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Is Tintown still pretending to be from Stewartstown?

That's the bit that maybe our southern Irishmen mightn't be able to grasp.  The tension and the wait for what was the inevitable and hoping that it wasn't someone from your family or from the club - not that you didn't feel anguish for the those people and their families.

I always found, coming from a republican family, that someone form my family would be taken out.  My uncle was shot dead in 84 and a cousin was killed in 98.  We always felt uneasy doing normal things like driving to the city hospital or walking anywhere really at night time because you always felt that Loyalist killed anyone from our community and that it mattered not to them whether you were involved or not.  This below was the mentality of the UVF and UDA in my head and obviously in their own too:



But you are right, death was so common that it was often brushed off as daily news.  House searches were common for me.  It made me angry that at 4am as a late teenager that a British soldier was pushing me about my own house and breaking up floorboards and walls while I was in my own country.  That was my mentality and the mentality that wanted them gone from my country forever. This was a British state for British people well into the 90s and there are so many examples past and even present of discrimination against Irish people in our own country.

Of course we can look back now and see that it was futile and that so many people died needlessly, so many people spent years away from their families and for what?  Nothing was really achieved by it but that doesn't make me subscribe to the idea that the IRA were terrorists or worse still that they were the cause of this. 

In my eyes, partition/British occupation coupled unionist discrimination and supremacy were the cause.  The IRA and people rising to resist this were merely the symptoms.  This isn't just an Irish thing.  This happens all over the world.

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Couldn't of worded it better myself.

WT4E, When was the last time you's were in junior football?

I am that person, who is always forcing another drink on people, be it my mates in the bar or girlfriend when out for a meal. I've never actually realised to i read this thread.

I have learnt a lot from this thread and advice took on board.

Why is there no catch net in Omagh?

Whose everyone's top five 18/19-year-olds on the club scene at the moment?

Hope you get the mention your desperately craving here deadman

Was at the game and can't confidently say if it was deliberate or not.

How many players do Stewartstown have suspended, any names?

Tickets should not of been on general sale before club allocation plain and simple.

Season ticket holders and club members should be equal priority.

Tickets back on Sale and I'm trying to get Tyrone fans to buy them NOT DUBS
http://www.gaa.ie/tickets/

Buy as many as ye can and resell them back to your club as they only have a limited number.

Have two going at face value for any Tyrone fans

Unfortunately i think the Dubs will be the louder supporters with Majority of them behind both nets. Would love to see a Tyrone win but think Dublin will beat us handy and put to bed the myth that they can only win in Croker.

Tickets seem to be sold out, talk of a fan zone to be set up in Omagh.

Alcohol good all drugs bad apparently

Mass walk out of players and management has resigned, not sure of circumstances surrounding this though.

Whats going on up in Cookstown?

Any of our East Tyrone posters be able to fill us in? worrying times for the Fr.Rocks

Really baffles me sometimes how out of touch some southern Catholics/nationalists are with our situation up in the North.