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Title: Sunday Life article
Post by: Therealdonald on March 09, 2018, 06:23:46 PM
First time opening a thread men and women, heard an ad on the wireless there about a top GAA player who had to flee under dissident threat to Australia? Is this the case or is it just the Sunday Life being extravagant with the truth?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: sligoman2 on March 09, 2018, 06:37:50 PM
That might be fake news the real Donald.  Any more specifics?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: seafoid on March 09, 2018, 06:44:18 PM
Quote from: Therealdonald on March 09, 2018, 06:23:46 PM
First time opening a thread men and women, heard an ad on the wireless there about a top GAA player who had to flee under dissident threat to Australia? Is this the case or is it just the Sunday Life being extravagant with the truth?
Wasn't McCarron run out of Tyrone a few years ago?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Therealdonald on March 09, 2018, 06:55:24 PM
Literally that's all it said. It was a proper advertisement but I can't find anything online or anything. In this case I suspect its more Over the top news as opposed to fake news.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tony Baloney on March 09, 2018, 06:56:19 PM
Sunday Life a total rag. Don't let yourself get sucked in.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Therealdonald on March 09, 2018, 07:17:15 PM
Aww well aware it's a rag and I don't normally read it. But if they're using the GAA as a headline they must reckon they have a big story.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: imtommygunn on March 09, 2018, 07:46:31 PM
On the radio a lot today just with what donald said as headlines. It really is gutter press.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Syferus on March 09, 2018, 07:51:27 PM
Might want to hold the derision until after you read the story.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Therealdonald on March 09, 2018, 07:55:14 PM
Quote from: Syferus on March 09, 2018, 07:51:27 PM
Might want to hold the derision until after you read the story.

As cryptic as ever there Syf. You aware of what is coming?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Syferus on March 09, 2018, 08:06:04 PM
Quote from: Therealdonald on March 09, 2018, 07:55:14 PM
Quote from: Syferus on March 09, 2018, 07:51:27 PM
Might want to hold the derision until after you read the story.

As cryptic as ever there Syf. You aware of what is coming?

Eh? No.

Just the usual derision thrown at the Sindo and the Indo here makes little sense in the context of an article that hasn't been published yet. And if the player is saying what the headline is, it's hardly the Sindo that people should be focusing on anyways.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tyroneforsam on March 09, 2018, 09:53:28 PM
The article is about a club gaa player in tyrone.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: southtyronegael on March 09, 2018, 10:21:44 PM
Quote from: Tyroneforsam on March 09, 2018, 09:53:28 PM
The article is about a club gaa player in tyrone.
would he be from pomeroy?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Rossfan on March 10, 2018, 12:13:52 AM
What's he supposed to have done to upset those scummy cnuts?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Jinxy on March 10, 2018, 02:04:29 PM
The term 'GAA star' is basically used by the media to describe anyone who ever kicked a ball in his life.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: seafoid on March 10, 2018, 02:36:56 PM
Quote from: Jinxy on March 10, 2018, 02:04:29 PM
The term 'GAA star' is basically used by the media to describe anyone who ever kicked a ball in his life.
It is anti gravitational. Never have heard about any of them
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Rossfan on March 10, 2018, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: Jinxy on March 10, 2018, 02:04:29 PM
The term 'GAA star' is basically used by the media to describe anyone who ever kicked a ball in his life.
And especially if he's done something bad.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Syferus on March 10, 2018, 04:31:30 PM
Quote from: Rossfan on March 10, 2018, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: Jinxy on March 10, 2018, 02:04:29 PM
The term 'GAA star' is basically used by the media to describe anyone who ever kicked a ball in his life.
And especially if he's done something bad.

Is being chased out by dissidents something bad?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: longballin on March 10, 2018, 04:36:05 PM
Quote from: Syferus on March 10, 2018, 04:31:30 PM
Quote from: Rossfan on March 10, 2018, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: Jinxy on March 10, 2018, 02:04:29 PM
The term 'GAA star' is basically used by the media to describe anyone who ever kicked a ball in his life.
And especially if he's done something bad.

Is being chased out by dissents something bad?

it isn't good  8)
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Rossfan on March 10, 2018, 06:01:15 PM
I was commenting in general. "Independent" great for GAA Star robs old lady type stuff.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: square_ball on March 10, 2018, 09:36:34 PM
Quote from: Rossfan on March 10, 2018, 06:01:15 PM
I was commenting in general. "Independent" great for GAA Star robs old lady type stuff.

Sickens my shite that. A lot of the papers up north are prone to using that regularly.

In terms of this one tomorrow it's obviously about drumming up interest in that the lad is a club player as opposed to some high profile GAA star. The story is very much real though and shows the scum that are still hanging around these parts.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: brokencrossbar1 on March 11, 2018, 09:23:54 AM
Typical rag shit by the Sunday Life. Used to only buy it for the jobs section!!!

