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Deenihan only being honest.United Ireland unaffordable at present

Partition would also appear to be unaffordable for the north at present.

If that poll showed anything that didn't fit in with people's narratives the show would have lost all credibility.

Bottom line is that there is a democratic mechanism in place for a United Ireland and an ongoing debate. The only way that debate will ever go away is if it does so along with the border.

I think Mayo could have done what Dublin did after they went four ahead early in the second half--keep the ball. They weren't able to do this and kicked it aimlessly into Dublin's backline. Henelly's kickout was a mistake, of sorts, but how in the f**k were Mayo so exposed from that at the back? The ball was still kicked a good 50-60m so if Mayo were properly set up the most damage would have been a point. And that was undoubtedly the killer.

Surely the very fact that the most obvious replacements, Canavan, Logan and Dooher, are staying with the U21s, guarantees that Mickey will serve another term?

Saw this on twitter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vode0lF9tX4

Fast forward to 2:10 and watch closely. Apparently diving is a new, Tyrone phenomenon, only creeping in from intercounty players and soccerballers.

Looking to watch that documentary on the dubs under caffrey on the rte player(the dubs-story of a season), currently says that it is unavailable to watch in my region?  I'm from the north and seems a bit of a joke to me. Anyone know why this is

You're in the North. . . same way you can't watch the Sunday Game up here either I'm afraid!

I can watch both up here...

What county are you from do you mind be asking ? I'm assuming it's one that's pretty shite

have a quarter of the country's population. millions poured in to Dublin GAA, massive sponsorship deals. play all games at home and have a ref who is afraid to give anything against de dubs. relying on culchee gene pool to produce decent footballers. 3 senior all irelands in 30 years and not even close to competing in hurling. many would consider that a sh!te county.

Only Idiots bring up the population argument, id be embarrassed. Please go back to social media.

Other news: I'm  hearing Connolly has a very good chance of getting off now. Hopefully so, a true gael who deserves a chance to play and not be stopped playing by players or CRC.

What does the term 'true gael' mean exactly?

For example, banning McCann isn't much good to Monaghan now. Having 15 players for the last 10 minutes might have helped though.

Was there not a certain black card about to be handed to Hughes anyway?

Do Brollys eloquent but vitriolic attacks on the likes of Marty Duffy and Sean Cavanagh not bring the game into disrepute?

Brolly's playing days are over. What are you going to do, ban him from the stadium for having an opinion? Not let him coach an u-14 team?

The GAA need to come out and name these journalists. These are professionals trying to call the shots in an amateur organisation by bullying through their own agenda. Why do these people feel they have anymore right than club members from around the country to change / influence the rules of our games? If the rules need changed they can motioned by clubs and voted on at congress. There seriously is a media bias that needs to be addressed!

When you get caught on National Television diving with no contact made- can you really blame the analysts for pointing out the bleeding obvious? Otherwise what's the point in having them on TV.

If Mc Cann doesn't dive - he doesn't get banned

There was contact made (even if minimal).

Having a mandatory 2 week rest for beaten provincial finalists would have done away with a lot of the uncompetitiveness this weekend in my opinion, if only because Cork would have been a better match for Dublin and definitely would have beat Kildare with the extra week.

O'Donoghue would have been subbed if he wasn't who he was: would love to see a statistical analysis of his performance. Martin Carney is absolutely clueless.

Simply put with all the space in the calendar it's an absolute joke that a vital game cannot be refixed for an equally crucial qualifier, even outwith the codes themselves. This will absolutely have to be looked at for the next AGM of Antrim GAA but in the meantime I think the County Board have more than enough power to postpone a game by two or three days or until it can be fulfilled.

I feel any sort of nationalist in Ireland should have been pointing out, at the very least,the fact that Scotland in its entirety was allowed to decide its future while the same right has always been denied to all of Ireland,but there wasn't as much as a cheep out of Sinn Fein even.

All of Ireland voted on how it would decide its future at the time of the GFA. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Ireland voted for a outright majority of republicans in 1918.

Good post. I leave it to others to decide whether I am a homophobe but I know people who voted No and no amount of sly insinuations on the part of others about the need to conform will convince me those people have ever treated homosexuals any way other than the way they would expect to be treated themselves.

Treated the way they would expect to the treated themselves, equal marriage notwithstanding?