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Donegal 3-22 Antrim 0-2 with about ten to go

Trent a goner.

Salah & VVD...surely Liverpool won't let that happen?

He's a better defender than Trent in many peoples' view.  But his injury record is worrying.
But with Trent going Liverpool could do with another right back (unless Joe Gomez is used as a back up).

Trent may not be the world's greatest defender but his passes can unlock defences. With him gone, then the goals from Salah and Diaz will dry up.

Salah and Diaz may not even be there next year.

Next year or two could be all about rebuilding and trying to stay in the top 4 (or 5 if applicable) while doing so. Part of that rebuild will be a more orthodox right back, with creativity added elsewhere.

I see journalist John Fogarty on the Irish Examiner has said "serious chance of Ulster final returning to Croke Park this year"  good idea or leave it in Clones?

why?

Cause the ulster council think it's a forgone conclusion that Donegal V Armagh final. They've already lined up the ladies final for same day as they think both counties will be in it.
Let the other 7 counties ruin the Ukster Councils plans.

How could they think its a foregone conclusion?

On their day, there is f**k all between Donegal, Derry, Tyrone, Armagh and arguably Monaghan.

This explains a lot 

https://x.com/paddypower/status/1876980846210515356

😄

From what I know, two main doubts for Donegal are Jason McGee and Paddy McBrearty. McGee hasn't featured yet this year, so no idea where he's at or if we'll see him before the groups.

Think we're in good shape otherwise, with Langan getting a run out on Sunday, two additional potential starting backs (Roarty and McFadden Ferry) in the squad, and with the league final bullet dodged. 🙂

Can you rely on Bradley though? Brilliant player, if still a bit to learn, but he's so injury-prone.

Now a state X account is saying its fake news and discredited the journalist...even though the White House has confirmed the story.

Of course. They'll brazen it out for a day or two, then the next thing will come up and the story will be dropped. There'll be no congressional investigations or subpoenas. Every institution in American life is rolling over and asking Trump to tickle their belly, whether universities, newspapers, law firms, corporations. One by one, everyone trying to duck down and avoid his gaze hoping that they will escape his ire.

The legal profession, in particular, is alarming. Good luck trying to get a decent law firm to defend you against Trump and his goons.

Sec of Def leaks missile strike plans to the editor of The Atlantic a couple of hours before the attack on the Houthis...

Good luck finding it on Fox News.

Once upon a time that would be resignation shit.

But her emails

If some lowly sergeant or lieutenant did it, they'd be behind bars awaiting court martial.

Sec of Def leaks missile strike plans to the editor of The Atlantic a couple of hours before the attack on the Houthis...

Good luck finding it on Fox News.

Once upon a time that would be resignation shit.

O'Baoill misses penalty for Donegal

Mayo back in front and in the league final!😮

Mayo currently sitting top the most likely to join Derry the way the day is panning out

Mayo are now in the relegation spot.

It's tight!

It was great having an Irish team in formula 1. I followed them keenly throughout their time in formula 1. Eddie will be missed.

Big time.

I've lost touch with F1 these days, but it was an exciting time back in the 90s with the Jordan team led by the larger than life Eddie, on top of Schumacher going to Ferrari to challenge the supremacy of Williams and McLaren. I remember that insane grand prix in the late 90s (Belgium?) where most of the field spun out in the rain and Jordan finished 1-2 on the podium.

And as Trump defies court orders, assumes more and more unitary executive power, eviscerates what used to be a world-leading scientific and medical research industry, deports people for exercising their right to free speech (and punishes the institutions in which they exercised that right), the GOP is growing ever more servile, the Dems ever more feckless, directionless and leaderless, and corporate and societal leaders are afraid to stick their head above the parapet.

But don't mention authoritarianism!

Fair enough. Though this week I'm more horrified about the administration defying court orders, and also refusing to readmit a Lebanese surgeon on a legitimate work visa, with no reason given.

I read this morning about an ethnic Hmong woman from Milwaukee who has lived in the US since she was a baby (born in Thailand to refugees from the Vietnam War), but after getting mixed up in and serving time for some kind of illegal marijuana  criminality, she lost her green card and was deported straight out of prison to Laos, a country she had never previously set foot in. Leaving behind her US husband and five kids, and with her documents seized by the Laotian government and running out of diabetes medication.