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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by 5times5times - Today at 09:29:02 PM

On a sourer note, the actions of the armagh contingent on the hill is becoming a black mark against the county.

Riot police had their hands full all afternoon. An embarrassment and unlikely even affiliated with any clubs.

Stay well clear ulster final day!

#2

Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by SHEEDY - Today at 09:28:35 PM

Let's guess the people spouting crap on here weren't even in clones today. The management had a plan in place to beat a top team and it nearly came off. A few missed chances proved costly in the end, but the players gave everything.

Maybe if a few more 'supporters' had turned up to get behind the team and lift them in the last minutes the way the Armagh fans did it might have got us over the line.

 

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GAA Discussion / Re: Leinster Senior football c...

Last post by armaghniac - Today at 09:26:58 PM

There will be a move to fix Dublin at some stage.  Maybe more teams instead of 1.

If the GAA were to split Dublin they would be abandoning the "county team" model for national competitions. What would replace that model?

The GAA also used a parish model, which Dublin ignored.These things are useful as far as they are useful, and can be changed. Most counties remain a useful unit, Dublin should have several teams and there is a case for a Belfast team and possibly a Cork city one

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Antrim / Re: Antrim Hurling

Last post by paddyjohn - Today at 09:19:30 PM

Great result, some change in 6 days

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by One life one club - Today at 09:05:52 PM

Some amount of negativity, everyone expected Armagh to come out and make little boys of Down today. They didn't. We were unlucky in the end . Laverty messed up with the mark, looked defeated before he even kicked the ball. Down have been progressing well under Conor guidance, long may it continue

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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by AnDúnAbú94 - Today at 09:05:00 PM

Some people on here would want to wise up a small bit. That game was a team early in their development setting up to exploit a much better team's weaknesses. And they nearly succeeded. Not every game is going to be a classic, there'll be some boring games to watch. We're the only sport in the world where every boring game is met by calls for rule changes. If Tyrone Donegal is brilliant tomorrow, the same people will be on about how much they enjoyed it. Leave the rules alone and let the sport develop ffs.

[They turned up to play as little football as possible]

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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by tbrick18 - Today at 09:03:50 PM

Down goals were a comedy of errors defensively. There was some running and handpassing in the build up, nothing more.

Genuinely shocked at how much credit people are trying to give down. They turned up to play as little football as possible, and when they did, were largely terrible at it.

Down turned up with tactics to keep Armagh out. What should they have done? Gone man-to-man for a spectacle? That statement in bold is a nonsense comment.
Down defended their goal, Donegal did that last week but had a kickout tactic and broke at pace - which won them the game. That's since been lauded as a tactical masterclass as Donegal got the tactics right to stifle Derry's attack and get over the press.
Down had a tactic of stifling the Armagh attack and then run at them at pace - it almost worked. A better team using the same tactic will beat Armagh as they can't cope with pace at the back.
Just my opinion.

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General discussion / Re: The far right

Last post by reddgnhand - Today at 09:02:03 PM

There was over 20000 foreigners armed to the teeth in the north for years don't remember any of these far right groups about then.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by downtothecore - Today at 08:57:47 PM

Beat by 1 or beat by 10, still BEAT

We were expected to get beat by 10 by most people and we should have won and in the process gave our biggest rivals a reality check..their footballers are no better than ours. Next year we can fully expect to turn them over.

#10

General discussion / Re: Things that make you go Wh...

Last post by seafoid - Today at 08:45:05 PM

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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said claims the Rwanda plan is causing an influx of migrants into Ireland show its deterrent effect is working.

"The deterrent is ... already having an impact because people are worried about coming [to the UK]," the Prime Minister said.

It comes after Tánaiste Micheál Martin said the UK's asylum policy is driving migrants in fear of being deported to Rwanda across the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0427/1446053-sunak-rwanda/Emergency laws will be brought to Cabinet on Tuesday to enable the Government to send asylum seekers back to the UK.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee is expected to discuss a new returns policy with her British counterpart when she visits London on Monday.

Earlier this week the Minister said that 80% of recent International Protection applicants arriving here came from the UK, via the land border with Northern Ireland.