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The SF representatives mentioned are stepping down at the next election so again no bye election required.

Gildernew is contesting the European seat in June. Will she step down if elected? She should, but with Westminster election one a few months later I wonder would there be any point.

My understanding is dual mandates are not permitted so she would have to resign. Bye election would depend on if a general election was to be within the 3 months of resignation.

With General Election looming surely now the DUP are looking over there shoulders in South Antrim, East Belfast and now Lagan Valley.

Regarding FST - Sinn Fein will need a strong candidate to hold that seat. No doubt they face a unity Unionist Candidate with it going to the wire.

With demographic shift FST should finally be beyond Unionism even with a unity candidate. I think this year they will win comfortably, although comfortably in FST in recent years has been double figures😂.

Lagan valley most certainly is in play, will be interesting to see how the unionist community reacts to the Donaldson fall out, will they keep voting DUP to keep SF out, will they drift to the TUV headbangers. If the UUP don't massively profit from this crisis then they truly are finished.

SA now looks good for UUP. EB, LV and even EA and Strangford could see big improvements for Alliance with maybe a couple of gains.

If the nationalist voters bothered to turn up in upper bann for a change then SF  could come through the middle of a split unionist vote. EL is similar but would need a miracle perfect storm.

The SF representatives mentioned are stepping down at the next election so again no bye election required.

Gildernew is contesting the European seat in June. Will she step down if elected? She should, but with Westminster election one a few months later I wonder would there be any point.

My understanding is dual mandates are not permitted so she would have to resign. Bye election would depend on if a general election was to be within the 3 months of resignation.

With General Election looming surely now the DUP are looking over there shoulders in South Antrim, East Belfast and now Lagan Valley.

Regarding FST - Sinn Fein will need a strong candidate to hold that seat. No doubt they face a unity Unionist Candidate with it going to the wire.

With demographic shift FST should finally be beyond Unionism even with a unity candidate. I think this year they will win comfortably, although comfortably in FST in recent years has been double figures😂.

Lagan valley most certainly is in play, will be interesting to see how the unionist community reacts to the Donaldson fall out, will they keep voting DUP to keep SF out, will they drift to the TUV headbangers. If the UUP don't massively profit from this crisis then they truly are finished.

SA now looks good for UUP. EB, LV and even EA and Strangford could big improvements for Alliance with maybe a couple of gains.

If the nationalist voters bothered to turn up in upper banned for a change then SF  could come through the middle of split unionist vote. EL is similar but would need a miracle perfect storm.

Poyet to be the new Ireland manager as Georgia beat Greece on penalties.



Awesome a coach who can't even get Greece to the euros through the back door of dud teams, can't wait. Might as well stick with o'shea

The gentlemen was surprisingly good. Full swing was great especially the Ryder cup parts, found myself feeling sorry for Keegan Bradley for not getting picked as he actually seems like a nice guy compared to how he comes across on the course. I do like Rory but can understand why he puts a lot of people off, very marmite and on looking back the parking lot incident all seems rather childish now.
Gone back to house MD for some reason and forgot how good it was so about 8 seasons of that to work through again

Just had a look on Wikipedia it was the nineties, we won just 8 games in 10 yrs. I remember it well we were garbage. We couldn't beat France or Scotland would have an occasional win over England and then beat Wales in Cardiff but Lose to them in Dublin. Changed times.

Reconciliation is ideal as is a 70%+ pro UI vote but in reality both are not needed nor are they realistic

This Wales France game is great

Christ there 2 penalties give away, Ireland had the ball with 2 and half minutes to go, can't understand why they didn't grind the clock.

90 secs left and Conor Murray does a 'Conor Murray'. Needs his P45. England unrecognisable there for most of that game. Very impressive, and we were well below par. Some contest

A game riddled with poor errors.  England fully deserving of it .

Man of the match to Jamie Heaslip.  He loaded their guns. 


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Christ there 2 penalties give away, Ireland had the ball with 2 and half minutes to go, can't understand why they didn't grind the clock.

90 secs left and Conor Murray does a 'Conor Murray'. Needs his P45. England unrecognisable there for most of that game. Very impressive, and we were well below par. Some contest

A game riddled with poor errors.  England fully deserving of it .

Man of the match to Jamie Heaslip.  He loaded their guns. 

Heaslip should have any future microphone taken off him and shoved up his hole. That sort of trash talk should be left to the Aussies. It's childish and just pumps up the opposition.

What also annoys me is over the yrs a far more limited Welsh team kept getting the job done and won grand slams when they had a sniff, we have bottled about twice as many as we have won since the 6 nations started

6-2 split also looks rather foolish all of a sudden

Pretty pathetic, right bottle job, that England team got thumped by Scotland who just got beaten by Italy. We really do keep believing the hype. That twit heaslip said we would win with 13 men ffs

It needed England to be really good and us to be shit for a good game and that's exactly what has happened.

If the Euro soccer doesn't happen due to no more £s from the Brits then provide what you can with the funds available..new pitch, 5,000 seat stand, some terracing.

Imagine thinking a GAA style stadium straight from the 60s would be sufficient going forward for years... Clones needs replaced, an Ulster final location is needed. Your suggestion ain't it

No Brit money = no Euro soccer = GAA have £80m (possibly plus our €50m).
Who then is going to pay the extra £75m to build a 34k capacity Ulster Final Stadium?
Just asking a realistic question

I already posted that plenty of good stadia around Europe have been built recently for the 120 million mark for that sort of capacity seating and terracing. They just need to find good honest builders, unfortunately most GAA redevelopments cost the earth for not a lot which should be raising all sorts of red flags

I think this refers to the temporary seating required for the Euros. As they don't need such a large field for soccer games, they will have a method of installing seats in sections that will be come over some of the GAA pitch. I think this would mean that an initial section of the main stands at pitch level will be terracing to allow these sections of seats to be installed, linking into the main stand itself.

No it will be just the same footprint but one end that was originally planned to be fully terrace will have seats for the euros due to UEFA criteria but post euros can have the seats removed and rails for terracing then placed bringing capacity back up from 30000 to 34500

To be honest the sensible answer is both GAA and stormont up the money from what 15 million and 62.5 million in 2010 is in today's money. I'm guessing that will bring us up to around 115 million plus 45 from Dublin. £160mill is a pretty good sum to build a decent stadium. If the euros is such a biggy then London delivers the rest but I'm at the point where I couldn't give a stuff about the euros