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Israel's defence minister said that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "can no longer be allowed to exist" after an Israeli hospital was hit during an Iranian missile attack.

"Khamenei openly declares that he wants Israel destroyed - he personally gives the order to fire on hospitals. He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be a goal," Israel Katz told journalists in Holon near Tel Aviv.

"Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist."

What a f@#king hypocrite, them c@nts have some neck for calling out people for bombing hospitals.

Israeli hypocrites. They have destroyed 10 hospitals on Gaza. Such comments are designed to draw attention away from the failure of Israel's missile defences. Israel doesn't like it when its enemies fight back. Israel bit off more than it could chew with Iran.

Iran will take its time in replying. Israel has bitten off more than it can chew.

The sanctions against Israel can't come soon enough. Israel is out of control.

Would it be fair to say what Israel has done is by far worse than Russia.

I'm not condoning Russia by the way.

But the double standards around sanctions is mad.

it really is. Israel has murdered at least 100,000 Gazans and gets a free pass across Europe while Russia gets sanctions.

Should Galway prevail over Down and the other 3 fancied counties go through, i think the players left standing for Galway would likely be meeting Monaghan in the quarters.
Down are evidently progressing. In the latter part of the 2nd half v Monaghan they were responding in kind, on the attack just 2 points behind and they get pulled up by the ref for a costly 2 point infringement. Nothing went right for Down in the last 1/4 except the gifted free awarded for O'Toole's non-foul, whereas everything else went right for Monaghan. IMO it could easily have been a one point game which could have gone either way.

Why do you think the theoretical quarter final would be Galway versus Monaghan?

A theoretical set of qf pairings

Armagh (can only) v Kerry

that leaves 3 pairs

Meath v Donegal (who have already played Monaghan and Tyrone)
Galway have already played Dublin
therefore Monaghan v Galway
and Dublin v Tyrone

Are there any other possibilities should the fancied 4 go through?
Possibly the Monaghan Donegal previous game doesn't count

GRMA

2 weeks of rest aren't going to make much difference to Meath or Monaghan.

Disagree. The rest will give both a better chance of winning their All Ireland quarter than if they had three matches in consecutive weekends and then playing a rested opponent.

Neither Meath nor Monaghan are weapons grade. They won't get anywhere near Sam.

[People need to stop bringing Div 1 teams and Div 2 teams to make a point.]

People need to stop bringing Div 1 teams and Div 2 teams to make a point.  The last two All Ireland champions was won by teams that played their spring football in Div 2 and Derry reached back to back All Ireland semi finals having played in Div 2 both years. It's a last 16 now down to the last 12. There isn't much of gap if any at all between those battling relegation in Division 1 and those pushing for promotion to Div 1. 

Would be nice to see a shock or two this weekend but the 4 favourites Donegal,Galway,Dublin,Kerry should win,  what shape they'll be in for the following week against a rested Monaghan,Meath,Tyrone,Armagh remains to be seen.

2 weeks of rest aren't going to make much difference to Meath or Monaghan.

https://www.ft.com/content/6969644f-ca2f-4ca5-a230-cc230d6d8acf

A total of some 338 people had already been killed trying to reach the GHF food centres as of Monday, according to a toll published by the Gaza health ministry. The centres have been open for less than three weeks.

Should Galway prevail over Down and the other 3 fancied counties go through, i think the players left standing for Galway would likely be meeting Monaghan in the quarters.
Down are evidently progressing. In the latter part of the 2nd half v Monaghan they were responding in kind, on the attack just 2 points behind and they get pulled up by the ref for a costly 2 point infringement. Nothing went right for Down in the last 1/4 except the gifted free awarded for O'Toole's non-foul, whereas everything else went right for Monaghan. IMO it could easily have been a one point game which could have gone either way.

Why do you think the theoretical quarter final would be Galway versus Monaghan?

[AEA thought Iran was a few months away in April]

US carriers are on route, they could bring larger GBU 57 bunker busters. IAEA thought Iran was a few months away in April, they've had long enough

3 months away from what?

Enriching enough uranium to weapons grade 90%. They supposedly have enriched enough to create 9 warheads at 60%, it's not a long process to go from 60-90 a few days maybe. Then the process of creating a suitable warhead to fit Irans ballistic missiles, most likely the Shahab-3 

https://www.ft.com/content/03475842-014c-402b-8fd0-be77a89decc1
Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel has urged the US president to listen only to the voice of God as he weighed further US military involvement in the Middle East.

It's the worse draw possible for Down but also the worst for Galway, Down at the Marshes will be no walkover for Galway.

Worst for Galway? As opposed to Kerry or Donegal away? I think Down will give them their fill of it but I'm sure they'd have taken Down out of the options available.

A miswritten post for sure, meant to write - worst for Down, best for Galway but it wont be a walkover.

It is a good fixture for Galway considering that Kerry and Donegal were possible opposition. The 4 pre quarter finals are division 1 versus division 2 fixtures.

Israel doesn't have the bombs to take out Fordow nuclear site which is built 0.5 km into a mountain.

Iran will take its time in replying. Israel has bitten off more than it can chew.

The sanctions against Israel can't come soon enough. Israel is out of control.

Armagh will want to win this one. They've a chance to knock out one of the main teams who can stop them from retaining Sam. They'll go full strength.

Armagh can only knock out Galway if Derry beat or draw with Dublin.

Poundland has been sold for a pound

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36594lr29ko

Evidently for you the County game is the be all and end all and that's fine, but for a lot of us involved with clubs up and down the country the split season is a godsend and guess what, the intercounty players are also on for the split season as they can plan their lives around it with a degree of certainty.

If anything traditionally the Munster championship was straight knock out as was the entire intercounty championships, do we revert back to that?
And it also can't be about money as the Munster Council have lost out on a huge payday if there was a replay down in Cork!
I understand your dislike for the penalty shootout, not overly keen on it myself, but it's for the greater good unless you're a lazy journalist.

If there's a bit of fine tuning to have the AI the later in July, I could live with that but we can't be going back to AI's in September which in turn push club hurling even further into the depths of winter and into the following year.

There could be a 4 week break in hurling and football in July to start club games and the all Ireland series to start in August.

£50m from the Brits
https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2025/0611/1517757-casement-park/