Messages

1

General discussion / Re: Irish men Rosary

« on: May 22, 2022, 02:25:14 PM »

These lads are free to pray where they want to and I'm not aware if anyone trying to censor them.
Mind you instead of blocking public space they could use any of the 5 or 6,000 Catholic Churches around the Country.

Fair enough, but in all truthfulness did they really cause an immense amount of disruption to the public?
         Kilkeel was for all intents and purposes closed of yesterday evening for an Orange March. Thats proper disruption for you.

2

General discussion / Re: Medical Status of Boardmembers

« on: May 20, 2022, 06:09:49 PM »

Just brilliant news and over the moon for you.

3

GAA Discussion / Re: Monaghan v Derry USFC SF Sunday May15th 16.00

« on: May 15, 2022, 05:49:37 PM »

Delighted for Derry. Well deserved. Thoroughly enjoyed the game as well .

4

General discussion / Re: 6 County Assembly Elections - 5th May 2022

« on: May 06, 2022, 01:34:52 PM »

Not a good day so far for the SDLP. As some have said (and as I've been saying for weeks) their tactic of attacking SF at every turn was just astonishingly naïve. SF voters should have been low hanging fruit for SDLP transfers but Colum Eastwood's strategy seemed to have been to turn SF voters off giving his party a transfer. Absolute lunacy. I've no doubt that them canvassing alongside a constant stream of FG/FG/Lab TDs did nothing to endear them to nationalist/republican voters. There's a healthy cynicism (to put it mildly) in northern nationalism for FF/FG/Lab TD's and their use/abuse of the north when it suits them and on social media it was fairly plain to be seen that parading a succession of these TDs around the doorsteps was another deeply misguided strategy. It'll be a major kick in the teeth for them to lose Nicola Mallon if that's how it turns out but I suspect their biggest cold sweat will be at the seeming collapse of their vote in South Down - one of their two traditional strongholds. Makes you suspect that they have another problem specific to that constituency - my own guess being that people in the area have been turned off by their former SDLP MP Margaret Richie now sitting in the house of lords and calling herself Barroness Ritchie.

Elsewhere, SF look like they will come through relatively happy - looking good to hold two seats in Foyle where many predicted a loss. Stephen Donnelly of Alliance seemingly polling well in West Tyrone which could come at the expense of SF's third seat, that of Maolíosa McHugh.

I think South Down is an interesting one.  SDLP support seems to have fallen off a cliff. Im not so sure its about Baroness Ritchie more a total collapse of the grassroots of the party in the constituency. A lot of the older candidates retired off and no ready younger replacements with any sort of profile. Added to that some bad decisions in candidate selections and vote management have damaged the SDLP badly.
       

5

GAA Discussion / Re: Monaghan v Down USFC Sat April 30th

« on: April 30, 2022, 04:31:58 PM »

Is this game on BBC NI??

No, deferred highlights.

Down +8   even money. Surely we can beat that handicap.

6

General discussion / Re: Things that make you go What the F**k?

« on: April 03, 2022, 10:32:22 PM »

Some of the “high profile” loyalist bloggers. There seems to be a new clown in town - some guy called Moore Holmes? He has appeared on Nolan and bbc radio this week saying loyalists are being censored as he speaks on the bbc    Some brains between them.

(Yeah some attitudes on here like it’s never over etc wrt vaccine passports. What do they say now. )

Moore seems to have styled himself as the front man for intellectual young loyalism but I'd say like the rest of them he hasn't 2 brain cells to rub together.

I had the misfortune of encountering this ballbag at university and you are correct. He didn’t try to hide his bigotry then either. Nothing has changed. He thinks he’s the dogs balls, everyone else rolls their eyes.

Ha!  I had the misfortune of encountering this ballbag at university.

That should be under his Twitter feed!  Great line

7

GAA Discussion / Re: 2022 NFL Competition- Final Scores - David McKeown wins!

