Anyone else watch this show....he would be known as a "f**king sow" around here. I have just seen him put away 6 diferent steaks plus all the spuds etc...in ONE go.!!
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#82
GAA Discussion / Sligo V Down Rd 4 Qualifier
July 18, 2010, 06:25:35 PM
Jaysus do we owe these boys one after our humiliation at their hands the last time we met. Thats was Paddy O'Rourke's last game. Where will this one be? Clones? Fcuk sake Croke Park put it on at a sensible time
#83
General discussion / Football V Soccer
July 11, 2010, 08:01:59 PM
I paid £18 to get soaked to the skin last night watching our boys grind out a great result against Longford. I'm after watching half an hour of the "biggest sporting occasion on the planet". I'll never complain about prices for matches again. What a load of dung from "supposedly" the best two soccer teams in the world.
#84
GAA Discussion / Offaly V Down Round 3 Qualifier
July 11, 2010, 07:00:43 PM
I doubt if it will be as easy as the last time we went to Tullamore...but you'd have to fancy Down for this one.
#85
General discussion / Famous/Renowned Board Members
June 10, 2010, 10:09:12 PM
I know there's a few county players lurkin on here...obviously a few journos lookin for stuff for their columns as well...but I was lookin through a few oul periodicals in work lately and I see that one of our own was named by Business & Finance Magazine as one of the "Who's Who in Irish Business"...fair play....and congrats on the result last week!!
#86
General discussion / Land Mark Forum
March 05, 2010, 04:57:39 PM
Has anyone ever attended any of these selp help/self improvement seminars.
Landmarkeducation.com
If so what's the verdict?
Landmarkeducation.com
If so what's the verdict?
#87
GAA Discussion / John Egan in a coma...
March 04, 2010, 05:38:21 PMFrom The Kerryman
John Egan remains in a serious condition at Cork University Hospital following a fall at his Bishopstown home late last week.
The six-time All-Ireland winner, originally from Tahilla near Sneem, remained in a coma on Tuesday, five days after he suffered serious injuries after falling down the stairs at his Cork city home.
The 58-year-old suffered a number of broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder during the accident but The Kerryman understands that his condition is not thought to be life threatening.
Having made his county senior debut against Tipperary in the 1975 All Ireland championship, Egan captain his county in 1982. He completed his tally of six All-Ireland winning medals as a member of the Kerry team which won the centenary championship of 1984.
Egan's outstanding individual footballing talents were recognised with the awarding of five GAA All Stars Awards in 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980 and 1982.
Get well soon to John
#88
General discussion / Sexiest Man in Ireland...
January 22, 2010, 08:50:34 PM
...no I'm not asking yiz to nominate 
Just saw that the Sindo are running a poll to find out who would win the title??
Two of the "nominees" are a certain Mr B Ahern from Drumcondra and another Mr P Se from Ventry.
Jesus wept...
Just saw that the Sindo are running a poll to find out who would win the title??
Two of the "nominees" are a certain Mr B Ahern from Drumcondra and another Mr P Se from Ventry.
Jesus wept...
#89
GAA Discussion / Off the Fence - Irish News
January 14, 2010, 02:19:39 PM
I usually quite enjoy this piece....usually some excellent points by most of the punters and sometimes they publish letters from absolute headers for the crack. Some of the retorts by Heaney et al are quite witty....however they published a letter today from some boyo called Ryan Kelly calling himself a "Life Long Armagh GAA Supporter". He comes up with a load of points about the present Armagh team and how it should be run and asks that Paddy O'Rourke should adhere to the basics of the game in the way the "Down All Ireland winning team of 1992 " did in "dismantling an Armagh side...in the first round of the Ulster Championship at the Athletic Grounds"
A Life long Armagh GAA Supporter who was obviously born in 1993.
A Life long Armagh GAA Supporter who was obviously born in 1993.
#90
General discussion / What's your plans for the Christmas lads and lasses?
December 05, 2009, 12:46:02 AM
I'll be in a house half way up An Clasach (Mount Eagle in Kerry) with a dog and a wife and the best views in the world...mar seo
Beat that..
Beat that..
#91
General discussion / Best Present ever....
November 26, 2009, 10:06:56 PM
...following on from the worst present ever thread.....what made you say..."fcuk me that's class !!!!".... when you opened the box??
#92
General discussion / Best Places in the World..
