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EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.
And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.
We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
The secret to Fifa’s success is laid bare in this longread from a few years ago.
(The Guardian, approx mins reading time)
On any given Sunday, the day on which it is played most often, more than 200 million matches of Fifa take place in living rooms, studies and bedrooms around the world. The series has sold more than 150m copies, its popularity extending far beyond the world of football. In 2013, the NBA star LeBron James, who features in numerous EA-made basketball games, posted a photograph to Instagram of his sons playing Fifa alongside the caption: “Game is fresh to death!” Celebrity endorsements like this on social media can cost more than £10,000 a go. Yet LeBron, alongside other athletes and pop stars (Justin Bieber: “@Drake: I’m getting nice at Fifa. Be prepared”), have, at least according to EA, expressed their fandom freely.
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So, have the government started stealing your babies yet, or were Waters, Quinn and O’Brien wrong again?
Course they were wrong, sure any sane person knew they were talking out their backsides
No they are too busy enforcing the mandatory abortions from the abortion legislation to get around to stealing the babies
The legislation hasn’t been put in place yet. The referendum was passed but nothing in the constitution has changed yet.
To be fair, the anti-referendum campaign could also ask whether the Irish state’s protection of children has improved. A third alternative is that it was a big pointless vanity project.
Can we insist on the High Court awarding costs against this petitioner as this was a gross insult to jurisprudence as the woman produced no evidence to support her claim.
Read the article again Richie and you might understand it. Are you suggesting that only those with a 100% chance of winning their case should approach the courts? Sounds very elitist to me an attempt to limit peoples rights to avail of court services.
Whistleblowing will be the problem.
Remind me, did the govt ministers who sanctioned the ultra vires booklet pay the costs in the mccrystal case or pay back the public money wasted on the booklet?
What an absolute waste of court time, the judge should have jailed her for contempt.
Oh yes of course because she is wrong? The yes vote was pushed more then the no vote and the government don’t give a dame children in Ireland don’t have a voice and never ever will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I0OiNdj2aP4 , “There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than our present Family Court System.” Judge Brian Lindsay, Retired Supreme Court Judge
Oh Rosemary!
So onto the Supreme Court?
Doesn’t seem justice was servered as supreme court had previously ruled the campaign was baised and unfair.
The High Court appear to say any referendum campain run by the Government of the day can indeed be biast and unfair as long as being biast and unfair does not have an affect on the result. This appears to overule the McKenna judgment.
However the Supreme Court says the Government campin on the childrens referendum was biast and unfair but did not make a judgment on if being biast and unfair had an affect on the result.
So I guess we will never know unless this decision is appealed to the Supreme Court.
More to the point when are FG and labour going to pay back the €2 million of tax payers money they misused during the referendum?
Kerry
I think you may find that the Government cannot be equated to a Political Party or Parties in terms of any errors it may have committed in their day to day roles. On the basis of your logic we should also ask the Roman Catholic Church for a contribution as well since most of the Members of Government were also of that faith and sure why not include the GAA while we’re at it!
Given that the above is apparently good legal advice will you now give it a rest Kerry?
2 government parties were found to have misused Irish tax payers money in a referendum. I tell you what Richie when they pay that money back I’ll give it a rest. How about a bit of accountability from Enda and Eamon?
Tom is quite right, the government are in the wrong-they always are!
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