Don't know anything about the lad himself or the actual story. On a general note though I see square ball referring to the dissidents as scumbags, which they undoubtedly are. The thing is they wouldn't take or threaten to take this action if the lad or any other person was on the straight. In certain areas, and I very much include my own , there is a vacuum of law and order where the 'street' rules apply. Would that be the case where this lad is from? I'm curious as for all the support SF have given to the Polcing Board and the PCSPs etc there is still a huge level of distrust in the police and the same back from them. I had first hand experience of it recently and spoke to a friend who works in the prosecution services and they were very taken aback about what was happening. Definite disparity of attitudes towards people by the police and this just creates further gaps and opportunities for the likes of dissidents or drug dealers or general hard men criminals to 'enforce the law' and funnily the joes on the street where I'm from anyway often think back to a time when there was no common criminality due to the 'community policing'.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tony Baloney on March 11, 2018, 10:00:08 AM
Quoteno common criminality due to the 'community policing

LOL tell that one to HMRC and TV Licensing and farmers getting their machinery and cattle stolen and people getting their land and waterways contaminated by dumped cubes of acid. All victimless crimes.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: PMG1 on March 11, 2018, 10:24:18 AM
Wouldn't buy the rag. Did it give the lads name and where he was from?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: RedHand88 on March 11, 2018, 11:10:43 AM
Quote from: PMG1 on March 11, 2018, 10:24:18 AM
Wouldn't buy the rag. Did it give the lads name and where he was from?

His name, a photo, his age, his club, what he had for breakfast etc.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: square_ball on March 11, 2018, 12:24:33 PM
In fairness his family were the ones telling their side of the story so not as if the Sunday Life have exposed it. Smart move by them imo.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: brokencrossbar1 on March 11, 2018, 12:29:59 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 11, 2018, 10:00:08 AM
Quoteno common criminality due to the 'community policing

LOL tell that one to HMRC and TV Licensing and farmers getting their machinery and cattle stolen and people getting their land and waterways contaminated by dumped cubes of acid. All victimless crimes.

Not saying it's true....Simply people's perception
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tony Baloney on March 11, 2018, 03:32:32 PM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 11, 2018, 12:29:59 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 11, 2018, 10:00:08 AM
Quoteno common criminality due to the 'community policing

LOL tell that one to HMRC and TV Licensing and farmers getting their machinery and cattle stolen and people getting their land and waterways contaminated by dumped cubes of acid. All victimless crimes.

Not saying it's true....Simply people's perception
It comes up in many areas. Plenty of people say there wouldn't be as many hoods about Lower Falls, students acting the maggot in the Holylands, people getting robbed in rural areas etc. if there was still the potential to get the business end of a baseball bat or the Black & Decker treatment. I'm not sure the Troubles is a time we want be harking back to as a golden age of community policing.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: nrico2006 on March 11, 2018, 06:19:53 PM
Been many an example of someone falling foul of an IRA man or relative and receiving some treatment. Scumbags.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: awideisneverasgood on March 13, 2018, 09:04:58 AM
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on March 11, 2018, 09:23:54 AM
Typical rag shit by the Sunday Life. Used to only buy it for the jobs section!!!

Don't know anything about the lad himself or the actual story. On a general note though I see square ball referring to the dissidents as scumbags, which they undoubtedly are. The thing is they wouldn't take or threaten to take this action if the lad or any other person was on the straight.

There are plenty of people on the straight and narrow in our communities who have been targeted by paramilitaries.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Jinxy on March 13, 2018, 10:01:40 AM
GAA star attacked elderly man with walking stick after row at chip shop

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/gaa-star-attacked-elderly-man-with-walking-stick-after-row-at-chip-shop-1.3424262 (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/gaa-star-attacked-elderly-man-with-walking-stick-after-row-at-chip-shop-1.3424262)

Never heard of this chap, but the article says he plays for Tyrone.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: omagh_gael on March 13, 2018, 10:16:31 AM
Quote from: Jinxy on March 13, 2018, 10:01:40 AM
GAA star attacked elderly man with walking stick after row at chip shop

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/gaa-star-attacked-elderly-man-with-walking-stick-after-row-at-chip-shop-1.3424262 (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/gaa-star-attacked-elderly-man-with-walking-stick-after-row-at-chip-shop-1.3424262)

Never heard of this chap, but the article says he plays for Tyrone.

