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Nicholas Parsons - Sale of the Century host.

Ding ding round 2.

Saturday
Laois v Armagh, O'Moore Park, 6pm
Cavan v Westmeath, Breffni Park, 7pm

Sunday
Clare v Kildare, Cusack Park, 2pm
Fermanagh v Roscommon, Brewster Park, 2pm

Armagh have struggled with Laois in the past can't see this being any different, Cavan couldn't improve that much in a week to get anything against Westmeath.  Clare - Kildare could be a close one but I would say Roscommon will take Fermanagh easily enough.

[Can you not defend your viewpoints?]

No doubt, there are some over-sensitive people out there.

But, which is worse?

That people have to mind their ps and qs, or that those who are women or minorities or not heterosexual have to suffer yet another casual put-down or expression of bigotry?

It's not even about white men or straight people anymore causing offence. The powers that be have controlled society so much that if you don't agree with the likes of abortion or not burning coal or driving cars to combat climate change you're abused left right and centre. Now they tell us we shouldn't talk sport in the workplace? f**k off!

Who is abusing you? Can you not defend your viewpoints?

Who are the powers that be? Is abortion now mandatory in Ireland? Has the sale of coal been banned? Is the entire country not still driving cars?

You can't have viewpoints anymore, if you do you offend someone, you can't have a political view, a religious view, a moral view, a view on climate change, you either conform to this nonsense being portrayed as society now or you are, as you put it a bigot in someway. The irony is the whole media campaign about mental awareness, where in reality it only appears to be for people who are in the minority as they are the only one ever suffer. 

[I'm pretty sure you can manage to get through your workday without making off-colour jokes or remarks about gay people or minorities or wolf-whistling at the young one with the nice arse.]

Given that white, heterosexual males as a group have never been the subject of repression for being part of that group, it's hardly an endorsement of their endurance or stoicism that society doesn't concern itself with their non-existant persecution or victimhood. The only people you hear bleating about white, heterosexual males are those who are pissed off that their jokes or (worse) views on women or homosexuals or minorities have lately and correctly been deemed beyond the pale. If you don't want a HR case to deal with, then don't create one. I'm pretty sure you can manage to get through your workday without making off-colour jokes or remarks about gay people or minorities or wolf-whistling at the young one with the nice arse.

Can I talk about the match at weekend?

Such behaviour isn't confined to women or minorities, they just have the monopoly on the I am offended and HR having a panic attack, no one gives a flying one if a white hetrosexual male in the workplace is offended, probably let alone the white hetrosexual male to be fair.  My point is it is not about minding ps and qs its about guessing if r's or u's will cause offensive, society is shit scared to offend now especially in the workplace but many many people want to be offended so the cotton wool and tip toeing about is becoming insane.

[On the other hand, you can't help but laugh at people who get their knickers in a twist and throw around the "snowflake" label when society finally starts to call them out on their casual sexist, homophobic and racist statements and views.]

On the other hand, you can't help but laugh at people who get their knickers in a twist and throw around the "snowflake" label when society finally starts to call them out on their casual sexist, homophobic and racist statements and views.

On the specifics of the article, the woman doesn't call for an outright ban on sports talk, at least according to the article. As a management consultant, I can see how she would advise companies of the value of being careful to avoid allowing team members to become excluded. In one instance it might be sports talk. In another, it might be a female-dominated team where something else dominates the conversation.

As opposed to individuals who go out of their way to be offended by everything in life!

[ny attendance from the Armagh game]

I'd estimate 3k at most in the Hyde.
Probably 50 from Laois!

Would have been 51 but LL was watching his boys hang on against Shrewsbury

any attendance from the Armagh game Benny?

4,466

You soon will have to go into work put earphones in, speak to no one  - not about kids in case you offend those with no kids, not about your partner to avoid hurting the self-partnered, not about TV or sport, avoid all eye contact in case you are accused of sexual harassment - wear a uniform in case anything about your person offends some snowflake, eat in the toilet in case you have meat that offends some vegan, oh and these will be communal toilets for the LGBTQ, park your car miles away in case someone is offended you are destroying the planet - how the fcuk did society get here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999

Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.

Ann Francke, head of the Chartered Management Institute, said sports chat can exclude women and lead to more laddish behaviour.

[A word for my club man Soup. We can sometimes be his harshest critic but I think that's one of the best performances he has ever put in for Armagh. He covered every single blade of grass on the night, tackling throughout and still popping up with some quality when needed.]

A good performance by Armagh and a nice league debut by young Turbo.  Some of the long range points in the first half with the wind were a joy to watch.  At half time I didn't think the game was dead and buried though.  Cavan were causing problems running through the middle.  That's a real worry for the games to come.  The goal early in the second half killed it as a contest.

The amount of times Cavan fouled Armagh on transitions was unreal.  Finally this began to be punished correctly.

A word for my club man Soup.  We can sometimes be his harshest critic but I think that's one of the best performances he has ever put in for Armagh.  He covered every single blade of grass on the night, tackling throughout and still popping up with some quality when needed.

Bigger tests ahead.

Agree, his work ethic was outstanding and quality on the ball first class. The main issue from last few years remain, Blaine is very suspect under a high ball and his kick outs are always a concern, don't get me wrong a first class shot stopper but a keeper has to be so much more these days, I'd say he would also happily play a one two right up the field, given half the chance.

Selecting children or rejecting children is a disgrace. Telling a child he/she isn't good, smart enough. It's lazy teachers looking for the easy way out. Teach the best and to hell with the rest. No one can make a case for grammar schools.
I actually passed and attended a Grammar school, 7 years and have a good standard of education under my belt. But as a parent I see how it's just taking the easy way out as a society.

If ever there was a case for scrapping Grammar Schools!

Cavan were brutal, should be preparing for Division 3 and the Tommy Murphy cup after that, can't see them beating anyone, and their disipline was shocking.

A few more teams published

ARMAGH: Blaine Hughes; Paddy Burns, Greg McCabe, Conor O'Neill; Callum Cumiskey, Brendan Donaghy, Aidan Forker; Niall Grimley, Stephen Sheridan; Jason Duffy, Rory Grugan, Oisin O'Neill; Conor Turbitt, Rian O'Neill, Stefan Campbell.

KILDARE :  Mark Donnellan; Peter Kelly, Mick O'Grady, Liam Healy; Johnny Byrne, Con Kavanagh, Shea Ryan; David Hyland, Tommy Moolick; Neil Flynn, Paul Cribbin, Paddy Brophy; Jack Robinson, Daniel Flynn, Niall Kelly.

That Armagh defence doesn't fill me with confidence

Are Shields and Morgan injured?