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If Cavan never won another Ulster for 40 years they'd still have won more than anyone else.

Likewise if we never won an All Ireland again, we'll still have 5 more than Monaghan.

😂

False equivalence if you ask me. The one on the left is accurate.

Unfortunately, they are both accurate in general.

Nope that's lazy pure shite. The old "they are as bad as each other" narrative which indirectly excuses Israels barbarity.

Good graphic posted on Slugger

False equivalence if you ask me. The one on the left is accurate.

It's not about taking it easy it's about when you train to peak.

If it was knock out Tyrone would have had a few more provincial wins under their belts and probably mayo the same in Connacht. Not because they didn't try either.

"Mickey, we're gonna take the training handy until after Ulster" "fine by me"

Top teams definitely tailor their training etc to peak later in the year. Look how often that brilliant Mayo team were beat in Connacht.

It depends what your goal is. It was always Sam for Mayo. Team like Armagh desperately need to win an Ulster so would be peaking earlier

The Israelis closed the borders . I read somewhere that there were 7000 trucks waiting on the Egypt side  . Israel neutralised UNRWA,  the organisation that distribute food, runs schools etc  . Biden introduced WCK as a replacement and Israel hit their convoy surgically 3 times.Israel is the heart of darkness.

IDF made a terrible mistake it seems.

That mistake was killing three Brits, a Yank and an Aussie.

30,000 Palestinian men, woman and children was OK though.

Western morals in a nutshell.

I understand that 169 aid workers have now been killed. It's a pity a journalist wouldn't ask them if these recent ones are the only tragic ones.

They've done this before, nothing will change.

My own take on the ranking for the ulster championship (based on form and the draw).

1 - Derry - out and out team to beat regardless of the draw. 
2 - Armagh - draw lends to an 'easier' route to the final. 
3 - Donegal - seem to be a resurgence in them, should give Derry a game with a fully fit team.
4 - Down - Should get over Antrim with no fuss, and may catch Armagh on the hop to make it to a final.
5 - Tyrone - should get over the line in their first game, likely to get beat by Derry/Donegal. 
6 - Monaghan - expect them to beat Cavan and give Tyrone a game, but fall short at this point.   
7 - Fermanagh - expect Armagh to beat them, but it will be a grind for the most of it.
8 - Cavan - no real expectations on Cavan, exit at the first hurdle. 
9 - Antrim - Down seem to be showing promise, so expect Antrim to go out at their hands handy enough. 

Derry v Armagh a likely final. 

Derry's only downfall in my eyes would be injuries to key players(Mc Guigan, Rodgers or Glass) or taking their eye off the ball. 

For Armagh to win, they would need to get over the mental hurdle of caving under the pressure of big games that has haunted them this past 3 years. 

Hard to argue with any of that

Cavan team out with no Dara McVeety, Jason McLoughlin or Killian Clarke named on the match day panel. Its very hard to see how Cavan can win this match

Congrats. I feel like this should be like the Truman show and you should live your life entirely through this board now 

Norman Finkelstein...