November 06, 2009, 10:28:56 PM
Right lads and lasses..what about starting a wee thread to gather together all the wisdom of the members on here about the best places to visit in this magnificent world of ours.
I have added mine below...I'm sure all you well travelled folks can do better than this
A suggestion...
Gimme your top 2 venues.
The main attraction of each (a line or two will do)
Pictures if possible.
..and links...
Feel free to add whatever else you want....
Here's mine..
Corca Dhuibhne
Teanga agus Caid
..agus ansin.... na Blascaoidi
an rud is fearr fan ait seo
NYC
The Centre of the Universe
Give me your best shot
I have added mine below...I'm sure all you well travelled folks can do better than this
A suggestion...
Gimme your top 2 venues.
The main attraction of each (a line or two will do)
Pictures if possible.
..and links...
Feel free to add whatever else you want....
Here's mine..
Corca Dhuibhne
Teanga agus Caid
..agus ansin.... na Blascaoidi
an rud is fearr fan ait seo
NYC
The Centre of the Universe
Give me your best shot
#93
GAA Discussion / An Dún - an triúr is fearr.
October 29, 2009, 04:35:31 PM
Seán O'Neill
Greg Blaney
Colm McAlarney
Greg Blaney
Colm McAlarney
#94
General discussion / David Blaine
October 17, 2009, 10:26:44 PM
Just watching him on E4...I know its all jiggery pokery....but jaysus he's good...
#95
GAA Discussion / Liam Hayes
September 27, 2009, 07:10:46 PM
Anyone else read this eejitt in the Tribune today....
He heaps praise on Jack O'Connor and the Kerry lads...he even apologises to Seamus Scanlon for what he has said about him in the past....then in the last paragraph he insults O'Connor by saying that because he was pictured in the Monday morning papers after the AIF celebrating and clenching his fist after the final whistle that "he is less gracious than he probably should be" and that "he is still not the equal of Mickey Harte".
Both men have always come across as pure gentlemen...I'd love to know the reason for this rant..
He heaps praise on Jack O'Connor and the Kerry lads...he even apologises to Seamus Scanlon for what he has said about him in the past....then in the last paragraph he insults O'Connor by saying that because he was pictured in the Monday morning papers after the AIF celebrating and clenching his fist after the final whistle that "he is less gracious than he probably should be" and that "he is still not the equal of Mickey Harte".
Both men have always come across as pure gentlemen...I'd love to know the reason for this rant..
#96
GAA Discussion / Journalists who get it spot on...
August 05, 2009, 02:23:27 PM
Following on from the thread below about Kieran Shannon getting his timing wrong......
How on the money is Tom Humphries in this piece from the Times on Monday morning.....
LOCKERROOM: The men in green and gold could unpick their chains of torpor and stun city boys again, writes TOM HUMPHRIES
HARRY HOUDINI had a crippling fear of being undercut by cheap imitators and patented a lot of tricks and devices which he never got to perfect or to perform. The point for Houdini was neither did anybody else.
Once such manoeuvre involved the patenting of a watertight chest which would stand on four legs and into which Mr Houdini would be locked and chained. This chest would be lowered into a larger chest which would be locked and which would be filled with water.
Houdini would be dry and shackled within the first chest but surrounded on all sides by water. The trick would be to present himself on stage minutes later bone dry in the same clothes he had been wearing when entering the first chest.
There would be no evidence of tampering or of damage to either chest.
That trick is pretty much what Kerry will attempt to do this afternoon in Croke Park. And if they pull it off there are those who will point out that Tyrone did precisely the same thing with the same fall guys a year ago. That's the magical beauty of the championship.
On the one hand each matinee performance presents itself to the audience as two teams going hell for leather to escape the chains of the failure before they suffocate. On the other, each game is layered and textured and nuanced in ways we scarcely understand.
Kerry go to Croke Park looking as vulnerable as any Kerry team have looked to Dublin since perhaps the 1955-All Ireland final. At least that's what the audience thinks and that's what we pencil jockeys are saying. At least that's how it would be if Houdini's patented chest was just an ordinary chest and Houdini was just an ordinary fella. That's how it would be if it weren't for history and tradition and magic.
If Kerry beat Dublin today they will present themselves in the last four of the All-Ireland series as usual with no signs of struggle and with the applause of the wondrous populace ringing in their ears. Ta da! They may as well have sawn themselves in half into the bargain such has been the hysteria regarding their constrained performances through the qualifiers.
