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Young fellas/ post anything decent in here . Say max 5 years old

I'll kick off

Watermät - Bullit (Original Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpPm4bp-W8U

with thanks to Pete Tong

Discuss

of things you want to do before you die. What would be on yours ?

Commenting on the interaction between the GAA and national politics in Ireland 1912-1985, Politics and Society, Prof Joe Lee made the following observation:

"The success of the GAA, based on the co-option of intense local loyalties into a wider sense of national identity, reflected a capacity for organisation and a sense of communal coherence . . . The GAA served not only as a recruiting ground for republican activists, but as an apprenticeship for national organisers. The prevailing culture proved able to relate local loyalties to national issues."

What do Northern posters think of this ?

This is one of mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKnDMv6ceg

From the Irish Times 2009

Some of what Padraic Duffy had to say was interesting in itself, such as his frank admission of "the huge challenge"posed by working-class Ireland: "I suspect that the GAA in Dublin has become a very middle-class sport. We have found it difficult to establish in working-class areas, where it is weak and there is a real threat from soccer."This particular issue is a major aspect of social disadvantage. Communities without material wealth or the committed volunteer base to plan and deliver infrastructure are simply at the mercy of what has been over the years poor public provision of sports facilities. Consequently the growth spurts of Gaelic games in recent decades have been most obvious in affluent, middle-class neighbourhoods, particularly in the previously untilled soil of south Dublin. Facing that implication of social exclusion is one of the biggest challenges facing the GAA

What is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI-q59ycMws

the Cameron Report
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/index.html

It must have been pure hell for catholics pre 1969 , not that it was much better afterwards..

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/joe-brolly-mindfulness-gurus-put-my-bullstometer-in-overdrive-34301432.html

It is the same thing on linked in. People thinking 2016 will be fabulous just because it hasn't  happened yet. It will be more shite in the Eurozone regardless of how many people sing I believe I can fly. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIQn8pab8Vc

What was it ?

Well ?

I was wondering driving off the cork motorway past goffs and signs for russborough house and all tbe great land. How is it that Kildare  have not won an all ireland since 1928?

If the Galway hurlers won I'd put this on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moLGGqwpoIc

Things like

Go home ref
Anyone for the last few choc ices


etc

Go on

Say you had the money to establish a GAA museum in your county. What local legends and laochra
and triumphs either of finals or of the will would you include in the museum?

I think it would be fantastic to go up to Cavan say and spend an afternoon reading about the
great players who won 5 all Irelands .

Any good websites?

Myself and the dog have found this one very good.

www.walkingroutes.ie

Eg
walkingroutes.ie/WalkingTrails/sligo

has several very interesting walks around Enniscrone I never knew about

Have you got any? What are they ?

Or do you prefer the status quo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-z4Dz5ZU4

Here is the GAA paper

http://www.gaa.ie/content/documents/publications/fixtures_and_results/GAA%20Discussion%20Paper%2003_11_2015.pdf
at certain times of the year, talented
players in the 17-21 age-group (who have
come to be referred to as elite players) are
being asked to train too much, to play too
many matches for too many teams, and
are afforded too little time for rest and
recovery, leading to significant physical and
psychological strains;

Brolly
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/joe-brolly-drift-towards-capitalism-is-sucking-life-out-of-the-gaa-34180738.html
Duffy correctly identifies this 17-21 age grouping as an injury minefield. At the turn of the year, when Tommy Moolick, Kildare's star midfielder, badly damaged his knee playing for UCD against Kildare, it was his third game in seven days. "What these guys are being put under is just mental," said Jason Ryan.


this is another very good presentation

http://ulster.gaa.ie/wp-content/uploads/coaching/coachingconf2015/injury-prevention.pdf