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I've tried searching this thread for posts on Euro Camp Holidays as I'm sure I've seen them mentioned before, but its returning nothing(?)

Currently exploring the idea of our first trip abroad with the kids – 6, 4 & 3
We liked the idea of the ferry to Brittany, but its around 17 hours & actually quite expensive so looking at flying
Has anyone any airport/camp combinations to recommend? Thinking short transfer
I've been checking flights to Nates/Paris/Amsterdam – might have to go the 12th week which isn't always ideal

I'm seeing flights from ~£800-1300 (before luggage) & the camp starts at less than £800 which isn't bad at all compared to a package holiday

fly into Bordeaux.
great 5 star campsite in Biscarrosse called La Rive. a week there will be about 500 euro outside of july and august

Currently looking at a couple of the camps in that area. Do they attract many Irish?
I would be hoping the kids can meet ones and get out from under my feet for the week.

I've tried searching this thread for posts on Euro Camp Holidays as I'm sure I've seen them mentioned before, but its returning nothing(?)

Currently exploring the idea of our first trip abroad with the kids – 6, 4 & 3
We liked the idea of the ferry to Brittany, but its around 17 hours & actually quite expensive so looking at flying
Has anyone any airport/camp combinations to recommend? Thinking short transfer
I've been checking flights to Nates/Paris/Amsterdam – might have to go the 12th week which isn't always ideal

I'm seeing flights from ~£800-1300 (before luggage) & the camp starts at less than £800 which isn't bad at all compared to a package holiday

Sanguili in Salou, 15 minutes from Barcelona Reus. Fantastic camp

The key will be the 2 VP nominees. It will be those 2 finishing out the term in the hot seat.

Is Harris a shoe in for the Dem VP or do Presidents often change VP nominees ahead of 2nd term?

not disagreeing with either points

but in the case of Cookstown, is it not a case they have looked at neighbouring towns such as Dungannon, Magherafelt and Omagh - and made a bigger effort as a club to replicate the successful strategies employed there?

Id be passing magherafelt pitch quite alot, its on a busy road. The work going on in that club is fantastic, the pitch is stacked with young kids all the time. Its no surprise that they are bearing the fruit of that at senior level. Every Derry underage side, and the big schools are benefitting of the work Magherafelt are doing. Cookstown rightly should be trying to emulate that

I think your post is missing the point. Magherafelt is stacked with young kids because they have a growing town population, which in turn creates a strong underage and eventually will create a strong senior team, if nurtured correctly. Yes, Cookstown will see that and try to replicate same - But this still doesn't solve the problem of decreasing rural numbers.

In North/West Tyrone, which is probably worst hit:

• Take Clan NaGael for example - They were in division 1/1A/1B for the guts of 10-15 years, with a senior championship semi-final in 2006. They are now languishing in the bottom half of division 3 and youth football amalgamated with Craigbane in Derry just to field.
• Gortin (1980s/1990s/2000s) and Greencastle (2010s) were notable senior sides, with Gortin even competing in a Senior Championship final in 1985. Rural depopulation/emigration has meant those clubs have been mostly division 2 over past number of years, with Gortin also amalgamating with Glenelly at underage level.
• Newtownstewart and Dregish merged/amalgamated at youth and senior level.
• Urney won an intermediate championship to reach senior football approx 2014, but now languish in the lower half of division 3 with no real prospects of promotion.

Do we ease the parish boundaries rule? Do we allow a transfer market of some kind allowing players to move from a club with larger numbers to a club with smaller numbers? This benefits the player getting football, and helps the player get more game time.

It is an issue but are stricter planning rules at the heart of this? A few one off dwellings are not going to turn the fortunes of any of those clubs around. In most cases there is a village at the hub and development would be permitted IF there was demand.

Judging by the number of development teams appearing at underage, clubs must be working on underage player retention so it make sense that will carry through to Senior. Donaghmore are a prime example with their recently introduced 3rd team coming off the back of serious underage development.
Cookstown, Carrickmore, Errigal, Omagh all with development teams at various underage levels so a less competitive environment will help those to establish at adult level.

Row suited Kerry. Turned the game. Two Clifford's should be off the field. But that doesn't suit the GAA and they're protected by refs.

How the feck did you come to that conclusion?! Show me the part where either  did anything to actually warrant a red card there?

Paudie third man in.  That's been a red for a long while. Tyrone often get penalised for it.

DC threw Con to the ground and jumped on him and then elbowed a Tyrone player. 

These are red card offences.

Just do it fair. That's all we're asking

When did Tyrone get penalised for this "often"?

4 times in one game would be often lol

Canavan in 05
McKenna v Fermanagh in 2022

So 3 times in 20 years?
Maybe 1 game in 100!
And Tryrone would not have got the run of the green 3 times in the same period?

