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#1
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
May 11, 2020, 02:19:57 PM
If I was a Tyrone fan, I wouldn't care what Cavanagh said because they could never ever repay him for what he has done for their county on the field.  He drove that team with incredible speed, fitness and crucial scores for over a decade and definitely they wouldn't have won those two All Irelands without him.

Ok - He said UK - might have said Up here And in the UK.  But even if he didn't, so what.  He's a good lad.  An incredible footballer.  Doing his best.  Just leave it alone.  And leave him alone.

#2
GAA Discussion / John Horan
November 24, 2019, 08:27:22 PM
As he comes to the end of his second year in charge, he has achieved his main goal, which was to introduce a Second Tier championship.  He is also reviewing the fixtures.  Was there anything else he should have been doing?
#3
The Club Players Association have pulled out of the #GAA fixtures task force, citing a loss of faith with the process. Has anyone any strong opinions on this?
#4
GAA Discussion / Underage Grades
November 10, 2019, 08:13:24 PM
Bit of a mess, if you ask me.  Anyone following this?  GAA trying to get all counties to follow the under 11,13,15,17 rule.  After that it's up to each county.  Under 19, 20 or 21.  But this was supposed to be what the Special Congress was for...
#5
General discussion / Re: The SDLP
September 15, 2019, 09:53:09 AM
There is a massive difference between Martin McGuinness going toWIndsor Castle/Meeting the Queen and Margaret Ritchie going to the Lords.
Martin McGuinness had absolutely nothing whatsoever to gain personally from doing what he did. In fact, he had a lot to lose within his own constituency of The Creggan and the Bogside. He did it because he took his role as DFM very seriously and genuinely wanted to undertake confidence building measures to sustain the peace process. This, like many other risks he took were not reciprocated by the DUP and so the Assembly fell.

Margaret Ritchie going to the Lords - Money, red leather and the nice feel of ermine. Same as Austin Currie who went to FG, Mark Durkan who did the same and Gerry Fitt.

I cannot think of one cause, d'écrire or need within Ireland that could be advanced by her heading to the House of Lords. It is an even more ridiculous place than the House of Commons.   

Durkan adored the pomp and ceremony of Westminster. He fully embraced it. Got involved in the minutiae of legislation and was apparently 'a great parliamentarian'.  He is an exceptionally able man, granted.





#6
GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game
September 05, 2019, 09:38:15 AM
I actually rate Ciaran Whelan very highly as an analyst.  He talks a lot of sense and of course you'll expect him to be a bit biased when Dublin are playing.  he's not someone who signed for them for a few years, but a living, breathing Dub, so that will always come out and what helps to make it interesting.

I think they're all quite good, but Joe Brolly simply has no self awareness whatsoever.  He doesn't know how to listen, how to absorb someone else's point and respond rationally and logically to it.  He interrupts, shows poor manners and always wants the show to be about him.  He has some great insights, but I think people have caught him on and he has crossed the tipping point where he's not taken seriously now at all.

McStay definitely the best of them all. 
#7
General discussion / Re: Willie Frazer and FAIR
July 01, 2019, 10:42:51 AM
Always remember at the moment that you might feel any sorrow for this man, two years ago he posted - Double Bed for Sale -Contact Mrs. Reavey.

This refers to the murder of three innocent Catholic brothers from the Reavey family outside Whitecross in their beds.

Mrs. Reavey was a woman of immense dignity and modesty and had to endure unjustified and untrue slurs about her sons from people like Frazer who made out that they were in the IRA, or were present at Kingsmills 

Utter nonsense.  They were a totally non-political family and always have been.  Just innocent Catholics butchered in their beds by Frazer's dad's gang. 

