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For once we have a favorable c'ship draw so it's not all doom and gloom I guess.

Can you imagine planning for facing into a first round Connacht match against Mayo after that? Mother of Jaysus.

Don't worry we'd go full blanket against mayo and come out on top then get the shit kickec out of us by Roscommon

All goals avoidable and all the fault of Lavelle and Sean Andy. Ridiculous carry on, he's not good enough on the ball to be leaving his line the way way he does, he did the same thing against Mayo and nearly cost us that game too. The first half was fantastic, driving forward, kicking the ball and moving at speed, second half revert to type and get our arses handed to us. Clueless.

Livid after that second half to be honest, fair play to Tyrone who absolutely upped it but I've rarely seen a team f**k away a winnable match as Galway did today. I didn't expect to get the win going up but the performance was the main thing and given the context of how the match went, that was simply disastrous for Galway, I'm trying not to overreact but we're left with nothing but doubts over a number of key areas now going into the championship. A game of two halves but the wind should not have been a factor really, it was not like Castlebar earlier this year.

Sean Andy got the mother and father of all roastings from McShane, absolutely cleaned out from minute one. How he stayed on the pitch is beyond comprehension, any change would have been better than leaving it as it was. Lavelle has to take some big blame today as well - I mean Harte could have scored from 50 yards out into an empty goal - but that was as bad as it gets from O'Ceallaigh.

It might be "only the league" but I thought we were past mental collapses like that, a league final berth was there for the taking. Absolutely ridiculous stuff from Galway and it takes the gloss off what was a fairly successful league up until we came out for the second half today.
What state is their mindset after that, the only saving grace is that it wasn't in the championship and that it's better for that damage to be seen before the summer.
Whatever positives were there from the first half (some great play from the Dalys and Walsh) are irrelevant in light of what happened after the change around, June is a long way away but there is massive work to be done, I don't care how many players are going to come back in if a team can commit seppuku so easily what happens the next time we're in a really tough spot?

I'm going with Sean Andy was on the batter last night because he seemed to have no idea where McShane was at any given time and McShane is a big lad. He's not exactly easy to miss. Honestly as bad a full-back display as I've ever seen. It was almost bizarre. That said it's still his spot because the only other options are Duane and Cunnane. He needs a bit of a talking to after that though. Himself and Lavelle are not there to solo the ball up the field. Leave that to the footballers.

We're not overflowing with options alright for number 3.
Maybe Liam Silke could do a job there I dunno.
Declan Kyne will also come into the reckoning - it's hard to know to be honest what will happen now.
It's not as if this is some one-off performance either he has been poor in several league games this year.
Thank God it's only March is all that I can say

He's carrying too much bulk to be as athletic as he needs to be and certainly not mobile enough to be getting up and down the pitch. He's a full back and should man the square going out 30 to 40m at most with ball in hand. Lavelle should never leave the goal. He can't solo for shit.

The lads that should be bombing forward look like they're out for a Sunday stroll. G'OD and Bradshaw offer no pace going forward.

The worst thing is, KW will look at this and say we conceded 3 goals because we weren't defensive enough.

Terrible thing to go through at that age. Whilst a powerful image IMO taking photos at funerals is very distasteful.

I remember being at a funeral of a young girl a few years ago where the Belfast Telegraph reporter took out her phone and recorded the priests homily, despite being told to get out they proceeded to photograph the coffin leaving the chapel.

Scumbags.

What a crowd of cnuts. Should have took her phone home in pieces.

They stood across the road from the chapel and done it. When people saw them, they weren't long in hunting them.

I remember seeing the same at Michaela McAreaveys funeral. They're vultures who will do anything to sell a paper.

I'm a bit puzzled by all this anger at journalists simply doing their job.

On the previous page of this thread there was a photo uploaded from one of the funerals.

How do you think these photographs get taken, other than by journalists and photographers?

Some people would be well advised to direct their anger in the direction of those who were responsible for the deeply unsafe environment in which these tragic deaths happened, or in a constructive way towards the health and safety authorities and the politicians who should now be pressured heavily to legislate so that such a disaster never happens again, rather than at journalists doing their job.

Some people really can't see the wood for the trees.

Some journalists are absolute scum. There were two toddlers killed in an accident close to where I live. They held the wake at the house. Two people showed up who no one knew, went inside and we're caught trying to take pics of the little kids in their coffins. They were swiftly removed and from reports got a few digs going out the front gate and rightly so. Don't know what kind of sicko you'd need to be to do something like that.

Kerry being allowed to enter the club's they do into the all Ireland is a joke. How many genuine, small hard working parishes have been denied a once in a lifetime all Ireland win by clubs that should never have been there in the first place.
How many more years will that farce be allowed continue and the media keep lauding the achievement as if it were honestly earned.