But a win, a dismantlement, say, of Dublin's full-back line and Kerry will be into an All-Ireland semi-final against Meath or Mayo and we will stroke our chins and say, oh, Kerry are Kerry.
Who knows if Kerry have that escapologist kick in them today but one thing is sure they will have enjoyed the theatrically diverting sight of the sky darkening with vultures this past week and had a little fun from parsing the sober ante-mortem words of the pundits.
Kerry need to ratchet things up a few degrees to spook Dublin but this is Croke Park and a full house. This is what Kerry do. Always have done. Being told they can't do it, that it is an impossibility, will have made them keen.
That's what makes this afternoon the entertainment that it is. You look at Kildare yesterday , survey the astonishing work done by Kieran McGeeney since that slapdown by Mick O'Dwyer a year ago and you consider how confidently Dublin handled the same Kildare team with just 14 men. You weigh that against Kerry's torrid summer and you say there can only be one outcome. Houdini dies in the box.
But our games ain't like that. Darragh Ó Sé has a great belief in the green and gold jersey being worth three to four points. So you factor that in. Against Dublin you certainly factor it in. You consider Gooch, Tommy Walsh, Declan O'Sullivan or whoever ends up at full forward will be a step up on anything Denis Bastick has been asked to deal with. You remember what Declan did to Bryan Cullen last time they played championship, you consider this is precisely the stage of the summer Kerry have made an art out of negotiating and Dublin have made a habit of falling at.
Suddenly you are biting your nails and wanting to take your money back. Suddenly it's a game that might go to the last 10 minutes, the last five. And you recall Clucko going walkabout against Kerry the last time and the Kerry fellas letting him come on and on till he had stranded himself. That's the fascination. That's the beauty of this afternoon, that's what makes it the quintessential Irish sporting occasion.
For all the talk which we Dubs enjoy about swagger and confidence and the boys in blue being an expression of our garrulous city, today is just another skirmish in our long and seemingly hopeless war for self-determination. A war which began in 1955 with the first real and pure city team to reach an All-Ireland final, the first Dublin side to take the imagination of the city by the lapels.
Dublin were beaten that day and apart from those crazy afternoons in 1976 and 1977 have been beaten by Kerry every time since. That's a crazy, illogical record when you think about it. This city with its resources and traditions and confidence has had to submit two well-nigh perfect football performances to see off a county whose mystical attachment to excellence in football is almost unexplainable to an outsider.
If Kerry with one bound end up in the All-Ireland semi-final today we won't ask questions. Dublin will have been patiently picking the locks and breaking the chains one by one while Kerry, who always retain the ability to land there dry and smiling, submit a performance that defies explanation.
That's football. That's the mystique of this quiet rural county that the big city boys can't get the measure of.
We were in Beijing this time last year when Tyrone dismantled Dublin, slipped from the waters of the qualifiers and straight into an All-Ireland semi-final, to be reassessed as the real deal and not the played-out rep company they had pretended to be for the previous three rounds.
The texts from various friends in Croke Park kept coming and coming that night, little epistles of gathering despair and hopelessness, the sadness turning to wonder at Tyrone's performance and how the Northerners had become in a few short years an even spookier prospect to play against than Kerry are.
I remember lying awake for the longest time trying to figure out what makes a Kerry or Kilkenny. What apart from the dry and all too easily transposable "structures" makes Tyrone suddenly invincible? The Chinese skies had no answer. Croke Park this afternoon might.
How on the money is Tom Humphries in this piece from the Times on Monday morning.....
LOCKERROOM: The men in green and gold could unpick their chains of torpor and stun city boys again, writes TOM HUMPHRIES
HARRY HOUDINI had a crippling fear of being undercut by cheap imitators and patented a lot of tricks and devices which he never got to perfect or to perform. The point for Houdini was neither did anybody else.
Once such manoeuvre involved the patenting of a watertight chest which would stand on four legs and into which Mr Houdini would be locked and chained. This chest would be lowered into a larger chest which would be locked and which would be filled with water.
Houdini would be dry and shackled within the first chest but surrounded on all sides by water. The trick would be to present himself on stage minutes later bone dry in the same clothes he had been wearing when entering the first chest.