Hopefully this puts Frazer into perspective. 
#8
GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game
June 17, 2019, 06:38:15 PM
Ridiculous and very hurtful comments about analysts here. To be honest, I only heard what Ursula Jacobs had to say. I didn't check out her hair, although if she hadn't it coiffed to the last degree, she would have got it here too. I found her to be brilliant. Really knows her stuff. Has a genuine pedigree in that she's an All Ireland winner and was not there for some stupid gender quota reason. SOme of the comments on this board just highlight how much women are second class citizens in this country.
#9
GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game
June 17, 2019, 07:42:44 AM
Ursula Jacob was simply excellent on SG last night. Her level of analysis, like the other two guys, was outstanding. A brilliant blend. She captured perfectly the pure drama of Wexford Park and the main turning points of the game.
#10
Nancy Spain
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Back Home in Derry
Ride On
#11
GAA Discussion / Re: Anton O’Toole RIP
May 21, 2019, 11:50:53 AM
According to the Irish Times, the priest at his funeral said it was going to least five or six hours.  Surely not.
#12
GAA Discussion / Re: Scór
April 15, 2019, 10:55:17 AM
Went to All Ireland final in Castlebar Saturday.  Great crowd - biggest in years.  50 Years of Scor.  MC awful however.  Why would Scor have shot themselves in the foot like this?  Mumbled his way through the event. Another thing is that Scor seems to be dying in counties, and yet at this level, it's still a great day's entertainment. 
#13
GAA Discussion / GAA Manifesto
April 09, 2019, 08:40:11 AM
Launched yesterday.  What do you think.  I really like it.  Think it sums us up well to those who don't know us. 

https://youtu.be/qXZoQgfWma8
#14
General discussion / Re: Cookstown Incident
March 20, 2019, 12:09:38 PM
I do not mean to shock, or to be 'George Hook' esque in my comments, but anyone who would seek to deny that cocaine is not in general use among young people on nights out really ought to take a look at themselves.  it is now actually cheaper than drink, leaves no smell of the breath and effects have worn off before you get home.  What I am saying is that the responsibility for this tragedy lies deep in the heart of our collective culture and how we turn a blind eye to the rites of passage events that young people are engaged in.  And we really do need to take a long hard look at ourselves around how we behave on St. Patrick's day.  Excessive alcohol use seems to be part of the norm in Ireland.  I am not trying to lay the blame at the deceased; I believe they were just small people at the front of the queue who had nowhere to escape from the stampede, but at what stage do we actually ask teenagers to take responsibility for their own behaviour and refrain from arriving at an over 18 event drunk and disorderly and at what stage do we ask parents how much they know about their children faking ID and taking illegal substances and at what stage do we stop the nonsense of buses being booked by young people who then take money off about fifty of their mates to go to one of these discoes with no supervision, or no oversight.  Before we arrest the owner of a hotel, perhaps we might address these systemic holes in our night time culture and allow at least something good to come of this carnage.
#15
General discussion / Re: Cookstown Incident
March 20, 2019, 10:33:09 AM
Perhaps when the dust settles on this tragic event, we can have a serious conversation about the drinking culture in Ireland, not only among young people, but in general.  The utter dependency on alcohol is frightening -even check out the t-shirts on those hen night girls and you can see that virtually all our down time with friends is spent in the company of alcohol and we have a crazy obsession with it.  400 people in a car park is not a risk and should never be a risk, but young people getting off buses, tanked up, drunk and possibly many having taken cocaine and suddenly the vulnerability of those at the front and those who are smaller and lighter can be understood.  We also need to realise that parents allowing their children to have fake ID is not good parenting.  This was an 18+ disco.  If so, why was there a crowd of 400 children of 16 and under in that car park?  Why did parents let them out?  Did parents know they were drinking?  Are parents so stupid as to turn a blind eye to their children drinking at that age?  The thing that drives me mad is the old story - 'sure we all did it when we were their age'.,  This is why there needs to be a serious culture change in this country, starting with a bit of soul searching as to how we interpret St. Patrick's Day. Around six dead at the last count. Arresting the hotel owner is just typical of an attitude that will seek to punish a man for putting on an event, checking ID and assuming they were all over 18, therefore selling alcohol, while the parents, the bus drivers, the off licence owners and the teenagers themselves will go scot free.