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Just a note to let you know that the first edition of Gaelic Life will hit the shelves this coming Friday, January 5.

Gaelic Life will cater for GAA followers right across Ulster and will provide a mix of features, previews, profiles and opinions as well as all the latest GAA news.

If you have any news, views or you want to make a comment on GAA matters, have you say in FANZONE via our website at www.gaeliclife.com. We'll be publishing a selection of comments each week.


PW  :)

or the Highball magazine?

I can't see this one lasting the distance either, though I'd like to be proven wrong.

Surely if the hogan stand can keep going there is a market out there for a good GAA mag. Is it going to be Ulster only? because yer losing a lot of interest already if thats the case. best of luck with it, at least it looks like you've hired a designer to do some of the work unlike most of the dodgey GAA mags.

I bought a copy of HighBall yesterday, it comes out twice a year now, at All Ireland final time and at Christamas with an annual review as far as I know.

Lots of good articles, no advertorials like Hogan Stand.

More good money thrown after bad, ill give it six months at most. Crap journalists produce crap newspapers and magazines

Jesus lads, give it a chance!!!  >:(

I see they're charging a grand for a full page ad! Seems a lot for a magazine with no current readership! You'd probably get a decent size ad in the indo or IT for that!

QuoteYou'd probably get a decent size ad in the indo or IT for that!

What planet do you live on?

Lads it's time to give this thing a chance. Why is it that all GAA-folks are such pessimists when it comes to something new? Jesus the publication isnt even on the shelves yet and already you're writing it off!
Lets look at the facts.....
The publishers of this new publication already have five newspapers on the go, with over a hundred years of experience. Their readership across these is around 60,000 per week. Does this sound like a company which doesn't know what they're doing?
It's clear that they really mean business with this thing. Look at the amount of advertising, including TV, and the McKenna Cup sponsorship. That's big bucks!
It's also worth pointing out that this is a NEWSPAPER, not a magazine as has been reported in some quarters. 40 pages a week of Gaelic Games, in a lifestyle approach, as OutInFront says. How can that be a bad thing?
Finally, and maybe most importantly, people may be wrongly associating this with other failed projects to come out of Tyrone. This is different, very different, and has no associations with the others.
Personally, I'm looking forward to Friday to see what GaelicLife has to offer. Not only that, but I'm looking forward to the summer months of championship football where I'm sure GL is going to become a regular Friday morning pick-up for GAA supporters, of all codes, across Ulster.
I'm willing to give it a chance, maybe others should approach it with a positive attitude... or at least an open mind.
Bring it on I say and good luck to all involved!

Quote from: The Bottom Brick on January 01, 2007, 03:45:41 PM

QuoteYou'd probably get a decent size ad in the indo or IT for that!

What planet do you live on?

obviously one that's totally ignorant of the price of advertising ...

excuse my ignorance i had no idea an ad could cost this much ...

http://www.ireland.com/mediakit/p_rates.htm

First posts from 'Along the line' and 'Out in Front' on the board- you trying to drum up some interest for your new publication.  Hope it goes well for you and I look forward to reading it but don't make it so obvious the next time.  Thers is a market for this type of magazine but it may end up like the others.

Know nothing about this newspaper so can someone who does explain to me the difference from "the game"?

Quote from: Cloc Mor on January 01, 2007, 05:23:43 PM
First posts from 'Along the line' and 'Out in Front' on the board- you trying to drum up some interest for your new publication.  Hope it goes well for you and I look forward to reading it but don't make it so obvious the next time.  Thers is a market for this type of magazine but it may end up like the others.

Here Here Cloc. My thoughts exactly.

Good luck with the Newspaper and i hope it lasts. I worked for a while on Gael Sports Ulster and for all its limitations, it's still churning out monthly after 5 and a half years. Good to see you've borrowed their format - it has worked for them. Competing against the Irish News may be a problem - what can you provide that they dont?

Well they had the link to the Tyrone website wrong on their website. I emailed them last week about it and they've corrected. Howevere, they've got the coding wrong and it still doesn't work.... Good Luck lads!

That all said and done, I'll still be buying it.

just on that note ziggy- I had a look at the various county websites that are up there- Jaysus but some of them are terrible. Tyrone's though does look impressive- Armagh's looks very well too (if it were 1994)

Quote from: heganboy on January 02, 2007, 04:34:05 PM
Tyrone's though does look impressive

The old one was embarrassingly bad. They only launched this one, two or three months ago. Definately is good, but it all depends on the people who are updating it and if they continue to do so. I was at the launch for it and this is only that start of it. They have big plans for it in the future.

Armagh's site isn't so bad. Surely it mightn't be visually as exciting as Tyrone's, but it has all the information you would want or need.

QuoteWell they had the link to the Tyrone website wrong on their website

Noticed that Ziggy. Mind you they had a good Tyrone youth website up last year which was good.

Looking forward to seeing what it was like, the Game was a decent enough paper, but I think there would be an interest in this new one if its a good publication.  Mag's like hoganstand are ok, but its good to read about the game locally, here in Ulster.  At the minute I just look forward to Tuesdays Irish Star pull out, which is as good as it gets for local GAA.

Gaelic Games Magazine is decent enough - it seems to have a number of the top GAA writers do pieces for it. But anytime I went to buy it I had to go to Easons, nowehere else seemed to seel it.

In relation to the state of the county websites, this was on http://www.setanta.com/portal/sport/gaa



How does your county rate in cyberspace?

     
Well, we've rated the GAA's sites county-by-county and the results bear little in common with their respective on-field performances.

Tommy Murphy Cup runners-up Leitrim and All-Ireland SFC Qualifier Round One departees Antrim are the best maintained and visually enticing websites, while All-Ireland football champions Kerry have not updated their site since claiming the Sam Maguire Cup in autumn.

We have analysed each county website and given ratings based on their e-communication structure, site appearance, regularity of updates, local and national news diet and other useful features.

The sites have then been placed accordingly in a four-division league, similar to the structure the 2008 National Leagues will take.

Antrim have arguably the best website alongside Leitrim's. The Saffron site has all its club league tables and updates results via the clubs who are obligated to text in scores to a hotline where all the information is collated.

During the championship there were updates on county teams and panels, a diet of national news and a photo gallery.

It also has a special feature - which other counties would do well to copy - a forum is available to users whereby they can question an administration team on a wide range of topical issues.

Tyrone's site, meanwhile, could well challenge the top two in 2007. It has been recently launched and avails all the latest in terms of flash plug-ins etc and a lovely map showing where all the clubs are located. So there are no excuses for being late games.

Counties like Donegal and Derry, have made it into the top tier primarily as a result of their regularity of updates and volume of information, but their aesthetic features somewhat detract from the overall product.

Kerry would have secured a place in Division One but for the fact that once the championship was sown up, information dried up. Perhaps it was overloaded by a 34th All-Ireland crown.

A number of counties would effectively be better off not having a site so bad is their offering. If we play a name and shame game, the likes of Westmeath, Waterford , Cork and even All-Ireland hurling champions Kilkenny are all in dire need of a complete makeover.

London's website, meanwhile, was shut down over abuse received on its discussion forum. While it can still be accessed it has not been updated in months.

A well-informed source within the GAA has however confirmed that the GAA's central website – gaa.ie – an old warhorse, is set to be rebuilt, and a tangent to this initiative will be bringing county sites inline as the GAA moves forward.

DIVISION 1

Leitrim - www.leitrimgaa.ie

Antrim - http://antrim.gaa.ie/

Longford - http://www.longfordgaa.ie/

Dublin - http://www.hill16.ie

Tyrone - www.tyronegaa.ie

Kildare - http://kildare.gaa.ie

Donegal - http://www.donegalgaa.ie

Derry - http://derry.gaa.ie/

DIVISION 2

Meath - http://meath.gaa.ie

Tipperary - http://tipperary.gaa.ie/

Kerry - http://kerry.gaa.ie

Galway - www.galwaygaa.ie

Mayo - www.mayogaa.com

Offaly - http://offaly.gaa.ie

Clare - http://www.claregaa.ie

Down - http://www.downgaa.net

DIVISION 3

Wicklow - http://wicklow.gaa.ie

Kilkenny - http://kilkenny.gaa.ie

Sligo - http://sligo.gaa.ie

Laois - http://laois.gaa.ie

Armagh - http://www.armagh-gaa.com

Carlow - http://carlow.gaa.ie

Louth - http://www.louth.gaa.ie

Limerick - http://limerick.gaa.ie

DIVISION 4

London - www.londongaa.org

Wexford -http://wexford.gaa.ie

Roscommon - http://www.gaaroscommon.ie

Fermanagh - http://fermanagh.gaa.ie

Westmeath - http://westmeath.gaa.ie/frame.htm

Cork - http://cork.gaa.ie

Cavan - http://cavan.gaa.ie

Monaghan - http://monaghan.gaa.ie

Waterford - http://waterford.gaa.ie

Looks suspiciously like a thread from this discussion board a few months ago  ???

Jarlath Burns and Joe Brolly are just two of the columnists signed up to Gaelic Life.

PW :)

Just saw the add on TV, very slick, hope it works, shame we don't have anything similar for Leinster.

Looks good alright - a few ££££ spent there.  Does seem to be alot of money, in general, being pumped into this magazine.

I enjoyed Jarlath's article everyweek in the Daily Ireland when it was still about. Mmmh, I'm more tempted to get the Gaelic Life now.

I thought Jarlath's articles in the DI were too often inaccurate to be taken seriously. I'll be purchasing the GL to read Brolly if anything - a man not afraid to speak his mind.

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 02, 2007, 05:03:08 PM
Looks suspiciously like a thread from this discussion board a few months ago  ???

Funnily enough I thought so too.

Here is the original thread from Maroon Heaven: http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=563.0

More accurately though here is Lone Sharks rating of the websites from that thread:

(1) Top Class - Informative and well presented

Leitrim
Antrim
Derry
Kerry (up until it went offline after the All Ireland)
Longford
Meath
Dublin

(2) Not bad - generally had the information, but could be better

Mayo
Down
Offaly
Donegal
Clare
Tipperary
Limerick
Louth

(3) Not great. Hit and miss, looks poor.
Sligo
London
Fermanagh
Cavan
Monaghan
Waterford
Wexford

(4) Awful or non-existent
Cork
Kilkenny
Armagh
Westmeath
Carlow
Wicklow
Galway
Roscommon
New York

Here is the rating from that article:

DIVISION 1

Leitrim - www.leitrimgaa.ie
Antrim - http://antrim.gaa.ie/
Longford - http://www.longfordgaa.ie/
Dublin - http://www.hill16.ie
Tyrone - www.tyronegaa.ie
Kildare - http://kildare.gaa.ie
Donegal - http://www.donegalgaa.ie
Derry - http://derry.gaa.ie/

DIVISION 2

Meath - http://meath.gaa.ie
Tipperary - http://tipperary.gaa.ie/
Kerry - http://kerry.gaa.ie
Galway - www.galwaygaa.ie
Mayo - www.mayogaa.com
Offaly - http://offaly.gaa.ie
Clare - http://www.claregaa.ie
Down - http://www.downgaa.net

DIVISION 3

Wicklow - http://wicklow.gaa.ie
Kilkenny - http://kilkenny.gaa.ie
Sligo - http://sligo.gaa.ie
Laois - http://laois.gaa.ie
Armagh - http://www.armagh-gaa.com
Carlow - http://carlow.gaa.ie
Louth - http://www.louth.gaa.ie
Limerick - http://limerick.gaa.ie

DIVISION 4

London - www.londongaa.org
Wexford -http://wexford.gaa.ie
Roscommon - http://www.gaaroscommon.ie
Fermanagh - http://fermanagh.gaa.ie
Westmeath - http://westmeath.gaa.ie/frame.htm
Cork - http://cork.gaa.ie
Cavan - http://cavan.gaa.ie
Monaghan - http://monaghan.gaa.ie
Waterford - http://waterford.gaa.ie

Maroon Heaven and Lone Shark when the cheque arrives don't forget to let the taxman know about it. ;D

The Game disappeared around this time last year (I think). I can remember them taking a Christmas break never to appear again. It was strange in that most publications start at a certain price and then increase as time goes on. The game started at about £1 and then fell to 60p. I think it was from the same stable as Teamtalk Magazine who produce a colour magazine for the Tyrone market every once and a while (and the All Star Awards). While the Game was aimed at a wider audience I always thought there was more than a hint of Tyrone in every issue. I have never heard an explanation as to why it stopped. Gaelic Life is definitely from a different stable.

Slightly off main topic but in line with what has gone before i see more lazy journalism today in the Irish News who also have done a bit on rating county websites!

Its good to see Brolly on board, no matter if you like him or not he writes a good article.  Always good craic and holds nothing back, although big Brian Mc Gilligan is always featured in his articles.  Havent seen the Derry Journal in a while, was wondering if he was still putting in his 'Brollys Bites' column.  Was some laugh.  Would like to see Martin Mc Hugh on board too, writes a good article every week for the Irish Star.

Saw the ad for Gaelic Life on the TV last night, it seems these boys aren't messing about so far anyway.

Best of luck to all concerned I hope the quality is as high as the marketing suggests, although the demise of other titles in the past doesn't bode well. Oddly it seems to be only the lower quality ones with less ambition and lower costs, that seem able to keep the show on the road. ;)

Quote from: cavanmaniac on January 04, 2007, 03:15:16 PM
Oddly it seems to be only the lower quality ones with less ambition and lower costs, that seem able to keep the show on the road. ;)

Too true, too true....

With the TV ad and them sponsoring the Dr. McKenna Cup, I'm beginning to think that prehaps this weekly Ulster GAA paper could last the distance.

I hope so. However, the challenge is to remain true to its principles - to publish weekly - instead of the teamtalk/gaelic game slide into once-in-a-while. The advertising campaign is most encouraging.

I found with the game that generally it lacked sufficient detail on topics other than football. The hurling section usually only had fixtures and the odd article on down or antrim, nothing on the other counties. The camogie section was worse and the ladies football wasnt great either. Although, i have to say i only bought the game for the handball section and Chris Curran always managed a page or two when there was very little to write about.

First impressions is very good. Although it is Omagh based I am of the opinion it will only be successful if it is not "parochial in theme".
However as a Derry man we get "the herald" from the same stable every week and it is easily one of the better weekly local papers.There has obviously been alot of thought and professionalism put into this product and i think it will do well in what is a very competitive market.

I know the national papers all focus on Dublin too much for a lot of pople's liking [i can see why] but we don't have much in the way of local papers in dublin, the Herald is about it, good Dublin club coverage on tuesdays but i think outside dublin you've got better local coverage.

Have to say, am impressed with this first edition and it can only get better as the year progresses.

Only complaint I have thus far is there's a pic of Eamonn McGee with the caption stating it's Neil Gallagher

Apart from the grainy cover pic, an impressive debut. The cynic in me would say that they'll never keep a 48-page weekly going throughout the year but having read the first issue there seems to be a determination to go about it the correct way. The type-setting is excellent. Hopefully when the games are flowing thick and fast we won't have 4-5 match reports of the same game. I'd say the hurling/camogie/handball followers are disappointed but there's plenty of time yet.

First issue - 8/10

well done, we need a regular GAA paper to promote our games.  i hope these boys can sustain this paper.  Keep it coming lads

Where is it on sale?

Gaelic Life is being distributed around Ulster by one of the main newspaper wholesale suppliers.
If you can't get it in your area please let us know - even a post here as to what village, town etc you are in.
Better still tell us the name of the shop and we'll do our best to get copies distributed to it - email: editor@gaeliclife.com

PW :)

Any chance you'll bring out a leinster version??? pooooor us!  ;D

Excellent read, but as expected lip-service to hurling etc.  Perhap rename to Gaelic Football Life.   Brolly doesnt hide his views of GPA !!!!!!

agreed bottle of stout, good read, nice sharp lay out but very little hurling content,

I have been looking forward to this for quite a while but having read almost half of it (still at work) I have to say that I am a little bit disappointed. Too many similar articles with predictable views from the predictable columnists.

Not sure that I can stomach so many articles on the McKenna Cup until Tyrone win it again but am looking forward to the fantasy football cometition.

I will continue to purchase it for another few weeks so that the guys can review things and hopefully task all their staff with different topics.

So much potential but first edition could have been better (Might edit this when I get the paper finished this evening)

Well to be fair Scrub, there isn't much football on at the moment. Wait to the Gaelic Life Dr. McKenna Cup starts properly and they National League comes around. There'll be more to the paper then.

Not bad at all i must say. Why do egotistic journalists put their photo on top of their articles. The editor is perfectably acceptable but i cant hack thon we Woods upstart stuck in another newspaper. Can no one else write about Ladies football. He knows nothing about it in the first place. I recall him not picking my sister on the Tyrone U16 a few years back because she missed a training because it happened to be the day of my wedding. Jumped up wee fart. I remember Lynette Hughes writing in Team Talk, completly tearing shreds of Errigal Ciaran, won her no friends but i bet you everyone read her stuff. Thats what you need instead of, and no disrespect, Maebh Mo injury crisis

who are you?

fairly brave launching at this time of year as was said not much to write about.
as a leinster man it would be good if they had a bit from other provinces, likle a little round up.
i havent seen it but at least they are advertising. the gaa seem to presume things will just promote itself. its kind of poxy to walk in to easons and see loads of specialist sports mags and only one or two gaa ones, none up till now were weekly.
but if it goes well surely they would look at a leinster market where there is more hype and revenue available.

well done, as i said i havent seen it but its about time that a weekly mag came out.

They're launching this time of year so that they'll have a readership built up when the real action starts, and even that's only three weeks away...

Design is very professional, I liked it a lot...

As someone said though, they will have to break stories. Where The Game failed was it didn't tell you anything you didn't already know by Friday.

I think there's too much emphasis on big names in a lot of papers. Ex players are exactly that - I'd rather give the 250/300 euros a week to a top writer rather than givibng a washed up mouthpiec e a soapbox to stand on.

Brolly's like a new version of Spillane I'm afraid, and as for Jarlath - designs on the presidency maybe?

I haven't seen a copy of it yet but I will give it a go if I can get a copy. Being more of a hurling man I suspect it's not aimed at the likes of me. You're right about the internet. You can get most breaking GAA news on the web or on a site like this. A newpaper has to work hard to stay relevant. I reckon 20k is a bit on the high side.

What I like about a site like the gaa board is that you get opinions, from all over Ireland, from what mostly appear to be real GAA fans, many of whom seem to be in the know in their respective areas. There have been some great debates on here and it's good to hear other views and argue a bit with people from other counties. And as for news, if there is something about to break in a newspaper you can nearly be certain that someone on here has mentioned it first. I just find that I get more out of my daily read of the GAA board than I do out of any of the papers. If there's a big story breaking I'm more interested in reading the debate about it on here than I am about getting the paper (the next day) to read some journalist's take on it.
In saying that I still hope Gaelic Life survives but they will really have to stir things up to attract the sort of readership they're looking for. A series of bland articles just won't do.

I'm the same as you ClosetotheHarte. In many cases, I often hear the news here a week before it makes it to the papers or becomes public knowledge.

A good example, Ziggy, is the management news in Tyrone. You'd be waiting a long, long time to find out who's in charge of each club in the county if you were waiting to read about it in the papers. But you should find each new appointment breaking here on a daily basis (hopefully!) over the coming weeks. I've heard a few strong rumours going about but wouldn't mention them on here yet until I know more. Also heard about a major player transfer that is taking place. Wonder how long the papers will take to find out about that one?
By the way how are the Greencastle preparations going - and when/where exactly does the All Ireland assault begin?

