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Must be scary Rossfan that Mayo are more likely to win Sam than Roscommon are to win a senior Connacht title.

Really! I'm actually more scared of Ros winning an All-Ireland before we win one . Imagine how sickening that would be.. I don't even want to imagine it actually.

Both very unlikely to happen any time soon 

Must be scary Rossfan that Mayo are more likely to win Sam than Roscommon are to win a senior Connacht title.

"flight of the Earls"

Run away Nordie Cowards 

This is for the Green

You don't have to be a Nordie to be wound up by that. I've learned to ignore it, but Lord, it was hard.

Actually annoyed myself posting it 

Its only fair to open this thread so 

The County East of Donegal!

I'll be an equal opportunity WUM, have to have a go at both sides, its only fair.

This is for the Orange



This is for the Green

I was reading a heritage  brochure  from OPW one day of Ancient sites/buildings etc and they had Boyle Abbey in Sligo  FFS.
Then RTE always tell us Arigna is in Leitrim.
Elverys claim their shop in Cortober Co Roscommon is in Leitrm while I've regularly seen the cinemaplex beside Elverys also described as being in  Leitrim and also the Railway Station.

all I can do is pity such ignorance and thank the Lord I'm not thick (or from Mo/Lm either  ).

Yes Rossfan I understadnd, If I read or hear another f**ker say that the Delphi Valley or Killery Harbour is in Galway I will screem, the Delphi Valley is 15klm into Mayo by road, and 5 by the crow flies, Killary Harbour is technically all in Mayo as according to the maps only one coast is in Galway and the ENTIRE body of water and the other coast is in Mayo. Heron Choker Basterds. We WANT INISH BOFFIN BACK TOO.

According to AIB Irelands largest bank Ballagh is in Mayo too 

[Dermot Early and Willie Joe Padden]

They have to have a song written about them?

From Connacht in my time 3 players stand out as legends. Mickey Kerins, Dermot Early and Willie Joe Padden.

But fellas like Donnellan and Joyce have all the bangles. Great players too no doubt but the other 3 were frontiersmen.

Two Mayomen so   

Most people think I am a very happy, maybe too happy person, but I spend a lot of time where I feel like I'm in a bottomless pit or sick to the stomic. The thing is I always realise that I will feel better, even when I'm feeling shit. It might be strange what gets me down, for instance I lost about 10-15K in shares in the economic crises, but it didn't bother me one bit (& I don't have all that much money to be losing), I know it should have, but it didn't. What bothers me more was my career path or lack of one. But I have always found that I have an inner strength even when I feel it is a waste of time, I always dig deep even at the last minute and try & try to find a solution. So I'm going back to college soon and going down an entirely new career path. I have set myself a target, I intend reaching it.

Another thing that really really gets me down is that I haven't had any real relationship and I feel like I'm getting older rapid. I was always the guy with loads of sexy female friends, the lad all the girls loved to bits but none wanted to go out with. It's sickening to be told that you would make the best boyfriend in the World but your 99% of the time single. That got me down big time a lot. However in the last year, especially the last 4 months or so I have started having a lot more luck with the women, I could not figure out why, I'm older, I have got no thinner or more muscley, I'm no smarter or funnier or better looking. So why, I've noticed that since I've started acting more positive, that women respond.

I'm a very nostalgic person too, so that kinda can pull ya down a bit, but sure nostalgia is only there because ya must be happy to be nostalgic about 

I no longer have pints if I'm feeling down, I have a few cokes if its a night out & I'm not in the best of humour. If I'm drinking and start feeling down I stop drinking asap.

I know I will probably always spend times down, but if you think about it, the times you are happy makes all the bad times worth it.

I suppose I would say yes I am happy, even if I spend a lot of time unhappy.

which in fact it is/was since at the time it was created the republic was laying claim to NI.
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Just a correction there, when the Irish Tricolour was created there was no Republic or Northern Ireland, the flag was a gift from France in the 19'th century as part of the fraternity of nations with Republican values (I and the French mean it entriely in the way Republican is meant in nearly every country except Ireland, somehow the words Republican & Nationalist have swapped places in the lexicon of Hiberno-English ). It was not a claim over one group or the other but a symbol of peace and the ideals of World Republicanism.

To be honest I always thought the Green flag with the Golden Harp & Éireann go Brách was a more attractive flag.

We also have the National Museum of Country Life, the only National Museum outside of Dublin.

Thought that was in Turlough?

Just another suburb 

Other memorials to found in the town are the Eddie O'Malley (Irish Republican)  memorial on the Mall, the General George O'Malley statue (Army British Army), the De LaSalle Statue (Founder of the De LaSalle brothers who educated many of the male population of the town). We have the Linnenhall, which now acts as the town hall, General Humbert held a ball there to celebrate the great Franco-Irish victories & the establishment of the Irish Republic (1798 Connacht Republic), it also was the site of the Castlebar Linnen Industry the biggest in Ireland outside of Ulster, around the corner from New Antrim Street. We also have the National Museum of Country Life, the only National Museum outside of Dublin.