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1. Comment on #Euro2020: Professor McWilliams open letter from Northern Ireland to the Faroe Islands…
   on 18 May 2012 at 11:48 pm

   A Scandinavian bid might be possible but the Faroes and Nordirland would probably not be in the mix.

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2. Comment on #Euro2020: Professor McWilliams open letter from Northern Ireland to the Faroe Islands…
   on 18 May 2012 at 11:45 pm

   Thalmond Park might be one for expansion as well I dunno

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3. Comment on #Euro2020: Professor McWilliams open letter from Northern Ireland to the Faroe Islands…
   on 18 May 2012 at 11:39 pm

   Best of luck to Northern Ireland qualifying for the tournament as of right. To invite them in to host the tournament when they have no stadium of suited quality to host matches according to UEFA rules, would be irredentism by the Republic even if they had a separate team. And the Northern Ireland supporters, (well some of them) don’t want that.

   2 stadiums with 50,000 seats
   3 stadiums with 40,000 seats
   4 stadiums with 30,000 seats

   without resorting to rugby and GAA as yet let’s see what can be made. Getting the final four proves a problem.

   1. Millennium Stadium (Wales) 74,500
   2. Celtic Park (Scotland) 60,832
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   3. Hampden Park (Scotland) 52,063
   4. Aviva Stadium (R. Ireland) 51,700
   5. Ibrox Park (Scotland) 51,082
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   Using the best of Welsh clubs in English leagues and Scottish Premier League clubs you struggle after that…

   6. Cardiff City Stadium (Wales) 26,828
   7. Pittodrie Stadium (Scotland) 22,199
   8. Easter Road (Scotland) 20,421
   9. Liberty Stadium (Wales) 20,532

   for reference…
   Windsor Park (Northern Ireland) 12,950 (seated capacity)

   For Scotland it could bring in Murrayfield
   Murrayfield (Scotland) 67,200,

   With the GAA’s help Republic of Ireland could bring in…

   Croke Park (76,500), McHale Park (42,000), Semple Stadium (36,000), Gaelic Grounds (35,000) and possibly a redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh (60,000)

   Maybe an expanded Cardiff City Stadium could help Wales’ case too.

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4. Comment on “The link between taxing and spending is basic to democracy…”
   on 18 May 2012 at 10:50 pm

   Newton’s analysis to bring up the link between tax and spending is fair, you also have to bring the link of consumption of public services, national insurance, public investment to earnings, profits and the block grant. We would also in adding in the Barnett formula, subtract some higher Island of Britain only spending such nuclear plant decommissioning, and most banking bailouts.

   Also some analysis of regional tax payments including VAT per capita would be nice.

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5. Comment on Referendum and the Euro crisis: “Its unravelling, if it comes to that, will look very different.”
   on 30 April 2012 at 2:34 am

   http://www.sanpedrosun.com/old/05-224.html

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6. Comment on Labour lead Tories by 12 points; Ken trails Boris by 8….
   on 29 April 2012 at 11:46 pm

   Boris bores me … he tries too hard to be a show-off and comes off as little more than a show-off. The thing is he has no obvious talent to show off.

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7. Comment on 26 / 11 = 438,000,000 – 150,000,000 / 25
   on 29 April 2012 at 11:27 pm

   Does anyone have any eye bleach for me seeing the bad maths above?

   I know it’s like meant to have some subtext … but I think that’s not helping me.

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8. Comment on Sinn Fein’s South Down selection sows seeds for a new post conflict generation…
   on 29 April 2012 at 5:25 pm

   It’s a shocking waste to underuse all of that talent, energy and education. So, since we have no shortage of graduates, how about asking the education system to start producing prospective employers instead? Or we could have a retraining scheme for unemployed and underemployed graduates so that they can learn how to create jobs

   I agree and let’s remember Sinn Féin who are the most popular party amongst QUB and UU students has to stand up to the plate on this issue. I’ve seen Martina try to get a pharmaceutical company to invest in Derry but struggled heavily. I’ll give her a couple of brownie points for that, but a lot more needs to be done. A low corporation tax might bring in international research and manufacturing here but until that happens there needs to be aggressive marketing of the investibility of Northern Ireland’s/6 county’s talent. Also Pearce, Padraig, Gerry and Caoimhghín need to play their part for the so called border regions.

   The biggest issue I feel is jobs and on the job training and I agree we need to produce prospective employers here, small businesses. I think a lot can be done, there’s certainly been a lot of useless imagineering been thrown at it when common sense issues are left unchecked and obstacles not addressed.

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9. Comment on Referendum and the Euro crisis: “Its unravelling, if it comes to that, will look very different.”
   on 29 April 2012 at 5:12 pm

   My mistake Italy isn’t getting any significant backing from the IMF, the 4th EU country getting major IMF assistance is Romania.

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10. Comment on Referendum and the Euro crisis: “Its unravelling, if it comes to that, will look very different.”
    on 27 April 2012 at 3:32 am

    @Dennis

    The issue wasn’t bailout money from the IMF, but from the EU. Large amounts of IMF money is being spent on Ireland, Ukraine, Greece, Portugal, Iceland and Italy I believe, including two European countries outside the Eurozone/EU.

    @ Neville Bagnall
    Keynesian economics isn’t being suggested because of the nature of the German economy who arguably thinks through non-Keynesian methods it had developed a strong economy to bailout countries they might consider to be more Keynesian … just a hunch.

    @ wee buns (profile) 25 April 2012 at 11:02 pm

    With regards getting sick … the spreading an illness does not imply immune response.

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