Training starts again properly next week, also they have been ticking along over Christmas. Our next game is Sunday 18th February. It was supposed to be against Connacht winner or Fulham London, but that appears to be indoubt.

CTTH and Ziggy I have to agree with you. Take the Tyrone County Convention. The annual report was posted here but the papers took about two weeks to drip feed items from it. In Gaelic Life today three articles looked at the revival of the McKenna Cup and two of them used the same joke that at one time even the McKenna's didn't turn up. (rehashed from last year's articles). All three referred to the TY V Armagh game in Casement.

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 05, 2007, 07:42:29 PM
CTTH and Ziggy I have to agree with you. Take the Tyrone County Convention. The annual report was posted here but the papers took about two weeks to drip feed items from it. In Gaelic Life today three articles looked at the revival of the McKenna Cup and two of them used the same joke that at one time even the McKenna's didn't turn up. (rehashed from last year's articles). All three referred to the TY V Armagh game in Casement.

Jez, sometimes the Board even has the news before 'people in the know'. I was talking to a Tyrone panellist the other day and was able to tell him about Mickey Harte calling up the three university players for the McKenna.  ;D

Excellent points, ClosetotheHarte. The internet age has hit many of the old dependables, be it newspapers, mags, even shopping! A newspaper like Gaelic Life needs a Unique Selling Point. At the minute, the Irish News covers all counties in Ulster comprehensively. GL needs to offer something different.

When I worked on Gael Sports Ulster, their sales figures were surprisingly high. They identified their audiences - colleges, schools, British Universities, club features, Ladies and London GAA. The targeted those areas to the extent that after subscriptions, there were very few prints left for the shops. They are still churning out every month - 5 years on the trot - so they're making a profit from somewhere. I'd put their monthly sales figures somewhere in the middle-four-figure bracket, with many subscribers from overseas - that's where the Irish News and local papers aren't readily available.

So what can GL do that's different to what is available? A very difficult question to answer. Match reports are a no-no, unless they're unique and hard-hitting! Hard to beat player/manager focus and nostalgia.

As for the pics of the journalists, they get on my goat. Why do I want to see your face? I remember a fine editor from Fermanagh who used to put faces of obscure aliens on his articles, taking the piss out of egotistical hacks.

That's what I mean - GSU didn't appeal to the mainstream. It targeted niche audiences - ie GAA colleges in England/Scotland, London GAA and college and school children over here, and nailed them in terms of subscriptions. In terms of overseas gaels, they'll snap up any GAA coverage they can. Schools and colleges here love to read about themselves as where else does that happen in coloured print. A remarkable total of schools subscribe to it.

GL is attempting to target the mainstream GAA supporter. That is ambitious and I sincerely hope it becomes part of the staple diet for GAA followers. The big test will be when you buy it on a Friday as well as the Irish News. What will you turn to first for GAA news? The day I open the GL first will speak volumes. 

Quoteeither a breaking story or a columnist giving us something juicy that we didn't already know

Like The Game's exclusive on Canavan retiring - nine months later he won an All Ireland!

Yes or detail about the major transfer which closetotheharte is talking about earlier on this thread. Give us a clue ;D

To be fair, the McKenna joke was from Brolly and Burns.

I havent seen any copies about, must look out for it tomorrow. There would only be one place one the top part of the Ormeau road that would sell it, so i will look for it in the morning on me way to work  :(

Jez lads, it's never going to beat the internet on getting the news out first, probably won't even beat the Irish News (cos it's daily!!!!!!!!! doh! ).

But where the GL can but itself justice is by covering all the counties of Ulster, not just Armagh and Tyrone.

Flicked through it there last night, as I am more of a perusal than a cover to cover man, and it looks the part anyhow.
One part that made me situpandtakenotice was the ratings of Freeman, Bradley, McDonnell and O'Neill.

Basically the article give each one marks out of 10 in various facets skill, accuracy etc etc. Glancing to the bottom it rated McDonnell first, Freeman, O'Neill then Bradley.

O'Neill behind Freeman I thought!!!

Then I totalled all the sections, and they added them up wrong. Freeman should have 44.5, not 45.5 as was credited with, and O'Neill should've had 46, and not the 45 he was credited with.

Pedantic I know, but what's the point of this article if inaccuracy nulifies it.

Good effort though....

Local shop got ten in yesterday and there were all gone when i got there this morning, mind you there are a few from here on this board, so its good for the paper that they are sold out at the minute, but the we will see if it holds on to its readers after the honeymoon period is over.

think i might have took the last one yesterday evenin square ball, thats if its the shop opposite the errigle you're thinking of. Sorry, should prob have left it there for you, not overly impressed to be truthful

Yip

its one and the same, so I may be able to get one next time then, must admit for the local GAA its hard to beat the South Belfast News

The very place!! It even stocks my beloved Ulster Herald and Tyrone Herald

Must say I thought it was fairly good, there were several minor factual mistakes that I noticed.  I'll get it again.

Quote from: hairyhog on January 06, 2007, 06:19:44 PM
The very place!! It even stocks my beloved Ulster Herald and Tyrone Herald

Called into the same shop this morning for one myself but couldn't spot any. Was able to pick one up from Colm's little shop on Sunnyside St this afternoon.

Sunnyside Up still going strong Donagh?

Quote from: tieroan on January 05, 2007, 03:45:46 PM
Not bad at all i must say. Why do egotistic journalists put their photo on top of their articles. The editor is perfectably acceptable but i cant hack thon we Woods upstart stuck in another newspaper. Can no one else write about Ladies football. He knows nothing about it in the first place. I recall him not picking my sister on the Tyrone U16 a few years back because she missed a training because it happened to be the day of my wedding. Jumped up wee fart. I remember Lynette Hughes writing in Team Talk, completly tearing shreds of Errigal Ciaran, won her no friends but i bet you everyone read her stuff. Thats what you need instead of, and no disrespect, Maebh Mo injury crisis

::) Your a brave man behind a computer.  You do know that the journalists don't put put their pictures at the top of their articles  don't you?  Woods never took tyrone u16 ladies so what are you talking about?   Sounds like u just have a personal gripe with him rather than his writing ability which I've  never found had  much wrong with it.

Why all the anger Pint of Guinness?

Quote from: Aristotle Flynn on January 07, 2007, 09:36:16 AM
Why all the anger Pint of Guinness?

No real anger, I just can't stand shite talk.

Not a bad first effort although not really much to get your teeth into. In fact I have almost gone from cover to back and with the exception of Brolly nothing would motivate me to buy it every week. Many of the pieces are very bland and 'lazy' with lack of facts in places. The design and layout are very good all the same but it looks like 'daily ireland' reincarnated with much of the same ideas as 'the game' but i'm sure things will improve as the season progresses. dont think the handball and hurling fraternity would be too impressed all the same as they are very much a big part of "gaelic life" but seem to be almost completely ignored. The ladies and camogie only looks a token gesture. Dont know what ever happened to the game but it was a much better read than this and yet it didnt last out the distance!!!! Will get over the next few weeks but if it doesnt improve dont think I wuld be adding to Irish Star on Tuesday, the Irish News and a few of the real good features in the sundays!

Well there was no football worth talking about last week. Give it to this Friday when there's plenty to talk about. After all, they are part sponsors of the Gaelic Life Dr McKenna Cup.

They would need to have some very unique insights on McKenna Cup games if it doesn't appear 'til Friday when everything will be talked to death by the dailies and discussion boards.

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 06, 2007, 08:50:33 PM
Sunnyside Up still going strong Donagh?

Closed a while back. now a Chineese takeaway

Would have liked to take a look at it but the boy behind the counter in Easons on O'Connell Street looked genuinely bemused when I asked him about it.

Credit where credit is due....Gaelic Life made an excellent debut.  It was a very enjoyable first issue and even better than I had anticipated.  If they can keep this standard up, I will certainly be buying it every Friday.  A good range of articles but Ronan McSherry's piece on the Northern Siege Mentality was my favourite.  Acouple of little faux pas here and there but it would be a bit churlish to highlight these.  Their fantasy football competition could be interesting and let's hope Red Knight Alan Rodgers also decides to buck his ideas up a bit!!!  Perhaps, hurling really is his first love after all....

Quote from: aontroim on January 07, 2007, 06:58:48 PM
They would need to have some very unique insights on McKenna Cup games if it doesn't appear 'til Friday when everything will be talked to death by the dailies and discussion boards.

aontroim makes a good point here.  I am not so sure I want to be reading a bland score by score account of each of the McKenna Cup games next Friday....it would be nice to see Gaelic Life take a different angle on each of the match reviews. 

Passable first edition, though think it will struggle to find its identity in currently crowded media market. Columnist like Burns and Brolly are very good, but other content is bland. As the season progresses the analysis of teams will become boring and repetitive, and they are too late in the week for match reports.  More features on history, administration, club development, role of GAA and competitions would broaden its appeal base. Wish it luck and will continue to support,while remaining pessimistic about long term prospect of survival

Have to say, I was very disappointed with Gaelic Life on Friday!There was absolutely no attempt at innovation,which I would expect from a new publication.The 'Five minutes with' features didn't include one question that I haven't seen somewhere in the previous thirty years since that type of thing first appeared,in fact the questions are more banal now than in 1975,how the f**k could you buy Eoin Liston or Mickey (sic) Sheehy on a transfer market if it did exist?Jarlath Burns and Joe Brolly are boring me now,I see enough of them on television(somebody please tell them that something is funny the first time,not when it is repeated 500 times later. By the way,could the editor not have pointed out that they were using the same tired anecdote,or did he read their submissions?)I thought that they used the best of 'The Game' and did it poorly.From a personal point of view, I think that the most interesting pieces in 'The Game' were provided by Eamon Coleman and one of the most interesting Gaelic Games columnists is Benny Tierney,I would love to see more articles from players and managers, who performed at the highest level,giving their insights into past events and views on today's games!

I would have to agree with bigpaul. eamon coleman was excellent in the game and probably the best read of any columnist as you knew he was talking straight from the heart whereas brolly (while very good) is at most times putting on a show. the more i have looked at it i think it will struggle badly to hold on to readers as 95% of the articles in it are just simply poor!

Im happy with Gaelic Life, and theyhave had an understandably slownews start.  Lets get into the nitty gritty.  Id love someone to investigate Seamus Mc Cloys claims on inefficiency in Croke Park.  Id like to see a serialisation of Donal Mc Anallans thesis on the troubles and the GAA.  Id like Jerome Quinn to have an input being an Omagh man! 

Was charged €1.50 in Centra Castleblayney even though it clearly states special introductory price of €1

woman in the shop tried to do the same with me, i soon let her know the correct price!! speak up mid mon, if you dont ask you wont get!

Anyone have an idea of the amount paid by Gaelic Life to the Ulster Council for Sponsorship of the McKenna Cup?

I would hope that that Gaelic Life will cover hurling a lot more than the few paragraphs that appeared in the first issue. I wish the paper well, but if it is going to turn into a football paper with lip service paid to hurling then I wont buy it in the future. More focus and articles on clubs would make a welcome read. 

Quote from: Redhandfan on January 07, 2007, 09:30:04 PM
  A good range of articles but Ronan McSherry's piece on the Northern Siege Mentality was my favourite.   

A good spot. Glossed over this first time but on second reading this was an excellent article. Well resourced and splendidly regaled. I'd look forward to reading more of this style.

Quote from: ONeill on January 08, 2007, 07:29:22 PM

Quote from: Redhandfan on January 07, 2007, 09:30:04 PM
  A good range of articles but Ronan McSherry's piece on the Northern Siege Mentality was my favourite.   

A good spot. Glossed over this first time but on second reading this was an excellent article. Well resourced and splendidly regaled. I'd look forward to reading more of this style.

Ronan had a readable piece in the Tyrone Herald today also. Keep it up Ronan!

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 08, 2007, 07:46:46 PM
Ronan had a readable piece in the Tyrone Herald today also. Keep it up Ronan!

I don't read that tripe. Nothing news worthy in it.

Although.. I guess it's good for local football straight after the weekend.

Quote from: ziggysego on January 08, 2007, 08:03:03 PM

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 08, 2007, 07:46:46 PM
Ronan had a readable piece in the Tyrone Herald today also. Keep it up Ronan!

I don't read that tripe. Nothing news worthy in it.
Although.. I guess it's good for local football straight after the weekend.

Steady Ziggy. I just said I thought Ronan had written a good article today. Can I post it and you can decide for yourself or would I break copyright? Any thoughts?

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 08, 2007, 08:14:52 PM

Quote from: ziggysego on January 08, 2007, 08:03:03 PM

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 08, 2007, 07:46:46 PM
Ronan had a readable piece in the Tyrone Herald today also. Keep it up Ronan!

I don't read that tripe. Nothing news worthy in it.
Although.. I guess it's good for local football straight after the weekend.

Steady Ziggy. I just said I thought Ronan had written a good article today. Can I post it and you can decide for yourself or would I break copyright? Any thoughts?

Steady, I did say it was good for sports ;)

Quote from: Sludden on January 09, 2007, 12:00:29 AM
Irish News  report on the Mc kenna  tie between Tyrone and Queens , did not list all the subs  introduced ,  while in The Star report complied by  boxing reporter Gerry Gallen,  the article sugested  that the 5th Queens sub was Caolan Tierney , when in fact it was Shaun o Neill,  whilist he also talked about a fowl , instead of a foul  in the lead up to a Tyrone score . 

Chill out Sludden. Oh and, by the way, just talking about mistakes, he's Gerry Callan - not Gallen.

Quote from: Sludden on January 09, 2007, 12:00:29 AM
Irish News  report on the Mc kenna  tie between Tyrone and Queens , did not list all the subs  introduced ,  while in The Star report complied by  boxing reporter Gerry Gallen,  the article sugested  that the 5th Queens sub was Caolan Tierney , when in fact it was Shaun o Neill,  whilist he also talked about a fowl , instead of a foul  in the lead up to a Tyrone score . 

I know i can't talk either Sludden as my report on McK Cup game had inaccuracies (Gormley scored second point instead of Mugsy) but suggested is spelt with two g's and whilst is spelt like that too.

The difference was that Sludden was posting on a message board, Gerry Callan was writing in a national daily newspaper. Sludden wasn't getting paid to type lazy shite!

I get the point though, it's a bit of a joke criticising someone for grammar and spelling and then making similar mistakes yourself as you do it!

ClosetotheHarte = ClosetoTheGame?

Hmmmm.....

Quote from: ClosetotheHarte on January 09, 2007, 11:04:02 AM
Hate doing this again but what was Paul Marlow (who hase never kicked a ball for Tyrone before!) doing in the Team Of The Week at the back of the paper when he is carrying an injury that I'm told will keep him out of the McKenna Cup?
That's the last thing I'll say about the first issue. And by the way some of it wasn't bad!

Quotenever kicked a ball for Tyrone before

- Nothing wrong with that closetotheharte? Is there?
Anyway two things, he did play extremely well as a minor before he was injured and I think to be fair that was a team of players to look out forrather than a team of the week.

QuoteMid Mon, you should know by now that the real GAA people operate at the other end of Blayney! Padraig and Raymond would never over-charge!

I thought I'd give my money to a Monaghan gael rather than an Armagh one. Don't see Peat with many Armagh flags up in the summer time.

Got my copy at last, long story and thanks PM  :-X Great reading, one thing just, where did you get the photo for Joe Brolly? the historical society, must be at least 15 years old, did he pick it himself? ;D

Anyone bought it yet today? Anything worth the read?

Just got it although I haven't read anything in it yet. At first glance it does look better than last week's though and the content looks better too. The only thing I've read yet is the editor's bit near the start which was an apology for the mistakes last week. Fair play to him for bringing them up.
There was a bit of criticism on here after the first one (from myself amongst others) and it looks like they have reacted and upped the standard. I'm hoping to get a proper read of it through the weekend.
I think most (or all) of us would dearly like to see an all GAA paper lasting here in Ulster and I hope they can keep attracting the buyers with good stuff.

They've apologised for all the f**k up from last week, including the calculation error that Norf Tyrone spotted. It is an improvement from last week's, but I can't help but think that they would be better selling the paper on a Monday, rather than a Friday.

for a paper with such detailed views on Sunday games it would be mighty difficult to get it out on a Monday I reckon. They'd need lots more staff and have to work weekends!!  :P

Havent got mine yet.  If Feasible a Monday or Tuesday paper would have been a very good result and match report paper.  Friday could not be a match report paper as its too long after the event.  I cant understand their decision making with all the club games and county games providing additional paper fill to their capable writing team.   

There's still room for improvement.In a question and answer session with Joe Kernan in to-day's edition, Paul Welsh asks big Joe the following;

"Since winning the All Ireland in 2003,have failed to even reach the final.Despite much promise, can you lift Sam again?"

FFS This guy Welsh makes 5Sams look like an expert in GAA Affairs

Quote from: Tony Fearon on January 12, 2007, 04:10:58 PM
There's still room for improvement.In a question and answer session with Joe Kernan in to-day's edition, Paul Welsh asks big Joe the following;

"Since winning the All Ireland in 2003,have failed to even reach the final.Despite much promise, can you lift Sam again?"

FFS This guy Welsh makes 5Sams look like an expert in GAA Affairs

FFS Tony......... :D :D :D :D

jaysus lads there is obviously goin to be a few mistakes with a new publication.
it seems there is a bit of nit-pickin going on. if anyone went through any national paper you'd see a load of basic errors.
i havent seen it but if a few typos are the only flaw and the articles are good well then fair play.

Paul not only got the year wrong, but the fact that we reached a subsequent All Ireland Final, in the year immediately following our 2002 success, in 2003 (remember Gormley's lucky block!).

In fairness he has confessed to me via a private message and I have granted him full absolution for his sins ;D

Quote from: Tony Fearon on January 12, 2007, 04:50:58 PM
In fairness he has confessed to me via a private message and I have granted him full absolution for his sins ;D

Did you offer you free tickets for something?

QuoteDid you offer you free tickets for something?

I always knew Tony was schizo!
;D

Read it today, very detailed and well worth the money, despite the mistake pointed out by TF.

By the way, why was there a photo of Rodney Trotter wearing a Kerry shirt on the back page?  8)

Quote from: Tony Fearon on January 12, 2007, 04:50:58 PM
Paul not only got the year wrong, but the fact that we reached a subsequent All Ireland Final, in the year immediately following our 2002 success, in 2003 (remember Gormley's lucky block!).
In fairness he has confessed to me via a private message and I have granted him full absolution for his sins ;D

Tony Fearon Out in Front :D
Ronan McSherry trumps for me again. All the anecdotes are fantastic!

Quote"Since winning the All Ireland in 2003,have failed to even reach the final.Despite much promise, can you lift Sam again?"

FFS This guy Welsh makes 5Sams look like an expert in GAA Affairs

How can anyone make a mistake like that. Imagine that Tony get the year of the AI victory wrong. Be sure it could happen to anyone.....couldn't it Tone  ;D!!

Todays edition was again good.  But still lacking enough content relating to hurling.  Time to change name to "Gaelic Football Life"

I enjoyed it today as well. Still a lot more that can be done with it, but that's to be expected at the start. Long time it continue.

