function writeDate() {
		var m_names = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
		var dateVar = new Date();
		var today_day = dateVar.getDate();
		var today_month = dateVar.getMonth();
		var today_year = dateVar.getFullYear();
		document.write(today_day + ' ' + m_names[today_month] + ' ' + today_year);
	}


function writeLongDate() {

today=new Date();
day = today.getDay();

var dayName=new Array(7)
dayName[0]="Sunday";
dayName[1]="Monday";
dayName[2]="Tuesday";
dayName[3]="Wednesday";
dayName[4]="Thursday";
dayName[5]="Friday";
dayName[6]="Saturday";

	var disp_day = (dayName[day]);



		var m_names = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
		var dateVar = new Date();
		var today_day = dateVar.getDate();
		var today_month = dateVar.getMonth();
		var today_year = dateVar.getFullYear();
		document.write(disp_day + ', ' + today_day + ' ' + m_names[today_month] + ' ' + today_year);
	}
	
	
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}


function runFlash(file,width,height) {
		AC_FL_RunContent('codebase','http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0','src','/northernireland/nolan/flash/'+file,'quality','high','wmode','transparent','bgcolor','#ffffff','width',width,'height',height,'name',file,'align','top','allowScriptAccess','sameDomain','type','application/x-shockwave-flash', 'pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer');
}


function getElementById_s(id){
	var obj = null;
	if(document.getElementById){
		/* Prefer the widely supported W3C DOM method, if available:-*/
		obj = document.getElementById(id);
	}else if(document.all){
		/* Branch to use document.all on document.all only
		browsers. Requires that IDs are unique to the page
		and do not coincide with NAME attributes on other
		elements:-
		*/
		obj = document.all[id];
	}
		/* If no appropriate element retrieval mechanism exists on
		this browser this function always returns null:-
		*/
		return obj;
}

function resizeContentDiv() {
	var contentDiv = getElementById_s('content');
	var footerImageHeight = document.images['contentBottomImage'].height;
	var jacketImageHeight = document.images['jacketImage'].height;
	var leftMenuDivHeight = parseInt(getElementById_s('leftContent').offsetHeight);
	if (parseInt(contentDiv.offsetHeight)+footerImageHeight+jacketImageHeight < leftMenuDivHeight) {
		contentDiv.style.height = ((leftMenuDivHeight.offsetHeight - footerImageHeight) - jacketImageHeight) + 'px';
	}
}

function equalise(rightDiv) {
// equalise columns.
 var left=document.getElementById('leftContent');
 var right=document.getElementById(rightDiv);
	 if (left.offsetHeight > right.offsetHeight) {
		right.style.height=(left.offsetHeight)-192+"px";
	 } 
}

function openWin(targetWin) {
		window.open('/northernireland/nolan/'+targetWin, targetWin, "width=433,height=410,resizable=1,titlebar=0");
}

function openChat(targetWin) {
		window.open('/northernireland/nolan/chat/post.shtml', 'chat', "width=433,height=270,resizable=1,titlebar=0");
}

function createCookie(name,value,days) {
	if (days) {
		var date = new Date();
		date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
		var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
	}
	else var expires = "";
	document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}

function readCookie(name) {
	var nameEQ = name + "=";
	var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
	for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
		var c = ca[i];
		while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
		if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
	}
	return null;
}

function deleteCookie(name) {
	createCookie(name,"",-1);
}