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Have to bring young kids up to Ladies Final on Sunday.  Want to park as close as possible with least amount of hassle.
What's the story with Clonliffe College?  Is it just pay on the way in next Sunday?

Just want to pick the brains of all the Croke Park veterans

Cheers.

When I was younger people would say that so and so had "died",  nowadays everybody says they have "passed away" or "passed on". 
What's wrong with saying a person has died?  Media outlets never use the term any more.  Is there some pc reason for all this?

Just wondering!

Just wondering when this soccer sh1t of clapping your way through a minutes silence started up in the GAA. I've noticed it at a few recent games.
What's wrong with just standing still and respectfully shutting ta fcuk up for a minute. 

 

Joe Dolan and Rockfords lost in one week!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1228/roscommon.html

I see the following on HoganStand.com

Anybody have any further details??


Fr Manning Cup facing the axe
01 July 2007

The popular Fr Manning Cup under 16 football inter-county competition, which has been run annually since 1965, is under threat following a ruling by the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC).

The tournament was due to be played in the coming weeks for the 43rd consecutive year, but the CCCC has twice refused the host county Longford permission to stage the event.

Six counties compete each year for the prestigious cup and now officials in those counties – Longford, Letrim, Westmeath, Roscommon, Sligo and Offaly (who replaced Cavan last year) – are angry at what they see as denying young footballers a taste of inter-county football.

The CCCC is also been accused of double standards in refusing permission for the Fr Manning Cup to go ahead while allowing similar competitions such as the Ted Webb and Gerry Reilly Cups to proceed.

According to Rule 139 (b), inter-county competitions must be confined to four teams and this is being given as the reason for blocking the Fr Manning Cup. However, there is a clause which allows for exceptions to be made and the CCCC have exercised this discretion in allowing other similar tournaments to take place.

"I would accept that regulations are there but I think the sentiments of this rule wouldn't necessarily have been intended that under 16 footballers are likely to suffer from burn-out," says Leitrim County Board secretary Declan Bohan.

"The grades they are confined to are their own and minor so I wouldn't see burn-out as a concern."

Will the spreads be opening for the start of championship next weekend?