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#1
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
March 18, 2024, 06:07:38 PM
Quote from: JimStynes on March 18, 2024, 05:23:25 PM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on March 18, 2024, 04:44:30 PMTo a point but this deal (~13% and no workload agreement) is going to fly over the finishing line without a bother.
I don't think, say, 4% and an agreed workload solution would.
Money talks.

The younger teachers are blinded by the money and haven't ever went through the unrealistic inspection show/game/charade or whatever you'd like to call it.
I think that's fairly simplistic.
Anyway, "the young teachers" make up a fairly small percentage of the voters so they won't be the winning and losing of this.
I imagine those who will be "blinded by the money" are those who have been getting it tight with rising costs over the last few years and to whom the extra few hundred a month is very much needed. Those are people of all ages of course but I wouldn't particularly be thinking of "young teachers" in this case.
#2
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
March 18, 2024, 04:44:30 PM
To a point but this deal (~13% and no workload agreement) is going to fly over the finishing line without a bother.
I don't think, say, 4% and an agreed workload solution would.
Money talks.
#3
General discussion / Re: The DUP thread
March 17, 2024, 08:27:39 AM
That's not necessarily the insinuation.
The insinuation was that the nationalist community was driving young people towards law in order to take control of the judiciary.
#4
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 17, 2024, 07:55:28 AM
I still don't get "the reason" or how it couples with your statement about schools.

I'm not saying that you are wrong btw, you just have put a very vague comment out there. A bit more meat on the bones of it would be helpful.
#5
General discussion / Re: The DUP thread
March 17, 2024, 07:52:10 AM
Quote from: gallsman on March 16, 2024, 02:26:24 PMAllister talking through his hole. He was the only Prod in his Queens law class in...1974?
I'm not sure that's what he said.
He said that he was the first person in 10 years from his school, while there were 12 from St Whatever's.

Though I still wouldn't rule out that he was talking through his hole.
#6
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 16, 2024, 09:12:53 PM
Quote from: Spike on March 16, 2024, 09:02:46 PMThere is a reason why Dunloy and Cargin overachieve despite small playing numbers.  It is the same reason as why competitive school football environments are essential.   The rest are playing a numbers game hoping population size sorts out their root problems. 
What is it?
#7
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
March 16, 2024, 08:52:21 PM
Hampsey's defending for that goal.... :o
#8
GAA Discussion / Re: Division 2 2024
March 16, 2024, 05:57:46 PM
Thanks for the context. Here's some more - Antrim were playing the favourites for the All Ireland. Fermanagh were playing Louth.
#9
GAA Discussion / Re: Division 2 2024
March 16, 2024, 05:22:50 PM
Quote from: Blowitupref on March 16, 2024, 03:34:31 PMAny Fermanagh poster in attendance to explain how it went so wrong for them today? Result Louth 6-17 Fermanagh 0-11.   
I wonder will Fermanagh get the same abuse as Antrim U20s did for a similar scoreline.
#10
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Colleges
March 15, 2024, 09:12:56 PM
2nd year
#11
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 14, 2024, 03:34:44 PM
Quote from: Níl a fhios agam on March 14, 2024, 03:16:29 PMpoint blank... does anyone think its right for a manager to approach players from neighboring clubs who may have fallen out with their club, or not be in contention of starting their own senior team? If so, what would the GAA look like if clubs took this approach and operated the same as soccer clubs. We would lose the things that make us unique to the other sports.


Is it right to do it with managers?
#12
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 12, 2024, 07:27:47 PM
Quote from: AllStar15 on March 12, 2024, 09:31:47 AM
Quote from: Rawhide on March 11, 2024, 12:30:40 PM
Quote from: AllStar15 on March 11, 2024, 11:45:50 AMSchools! Schools! Schools! That is why we are behind in development, any other answer is a by-product. We need a strong school in Belfast and a strong school in the SW. We need schools going out and bringing our best P7s to that school and developing them from there based on ability and promise, not club.

SW clubs are leading the way in Antrim at the minute and that's from exposure to that level, but we need a school where we aren't competing with Derry players and Antrim reaps all the benefit of players being developed. I was told 25 years ago by a prominent Armagh man this was our issue - and it still is today.

