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[Raoul Duke III]

Sure Ireland is a bilingual country already.

What need have we, the largest English-speaking country in the EU, of your fancy foreign...

[Raoul Duke III]

Keep the 15k.

Spend it on several fine holidays p.a.

'decent international perspective' sorted.

Seems like...

[Raoul Duke III]

Proud to stand with my Traveller brothers on the list of the banned....

[Raoul Duke III]

oh, OK.

It's still fucking nuts in an Irish context....

[Raoul Duke III]

It's a mixture, as in certain meat is not halal (i.e. it is completely forbidden or haram) like pork but then other meat is allowed, but must be killed...

[Raoul Duke III]

So you to fork out 15k * 2 p.a. for primary school fees? That's British levels of madness, you've got to earn 60k to pay that 30k in this country....

[Raoul Duke III]

Should have had that bet with Dead Parrott really.

[Raoul Duke III]

It's such a bizarre thing for a successful forty-something professional to do, that's what I don't get.
Presumably no drink involved or anything...

[Raoul Duke III]

I'd say you've horsed into a few filly steaks in your time. (coat already on and halfway out the door)...

[Raoul Duke III]

Presume (just to be logistical for a second) GE can just transfer the training licence to his assistant or w/e and from a racing point of view, all is...

[Raoul Duke III]

But you've just leapt to that conclusion (that it is symptomatic of a wider problem) when there's no evidence of same.

It would be like calling...

[Raoul Duke III]

It will certainly shake up the IPB Cheltenham Tipping Comp, that's for sure. What will Dead Parrott do when he can't blindly back every GE horse under...

[Raoul Duke III]

That changes the subject from 'an isolated moment of madness' to 'let's do another version of the Moriarty Tribunal do see if we have a systemic problem'....

[Raoul Duke III]

What do we think should happen?

He should get a lengthy ban imo. The optics of this (especially in a minority sport that gets vast amounts...

[Raoul Duke III]

22 declared Runners and Riders to date:

1. Froggie invader Shraaaaaaaap
2. Perennial talking horse GAB
3. Former champion nicnicnic (currently recovering

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[Raoul Duke III]

'No Twitter, No Trump'.

It is indeed a cesspool....

[Raoul Duke III]

Any word on how the photo got out? Someone was sitting on that for a long time....

[Raoul Duke III]

I guess that counts as blowback ...

[Raoul Duke III]

No horse racing = no racehorses. Just a thought......

[Raoul Duke III]

Win the IPB Cheltenham Tipping Comp and you could pay off all his fines, with a bit left for a box of cigars. Already over 4 figures in the pot and looking...