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Mal McMullan said on twitter attendance today was around 2000 ?

Shocking attendance in the supposed heartlands

BTW guddies (not gutties!) to me were always the rubber soled black shoes, were as the sports shoe was always runners

Omagh townies would call the actual runners guddies.

Also a townie is not necessarily a derogatory term and defo not necessarily a lower class person, it could apply to the golfers types also. Basically someone who wasnt into farming or cars, was a bit showy and soft on the football field and called it "Gaelic".
The lower class types would be "skiprats" or "townie scumbags"

.... and alot of Omagh wans would call their Granny "Nan" thats got to be a garrison hangover that one

In Derry City runners has more and more become the normal word for sports shoes, but up until 90s it was always slippers and is still used for sports shoes.

Skiprat, hood, sc**bag or strabane man the words used for lower class types

Omagh for me. Would be difficult to be catergorised correctly when the majority of the population from Derry live in the city and don't realy speak anything like us south derry folk.

Yep, Deery City much closer to Dinegal in their lingo

Do you mean scheming school?

Also is stewed tae not tae that has been left on to long and comes out like tar?

Yes scheming school, but in Derry City ive only ever heard dobbing used, yep stewing is tar tae but i think its in there somewhere if you take the extra questions. Never heard gutties until i went to uni with pile of yous Tyronies

Wains, lashing, foundered, slippers(for pe), babby, mucker, mammy, granny, granda, stewing tae. Funny but we say tig andno word in there for "dobbing school"

 Bang on Derry fir me

I've mentioned that before. Ardmore, Sean Dolans, Doire Colmcille and Ogra Colmcille will take hammerings from the teams coming down and could have the opposite effect than desired. You would worry for the future of one or two of those clubs senior teams.

I've mentioned it before but I really think the restructuring of the league was a bad idea (although it had good intentions). It wouldn't surprise me if Ardmore followed Ogra in the fairly recent future and that would be a shame. I see Ogra are still going to try to field in Junior Championship. What will their players do for the rest of the season though? Will some look to play elsewhere? It really is very sad.

Would agree, intentions are good, but there's a few City clubs that are going to get it really tight this year and you just hope that they retain players as the season progresses.

Is this the city with 110,000 of a population, mainly "nationalist"?
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Yep the city which had no gaa facilties until few years back, where people are allowed to run from all over the city to play for the one perceived prestigious club. A lot of catching up to do. Ardmore being allowed to die

Things would need to be aligned throughout Ulster hurling first..

if everyone lifted their standards and approach to hurling within their own county first then that should filter into a better province, hats off to clubs like Castlblaney Donegal's Burt and core teams in Armagh and Down who by their own will (not their counties help) have continued to develop.. hurling is dying a death in Ulster..

I watched a very good Kerry team on Saturday, physically they were stronger than Antrim, and tactically playing better hurling than us.

To use Kerry as an example, Kerry hurling is like Tyrone hurling in terms of being known as a football county, but how have they managed to be at a level above Antrim?

Agreed but I do think it needs injection of resources from Ulster , every county should be targeted with producing 4 new clubs also, I'd say Kerry have overtaken Antrim due to higher quality of club games within their own and adjacent counties

Sinn Féin blindy supporting Maduro just because he is on the left is ridiculous.

Yes Us probably after oil but Maduro has killed his own people during protests so no way they should be publicly backing him

I take it that the loyalist will be supporting the other guy?

Its the way of it I suppose. Sheep hi, big pack of sheep in this part of the world, some people never seem to question anything. Twitter is just crazy for this

Sinn Féin blindy supporting Maduro just because he is on the left is ridiculous.

Yes Us probably after oil but Maduro has killed his own people during protests so no way they should be publicly backing him

Great win for the hurlers

Footballers should be able to win by 8-10 points. Hurlers have good side out too but id say they are building towards christy ring and will be happy to put good performance in against Down who have been out a few months already

Maduro. Mmm

Caoimhe Archibald. Ffs the only reason she is in a job is coz the party deliberately gave her biggest part of the constituency. Because they wanted to promote a woman

No harm in a mass. Its every individuals own choice. The church is going to make a massive come back anyhow sometime in the future, not in its current guise maybe, but certainly some form of it.