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Anyone have the championship fixtures and dates?

Anyone see any of these World Games? Some crowd at the opening. Great to see.

Won't be watching it, as the parade was in Derry City.

The parade, instead of coming through the gates of the walled city, should be coming the gates of some farm in south Derry, as these where are the true Gaels of Derry are.

Who from North Derry get on?. Am up round achools in the city, and sthing not been coached right. There no way a school like St Patrick's with 30 classrooms worth of children should not be producing footballers like the small south Derry schools. They got the no.'s like alot of schools in the city, so what different in the coaching here and as they move on to the secondary level of education. There's somewhere Derry as a county have room for improvement but I feel these areas need a full time coach to make a difference. Plus schools outside of Magherafelt & Maghera. There scope to improve them. Derry going well in general but there always room to keep building, keep improving, we come a long way from 10yrs ago were we seemed in free fall, especially to the point of Division 4 as little bck as 2019.

One city school has 1,500 boys and .........  won a Hogan Cup in 1965. Wonder why?!  They should be winning McLarnon's at least on a regular basis or at least challenging.  If Adrian McGuckian was there ....

How the hell are we supposed to win the McLarnon Cup when my former school are not even in the McLarnon Cup?!

Times have changed, we maybe be 'C' or 'D' level now.

Chatting about St.Columb's, I was sitting in Liverpool Irish Centre watching the game yesterday and my former teammate from St.Columbs came walking in.

"Alright ticklemister, what's the craic lad, long time no see" came the strong culchie accent which he hasn't lost since moving across the water. A good chat about the olden days did ensue, as we watched Dublin hammer Donegal ladies.

"Mind the next day when only 5 boys turned up to school, the Derry Journal came for a photo of the squad but only a handful were in school, chased in by their mas"

"Mind some boys wanted to watch the MacRoary Cup after our game and we just went over the road to the bar"

"Mind Burnsy (Eamonn Burns) had us in on Saturdays, during the Christmas break"

"Mind the Friday sessions. No balls were used and we used to jog down to the running track at St.Columb's College"

Good times. Best times.
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Je lads, we are having it so good these days. Enjoy it all and stop your bloody bickering.

Up the City.

Must be better than thr new indiana jones film.  Poor enough 5 or 6 out of 10

I thought it was better than that. 7.5 for me - enjoyed all the nods to the originals.

Gonna go to this by myself as my partner doesn't want to go.

As a wain, I thought going to the cinema by yourself was for losers, but as a grown-up, I relaise it shows you how strong you are.

What a film I watched last night, 'Don't tell a soul'. Only new. Class act.

Seen Dungiven play on Sunday, thought they weren't too bad but way too small, 5 of the back 6, gotta be 5ft 9in and under and fairly light on it, some change from the team they had early 90's.

Not eating enough spuds.



Mind the time when we entered the all county league for first time in 1999 at under 16 level.  Every team we met simply engulfed us with their size. They must have thought us city boys were skinny as f**k. Two wins and a draw if I remember correct from that campaign. A win against Dungiven and Screen and a draw against Ballinderry.

Big stepping stone for us that year. We took some awful hidings too. Away to Bellaghy and Glen were severe punishment beatings that spring to mind. At the time, the majority of our team were playing McLarnon football.

We looked through starry eyes and a glint in our eye as we played teams from across the Glenshane. We wouldn't have done that for the 5/6 years for the time we began to play football. We heard all these great stories of these wonderful footballers born south of the county and we thought it was just great to be playing them. Well, this was in my mind and a few others; but the majority of our players didn't have the same knowledge of club / county football; and they were the ones who showed no respect  to those from south of the county( regarding football) and they led the way. 

Plenty in antrim

You Derry City men know all about court houses Shanty Gael

We haven't been outside because of the ice and snow at all this week, neither for break or lunch. Therefore, we can start our breaks and lunches as early as we want. Great times.

But in all truth, kids being kept inside all day is a nightmare!

In until next Thursday. Bad times indeed. Only 13 days off compared to the 19 I think I got last year.

The kids did a vote on what film to watch tomorrow. I said to them "f**k it, let's watch them all"

Brilliant!!! That's me sorted tonight! Thank you very mich

Tried there. Not on yet. Thanks anyway

Anyone know where I can watch this game back. Missed it

I will be missing the match as I am traveling.

Can you pay for it on ulster gaa website and stream it back?

That was an embarrassing performance from Glenullin

Is intermediate in Derry that bad?

It was fantastic in 2021

Coming through New Buildings here now. Heads down. What a great day in the best stadium in Dublin.