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Jim Devlin Cup quarter-finals:
Saturday 27th April @ 2pm

Clonoe v Errigal Ciaran
Trillick v Galbally
Dungannon v Dromore
Pomeroy v Omagh

3 teams with home advantage again.

Worth asking how that came about.

No chance Klopp will stay on?

He will be thinking come September what am I going to do with myself. 

It's a tight Championship and always is.

Only 2 of the big 3 of Derry, Donegal and Armagh are going to make the Ulster final.

It does look like a platform for Derry.

We are in the middle of something very special by this team.

Magnificent game of football. Well done to both teams. Hugely dramatic and enjoyable. 

Derry should have no fear for the summer after this match.

Dublin beat a weak outfit by 21 points last week, but that was in hindsight a bad form marker.

they dont need funding they can cause major disruption

Likely short term. No shipyard to down tools & march into city centre, no power plant to take over and cause power cuts.

A new settlement could easily kick the can down the road like Britain/China did with Hong Kong. It will be a 32 county country but Stormont still exists in a soft form and people can still choose to be British. Let the future politicians deal with it.

With the Orange Order rejecting the deal this week, then it doesn't augur well.

It's is a long wait to the 2nd game, last year i lasted to half time of the Division 1 final after been there for Div 2 Final to beat traffic. Be in no rush this time, try let the Armagh traffic clear.

Extra time in first games is the great unknown, so they build in plenty of extra space for it. Could be penalties too as Armagh are involved.


10 years ago the headline bill in Croker was often delayed for the first game to finish.

The theme running through the League has been the wides.

Dubs intensity was at a way higher level today. We remain in same division as them for next season.

Whenever a player or manager retires, the media report always says he won x All Irelands then x National Leagues then the Provincial wins. Check it out the next time a star retires.

The National League is a national title, one of only two per year. It's important.

[and the border is safe.]

Undoubtedly, his greatest error as Taoiseach was to give Boris Johnson a compromise deal on Brexit when they met in the Wirral that time. Tories were sinking fast without it and it allowed Johnson put through an agreement he subsequently tried to renege on and never had any intention of upholding.

Are you saying you'd rather he had ignored the opportunity to lock down no hard border so that he could sink the Tories?

I don't think that was a mistake. Boris Johnson walked into a trap. He couldn't reopen the border and he couldn't get a good deal.

Agree, but Johnson did what he does, made the best of a bad job by saying he'd "got Brexit done" and won an election on the back of it.  Varadkar was more than happy to see the open border secured - definitely not an error, never mind his greatest error, in my view.

Johnson is an opportunist who doesn't think strategically. He is now   a hasbeen. The institutions are up and running, the 2 women were promoting NI business in DC last week, the DUP have accepted reality, the tories are facing electoral meltdown and the border is safe.

It would have been hard to predict that in 2017.

Though obviously no border at all is preferable rather than the current one being safe. But I'm nitpicking.

Undoubtedly, his greatest error as Taoiseach was to give Boris Johnson a compromise deal on Brexit when they met in the Wirral that time. Tories were sinking fast without it and it allowed Johnson put through an agreement he subsequently tried to renege on and never had any intention of upholding.

I guess the main thing was no land border was agreed at that meeting.

But Brexit was/is the unsolvable conundrum. 

Coventry will not lie down in the semi.

The sky is the limit for Donaghmore once all these winning lads come through.