I thought it was an excellent read and I like the approach it's taking to reviewing and previewing - not regurgitating match reports. Brolly's well worth the read - his Baywatch/TG4 analogy was amusing. I also like the tit-bits which accompany some articles (e.g. the pros and cons beside the 'Into the Light' article and the '5 things'  beside the Marshes piece).

Burns can be interesting but there's something bland about his articles - it's like he's repeating the majority view. McSherry was a fine read as well although I don't really like that 'we're better than the Premiership' self-indulgent approach. (Irish soccer/rugby players are just as friendly/approachable). I don't like the head-to-head scores and comments (in that I think they're contradictory and, in my opinion, wrong). Finally (see what i've done), the editor's attempt to apologise for O'Neill's tally had an unfortunate typo.

Finally, Joe Kernan's article was intriguing. What I took from it was:

- Oisin McConville is not a leader of men
- He bates his sons
- Bellew cannot stay on his feet
- Francie was touching Donaghy
- Kerry neglected Donaghy for 3 years
- Armagh boys lie down
- He likes rugby boys
- He's addicted to stirring frys
- He's a chronic wine drinker
- He can't read
- Gooch is better than McDonnell and Moynihan better than McGeeney

All subjective though.

A Publication of this size and magnitude should have a competition every week giving away a set of jerseys to clubs for a competition. Evry club would subscibe.  Next idea save 1000 coupons per club to get a free set of youth jerseys. 1 set per club.  A club with 100 odd memmbers would be getting all on board to buy it for 10 weeks.  It would be great for the club, get readers on to the magazine, many will stay if its good enough.  It would also boost printed sales (advertising rates) by several 100 percent.

I'm sure once the paper becomes more established and the readship grows, there will be competitions of that sort. The website seems to be setting itself up for it anyway.

Indeed. Even I entered this week's competition to win an Antrim jersey. Mind you I note it wasn't the goalkeeper's jersey up for grabs, as they only have one goalkeeper's jesey in the whole county, as John Finucane will verify ;D

No doubt you'll win it Tony

Must be going well - couldn't get a copy in several shops in Newry today.

the brother bought it i read it and liked alot if he doesnt buy it next time i will ;)

An excellent debut last week and, apart from one very poor article, a very good second edition.....it is all going well for Gaelic Life so far. 

Let me get my gripe out of the way first.  The 'Head To Head' analysis on the attacking half backs was a complete joke and this weekly feature may have to be scrapped altogether before it does Gaelic Life harm. How long has Donegal's Barry Dunnion been playing inter-county football that he can be deemed a much superior half back than the likes of Philip Jordan?  Don't get me wrong...Dunnion is a super footballer.  However, he was given a rating of 9/10 for both his consistency and temperament based on what the wing-nut of a writer saw of him last season.  Dunnion was something of a 'surprise packet' for Donegal in 2006.  It will be interesting to see if he can maintain his high level of consistency and excellent temperament in the next few seasons now that he will be a 'marked man' and 'one to watch'.  How can he be accurately rated in a head to head with a half back like Philip Jordan who has been a regular on the Tyrone senior team since 2002?  And, just for the record, the Tyrone player has been one of his county's most consistent players for the past five seasons - more than can be said for Armagh's Aaron Kernan who also received a higer rating.

That aside, Gaelic Life once again proved to be a good read. Fair play to the editor for pointing out a few of their mistakes from the previous week, while Brolly continues to outshine Burns in the battle of the two big hitting columnists.  Ronan Scott's article 'Into the Light' was particularly good, and I do like the 'Around the Grounds' section.  It was also interesting to learn about John Morrison's latest managerial move and David Ervine's interest in the GAA - could these be classed as 'exclusives'?  Even Red Knight Rodgers bucked his ideas up a bit this week, although his reference "about how nobody from the Moy cares as long as Armagh don't win the All-Ireland" was way off the mark.  We in the Moy took great delight in Armagh's sole All-Ireland victory in 2002 and took no pleasure whatsoever in taking Sam off their hands in 2003 (snigger).

I was a bit surprised that there was not some kind of review of last week's McKenna Cup games and that one of the writers deemed Paddy O'Rourke's decision to take off a left footed free-taker against Donegal in 2005 as a "Top Ten moment which changed the course of GAA history".  And, as for the Orange bigot in 'FanSpake', the less said about him the better.  Armagh Harps GFC should be ashamed to have him among their members. 

The paper is in danger of becoming a laughing stock alright - not so much the head to head guff (and being able to count would be a plus for that journo)

rather that following on the heels of All IReland Champions Derry appearing in last years MCKenna final we now have the lead question in the big interview asking Joe Kernan why Armagh havn't appeared in the final since they won the AI in 2003?

Surely this is the type of misatke a 7 yr old wouldn't make - basic stuff that shouldn't even need research from any jouno with an interest in Northern GAA?????

Nowhere near being a laughing stock. Every paper has typos. A fine publication.

For me the paper gets pass marks this week, which couldn't be said about the first one. It still has a bit to go but I'd imagine the people involved realise that themselves. It will gradually have to move on from being readable to being essential reading.
I'd agree though about the ratings of the half backs - for the second week in a row I've been scratching my head on reading the 'head to head' bit. How Philip Jordan hasn't done enough to finish ahead of Barry Dunnion is a puzzling one all right.
I wouldn't worry too much about the errors so far because that is bound to happen early on. I'd also like to be reading better pieces from Burns and Brolly but that should come when the season builds some momentum.
Redhandfan the Morrison one could be an exclusive for a paper but it was on here a good bit before that.

I simply cannot see what more this weekly GAA Ulster newspaper could be doing in the first two weeks in January that it already is. As with bar-room wannabes, it's easy for punters to claim 'it could be better' without actually stating (knowing) what it is they want to see.

O'Neill, as I've pointed out, I expect to get better reading out of it when the season builds more momentum. There's probably only so much you can do in it at this time of year so it is doing all right for January.
I'm not a hundred per cent sure what I want to read every week but I know when I've read a good article and for me a good article is usually something that digs deep and goes beneath the surface and I don't want it to end because I'm reading something insightful that I've never come across before. To be fair there aren't many like that in any of the papers apart from some of the Sundays.
I also like past players going deep into things that happened in their experiences as a player. Plus I like good columns from big personalities and as I've already said I'd like to be getting more from Burns and Brolly as time goes on. I'm not into scandal or controversy by the way.
You seem to be one hundred per cent happy with GL as it is now!

Quote from: ClosetotheHarte on January 13, 2007, 11:21:40 PM
I know when I've read a good article and for me a good article is usually something that digs deep and goes beneath the surface and I don't want it to end because I'm reading something insightful that I've never come across before. To be fair there aren't many like that in any of the papers apart from some of the Sundays.
I also like past players going deep into things that happened in their experiences as a player. Plus I like good columns from big personalities and as I've already said I'd like to be getting more from Burns and Brolly as time goes on.

That's a fine template.

My earlier post highlighted areas that I found needed addressing, but I'm acutely aware of what it takes to churn out such a publication. Unless GL has a never ending supply of cash, you'll not attract the 'big personalities' in the same way an English broadsheet/berliner would. I wouldn't be surprised The Game went under as it couldn't sustain the 'big name' approach it commenced with. Burns' articles will not improve, going by his Daily Ireland spell. Brolly has churned out two highly amusing articles for this stage of the year and i couldn't expect much more with the action still lukewarm until February.

Instead of the ex-player approach (many of whom will still keep their powder dry for various reasons), I'd rather see the emergence of a northern Humphries.

Maybe O'Neill's looking for a job?

Either way lads/ladies GL couldn't get better feedback than here on the discussion board. I have really enjoyed reading everyone's comments on this board and then reading the articles refered to. For example I hadn't read Joe Kernan's interview until I read your critique O'Neill. Then I read it and my enjoyment was enhanced considerably trying to identify the areas you pointed out about big Joe. :D :D.
I wasn't really motivated to read the "Head to Head" article until people started disagreeing with it on this board so then I decided to scan it tonight. I then explained it to my eight year old and even he had a laugh about Dunnion being rated above Jordan.

Quote from: ONeill on January 13, 2007, 11:34:08 PM
Instead of the ex-player approach (many of whom will still keep their powder dry for various reasons), I'd rather see the emergence of a northern Humphries.

I couldn't agree more. There is nobody up here in the same League as Humphries but even the 2nd class writer in the more Southern papers is well ahead. Paddy Heaney is probably as good as anything we have but even Heaney can occasionally follow up a great piece with a mediocre one.
Because of that the ex-player is perhaps the better option because he is bound to have a lot more things to say than any of our journalists, the problem with that being that few of them are probably able to put their experiences into words.
As you also say O'Neill, I remember The Game having a lot of personalities in the early days but they soon began to disappear before the paper followed suit. Knowing what some ex-playing managers charge for taking a club team I'd say a lot of the big names in papers are also on the expensive side.
As for Brolly's "highly amusing articles" I was wondering if he had started taking drugs when he talked about crowds of half-naked fanatical Tyrone people beating their chests and chanting Canavan's name across town centres in Tyrone every Saturday and holding posters of Art in the air!!!
I know he can be amusing all right but that was strange, very strange.
never kickt a ball, you're spot on, this site must be great feedback for the GL people. Its good for all of us too to hear others views on GL and the press generally because we are all hungry for good GAA reading.

So far ,so good, excellent second edition. would query the value of the County report pages, as the local papers do that much better and more exhaustively, also there is little interest in reading about club news in Counties other than your own. Overall good value for a pound, looking forward to next edition

We had our Club dinner dance on Saturday nite and was greeted to Gaelic Life pens and mini calanders on the tables. So they seem to be making a good effort on promoting it anyway!!
Fingers crossed it'll last. Now wouldn't be busiest time of the year in the GAA calander so it'll be interesting to see how it goes when the League starts up.

Quote from: ClosetotheHarte on January 14, 2007, 12:14:01 AM

Quote from: ONeill on January 13, 2007, 11:34:08 PM
Instead of the ex-player approach (many of whom will still keep their powder dry for various reasons), I'd rather see the emergence of a northern Humphries.

As you also say O'Neill, I remember The Game having a lot of personalities in the early days but they soon began to disappear before the paper followed suit. Knowing what some ex-playing managers charge for taking a club team I'd say a lot of the big names in papers are also on the expensive side.
As for Brolly's "highly amusing articles" I was wondering if he had started taking drugs when he talked about crowds of half-naked fanatical Tyrone people beating their chests and chanting Canavan's name across town centres in Tyrone every Saturday and holding posters of Art in the air!!!
I know he can be amusing all right but that was strange, very strange.

Ah come on man, he was joking, he was merely drawing an amusing comparison between Tyrones fanatical support to the scenes you see in the middle east with fanatical supporters of the factions there.

I like Brolly, Im not a major fan of Ulster Hurling, handball, Camogie and Rounders.  I read lots and i am always interested in what happens in Tyrone and to a much lesser extent, Derry, Armagh, Down, Antrim, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Donegal and Cavan in that order.  I dont miss Tyrone games and enjoy nothing more than reading articles about the GAA, controversial GAA issues, culture, history and Tyrone.  Barry Dunnion dosent interest me so much.  I watch 2 - 4 GAA games every weekend, if this paper is not for me, then who is it for? Last night I realised, I just still havent read the first one completely never mind the second.  Why?

Quote from: realredhandfan on January 16, 2007, 01:25:59 PM
I like Brolly, Im not a major fan of Ulster Hurling, handball, Camogie and Rounders.  I read lots and i am always interested in what happens in Tyrone and to a much lesser extent, Derry, Armagh, Down, Antrim, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Donegal and Cavan in that order.  I dont miss Tyrone games and enjoy nothing more than reading articles about the GAA, controversial GAA issues, culture, history and Tyrone.  Barry Dunnion dosent interest me so much.  I watch 2 - 4 GAA games every weekend, if this paper is not for me, then who is it for? Last night I realised, I just still havent read the first one completely never mind the second.  Why?

you cant read ?

do i win a prize?
;)

Got my first look at this recently and am impressed. A few typos and what have you, wrong captions etc. letting the side down a bit still but a damn fine effort overall and if it ever makes its way on to Dublin shelves I'd buy it most weeks, especially when championship comes around.

Quote from: SamWheagle on January 16, 2007, 11:45:26 AM
Ah come on man, he was joking, he was merely drawing an amusing comparison between Tyrones fanatical support to the scenes you see in the middle east with fanatical supporters of the factions there.

There was me thinking Brolly was serious! I know what he was trying to do but I still found this bit strange rather than amusing. I do like Brolly BTW and he can often be very amusing. He's also the first page in GL I would turn to for a bit of reading.

Found this thread on page 3? Has anyone read it yet. I forgot it was out this am  :'(

Just sitting down to it now, headline is " The Enforcers"  Is there still a place for Hard men in the modern game. familiar that

not as good as the last couple, still-not bad at all.

headline of ENFORCERS and a pic of McMenamin.

Looks as though the journalists of GL are avid readers of this website.
Surely they cant be stuck for ideas already!!

what time is it out at? wasnt in castleblayney at 10'o clock

Got mine in Belfast at 07:15 this morning

I bought it for the last time today. very poor stuff. might leave it for a few months and try again about may or june when championship time has arrived to see does it get any better. Todays gaa coverage is way behind the Irish News and this is a complete gaa paper. The piece on top 5 hardmen of football at the minute is a joke - it includes Francie Bellew (no problem there), Tomas O'Se (debatable), Kevin Cassidy (definitely not but could argue a case), Ryan McMenamin (not the cleanest player but not a hard-man in the mould of Bellew) and wait for it - Paul Brady (Cavan) - Are they having a laugh!
I have also scanned over most other pieces and they are as bland and bad as you could get. Bad stuff all round and although it continues to look good and may possibly have potential (and I'm not saying it wouldnt appeal to others) - it just isn't for me anyway. Not in the same league for readable content as any of the dailies or the sundays. Good luck all the same and I hope it works out.

I was pleased to see Jarlath Burns telling everyone about the good night out with Greencastle. :D

Quote from: Chompinatthebit on January 19, 2007, 03:33:39 PM
I bought it for the last time today. very poor stuff. might leave it for a few months and try again about may or june when championship time has arrived to see does it get any better. Todays gaa coverage is way behind the Irish News and this is a complete gaa paper. Does Ronan Scott know anything about gaelic football? His top 5 hardmen of football at the minute include Francie Bellew (no problem there), Tomas O'Se (debatable), Kevin Cassidy (definitely not but could argue a case), Ryan McMenamin (not the cleanest player but not a hard-man in the mould of Bellew) and wait for it - Paul Brady (Cavan) - Is he having a laugh!
I have also scanned over a few of Alan Rodgers' pieces and they are as bland and bad as you could get. Bad stuff all round and although it continues to look good and has potential (and I'm not saying it wouldnt appeal to others) but it just isn't for me anyway. Not in the same league for readable content as any of the dailies or the sundays.
Good luck all the same and I hope it works out.

Have a look at the hardman thread on here (Wonder where GL got the idea) I don't see Ricey mentioned. 

bellew no complaints, cassidy is a horse but doesnt use it enough.
def not the rest. mcmenamin actually described himself as "a nasty wee c*+t on the field" in an interview.
he is dity and he openly admitted it, thats not being hard.

is it on the go in easons or anywhere around dublin.
to be fair as i stated before there is only so much you can do at this time of year.
plus there is such a concentration on football in ulster the general public dont pay as much heed to the other codes.

My earlier doubts re.the long term viability of this Paperare slowly being laid to rest. This is a quality production, which deserves to grow and prosper. Todays edition was excellent, with entertaining and thought provoking articles. Yes there is room for improvement, but they have hit the ground running, and hopefully will continue that momentum

There is a handball tournament comimng up on 10-11 Feb which will be the biggest in the history of the sport in this country.

To make it even better for GL, it's called the ULSTER OPEN!

So what do they do? get the entire details of the competitors etc arseways. Disappointing

Brendan Crossan in the Irish News makes a good point about the woeful, inadequate programmes produced for the McKenna Cup for the journalists and spectators. This has resulted in Ciaran O'Reilly playing for QUB when he didn't, Brendan Boggs and D McCaul playing for UUJ when they were playing for Tyrone etc. So here's the call to GAELIC LIFE. Come on! You are the sponsor. Let's see the Ulster Council or yourselves produce an accurate programme which details correctly the players and their clubs. One feature of the new programme that must remain is that it remains FREE. Maybe by Semi-final stage this can be addressed.  ???

What about the programme coming free with the paper.  £1 at the game.. .  Im full of ideas for this new paper...

Cathal McCarron's name wasn't on the programme for last Sunday's game against Derry.

Quote from: ziggysego on January 20, 2007, 02:59:04 PM
Cathal McCarron's name wasn't on the programme for last Sunday's game against Derry.

None of the "University four" were Ziggy. The programme went up to 28 and the new boys wore 29, 30 and 31. I also think one of them wore 23 instead of Ricey. Mustn't have a number 32 in the kit?

Anyone get to read this mornings issue?

I think that Club Notes would be a welcome addition to the Gaelic Life.

Quote from: ziggysego on January 26, 2007, 02:41:34 PM
I think that Club Notes would be a welcome addition to the Gaelic Life.

I really don't see how myself...

BTW look out for the piece on Fintona in the Tyrone Scene pages!

Quote from: Fionntamhnach on January 26, 2007, 02:55:57 PM
look out for the piece on Fintona in the Tyrone Scene pages!

Noticed that ;)

Any improvement on the number of pages relating to Hurling in this issue?

Quote from: aontroim on January 26, 2007, 03:13:09 PM
Any improvement on the number of pages relating to Hurling in this issue?

Are you now living in Donegal and wrote a letter to them? ;)

Was meant to go to Donegal a spin today funny enough - but still deeply rooted in Antrim.

Didn't count the amount of hurling pages, but I did notice a letter from an Antrim person now living in Letterkenny giving off about the lack of hurling coverage!

Amount of hurling has increased slightly. A couple of article re Cushendall's upcoming AI semi.  I would expect further increases in hurling coverage from FEb on the hurling season really gets under way.

Bought it today, for the first time. I really think it suffers from concentrating on Ulster GAA. Would really like to see it be a 32 county publication, as I enjoyed reading it. The dubs bashing was just boring and the usuall shite, not offensive just tiresome. Weird though, is the image of Joe Brolly scoring a goal for Dublin against Meath and blowing kisses to the hill

Quote from: esmonde on January 27, 2007, 01:19:03 AM
Bought it today, for the first time. I really think it suffers from concentrating on Ulster GAA. Would really like to see it be a 32 county publication, as I enjoyed reading it. The dubs bashing was just boring and the usuall shite, not offensive just tiresome. Weird though, is the image of Joe Brolly scoring a goal for Dublin against Meath and blowing kisses to the hill

  Joe Brolly.............. Dublin ???

I know yeah, its mad read the back page of the paper

Really have to say something about Brolly's piece this week. He prattles on about payment for managers etc, that issue which has been covered ad nausea in the media for the past couple of weeks. It would appear that he doesn't even read the Gaelic Life himself otherwise he wouldn't have picked a topic which has been comprehensibly dealt with by the paper (and every other newspaper) in previous weeks. His piece contains the mandatory swipe at the GPA and then to end it the mother of all hypocrisy "Joe Brolly writes for the Male* on Sunday". He also works for RTE and appears to make a tidy living out of  GAA coverage himself. I would give his article more credibility if he donated his fee to a worthwhile cause every week. Come on Joe in my humble opinion you're not earning your fee - or maybe you're writing in the GL for free for the love of the game .......