I must say this complete rubbish. The quality of coaching at club level in your youth, on the whole is not at the level required. No strategy to improve it. Nor will it improve in the absence of one, it rinse and repeat for years upon years.

You are deluded. It's the same Ulster coaching clinics that everyone goes to, and the Antrim contingent is always strong at them, as I have been to plenty over the years. So why is it all other counties come away better coaches but Antrim's don't? Every county in Ulster has at least one strong GAA school, except Antrim.

Aghagallon and the Derry side of Antrim have all come on leaps and bounds these past 5/10 years - if you dont think the proximity to strong schools has anything to do with then I've a bridge to Scotland to sell you.

Schools are not going to pull us out of the mire we are in. Being regularly competitive in the MacRory Cup or any A football would be fantastic and would help to push us on but we are 10 stages before that in the here and now. There is so much to be done to get there and it's not what happens in the school that's going to make the difference.

You could second Foncie McConnell, Diarmaid McNulty, Dinky McBride and anyone else to any Antrim school but they aren't going to make an Omagh CBS out of them. That's not to say that these people don't put things in place to allow Omagh to be successful, they absolutely do but the fundamental behind their success is that they have the luxury of feeding off lots of communities that quite simply live and breathe football. Without that, they aren't getting anywhere near back to back MacRory Cups.

Our schools don't have that luxury. Someone mentioned a few posts ago that the Cargin/Toome community live for football and that's fair but Omagh have maybe 15 or so communities like this feeding their school. Among them; Dromore, Trillick, Omagh, Carrickmore, Loughmacrory, Killyclogher, Ballygawley (at times). All top clubs in Tyrone. And that's not to discredit the other great clubs feeding them as well. The kids in these communities are busting to go to Omagh CBS for the football.

So, while schools can always do more to strengthen and support football, any suggestion that the schools in Antrim are in a position to even think about lining out on the same field as the above on any sort of regular basis just isn't plausible.
#13
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 12, 2024, 12:35:06 PM
The uphill task is that the general public in our county, including lots of those who play our games, don't actually really care that much or really aspire to play at the highest level and have little interest in putting in the effort to be able to compete with the likes of Tyrone or Derry.
I don't know how we change the hearts and minds on that. I don't know how a school, club or any support structure goes about changing that. Maybe it's a mix of apathy, inferiority complex, culture but football isn't on the agenda of a lot of our playing population (and their families) in the same way as it is on the agenda of the playing population (and their families) of Tyrone & Derry.
I'd say you could dump 20 coaches from Tyrone underage structures into clubs and schools in Belfast and Tyrone and Derry would still beat the living daylights out of us.
#14
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 12, 2024, 10:54:08 AM
Quote from: bannside on March 12, 2024, 10:25:21 AMThe great thing about schools that take their GAA ethos really seriously is that the programme starts the first week in the gate at year eight.

A school that offers 8 hours a week across a mixture of training/matches/S&C/pilates/yoga/ diet and nutritional advice will produce a much better individual...than say a school that offers x2 hours a week across the same spectrum of activity.

It's basic maths.

Across 40 weeks and 7 years it's 2240 man hours versus 560 man hours.

Obviously not an exact science, but a blind man should see the difference a full on school can make to player development versus a school going through the motions.

Then do the same exercise across a progressive club versus a club taking short cuts.

It's all about the work, and as Duine says, the level of apathy in some Antrim schools and clubs is appalling.
I didn't say that.

The issue is the apathy in our communities. Gaelic football isn't a big deal in a lot of them. Kids don't really care and their parents don't value it and if that school programme was available to them they simply wouldn't go.
They struggle to buy into the couple of hours a week. They don't value it that highly.
#15
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
March 11, 2024, 11:59:52 AM
It's lost long before they even get there.
It's in the homes.
Gaelic football is not valued in Antrim. There is a take it or leave it attitude and when the sacrifices & commitment levels required reach a certain point then most opt to leave it. Is there a real desire among that many to play for Antrim?

Someone mentioned soccer a couple of posts back. It's no surprise that young lads like it much more than football. Relatively little training and loads of regular matches. That's fun.