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Paddy Power

Tipperary 1/5
Armagh 8/15
Louth 5/6
Sligo 11/2

Not sure that Tipp are such a good bet, there has to some chance of being beaten by both Louth and Armagh.

True , Tipp have been slow out of the traps v Offaly , Antrim and Sligo . Clawed 2 of them back and nearly caught Sligo ! If Tipp can start solidly against Louth we should win it handy , Armagh will be something else entirely . Armagh should win the Division Final but I hear the their backs are a weak link , if so Tipp have the forwards and it should be a high scoring game in the last round and indeed the Final should they both make it !

[a poor game with a poor ref]

I think some part of the Board has been corrupted.

Good win over Sligo for us but by all accounts a poor game with a poor ref.

I listened in on Ocean FM. Honest ta Jazes them boys were very depressing. I felt like hopping in the car and driving down to give them a hug.

Ok. A win over Laois on the live screened game next Sat eve will make us safe.

Tipp were brutal first half , got it together eventually . Ref was poor here also !

[Send the Paras into Midlothian?]

May mightn't allow it.

If the Scottish people vote for independence then what May allows or not allows shouldnt matter. What is she going to do? Send the Paras into Midlothian?
We will see how determined the Scottish are then.

, Midlothian and indeed Edinburgh voted roughly 60% No last time around . More likely the send the murderous b@stards into Dundee or the West of Scotland !

Any Longford people on here , if so how do ye think ye will go tomorrow . Are the Under 21s playing ?

Armagh are willing to get men forward. For no more than 5 minutes did Offaly look capable of punishing us for that. The big score early on insured no vulnerability to the trademarked collapse. We should be punishing teams like this and today we did. No point saying against better opposition it wouldn't have been that easy. Today we beat what was in front of us. The Tipp match is the only real signal we get from this division on how we might do against Down.

I got there at half time and seen an Armagh team score 3  11 in the second half, unreal. We had one wide in the first half and few in the second.

I think we will get promoted and the players are playing with confidence, I also think we will make wee boys out of them hours next to us come championship time.

One swallow doesn't make a summer and ye have League Leaders Louth next . If ye don`t win that one 9 is the max number of points Armagh can get , that will hardly be enough !

SF are the mainstream voice of Northern Nationalism.It follows then that a calculated insult is offered to N Nationalists when all the main parties in the free state declare that they will not go into coalition with SF in the Dail.

Can you imagine one of the main British parties saying something similar about the DUP or UUP

It`s to do with their economic policies and still make an issue over the Provos every now and then but that`s getting less and less lately . It has nothing to do with insulting Nationalists ! What they say now and what happens after the next Election are 2 different things entirely !

Our manager wasn't too impressed with the Semple Stadium shenanigans judging by the article on balls.ie

"We're Fuming" - Longford Manager's Anger At Tipperary Fixture Debacle

Amid a Congress which placed the issue of a prospective, regimented fixture list high on the agenda, the GAA has witnessed a flagrant disregard for existing fixtures on successive weekends. Last weekend, the clash between Tyrone and Cavan, fixed for a half-flooded Healy Park was called off just an hour before throw-in.

This weekend, we saw another postponement in the Allianz Football League, although in contrast, this decision was notable for early it was made. Longford were due to face Tipperary as part of a double-header in Semple Stadium this afternoon, a 1pm throw-in preceding the hurling game between Tipperary and Clare, fixed for 3pm. The football game, however, was postponed at 12.30pm on Saturday afternoon, while the hurling went ahead as planned. The Longford game has yet to be refixed, but is expected to be played next weekend.

Longford manager Denis Connerton spoke exclusively to Balls.ie to articulate his frustration with the entire situation, saying that he and his panel are "fuming" with the fact that the game could not be played this weekend.

We heard yesterday afternoon that the match was cancelled because the pitch would not be able to take two matches. Of course, the football had to go and not the hurling, which is very annoying from our point of view, because we had all of our preparation done for the match, we had our travel arrangements made, our catering, and what have you.

It's the only match off in the four divisions in the National Football League, so you would have to wonder about other venues in Tipperary, and why there wasn't another pitch available.

I was given a reason that the pitch was not able to play two matches.

We were informed very early. At around 12.30pm yesterday, we were notified that the game was off. That was very early to call the game off.

The canceling of the game hits Longford hard. Following an opening day victory over Offaly, Longford lost narrowly to Louth and Armagh in rounds two and three, so even the consolidation of Division Three status will be hurt by fixture congestion and the lack of availability of their full squad, issues exacerbated by the postponing of this afternoon's game.