* my spelling

Just a quick question regarding the league structures. In an article in the Gaelic Life today it says that teams finishing in the bottom two spots in divisions 1a and 1b will be relegated to division 2. I thought that if you finished in the bootom two you go straight to division 3?
What is the story?

did anybody read that effort at humour in the middle of the paper bout the dubs v tyrone. sums up this paper. its probably not that bad all over but are they trying too hard to b different?  :-\ too much stuff about the same thing. agree with NKAB that brolly is a bit played out now as well and with the leagues now starting cud ave done somthing different than the overdone paid managers thing. BTW does anybody know is there any hope of getting dubs v tyrone tickets at this last minute stage? is there any point in just landing at croker and hoping for the best?

Quote from: never kickt a ball on February 02, 2007, 12:07:35 PM
He also works for RTE and appears to make a tidy living out of  GAA coverage himself. I would give his article more credibility if he donated his fee to a worthwhile cause every week.

Joe makes a tidy living out of being a very successful barrister. This is his pocket money.
Do you give credibility to any piece you read in a newspaper, magazine or online? Or maybe they should all give their wages to charity.
What about the full time GAA employees- wages to charity too?
In your world who picks the worthwhile cause?

Ask Joe to speak at a GAA event and see what he charges ... ZERO!!! Unlike many of the others on that circuit who just rip off the GAA grassroots.

He's the real thing, not just in what he says but in what he does.

His article today in Gaelic Life for many of us just sums up what the GAA is about and should be about. Keep going Joe.

Quote from: heganboy on February 02, 2007, 07:01:25 PM

Quote from: never kickt a ball on February 02, 2007, 12:07:35 PM
He also works for RTE and appears to make a tidy living out of  GAA coverage himself. I would give his article more credibility if he donated his fee to a worthwhile cause every week.

Joe makes a tidy living out of being a very successful barrister. This is his pocket money.
Do you give credibility to any piece you read in a newspaper, magazine or online? Or maybe they should all give their wages to charity.
What about the full time GAA employees- wages to charity too?
In your world who picks the worthwhile cause?

Quote from: Turfsmoke on February 02, 2007, 07:07:12 PM
Ask Joe to speak at a GAA event and see what he charges ... ZERO!!! Unlike many of the others on that circuit who just rip off the GAA grassroots.
He's the real thing, not just in what he says but in what he does.
His article today in Gaelic Life for many of us just sums up what the GAA is about and should be about. Keep going Joe.

Thanks lads! Good to see Joe still has some friends. Look when I splash out my hard earned I'm entitled to my opinion and yes I do establish credibility on articles as you two have on my opinion. If GL want to pay Joe to rehash old news and allow him to take a swipe at the GPA every week that's up to them. Some readers might find that boring, others may not. Fine by me. Good to see he doesn't charge a fee for his functions. I didn't know that. I have heard him speak at a function and he can be very entertaining. His articles to date have not matched (in my humble opinion) the high standards he is capable of. 

The bottom two teams in Division 1A and 1B of the National League will definitely by in Division 3 in 2008 and the top two teams in Division 2A and 2B will play in Division 2 next year.

Quote from: Greasemonkey on February 02, 2007, 05:59:15 PM
did anybody read that effort at humour in the middle of the paper bout the dubs v tyrone. sums up this paper. its probably not that bad all over but are they trying too hard to b different?

I think the paper overall looks to be improving but I agree with you on that article in the middle of the paper. I don't think humour would be the right word to describe it.

Team of the week in the magazine..... Stevie McDonnell etc and then 2 Ballymacnab players!!!!
Sean Hughes in goals (another ex-Harps man  ;)) and Kennedy????

What's the news with Gaelic Life weekly GAA paper?
The brother tells me that he has tried a number of Newsagents and they say that Gaelic Life did not arrive this morining.
Anyone know anything about this?

had the same problem myself this morning, couldn get it in a couple off shops.  got it then in carricmacross were i work.

It didn't come to Greencastle today. That's the second it has happened in recent weeks.

Just skimmed through it there. Firstly the day was nearly over when I remembered it was on sale. Secondly the moment I picked it up it felt lighter. Thirdly they berate the BBC AGAIN for their poor coverage GAA and then do scant justice to the MacRory cup final. Finally and this will be of interest to you Ziggy, Joe Brolly indirectly claims the credit for Greencastle's All-Ireland success :P

An in anticipation of criticism from the Brolly fan club "Yes I know he's a well paid, well healed, well wigged, well anything you like barrister"   :D

Yeah, Brolly was down in Greencastle one night before the start of the County Championship. He mostly showed how to celebrate scoring goals.  :D

Quote from: ziggysego on March 23, 2007, 07:40:53 PM
Yeah, Brolly was down in Greencastle one night before the start of the County Championship. He mostly showed how to celebrate scoring goals.  :D

No Ziggy He spent a "solid hour", now don't forget that. In a game of inches I reckon that "solid hour" made the difference between winning and losing.  ;)

Well we had to go all the way and win.... otherwises he could have been back again ;)

Interesting to read that Brolly thinks Cooper may be the best he has ever seen.

Amazingly, they've added the head-to-head totals up incorrectly again.

Sorry everyone, it seems there was a problem with the paper distributors - don't know the ins and outs of it yet. Some areas didn't get the paper delivered until this afternoon, some won't get it until tomorrow (Saturday).

Didn't get my own copy this morning either.

PW

One in Front, I'm assuming you're associated with the Gaelic Life. In what way?

PM'd you Ziggysego

Got that, thanks ;)

two weeks in a row that I've gone to the shop before work to get the newspapers and there was no gaelic life!!  :-\

I was surprised as it has been there all previous weeks!!

Where are you FermPundit and I'll see what the craic is? Definitely distributor problems this week - don't know about last week, but could find out.

PW

I'm up in Belfast. I tried two shops in and around Queens and both didn't have it

Quote from: Out in Front on March 23, 2007, 08:16:09 PM
Sorry everyone, it seems there was a problem with the paper distributors - don't know the ins and outs of it yet. Some areas didn't get the paper delivered until this afternoon, some won't get it until tomorrow (Saturday).

Didn't get my own copy this morning either.

PW

And what about the weight OIF? Was the paper lighter this week?

Never Kickt a Ball and FermPundit, have PM'd you both on your queries.

PW

Why not let everyone know OIF?

I'd like to see more Cavan/Monaghan. Very few actual features about either

The best part of the paper is the layout, and I expect the content to improve come championship. Like this week for example, it was hard to get a really good cover story which is understandable

Still hasn't arrived in Greencastle :(

I want to read what Joe Brolly wrote.

Just realised that Gaelic Life is available online (for a limited period):

http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/GL/gl_homepage.php


Must admit, it's become compulsive reading for a Saturday morning – have even stopped getting the IN.

See Tom Brewster has moved to Cavan. Well according to the head to head he has  :-\

I enjoy the read on a Friday evening. More club talk would be great, but then again it would get too big then.

During term time I usually go to the Mace on Botanic Avenue to get my copy of Gaelic Life. However, they rarely have it and when I usually enquire about it, the reply is generally 'Gay what?'

Its not bad.  needs championship to liven it up.

Thought it was fantastic on Friday past  ;D

Wow, people's opinions have fairly turned around in recent weeks. Didn't I tell yas to give it time! ;)

Didnt see it yet , Did Brolly do any back tracking regarding his comments last Sunday ?

QuoteReckon this paper is going well. Was an interesting one about the students playing in championship? Your man mcsherryy is a very good read. Coould UUJ or QUB go for it in Antrim? Worrying if so.

QUB tried this before and got a knockback, IMHO St Brides is the direct result of that knockback.

Quote from: downredblack on May 18, 2007, 11:39:12 AM
Didnt see it yet , Did Brolly do any back tracking regarding his comments last Sunday ?

Yes, Brolly addresses it in his column, telling Joe Public to stop taking what is said by pundits too seriously. His headline reads, 'Never Mind The Bollox'.

Why doesnt the bollox feck off & let someone else that takes the job seriously analyse the games?

Talking of headlines , what about this cracker in the IN .

Driven Carr to get Down on the right road . (Jesus wept )

Can the Gaelic Life be viewed online?

Get up off your fat arse and find out.

Quote from: downredblack on May 18, 2007, 11:54:48 AM
Talking of headlines , what about this cracker in the IN .
Driven Carr to get Down on the right road . (Jesus wept )

Yes just think of the headlines if Down have a long summer:

"Carr gets Down in gear"
or

"Carr wrote off by Cavan"

or Carr-nage at Newry"

Anyone think of any more?

QuotePosted by: Uladh 

Can the Gaelic Life be viewed online?
 

yeah it can- http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/GL/gl_homepage.php

but you need to pay 90p per issue. it was free until recently

You usually know all the short cuts to these things

i am a man in the know how!!

Quote"Carr gets Down in gear"
or

"Carr wrote off by Cavan"

or Carr-nage at Newry"

Anyone think of any more?

Excellent. The headline on the Carr interview in the Cavan Echo last week:

"Carr revved up for Breffni challenge"

Quote from: The Bottom Brick on May 18, 2007, 01:58:15 PM

Quote"Carr gets Down in gear"
or

"Carr wrote off by Cavan"

or Carr-nage at Newry"

Anyone think of any more?

Excellent. The headline on the Carr interview in the Cavan Echo last week:

"Carr revved up for Breffni challenge"

Carr in Pole Posistion after Cavan break down!

carr stalls in replay as down go crashing out...(only one carr involved) :D

Quote from: hardstation on May 18, 2007, 02:12:06 PM
Back page on La/La Nua
Cade ata Carr le contae an Duin?

:D
Ar fheabhas!!!

Quote from: An Cloch Scoilte on May 18, 2007, 02:07:30 PM

Quote from: The Bottom Brick on May 18, 2007, 01:58:15 PM

Quote"Carr gets Down in gear"
or

"Carr wrote off by Cavan"

or Carr-nage at Newry"

Anyone think of any more?

Excellent. The headline on the Carr interview in the Cavan Echo last week:

"Carr revved up for Breffni challenge"

Carr in Pole Posistion after Cavan break down!

"Wheels come off Carr's campaign for grand prix"   sorry 5times :D

"Carr's team exhausted despite late rally"

"Carr gets suspension after blowing a gaskett with Ford"  :D

Very good lads  :D :D

I remember this headline from the irish news about 10 years ago:

Vintage Carr sets Down on the Road

Some of his anecdotes are hilarious.

I thought Joe Brolly's piece dealt well with the topic, of increased pressure on county managers, and how some can handle it better than others. However, did he not fail to address the core of Paul Grimely's point, namely the over the top criticism that he dishes out to players on 'The Sunday Game' ?

Have to say that this paper just keeps getting better.  This weeks was excellent, usual top drawer stuff from Brolly, and the top ten lists.  I know there was a lot of scepticism about this paper when it first came out, because every GAA paper or magazine which preceeded it was crap.  But this is an essential buy every Friday.  I know some of the Gaelic Life guys read this board, so some constructive criticism.

- A bit more news on the other provinces wouldn't go amiss
- There is a bit too much coverage on the two teams that are playing that week.  This weeks copy was much better because 6 Ulster counties where in action.
- The bluffers guide to the clubs, is a great idea, but could be a bit more interesting.

Keep up the good work lads, I hope that you are getting enough sales.

Just a point about the Fantasy footie...I see the leaderboard wasn't up in last weeks edition? Ne chance of posting it on this? Also, how can ya view who ya actually picked in your team??? I can't remember and I'm pretty sure I never got a team list posted to me just another letter of some sort of confirmation.

I think there was no leaderboard last week as there were no matches. You should've received an email confirmation of your team. If not, you're fecked.

I also think the paper is a great read and filled with tit-bits that'll keep you going through the week. I'd miss it if I didn't get it. Sorry to hear sales aren't great but that's simply down to the rise of the Internet and the fact that reading print is almost a thing of the past!

Still read the paper every week, though admittedly through the freebies quite often, and still enjoy it, needs to keep up with hte little features that make it different from your every day read that it will never outdo.
Enjoy the columnists, esp Brolly, Sledger and McSherry, Burns not so much.
Thought McSherry was excellent this week
Anyone have any sales figures? Will it survive?

Due to the seaonal nature of gaa I think it wil struggle in closed season - maybe I'm wrong  - but I'd like to see it survive.

They would be struggling in Monaghan, they didn't put enough copies of the paper into the shops in the first few weeks so it never took off really.

Quote from: thebandit on July 12, 2007, 10:01:31 AM
They would be struggling in Monaghan, they didn't put enough copies of the paper into the shops in the first few weeks so it never took off really.

Just about every car at the game this Sunday should have a free Gaelic Life between wiper and windscreen by the match end, if the last two Tyrone games are anything to go by.

I was talking to a newsagent in Monaghan - he sells only a handful of copies so it will be hard for it to take off there !

Availability is the biggest problem.  It's a nightmare to get in Belfast - i managed to track down one newsagent in Holywood that stock it, otherwise a trip up the west is required. You'd at least thing that Eason's would stock it. Gonna be hard to establish a publication if you can't readily buy it!
If ever there was an time to establish it in Monaghan it would be tomorrow's issue. If they have any business sense they would overstock every newsagent in the county.

I can get it in Dublin ,dont know what your chances would be any further South .

Quote from: downredblack on July 12, 2007, 01:58:32 PM
I can get it in Dublin ,dont know what your chances would be any further South .

it's an Ulster GAA paper so i doubt it's circulated south of Ulster at all.

Its available online.

Quote from: Maguire01 on July 12, 2007, 01:53:13 PM
Availability is the biggest problem.  It's a nightmare to get in Belfast - i managed to track down one newsagent in Holywood that stock it, otherwise a trip up the west is required. You'd at least thing that Eason's would stock it. Gonna be hard to establish a publication if you can't readily buy it!
If ever there was an time to establish it in Monaghan it would be tomorrow's issue. If they have any business sense they would overstock every newsagent in the county.

I have no problem getting it in Belfast, two of the local shops on the ormeau road have it

QuoteHave to say that this paper just keeps getting better.  This weeks was excellent, usual top drawer stuff from Brolly, and the top ten lists.  I know there was a lot of scepticism about this paper when it first came out, because every GAA paper or magazine which preceeded it was crap.  But this is an essential buy every Friday.  I know some of the Gaelic Life guys read this board, so some constructive criticism.

Yip it is getting better and better. My problem is getting time to read it sometimes!

Fair play to the GL!

It's the highlight of my Tuesday mornings when I get it in the post from me mam  :D :D :D :D

Quote from: Gabriel_Hurl on July 12, 2007, 06:46:00 PM
It's the highlight of my Tuesday mornings when I get it in the post from me mam  :D :D :D :D

Why don't you just subscripe to it on-line?

Can't take the computer to the bog with me  :D :D :D

Quote from: Gabriel_Hurl on July 12, 2007, 08:20:51 PM
Can't take the computer to the bog with me  :D :D :D

Why don't you buy yourself a wire-less laptop then ;)

Quote from: ONeill on July 11, 2007, 02:39:16 PM
.....Sorry to hear sales aren't great but that's simply down to the rise of the Internet and the fact that reading print is almost a thing of the past!

O'Neill, where did you hear sales weren't good for GL?

I was talking to a GAA photographer a fortnight ago and he told me so...though his reasoning was somewhat dubious...i.e. giving free copies away - that could just be just a case of printing a few extra I suppose.

Good to see Deaglan Bogue contributing -  fine journo.

People are maybe thinking if they're being given away then they're not up to much ?

Must say Brolly is a great read every week, his column appears in the Derry journal too which is where I nabbed this from, very funny, especially his opinions on Conor Mortimer, and his lobbed goal account at Celtic Park.

FUNNY HOW a run in the Championship puts you in a good mood. I woke up on Sunday morning and went for the papers, then sat smiling through them.
"Derry Bandwagon Rolls On" declared the headline on the front page of the 'Sunday Times' Sports Section, with a large action photo from the game.
"Derry send warning with ten points demolition of Mayo" screamed another headline.
Various journalists have been ringing me during the week, all asking the same question; "How good are Derry?"
Having been discounted completely after the putrid effort against Monaghan, we have suddenly appeared back on the radar, and the media are anxious to get to know us.
It is good for the old self respect to see the county team being talked about again, but where do we really stand? As I was leaving the ground I bumped into a couple of my old team mates. Enda Gormley was positively raving about the team: "That's the best Derry performance in five years!" he maintained.
Fergal McCusker was also delighted, but sounded a note of caution. He agreed that the result was good but said he was worried the victory "papered over a lot of cracks."
The truth is that the performance was a mixed bag. Barry Gillis didn't have much to do, but committed a howler that will be shown in years to come on the Free State equivalent of "It'll be alright on the night!"
It is clear that Gerard O'Kane is not a corner back and it is unfair to play him there, but it was only after the excellent Thomas Freeman skinned and pickled him in Casement that the penny finally dropped.
On Saturday last both our corner backs were excellent and provided the foundation for the easy win. Michael McGoldrick was easily the best player on the field and does everything right. He put Conor Mortimer in his pocket and fed him on farts (as we used to say in primary school).
Conor is no good anyway, but regardless of that, young Michael was outstanding, and more importantly, he ticks all the boxes.
Then there was Sean Marty, who had reverted back into the corner for O'Kane and was a pleasure to watch. On the few occasions when Andy Moran actually got the ball, Sean simply shepherded him onto his weak foot and kept him on it. As a result, Andy kept going on solo runs nowhere, then stopped and hand passed the ball back to someone else.
Strong, dominant and relentless, Sean Marty looks as though he could go on for another 10 years.
Kevin McCloy put in another fine performance at full-back. Barry Moran is an old-style edge of the square full forward, so Kevin was happy as a pig in clabber. The full-back line was totally dominant and Mayo couldn't get scores.
Francis McEldowney was, as usual, game as a pheasant, throwing himself into the match in the true spirit of the Gael - and I cannot let the moment pass without commending him for his heroic efforts against Armagh - but he will never pass the "Oh Jesus" test!
At one stage in the first half Sean Marty patiently tracked his man down the sideline, keeping him on his wrong foot, and eventually forcing him into an error. The ball came to Francis on the edge of his own square. He came out under little pressure and fisted a 'hospital' ball in the general direction of James Conway.
"Oh Jesus!" thought the crowd. The Mayo full forward gleefully accepted the gift and popped it back over the bar.
Liam Hinphey was strangely lacklustre and needs, as his father is wont to say, "the size 12 applied to the rear end!"
He did his basic duties well enough, but in common with most of the defence he doesn't break out at speed when we gain possession in the midfield and defensive areas.
Only Michael McGoldrick and Sean Marty break at pace while the others pass and stand, or watch while their team mate gets into trouble. Against Monaghan this was very apparent and, as a result, Monaghan kept us pinned in our own half for most of the game.
We must break out at speed and in packs at this level. If we continue with this bad habit against Laois, they will turn possession over on us all day long and we will lose.
Hilarious delight
James Conway was poor by his standards, as was Conleth Gilligan. Enda was in and out, but his lobbed goal was a hilarious delight. To the best of my knowledge it is the first lobbed goal in Celtic Park since I hoodwinked the Meath goalie in a league play-off in 1998.
"F...k!" he shouted, as the ball looped over his fingertips. It had been a bad tempered contest and the goal won it for us with a few minutes to go. I turned and ran out the field, blowing kisses and pointing at the foot. BBC showed footage of the incident recently and even I cringed!
Anyway, the antics came to an end when Colm Coyle (now Meath manager) put his boot in my leg and left me needing stitches. As I was coming into the dressing room afterwards, Brian Mullins said to me: "You deserved that you little bollocks!"
Memories, memories

***Another plus for us is Colin Devlin. Like all the Ballinderry boys, he has the skills because he's been properly coached. He is quick, has good positional sense and is that rare beast - a natural forward.
Meanwhile, Paddy Bradley is too one dimensional with his runs, making the same dash to the left touchline time and again. I would like to see him moving the defender around a bit more, sometimes roving outfield and sometimes hugging the square to get himself into position for goals. He didn't score from play for a long time, yet he played very patiently and eventually posted three very good points at an important time.
Mark Lynch got the kick in the arse he deserved by being left on the bench and it certainly had the desired effect. He came on and played his best game for a long time.
Mindful of Anthony Tohill's comments on the 'Sunday Game' recently, that this Derry team doesn't handle praise well, the line I have taken with the Press is that Armagh were done and Mayo were woeful.
And yet against Armagh, we battled with real heart and when we did that we were more than a match for them. Against Mayo, we also battled hard and again our pedigree shone through.
In the last quarter against them, when the game was in the melting pot, we crucified them with a ten minute spell that was out of this world. The trick is to sustain this for 70 minutes, in which case there will be very few available to live with us.

