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So did Westport win 2023? First Mayo team ever to win Div 1?

I wonder how many have a Feile winners medal and an All Ireland Senior?

A good few of the 2006 Kilcoo Feile winning team went on to win the All Ireland Senior Club title in 2022.

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Well done to the hurlers today.  League titles are thin on the ground up here.

They responded well in both halfs when Kildare got their goals, in particular at the start of the second half.

CT was good for the whole game, my motm, no doubt Tom McGrattan is in with a shout and took his goals well will always grab the headlines.

Roll on Div1B.

The hurlers have taken two big beatings so for in the Joe McDonagh and the mood within the camp isn't good by all accounts..

We could well be looking at relegation to the Christy Ring if the whole group don't start pulling together and soon.

Where did this implosion from the hurlers come from in these two games? Especially after such a good league campaign. Carlow and Laois obviously 1B League teams but are we going to be massively out of our depth in the higher league tier next year?

We are in an era of constant flux in the GAA at the moment but I'd near guarantee that we will we have a three tier competition in place within the next 3/4 years.

It maybe just be an issue with the psyche in this part of the world, but why is Rory such a divisive sportsperson? Knew certain ones (including casual golf fans) who were absolutely rooting for him whilst others were indifferent to his success on Sunday. He seems to have a real polarising effect here.

Underbelly S1 is terrific.

Watched the whole thing years ago. Very engaging.

After a tentative and at times wasteful 1st half, I thought Down produced a brilliant 2nd half display there. Kildare were decent but in McGrattan, Prenter and Pearse Óg McCrickard we had three excellent performers. Entertaining game that was played at the most part at a high standard. Brilliant that this group will now be playing Division 1 hurling next year.

Brilliant achievement for our hurlers getting to 1B. Do we have the ability and depth to sustain a period at this level or would that be a huge ask?

Is Evangelical Protestantism still prominent in certain parts of the North and would the DUP's base still be mostly grounded in it?

Been following United since 91/92, albeit my passion and interest has dwindled somewhat this last decade or so. But genuinely, that current squad, is the weakest I can remember in terms of sheer lack of high end quality.

Not sure on the quality element they are all individually good players, there just has been a real poor culture develop around the club that has accepted second best in a lot of aspects of the club. This has led to what we see out on the pitch currently.

Who are the high end quality players at the moment? Martinez? Amad?

Been following United since 91/92, albeit my passion and interest has dwindled somewhat this last decade or so. But genuinely, that current squad, is the weakest I can remember in terms of sheer lack of high end quality.

What EC did in relation to the final stage after pulling away from behind the band was just silly. As you say, they were obviously very pumped up.

We always look for reasons to justify a poor start from a team in a game. But yesterday there was a marked difference in the warm up regimes from both teams. That being the 20 minute slot from about 3:10pm to 3:30pm that they did on the pitch. Cuala's, whilst simple and straightforward, flowed a lot better and looked regimented and energetic. Errigal's didn't and looked for the most part way too laid back and lethargic at times. Just really an observation but I can't help think that it played into that disastrous first half for EC.

From a Down perspective its been another poor year for schools at senior level, Abbey and Colmans beat in 1/4 finals of Mc Rory and Red High and St Malachys the same in Mc Larnon, its not looking great for future!!

Another very disappointing year for our schools. Plans afoot I see to send GDO's into our secondary schools. This is a move in the right direction. Just thinking as well. We've one Ulster MFC title in the past 36 years and that was in 1999.

Not sure if the figure is still accurate but I think up until recently only 7% of the children in the North of Ireland were in official Integrated education.