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>>I've noticed that when the BBC weather girls are doing the forecast they stand in front of Eire and never mention the weather there, but they do for NI. It's as if Eire didn't exist. I thought, it's a bit late to still be sore about partition and all that :-)
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>sky news have stopped standing in front of us since they started showing a dedicated news for ireland. plus half the staff are now irish, the breakfast show bloke, eamonn holmes, is irish and the girl is due to be replaced by grainne seoige. one of the main weather girls is also irish.

Eamon works for the ITV breakfast show over here (or did - Inever watch it)
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>>>did i gloat a bit about the triple crown yet? :)
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>>No you didn't, yer spalpeen .. I've been waiting for it :-)
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>ok, here goes then
>nanananananananannana we won, we won, and yoooouuuu lost. dignified enough i think:)

Ah well, let's just see how well you get on in the footy World Cup next. Oh sorry, you guys don't know what to do with a ball unless it's picking it up and running with it, or bouncing it on the end of a fencing stave, do you? :-)