He played a bit of underage and may have been on the odd McKenna cup panel but that's about it.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: angermanagement on March 13, 2018, 10:18:40 AM
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/gaa-star-mcnally-in-vegas-stag-trip-nightmare-over-completely-untrue-sex-assault-claim-36415777.html

Same boy?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tyrone Gaa on March 13, 2018, 10:24:30 AM
Wouldn't be from Pomeroy, this lad is from the Kildress club which is a neighbour of Pomeroy.  Heard about the vegas issue reported above but this new story is news to me, didn't read the Sunday Life story
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Jinxy on March 13, 2018, 10:27:12 AM
Is it the same fella in all these stories?
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Milltown Row2 on March 13, 2018, 10:31:00 AM
Same name, so I'd say yes.. he's never to far away from getting mixed up with the police.. Someone should tell him to stay off the drink, he'd have an easier life by the looks of it
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tyrone Gaa on March 13, 2018, 10:31:12 AM
Quote from: Jinxy on March 13, 2018, 10:27:12 AM
Is it the same fella in all these stories?

Yep same boy!
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: bigtogs on March 13, 2018, 12:02:47 PM
dont think you's are correct i heard a different name of a Pomeroy player involving Columbia's finest white stuff...seemingly not many surprised!!!
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tyrone Gaa on March 13, 2018, 12:18:50 PM
Quote from: bigtogs on March 13, 2018, 12:02:47 PM
dont think you's are correct i heard a different name of a Pomeroy player involving Columbia's finest white stuff...seemingly not many surprised!!!

The stories posted in the links to Irish Times and Belfast Telegraph both name Dean McNally of Kildress.  This is the same boy. Fairly talented defender probably played his best football for UUJ in the Sigerson and did represent Tyrone.

I haven't seen the Sunday Life article and not sure who that refers to.

Belfast Telegraph cover the story of a fella having to flea in today's edition, more likely to be what the Sunday Life article refers to and this is a different fella from Pomeroy, young lad only 20.

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/gaa-player-flees-northern-ireland-after-dissident-death-threat-36690698.html
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: WT4E on March 13, 2018, 01:35:08 PM
Quote from: Tyrone Gaa on March 13, 2018, 12:18:50 PM
Quote from: bigtogs on March 13, 2018, 12:02:47 PM
dont think you's are correct i heard a different name of a Pomeroy player involving Columbia's finest white stuff...seemingly not many surprised!!!

The stories posted in the links to Irish Times and Belfast Telegraph both name Dean McNally of Kildress.  This is the same boy. Fairly talented defender probably played his best football for UUJ in the Sigerson and did represent Tyrone.

I haven't seen the Sunday Life article and not sure who that refers to.

Belfast Telegraph cover the story of a fella having to flea in today's edition, more likely to be what the Sunday Life article refers to and this is a different fella from Pomeroy, young lad only 20.

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/gaa-player-flees-northern-ireland-after-dissident-death-threat-36690698.html

Pomeroy lad Aidan Woods - Not sure why people won't name him when naming Dean McNally?

Terrible situation for the family involved.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tyroneforsam on March 13, 2018, 04:11:38 PM
Quote from: WT4E on March 13, 2018, 01:35:08 PM
Quote from: Tyrone Gaa on March 13, 2018, 12:18:50 PM
Quote from: bigtogs on March 13, 2018, 12:02:47 PM
dont think you's are correct i heard a different name of a Pomeroy player involving Columbia's finest white stuff...seemingly not many surprised!!!

The stories posted in the links to Irish Times and Belfast Telegraph both name Dean McNally of Kildress.  This is the same boy. Fairly talented defender probably played his best football for UUJ in the Sigerson and did represent Tyrone.

I haven't seen the Sunday Life article and not sure who that refers to.

Belfast Telegraph cover the story of a fella having to flea in today's edition, more likely to be what the Sunday Life article refers to and this is a different fella from Pomeroy, young lad only 20.

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/gaa-player-flees-northern-ireland-after-dissident-death-threat-36690698.html

Pomeroy lad Aidan Woods - Not sure why people won't name him when naming Dean McNally?

Terrible situation for the family involved.

This Dean McNally fella should stay off the beer. Getting himself in awful handlins.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Jinxy on March 13, 2018, 04:21:02 PM
Pomeroy sounds like the wild west.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Tyroneforsam on March 13, 2018, 11:01:04 PM
Quote from: Jinxy on March 13, 2018, 04:21:02 PM
Pomeroy sounds like the wild west.

As a previous poster advised, Dean McNally is not from Pomeroy. He would have been born and raised in kildress, a neighbouring parish of Pomeroy and plays club football for them. I believe his mother now lives in Pomeroy hence the address in the newspaper article.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Jinxy on March 14, 2018, 10:00:35 AM
Fair enough.
The general Pomeroy/Kildress area sounds like the wild west.
Title: Re: Sunday Life article
Post by: Jinxy on March 14, 2018, 04:25:28 PM
GAA player falsely accused of rape pleads with gang to lift death threat

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gaa-player-falsely-accused-of-rape-pleads-with-gang-to-lift-death-threat-36700452.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gaa-player-falsely-accused-of-rape-pleads-with-gang-to-lift-death-threat-36700452.html)

He's been named now by the family anyway in an attempt to sort this all out.
This relates to the original post in this thread, FYI.