This article got a lambasting in the Local Mayo papers, The Mayo News is the one I think I read about it in.

It might be on the wall of the Mayo dressing room in the bowels of Croke Park before the 2009 All-Ireland Semi-Final, as O'Mahoney prepares his troops for battle with the previous years All-Irelands Runners Up Derry  ;)

This adds to the resolve of a Mayo team that has already defeated 2 in a row ex-Connacht Champions Sligo & Munster Finalists Kerry.

The stakes are high because the winner gets to play the winners of Dublin & Meath, an easy All-Ireland is in the bag for todays victors  ;)

Quote from: ONeill on July 12, 2007, 09:56:06 PM
I was talking to a GAA photographer a fortnight ago and he told me so...though his reasoning was somewhat dubious...i.e. giving free copies away - that could just be just a case of printing a few extra I suppose.

Good to see Deaglan Bogue contributing -  fine journo.

From my knowledge of the publishing industry, it doesn't matter how many copies are paid for and how many are given away free. The vast majority of the cover price is taken by the retailer, distributer, printer etc. anyway - that's not how a publication makes its money.

The real money is in the advertising. Advertisers don't care how many you actually sell - all they care about is the readership - i.e. how many people will pick up the magazine and therefore potentially see their advertisements. Giving away free copies does not mean that a publication is in trouble by any means. The higher the readership figure, the higher the advertising rates.

joe brolly is a complete and utter w**ker and btw c.mort was top scorer in ireland last year and also won an allstar.

Not that we would read it in a real Province like Connacht  :D

Quote from: hardstation on July 26, 2007, 12:17:02 AM

Quote from: Fishead_Sam on July 25, 2007, 11:34:48 PM
Not that we would read it in a real Province like Connacht  :D

Because you have lost interest in the GAA after almost all of you have been dumped out on your holes.

Nah just a brief rest for our Senior Intercounty teams, we hardly have lost interest in the GAA because we don't read a magazine/paper about Ulster football. Sure everyone knows Mayo & Galway County Board planned our exits, its because we wanted to facilitate our club competitions, coz we the Real GAA  :D

I see McSherry had a go at our distinguished board in the paper at the weekend as well as name dropping a few of our famous posters, ofcourse Ziggy gets a mention with a few others

Quote from: ExiledGael on July 29, 2007, 04:40:35 PM
I see McSherry had a go at our distinguished board in the paper at the weekend as well as name dropping a few of our famous posters, ofcourse Ziggy gets a mention with a few others

See: http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=3961.0

What happened to team talk's email mag?

Quote from: Fishead_Sam on July 25, 2007, 11:34:48 PM
Not that we would read it in a real Province like Connacht  :D

The same column is in today's Irish Mail on Sunday

Quote from: ExiledGael on July 29, 2007, 04:40:35 PM
I see McSherry had a go at our distinguished board in the paper at the weekend as well as name dropping a few of our famous posters, ofcourse Ziggy gets a mention with a few others

He didn't really have a go at our board, more the danger of personal attacks and that they do be heard. He did say that this is a great board, unlike another which isn't the Cusack Stand ;)

Quote from: Red Nose Red Hand on July 29, 2007, 05:58:57 PM

Quote from: Fishead_Sam on July 25, 2007, 11:34:48 PM
Not that we would read it in a real Province like Connacht  :D

The same column is in today's Irish Mail on Sunday

:D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

Great issue this week.

Declan Bogue is cut above most northern journos.

What about Dromore's Cathal Mc Carron for number 3?

Mc Carron is a great player alright.

I think it's always great!
I am no great intelliect and as such issues outside Tyrone have very little appeal to me. However there are very few articles in the GL that I don't read. Every article is well researched and written as well as being stylishly presented that you are compelled to read it.
My problem is getting time to read it all in 7 days!

I really hope that those in GL towers are getting rewarded via readership for their excellent job.

I agree, Norf Tyrone.  A brilliant read. Always a toss up as to who i should go to first.  usually Brolly, where I scan to see who he has a funny dig at (great piece this week0, then jarleth for more earthy stuff with a bit of humour thrown in too, over to Sledger then to see what he's on about.  pete is taking a while to warm up, but he'll ge tinto the groove soon. Interesting he knocked Brolly off the back page last week, but Joe is back where he belongs this week.

It is now a must buy and not bad considering it's October when we're all in gaa hibernation...

I never miss it--think its a great read and hope its here for the long haul.

Im enjoying John Kane's sport psychologist bit also thats been going for about the last 3 weeks

Brolly's is a great read-he seems to be awful fond of Big Geoffrey!

Quote from: Gold on October 27, 2007, 08:09:52 PM
I never miss it--think its a great read and hope its here for the long haul.

Im enjoying John Kane's sport psychologist bit also thats been going for about the last 3 weeks

Brolly's is a great read-he seems to be awful fond of Big Geoffrey!

Is that the same John Kane (son of Val) who used to teach in the Abbey and likes to use video cameras?

Who's the Sledger?

Quote from: Cloc Mor on October 27, 2007, 08:18:04 PM

Quote from: Gold on October 27, 2007, 08:09:52 PM
I never miss it--think its a great read and hope its here for the long haul.

Im enjoying John Kane's sport psychologist bit also thats been going for about the last 3 weeks

Brolly's is a great read-he seems to be awful fond of Big Geoffrey!

Is that the same John Kane (son of Val) who used to teach in the Abbey and likes to use video cameras?

aye think he taught in the Abbey alright..whats this about the video cameras?!

I still find The Gaelic Life to be a very good read each week....each of the journos and the weekly columnists come across as being genuine GAA people with a strong feel for the Association at all levels.  I just love the anti-GPA stance of most of the writers.  Jarlath Burns, for me, is now the paper's number one columnist....taking over from Brolly (whose fantasizing over big Geoffrey of late has been a bit disturbing!).  McSherry is always a good read as well. 

The Gaelic Life certainly has its finger on the pulse when it comes to GAA matters in Ulster and I enjoyed reading Alan Rodgers' exclusive interview with Edwin Poots.  Did you see the glare young Rodgers was giving him in that photograph at Stormont buildings?  Poots and those big DUP lugs of his appeared slightly ruffled by the Red Knight.

If only you all had of listened to me at the start.......

Brolly is a class act.

QuoteEvery article is well researched and written

Wouldn't agree that they're well researched

Well written in the main, lay out is brilliant

Not enough handball. 300 words or something is not nearly enough, should be two pages a week

Was there an issue of GL last Friday ? My local newsagents said there was none due to the holidays .

I got a pen and fixtures wallet calendar from Gaelic Life in the post two weeks :)

Happy Christmas!  ;D

So did I Ziggy!

I wonder is it worth their while sending stuff out in the post every month to people who have signed something on the website, is that not preaching to the converted? Are they not better off spending the money on other forms of Advertising?

The Monaghan page is desperate though ::)

Quote from: ziggysego on January 02, 2008, 03:48:16 PM
I got a pen and fixtures wallet calendar from Gaelic Life in the post two weeks :)

Happy Christmas!  ;D

Well done Ziggy. You're in good company (although you can spell slightly better)  :D

Quote from: Armagh4SamAgain on December 29, 2007, 09:39:26 AM
I got a free letter from Gealic Life the newspapers with a thing giving all the Mckenna cup matches an all. And a we card for the championship and a free pen. It was v nice of them. Did any body else get 1?

 :D Aah A4SA... comedy gold.

Quote from: Square Ball on July 12, 2007, 05:46:01 PM
I have no problem getting it in Belfast, two of the local shops on the ormeau road have it

Where? The shop on the lower ormeau beside hatfield?


I stumbled across it in Downpatrick there last week (the newsagent at the junction of Stream street and St.Pats avenue for anyone interested) - thought it was great.

The Vivo on the Ormeau near the Hatfield does it yeah, as does the Centra on Botanic Avenue, normally get it there before I get train home on fridays

edited for stupid caps lock!

Great article today by Brolly on the man he considers to be Armagh's greatest ever player.  The bould John Mac.

McGourty gets some column inches!!

A  great read - especially Brolly's piece on McEntee.

Strong rumours that Bogue is going with McGourty.

Quote from: Our Nail Loney on January 05, 2008, 08:02:51 PM
McGourty gets some column inches!!

"The man who doesn't hold back"

"The Antrim forward has now joined GAELIC LIFE as a regular columnist and he starts off in flying form gunning for double talk in the GAA......"

Talks about hyprocracy in GAA re grants/pay for play. All his arguments I have seen before somewhere....... :P

Quote from: never kickt a ball on January 11, 2008, 03:46:17 PM

Quote from: Our Nail Loney on January 05, 2008, 08:02:51 PM
McGourty gets some column inches!!

"The man who doesn't hold back"

"The Antrim forward has now joined GAELIC LIFE as a regular columnist and he starts off in flying form gunning for double talk in the GAA......"

Talks about hyprocracy in GAA re grants/pay for play. All his arguments I have seen before somewhere....... :P

I remember the time he posted on here as "Shaws Road" saying how intelligent and great a fella Kevin Mc Gourty was, until he was rumbled.  ;D

Is the Gaelic Life a year old now? When was it first launched?

Quote from: ziggysego on January 11, 2008, 03:58:39 PM
Is the Gaelic Life a year old now? When was it first launched?

Stick it on the birthday thread Ziggysego!

Quote from: hardstation on January 11, 2008, 04:22:45 PM
Lack of Irish in the thing.
Out In Front, I put forward 5 Sams.

Hardstation, been away from Gaelic Life since July - working nearer home now thought I do bits for GL now and then. I'll pass on your sentiments though about the lack of Irish.

Quote from: Norf Tyrone on October 27, 2007, 01:23:03 PM
Every article is well researched and written as well as being stylishly presented that you are compelled to read it.

I don't think they are well researched at all - I wouldn't read much apart from the Donegal stuff, but they've had a number of glaring errors in a few pieces their own journalists did in previews over the last while. Good potential in GL, but think they've a lot to do, to be honest.

GL is an excellent paper. Sure there's room for improvement, but that's the same with most things.

If you could make changes to the paper, what would they be?

Dunno why people slate GL, I think its a great read every week and where else are you gonna get as much gaa coverage in the media?

i get it every friday witho fail

great start to the weekend

Quote from: ziggysego on January 14, 2008, 05:36:18 PM
GL is an excellent paper. Sure there's room for improvement, but that's the same with most things.

If you could make changes to the paper, what would they be?

Think the GL is a great read , Only gripe with it would be the county pages should be crammed with info about the county not half page pictures of players or in Down's case the Marshes . I know its slow this time of the year but they should be able to fill a page on each county .

Was there an issue this week?

The local didn't do it.

Quote from: ONeill on January 18, 2008, 08:40:19 PM
Was there an issue this week?

The local didn't do it.

Yes. An article about the big man at the edge of the square from Brolly was readable. That's something I've noticed O'Neill. It can be hit and miss with some shops whether they be all sold out or never arrived in the first place. I was in one shop tonight and there were loads of them.

There is an article in todays edition about Antrims Darren Hamill but the photo is of ex Antrim player John mc Intosh, wonderful attention to detail.

Couldn't find a copy in the shop today. Distribution still not up to scratch.

Can't really blame Gaelic Life for that, it's their distributors.

See Anthony Fearon won a prize in this weeks edition. How does he do it? That's on top of last week when another poster from the board won a prize (You know who you are  ;) ).
Brolly back on to the GPA and the grants issue. Talked about the DRA meeting and made a good effort to convince us that Solicitors and Barristers worked hard  :D  :D :D :D :D

Is there an edition out today lads?? Havent been near a shop yet

Why hardstation?

Good Lord hardstation. Lets put it down to the stress over the past few days ;)

A good read today's. Jarlath's article was about letter writer complaining to the newspaper. I think he was talking about Tony ;)

Quote from: hardstation on March 21, 2008, 06:38:49 PM
Went into the shop. Wasn't thinking and picked up one of the 3 Gaelic Life papers. I noticed that they were a bit dogged.
Got her home to realise that it was last buckin' week's paper.

Did it myself a while back.  Creeping Tyrone bias into this paper or just me?

I don't know what you mean by 'creeping' Benny,think it has been there for a while! I have bought Gaelic Life religiously from the first publication(just an addict) but find it annoying a lot of the time.It is very obvious that they do not have reporters at very many league matches(Tyrone matches excluded),this leaves their attempts at analysing team and individual performances under a very large cloud.Their pieces analysing the stats of league matches just happen to have been televised!I never take much notice of teams of the week  or teams of the campaign,however, anyone who would have seen even one of Ciaran Mc Keever's performances this year would have him as just about the best player in the country at the minute!Joe Brolly has been revealed to have little new to say,if the grants issue hadn't been to the fore God only knows what he would have written about.The inclusion of Kevin Mc Gourty is another irritant,I would love to read the opinions of some truely great players (one a week) like Greg Blaney,Joe Kernan,Eugene Mc Kenna,Sean O'Neill,Nudie Hughes,Peter Mc Ginnity,James Mc Cartan(snr or jnr)or many more,instead of a twenty-something who has involved himself in some degree of controversy!Then we come to the inclusion of sections every week like 'National League Bitesize Pieces',these remind me of schoolboy efforts at using up space. Finally, if they mention 'hang sangwiches' twice more this year I won't buy it again!

In all fairness, ye knew the  inclusion of Joe in the editorial selection was purely to try an dim the bright Tyrone colour that the publication fights to disguise. Havin  said that, his ma is from Brackaville.......

I can honestly say I've never noticed any Tyrone bias in the paper and not sure where you's are coming from. I can't think of that many articles that have focused on Tyrone. The main column writers Burns, McGourty, Brolly and Pete McGrath don't mention Tyrone that much at all and they're not from Tyrone so they obviously won't have any bias towards them. The rest of the paper doesnt seem to have any more in it about Tyrone than any other counties.

Mc Sherry is in there to keep a balance !!

McSherry? He's a blagard! ;)

A blagard ?? What did he do on you Ziggy ?  ;D

Quote from: bennydorano on March 21, 2008, 08:00:20 PM

Quote from: hardstation on March 21, 2008, 06:38:49 PM
Went into the shop. Wasn't thinking and picked up one of the 3 Gaelic Life papers. I noticed that they were a bit dogged.
Got her home to realise that it was last buckin' week's paper.

Did it myself a while back. 

me to last year

Quote from: bigpaul on March 23, 2008, 12:43:35 AM
It is very obvious that they do not have reporters at very many league matches

I don't think that's a bad thing. Every other paper is full of boring and cliched match reports "a game of two halves", "finely balanced" "at the final whistle" etc etc. GL is imho better as its approach is fresh and different.

Quote
Their pieces analysing the stats of league matches just happen to have been televised!

No shame there once the stats are accurate.

QuoteThe inclusion of Kevin Mc Gourty is another irritant,I would love to read the opinions of some truely great players (one a week) like Greg Blaney,Joe Kernan,Eugene Mc Kenna,Sean O'Neill,Nudie Hughes,Peter Mc Ginnity,James Mc Cartan(snr or jnr)or many more,

The last Ulster GAA paper (the one that closed down 2 or 3 years ago) tried this and it was very boring, rent-a-quote stuff. There is little point printing reams of comment from the likes of Nudie regardless of whether or not they have something to say.

Quote
Then we come to the inclusion of sections every week like 'National League Bitesize Pieces',these remind me of schoolboy efforts at using up space.

..but they can be interesting and informative, and they do give a smidgin of 32-county perspective to the paper.

QuoteFinally, if they mention 'hang sangwiches' twice more this year I won't buy it again!

Me too!

I wouldn't be asking for match reports,just show a bit more awareness of what actually went on.
I'll give you that on the stats.
I wouldn't want to read all those every week,as in 'The Gaelic Game',I would like to read their opinions ahead of 'The Man Who Doesn't Hold Back!'
Have never found them even remotely interesting or informative - this week we have the result of the Armagh/Donegal u21 match,Graham Geraghty's opinion on the Cork strike,the news that Leitrim beat Sligo the last day and will hope to beat Wexford the next,Tipperary u21's reached the Munster-Final and London host Antrim in their League Clash! PADDING at my school!!!!!!!!
The hang-sangwiche is indisputable!

Just finished reading this weeks copy.

This paper is miles ahead of any GAA magazine or paper that has ever been produced.  I know that the lads at GL keep an eye on this board, so congratulations on keeping the paper fresh, and making it an essential read.

If you don't buy it, Buy it!

Anybody read the article about Tyrone's new centre of excellence the other week? I've never laughed so much in my entire life it was absolutely hilarious!!!

Is this paper available throughout the North?

I usually pick up a paper when im at a petrol station, and very rarely would i see it stocked in shops. If it was there more people would buy it!

Yeah, distribution and availability is probably their biggest problem.

I have been buying the Gaelic Life since last summer and I think it's exellent! Gives great coverage to club and county.  Joe Brolly, Kevin McGourty & Pete McGrath write exellent articles every week in it.  I've never had a problem finding it, I normally buy it in The Tuck Shop Warrenpoint or Morgans Newsagents in Kilkeel.  Great section on club focus where they look at each county.  Very good analysis of matches.  I say keep up the good work I'd miss it if I didn't get my Gaelic Life Fix every Friday ;)

Quote from: fred the red on June 25, 2008, 11:52:18 AM
Is this paper available throughout the North?

I usually pick up a paper when im at a petrol station, and very rarely would i see it stocked in shops. If it was there more people would buy it!

Their website gives the location of all the shops it's available in.

In the North (http://www.gaeliclife.com/ni_newsagents.php)

In the South (http://www.gaeliclife.com/roi_newsagents.php)

I enjoy Brolly's column.  Pete's can be pretty dry and dull.  McGourty's is consistently poor - waste of a page.

I also wish they'd add some editorial comment on the letters page - challenge the letters, or at least comment on them (they was Off the Fence does).  Then they might even get more letters (and not have to publish ones that have already been published by Off the Fence!).

Quote from: Maguire01 on June 25, 2008, 01:48:49 PM
I enjoy Brolly's column.  Pete's can be pretty dry and dull.  McGourty's is consistently poor - waste of a page.

