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The GAA's tweet has a lot of Spanish language comments on it, many people asking what the sport is. I wonder how this got started.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/james-carr-s-stunner-for-mayo-clocks-up-nearly-8-million-views-1.3951467

Ballygar on the border with Roscommon has a population of about 640 I think. Glinsk football club also on the border with the Rossies must also have a very small population base encompassing the area of Creggs/Ballymoe.

Actually Glenamaddy only has a population of 516. Thought it would be more. Caltra must also have a very small population.

Glinsk are completely separate from both Ballymoe and Creggs.

Ballymoe share a parish with Ballintubber in Roscommon and play together in that county as St Croans.

Creggs and Glinsk share the parish of Kilbegnet and once played together. They split, with Creggs staying in Roscommon and Glinsk moving to Galway. Glinsk makes up about 2/3 of that parish population wise. All of Creggs' players come from a single two teacher national school. They're about the same size as Tremane hurling club and indeed their players have traditionally played hurling there.

So Glinsk, likely the smallest football club in Galway, and Creggs, the smallest in Ros, are from the same parish.

Syferus will you please stop embarrassing us Ros lads on this forum.

Ah come on. Syferus is fast becoming an internet legend, the Harry Keegan of the web!

Well they won that game in Tuam in 01 although I'm struggling to remember them winning in Salthill unless it was a fair while back.

1988 was the last Roscommon victory in Salthill. Only played there once since though.

[Dublin 1/5 Roscommon 9/2]

Some amount of money put on the Dubs. Current odds Dublin 1/5 Roscommon 9/2

Madness! I never gamble but just stuck a few euros on Roscommon at that price.

[Imagine being this garsún on Christmas morning. A Galway tricycle and a Mayo Rua. Oh the humanity!]

Taken from stolensheep.tk

Caption = Imagine being this garsún on Christmas morning. A Galway tricycle and a Mayo Rua. Oh the humanity!

Indeed it is now generally accepted that Baseball is derived from Rounders in some form or other, as it has been played in this islands for a couple of hundred years now and was probably brought over to America by the early settlers

Don't you just love that. We started baseball. Wonder what Babe Ruth thought of that. Maybe that cricket theory was right after all. Please accept my apologies for all the puns.

In fairness lots of irish lads went over and made a name for themselves in baseball.
Mickey "The Mick" Mantel was 1st generation irish.

Mickey Mantle had no Irish connections. He was from Oklahoma. Very few Irish born players ever played pro baseball, those that did were in the 19th century and moved to the States as children. Softball is almost the exact same as the Irish version of rounders. The only real difference is in Irish rounders the ball used is a sliothar. English rounders and our version of the game are very different indeed although international games have been played.

Americans were led to believe that a guy called Abner Doubleday, from Cooperstown NY, where the baseball hall of fame is located, was the inventor of baseball. It was Americas pasttime and therefore had to have been an American invention. However, games like baseball have been played in Europe for centuries. The earliest know reference to the game is in some German manuscript from the middle ages. In fact the game was called Baseball in England even before the English had colonies in North America. As far as I know there are variations of the game played in Romania, Finland, Ireland and England.

Even though there are very little differences between rounders and softball, the American game is now more popular in Ireland than our own version.