That affects us greatly. We will be without our under-21s next weekend. We would have had them this weekend, after their exploits against Kildare [in the Leinster U-21 championship earlier this week]. Now we will not have them in our squad next weekend, that's four players out of our squad. Also, we now have to play four matches in three weeks, which, for a small county, with limited resources, is going to be very, very difficult.

We're fuming that the match has been called off today. There's a reason for the weeks' break in the National League: it's an opportunity for teams to refresh themselves. That opportunity has been denied to us now. We will have to play four matches in three weeks, and we will have to travel to three of those matches.

We have to do all that [planning] all over again. At this stage, we don't know whether the match is on a Saturday, or whether the match is on a Sunday. And we don't even know the time, we don't even know the date, and we don't even know the venue of the match.

Connerton reiterates his belief that the game should not have been postponed, and that Longford should have been given the opportunity to find an alternative venue. Having been denied that opportunity, Connerton says that home advantage should be awarded to Longford in the refixed game.

We're very annoyed over it. When there wasn't a venue in Tipperary to host that match, at that early stage we'd have found a venue to host it: either in Longford, or, if needs be, it should have been moved to an Offaly venue, or a Laois venue, or another neutral venue that could have staged the game. I don't believe that the match should have fallen this weekend.

We feel that we should get a home venue in this game. We were ready to travel, it is not our fault that the match was called off, and we are now faced with playing three matches away from home in three weeks, and one single match at home, and it is not our fault that match fell.

This issue is sure to further sour relations between the respective counties. Last May, Tipperary agreed to fulfill a challenge match against Longford to mark the opening of the new pitch at the Carrickedmond club, but reneged on the agreement the day prior to the match. Longford were ultimately forced to play an As vs Bs challenge match instead, having been unable to secure an alternative opponent.

The Tipperary county board did not respond to our calls for comment at the time of publication.

As a Tipp Football Supporter I am also very disappointed , from what I hear the game could have gone ahead . Nenagh was looked into , but Eire Og wouldn`t give the use of it . The Tipp Team and Management want games played in Thurles anyway . Can`t remember the last time a competitive Senior Football game was played in Nenagh ( played the Dubs in a friendly there last year ) .

I think Pat Flanagan's days are numbered in Offaly, there has been a good bit of discontent lately from their supporters and a result like that can't be tolerated by a proud county like Offaly. The players are limited to be fair but a result like that only happens when there is a serious lack of motivation and organisation.

3 weeks ago : Offaly 0-23 - 1-07 Antrim

Today : Armagh: 6-22 - Offaly 0-10 !

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Sligo 0-7 Laois 2-6 HT

Louth 2:8-1:7 Antrim , 10 Minutes left !

10 mins into the second half Armagh 5-15 0-6 Offaly.

 

[united ireland would not be endorsed at the ballot box,]

Tribal voting will continue to produce stalemate and non delivery especially for the deprived.A united ireland would not be endorsed at the ballot box,North and South anytime soon

Various surveys suggest otherwise !

[glad they didn't ship it off to clonmel or tipperary town.]

Confirmed.  Timmy Floyd just sent around text. Provisionally fixed for next weekend. Hurling goes ahead. I knew they wouldn't let the football ruin the pitch for the Hurlers.  I'm glad they didn't ship it off to clonmel or tipperary town.

Or Nenagh , I know Eire Og were contacted to see if McDonagh was available !

Weir in by a whisker against SDLP in Strangford

DUP 5,392.38   SDLP 5,167.09

Shinners fucked Joe Boyle up by standing Kennedy who didn't make the slightest effort, no leaflets, no posters or nothing but still took 1k votes from him. That most certainly would have got Joe over the line at the expense of Weir.
In saying that Joe isn't as clued in on the social media front as the likes of Kellie Armstrong who seems to have mobilised the young mammy vote. Very few aware of Joe's good work at council level helping out the local GAA clubs and so forth.

It`s a pity that there`s not more cooperation between Nationalists in an area like this where there is a hint of a seat . Joe has been very unlucky over the years always just ending up outside the Bubble . The Shinners were right the run , if they didn`t they would have been accused of playing the sectarian card , it`s just a pity Kennedy didn`t make the effort and also ask people to transfer to Joe !

DUP could be in trouble in N Belfast, looks like their normal staunch working class areas have not come out

Indeed Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon ! Can see a lot of them votes being spoiled , education wouldn`t be a priority there  !

Turn out up across Northern Ireland , could mean bad news for the first minister !

Or has her scare tactic got the Unionist vote out ?