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Far more than 42000 have been murdered.

Upwards of 150k more like. Men, that racist emmigrant is an absolute disgrace, best avoided.. Like who spends so much time on a gaaboard and never discusses the gaa?

And mods let him justify genocide... 🤷

Maybe the mods actually read my posts (unlike most of the people on here)

I have never once justified genocide, nor have I uttered one racist comment on here.

If you have evidence of me doing either please feel free to forward it onto the moderators and request that they ban me

My questions are what did Hamas hope to accomplish by their actions on October 7th and how did they think Israel would react?

Lets not start the conversation in 2023.

The question should be what do Israel hope to achieve by keeping millions of people in an open air prison for decades?

What did they think would eventually happen?

Up for renewal with Fibrus as well.

Had the top package for £60 a month - they have offered £55 a month after calling them.

£45 per month for new customers mind you.

Have me by the balls as no other provider in the area yet - bastids

Saw him for the first time in concert a few years back - fantastic showman.

Not easy to pick a top 5 never mind a top 3.

Todays top 3 would be

Are You Ready For Love
Tiny Dancer
Rocket Man

We have moved onto how shite/great named referees are on the Tyrone thread.

Hence the move to this thread for many

AJ showed this inability to take a punch a couple of years ago.

Then he came back as a 'new and improved' version which has proved to be a false dawn.

The man should hang up his gloves however with Eddie in his ear I dount that will be happening

If he can fill Wembley again, train for 5 months and work for 12 minutes in the ring, why wouldn't ya for that money

His health and well being

AJ showed this inability to take a punch a couple of years ago.

Then he came back as a 'new and improved' version which has proved to be a false dawn.

The man should hang up his gloves however with Eddie in his ear I dount that will be happening

[Niall Morgan (Tyrone)]

Goalkeepers

Blaine Hughes (Armagh), Shaun Patton (Donegal), Niall Morgan (Tyrone)

Defenders

Aaron McKay (Armagh), Barry McCambridge (Armagh), Aidan Forker (Armagh), Paddy Burns (Armagh), Peadar Mogan (Donegal), Ryan McHugh (Donegal), Caolan McGonigle (Donegal), Brendan McCole (Donegal), Johnny McGrath (Galway), Dylan McHugh (Galway), Liam Silke (Galway), Craig Lennon (Louth), Donal McKenny (Louth), Brian Ó Beaglaioch (Kerry), Tom O'Sullivan (Kerry), Seán Bugler (Dublin), Brian Stack (Roscommon), Daniel O'Mahony (Cork)

Midfielders

Niall Grimley (Armagh), Ben Crealey (Armagh), Michael Langan (Donegal), Brian Fenton (Dublin), Tommy Durnin (Louth), Paul Conroy (Galway)

Forwards

Rian O'Neill (Armagh), Conor Turbitt (Armagh), Oisín Conaty (Armagh), Rory Grugan (Armagh), Cillian McDaid (Galway), John Maher (Galway), Rob Finnerty (Galway), Shane Walsh (Galway), David Clifford (Kerry), Paudie Clifford (Kerry), Con O'Callaghan (Dublin), Cormac Costello (Dublin), Ryan O'Donoghue (Mayo), Aidan O'Shea (Mayo), Oisín Gallen (Donegal), Darragh Canavan (Tyrone), Sam Mulroy (Louth), Diarmuid Murtagh (Roscommon)

PwC GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year nominees

Barry McCambridge (Armagh), Paul Conroy (Galway), John Maher (Galway)

PwC GAA/GPA Young Footballer of the Year nominees

Oisín Conaty (Armagh), Johnny McGrath (Galway), Ciarán Moore (Donegal)

Israel wants to get the US involved.

They know this wont happen unless Israel is attacked so they are trying their hardest to get someone to retaliate.

If there is a large scale retaliation for this then we wont be far away from WW3 unfortunately

Joe became a dad again at the weekend with his 2nd wife from Mayo.  He already had five children from his first marriage.

Congrats to Joe and the Mrs in that case

Surely any money pumped into H & W would be better served going into health, waiting lists, schools, roads, water etc etc?

[Not that difficult, the opportunity that it would bring to city and the region is massive and is now a massive loss. It wasn't just for matches and for concerts here and there, it was designed to be a conferencing centre etc so there were income streams built into the process all through.]