Every county can organise their own club c'ships whatever way they see fit.
Just because other counties might have 16 senior clubs doesn't make their system automatically  better than Kerry's.
Some would argue that the fewer teams means higher standards.

It's obvious from results that the club's coming from Kerry's intermediate and junior championship are not of a similar standard to other counties. They're essentially taking what should be a mid table senior club and forwarding them to the all Ireland series. It's more of a shock that they haven't won it every year than the actual number of times they've won it is.

Kerry being allowed to enter the club's they do into the all Ireland is a joke. How many genuine, small hard working parishes have been denied a once in a lifetime all Ireland win by clubs that should never have been there in the first place.
How many more years will that farce be allowed continue and the media keep lauding the achievement as if it were honestly earned.

[So let's get rid of both.]

LCohen, SF and DUP can't exist without the other. They feed off each other like two leeches. We're stuck with them.

When one side spouts some shite about the other side, it riles people up to vote for "their own" again, even if they know they'll do feck all when voted in. People feel the only way to stick two fingers up at the other is to vote for their own side.

So let's get rid of both.

NI is here to stay. Whether that is part of UK or UI it's here to stay. Power sharing is here to stay. People will eventually work these 2 fraudulent parties out

That's very naive.  There's council elections in May.  Both parties will dominate without doubt.

And that's the way elections will be from now on in the north of Ireland - a headcount.  Anybody who thinks it will be any different is very naive.

If SF continue with the political track they have taken up to now there will never be a united ireland. If they think any different theyre the ones who are naive. They are pushing the prospect further and further away.

LCohen, SF and DUP can't exist without the other. They feed off each other like two leeches. We're stuck with them.

When one side spouts some shite about the other side, it riles people up to vote for "their own" again, even if they know they'll do feck all when voted in. People feel the only way to stick two fingers up at the other is to vote for their own side.

So let's get rid of both.

NI is here to stay. Whether that is part of UK or UI it's here to stay. Power sharing is here to stay. People will eventually work these 2 fraudulent parties out

Was just about to post the same. If the DUP need SF to exist then surely the most nationalistic thing that SF could ever do is disappear. Then the chief protagonists for animosity would be out of the picture.

Mary Lou marching behind an 'England get out of Ireland' banner.  That's embarrassing.  All SF have to do is keep their mouths shut and let the DUP get the bigots prize, but they always manage something offensive.

The Shinners have played this entire brexit thing horribly from the start. Constantly bleating on about a border poll has resulted in the extreme unionists coming to the fore again and digging their heels in. Its quite conceivable that if the british leave the EU that scotland will leave the UK and NI would follow. Mary Lou doesn't seem to realise or care that even though she may get a majority in the North for a UI, if there is even a possible sniff of hassle for the south she won't get it here. People in the south are not going to suck up the initial financial hit and have the UDA planting bombs in Dublin. The best thing that SF could do is get the assembly open again, do their utmost to work with the unionists, remove as much as possible the hatred between the two and wait for the general population to get pissed off importing goods from, or going through customs checks in france, germany, spain etc and decide the benefits of the EU outweigh any of being in the UK.

A good starting point would be for SF to call out to their electorate that in a UI that the NI entity and Stormont would continue to exist

Exactly, if there is ever to be movement it has to come from the nationalist side. The unionists have no interest in moving as they already have what they want. SF can bleat on about ideals but they will never achieve a UI with the current methods

[The best thing that SF could do is get the assembly open again, do their utmost to work]

Mary Lou marching behind an 'England get out of Ireland' banner.  That's embarrassing.  All SF have to do is keep their mouths shut and let the DUP get the bigots prize, but they always manage something offensive.

The Shinners have played this entire brexit thing horribly from the start. Constantly bleating on about a border poll has resulted in the extreme unionists coming to the fore again and digging their heels in. Its quite conceivable that if the british leave the EU that scotland will leave the UK and NI would follow. Mary Lou doesn't seem to realise or care that even though she may get a majority in the North for a UI, if there is even a possible sniff of hassle for the south she won't get it here. People in the south are not going to suck up the initial financial hit and have the UDA planting bombs in Dublin. The best thing that SF could do is get the assembly open again, do their utmost to work with the unionists, remove as much as possible the hatred between the two and wait for the general population to get pissed off importing goods from, or going through customs checks in france, germany, spain etc and decide the benefits of the EU outweigh any of being in the UK.

This was tried before - that's why the Shinners pulled out.  DUP still have the notion that it's 1960. They had their chance to share power on an equal basis.  Unionists showed, as in the 20's, 60's and 70's etc. etc. that they are not able to share power with nationalists.

No return to Stomont - they had their chance and blew it.

This

You do realise the unionists couldn't give a Damn about storming. They're happy with direct English rule. Tell them to stick it if ya want but it only hurts the nationalists.