I also wish they'd add some editorial comment on the letters page - challenge the letters, or at least comment on them (they was Off the Fence does).  Then they might even get more letters (and not have to publish ones that have already been published by Off the Fence!).

Good idea, but it's very easy to come accross very bad out of the responses and lose readers. Need someone genuinely funny, editor Kennedy is doing pretty well out of the betting tips lately. Up another twenty five quid this week I think.
Agree Brolly is probably the best read in the paper.

definitely the best publication of its kind. Brolly anf Burns are excellent columns. Maybe a bit more club focus and on those who make the association tick. Overall it touches all aspects of the GAA in Ulster and it is the first thing I look for on the way home from work on a Friday.

Anyone got any circulation figures? Is it sustainable? Presume it must be at this stage.

McGrath's artic;es are bloody awful if you ask me. how many times does he make predictions that aren't witin an asses whinney of fact?

Quote from: SCENTOFSAM on June 25, 2008, 07:19:09 PM
definitely the best publication of its kind. Brolly anf Burns are excellent columns. Maybe a bit more club focus and on those who make the association tick. Overall it touches all aspects of the GAA in Ulster and it is the first thing I look for on the way home from work on a Friday.

The problem with club focus, where the story is specific to one club, is that a relatively small audience will be interested.

Yes and similar with the features on groundsmen, underage coaches, etc. realistically, many less will read those types of articles.

Agree on McGrath, very predictable. Though that seems to be the way. Watched repeats of the Fermanagh game on BBC and RTE both pundits on both channels tipped Derry before the game and again at half-time even though it was already evident Derry were awful.
It was even worse on TV3 the day after with three pundits all tipping Laois to beat Wexford. half-time came, Wexford were playing well and Loais were all over the place bar Parkinson and again all three said Laois would come good. Didn't see too many tipping Down v Tyrone either, if any.
You'd be as well just showing a graphic of a bookies odds.

One gripe i do have with GL is the picture caption competition.  It would seem that you could write anything and win - the winner is rarely remotely funny and clever, i'm assuming dur to lack of entries.  Must try it some time - try and bag a free mug!

can you get gaelic life in Dublin. Ih avent seen it anywhere?

Quote from: Red Army on June 25, 2008, 08:47:18 PM
can you get gaelic life in Dublin. Ih avent seen it anywhere?

http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/GL/roi_dublin.php (http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/GL/roi_dublin.php)

Quote from: Maguire01 on June 25, 2008, 08:37:43 PM
One gripe i do have with GL is the picture caption competition.  It would seem that you could write anything and win - the winner is rarely remotely funny and clever, i'm assuming dur to lack of entries.  Must try it some time - try and bag a free mug!

I thought that was just me. I read it several times thinking the joke is over my head, but I am not getting it. I haven't a clue what the one with Mugsy was about last week.

Picture captions are awful.

McGrath's column is not too bad. A bit dull but there is usually one or two tidbits in it.

The difficulty with GL is that is not really a newspaper, more a features paper, which is hard to sustain.

Quote from: Norf Tyrone on June 26, 2008, 11:57:37 AM

Quote from: Maguire01 on June 25, 2008, 08:37:43 PM
One gripe i do have with GL is the picture caption competition.  It would seem that you could write anything and win - the winner is rarely remotely funny and clever, i'm assuming dur to lack of entries.  Must try it some time - try and bag a free mug!

I thought that was just me. I read it several times thinking the joke is over my head, but I am not getting it. I haven't a clue what the one with Mugsy was about last week.

Yes, that one in particular.  I think the caption must have been matched with the wrong picture!

I agree the letters could do with responses. Last week they had a leading letter about the Down-tyrone game not being on tv and it wrongly slated RTE and said the bbc weren't allowed to cover the game. There was a headline as well about RTE. I'd be pretty miffed if I was them, but you would think the GL would have checked the facts or at least added a comment on this cos as the Sunday Tribune pointed out the bbc simply decided not to cover the game because they wouldn't pay for it. That's why we were taken back to the dark ages of communications by huddling round radios to listen to the game of the year from Newry. Having said all that, I really enjoy the GL. Joe on the back page is a must, the first thing to read, then a flick through to see what big Jarlath is saying, though it's usually tame stuff, McGrath and McGourty don't take long to read, for differing reasons, but there's a lot of work in the GL and good luck to them in distributing it and getting sales going.

Quote from: Uladh on June 25, 2008, 08:34:15 PM

Yes and similar with the features on groundsmen, underage coaches, etc. realistically, many less will read those types of articles.

Hogan Stand magazine is full of that sort of stuff. Very boring for 99.9% of the readership. GL is doing fine by taking an alternative approach.

I think it's a great read mostly. Sometimes the shop doesn't do it so would probably consider a subscription if it arrived on the Friday morning.

GAA readers are a hard crowd to master. The Irish News/internet covers nearly everything we need so a newspaper like GL needs to offer an alternative. I think it does.

Well they're certainly marketing this week's edition big time. I got an advertising flyer through the post to-day (via first class post) informing that this week's edition will contain all the pre match build up on Down and Armagh. The cost of the stamp alone equates to 36% of the price of the publication ???

Quote from: T Fearon on June 26, 2008, 04:27:31 PM
The cost of the stamp alone equates to 36% of the price of the publication ???

The real benefits of increased circulation are not in the revenues from selling additional copies of the paper, but in maximising the rates they can justify charging to advertisers.

Quote from: bloody mary on June 26, 2008, 03:43:07 PM
That's why we were taken back to the dark ages of communications by huddling round radios to listen to the game of the year from Newry.

Some of us were very 2008, watching it on the world wide interweb!

Quote from: cornafean on June 26, 2008, 03:43:56 PM
Hogan Stand magazine is full of that sort of stuff. Very boring for 99.9% of the readership. GL is doing fine by taking an alternative approach.

HoganStand also looks like it was designed by a 5 year old. All glossy and still looking cheap.

The publishers of Intouch Rugby Magazine are producing a free Gaelic Magazine which will be either delievered free to the Clubs (like they do with Ulster Rugby) or given out by hand before big Ulster Club Games.

Being in the offing now for a few months, yet to see it. From what I gather they have a leading editor and Gaa Correspondents writing for it, but as I said have yet to see it.

i never miss the gaelic life, great read and a fantastic idea and well put together

Brolly's colomn is usualy the best and its generally all good

I buy this every Friday and always thought it was a curates egg....it was patchy enough...however todays edition is excellent. Credit where credit's due. It is essentially the closed season in the GAA with not much about to write about however todays edition was top class.

Great interview with Sean Cavanagh.
Excellent article by Jarlath on the changes in the GAA from the time when we used to tr**p through cow shite until today when hoors are claiming compo for falling over on the pitch in Croker >:(
Brolly was Brolly...excellent as usual.
Even McGourty produced an enjoyable article ;)
However Pete McGrath excelled with an article on three friends of his who were involved with him in the 90s successes..Ambrose, Terry Lawlor and Pat "Sprick" O'Hare. Really brings things into perspective.

If you can get your hands on a copy you'll be doing yourselves a favour......and no I have nothing whatsoever to do with the paper.

Well done GL.

Think its an excellent paper. Theyve did well to keep it interesting at this time of year.

Great read this week, didn't think they could fill the pages at this time of year.  Article on Malawi was very interesting.

Quote from: Gunnergael on December 12, 2008, 09:56:56 PM
Great read this week, didn't think they could fill the pages at this time of year.  Article on Malawi was very interesting.

It's great the way they are keeping it so interesting given the time of year. Well done to them.

Sean Cavanaghs interview but Brolly is the jewell in the crown every week!!!!

To be honest lads I think it's pure quality every week, and can't understand any negative comments. It's highly informative, and doesn't take itself too seriously.

And being a former caption winner I can vouch for their Gaelic Life mug and ball!!!

Quote from: hardstation on December 13, 2008, 10:17:43 PM
Always meant to enter the caption comps. The captions are always shite.

Mine ws hiliarious.

In fact , I'm in stitches now thinking of it.

HO ! HO! HO! HE! HE! HE!

Quote from: hardstation on December 13, 2008, 10:17:43 PM
Always meant to enter the caption comps. The captions are always shite.

My two were exquisite too, you should have been there, though they only gave me one mug and ball, feckers!

Can't really fault the paper any week. High quality production and a lot of work obviously goes into it every week. Think the interviews with the college players are a waste of time as their answers are always jessica alba, pasta and chicken and australia!

The captions have been pish. Don't think I.ve cracked a smile at one yet.

I've heard you only get 40 quid for an article from the Gaelic Life. Still quadruple what you getting for writing Man of the Month columns in Gael Sports Ulster and enough to buy a hooky iPod from hardstation's brother.

Quote from: hardstation on December 19, 2008, 11:39:49 PM
Wait a week, Tony, wait a week. Can anyone come up with a cracker and I'll enter as H Station? You can have the ball and mug, I just want my name in it.

Also to the GL people on the board, can I enter the fantasy thing as a late entrant? I was waiting on getting a full list of players from each county, which only came this week, before I picked my team.

"Who says Mayo have no bottle?" It's a start! :-\

Quote from: hardstation on December 20, 2008, 12:40:39 AM
"Mayomen empty the Belcoo off licence".

Don't worry you have until Dec 31st!

Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 19, 2008, 11:33:52 PM
Can't really fault the paper any week. High quality production and a lot of work obviously goes into it every week. Think the interviews with the college players are a waste of time as their answers are always jessica alba, pasta and chicken and australia!

The captions have been pish. Don't think I.ve cracked a smile at one yet.

OK Mr Tony Baloney. we will look forward to you having us rolling in laughter at one of yours shortly

I always wondered why the same blade wins the mug every week. 

Quote from: Gaffer on December 20, 2008, 01:54:00 AM

Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 19, 2008, 11:33:52 PM
Can't really fault the paper any week. High quality production and a lot of work obviously goes into it every week. Think the interviews with the college players are a waste of time as their answers are always jessica alba, pasta and chicken and australia!

The captions have been pish. Don't think I.ve cracked a smile at one yet.

OK Mr Tony Baloney. we will look forward to you having us rolling in laughter at one of yours shortly

Maybe I missed yours then  ;) Sure post on here what the pic was and your accompanying caption and see if it passes the test!

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Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 20, 2008, 12:36:45 PM

Quote from: Gaffer on December 20, 2008, 01:54:00 AM

Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 19, 2008, 11:33:52 PM
Can't really fault the paper any week. High quality production and a lot of work obviously goes into it every week. Think the interviews with the college players are a waste of time as their answers are always jessica alba, pasta and chicken and australia!

The captions have been pish. Don't think I.ve cracked a smile at one yet.

OK Mr Tony Baloney. we will look forward to you having us rolling in laughter at one of yours shortly

Maybe I missed yours then  ;) Sure post on here what the pic was and your accompanying caption and see if it passes the test!

No need

You have lready said that they were pish so you included mine in it!!

Now now don't be so sensitive. Maybe I missed that edition.

Are you a girl?

Not a bt sensitive, Tony.

Having a bit o banter.

I am a big ugly brute of a geezer!

Excellent article by Brolly in today's Gaelic Life on his hurling career and Kevin Lynch......his best in a while.

(Sorry I cant post it)

Quote from: 5 Sams on October 02, 2009, 04:31:33 PM
Excellent article by Brolly in today's Gaelic Life on his hurling career and Kevin Lynch......his best in a while.

(Sorry I cant post it)

Does he play Hurling still?

brillinat article-very moving and didn't even have to mention the bullshit that proabaly inspired it...

Can anyone post this?

Good call 5sams

Published Date:  02 October 2009
By Joe Brolly
MY EARLIEST sporting memory is of my father getting his nose broken with Dungiven hurlers.
The match was in 1972 against Kilrea. I went to every match with him in our bright green Lada car. Russian made, it had black plastic seats that burned when it was sunny and windows that only a plasterer could wind open.
In those days, Dungiven's goalie and full back line had to be approached with extreme caution, in the manner of the presenter of a wildlife program nearing a group of adult gorillas. Sudden movements tended to panic them, which manifested itself in extremely hard, high pulling towards the threat until it stopped moving. To borrow a phrase, you'd want to have your novenas said before you soloed towards Liam Hinphey senior, Anthony O'Hara and Phonsie Boyle.
My father was a cultured centre half back and not long into the game, he turned to chase a high ball back towards his own square, forgetting to shout the password. Billy Taylor was the Dungiven goalie, and as my father bent to pick up the ball, Billy pulled hard on it, and made a real mess of his face. I still clearly remember the blood pouring down over his white and black jersey.
Billy is a great fellow, and holds the unique distinction of being able to sing Kevin Barry to the tune of the Sash, and vice versa, he just wasn't terribly careful with the blade.
Phonsie Boyle, known as 'The Boiler', rose to prominence due to the number of opponents who mysteriously fainted during games. During a weekend in Kilkenny in the mid-70s, Phonsie met the cats legendary full back Pa Dillon, who had renounced pacifism in his youth. The young Phonsie, a keen student of the game and of its ethics, consulted Pa on the interesting question: "When is a full back entitled to pull?" Pa's response? "When the ball is in the general area."
In 1978, Pa came to Dungiven with Freshford to play in a tournament at the field, and took the opportunity to watch Phonsie plying his art against Banagher. When the game was over, Pa approached him and uttered the immortal line " Phonsie, a ball would do you a long time."

Hinphey's Influence
A vital stimulus for the game in Dungiven had been the triumphant arrival across the mountain of Liam Hinphey. Having left Kilkenny as a young graduate, he arrived firstly in Ballymaguigan, before meeting my aunt Mary K and falling madly in love.
His installation in Dungiven meant one thing: hurling. Kilkenny club teams came to tournaments in the field. Eddie Keher stayed in our house. Brian Cody stayed in my grandmother's across the road. The fresh-faced young Kilkenny captain actually courted my father's cousin Sheila. Unfortunately, she couldn't hang onto him, but the relationships that were built between Dungiven and Kilkenny were more permanent.
In 1978, Liam was invited by Monsignor Maher, the doyen of hurling coaches and manager of Kilkenny to spend the weekend of the All-Ireland in the company of the Kilkenny team. They were playing Cork, and on the evening before the game, Liam watched the training at St Ciaran's, then went with them for their evening meal at Langtons, where he was presented with an entire set of Kilkenny jerseys. For years afterwards, the club senior team wore the Kilkenny colours, and in centenary year won the county title in them.
Dungiven is hurling mad. When I was a child at St John's Primary School the principal was Pat Holloway, a Tipperary man and a fine hurler. All we did was hurl.
In 1982, I played right half forward on the Dungiven team that won the U14 feile, defeating Dunloy in the final in Croke Park. I have two each of under-14, 16 and minor county medals. I have three senior county medals, the most memorable of these coming in a final against Lavey in the late eighties.
Brian McGilligan, one of the greatest hurlers I have seen, lined out for us at number 11 that day, standing at 6'3" and 16 and a half stone. Colm McGurk of Lavey, all 5'6" and eight stones of him squared up to him from the throw-in and commenced lashing him across the legs. Their duel was a symbol for the contest.
Before half-time Colm's hand was broken by a hard pull. Undaunted, he got it strapped up, came back on for the second half and resumed lashing.

In the Blood
This summer, my two oldest boys spent a week at the Lynchs hurling camp, staying with their granny. Afterwards, they didn't want to come home and were using the word 'sir' perfectly in context. It took about two weeks for this side-effect to wear off.
The club has 148 playing members between the ages of 5 and 14. There are eight teams in total including two at adult level. Last weekend, the hurlers drew the county final with Slaughtneil. This weekend, most of the same lads are playing in the senior football final. The game and the club is in our blood.
Kevin Lynch was a fanatical hurler. In 1971, the inaugural hurling Feile took place in Thurles. Kevin was right half back on the team. A week before the competition was due to start, Kevin's appendix ruptured and he had to be rushed into hospital for emergency surgery. His mother Bridie went to see the manager, Liam Hinphey to tell him the bad news. She was devastated for her son.
Liam assured her that they would bring him anyway, and keep a close eye on him. The bus was leaving from the town on the Friday morning, and on the Thursday night, Kevin appeared at Liam's back door to leave his hurl and gear. He didn't want his mother to know. Liam senior, hugely conscious of player welfare, went on to play him in four games over the next two days. Dungiven won it, beating two Tipperary teams en route to the cup. Bridie never found out.
In 1972, he captained the first Derry hurling team to win an All-Ireland. He quickly moved up to senior level and hurled with distinction until his arrest in 1977.
In 1981, he died on hunger strike after 71 days, aged only 25. I still vividly remember the shock of it.
A few years earlier, the hurling club had broken away from the football club and used the name St Patrick's as a stop-gap, since it was the name of the local secondary school. A few weeks after he died, the club committee unanimously agreed that the club would be named Kevin Lynch's if the family gave permission. Kevin's father Paddy gave the idea his blessing, and that was that.
When I drive through the town in the mornings on my way to court in Derry, I often see his sister Bridie crossing the road to the chapel with fresh flowers for his grave. To this day, she lights a candle before every Senior Championship game.
In Seamus Heaney's great work Requiem for the Croppies, he wrote . . .
"They buried us without shroud or coffin and in August... the barley grew up out of our graves."
Dungiven's young barley is growing beautifully.

You should post that in the General Section as well and let the OWC crowd choke on it  :D

QuoteIn Seamus Heaney's great work Requiem for the Croppies, he wrote . . .
"They buried us without shroud or coffin and in August... the barley grew up out of our graves."
Dungiven's young barley is growing beautifully.

I liked that bit....are you reading Liam Hayes et al....excellent stuff from the umbrella.

another good piece by joe, hes the first page i turn to read in the GL

Good man Joe!

Full of Brolly embellishments as usual. Strange to get a mention of Brian McGilligan in  ::)

The name is quite erroneous. Should be called North Derry Select HC

Quote from: 5 Sams on October 02, 2009, 08:02:45 PM

QuoteIn Seamus Heaney's great work Requiem for the Croppies, he wrote . . .
"They buried us without shroud or coffin and in August... the barley grew up out of our graves."
Dungiven's young barley is growing beautifully.

I liked that bit....are you reading Liam Hayes et al....excellent stuff from the umbrella.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv4ifmS7H20

Well done Joe -  it cuts through the bullshit. couldnt have wrote it any better myself

Quote from: the green man on October 02, 2009, 11:32:42 PM
The name is quite erroneous. Should be called North Derry Select HC

Explain???

Quote from: Owenbeg on October 03, 2009, 08:59:23 PM
Well done Joe -  it cuts through the bullshit. couldnt have wrote it any better myself

jaysus thats awful high praise

Quote from: thejuice on October 04, 2009, 09:42:03 AM

Quote from: Owenbeg on October 03, 2009, 08:59:23 PM
Well done Joe -  it cuts through the bullshit. couldnt have wrote it any better myself

jaysus thats awful high praise

He deserve's it. Summed up the club perfectly

Quote from: Owenbeg on October 03, 2009, 08:59:23 PM
Well done Joe -  it cuts through the bullshit. couldnt have wrote it any better myself

Obviously... or you'd have your own newspaper column  ;)

Quote from: longrunsthefox on October 04, 2009, 12:24:13 PM

Quote from: Owenbeg on October 03, 2009, 08:59:23 PM
Well done Joe -  it cuts through the bullshit. couldnt have wrote it any better myself

Obviously... or you'd have your own newspaper column  ;)

With a good sub-editor.

