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Sad thing is, we'll be swapping one shower of odious bastards for another shower of odious bastards. I wouldn't trust Starmer as far ad I could throw the cnut.

He's a politician but has less malign intent than the Tories.
A bit like Biden and Trump, you can have an unimpressive candidate or an outright dangerous one.

Western standards laid bare for all to see:

I'm not sure the term "Western" is appropriate, every west European country and Canada, Australia and New Zealand support the ICC.

The USA don't.

Then the post should have referred to the USA and not to "Western".

Is there any reason with games being played next week why the GAA can't confirm the dates and times of next weekends fixtures so that supporters can sort travel/accomodation if required.  I understand last round of games are neutral and undecided but why could they not announce the venues/times for the first two rounds at one time. 

They draw the groups before all the teams are known, but still cannot even determine the time of the likes of Derry and Armagh when it was known for 3 weeks that Derry would be playing either Armagh or Donegal. Since neither of these counties are very far away and as both would bring a crowd, then it didn't really matter which one was going to come.

Western standards laid bare for all to see:

I'm not sure the term "Western" is appropriate, every west European country and Canada, Australia and New Zealand support the ICC.

It's great, isn't it?

We've got the power and the glory
We're going to take it from here

Well done Longford.
Hopefully, Armagh will be meeting Dublin rather than Longford.

There is a bit of chatter about the GAA using AI images for programme covers, complete with soccer goals.

Lads a dodgy fire stick is your friend here

There's a certain irony in that as I don't have an issue with GAAGO as a concept but I hate that casting malarkey and the quality can deteriorate alright, but was in a friends house who has de olde firestick thing going and his picture was far better!

They've a bit of work to do to get the GAAGO app onto some smart TV's

There is an app or LG tvs now, it worked on my 2019 model.
However, the account credits thing does not work on the app, so I went back to using the browser on the TV.

The Sky 'platform', as in available as a stand alone digital channel, not as part of any Sports package.

What is the business model here?

If it's here to stay I'd like to see it on the Sky platform. With some of the absolute niche / nonsense channels on there there is no way cost is an insurmountable issue.

Sky was a different audience, general "sports" fans who might watch. Sky became acceptable enough when they had the 24 hour Now passes, but one way or the other streaming is the way forward.
Moving the games earlier did not help the Sky deal, in another couple of weeks Sky would have less to show and the GAA helped fill that gap.

I see that the 3 game packages are all sold out, except for Dublin, Roscommon and Westmeath. Odd that the biggest county still has tickets, while smaller places do not. They obviously announced the deal then ensured that most people would not be able to avail of it, trust the GAA to mess up a positive initiative.

Tony O'Reilly aged 88.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0518/1449972-tony-oreilly/

Mayo 0-9 Cavan 0-5 at half time.  Comfortable win for Mayo 0-20 to 1-8

Connacht teams looking good.

That's really Ulster Gaa not Antrim Gaa though

That's fair comment, but it has no effect on the GAA's need for cash.

According to Máirtín Beag this is the first time in 6 years that Derry have lost 2 games in a row.

Hopefully, they'll do the hat trick.