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Just wondering what price a man would get to back the Dub's to win the Leinster Final next summer?  With Keaney back and that ex-Tipp lad and a few more little alterations I would not be afraid to put a few bob on them.

Heard that a speed trap van was set afire somewhere up near Carrickmacross. Anyone know if it was on the Eskimo side or the Mexican side or what happened?

Sorry, EDIT.  At risk of an attack from the righteous.  The whole foooking lot of them should be set on fire

Does anyone think that because on St Patricks Day we celebrate above all our national heritage/culture,  that part of those celebrations, in terms of the parade in our capital city should be our national sports. We have 400,000 spectators from all corners of the globe lining the streets of Dublin for the parade which ends around 12.30pm leaving them standing on the streets with nowhere to go but the pubs.  Why do we not have Michael O'Muircheartaig nominated as Grand Marshall to lead the parade next year in honour of his contribution to not just gaelic games but to Irish culture. For that matter, why not take a loan of that big screen over the Nally Stand and stick it on the back of a truck and have it showing clips of exciting big games in Croke Park and advertising that the All-Ireland Club Finals are on at 2pm and that there are special family packages ?  Thirty young lads with the McCarthy & Sam cups would not be out of place either and shur Michael could do a running commentary on what counties they came from and who was famous in each county.  I think myself that the GAA are missing out on an opportunity here and a lot of American tourists in particular would head down to Croker for an hour if they made the effort.

Stynes named Melburnian of the Year

MELBOURNE AFL's Dublin-born president, Jim Stynes, has been named Melburnian of the Year.

The Brownlow medallist, who has been fighting cancer for more than a year, was honoured for his dedication to the welfare of Victoria's youth through his work with the Reach Foundation, which he co-founded in 1994.

Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia, Robert Doyle praised Stynes's leadership. "Jim is an outstanding contributor to Melbourne and worthy of the highest honour we can bestow. His iconic reputation as an elite sportsman and Brownlow Medal winner needs no further comment," he said.

In fairness we set the time too soon to organize this, then some had to withdraw because of the date we had set.

There is no point in 15 or 20 people turning up for a charity outing, we need more numbers, lots more.  Each county should be able to provide 4 players or at least two. They do not have to be board members so invite clubmates.

Chicken and Egg.  We can't book a course until we have players. 

Please indicate what date would suit you.

Worth a look.

I haven't set about looking for these yet but there are a fair few on here that have little interest in the (greatest game of all)  hurling.  If anyone has a pair of tickets to sell or can point me in the direction of where I might get them please let me know.

Thanks very much.

As one who has been constantly moaning about the lack of advertising of games at Croke Park I can't complain about lack of advertising for tomorrows game.  Most every program and every station has been carrying adds and interviews about tomorrows game. But is this paid for advertising or is it just interest in the game itself by the media?  I am not complaining by the way but I hope that if there is a good crowd tomorrow something can be learned from sitting and doing nothing and promoting our games by reinvesting some money in all hurling and football championship weekends and not just this one.

Does anyone on here do a spot of fishing, just wondering does anyone know if mackeral are in yet or where you can hire boats along the coast to nab a few to go with the spuds.

Lads and Lassies,
If anyone can help me with this I would really appreciate it, could be worth a bag of spuds to someone.

Bud is running a gig in October. It is in a place where I installed a CCTV System and when I did it I put in a Modulator on the TV's in the bar, lounge and function room which means that I can put a CD/DVD player in the comms room, insert a CD/DVD and it willplay over all the TV's.

Now, the gig I am running is a Johnny Cash Tribute Band so what I want to do is download this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqpPj87ekE
Then I want to put in (merge) details about the venue with a few pictures and details of how to get tickets at reception, then another song and a few more details.  I was just wondering how I can do this, or can it be done or would anyone do it for me for a price.

Thanks very much.

I see now that the owners of Premium Seats in Croke Park are holding a meeting in Jury's Hotel to form an alliance to object to the increase in the price from €7,500 up to €13,200 per ticket to see about three or four games a year.   Well well well.  I hope they are increased up to twenty five thousand euro.

It might do these new renegades,  who have become so because their fat cash cows have been taken from them, well to remember that when they first bought their tickets that in doing so they became, as part of their contract, shareholders in The Cusack Club Limited.  In 2004/05 I urged everyone to attend the AGM of that company held in one of the suites in the Hogan stand and some of you will remember that I reported on this board that the only people who turned up was a woman who had traveled all the way from Meath, a man to boiled a kettle to make tea to go with the stale Jacobs Cream Crackers and myself.

At that time I wanted clubs to have first call on tickets if they became available because the manager of my clubs senior team and also chairman of the club was on a waiting list and still is while the fat cats were dictating the price of tickets.

The meeting was abandoned, no quorum, and reconvened and I was advised there was no point in attending.  That was exactly what the GAA wanted. The Cusack Club Limited was dissolved in 2005 (not having filed accounts since 2003) and the rest is history so it is a bit late in the day for those who did not attend the meeting they should have attended to be starting a campaign now. Of course at that time they had Rugby and Soccer as an incentive to spend banks money that the taxpayers are now paying for.  What goes 'round comes 'round

Basicly, what happened was the Assets of The Cusack Club Limited were transferred to another company who would have control of all the new bars in the stands along with control of the sale of Premium Seats and those who could have prevented it were the shareholders in the Cusack Club.   

As some of you know Bud is a budding potato farmer and this year I stuck down a few carroot, leek and lettuce seeds along with a few heads of cabbage and there dother week I went up and the frigging rabbits had done a Mike Tyson on the lettuce, bit all the ears off and chewed them up along with the carrots.  I know it was rabbits because what I did was I climbed into the composter that was a new unsoiled one I had just bought and I hid in it for four hours after drilling two half inch holes at eye height to watch the b**tards.