The short sightedness of those celebrating this decision is extraordinary.

Is it?

Or rather, is it the understanding the ongoing maintenance burden would place on the Ulster Council?

Looking at the 2024 annual report here, and the expenses for Croke in year ending 30th Sept 2023 (page 194/195) were in around €16 million.

Some of those will be dependent on numbers of games played, and some will be independent of it.
Could probably approximate half of it as being independent of times the stadium was open, or €8 million.

Croke is 80k, Casement 30k - factored down for size that is €3 million a year. Just to keep the place right.

Even if we accepted Croke would have a higher proportion of business seats/exec boxes etc, your still likely looking at over €1m a year.

That is untenable for the Ulster Council!

So you run one large scale event to cover the running costs.

Not that difficult, the opportunity that it would bring to city and the region is massive and is now a massive loss. It wasn't just for matches and for concerts here and there, it was designed to be a conferencing centre etc so there were income streams built into the process all through.

It wouldn't be down to Ulster Council solely either.

Once it is built it can still hold conferences/concerts etc?

[GAA was promised a Stadium in line with the other two sports and it was reneged on]

I see now this morning a figure of £450m has been used...WTF. I'm hearing the figure on the Tender Doc's in £285m. There is no other way to dress it up other than we have been shafted...GAA was promised a Stadium in line with the other two sports and it was reneged on.

Wrong!

Ulster GAA was promised a £62m share of the (aborted) Maze money, which along with their own £15m, was to be used to build a provincial stadium on the site of Casement. This was in 2010.

Meanwhile, the IFA was also promised £62m and Ulster Rugby £20m, for them to spend on their own stadium needs. Both of them managed to get what they wanted within budget and on time*.

The GAA didn't manage it, however, primarily due to submitting a design which did not meet H&S requirements (chiefly evacuation in the event of an emergency), plus failing a judicial review by local residents. This was entirely down to the GAA, exacerbated by the suspension of Stormont for extended periods, plus construction inflation etc.

All of which was long before the Euro's were awarded to UK/ROI in 2023, which then became the GAA's last, desperate "Hail Mary" to extract hundreds of millions of extra money from HMG, at a time when there is no money for schools, hospitals, roads and pensioners etc.

So you can blame Labour, Tories, DUP, soccer etc all you like, but the sole responsibility for getting into this mess in the first place lies squarely with the GAA and no-one else - it need never have come to this.



* - Windsor was delayed a few months for a problem caused solely by BCC, but it was no big deal in the scheme of things, since the ground reopened in early 2016.

Pulling Casement will have absolutely zero impact on money being allocated to schools, hospitals, roads etc

Most GAA people couldnt give a flying if the stadium is built for the Euros or not. Sure it would have been nice to get to attend a few games, but in the grand scheme of things the stadium will still be built and GAA games will still be there.

Its the handwringing and celebrating from many 'commentators' that makes this almost laughable.
Celebrating OWC missing out on the Euros - not to mention the benefit to the economy is the biggest short sightedness you can ever think of

I fancy Cookstown in the relegation Playoff. Clogher would be better concentrating on the Mart. Hearing Clogher and Augher are close to combining at senior level. What would Darragh Kavanagh do then? Would his transfer request be denied again by Errigal. Cookstown should let their minor team play the Play off game, be more useful than the senior team. Good crop of minors coming through all the same, should be challenging for a Junior/Intermediate Championship soon. That's if they can stay out of MOES.

Insulted a few clubs in one post.

I admire your hatred sir

Hogan stand wouldn't get a look in lately on here.

That was my thoughts after I posted this

I fancy Cookstown in the relegation Playoff. Clogher would be better concentrating on the Mart. Hearing Clogher and Augher are close to combining at senior level. What would Darragh Kavanagh do then? Would his transfer request be denied again by Errigal. Cookstown should let their minor team play the Play off game, be more useful than the senior team. Good crop of minors coming through all the same, should be challenging for a Junior/Intermediate Championship soon. That's if they can stay out of MOES.

Insulted a few clubs in one post.

I admire your hatred sir

Really enjoying Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughan.

Good show that isnt too thought provoking