talk. But she has never played any sport for obvious reasons.

Most of her comments on the participants start with "I would imagine that".

Her sole "qualification" to be there is that she is disabled. But she has no real knowledge on any of the sports at all, from what I can tell.

I much prefer listening to former or current paralympians talking about a sport/their sport. O'Riordan on the other hand is bluffing talking in generalities what things "might" be like.

”Nobody buys CDs anymore”

While physical copies only account for 11% of album sales, the following is relevant.
New CDs still outselling new LPs in UK, Germany, Japan & Australia. Vinyl ahead in the US. This is based on unit sales NOT revenue.

BTW I buy both formats & am not Born Again.

Does anyone know if Oasis are getting a set amount from each ticket sale or do they get more when Ticketmaster inflate the price for certain tickets, as they see fit?

Nothing like the opportunity to make millions of pounds to bring two feuding siblings together again. Some grift.

Yes, physical music sales are significantly lower than the peak but seem to have bottomed out at around 10-15% of overall album sales. Most new albums still get a physical release & there are loads of reissues still coming out on both formats. Interesting that you said “nobody buys CDs anymore” but didn’t mention vinyl. The latter gets all the headlines even though CDs are outselling LPs worldwide. The average price of a new album on vinyl is €30, the CD is around €14. So if a shop sells 200 vinyl albums that’s revenue of €6,000. Whereas 300 CD sales equals revenue of €4,200. So you can guess what format will get the positive coverage….

In fairness to Joanne O'Riordan, I think shes had a sport column in the Irish times for about 6 years, (not sure if she still does it tho)

I caught a bit of the wheelchair rugby on rte, and they went back to the pundits in studio, presenter asks one of the lads 'so, wheelchair rugby, what did you think of that?' and yer man says, 'well, I'm blind so i didn't see much, but it sounded exciting...' not sure who he was but im sure he was probably a former paralympian

Maybe. And maybe they just value their values.

Yeah Athletico Bilbao fans share 100% the same political opinion...

Isn't it funny how the further removed you are from something, the simpler it seems.

Bohs seem to have 2 kinds of fans, the hipster virtue signalers and then normal fans who you would have a chat with and not run in front of traffic to get away from.

They have a lot of ex-man united fans as well. Not sure where they’ll go if Bohs were to get relegated.

It's as if nothing happened before nov 7th, just like came out of nowhere. No idea why they're so mad at Israel, what could it be? Hmmm.

Doesn't matter, what Hamas did was pure evil and now they are paying the price.

I dont agree with the way the Government is constantly trying to push/expand the tourism industry. Covid showed us that it doesnt add to our economy or tax take. Im not anti-tourism, but at this point in time I think we'd be better de-emphasising it and reducing it as the downside out weighs the up side i.e.

- We have a shortage of hotel spaces and airport capacity.

- increased demand = more Airbnb/tourism lets, which is bad for the housing crisis.

- it relies on low paid imported workers - thus adding further to the housing crisis with no tax gain

- our infrastructure is poor and lacking capacity, so would be better not having 100,000s of visitors in the country at any given time.

- the industry is greedy and price gouges - which also impacts on us residents

- full of expensive quangos who give out loads of taxpayers money in grants e.g. Tourism Ireland, Failte Ireland etc.

- we've full employment, so dont need the jobs.

I think this continual pushing of the industry is a product of the Irish desire to be liked rather than rooted in any cost benefit analysis of the benefits.

And what about all the children, is it ok to kill them too?

The same sheep who queued for hours for Oasis tickets over the weekend would have walked by the 2 guys busking on Grafton street a few weeks ago without stopping to listen, but as everyone wants to go, they being sheep must get a ticket as all cost.