As Newton Emerson has said, London is committed to the stadium but negotiating the split of the bill.
Dublin paid up to leave everyone else to haggle over the balance. Stormont has their £63m on the table. The GAA, Ulster Council, Antrim GAA need to state their redline, and perhaps that is what Jarlath is doing, so that the remaining stakeholders (British Government, IFA, FA) know what they need to pay.
In an earlier post I stated that the GAA needs to come up to with a design to suit the current budget to show they have an alternative,  that the British Government, FA and IFA need casement more than we need the debt.

The problem with any redesign is that it would never be completed on time for the Euros and then why would London want to give anything?

Yeah redesign or a significant one anyway is out of the question. UEFA land this week I think. They'll want to see some progress and cast iron assurances or they'll demand a different stadium in a different location.
London need to pony up or it is just another example in a long list of broken promises and the people are really growing tired of successive British governments promising and not delivering.

The redesign would be for a GAA stadium, not a UEFA pitch, our way of saying that you either stump up the cash now or we go an alternative direction. We don't need the Euros.

As Newton Emerson has said, London is committed to the stadium but negotiating the split of the bill.
Dublin paid up to leave everyone else to haggle over the balance. Stormont has their £63m on the table. The GAA, Ulster Council, Antrim GAA need to state their redline, and perhaps that is what Jarlath is doing, so that the remaining stakeholders (British Government, IFA, FA) know what they need to pay.
In an earlier post I stated that the GAA needs to come up to with a design to suit the current budget to show they have an alternative,  that the British Government, FA and IFA need casement more than we need the debt.

Southern by-pass for Enniskillen given the green light by O'Dowd.  A good news day all-round today.

This should help the town centre in Enniskillen plus benefit the link up to Sligo.

All roads, if you pardon the pun, points to an All-Ireland agenda. Logistically getting ready for it.

Good to see.

I'd imagine Unionists  lately  feel like they are  being cast adrift from their mothership,  and slowly being  absorbed by osmosis into a United Ireland .

Albeit a mothership who has  screwed them over time and time again . Although , they'll still  be blindly loyal to a  land who  is clearly trying to get  rid of them.

Time for  the DUP to talk about  the bridge to Scotland again

Heard an interview with the deputy leader of the TUV on GMU this morning. He was easier in the ear than Jim but spent his time bemoaning the neglect by GB.

[I see some farmer on that A5 road annoyed that he's losing land. He was probably one of the lads who was holding it up. Sew it into him as some many unecessary deaths on that road recently because of these reviews etc.]

Wee Jeff seriously annoyed that this is happening. He's luke warm that it's happening, obviously can't refuse it but it's through gritted teeth.

I see some farmer on that A5 road annoyed that he's losing land. He was probably one of the lads who was holding it up. Sew it into him as some many unecessary deaths on that road recently because of these reviews etc.

For unionists, it must be this on one day and on the same day, the Brits looking for the wee 6 to raise more money.

Yip he is Hamilton Hassard part of the Alternative A5 Alliance who have been against the upgrade from the word go.

That a**hole shouldn't be given one second of airtime. Countless young lives wasted cos a bigoted tr**p like him doesn't want to see a road connecting Derry n Dublin. Going on about high quality agricultural land. It's not County Meath you headbanger!

I didn't see him, but I did see an interview with another Protestant farmer who could lose up to 50 acres(!). He was all for it and quite emotional as he knew someone killed on the road. "No blade of grass is worth more than someone's life"

Should the GAA not be scaling back the plans to develop a new stadium within the budget and saying they will have it completed 2029.

A good surface and a couple of tin shed for stands and tear up any mention of UEFA standards.

Minor semi finals today - mad how long those lads had to wait to play those games. Cookstown seem to be on the rise a bit, they were beat in grade 1 u16 final earlier this year, they were in the grade 2 minor final last year, now grade 1 final, all their teams seem to be playing in grade 1. Donaghmore though should be the best team in the county at that age group.

They have 3 teams entered at u14.

What sort of squads  will be in that cup is it just the same format as the senior championship could they have change the format to make a different

Lack of County and u20 players will make it different.

I see the Jim Devlin cup draw was made last night. Any other fixtures out?
Jim Devlin Cup Draw
Carrickmore  v Galbally
Dungannon v Donaghmore
Coalisland v Dromore
Pomeroy v Eglish
Killyclogher v Errigal Ciaran
Ardboe v Trillick
Clonoe v Edendork
Loughmacrory v Omagh

Tyrone schools football at an all time high. Must be serious work going on in clubs, then schools pick up the mantle in year 8.

Holy Trinity & St Joseph's Donaghmore both stepping up in recent years too...

Only show in town amongst the bushes...fair play.

The Dean managed a Markey cup last year and were competing in grade 1 on down the years reaching the Dalton (?) final.
Holy Cross Strabane also reached a Markey cup final this year.
St Ciarans Ballygawley seems to have slipped off the radar.