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Quick question - what position did Tommy Carr predominatly play for the dubs back in the day?

Was McBrearty playing? That'll be 3 High Level games in 5 days . . . ah sure we're a great Association!

Couldnt get past the Dungiven sirs but!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Davitts are a good strong side. They won Connacht fairly comfortably and walked their AI semi.
There's 2 of their team currently on the Mayo panel and both will probably be near enough to the starting Mayo team this summer.
I haven't seen them in the flesh this year but have seen them a few times over the past few seasons and they seem to be a good bit better again this year.
Michael Conroy in the full forward line has been their star for most of the campaign. Has been racking up the scores all year.
I'd fancy them to win their game.

My own club were beaten in the Galway county final by Clonbur. They are also a decent side. They have no real individual stars but are a good solid all round team.
It's a tough one to call. Derrytresk obviously missing a few lads through suspension but they must be a decent enough side to have beaten Dromid Pearses.

Na lad was down at the game the Dromaird Pearses team were terrible, looked like they only started playing football a few weeks back. Their handling skills were woeful and they looked 'oldish'. Even though they went to 13 men they wouldnt have won if they had the 15.

Castlemaine were a phsyically small side also but their players were good on the ball and their midfielder, I think called Burke (who was not big at all) rulled supreme at midfield. If i was Jack O'Connor i think he could definetly do a job in at wing half forward for the Kerry team.

So looks like a Clonbur and Davitts double for the weeknd!!!!

What about Clonbur then worth a punt??

Regarding the intermediate semis, Castlemaine who beat Craigbane were not overally impressive as Craigbane did not perform at all and only got beat by a point. Mind ye they have some midfielder! What are the Davitts from Mayo like?

Fancy Tyrone 8/15 home to Derry, Fermanagh 4/9 at home to Clare  and Kildare 4/9 away to Monagahan.

Anyone else any 'Bankers'??

I heard there interviewing 'Handbag lady' live!

-'So Mrs. Do ye tink that hitting him with the bag was severe?'

-' Ach no, a few fecking years ago I would be hitting him with the butt of my armalite for goodness sake, with a warning shot to the back of the head; sure I only bliming tapped him!'


-'Do you think your ban was severe?'

-''It was bliming surly, sure it could of been worse; I could been banned for 11 months instead of 48 weeks.'


-'Will you take this to the appeal's court?'

- 'No. I'm gonna take it to big Murphy and O'Neiil up in Carrickmore they usually sort out, what we call....... Ahem..... 'issues' up here. No better men for the job and they always get the job done.'


- 'Will you be decommissioning the handbag now?'

- ' Not a f**king chance, I'm not like those Shinners.'


-' So overall, do you think Derrytresk will win the final with all the suspensions and with you yourself personally won't be there?'

- 'As I said earlier, Big Murphy and O'Neill will get the job done and we will be present in Croker and these boys are that good that we will have bloody Canavan and Stephen O'Neill in the full forward line for us on the day. Now see ya later I'm away to break down and clean the handbag for the weekend. See ya in Croker!!.'

Are Derry the worst supported team in the top two divisions ? Seemed to be a lot of room at Celtic Park today for a surprise result- however, there is some talent coming through for the Tribesmen and they must be in with a shout in the next 3 or 4 years .

Yes, by a long way.

Derrys support is pathetic. On the plus side there was a lot of clubs who were involved in the Ulster league yesterday so a lot of them would be at their own club games and then you had the Dungiven u-21 game and Coleraine's camogs were in an all-ireland semi final. By the way how did they do?

ah lads tis about time the GAA actually took some action on these mass brawls hi which are all too common...................... and tis just unlucky that on this occasion it is Derrytresk and Dromaird who are the fall guys.

Good job they didn't see the Kilrea v Ballinderry game in the Derry Championship last year!!!!

Because this fight was in a national competition with exposure across the country and not in a local championship the GAA maybe believed that it was a great time to hit the teams hard.

These matches live???

Did Bob Dylan not steal the tune of the ' Patriot Game' from Behan for his song below? Patriot Game is about Fergal O Hanlon.

Seeing as the loyalist element are piss poor at doing some proper research re GAA clubs named after post- War of Independence IRA volunteers.
There's a Monaghan club called after Fergal O Hanlon, GAA player and IRA volunteer fatally wounded in the border campaign of the 1950's, also made world famous in Bob Dylan's song "With God On Your Side"

Ye have Sean Dolans in Derry coty. He was a great gael. Played trad music, was a POW, and did great things for the GAA in Derry City. He died in 1941.

A lot of clubs are old so they would have taken their names long before the recent war in the north, hence a lot from 1798 and 1916. To compensate there are a lot of triphies named after Republican Volunteers such as the Intermediate cship in Derry (Sheridan, Lee and Bateson) and the Martin McCaughey u 12 tournament in Galbally, East Tyrone

I don't think Billy Wright or Padraig Pearse compare in any way

If you do not know anything about this topic please stop posting...................

Plus please everyone stop forgetting to put in the UK into the  city of culture phrase. That's what we won isn't it?............

Why is everyone linking the Fleadh to the City of Culture thing? It's not actually part of the City of Culture programme of events, and it wasn't CoC team that got the Fleadh to come. The two things are completely seperate, they just happen to be taking place on the same year. So this whole argument is a load of shite. Or am I missing something?

Aerlik your comment there is laughable. It contradicts itself. I for one don't want dominion or colonial status from Britain like your statement refers too.

Condescending arrogance now? There's a surprise.

The notion that Irish people are all the same and follow SF orthodoxy is naive. There are loads of people who couldn't care less what people earn. Have you ever come across the Sunday Independent ? Anyway SF itself in government is intensely relaxed about the massive salaries paid to certain people working for the Government and in quangos. 

SF? not a word was mentioned about them. I wouldn't agree that they are socialists at all for that matter. 

Labeling people for their beliefs (and getting it wrong) is very poor argument.