There would be no evidence of tampering or of damage to either chest.
That trick is pretty much what Kerry will attempt to do this afternoon in Croke Park. And if they pull it off there are those who will point out that Tyrone did precisely the same thing with the same fall guys a year ago. That's the magical beauty of the championship.
On the one hand each matinee performance presents itself to the audience as two teams going hell for leather to escape the chains of the failure before they suffocate. On the other, each game is layered and textured and nuanced in ways we scarcely understand.
Kerry go to Croke Park looking as vulnerable as any Kerry team have looked to Dublin since perhaps the 1955-All Ireland final. At least that's what the audience thinks and that's what we pencil jockeys are saying. At least that's how it would be if Houdini's patented chest was just an ordinary chest and Houdini was just an ordinary fella. That's how it would be if it weren't for history and tradition and magic.
If Kerry beat Dublin today they will present themselves in the last four of the All-Ireland series as usual with no signs of struggle and with the applause of the wondrous populace ringing in their ears. Ta da! They may as well have sawn themselves in half into the bargain such has been the hysteria regarding their constrained performances through the qualifiers.
But a win, a dismantlement, say, of Dublin's full-back line and Kerry will be into an All-Ireland semi-final against Meath or Mayo and we will stroke our chins and say, oh, Kerry are Kerry.
Who knows if Kerry have that escapologist kick in them today but one thing is sure they will have enjoyed the theatrically diverting sight of the sky darkening with vultures this past week and had a little fun from parsing the sober ante-mortem words of the pundits.
Kerry need to ratchet things up a few degrees to spook Dublin but this is Croke Park and a full house. This is what Kerry do. Always have done. Being told they can't do it, that it is an impossibility, will have made them keen.
That's what makes this afternoon the entertainment that it is. You look at Kildare yesterday , survey the astonishing work done by Kieran McGeeney since that slapdown by Mick O'Dwyer a year ago and you consider how confidently Dublin handled the same Kildare team with just 14 men. You weigh that against Kerry's torrid summer and you say there can only be one outcome. Houdini dies in the box.
But our games ain't like that. Darragh Ó Sé has a great belief in the green and gold jersey being worth three to four points. So you factor that in. Against Dublin you certainly factor it in. You consider Gooch, Tommy Walsh, Declan O'Sullivan or whoever ends up at full forward will be a step up on anything Denis Bastick has been asked to deal with. You remember what Declan did to Bryan Cullen last time they played championship, you consider this is precisely the stage of the summer Kerry have made an art out of negotiating and Dublin have made a habit of falling at.
Suddenly you are biting your nails and wanting to take your money back. Suddenly it's a game that might go to the last 10 minutes, the last five. And you recall Clucko going walkabout against Kerry the last time and the Kerry fellas letting him come on and on till he had stranded himself. That's the fascination. That's the beauty of this afternoon, that's what makes it the quintessential Irish sporting occasion.
For all the talk which we Dubs enjoy about swagger and confidence and the boys in blue being an expression of our garrulous city, today is just another skirmish in our long and seemingly hopeless war for self-determination. A war which began in 1955 with the first real and pure city team to reach an All-Ireland final, the first Dublin side to take the imagination of the city by the lapels.
Dublin were beaten that day and apart from those crazy afternoons in 1976 and 1977 have been beaten by Kerry every time since. That's a crazy, illogical record when you think about it. This city with its resources and traditions and confidence has had to submit two well-nigh perfect football performances to see off a county whose mystical attachment to excellence in football is almost unexplainable to an outsider.
If Kerry with one bound end up in the All-Ireland semi-final today we won't ask questions. Dublin will have been patiently picking the locks and breaking the chains one by one while Kerry, who always retain the ability to land there dry and smiling, submit a performance that defies explanation.
That's football. That's the mystique of this quiet rural county that the big city boys can't get the measure of.
We were in Beijing this time last year when Tyrone dismantled Dublin, slipped from the waters of the qualifiers and straight into an All-Ireland semi-final, to be reassessed as the real deal and not the played-out rep company they had pretended to be for the previous three rounds.
The texts from various friends in Croke Park kept coming and coming that night, little epistles of gathering despair and hopelessness, the sadness turning to wonder at Tyrone's performance and how the Northerners had become in a few short years an even spookier prospect to play against than Kerry are.
