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Of course, if you are connecting direct into your telly from an Ethernet (LAN) cable/socket the issue of WiFi does not arise and in which case the Vplus is a good buy.  Generally, take the amount of dollars quoted, do the euro conversion. Then add 33% (to allow for 23% Vat, Duty & Freight)  You will need a minimum  of 5 people to order a minimum Qty. of 5 units.  That;s all the help I can give. Ordering some tomorrow so let me know.

The best TV Box to buy is Zoomtak. (Zoomtak.net)  They are updated from the Zoomtak server so even if you mess up the configuration they just log on and download the latest configuration.  If you are using WiFi to connect (from your router to your telly) you need to get the latest version  802.11AC and not 802.11n/b/g.  Why? Because in a few years you will need to be streaming in HD / 4K resolution, if not already.

802.11ac is the new kid on the block and any other is a waste of money.

 

Some of the proceeds from the event, which many see as another step on the road to a professional game, will go towards the Kerry Cancer Support Group and Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin.

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I heard today what the "some" or in this case "sum" is and a lot of lads are not happy. The GPA should make a statement or have they declared their position:

my preferred team, would be Mick Dempsey as manager, with Clancy, Conway and Sheehan(fitness) as assistants/coaches.........Dempsey with more experience could take the heat as manager and the others as younger bucks could learn the ropes.

That would be absolutely fantastic....but why would Dempsey take the job?

Why would anyone want the job?

Poor Syrians, can't return to their country for fear of torture and then put on a bus in Ballaghadreen and driven to Croke Park to shout for Roscommon.

Edge of the seat stuff again - not.   Need for more men in white coats.

Well? What do all the diehards think of what was served up yesterday in the name of "football"?  Ye will probably say ye were stuck to your seats watching it because one would want t be bolted into a torture chair to endure the loss of that seven life hours to anyone who persisted. It was only on Sky Sports though, the idea I believe being that Sennan Connell standing "pitch-side" with a pair of headphones on him like a Martian (be there such a thing) was  for the purpose of bringing the excitement of our national sport to the masses in all corners of the world.

The reality of course is that people in Canada and other countries will now be on YouTube asking how can they help those poor eejits in Ireland if this is the quarter finals of our national sport and all we have for excitement?  There was one clipe on YouTube where they watched a "hurling match" and they thought "Oh look, they have men in white coats, doctors, at each side of the posts to deal with the injured". Don't be surprised if some self-elected Lord Mayor in some town in Africa or Brazil sends a donation to Loose Lips Leo thinking that the men in the white coats yesterday were volunteers from some asylum to take away those who realised they have paid over €500 to get a family to, and into Croke Park to endure what was top of the bill on Sky Sports only.

Still, I suppose if you look at it from the nostalgic side you could convince yourself "I was there that day when the record was set" kind of like myself who carries the morbid thought of remembering exactly where I was when President Kennedy was shot stone dead even though I was only 13 at the time, I even still wonder what he was doing in Texas in the first place.  Depending on which record you are talking about of course.  Stephen Cluxton, the only goalkeeper in the world to play 89 games of senior football for his county in which he took 2,225 kick outs that went less than 30 yards.  (We won't mention the frees he had to travel and take because the boys at the other end on the protein diets  hadn't the ability to put the ball on the ground and kick it over the bar from 40 yards until they sourced a dedicated free taker.

I remember Dessie Farrell with a buckled knee kicking a ball wide in Croke Park one day and a wag shouting at him, "Is that what you want a hundred pound a week for" but players like Farrell gave it their all. People actually paid into Croke Park to see if Ciaran Whelan was going to get one on the chin ( never going to happen –there is Stradballly Laois blood there)  in the same way as people who pay into Mondello Park head straight for the bend at Duckhams where the worst crash and where someone was most likely to be killed would happen.  The Dessies, the Jayo's and the Joe McNallys were exciting to watch even if they were only playing on their own.  Back then it was football with kicks and thumps and above all, a bit of banter and excitement. 

The only thing the GAA can depend on to provide excitement in what is left of this years championship is a bus load of Syrian refugees arriving from Ballaghadreen on Monday.  That or Colm Parkinson turning out in a Mayo jersey wearing a nose ring and making a claim that he was born in Castlebar to a mixed marriage between a Norman and a Viking.  Warnings should be issued before GAA football is shown on TV.

At least the lads down in Ferbane can see the funny side of it.

Doooooom and gloooooom.
If you don't like it away with ya.

