Quote from: johnnycool on June 19, 2023, 12:35:40 PM
Double header in Nowlan Park or Limerick Gaelic Grounds, Cork have a home football game on so that ruled out.
Nowlan not a runner
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Show posts MenuQuote from: johnnycool on June 19, 2023, 12:35:40 PM
Double header in Nowlan Park or Limerick Gaelic Grounds, Cork have a home football game on so that ruled out.
Quote from: seafoid on June 18, 2023, 12:08:11 PMQuote from: didlyi on June 17, 2023, 11:16:40 PMWhat do we want hurling to be? Realistically this year there are only 6 serious teamsQuote from: From the Bunker on June 17, 2023, 05:16:13 PM
McDonagh Cup should be the McDonagh Cup and that's it. Finish it later, don't condense it and don't be putting them in to play in the McCarthy Cup. Don't be taking the good out of the Competition.
Hard to please everyone isnt it. Not long since I heard that all teams in the country should be entitled to a chance to win Liam Mac in a given year. Id wager that no sooner would this option be removed there would be cries to bring it back the following year.
sorry Dublin, Waterford, Wexford, Antrim and Westmeath
https://twitter.com/TheSundayGame/status/1670197080495882240
Quote from: AustinPowers on June 17, 2023, 12:28:18 PMQuote from: clonadmad on June 17, 2023, 11:23:31 AMQuote from: seafoid on June 16, 2023, 09:10:35 PMQuote from: armaghniac on June 16, 2023, 09:00:10 PM50+1 would be too unstable . Brexit was won 52:48 when most voters had no idea what Brexit meant and it has been a clusterfuck that sucks political energy and goes nowhere.Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 16, 2023, 08:53:48 PM
Would nationalists accept a 50%+1 against?
Yes, of course. With the demographics the 1 would have already died when the count took place, so just have another referedum after 7 years with plenty of clarification in the meantime.
50% + 1 in a democratic decision is a majority
What are you suggesting is done instead?
You'd hope that lessons would have been leaned from Brexit and that a UI referendum would be 5 years in the planning
As for this notion that Brexit voters didn't know what they were voting for ,that's on them,there were no shortage of information explaining to them what was in the offing if they voted to leave.
One of the things that was talked about pre-Brexit was the possibility of Irish Sea border checks , and big Jeffrey actually said sure that wouldn't be a problem if they had those. So , a lot of people look to their politicians for guidance (madness, I know) on such things before voting
Do you honestly think all cards will be laid out on the table pre-border poll? Will all promises and arrangements be honoured after the referendum? Of course they won't.
Quote from: seafoid on June 16, 2023, 09:10:35 PMQuote from: armaghniac on June 16, 2023, 09:00:10 PM50+1 would be too unstable . Brexit was won 52:48 when most voters had no idea what Brexit meant and it has been a clusterfuck that sucks political energy and goes nowhere.Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 16, 2023, 08:53:48 PM
Would nationalists accept a 50%+1 against?
Yes, of course. With the demographics the 1 would have already died when the count took place, so just have another referedum after 7 years with plenty of clarification in the meantime.
Quote from: seafoid on June 15, 2023, 03:01:12 PM
Hurling can be reintroduced to places . Belfast is an underused asset for Antrim and Down where the hurling footprint is the problem.
Laois is different https://youtu.be/D8sTmXpgBS0&t=5220s
Quote from: marty34 on June 14, 2023, 06:19:26 PMQuote from: seafoid on June 14, 2023, 03:51:15 PM
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2023/06/14/sean-moran-the-munster-hurling-championship-has-been-great-but-can-it-continue/
Would it be fairer for Munster teams if the round-robin groups mixed according to seeding? Of course, but then we would end up with two identical league competitions, one after the other.
There is another compelling reason why it won't happen. Munster have had a fantastic year at the box office. In his welcoming address for Sunday's programme, provincial chair Ger Ryan pinpointed the reason why Munster hurling is unlikely to be tampered with.
"We have had great crowds at our games this year and by throw-in time today, total attendances of this year's senior hurling championship will exceed 300,000," Ryan said.
