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It's quite simple. If Donaghy wasn't available,  Donegal or Mayo would be All Ireland champions.

He deserves it.

Balotelli looks like he's trying and (too) desperate to score, but he needs some serious coaching in how to play in that team. He has no concept of moving, creating space and going to where the ball will be.

Very poor and lucky to win. All I can say is thank christ they weren't playing someone like Real Madrid today!

Right, the 0.003% of the total debt figure that is spent on foreign aid is the big problem! 

A gamble I think. Everybody seems to think that a good number 2 can be a good manager at county level. Paul Grimley, Tally, Moran and now Rory, and they are all knowledgeable men who have done well, but not just the same as the men they supported.

Short of getting Mickey Harte or James Horan in, anyone is a gamble. Big Jim is an impossible act to follow.  People will have to be patient and give Rory a chance. If he doesn't work out, you try again.

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Group 4
Gleann tSuilí 1-04  Naomh Mícheál 1-02

Sin é

That's it???

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Group 4
Cill Chartha 5-15  Bun Dobhráin 0-03

A McGinley adds to Ryan McHugh's four goals.

Kilcar going to finally win the senior championship for the first time since the senior McHugh brothers' days?

That doesn't make any sense. This year, he brought us to the final after getting rid of Gallagher and losing McHugh (whatever the reason for his departure). We were the width of the post away from a draw, and a horrendous, never-to-be-repeated mistake the reason for our loss. Unless Cassidy is saying the presence of Rory Gallagher could have made a difference in the final, I don't see his logic.
Last year, I suppose he could have tried to have the club championship put on hold during the Ulster championship, but apart from drawing the ire, again, of the broad GAA community by doing that, what else could he do last year? Gallagher and McHugh were on board. There isn't a whole lot you can do about injuries and the loss of form and hunger in a relatively small squad. Whatever about the Mayo vengeance factor, had Colm McFadden not lost his form for the Ulster final, we would probably have run Monaghan quite close, albeit I think they had our number no matter what on the day. Unless he is insinuating that his own presence might have made the difference. If that is the case, was he not invited back in the spring of 2012?
Lastly, he was there in 2011. Is he suggesting we should have pushed on against Dublin? He was on the field...

I would think the three nominees for POTY will each get one. Conversely, I think Ryan McHugh has been nominated as YPOTY as he will not get an All Star. My best guess at how they will go:

P Durcan
P Murphy, E McGee, K Higgins
P Crowley, F McGlynn, C Boyle
D Moran, N Gallagher
D Connolly, M Murphy, P Flynn
J O'Donoghue, K Donaghy, C O'Connor

POTY JO'D
YPOTY R McHugh

Unlucky to miss out: A Mallon, R McHugh, A O'Shea, R Beggan

I'd have N McGee there.
One player unlucky to lose out again is Donnacha Walsh. Has done immense work, carrying the ball and winning dirty ball. One of Kerry's star and key players, but because its not glamorous work, he'll get overlooked. Had a decent chance til Murphy was moved to the half forwards. Donnacha Walsh far more deserving of an All Star than Diarmuid Connolly imo.

My arse he is. Connolly has been brilliant all year. Anyone who thinks he isn't an all star shoe in is quite frankly an idiot

No way any senior Player of the Year nominee doesn't get an All Star.

[while Donegal or Tyrone are faced with 3 to reach the same position!]

Brolly looked and sounded depressed as he talked about each draw. Really, you can see how he should be. There is little to get excited about. Munster as bland as ever. Seedings and byes into Semi-finals leave only a 50/50 chance of Cork/Kerry being forced early into the back door and one of the others having a bit more of a chance of winning a Muster title. Leinster/Connacht draws hard to get excited by as well. Then we have Ulster, and the whole Provincial Championship looks a joke. No seeding here. No soft day trips to New York or London. Not all your games played on your home turf. Just looking at Donegal and in order for them to retain their title have to beat Tyrone, Armagh, Down or Derry and possibly Monaghan. And then they are only in the Quarter finals. It beggars belief?

