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Do Armagh GAA have a Centre of Excellence?

Are they not building one in portadown?

Off topic but seems a mental location for south Armagh players. Would Armagh itself not be better suited?

I dunno.

Portadown has motorway access from Belfast, plus it is handier got to from Dublin. So it's more accessible for students and young professionals.

In what way is Portadown handy to get to from Dublin? The Newry-Armagh road is as good a single carriageway as you'll get, while the road to Portadown is nothing special. Unless you mean that people are going to training on the train?

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2025/01/15/pairc-tailteann-project-unlikely-to-start-until-late-2025/

That they have rowed back from a 7000 capacity does not seem hopeful. In both this location and Casement there was a stand previously there, ground conditions etc are not unknown and probably not too challenging.
The more I see of this the more grateful I am to those who got the Athletic grounds stand built and the ground generally, we have had good use of it in the last season. 

RIP Pope Francis, seemed to me to be consistently on the right side & not (ironically) an establishment man.

Comes a day after he appeared in St Peter's Square to wish "Happy Easter" to thousands of worshippers I suppose fitting that he died at Easter time.

More likely he met Vance and lost all hope.

Some discussion elsewhere suggests that Meath are going to spend 20m on a stand in Navan something like the Athletic grounds. Does anyone know of this, as it gives an indication of construction costs?

I had been thinking about the 5/1 odds for Fermanagh before this, but unfortunately did not act on my thoughts.
Fair play to Fermanagh.
Down are in Sam anyway, they won't go far.

Nay, I lived here all my life, know the score with people outside of Sinn Fein and Dup voters. Anybody thinking they win a border poll [which i would vote for] living in dreamland. Make a mess of the first one. You wouldn't see another for 20 years.

Anyone using the NHS as a pro Brit argument is completely uneducated. It's the tired lazy line you would have heard for years and obviously at a time it was true, but the nhs is a mess and getting worse.

I think it's going to be closer than you would think. The biggest pro UK argument is the NHS. I can only assume these people haven't been ill in years. The NHS is completely stuffed and anyone with any sense knows this.

What about the BBC iPlayer?

Don't recall an Taoiseach saying the 26 Counties is in a worse state than the 6.

It was last year . In terms of GAA  success

Only if you define the GAA as football. 

Not a good trend

Armagh breezed into the semi-final of the USFC today.

 And they also looked like a team that's going to win it.

That might be a bit premature, Tyrone or Donegal are much better than Antrim.

As for concerts etc, the money is/was allocated specifically for sporting purposes, not other entertainment uses. On which point, why should the GAA, or any other publicly funded body, be permitted to use sports money to compete with other concert venues, whether Council owned or privately owned? At the very least, any non-sporting profits accrued should in principle go back to Stormont. Or do eg Garth Brooks gigs count as part of all our true Gaelic heritage?

concerts support the costs of operation of the sporting facility. Which other 30,000 seater venues would suffer from competition?

You were playing a team that hasn't got past the first round in 200 years and now playing in division 4 next year. 12 points was the handicap and the bookies not to far wrong with that.

We put up a decent score and a bitta fight till we gassed out, we can be happy with that

Need to be consistent. McBride might not win anything but he is a player to build a team around, if he sticks around.

McBride is already in his early 30s.

The only Antrim player to have played in Casement, according to the BBC. Good player, but not really the future.

Armagh will be under pressure against Tyrone the next day.

Don't you mean Antrim?

Antrim will put it up to Cavan.

Aghagallon have some amount of representation for a team that's nowhere near the top end of club football.

Perhaps they hope that some knowledge of how to play football will have travelled from Aghagallon's neighbours.

Trump more flippy flop from day to day.

Once Simon Harris arrived, the US administration had to change their tune.

If Derry had taken their chances then they'd be well ahead.