Explain to me how Stormont is an improvement on Direct Rule when the DUP have a veto on anything they don't like? How will handing the control back to The DUP help nationalists? As far as the DUP are concerned it wasn't power sharing.

As do SF but at least it's a step toward the right direction similar to the country looking for home rule back in the day. They understood that they were never going to get complete autonomy but it was a step in the right direction.SF seem to think it's realistic to expect the unionists to and Brits just to hand the whole lot back.

[The best thing that SF could do is get the assembly open again, do their utmost to work]

Mary Lou marching behind an 'England get out of Ireland' banner.  That's embarrassing.  All SF have to do is keep their mouths shut and let the DUP get the bigots prize, but they always manage something offensive.

The Shinners have played this entire brexit thing horribly from the start. Constantly bleating on about a border poll has resulted in the extreme unionists coming to the fore again and digging their heels in. Its quite conceivable that if the british leave the EU that scotland will leave the UK and NI would follow. Mary Lou doesn't seem to realise or care that even though she may get a majority in the North for a UI, if there is even a possible sniff of hassle for the south she won't get it here. People in the south are not going to suck up the initial financial hit and have the UDA planting bombs in Dublin. The best thing that SF could do is get the assembly open again, do their utmost to work with the unionists, remove as much as possible the hatred between the two and wait for the general population to get pissed off importing goods from, or going through customs checks in france, germany, spain etc and decide the benefits of the EU outweigh any of being in the UK.

This was tried before - that's why the Shinners pulled out.  DUP still have the notion that it's 1960. They had their chance to share power on an equal basis.  Unionists showed, as in the 20's, 60's and 70's etc. etc. that they are not able to share power with nationalists.

No return to Stomont - they had their chance and blew it.

This

You do realise the unionists couldn't give a Damn about storming. They're happy with direct English rule. Tell them to stick it if ya want but it only hurts the nationalists.

Mary Lou marching behind an 'England get out of Ireland' banner.  That's embarrassing.  All SF have to do is keep their mouths shut and let the DUP get the bigots prize, but they always manage something offensive.

The Shinners have played this entire brexit thing horribly from the start. Constantly bleating on about a border poll has resulted in the extreme unionists coming to the fore again and digging their heels in. Its quite conceivable that if the british leave the EU that scotland will leave the UK and NI would follow. Mary Lou doesn't seem to realise or care that even though she may get a majority in the North for a UI, if there is even a possible sniff of hassle for the south she won't get it here. People in the south are not going to suck up the initial financial hit and have the UDA planting bombs in Dublin. The best thing that SF could do is get the assembly open again, do their utmost to work with the unionists, remove as much as possible the hatred between the two and wait for the general population to get pissed off importing goods from, or going through customs checks in france, germany, spain etc and decide the benefits of the EU outweigh any of being in the UK.

Yea...just like that. I can just imagine Michelle O'Neill asking Arlene to open up Stormont again. 

Working with the DUP will never work.

Then neither will a united Ireland. If you think the people in the south are going to vote for a situation similar to before the good Friday agreement but with the bombs down here rather than the UK you're delusional. You won't see a united Ireland without nationalists being the bigger man.

Functional win for Galway today, plenty of the usual complaints but the form of john Daly, Danny Cummins and Ó Laoi are positives. Division 1 secured with a game to spare and still a chance to make a league final, all without a fairly big chunk of first team players leaves us in a good place heading into championship. Wonder will we see a couple of the Corofin boys against Tyrone next week, Silke and Molloy are badly needed in defence, O'Donnell and Bradshaw are done IMO.

Totally disagree re GOD and Brads.
Both still have plenty to offer

Bradshaw certainly does and having lads of this quality at least competing for places or coming off the bench is certainly preferential to consigning them to the scrapheap. I think we have better options for first teamers coming through but we need strength in depth in order to compete with the Dubs. We can't leave the same knackered 15 on while they empty the bench.

Mary Lou marching behind an 'England get out of Ireland' banner.  That's embarrassing.  All SF have to do is keep their mouths shut and let the DUP get the bigots prize, but they always manage something offensive.

The Shinners have played this entire brexit thing horribly from the start. Constantly bleating on about a border poll has resulted in the extreme unionists coming to the fore again and digging their heels in. Its quite conceivable that if the british leave the EU that scotland will leave the UK and NI would follow. Mary Lou doesn't seem to realise or care that even though she may get a majority in the North for a UI, if there is even a possible sniff of hassle for the south she won't get it here. People in the south are not going to suck up the initial financial hit and have the UDA planting bombs in Dublin. The best thing that SF could do is get the assembly open again, do their utmost to work with the unionists, remove as much as possible the hatred between the two and wait for the general population to get pissed off importing goods from, or going through customs checks in france, germany, spain etc and decide the benefits of the EU outweigh any of being in the UK.