I remember lying awake for the longest time trying to figure out what makes a Kerry or Kilkenny. What apart from the dry and all too easily transposable "structures" makes Tyrone suddenly invincible? The Chinese skies had no answer. Croke Park this afternoon might.
#97
General discussion / Who would you like to have a pint with...
June 07, 2009, 08:43:27 PM
...the Cantona thread got me thinking.
He was a hero of mine and I always said I would like to meet him.....however if you were going on the lash who would you pick....
Mine would be Billy Connolly ....imagine the crack.
He was a hero of mine and I always said I would like to meet him.....however if you were going on the lash who would you pick....
Mine would be Billy Connolly ....imagine the crack.
#98
GAA Discussion / Munster 25
May 29, 2009, 04:05:21 PM
Might as well complete the set....
A first stab
1. Charlie Nelligan
2. Páidí Ó Sé
3. John O'Keefe
4. Niall Cahalane
5. Tomás Ó Sé
6. Séamus Moynihan
7. Marc Ó Sé
8. Jack O'Shea
9. Teddy McCarthy
10. Maurice Fitzgerald
11. Larry Tompkins
12 Pat Spillane
13. Colm Cooper
14. Declan Browne
15. Mikey Sheehy
The following players would also deserve a place on this team but I can only pick 15 and that's my choice so there....there are of course controversial omissions:
Darragh Ó Sé – Teddy Mac was more mobile that's why he got my vote and Jacko is peerless.
The Bomber Liston – Deccie Browne gets it for what he achieved while playing for an average football team.
JB Murphy – Just couldn't find room for him.
Any one of the other forwards on the Kerry Golden Years teams.
Conor Counihan,Shay Fahy.
Some of the more recent Cork "stars" havent acheived enough to warrent inclusion....Corkery, Lynch, Canty, etc.
There are loads others....I found this team more difficult to pick than the Ulster one.
A first stab
1. Charlie Nelligan
2. Páidí Ó Sé
3. John O'Keefe
4. Niall Cahalane
5. Tomás Ó Sé
6. Séamus Moynihan
7. Marc Ó Sé
8. Jack O'Shea
9. Teddy McCarthy
10. Maurice Fitzgerald
11. Larry Tompkins
12 Pat Spillane
13. Colm Cooper
14. Declan Browne
15. Mikey Sheehy
The following players would also deserve a place on this team but I can only pick 15 and that's my choice so there....there are of course controversial omissions:
Darragh Ó Sé – Teddy Mac was more mobile that's why he got my vote and Jacko is peerless.
The Bomber Liston – Deccie Browne gets it for what he achieved while playing for an average football team.
JB Murphy – Just couldn't find room for him.
Any one of the other forwards on the Kerry Golden Years teams.
Conor Counihan,Shay Fahy.
Some of the more recent Cork "stars" havent acheived enough to warrent inclusion....Corkery, Lynch, Canty, etc.
There are loads others....I found this team more difficult to pick than the Ulster one.
#99
GAA Discussion / Ulster 25
May 29, 2009, 11:15:11 AM
Here goes. Same criteria as the other threads on Leinster and Connacht.
Your best 15 Ulster players from the last 25 years. (Roughly in their own positions.)
Mine are:
1. Mickey McVeigh
2. Tony Scullion
3. Barry Owens
4. Kieran McKeever
5. Henry Downey
6. Kieran McGeeney
7. DJ Kane
8. Anthony Tohill
9. Paul McGrane
10. Brian McGuigan
11. Greg Blaney
12. James McCartan
13. Mickey Linden
14. Peter Canavan
15. Steven McDonnell
Your best 15 Ulster players from the last 25 years. (Roughly in their own positions.)
Mine are:
1. Mickey McVeigh
2. Tony Scullion
3. Barry Owens
4. Kieran McKeever
5. Henry Downey
6. Kieran McGeeney
7. DJ Kane
8. Anthony Tohill
9. Paul McGrane
10. Brian McGuigan
11. Greg Blaney
12. James McCartan
13. Mickey Linden
14. Peter Canavan
15. Steven McDonnell
#100
GAA Discussion / Thee Definitive GAA discussion board..
April 20, 2009, 12:35:26 AM
..is it us?
I know we have AFR and Premier View and Reservoir Dubs srl, srl..
Are we the benchmark?
I know we have AFR and Premier View and Reservoir Dubs srl, srl..
Are we the benchmark?