Now, I can't shoot them because I am not allowed to fire a shot in a built up area in Tallaght, although it sometimes seems that almost everyone else can fire at will, or shopkeepers or post office staff, or the wrong people in banks.  So I am after making a few snares which is a lot cheaper than buying rols of rabbit fence.  Snaring rabbits and skinning them is a lost art in itself and I don't want to snare them unless they are going to be eaten.  So basicly I am looking for an outlet like say a Green Part Conference where during their morning coffee break I would arrive with the big long pole over me shoulder and the little bunny rabbits with their legs entwined hanging from it and give a demonstration in skinning them before serving them for lunch.  Maybe there are butchers that would take them from me, I wonder duz anyone know anyone at all that would be glad of a few rabbits and I will throw in a head of cabbage or a few spuds as well.

This board is gone to the cats, hard to know what is a wind up and what is not.  A while back I started a thread about outside managers and own county managers and now I sees that my fav journalsits, Conor Mckeon and Frank Roche in the Herald have compiled the following:

GLORY COMES WITH NATIVE AT THE HELM
One point is awarded for every championship win, with an additional five for annexing a provincial title and 10 for an All-Ireland. At the end of June the Natives were outperforming the outsiders by 18 points to 13 in football but their lead has now stretched to an unassailable 49-20.  Home Managers won all provincial titles, Jack O'Connor- Kerry, Eamonn O'Brian for Meath (I would have said Martin Sludden) Mickey Harte for Tyrone and Fergal O'Donnell for Roscommon.

Key defeats/wins were O'Connor for Kerry against Limericks Mickey Ned and O'Donnells Rossies against Galways Kevin Walsh.

Points scorers.
HOMEBIRDS.
Meath x 9, Kerry x 8, Roscommon x 8, Tyrone x 8, Louth x 3 (?) Down x 3, Dublin x 3, Monaghan x 2, Derry x 2, Cork x 2, Fermanagh x 2.
HIGHER PAID MANAGERS
Armagh x 3, Kildare x 3, Offaly x 2, Wexford x 2, Sligo x 2, Galway x 2,  Westmeath, Limerick,Longford, Tipp, Wickla and Waterford.

If Meath had not been given the Leinster Final that Louth won the score would remain the same because Louths manager is Pete Fitzpatrick from Louth who bolted from his dugout to run to the assistannce of Martin Sluddin at the end of the Leinster Final.

Now, if you add all those figures together you have the most useless pile of information I can give you for today.

PS Hope I haven't offended anybody.
And PS again.  I have edited the real version of this because I could not copy and paste.  Some of the words like higher paid managers are mine and the figures are from the article.

Did anyone get this email message about the guy who bought the new boat?  As I received it.

He  just bought a new boat and decided to take her for the maiden  voyage.

This was his first boat and he wasn't quite sure of the  exactStandard Operating Procedures for launching it off a  ramp,
but he figured it couldn't be too hard.

He consulted  his local boat dealer for advice, but they just said "don't let the  trailer get too deep when you are trying to
launch the  boat".


Well, he didn't know what they meant by that as he could  barely get the  trailer in the water at all! Anyhow, here's a picture  below.




Folks,  you just can't make this stuff up!
And  once again, these people breed...and on occasion they  vote!


Scary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lj113j2QYU&feature=PlayList&p=B2B4DD85DCF22228&playnext=1&index=6

Anyone watching the news last night will have seen that the old addage about the leopard and its spots is alive and well as far as the British justice system is concerned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ
Yesterdays ruling that no charges could be brought against the PC because the cause of death was not clear is a joke.  OK so Tomlinson got up and walked away but he died shortly after and it is more probable that his death was caused from having his head banged off the pavement.  In any case yer man that pushed him was a right kn**ker.

Around this time of year a few years ago news bulletins reported, on at least two times in two years anyway, that large black Puma's were seen roaming the countryside around Tyrone and South Armagh.  I always thought it strange that these sightings always coincided with either one or the other county being dumped out of the championship and in a way were designed to deflect attention from their predicament.  Not even the spotting of an elephant in Tony Fearons back garden could deflect attention from the state of football in Ulster today.

The Ulster final was the worst game of football I have ever had to endure watching in all my life (first half because I didn't bother with the second) and the rest of the games were no better. Even when Kildare who were out of the Leinster championship hopped into their landrovers and went up and beat Derry it was even worse. True, it can be said football is not great in Leinster and the Dubs took a leaf out of the Nordies book and sent penguins walking around the city to deflect from them losing the Leinster Semi-Final but Kildare, Louth, Dublin, Meath, and possibly Laois are still in the championship.

So how long will it be before we see personalized number plates around Croker again, or what has happened to football in Ulster?

Sold my boat a year ago prior to which I did a few forays on the shannon but not a cruise in the real sense, more like launch, out onto the river, around in a circle and back to the pub. Now Im hiring one of those cruiser yokes for a week so I am wunderin if anyone living along the Shannon or anywhere else can give advice on the best week to fire her up or where to start.  For example, I would not like to arrive in a town like Carrick-on Shannon one week and be told "ya missed it here last week, we had a great festival, etc etc".   Has anyone got any info on any festivals in towns like Banagher, Athlone, Roosky etc.  Any advice on good pubs, old pubs where we can play music and act the clown between Carrick-On-Shannon and Banagher.  We would not be interested in touristy thingys, just pure drinking and pubs like Henrys in Knockvickar.

On Rte 1

Has anyone got a picture of the new goalposts designed by the Clare man down in Tulla.  They have to be the worst looking contraption that I have ever seen.  At worst they are in breach of Health & Safety standards and I doubt if they will be passed or CE approved.  Can anyone post a picture. In last nights Herald they were promoted as the answer to all our problems.