Sinn Fein? They have gone away, you know.

[muppet]

Always behave and will enjoy the West

After the formalities, head to Johnny McHale's pub and order a medium (pronounced may-jum).

If you get time check into McCarthy's and Mayo Gaa headquarters in Mick Byrne's.

[Rossfan]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

Hope they behave themselves in our town.

Why would they pass through Roscommon, it's not on the main routes from the 6 counties?

How are they going to go so? via Galway???

[lawnseed]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

we could give you a lift to a+e if you need it

[lawnseed]

john o dowd! brilliant again today on bbc radio. hes cool, confident, competent, informed, sincere and i think hes really enjoying his time as education minister. well done john! definite leader material so far

As SF ministers go, he's probably the best they've had. Not that the bar's that high. But he won't be party leader.

has he said hes not intersted?

He's relatively competent, but I don't think he has the charisma to be leader. Or, superficial though it may be, he doesn't look or sound like a leader - and these things tend to matter in politics. Plus as far as i'm aware, he has zero visibility in the south - i'd imagine a very high proportion of SF voters in the south couldn't name him. And i'd expect the next SF leader to have significant presence / recognition in the south.

"the charisma to be a leader"? like enda kenny or big al or mark durkin they really look like leaders? ghandi? maybe if he looked like mel gibson and wore a kilt and had a big sword.. or if he was russell crowes maximus or maybe he looked like napoleon 5ft nothing. maybe he could get plastic surgery and end up looking like che you could get him on your t-shirt.

john o dowd has wiped the floor with every interviewer or detractor who has tried to discredit the stirling work he his trying to do in the dept of eduacation since he took the post. teachers on both sides of our crappy eduacation system respect him. hes the best minister in any dept since devolution but you dont like the look of him...

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

we could give you a lift to a+e if you need it

  SF'rs can't help themselves with the threats 

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

Hope they behave themselves in our town.

Why would they pass through Roscommon, it's not on the main routes from the 6 counties?

How are they going to go so? via Galway???

You said "town" as in Roscommon "Town", the main routes from the North would be Longford and Sligo.

[lawnseed]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

we could give you a lift to a+e if you need it

  SF'rs can't help themselves with the threats 

sure rossie wouldnt need a lift if your hero hadnt lied about his hospital

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

we could give you a lift to a+e if you need it

  SF'rs can't help themselves with the threats 

sure rossie wouldnt need a lift if your hero hadnt lied about his hospital

What's your problem with Ciaran McDonald?

[lawnseed]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

we could give you a lift to a+e if you need it

  SF'rs can't help themselves with the threats 

sure rossie wouldnt need a lift if your hero hadnt lied about his hospital

What's your problem with Ciaran McDonald?

hes my hero too

[Rossfan]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

Hope they behave themselves in our town.

Why would they pass through Roscommon, it's not on the main routes from the 6 counties?

How are they going to go so? via Galway???

You said "town" as in Roscommon "Town", the main routes from the North would be Longford and Sligo.

I never said town - that was you -- if you read the above correctly 

There was a big sign in Cortober (on the Ros side of Carrick (on Shannon)) today welcoming the SF delegates to Connacht.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Hope all ye SFrs find ye're way to Castlebar for the weekend.
Please keep Roscommon tidy as ye pass through.

Hope they behave themselves in our town.

Why would they pass through Roscommon, it's not on the main routes from the 6 counties?

How are they going to go so? via Galway???

You said "town" as in Roscommon "Town", the main routes from the North would be Longford and Sligo.

I never said town - that was you -- if you read the above correctly 

There was a big sign in Cortober (on the Ros side of Carrick (on Shannon)) today welcoming the SF delegates to Connacht.

So it was, getting mithered in my old age   

[orangeman]

Delegates at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis have heard that it is the only party putting forward a sensible and coherent alternative to the failed politics of austerity.

Deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald attacked the new Croke Park proposals saying that they were anything but equitable and fair.

Ms McDonald told delegates in Co Mayo that it was time to put to bed the lie that public sector workers are somehow sheltered from the financial struggle.

She said the extension of the Croke Park agreement was another example of the Government dipping into the pockets of the low and middle earners.

Congratulating Frontline workers for speaking out against the deal, Ms McDonald said that they were at the end of their tether.

Earlier, the North's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, said  the party was the only one in the State putting forward a sensible and coherent alternative to the failed politics of austerity.

The party's Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty told delegates in Castlebar's Royal theatre that there is an alternative to the Government's statistics of shame on unemployment, on mortgage distress and on emigration.

Mr Doherty said that the party would force a Dáil vote on the property tax when it introduces its legislation on the issue in the coming weeks.

[Maguire01]

'Political party says it has the answers' shocker!

On another note, if SF is serious about peace and reconciliation, then why are they selling 'sniper at work' badges at their Ard Fheis? Classy. Seriously like, it's 2013.

[muppet]

'Political party says it has the answers' shocker!

On another note, if SF is serious about peace and reconciliation, then why are they selling 'sniper at work' badges at their Ard Fheis? Classy. Seriously like, it's 2013.

I saw that but who (what organisation) exactly is selling them?

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

'Political party says it has the answers' shocker!

On another note, if SF is serious about peace and reconciliation, then why are they selling 'sniper at work' badges at their Ard Fheis? Classy. Seriously like, it's 2013.

I saw that but who (what organisation) exactly is selling them?

Perhaps as they are in Mayo, it is some kind of Cillian O'Connor appreciation group.