« on: April 03, 2022, 10:28:43 PM »

Thanks Mod 5 for the effort, really enjoyed this. Well done to David on winning.

8

GAA Discussion / Re: 2022 NFL Competition- Last Round is the 4 Finals - closes Fri midnight 1 April

« on: March 29, 2022, 07:00:10 PM »

Entries in by Friday midnight please.

2022 National League Finals, pick the Winner and the margin of victory:

Cavan v Tipperary    cavan by 2
Louth v Limerick     Louth by 3
Roscommon v Galway    Galway by 4
Kerry v Mayo  Kerry by 6

9

GAA Discussion / Re: Mickey Harte new Louth manager?

« on: March 29, 2022, 06:56:09 PM »

Took on the Louth gig in November 2020 when they were just relegated to Division 4 losing 6 of their 7 games.

March 2022 Louth promoted to Division 2.

Yep, he has Louth going well.

10

GAA Discussion / Re: 2022 NFL Competition Rd 7 - open till Friday 25 March at midnight

« on: March 23, 2022, 07:06:55 PM »

Round Seven-

Donegal v Armagh  donegal
Kerry v Tyrone   kerry
Mayo v Kildare  Mayo
Monaghan v Dublin  dublin
 
Down v Clare  Clare
Meath v Derry  Derry
Offaly v Cork  offaly
Roscommon v Galway  Galway

Antrim v Westmeath westmeath
Laois v Longford  laois
Limerick v Fermanagh  draw
Wicklow v Louth  louth

Tipperary v London  Tipp
Carlow v Wexford   wexford
Cavan v Waterford  cavan
Sligo v Leitrim  sligo

11

GAA Discussion / Re: 2022 NFL Competition - Rd 5 closing with 48 entries

« on: March 17, 2022, 07:55:35 PM »

Round Six-

Tyrone v Mayo  Tyrone
Armagh v Kerry  Kerry
Kildare v Monaghan   Monaghan
Dublin v Donegal  Dublin

Cork v Down  draw
Derry v Galway  galway
Clare v Meath Meath
Offaly v Roscommon Roscommon

Laois v Limerick  laois
Longford v Wicklow  longford
Louth v Antrim  antrim
Westmeath v Fermanagh  westmeath

London v Cavan  cavan
Waterford v Sligo  sligo
Leitrim v Wexford  leitrim
Tipperary v Carlow  Tipperary

12

General discussion / Re: The Horse racing thread

« on: March 15, 2022, 04:10:57 PM »

Rachael Blackmore passes the 1 million mark in winnings - some going.

Brilliant competitor.

13

General discussion / Re: Russia invades Ukraine Feb 2022

« on: March 13, 2022, 12:42:27 PM »

https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/preparing-for-defeat/

There is a probably a kernal of truth in that, but i'd say a tad optimistic. Putin is going to flatten Ukraine before its all over and by the looks of things draw NATO into the conflict.
       

14

GAA Discussion / Re: 2022 NFL Competition - Rd 3 postponed games-closed

« on: March 09, 2022, 09:22:25 PM »

Rd 5 fixtures, entries must be in by midnight on Friday, March 11:


Armagh v Kildare  armagh
Kerry v Mayo  kerry
Donegal v Monaghan  donegal
Tyrone v Dublin  tyrone

Down v Offaly  offaly
Galway v Clare   galway
Meath v Cork   cork
Roscommon v Derry  derry

Antrim v Longford  longford
Fermanagh v Louth  Fermanagh
Limerick v Westmeath   westmeath
Wicklow v Laois  laois

Sligo v London  london
Carlow v Leitrim   draw
Cavan v Tipperary  cavan
Wexford v Waterford   wexford

15

GAA Discussion / Re: Who's your GAA cult hero?

« on: March 04, 2022, 04:02:04 PM »

Mick Lyons for me

Mick Lyons: no quarter asked nor given. Him and Liam Harnan were a ferocious combination.