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Originally posted by jack90210 View PostThe guy did all his training in Kenya, he lived in Ireland for 6 months somewhere in the last 2 years. I wonder what visa he was on? Definitely not an Irish citizen anyway.Turning millions into thousands
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Freddy Situk races pretty much every race. He won that virgin media night run in April, runs for Raheny week in week out.
There was no mention of this at all last year when Sergiu Ciobanu won it. Or when an American guy won the senior championship a couple of years ago.
The obvious reasons behind it are sad but I suppose expected.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSurely doing all his training in Kenya would leave him at a handicap when it came to running the Dublin Marathon, what with the presence of roads and lack of gazelles.
Excellent genetics help too.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFreddy Situk races pretty much every race. He won that virgin media night run in April, runs for Raheny week in week out.
There was no mention of this at all last year when Sergiu Ciobanu won it. Or when an American guy won the senior championship a couple of years ago.
The obvious reasons behind it are sad but I suppose expected.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhen I mentioned the lack of gazelles on the streets of Dublin as opposed to Kenya, were ye thinking I was engaged in serious analysis?I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostI started off v conservative, the 4hr guys were gone in the distance. The 4:10 pacers passed me at Kevin st and were ahead of me until about mile 7. I then picked it up and finally overtook the 4hr guys at the KCR.
I gained about 400m on them until Roebuck. I died around there. The most the legs had suffered was 20 miles, and I was grand until about 22.5, still cheering and high fiving kids, but I hit a wall at Clonskeagh. They caught me going up heartbreak, then I lost them going down Fosters.
At the end of Nutley Lane they were on my back and my left leg went. Agony. Just seized up, I thought that was it, game over, but I hopped and screamed for about 50m then the pain went, was able to run it out.
I then ran with the 4hr guys in a world of pain until the last km. Let loose then, found something in me and ran the last 800m or so at 10k pace.
What a day.
I sat with them pretty much the whole way and then got slightly ahead of them on Nutley Lane. I'd say I crossed the line a couple hundred metres ahead of them and pretty much at exactly the same point as you.
My lowest point was actually coming out of the Park at about 11k. Was really feeling the sun beating down, took my first gel and then had a quasi-Paula Racliffe moment - managed to hold it in and hold it together thankfully!
Really is a great day though - the amount of supporters in pretty much every suburb you pass through is unreal.
Originally posted by Mike Bullocks View PostGood morning Carlop, how are your feet ?
Originally posted by Lazare View PostWell a stag ran into the race and knocked a lad over in the PP yesterday.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFreddy Situk races pretty much every race. He won that virgin media night run in April, runs for Raheny week in week out.
There was no mention of this at all last year when Sergiu Ciobanu won it. Or when an American guy won the senior championship a couple of years ago.
The obvious reasons behind it are sad but I suppose expected.
I don't think that you should be born in Ireland, or even a citizen to qualify. But I'd do think 6 months is a little short. How long has Freddy Sittuk been here? 6 years different to 6 months imo.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhat seems like the only logical solution to even out the playing field between Irish and Kenyans, is we either train the Irish in how to avoid wild animals while running marathons, or introduce animals to the course that your average Kenyan wouldn't have the required expertise in avoiding.
Maybe open the zoo cages of Cabra and Finglas
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostLots of joy amongst the handful of theatre people I know at ex-gate director Micheal Cólgan being outed as a Weinstein-lite sex-pest.
Several women have made sexual accusations against Michael Colgan, the former artistic director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
Michael Colgan, who this year stepped down as artistic director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin, has been accused by three women of making inappropriate comments
Been described to me as 'a day of complete joy'.
I don't think its going to develop into a rapey-rapey story but it's likely to put an end to his expected happy retirement of dinners with the president and invites to the best premieres.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhat seems like the only logical solution to even out the playing field between Irish and Kenyans, is we either train the Irish in how to avoid wild animals while running marathons, or introduce animals to the course that your average Kenyan wouldn't have the required expertise in avoiding.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFreddy Situk races pretty much every race. He won that virgin media night run in April, runs for Raheny week in week out.
There was no mention of this at all last year when Sergiu Ciobanu won it. Or when an American guy won the senior championship a couple of years ago.
The obvious reasons behind it are sad but I suppose expected.
As for Sergiu hes living and working in the country just over 10 years now. A real tipperary man with his Irish wife. Was impressive when he worked 50 plus hours a week in a phyiscal job and still running such 2.20ish in marathons at the weekends.
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Whatever about the costume but posting it on Twitter yourself this lad mustn’t like being employed
Mun you can pretty much guarantee there was lads out in blackface in local town last night,saw a lad as Venus Williams last year
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Loving Chris deBurghs response when
some aul' fella held Rosannas face
and helped himself to a snog.
Daddy ambles over &
plants his lips on the geezers mouth.
Aul' fella can't really raise an objection
or miss the point.
Shame he does the same with nannies.Last edited by DeeBrown; 30-10-17, 13:10.
