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So now Gareth Brooks is a six county only phenomenon that didn't hit the urbanised West Brits on the East coast?
You're just ignoring the thousands that were traveling yesterday from Cork Kerry Galway Clare Mayo Sligo Tipp, Kilkenny etc.

The West Brits are mourning their Queen.

26 aren't even in the Commonwealth 

That makes it worse and even weirder

McIlroy tribute very "Ulster", that come under West Brit banner?

My deepest condolences to everyone in Fine Gael at this difficult time.

Funny but very true. Facebook posts expressing sympathy to Bessie's family by people I know...and even worse the amount of likes it harvests. c***ts the lot of them.

So now Gareth Brooks is a six county only phenomenon that didn't hit the urbanised West Brits on the East coast?
You're just ignoring the thousands that were traveling yesterday from Cork Kerry Galway Clare Mayo Sligo Tipp, Kilkenny etc.

The West Brits are mourning their Queen.

26 aren't even in the Commonwealth 

It's hard to see Galway winning Sam with a Mayo manager. There is enough data showing that there is a psychological problem that other counties other than Kildare don't have.

Error corrected

She's the 4th of her 5 siblings to have passed away. Tough life after a messed up and impoverished upbringing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche

How many GAA clubs in Derry city?

Limerick must have 6 or 7 clubs in the city not to mention the ones on the edge of it.

As already said, if players don't want to travel then why in this case is he not doing a county transfer too?

Not written in stone, but the Dubs have a policy not to take players from other counties. There are some exceptions, such as:
- Declan Darcy moved from Leitrim to Dublin, but he was a Dub playing for Leitrim.
- We had a sub goalie who played underage for Kerry (Brian Murphy) on the panel for a while, but he hadn't played senior for Kerry
- Mick Deegan (good Dubs half back in his day) had a son Michael who grew up in Meath and played for Ashbourne. But Michael only ever wanted to play for the Dubs so played minor and U21 for the Dubs and not Meath. I think he eventually transferred to a Dublin club.

Rory Gallagher was the one where it came under most scrutiny. He was playing with Brigids and was a top class freetaker - something Dublin badly needed at the time.  So a number of meetings were had to discuss, as he was willing and eager to play for the Dubs. But it was decided that we'd stick to not taking players who'd played with other counties, unless they had very strong Dublin ties.

So unless Shane has a Dub mother or father, I think the chances of Dubs accepting him are close to zero. (Not that I'm saying he'd want to transfer!)

None of the above applies to hurling - we happily accept Kilkenny, Tipp, etc. castoffs who live in the big city!

Paddy Quinn from Tyrone played football for the Dubs under Jim Gavin.

Des Mackin (Cullyhanna) played four years as a minor for Armagh.

1990 - played centre back
1991 - played full forward and scored a hattrick in the the first round Vs Down
1992 - played full forward on the team that won Ulster and lost the All Ireland final to a last minute Meath goal
1993 - played full forward and played for the seniors the same year

Same Des Mackin that played for Na Fianna in Dublin?

Yep its the same Des

Yep, Na Fianna had him and Geezer and also Geezers brother in the squad which is sometimes not known. They were a League of Nations that year!

Couple of big Galway/Connacht men round midfield also from memory?

Seán Forde from Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo was McGeeney's midfield partner. Defo not the living like a monk type!

Best minor I saw was Pearse Hanley, had it all as a player.

David Clifford kicked 1-9 for Fossa in their 1-14 to 0-10 win over Listowel Emmets today, just a week after his All-Ireland win

How are Fossa a junior team if they have the 2 Clifford's. How bad must the other 13 players be

Only 8 clubs play in Kerry senior championship.
16 clubs in intermediate.
The 25th and lower ranked clubs play junior.
It's why they have such a high success rate in the all Ireland intermediate and junior competitions.

Intermediate in Kerry is like a Senior'B' Championship.
Junior is like Intermediate B.

No intermediate like!!

Des Mackin (Cullyhanna) played four years as a minor for Armagh.

1990 - played centre back
1991 - played full forward and scored a hattrick in the the first round Vs Down
1992 - played full forward on the team that won Ulster and lost the All Ireland final to a last minute Meath goal
1993 - played full forward and played for the seniors the same year

Same Des Mackin that played for Na Fianna in Dublin?

David Clifford kicked 1-9 for Fossa in their 1-14 to 0-10 win over Listowel Emmets today, just a week after his All-Ireland win

How are Fossa a junior team if they have the 2 Clifford's. How bad must the other 13 players be

Only 8 clubs play in Kerry senior championship.
16 clubs in intermediate.
The 25th and lower ranked clubs play junior.
It's why they have such a high success rate in the all Ireland intermediate and junior competitions.

@Captain Scarlet McStay is a born and bred Mayo man and played underage and senior football for them.

Mayo man living in Ros town, former army man based in Athlone. Has managed Ros seniors, minors, numerous Ros Gaels sides, aswell as Brigids, where he won All Ireland club. He is still very much a Mayo man, can people not tell with the sh*te he talks
Decent manager in fairness, played on the same pitch, hard going in terms of moaning, wanted every ball going his way.

See his commentary on the Eoghan McLoughlin jaw break tackle v Dublin last year for his efforts to be balanced, he's a dose.

Costello goal was only possible after David Moran had lost possession because Kerry couldn't foul and slow up the counter attack. How do we deal with this tactical fouling? Booking the fouler only slows up the game more giving more set-up time to the cynical team. Refs pulling the free back to exact place where foul took place another issue in allowing game flow.

[which I have way ahead of Galway.]

Derry got to grips with the Donegal forward line which I have way ahead of Galway. If Tyrone were turning up the mor instead of Derry, everybody be having only 1 winner.

Only ever paid for two podcasts on Patreon - Wooly and Second Captains. I signed up for SC 5 or 6 years ago to hear a good Kevin McStay interview at time when he was Ros manager. I gave them a fair chance but eventually had to cancel because the waffle at the beginning was unbearable and the like of thing you'd hear from some poseurs trying to be funny at a University students Union. Wooly on the other hand understands audio and keeps the show moving well with a couple of great contributors. I hope they all make a few bob.

The Second Captains one is too soccer focused for me to pay for it.

I enjoy their soccer coverage, it's their rugby pods I can't stand. Rinse and repeat in terms of what the pundits say and god forbid if they have Gerry Thornley on and anyone dares venture any tiny criticism against the Ireland players. It's nauseating stuff. The only time their rugby coverage is good in my opinion is when they have on Craig Ray from South Africa or Scotty Stevenson from New Zealand, enjoy listening to them 2.

I subscribe to Second Captains mostly because of their soccer coverage though and as well, they'll quite often have a story you'll have never heard of that's pretty interesting, I've picked up a few books in the past based off interviews they've had or stories they've covered of different niche sports. They tend to get a wide variety of guests on. Their RTE radio show is decent as well, where they have a guest on and "rank" their sporting life, it's a bit of craic

But their GAA coverage has been poor overall this year, it's improved in recent weeks but they haven't spoken about the Tailteann Cup at all and the hurling has barely been covered until recently. I'm not a hurling man but it's been pretty noticeable. I also generally find your man Murph hard enough to listen to at times with the GAA coverage, when they just let Flynn and McConville go themselves it's a good listen but as someone else mentioned, Flynn can lose the run of himself as well.

Found their very limited GAA coverage bit annoying for my tastes and the rinse and repeat Ken Earley disdain for all things GAA kinda boring - okay we get it you don't tune in to it Ken but don't use it as some sort of filler! Been so long since listened to them it is probably no longer relevant.  Murph a bit up his own back passage but McDevitt very good in fairness.