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I remember listening to him when he used to have an evening show on Radio 2 around 1983. Very sad loss especially for his kids and ex wife.

The cats don't care about Munster. Neither does Mattie Murphy. Tipp wouldn't consider a munster minor championship an achievement. Why should Cork ?

I wonder if Tariq Sadiq is a muslim protestant or a muslim catholic.

[Put in some great matches that we argueably should have won against Tipp, but they don't make it onto the history walls, a great team, just no direction and rotten to the core, wrong teams picked, wrong players selected because of politics, an underage system drowning by itself, with not a hand in sight. We would have been a lot more succesfull had we any sort of set up at under age level. Like I said, the teams were always there or there about..

We won Munster in 05 and 07, and were runners up in 2003, 2004 and 2006.
Not too bad for a county with no structure or set up.

For a top 3 county Reillers the lack of cork minor and u-21 all-Irelands has been noted. Why have Galway a better minor record than cork over the last 10 years? Nobody cares about Munsters  btw. It's about all-Irelands, boy. Tipp have done it and the Cats have done it but where are the red jerseys?  Doesn't it concern you? 

Are waherford putting in much at underage level, Deiseach?  Cork have been crap at minor level for a number of years. 

How many more IC transfers would there be?

Precisely none.

The GAA could not support semi-professionalism across 32 teams. The money isn't there.

If the game goes semi-pro, it would have to be on an elite team basis to support itself, which would in turn mean freedom of contract to move between teams.

In which case the semi-pro game would be doomed, as it would need its own facilities and stadiums, and its own fanbase. And I couldn't tell the GPA enough times that as each year more people turn up to watch Down's second team playing in the McKenna Cup than watch Kerry play in the 1st round of the Championship, there is more than a strong indicator that GAA people follow their team, not its players.

You couldn't replicate the mental anguish of County Mayo in a professional context. Even in the darkest days in division 3 Man. city never got near it.   

Soon Ireland won't be big enough to run its own banks.  How anyone thinks GAA can go semi pro is beyond me. The League of Ireland would be a fate worse than death for the great sports we have today.

I think that's the way forward for Mayo. Structure  the Championship like the under-8's. It's about participation, not winning. Everybody gets a game. Scrap the Sam Maguire and give everybody a certificate. You've all done very well.

Meath should be able for under 12s surely

Is there any way of breaking the Mayo hoodoo ? How about doing something drastic like focusing on the fellas coming up at underage and building something over 5 years. Downplay the current seniors and write them off so nobody's expectations are unmet. If they win something, it's a bonus. An awful lot of money is just wasted on the senior team. Does Mayo have a top of the range underage system? If not why not?

See how teams from other sports in other countries have  overcome this problem. Schalke 04 are joint top of the Bundesliga under Felix Magath after a long history of collapse at the highest levels. How did they do it? Can Mayo learn anything from it.  Would a manager from a different sport work ?

Even Tyrone- how did they do it? Apparently HMG spent a lot of money on sports facilities to keep the kids away from paramilitarism. Is that something Mayo could look into? Part of the problem in this regard is the high degree of centralisation in Ireland. If Mayo could decide its own taxes it would probably be easier to fix the football.

The county has such a passion for football that the misfiring of the senior team has to be rectified. I wonder if John Casey had scored that point in 96 if it would all be different today.   

It looks as though there was a severe breakdown in the relationship between JQ and his superiors and that he made a stupid mistake which was punished to the full.  Maybe that wasn't the right job for him. He probably needs to have a good think about what's right for him and make a stab at building up his career again.  Norn Iron is a very small space though and once you burn your bridges with the BBC there isn't much left. 

Staggered on to two more All-Irelands with a whole new team, bar two players.

Good man Hardy. Sue them if they get too uppity.

I was thinking the same Deiseach. I just wonder what he'd say if the assailant was from Cork.

Yes - two syllables in Keith. Same as all Karls and Carls in the GAA get a bonus syllable as well, and not only from Micheál.

I used to like watching the Ulster matches on six county TV just to listen to the pronunciation. Rass Kyarr and Macah Landan . Those were the days  .

It's only April after all. Mayo could still shape up in the championship.  Cork probably deserve an all-Ireland but they could just as easily freeze on the big day as they have done in the past. Nobody knows anything in April anyway. 

I used to love the way Micheal o Muircheartaigh pronounced "Keith Barr".