Listened to Hinphey correct Joe on the finer details of the story about his dad's nose at the Bredagh Talks Sam event in the Welly Park a couple of months ago. Happened only a day or two after Francie was released from internment, and he went and got his nose broke by his own team-mate!

Here is no truth in this. Creagh Concrete are still there for another while.

What did Brolly write last week that caused offence? Seen an apology in the letter section from Brolly himself and saying he was donating his fee for last weeks column to Marie Curie Cancer.

Don't know, it was  strange that one! Usually,apologies like that contain corrections or retractions. I read last week's column and am none the wiser as to the inaccuracy,I could now believe the inaccuracy and disbelieve some other part of the article!

Quote from: tyroneboi on November 27, 2009, 10:12:00 PM
What did Brolly write last week that caused offence? Seen an apology in the letter section from Brolly himself and saying he was donating his fee for last weeks column to Marie Curie Cancer.

Did he say how much he got?

Anyone read the interview with Brian Mc Eniff from 2 weeks ago? It says "So in the early part of '74 I [Mc Eniff] was playing for kerry in New York against galway. We were eating in Donaghy's stakehouse after it. Mick O Dwyer, Mick O'Connell and pauric sheehy were there,"

What's the deal with that? Was Mc Eniff playing for the real Kerry or Kerry-New York?
Good article this I think, tells how he thinks Grimleys a p***k and Mc Eniff pulls no punches, did Mc Eniff ever write an autobiography?

good article alright, mc eniff a true donegal gael

What's a false Donegal gael?

Quote from: ONeill on December 13, 2008, 09:13:14 PM
Ronan Scott's a bollocks though.

He must be.. Tipped Kilkenny footballers to beat London yesterday.
Kilkenny footballers couldnt beat Kilkenny hurlers (at football).

I see the Gaelic Life are celebrating their 200th Edition today. Great to see it last to this length. Some good articles in it today. The Hallion is in up form today.

Quote from: ziggysego on November 19, 2010, 01:15:35 PM
I see the Gaelic Life are celebrating their 200th Edition today. Great to see it last to this length. Some good articles in it today. The Hallion is in up form today.

I don't see why the persist with this drivel, otherwise a good read.

Quote from: The Worker on November 19, 2010, 08:10:23 PM

I don't see why the persist with this drivel, otherwise a good read.

Spot on, pure tripe.  I'd even rather have Newton Emerson or the boy from the Irish News a few years ago who wrote his GAA diary - began with D - Donny?

Quote from: ONeill on November 19, 2010, 11:23:35 PM

Quote from: The Worker on November 19, 2010, 08:10:23 PM

I don't see why the persist with this drivel, otherwise a good read.

Spot on, pure tripe.  I'd even rather have Newton Emerson or the boy from the Irish News a few years ago who wrote his GAA diary - began with D - Donny?

Same. Tripe never read that shite.
Never fail to buy the paper i'm glad it's goin strong

Read it regularly up until this Spring /Summer and haven't bought it since. It covers it's bases brilliantly but it's coverage is nearly too widely spread and i found I had little interest in most of what was in it.   I also found myself totally disagreeing with everything written about Armagh, the armagh correspondent just seemed way off the mark to me most of the time.  If they lost Brolly sales would plummet I'd imagine - always the first thing I would've read.

Rather strangely I have only recently started reading GL and I think it's excellent. My main problem is it's availability. I travel for work and can rarely find it in main retail outlets especially across Belfast, Antrim and Down.
The fact that GL is still going strong shows how they have hit the mark and are totally inside the heads of the average Ulster gael.

I think it's excellent. I think any GAA follower that has any doubt about it they should pay the £1 regardless. Any publication that gives weekly coverage of our sport should be supported.

A £1 is nothing. Well for most folk.

Quote from: ck on December 23, 2010, 12:39:04 AM
Rather strangely I have only recently started reading GL and I think it's excellent. My main problem is it's availability. I travel for work and can rarely find it in main retail outlets especially across Belfast, Antrim and Down.
The fact that GL is still going strong shows how they have hit the mark and are totally inside the heads of the average Ulster gael.

You should get a subscription for Christmas.

Sometimes problematic in that it arrives on a Monday (after the weekend's games which it is reviewing in anticipation)...but when it does get there on the Saturday its great.

Quote from: Glensman on December 23, 2010, 12:50:48 PM

Quote from: ck on December 23, 2010, 12:39:04 AM
Rather strangely I have only recently started reading GL and I think it's excellent. My main problem is it's availability. I travel for work and can rarely find it in main retail outlets especially across Belfast, Antrim and Down.
The fact that GL is still going strong shows how they have hit the mark and are totally inside the heads of the average Ulster gael.

You should get a subscription for Christmas.

Sometimes problematic in that it arrives on a Monday (after the weekend's games which it is reviewing in anticipation)...but when it does get there on the Saturday its great.

That's strange, GL can be found pretty much all over Cavan early every Friday morning.

Haven't read the tyrone times in years

Good article by Jarlath Burns today about the Schools finals and the amount of kids turning up at it off their heads with drinnk.

Devenny on the other hand is a tool.  Dont know why they let him write anything!

Quote from: ck on December 23, 2010, 12:39:04 AM
Rather strangely I have only recently started reading GL and I think it's excellent. My main problem is it's availability. I travel for work and can rarely find it in main retail outlets especially across Belfast, Antrim and Down.
The fact that GL is still going strong shows how they have hit the mark and are totally inside the heads of the average Ulster gael.

This was posted a while ago I know but Centra do sell the GL - especially the one across the road from the bot.

Gaelic Life is a great paper.  Another brilliant article today by Brolly.  I get the impression that he just sits down and types it up in 15minutes, and he is still brilliant.

GL has one major flaw... Brendan Devenney. He spouts awful tripe. It's now the only article that I never read.

Quote from: Feckitt on March 25, 2011, 05:51:53 PM
Gaelic Life is a great paper.  Another brilliant article today by Brolly.  I get the impression that he just sits down and types it up in 15minutes, and he is still brilliant.

You 100% right Francie :-\

I too get the impression he types it up in 15minutes!

Aye Brolly hit nail on the head today. Getting a weight lifter with no clue about football to train the team seems crazy. Then again if Armagh were winning games then you would see meat heads on every touch line in the country.. but they arent winning are they.

The tactics thing is interesting also. Armagh, the new puke football. To me any manager doing the old all men behind the ball tactic clearly has no faith in his defence.. or maybe himself?

Well done Joe Brolly.

I got Mr. redandblack4ever a subscription to Gaelic Life last August. We both look forward to getting on-line on Friday mornings to read all the latest. It was money well spent.

Don't know about Brolly this week. I'm no fan of McGurn especially after the Irish flop in the last rugby world cup when the whole team looked burnt out. However it is still early days and I'd deserve judgement until I see how the boys last 70 mins on a hot Clones Sunday.

Jarleth Burns was on the money this week though.

Was Brolly's article not 6 years too late?

Quote from: Ulick on March 25, 2011, 11:32:25 PM
Don't know about Brolly this week. I'm no fan of McGurn especially after the Irish flop in the last rugby world cup when the whole team looked burnt out. However it is still early days and I'd deserve judgement until I see how the boys last 70 mins on a hot Clones Sunday.

Jarleth Burns was on the money this week though.

Haven't seen this article, but I have to say I'm a bit bemused by some of the McGurn bashing lately. If he's there simply as a strength and conditioning coach, then he's doing a solid job. Individually our players look fine, with several in appreciably better shape than ever before. Armagh's current problems are in the areas of talent and tactics, and as a s&c coach I wouldn't have thought McGurn is in a position to do much about these deficiencies. An easy, high profile, target.

AFS, having spoken to a member of the panel recently regarding McGurns part in their sessions, he takes all the ball drills while the mgt team take a back seat

Quote from: AFS on March 26, 2011, 01:47:44 AM

Quote from: Ulick on March 25, 2011, 11:32:25 PM
Don't know about Brolly this week. I'm no fan of McGurn especially after the Irish flop in the last rugby world cup when the whole team looked burnt out. However it is still early days and I'd deserve judgement until I see how the boys last 70 mins on a hot Clones Sunday.

Jarleth Burns was on the money this week though.

Haven't seen this article, but I have to say I'm a bit bemused by some of the McGurn bashing lately. If he's there simply as a strength and conditioning coach, then he's doing a solid job. Individually our players look fine, with several in appreciably better shape than ever before. Armagh's current problems are in the areas of talent and tactics, and as a s&c coach I wouldn't have thought McGurn is in a position to do much about these deficiencies. An easy, high profile, target.

unless he's also taking the football at training...

Quote from: AFS on March 26, 2011, 01:47:44 AM

Quote from: Ulick on March 25, 2011, 11:32:25 PM
Don't know about Brolly this week. I'm no fan of McGurn especially after the Irish flop in the last rugby world cup when the whole team looked burnt out. However it is still early days and I'd deserve judgement until I see how the boys last 70 mins on a hot Clones Sunday.

Jarleth Burns was on the money this week though.

Haven't seen this article, but I have to say I'm a bit bemused by some of the McGurn bashing lately. If he's there simply as a strength and conditioning coach, then he's doing a solid job. Individually our players look fine, with several in appreciably better shape than ever before. Armagh's current problems are in the areas of talent and tactics, and as a s&c coach I wouldn't have thought McGurn is in a position to do much about these deficiencies. An easy, high profile, target.

You say he is an easy target, why wouldnt he be - Armagh are the only county with a full time strength coach on a full time salary!... he has never played or coached GAA at any level YET he is now taking ball drills too?! It's not McGurn I blame, it's O'Rourke. Armaghs tactics were awful defensive v Kerry, maybe McGurn is doing tactics too? Does O'Rourke do anything?
Look at Kevin Walsh in Sligo and Jim McGuinness in Donegal... both are managing, coaching and doing all the weights with their teams. Sligo and Donegal are both going rightly. Maybe county boards should look for managers who can actually do things for their team and not high proflile ex county players who dont seem to be able to do anything!

Quote from: DuffleKing on March 26, 2011, 12:48:03 PM

Quote from: AFS on March 26, 2011, 01:47:44 AM

Quote from: Ulick on March 25, 2011, 11:32:25 PM
Don't know about Brolly this week. I'm no fan of McGurn especially after the Irish flop in the last rugby world cup when the whole team looked burnt out. However it is still early days and I'd deserve judgement until I see how the boys last 70 mins on a hot Clones Sunday.

Jarleth Burns was on the money this week though.

Haven't seen this article, but I have to say I'm a bit bemused by some of the McGurn bashing lately. If he's there simply as a strength and conditioning coach, then he's doing a solid job. Individually our players look fine, with several in appreciably better shape than ever before. Armagh's current problems are in the areas of talent and tactics, and as a s&c coach I wouldn't have thought McGurn is in a position to do much about these deficiencies. An easy, high profile, target.

unless he's also taking the football at training...

If that's the case, then there are a number of people you'd have to ask questions of before you get to McGurn.

Quote from: redandblack4ever on March 25, 2011, 11:18:22 PM
I got Mr. redandblack4ever a subscription to Gaelic Life last August. We both look forward to getting on-line on Friday mornings to read all the latest. It was money well spent.

You should pay double.

Just got an email from Gaelic Life to say that their paper will now be coming out on a Thursday every week.

Everyone should try and support this paper as best they can.  For £1 it's a terriffic read.

Quote from: muppet on March 26, 2011, 08:26:34 PM

Quote from: redandblack4ever on March 25, 2011, 11:18:22 PM
I got Mr. redandblack4ever a subscription to Gaelic Life last August. We both look forward to getting on-line on Friday mornings to read all the latest. It was money well spent.

You should pay double.

Why should we pay double, because we live in the US?  You're a fool.

Quote from: Feckitt on April 13, 2011, 03:10:23 PM
Just got an email from Gaelic Life to say that their paper will now be coming out on a Thursday every week.

Everyone should try and support this paper as best they can.  For £1 it's a terriffic read.

Totally agree.

Quote from: Armaghgeddon on March 25, 2011, 02:33:55 PM

Quote from: ck on December 23, 2010, 12:39:04 AM
Rather strangely I have only recently started reading GL and I think it's excellent. My main problem is it's availability. I travel for work and can rarely find it in main retail outlets especially across Belfast, Antrim and Down.
The fact that GL is still going strong shows how they have hit the mark and are totally inside the heads of the average Ulster gael.

This was posted a while ago I know but Centra do sell the GL - especially the one across the road from the bot.

The Centra at St Georges Market sell it as well.

anyone able to post Brolly's article from last friday. It was brilliant

Coming out on the Thursday suits better. Good to hear too that there'll be a greater club focus.

Also glad to hear that sickener Hallion has been laid off.

Thursday definitely suits a lot better, will be able to read it in peace now.

£1 is great value.

Quote from: Hoof Hearted on April 13, 2011, 09:52:39 PM
anyone able to post Brolly's article from last friday. It was brilliant

Agree it was a well written piece. Usually it is some piece of self promotion but occasionally he hits the right note

Gaelic life is now available on Thursday. No idea why they have changed but think its a good idea

They've relaunched their website www.GaelicLife.com Not much on it at the moment though.

Anyone else notice that in this weeks GL for the Nation football Fantasy Football tables, it was only the top 100 listed, anyone know where you can get the full list.

Quote from: redandblack4ever on April 13, 2011, 04:21:11 PM

Quote from: muppet on March 26, 2011, 08:26:34 PM

Quote from: redandblack4ever on March 25, 2011, 11:18:22 PM
I got Mr. redandblack4ever a subscription to Gaelic Life last August. We both look forward to getting on-line on Friday mornings to read all the latest. It was money well spent.

You should pay double.

Why should we pay double, because we live in the US?  You're a fool.

No, because the two you read it.  ;D

Prefer the new look. Classier looking with plenty to read over the weekend. Also good to see a few of the articles embracing other sports. Sometimes GAA publications can come across as having a serious chip on the shoulder regarding the mention of soccer or rugby.

Did the hallion get the chop? 

Long overdue in my honest opinion.

Agree totally Oneill waste of a page with the Hallion also thought that True Gael piece also stupid . Was a bit surprised that there wasnt a mention of St Colmans winning back to back Hogans a great achievement

Quote from: NP 76 on April 22, 2011, 02:54:37 PM
Agree totally Oneill waste of a page with the Hallion also thought that True Gael piece also stupid . Was a bit surprised that there wasnt a mention of St Colmans winning back to back Hogans a great achievement

Gaelic life regularly misses obvious stories like this. They covered 1st round McRory games and missed out on Sigerson matches, now they are covering club league games and missing out on St.Colmans winning the All-Ireland. I appreciate their urge to get down into grass roots, but ignoring colleges games and bigger schools games surely is poor judgement? I would guess that their sales would increase if they covered these?

Just checked, would the fact that the Gaelic Life had 2 stories on the Hogan Cup win sort of make your point pretty redundant?

Quote from: ONeill on April 22, 2011, 10:05:10 PM
Just checked, would the fact that the Gaelic Life had 2 stories on the Hogan Cup win sort of make your point pretty redundant?

It certainly would. I have to say, I didnt notice any St.Colmans stories though. O'Neill do you work for GL?. To know that they ran precisely two stories is strong attention to detail to say the least!

Quote from: ck on April 23, 2011, 12:18:17 AM

Quote from: ONeill on April 22, 2011, 10:05:10 PM
Just checked, would the fact that the Gaelic Life had 2 stories on the Hogan Cup win sort of make your point pretty redundant?

It certainly would. I have to say, I didnt notice any St.Colmans stories though. O'Neill do you work for GL?. To know that they ran precisely two stories is strong attention to detail to say the least!

He used to. O'Neill = the Halllion

Quote from: ck on April 23, 2011, 12:18:17 AM

Quote from: ONeill on April 22, 2011, 10:05:10 PM
Just checked, would the fact that the Gaelic Life had 2 stories on the Hogan Cup win sort of make your point pretty redundant?

It certainly would. I have to say, I didnt notice any St.Colmans stories though. O'Neill do you work for GL?. To know that they ran precisely two stories is strong attention to detail to say the least!

I just checked the paper. Easily enough done.

Quote from: redcard on April 23, 2011, 12:34:03 AM

Quote from: ck on April 23, 2011, 12:18:17 AM

Quote from: ONeill on April 22, 2011, 10:05:10 PM
Just checked, would the fact that the Gaelic Life had 2 stories on the Hogan Cup win sort of make your point pretty redundant?

It certainly would. I have to say, I didnt notice any St.Colmans stories though. O'Neill do you work for GL?. To know that they ran precisely two stories is strong attention to detail to say the least!

He used to. O'Neill = the Halllion

How dare you! That's like being accused of being some horrible villian from Batman.

No harm to Oneill no article about St Colmans winning back to back Hogans . Small piece from Eammon Burns from Derry talking about burn out from his time winning it nothing to do with St colmans achievement . Jarlath Burns wrote a great article last year on the tradition of the College his (Alma Mater ) wishing them well but this year the no mention of congradulations or anything .

Generally the Gaelic Life is more of a browse than a read. Jarlath Burns and Joe Brolly are good feature writers, and worth the price of the paper on their own. There is little real analysis of any depth or substance beyond Senior intercounty football, and even then......it can be skimpy too.
I still buy it mind you. there are some good ideas in it, like the team of the week, the betting forecasts etc, All tit bit journalism, but dont expect a Wishie Fogarty, Martin Breheny  or a Colm Keyes.
Perhaps they should expand their sources and some volunteers around the province would write for them a piece or two containing the finer and really interesting details of some school or club matches of note.When it comes to some games, like the Hogan Cup articles and Ulster U-21 Championship, it seems as if they have to put something in with 'at the desk knowledge' and it looks so contrived and forced at times. At least they get the players names correct in the captions. I'll still be buying it despite my rant.

You said there was no mention of winning back to back Hogans. Eamonn Burns talks about the game and Cathal Murray in particular. I'm not privy to their ethos but I'd imagine that the GL is mostly about previewing - looking ahead to that weekend's games. It's up the the star columnists to write about (review) what they want and if Brolly, Burns, Devenney or whoever decide to not write about Newry it's their call. As for game reports sure isn't that what the dailies are for.

Understand what you are saying Oneill and Eammon Burns piece was very good and was speaking from experience but my point was that back to back All Irelands is a huge achievement and i thought it should of got more than a third of a page of coverage thats all . It wont put me off buying it as i look forward to it each week all the better its out the day earlier

I agree, I still buy it despite its many flaws. Joe Brolly, the coaching articles and the unusual features are worth the money.
Flaw No. 1: Brendan Devenney!
How is that man still writing for them, he comes out with awful oul tripe. He was a maverick player who flattered to deceive and never did it when it counted. He also never won anything with Donegal (at least I don't think he did?) He isnt a manager or a coach.. yet he is given a page every week to show off his ignorance. Surely GL could do better than him?

Does the Hallion still write for the paper?

it was the one reason why i stopped buying it.

Quote from: The Worker on November 19, 2010, 08:10:23 PM

Quote from: ziggysego on November 19, 2010, 01:15:35 PM
I see the Gaelic Life are celebrating their 200th Edition today. Great to see it last to this length. Some good articles in it today. The Hallion is in up form today.

I don't see why the persist with this drivel, otherwise a good read.

Quote from: The Worker on April 23, 2011, 01:19:14 PM
Does the Hallion still write for the paper?

it was the one reason why i stopped buying it.

It was after your similar post a couple of months ago that I began writing to them to remove him. Thankfully, it worked.