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Harsh reality; Cork and Kerry play one "real" match to qualify for the AI Q Finals while Donegal or Tyrone are faced with 3 to reach the same position!

Make that 4!

  f**k me, you have to laugh!

Is that the hardest draw ever for Donegal or Tyrone? Five of the top six Ulster teams on one side.

Think Monaghan just might be favourites for Ulster next year...

Mishandling of child abuse does not in any way equate with facilitation of same.

At your blindness,  not the appalling behaviour of the priests and the church hierarchy who facilitated them. How many parishes and kids did the likes of Brendan Smyth impact over the years?

It's probably true that the majority of Native Americans aren't upset by it but a lot of Native Americans have come out and said they find it offensive and want it changed. I don't think it's for us to say whether they should be offended or not, but I can see why they would be and if some of them find it offensive, I think it should be changed.
I don't think the minority should be ignored.

I'm not always politically correct myself but I think it's wrong that political correctness has taken on such a negative meaning. PC isn't all bad. When you look at how far we've come in the last 50 years, from extreme racism and total segregation to near-equality and togetherness, a lot of that is down to political correctness(learning not to use the n word for example, or make jokes about stereotypes). The term redskin has many similarities to the n word.  Although it is claimed to be and probably was intended as a tribute, in history it was often used as a derogatory term.

Exactly,  it's a bit cheeky and presumptuous for a bunch of white people to tell some other ethnic or racial group what names used to label them are and are not offensive.

The nominations are out.


GOALKEEPERS: Paul Durcan (Donegal), Rory Beggan (Monaghan), Stephen Cluxton (Dublin).

FULL BACKS: Paul Murphy (Kerry), Fionn Fitzgerald (Kerry), Eamonn McGee (Donegal), Neil McGee (Donegal), Philip McMahon (Dublin), Rory O'Carroll (Dublin), Keith Higgins (Mayo), Andy Mallon (Armagh), Drew Wylie (Monaghan).

HALF-BACKS: Aidan O'Mahony (Kerry), Peter Crowley (Kerry), Colm Boyle (Mayo), Lee Keegan (Mayo), James McCarthy (Dublin), Johnny Cooper (Dublin), Frank McGlynn (Donegal), Dessie Mone (Monaghan), Colin O'Riordan (Tipperary).

MIDFIELD: David Moran (Kerry), Anthony Maher (Kerry), Neil Gallagher (Donegal), Odhran MacNiallais (Donegal), Michael Darragh Macauley (Dublin), Seamus O'Shea (Mayo).

HALF-FORWARDS: Johnny Buckley (Kerry), Donnchadh Walsh (Kerry), Diarmuid Connolly (Dublin), Paul Flynn (Dublin), Ryan McHugh (Donegal), Michael Murphy (Donegal), Shane Walsh (Galway), Mark Lynch (Derry), Aidan O'Shea (Mayo).

FULL FORWARD: Kieran Donaghy (Kerry), James O'Donoghue (Kerry, right), Paul Geaney (Kerry), Cillian O'Connor (Mayo), Conor McManus (Monaghan), Brian Hurley (Cork), Kevin McManamon (Dublin), Tony Kernan (Armagh), Patrick McBrearty (Donegal).



Of the also rans, Armagh, Galway, Tipp, Monaghan and Derry all got a pat on the head.   
Meath are obviously not at that sub level yet. It is a cruel fuball world.

Forgot the nominations for player and young player of the year.

Player of the Year Nominations: James O'Donoghue (Kerry), Diarmuid Connolly (Dublin), Neil McGee (Donegal).

Young Player of the Year Nominations: Ryan McHugh (Donegal), Shane Walsh (Galway), Paddy McBrearty (Donegal).

Wow, Neil McGee with a nomination! Wasn't expecting that. Fair fucks, And well deserved.

O'Donoghue's award though.

Some selection in the half forward line now with Murphy there. As a consequence I don't think McHugh or O'Shea will get one now. All set up for Donaghy to sneak one in the full forward line, the same way he took the play of the year gong off Darragh O Se in 06.

Donaghy deserves it.

McHugh might get young player of year instead, like Michael Murphy and Cillian O'Connor before him.