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
Clinton’s seem to have awful bad luck with their friends turning out to be sex pests,Clinton flew with spacey on Epstein’s jet,awful bad luck altogetherLast edited by Guest; 30-10-17, 13:42.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhat's your thinking here - that maybe Clinton was a front for a cabal of elite pedos? Is that where your thinking is at?
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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostSeth Macfarlane called it again
https://youtu.be/M4dHf6jnwaU
ABIT like cottages, dogs are getting a bad name. Not that there is any suggestion that Kevin Spacey was either dogging or cottaging the night he lost his mobile. He was merely out walking the dog, in a public park, at half four in the morning. If the dog needs walking the dog needs walking. You have to let the mutt out now and then. It's a natural human, I mean canine, urge.
Anyone who darkened the door of a pub in Dublin city centre in the late 90s couldn't help but hear stories about Mr.S and his good-time Charlie antics while here filming ODC.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostActually read the Epstein criminal charge sheet back in the day when TheSmokingGun used to post those types of things. He is indeed very much a scumbag. Not sure it reflects much on Clinton though.
And yes the Washington Times is a right leaning paper but is considered reliable
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostHole in the Wall bar has rather upped its game. Although reduced boy-child to tears with the spiciness of its chicken wings.
Fine spot on the edge of the Phoenix Park
Reminds me of the infamous occasion when the HHE encountered the worst service in Pardubice."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostSpoke too soon. Tried to overcharge us by 25% and took 15 minutes to persuade them of their error. The East European definition of customer service still leaves a lot to be desired.
Reminds me of the infamous occasion when the HHE encountered the worst service in Pardubice.
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Originally posted by zuutroy View PostI don't know how people rave about that Pigeon House place in Clontarf. Had the steak special which was just a pathetic striploin incorrectly cooked with chips and it was €25. Also they seem obsessed with dumping a load of salad on everything."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by dobby View PostGot the brother set up with sky today on a good deal thanks to SatNav. At home in bed but never off the clock lol. Ipb delivers again
Only had to send an email.Her sky-ness
© 5starpool
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View PostSo did Brendan O'Connor in 2004 who i presume has his nose put out of joint by Mr.S somehow and decided in time-honoured journalistic fashion to use his platform to stick the boot in.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-26220084.html .Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostSpoke too soon. Tried to overcharge us by 25% and took 15 minutes to persuade them of their error. The East European definition of customer service still leaves a lot to be desired.
Reminds me of the infamous occasion when the HHE encountered the worst service in Pardubice.
Anyway place was full so only option was a table at 9.15 so we pottered across to the pub. She insisted on footing the drinks bill even though i said it wasn't that much of an error lol. To be fair we didn't go too mad, just what we would have anyway (bit awkward as you are conscious of it) Total bill €465, food bill paid €186
Did hand her an extra €50 tip into her hand on top of the usual one.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I could possibly Google this.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Yo folks, my best mate is getting married this year and I'm his bestman I've seen some bestman stuff posted here over the years, any pointers/tips on writing the speech greatly appreciated.
What's the general etiquette when it comes to the gift seeing as I'm part of the wedding party? I'm gonna get him a nice watch but should there also be something for both?"you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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Originally posted by Kim Huybrechts View Post2014 called they want their joke back"I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhile Duke III is probably not even your real surname. Is that how a missus Duke would be referred to in practice? I would have thought that even if someone had a 'III' after their surname the wife would not adopt that part of the surname in the massively outdated patriarical practice of adopting the man's name.
I could possibly Google this.
I'd like to say that Mrs DIII had taken my name in real life but 12 years in and she still shows no inclination to doing so."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostHole in the Wall bar has rather upped its game. Although reduced boy-child to tears with the spiciness of its chicken wings.
Fine spot on the edge of the Phoenix Park
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostThats a fairly nasty piece from O'Connor, I doubt he'd be particularly proud of it now. In fairness to him he seems to have grown up a lot since then.
Although Wikipedia says this about him during the same time period of 03/04 (when he was, in fact, approaching his mid-30s)
"O'Connor supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States government.
He wrote frequent articles about the model Katy French, who died on 6 December 2007. French publicly announced her disdain for O'Connor, deeming him a "gutter journalist."[citation needed].
In early 2004, O'Connor enraged some of his colleagues by strongly supporting management during an industrial relations crisis over forced redundancy."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI clearly wasn't clear!!! I meant that if indeed your surname had a III in it. Such as actually being Raoul Duke III and your wife decided to change her surname to yours upon marriage, would she take the whole surname i.e. Duke III or is the III part dropped when the wife adopts the surname.
To take Donald Trump Jr as an example (I think jr is used for 'son of' while III is used for 'son of son of'). Does his wife become Mrs Trump Jr or just Mrs Trump?
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View PostYes it's hard to know what his motivation was here.
Although Wikipedia says this about him during the same time period of 03/04 (when he was, in fact, approaching his mid-30s)
"O'Connor supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States government.
He wrote frequent articles about the model Katy French, who died on 6 December 2007. French publicly announced her disdain for O'Connor, deeming him a "gutter journalist."[citation needed].
In early 2004, O'Connor enraged some of his colleagues by strongly supporting management during an industrial relations crisis over forced redundancy.""We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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