Bit sore on Devenney. Sometimes he calls it well.

Quote from: ONeill on April 23, 2011, 01:43:03 PM

Quote from: The Worker on November 19, 2010, 08:10:23 PM

Quote from: ziggysego on November 19, 2010, 01:15:35 PM
I see the Gaelic Life are celebrating their 200th Edition today. Great to see it last to this length. Some good articles in it today. The Hallion is in up form today.

I don't see why the persist with this drivel, otherwise a good read.

Quote from: The Worker on April 23, 2011, 01:19:14 PM
Does the Hallion still write for the paper?

it was the one reason why i stopped buying it.

It was after your similar post a couple of months ago that I began writing to them to remove him. Thankfully, it worked.

Bit sore on Devenney. Sometimes he calls it well.

Could you "write" to your mates get Devenney removed? lol
I understand the desire to get someone writing who will call a spade a spade but surely there are more informed voices out there?

Quote from: ONeill on April 23, 2011, 01:43:03 PM

Quote from: The Worker on November 19, 2010, 08:10:23 PM

Quote from: ziggysego on November 19, 2010, 01:15:35 PM
I see the Gaelic Life are celebrating their 200th Edition today. Great to see it last to this length. Some good articles in it today. The Hallion is in up form today.

I don't see why the persist with this drivel, otherwise a good read.

Quote from: The Worker on April 23, 2011, 01:19:14 PM
Does the Hallion still write for the paper?

it was the one reason why i stopped buying it.

It was after your similar post a couple of months ago that I began writing to them to remove him. Thankfully, it worked.

Bit sore on Devenney. Sometimes he calls it well.

Bit wierd you wrote to a paper over something I thought  :-\

I didn't really.

Quote from: ONeill on April 23, 2011, 05:05:34 PM
I didn't really.

o. k.

Was up in Cavan for the weekend and got this paper in the hotel. First time ever reading it, and I have to say I thought it was great. Good snapshot as an outsider about the Ulster Counties, and the club scenes there. Really enjoyed it. I wonder would there be a market to expand it, and go for a national edition, or maybe 4 provincials?

The club focus on Dunloy was very good as well. Well done lads.

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 25, 2011, 09:51:13 PM
Was up in Cavan for the weekend and got this paper in the hotel. First time ever reading it, and I have to say I thought it was great. Good snapshot as an outsider about the Ulster Counties, and the club scenes there. Really enjoyed it. I wonder would there be a market to expand it, and go for a national edition, or maybe 4 provincials?

The club focus on Dunloy was very good as well. Well done lads.

What tuk ye to Cavan?

Weekend in the Slieve Russell. Great weekend.

Went to Enniskillen for a scout around as well. Never realised O'Neill's had shops!! I thought they just supplied other sports shops. Never saw so many GAA jersies in one shop. I'll have to go back. Is there one in Belfast as well?

O Neills have shops in Newry Strabane Magherafelt Belfast. Good clearance store in Belfast and Newry some good bargins at times

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 25, 2011, 09:51:13 PM
Was up in Cavan for the weekend and got this paper in the hotel. First time ever reading it, and I have to say I thought it was great. Good snapshot as an outsider about the Ulster Counties, and the club scenes there. Really enjoyed it. I wonder would there be a market to expand it, and go for a national edition, or maybe 4 provincials?

The club focus on Dunloy was very good as well. Well done lads.

It's available online as well AZ: www.gaeliclife.com (http://www.gaeliclife.com)

Interesting point indirectly raised there...
Why are O'Neills shops only in Ulster? I'm an Ulster man living in Connaught and can testify to the fact that Ulster is the strongest province in terms of a passion and hunger for GAA? GL Newspaper would suggest this is the case. Many other provinces have started up newspapers and magazines however only the Gaelic Life is thriving. Maybe the could expand to other provinces but it's the local/provincial charm that is its selling point, covering local stories at a grass roots level. Irish News would thrive on this also. The Irish dailies endeavour to do so but are dominated by Kilkenny, Kerry and Dublin.

Quote from: ck on April 26, 2011, 01:05:20 PM
Interesting point indirectly raised there...
Why are O'Neills shops only in Ulster? I'm an Ulster man living in Connaught and can testify to the fact that Ulster is the strongest province in terms of a passion and hunger for GAA? GL Newspaper would suggest this is the case. Many other provinces have started up newspapers and magazines however only the Gaelic Life is thriving. Maybe the could expand to other provinces but it's the local/provincial charm that is its selling point, covering local stories at a grass roots level. Irish News would thrive on this also. The Irish dailies endeavour to do so but are dominated by Kilkenny, Kerry and Dublin.

I'm an Ulster man living in Connaught and can testify to the fact that Ulster is the strongest province in terms of a passion and hunger for GAA?

I call bullshit :D There are obviously factors why people in Ulster, and in FAT DAD particularly, wear their GAA leanings like a badge of honour, and I think that is wonderful to see. However, I can 'testify' to the fact that people in every province in Ireland have an equal 'passion and hunger' for GAA.

As for O'Neill's shops, I don't know why they are not in the republic, but I suspect they didn't need retail outlets down south, as every sports shop in the country would supply GAA jersies from them. Maybe they felt that they needed outlets in the north, especially as they are based there.

As for the Gaelic Life, I think the format is great. How many copies does it sell every week? I'd imagine that if costs were kept sensible, that a Munster 'gaelic life' would do well too. It's ironic that the reason Gaelic Life seems good to me is that it is partitionist :D Not politically, but on Provincial grounds. All publications 'down here' tend to be watered down by being too broad based. There's 32 counties in Ireland, and if you have a weekly/monthly that's trying to cater for all of them, you're probably on a loser. Also, you have to factor in the great news and notes sections in every local paper in the republic that gives a lot of the same info that's in the gaelic life.

Big price difference to buy a jersey in O Neills and the likes of Elverys or other retailers in the South . I was in Cork city recently and saw a Cork jersey size large for 65 euro compared to 40 sterling at home

Quote from: NP 76 on April 26, 2011, 02:14:28 PM
Big price difference to buy a jersey in O Neills and the likes of Elverys or other retailers in the South . I was in Cork city recently and saw a Cork jersey size large for 65 euro compared to 40 sterling at home

I noticed that myself, and that's obviously margin built in for Elverys. I'd imagine O'Neills could undercut every store in the south if they wanted to. Maybe they think it's not worth the bother.

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 26, 2011, 02:24:00 PM

Quote from: NP 76 on April 26, 2011, 02:14:28 PM
Big price difference to buy a jersey in O Neills and the likes of Elverys or other retailers in the South . I was in Cork city recently and saw a Cork jersey size large for 65 euro compared to 40 sterling at home

I noticed that myself, and that's obviously margin built in for Elverys. I'd imagine O'Neills could undercut every store in the south if they wanted to. Maybe they think it's not worth the bother.

Sure, they're probably getting the same money on each sale but less hassle with overheads etc, etc.

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 26, 2011, 02:24:00 PM

Quote from: NP 76 on April 26, 2011, 02:14:28 PM
Big price difference to buy a jersey in O Neills and the likes of Elverys or other retailers in the South . I was in Cork city recently and saw a Cork jersey size large for 65 euro compared to 40 sterling at home

I noticed that myself, and that's obviously margin built in for Elverys. I'd imagine O'Neills could undercut every store in the south if they wanted to. Maybe they think it's not worth the bother.

You'd imagine there'd be a market in Dublin for them at least though. I know they have the factory outlet on the Long Mile but I'm talking about a superstore in town. Especially now that Arnotts are no longer the sponsor of the Dublin teams...

Whereabouts is the store in Belfast? Heading up there for a couple of days at the end of May, and wouldn't mind picking up a few bits and pieces there. We're staying in the 'Cathedral Quarter' wherever the hell that is.

Quote from: hardstation on April 28, 2011, 12:45:00 PM

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 28, 2011, 12:40:09 PM
Whereabouts is the store in Belfast? Heading up there for a couple of days at the end of May, and wouldn't mind picking up a few bits and pieces there. We're staying in the 'Cathedral Quarter' wherever the hell that is.

A couple of stone throws from Casement.

What is, the shop, or the Cathedral Quarter?

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 28, 2011, 12:40:09 PM
Whereabouts is the store in Belfast? Heading up there for a couple of days at the end of May, and wouldn't mind picking up a few bits and pieces there. We're staying in the 'Cathedral Quarter' wherever the hell that is.

O'Neills in Belfast are on the Falls Road. Travel from the city towards Casement and it's on your left just after Sainsburys. Casement is about 600 meters further on.
Cathedral quarter is lovely. Some nice pubs around there. Enjoy.

Cheers lads

I was in clearance shop last week and the fella told me that the clearance dept  is also moving to the Kennedy centre, so I would go there first to check it out. 

Great article on the '86 (Tyrone) team in it this week - Damien O'Hagan's musings.

I don't really buy into the link though. You hear this all the time - 1986 or 1995 paved the way (or lit the flame) for our recent success. That's a load of bollix really. There is no link atall. Same for the U21 teams of the early 90s. The reason why Tyrone won 3 AIs is because they managed to garner a squad of players with excellent ability at the one time with an insightful manager. Tyrone is a big county - it should have happened more often.

Mickey's anti-moustache policy in 2003 must've really stuck in McCrossan's throat in 2008 when he turned a blind eye to the beards.

(http://www.sportsfile.com/winshare/watermarked-b/Library/SF58/062478.jpg)

(http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00030/ryan_mcmenamin_30474t.jpg)

Quote from: Man Marker on May 06, 2011, 10:29:16 PM

Quote from: ONeill on May 06, 2011, 10:14:18 PM
I don't really buy into the link though. You hear this all the time - 1986 or 1995 paved the way (or lit the flame) for our recent success. That's a load of bollix really. There is no link atall. Same for the U21 teams of the early 90s. The reason why Tyrone won 3 AIs is because they managed to garner a squad of players with excellent ability at the one time with an insightful manager. Tyrone is a big county - it should have happened more often.

The main reason why Tyrone won three was because of the back door, still have only one through the tradtional route, not complaining with having three, just stating the factual aspect of it.

On the other hand, as Ulster Champs, they have been beaten by back door teams. Swings an all.

Quote from: ONeill on May 06, 2011, 10:14:18 PM
I don't really buy into the link though. You hear this all the time - 1986 or 1995 paved the way (or lit the flame) for our recent success. That's a load of bollix really. There is no link atall. Same for the U21 teams of the early 90s. The reason why Tyrone won 3 AIs is because they managed to garner a squad of players with excellent ability at the one time with an insightful manager. Tyrone is a big county - it should have happened more often.

excellent post, especially the highlighted bit. What the f**k would have 86 or 95 have got to do with 2003 ?

I know this is available online but how far south is this newspaper distributed. Is it sold in Dublin?

Quote from: catchandkick on May 08, 2011, 01:35:09 AM
I know this is available online but how far south is this newspaper distributed. Is it sold in Dublin?

I travel all round Ireland for a living and the furthest South I have seen it onsale is Dundalk Co.Louth. I have never seen it in Dublin.

Quote from: ck on April 23, 2011, 01:12:20 PM
I agree, I still buy it despite its many flaws. Joe Brolly, the coaching articles and the unusual features are worth the money.
Flaw No. 1: Brendan Devenney!
How is that man still writing for them, he comes out with awful oul tripe. He was a maverick player who flattered to deceive and never did it when it counted. He also never won anything with Donegal (at least I don't think he did?) He isnt a manager or a coach.. yet he is given a page every week to show off his ignorance. Surely GL could do better than him?

I find parts of GL boring sure but thats stuff that i'm not interested in, i enjoy brendan devenneys articles, sure some of them are a bit off the wall but it takes all types,be boring if everyone had the same point of view. I think you are showing you're ignorance by claiming that a player has to have won a lot to talk about the game. you are just after giving an opinion on what someone writes so then, what have you written???  thats like the galvan dig at the sunday game crew about how many all ir they'd won. if galvan had been born up the road in limerick how many would he have won?
if GL didn't like devenneys write ups he wouldn't be there.................... maybe you could send in 1? with you're words of wisdom

Quote from: ck on April 23, 2011, 01:12:20 PM
I agree, I still buy it despite its many flaws. Joe Brolly, the coaching articles and the unusual features are worth the money.
Flaw No. 1: Brendan Devenney!
How is that man still writing for them, he comes out with awful oul tripe. He was a maverick player who flattered to deceive and never did it when it counted. He also never won anything with Donegal (at least I don't think he did?) He isnt a manager or a coach.. yet he is given a page every week to show off his ignorance. Surely GL could do better than him?

well lad, i to have issues with Ga Life and find parts of it boring but i enjoy brendan devenneys articles, sure some are of the charts but it takes all types.you asked what did he win? since when did it take winning things to make you have a good point of view? thats like Galvin asking how many all ir had the sunday game team won? how many would he have won if he'd lived up the road in limerick? its like you're opinion now on the press, what qualifies you to talk, maybe you could write a topical article and and i'll see what its like but i'd doubt you have the brain

Gaelic Life now have a weekly podcast.

http://gaeliclife.com/category/podcast/ (http://gaeliclife.com/category/podcast/)

Copycats.

Listened to the second podcast there - they're starting to find a bit of rhythm.

Quote from: sham69 on May 17, 2011, 11:45:16 PM

Quote from: ck on April 23, 2011, 01:12:20 PM
I agree, I still buy it despite its many flaws. Joe Brolly, the coaching articles and the unusual features are worth the money.
Flaw No. 1: Brendan Devenney!
How is that man still writing for them, he comes out with awful oul tripe. He was a maverick player who flattered to deceive and never did it when it counted. He also never won anything with Donegal (at least I don't think he did?) He isnt a manager or a coach.. yet he is given a page every week to show off his ignorance. Surely GL could do better than him?

well lad, i to have issues with Ga Life and find parts of it boring but i enjoy brendan devenneys articles, sure some are of the charts but it takes all types.you asked what did he win? since when did it take winning things to make you have a good point of view? thats like Galvin asking how many all ir had the sunday game team won? how many would he have won if he'd lived up the road in limerick? its like you're opinion now on the press, what qualifies you to talk, maybe you could write a topical article and and i'll see what its like but i'd doubt you have the brain

No need for the cheap insults there Sham69. You completely missed the point. Nobody said you had to have won something to have an opinion. In fact most people who have won things I wouldnt want to listen to their dribble anyway. My point on Devenney was that I couldnt understand how he got that gig in the first place, what was it based on? He was an average player who won nothing who flattered to deceive time and time again. He then gets handed an article and spouts over the top nonsense in it. but sure at least you enjoy it.

They're bringing the podcasts out a bit too regular. One a week would suffice. Good idea though and glad there is a bit of competition now with them.

I'd imagine the first one was a bit of a trial.

Just listened to the podcasts. Good enough oul craic. I'd say they will get better as they go along.

thought both of them were good. full stop! didnt think the first one was a hames at all

Quote from: sham69 on May 15, 2011, 10:22:50 AM

Quote from: ck on April 23, 2011, 01:12:20 PM
I agree, I still buy it despite its many flaws. Joe Brolly, the coaching articles and the unusual features are worth the money.
Flaw No. 1: Brendan Devenney!
How is that man still writing for them, he comes out with awful oul tripe. He was a maverick player who flattered to deceive and never did it when it counted. He also never won anything with Donegal (at least I don't think he did?) He isnt a manager or a coach.. yet he is given a page every week to show off his ignorance. Surely GL could do better than him?

I find parts of GL boring sure but thats stuff that i'm not interested in, i enjoy brendan devenneys articles, sure some of them are a bit off the wall but it takes all types,be boring if everyone had the same point of view. I think you are showing you're ignorance by claiming that a player has to have won a lot to talk about the game. you are just after giving an opinion on what someone writes so then, what have you written???  thats like the galvan dig at the sunday game crew about how many all ir they'd won. if galvan had been born up the road in limerick how many would he have won?
if GL didn't like devenneys write ups he wouldn't be there.................... maybe you could send in 1? with you're words of wisdom

Don't take it personally....oh and welcome to the board Brendan.

Latest Gaelic Life podcast out. Have to say, a much improved version this week. These boys are finding their feet.
The Fermanagh lad is good.. dry, droll, Fermanagh but very good craic.

anybody else get two unreadable pages in the gl today

Quote from: gerry on May 27, 2011, 01:22:55 AM
anybody else get two unreadable pages in the gl today

I might as well get in here before someone else does...


Only 2?? OR

Brollys column I knw about, whats the other one?

etc etc

Maybe they finally saw sense and got rid of Brendan Devenney? Here's hoping.

Quote from: ck on May 08, 2011, 07:49:09 PM

Quote from: catchandkick on May 08, 2011, 01:35:09 AM
I know this is available online but how far south is this newspaper distributed. Is it sold in Dublin?

I travel all round Ireland for a living and the furthest South I have seen it onsale is Dundalk Co.Louth. I have never seen it in Dublin.

Seen it in the spar in Sandyford today!

Fantastic article in this week's edition by Ciaran Woods about Murphy's gloves.

Quote from: never kickt a ball on June 04, 2011, 12:39:11 AM
Fantastic article in this week's edition by Ciaran Woods about Murphy's gloves.

An article about gloves? Sounds riveting!

I see our very own Ziggy gets a mention in the latest podcast!

Quote from: ONeill on June 07, 2011, 09:32:11 PM
I see our very own Ziggy gets a mention in the latest podcast!

;D

Hardstation, are we supposed to know what you're on about???

Quote from: Dazzalad on June 10, 2011, 09:53:55 PM
Hardstation, are we supposed to know what you're on about???
Makes as much sense as Hard stations silly quote about throwing a pipe bomb into the nearest Irish National Foresters club just because he never understood the point in them pretty childish

For those wondering what Hardstation is on about - the title of the thread "Gaelic Life" and the fact that me mentions the front page, MIGHT be a giveaway?

As for the front page article itself... A daft rumour on the front page. Crazy crazy stuff.

Hardstation, are you a St.Galls club man? Is there any truth in this sh*te?
Last I heard he was in DIT in Dublin doing a fashion course. Why would he move to Belfast to do another similar course?

Lads used to get this in Armagh city, but I'll be in Belfast for a few months now, is it available near Castlecourt at all?

Quote from: onefaircounty on August 23, 2012, 09:53:55 PM
Lads used to get this in Armagh city, but I'll be in Belfast for a few months now, is it available near Castlecourt at all?

Bound to be...you can get it in Kerry!! I've seen a few animals frothing at the mouth while reading Joe's column... ;)

Shop close to me has stopped stocking it.

Buy it online, 10p cheaper and saving the trees! Also you have them forever and can re-read anytime.

Sure ya can't bring the laptop with ya to the bog though? Well I suppose you could but it would be a nightmare if there was any splashback.

The Gaelic Life were very generous in making our club in Leeds the feature of their Club Focus article. Very easy folks to work with and put together a great spread for us.

By the way, if anyone is coming this way (Yorkshire - Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Bradford, etc) for work or studies in the coming months and are interested to get involved with a competitive and friendly football club with close ties also to other local Hurling and Ladies Football teams then please get in touch.

Gaelic Life article - http://freepdfhosting.com/d48e49e299.pdf

St Benedict's Harps website - http://stbenedictsharps.intheteam.com

Yes I was impressed with the article on St Benedicts in Leeds a few weeks ago. Seems like the GAA is going from strength to strength in the Leeds area. Keep up the good work.

Cheers lads.