STARVE OR LEAVE

Let's cut to the chase: of course Israel deliberately targeted the WCK relief convoy. Not only do all the material facts point to this conclusion. There also aren't any grounds to doubt it; the heavy burden of proof falls on Israel to demonstrate that it was not a premeditated strike. On October 8, 2023, Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza: no food, fuel, water, or electricity would be allowed in. The rationale behind this order was laid out by former Israeli National Security Council head Giora Eiland: "Israel should not allow any economic assistance. The people should be told that they have two choices: to stay and to starve, or to leave." For the next two weeks, Israel blocked the entry of any aid into Gaza. Flagrant mass murder not being a good look, President Biden counseled Prime Minister Netanyahu to lighten up a bit. Israel tweaked its murder plan so as to pass muster with its enablers in Washington. But it did not alter the essence of its game-plan. Human Rights Watch documented in December that Israel was "using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare." Normally reticent senior international and humanitarian officials have in recent weeks openly charged that "Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Israel is provoking famine." (Josop Borrell, EU foreign policy chief) If—as everyone seems to agree—Israel's declared objective is to starve Gaza's civilian population, then: HOW COULD IT NOT PLUG THE HOLES IN ITS MURDER PLAN BY TARGETING INTERNATIONAL RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS? And in fact it's mission accomplished: international aid operations in Gaza have largely ceased "as a result of recent attacks on humanitarian workers by the IDF." ("Letter to the White House and National Security Council," April 4, 2024) But it might be wondered: Wasn't it foolhardy for Israel to risk international opprobrium? Not at all. Israel has targeted by various metrics an historically unprecedented number of hospitals, medics, journalists, and aid workers; it has killed an unprecedented number of women and children. It is ever testing the limits of the permissible. So far, it's successfully crossed every downward threshold into barbarism with impunity. It's impossible to predict in advance which story will be picked up by the fickle international media and which story will just get passing notice. The latest atrocity could just as easily have been subsumed in a paragraph on the inside pages under the title "Aid workers killed in Gaza." The only error Israel might have—it's too soon to tell—committed was anticipating that it would get another free pass. Indeed, Israel's news bureau in the US, the New York Times, is already spinning the story to exonerate Israel: "botched operation ... mistakes and misjudgments ... accidental killing." ("Back-to-Back Israeli Strikes Show Tragic Gaps in Choosing Targets," April 4, 2024) It's also being said that it's not senior Israeli officials but on the contrary IDF field commanders and soldiers who are out of control, or that Israel's resort to AI is behind the hecatomb in Gaza. That's all bullshit. During its periodic "mowing-the-lawn" hi-tech murder sprees in Gaza (Operation Cast Lead, Operation Protective Edge), Israel has always used DISCRIMINATELY INDISCRIMINATE firepower to terrorize Gaza's civilian population into submission. The nub of the problem is neither disciplinary nor technical. It's Israel's murder plan: to make Gaza unlivable and to force its people to decide—starve or leave.

The only ones that matter are the Yanks

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68722308

Nothing will change. Genocide Joe is being widely reported as  "having a call" with Netanyahu today. I expect he will tell him he is a very naughty boy and if he doesn't behave Old Joe will be very cross. Genocide Joe will still then sign off on 100bn dollars of arms because (and I laughed out loud when i heard this on the radio today) these arms are to be used in other areas, not Gaza. like selling Hitler gas and him saying he wasn't going to send it to Auschwitz.

Alan Duncan dropping a load of truth bombs on the Israeli lobbyists within the Tory party and they're all out going to cancel him;;

https://twitter.com/i/status/1775806395062837718

Clearly a raging anti semite

That was funny. As said above, let's see more of guards out dragging these scumbags off to a prison cell.

Such a weak response internationally. They believe Israel is trying to not massacre people and they will have a good long look at themselves in the mirror!

I honestly don't know what Israel needs to do before they actually get some serious sanctions. It's so depressing. And I see now the aid food groups are stopping their operations temporarily so that's job done for Bibi and the lads - let them starve!

True. A very sad state of affairs.

Sad indictment of the modern world.

I don't believe in God but I hope the heaven and hell thing is real as some of these bastards should burn for eternity. I add Michael Martin to that with more weasel words this morning. The man has no balls, a gutless fence-sitter.

[Jim will definitely have something up his sleeve for Derry.]

Jim will definitely have something up his sleeve for Derry.

Will depend on the injuries clearing up though as said previously.

He can have whatever he wants up his sleeve but the reality is that there is no eventuality that the best teams are not already prepared for or equipped to deal with now.

He stole a march on opponents in 2011/12 by covering his sides deficiencies with revolutionary tactics. But it does go to show how he has got into opponents heads that they still think he will pull some kind of rabbit out of the hat.

I just think Derry have players currently way ahead of Donegal, no matter what Jim has up his sleeve. I cant see Armagh beating them either unless Derry really take their foot of the pedal. That might seem like a good idea too if they are aiming from Sam, but that is not how Mickey Harte operates. He wants to win everything and I dont think he will show Armagh any mercy should they meet in the final.