Only for your own county bate Galway you would want to put Rachel Doherty on the team to attract a crowd.

Hurling is far from ruined, hurling is holding the GAA together at the moment.  I see now that Armagh and Tyrone are coming to Croke Park on 5th August. Theres a nice treat for anyone into sado-masochism because there will be more excitement at the All-Ireland Road Bowls competition up at Farnaloy Road, thankfully on the same day to give people an option.  I'd love to ask Francie Bellew what he thinks of Black Cards?  I bet he would say, either the GAA do away with them or they will do away with the GAA.

Whether there are 60 or 60,000 at a game it doesn't make any difference, the "game" is finished, you might get away with teams like Tipperary, Dublin or Roscommon brand of football for another while but the most ye will get out of it is a few years.  Anyone who could watch an hour of Tyrone and Down is either a die hard fan or a masochist but I doubt if anyone lost a bit of their fingernails watching the excitement on TV.  Black cards, yellow cards, red cards, and hawkeye to see the size of a jaysus football because as big as it is an umpire cant see it.

The goalkeeper kicks out the ball to the twenty meter line and ye all gallop after it, passing it to each other like children out playing in a hay field after the grass getting cut.  And the referee, the poor referee, laden down with cards and watches and earpieces trying to keep up and him with his head filled with the idea that the first player he sees touching another player he will send him home with a big wave of a card then held high up over his head that you would feel sorry that all he is short of is a gun.  Peter McKenna should build a running track around the pitch and let the two teams start of in opposite directions and whoever completes ten laps first is the winner because there are teams winning finals now that have not kicked a ball over the bar from outside the 45 in an entire season.

Duz any of ye have any influence in getting this stuff off TV. I have heard of penance and suffering including watching paint dry and having pins stuck in your eyeballs, but as bad as it can be it is worse when Tyrone and Down are involved.  There are two commentators and you would think they were describing a state funeral. I saw a player getting a black card for touching off another player.  Finish with this rubbish and put on a good hurling game because this hour and a half of "Sport on RTE" has done more damage to the GAA than could ever be done by anyone.

while i cant disagree with anything said about conway i would advocate for all persons,,joe hig ,malachy,chris,clancy to be interviewd see what there plan would be and then let the best man who the officials see fit to take the reins to drive the county forward,

Give the job to the whole foookin lot of them because I was listening to the last game on national radio, RTE commentary and it was sickening to hear a commentator say "I wonder do the Laois players know there is at least 35 minutes left in this game because I see some of them are unfit and walking around with their heads down" or words to that affect, along with making a further comment about the difference in fitness between the two teams.  Neither the manager responsible for that level of criticism, or the ones who hired him should have any say in the future.  Reminds me of the old junior player soloing up along the sideline, toe to hand, hop, toe to hand, hop and one of his own supporters shouts at him, "will you for jaysus sake go on Joe, your not pulling a plough"

"Have you a video of the incident so we can see what context it's in?"

There is nothing to see.  That's the whole problem.  Des Cahill posted up a video this morning on Twitter but now its gone.  There are fellas on here that would make you think they are the Stephen Hawkins of the GAA and I think they watch games to try and find something to occupy their minds thinking about what will happen in the future.  "He touched off his orm, he offended him, he definitely made slight contact and once you make contact - etc"
There were a few great points scored in that game by both teams and they never got a mention. Some of the comments about Diarmuid you would not come out with after eating a bag of magic mushrooms.

I think the GAA should abolish football altogether for a few months and send ye all to a few hurling matches. Tip tap, tip -tap and about a hundred hand passes,  or one for every yard, to get the ball from one end of the field to the other.  "Oh look, I say old boy, the gentleman in blue has just touched the official on the orm, I hope he is severely admonished and given his morching orders,  Pass me the prawns."

Carlow had a plan, they prevented the Dubs from racking up a high score, unlike my own county against Kildare.  Spillane and O'Rourke would have done more for football throughout the country if they had talked up Carlow's effort instead of taking time on national TV to assassinate Diarmuid.  If ye can't take a few jostles and pushes in football and if a difference of opinion with a lineman (unless he is given a box in the mouth and landed on his back)  results in a player that I would pay to see playing being given a three month ban then the GAA can have their seats as far as I would be concerned. In this case the lineman seems to be a real GAA man not interested in hanging a player out to dry over nothing.  As for Spillane and O'Rourke?  What do they want? The execution of another Connolly in Dublin that they can jeer at?  Maybe I'll send them two fidget spinners to ease their nerves while they are waiting.