Quote from: RedHand88 on March 25, 2024, 07:41:01 AMRemember when the media/twitterati said Sinn Fein wasn't a democratic party because Mary Lou was elected unopposed?Nope. Not in any media I read. But I try to avoid the crazies on 'social' media.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: RedHand88 on March 25, 2024, 07:41:01 AMRemember when the media/twitterati said Sinn Fein wasn't a democratic party because Mary Lou was elected unopposed?Nope. Not in any media I read. But I try to avoid the crazies on 'social' media.
Quote from: SouthDublinBro on March 24, 2024, 03:31:04 PMand yet we are told that Armagh have the "best squad depth in the country at the minute"What don't you post under your Cavan name instead of using this fake Dub nonsense?
Quote from: Brendan on March 24, 2024, 03:18:51 PMDid you think that through?Quote from: seafoid on March 24, 2024, 03:07:07 PMThe Tyrone game is a massacre. The GAA have created a monster.
A successful Dublin teams pays the bills for headquarters and that's all that matters
Quote from: 6th sam on March 10, 2024, 08:18:42 PMBecause it's not a "certain team" ,it's my team, my country. I don't want to see them lose , and hit the roof when james Lowe scored the try to put us in front, but I'm not afraid to be honest about rugby's many deficiencies. RTE and the Dublin 4 media, hype rugby up disproportionately and without question. That isn't good for rugby and it's not good for Irish sport .We lost in the WC, because NZ were a small fraction better than us. Nobody with any intelligence could deny that the best 4 teams in that competition were SAF, NZ, France and Ireland. Even though only two of them got to the semis. We have failed at previous world cups, but we didn't underperform at this one. Played really well and lost to a team a little bit better on the day. Mistakes were made of course, as happens to every team in every game, but overall we performed.
We didn't deliver in the WC again. We had a chance to partly rectify that with back to back grand slams but couldn't deliver against the "auld enemy " when it counted.
Its a cliché but sport is a "game of inches". And when u have to find those inches you need hungry warriors on the pitch . It's an indictment that the 3 hungriest looking Irish players yesterday were NZers. Unpalatable but a reasonable opinion?
Quote from: jcpen on March 10, 2024, 06:41:28 PMMistakes are probably just around the corner, but to have lads from Cork and Tyrone replacing injured so-called superstars, and being just as good as them, it's incredible. I'm sure the whole of Ireland is cheering us on in the run-in 😀Quote from: Gael80 on March 10, 2024, 05:57:13 PMGreat game for the neutral. There is no other team in world football that survive that second half. The atmosphere and drive from that Liverpool team was insane. Klopp's teams have fell short in most title races and today was the chance to open a gap, they were not ruthless.To be fair I think Liverpool be happy with a point also, City missed a couple of chances in second half also, Kelleher saving from Foden and Doku hitting the inside of the post.
I sense City will be delighted to survive today and I think will go on to win the title from here.
Great game.
Quote from: 6th sam on March 10, 2024, 06:24:57 PMKevin Kilbane is a complete spoofer, but I agree he has always seen himself as Irish. But can you please elaborate on how he 'famously' turned down England? (Given he would never have been anywhere near a senior England team had he been truly English)Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 10, 2024, 04:37:57 PMDid you support Big Jack during those glory years for the Irish team (well not entirely Irish)
International teams in all sports are using outsiders, providing its within the rules then that's ok.
These players come to Ireland and play for Irish clubs, have or start families, their kids go to Irish schools and they put down roots here, in Ireland.
They play with pride and put as much effort into it than paddy Joe from Offaly.
What him being one of Irelands better players has got to do with your point I've no idea. Sexton was Irelands better player for nearly a decade. O'Driscoll the decade before that and so on.
Since u asked. With the exception of carcarino's alleged dodgy Irish connection, all Jack's team were Irish. Ray Houghton is amongst many Glaswegians with a strong sense of irishness because many of their ancestors had to go from Donegal to Scotland or starve . Kevin kilbane and mick McCarthy are examples of people born in the North of England who consider themselves Irish. Kilbane though he has a Yorkshire accent, famously rejected the chance to play for England
Irish Rugby exiled Simon Zebo because he wanted to go to France , yet availed of james Lowe , a clearly proud NZer, with no Irish connection , to effectively take Zebo's place.
I question the authenticity of that , and I'm a celtic supporting , GAA begrudger talking dung . 😂😂😂 .
Gallsman ( presumably a GAA himself) inexplicably drags in sectarianism, when one of my main complaints is that lads at state schools in the north are being deprived of opportunities for Ulster and ireland due to elite rugby tourism .
I'll admit, as I've experience of it, that I've no time for the nonsense around the privileged private school culture in Leinster .
Ultimately the IRFU much like jack Charlton , gathered the best possible team together within the rules. Jack Charlton tapped into the diaspora which in my view is more authentically Irish than Rugby tourism. Soccer is clearly the most popular Sport in the world . Rugby isn't even in the top 3 sports in Ireland . Do I like the fact that rugby is given an elevated status by the Dublin media , No. Do I like that Ulster is poorly represented in the Irish team , No. Do I like the deliberate targetting of concussion vulnerable players, No. Do I like the privileged culture of private education , No. Do I think proud NZers should represent Ireland ahead of an Irishman , No. do I support ireland , yes.
I'd like those that call that begrudgery to explain how they feel about the points above .
Posters on here regularly complain about boring play in Gaelic football, about Dublin GAA's privileged position , or about Shane Walsh's transfer to kilmacud, or about Irish Soccer's woes , but we dare to criticise the sacred cow/darling of the media , that is Rugby , and we're talking dung. I find that hilarious tbh
Quote from: tonto1888 on February 26, 2024, 07:08:09 AMCon all day long 😁Quote from: square_ball on February 25, 2024, 06:56:31 PMQuote from: RedHand88 on February 25, 2024, 06:52:03 PMCaicedos face at the end was EVERYTHING. What he must be thinking watching the club he turned down make a go at sweeping the board.
What to say about Kelleher? Greatest achievement of any Irish sportsperson this weekend, hands down.
Who or what else was in contention for this prestigious honour?
Well, I would give it to Adam Idah