That adds up to a staggering average attendance of 27,288 per match. When you consider the misgivings – justified in the football championship – about the round-robin format and its traditional impact on attendances, that's an astonishing figure, especially as it includes Waterford's doomed fixture list.
It means the average crowd in Munster was nearly 3,000 greater than the Leinster final, which was itself the best attended match in the province by a distance.
An average of over 27, 000 is some going.
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on June 13, 2023, 10:28:31 PM
Newsletter editorial rant. Reader discretion advised:QuoteBen Lowry: Unionists and London have consistently failed to challenge Ireland's repeated criticisms of the UK on legacy
To see how weak unionists and the government have been on legacy, consider Leo Varadkar on Friday (this article was first published in the print newspaper on Saturday June 10).
The Irish prime minister had the nerve to say amendments to a Westminster bill aimed at tackling Northern Ireland's past "don't go far enough". He was referring to government attempts to placate nationalist criticisms of the legacy bill, which offers an amnesty for people accused of Troubles crimes if they assist truth recovery. The ever scolding Mr Varadkar said he had raised the issue several times with the prime minister, then said legacy "is one of the few things that all five major parties in Northern Ireland are united on".
Unionists are wholly to blame for the way in which a Taoiseach can imply that they and the IRA are at one on legacy. They have joined with nationalist opposition to the bill, instead of making clear their contempt for how even moderate nationalists now rarely challenge a republican narrative on the past.
Meanwhile, London has moved to shut down legacy rather than take the fight to their tormentors, including an Irish state that refused to extradite IRA murderers over three decades. While Dublin drones on about the amnesty, the UK is too feeble even to cite Ireland's own de facto amnesty for IRA (sic). For years I have said the only response to such Irish hypocrisy is unilateral UK probes into Irish terrorism.
Typo aside, what's Ben waffling about here? Wasn't Mountjoy full of IRA prisoners?
Quote from: Eire90 on June 14, 2023, 07:18:23 AM
Larry McCarthy has intimated that the Munster and Leinster SHC finals will be played on separate days from next year onwards.
Both finals were played back-to-back last Sunday, with McCarthy conceding that the arrangement wasn't ideal.
"I think we will look at it," the GAA president said after the Tailteann Cup quarter-final draw on RTÉ Radio's Morning Ireland.
"Having the two of them on the one day is not optimal for us. it could be changed for next season. We'll get the CCCC to look at it."
Quote from: High Fielder on June 13, 2023, 07:51:35 PM
Billy needs to let off steam. Always did. It's no big deal for me. He's the kinda fella that would fight with his own shadow.
Quote from: andoireabu on June 13, 2023, 03:23:56 PM
I'm assuming he meant since waiting times are longer for everything in the Republic it also means you have to wait longer to die, hence the longer life expectancy.
Quote from: imtommygunn on June 13, 2023, 11:16:59 AM
That was when they had Sean Finn, Cian Lynch and Peter Casey all fit...
Is that factored into advanced stats?
Their dominance, like anyone's, will end at some point but they're a bloody good team and young so they will be there or thereabouts for a good while.
However how that was not given as a free to Clare just at the end of that game I will never know
Quote from: seafoid on June 13, 2023, 11:03:47 AM
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2023/06/12/clare-can-find-solace-in-defeat-as-the-numbers-dont-add-up-for-limerick/
Their five championship matches so far this year have resulted in a two-point win, two one-point wins, a draw and a one-point defeat. Five games, washing out to an aggregate scoring difference in their favour of just three points.
The advanced metrics dudes would not find that kind of thing impressive. Particularly when you compare it to this point in 2022, when Limerick's aggregate scoring difference after their fourth Munster title in a row was +24
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on June 13, 2023, 10:57:19 AMQuote from: clonadmad on June 13, 2023, 10:25:29 AMQuote from: imtommygunn on June 13, 2023, 09:49:35 AM
We're not all binmen up here you know
Regardless of what ye are
"productivity per worker is about 40 per cent higher in the Republic relative to the North"
Would the productivity of lets say someone working in an Intel type company in the North be 40% less than same worker in Kildare?
How much harder do the binmen work in the south?