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I'd imagine that Monaghan will edge this, based on having a better defence.

Rugby is at 5, game is at 7, I'd say this will impact on the crowd.

Limiting it to players I've seen.

Antrim - cant think of one
Armagh - Oisin
Carlow - Brendan Murphy
Cavan - Big Dermot
Clare - Seamus Clancy
Cork - Tompkins
Derry - Anthony Tohill
Donegal - Michael Murphy
Down - Mickey Linden
Dublin - Stephen Cluxton
Fermanagh - Marty McGrath
Galway - Joyce
Kerry - Tomás
Kildare - Dermot Earley
Kilkenny - ?
Laois - Beano as a minor
Leitrim - Mulligan
Limerick - The midfielder...... Can't think of his name
Longford - Paul Barden
Louth - Keenan
Mayo - McDonald
Meath - Giles
Monaghan - Tommy
Offaly - Niall McNamee
Roscommon - Frankie Dolan
Sligo - Eamonn O'Hara
Tipperary - Declan Browne
Tyrone - Peter Canavan
Waterford - Hurney
Westmeath - Dessie Dolan
Wexford - Mattie Forde
Wicklow - Kevin O'Brien

Cluxton

Marc O Sé
Fay
Scullion

Tomás O Sé
McGeeney
Moynihan

Tohill
Cavanagh

Joyce
Giles
McConville

Cooper
Fitzgerald
Canavan

John Kingham is the man to sort this out

Fair play to you lads... It's a very brave thing to speak out, and 'normalising' the condition is so important given the events of this week.

I've been told in the past that I have SAD, basically that the winter can be tough to get through. But I'd feel more pissed off that depressed.

In any case, it's important to make an effort to help people, I lost a cousin to suicide, and even though he was a good bit older than me (he was 29, I was 13), I'll always regret not doing the 'small things' and encouraging others to do the same. It can be know what to say, but 5 minutes of conversation can make a difference in anyone's day.

County: Monaghan

I'd support any other Ulster county outside the Ulster championship (particularly Armagh, as most of my family are from there) except Tyrone!

https://twitter.com/monaghanhire/status/358658570507665408

Celebrations Monaghan style

The lads are an absolute credit, delighted for them. Sound bunch of fellas who have worked hard over the years. O'Rourke got it right tactically.

Brilliant feeling!!

https://twitter.com/monaghanhire/status/35865857050766540

Celebrations Monaghan style

Get the old Larry Reilly appreciation thread up!

We played a club league game against the neighbours from out the road. They've been up and down to Div 1 and it's always been tasty. Game was out in their place, a tight pitch. From the second the ball was thrown in it was a battle, serious hits going in, late tackles, off the ball stuff, one jersey was shredded, about a dozen booked and two saw red (both on two yellows, one each game). Two sets of first cousins played against one another, I was along line but could hear several arguments in the crowd. No one took a backward step and although it was tough, it was never false.

Ended a draw and at final whistle to a man the players shook hands, laughed and left it all in the field. Was totally enjoyable.

The next game is eagerly awaited and will be a firecracker waiting to explode!

When we played them last year, we had 3 jerseys ripped!!

Deadly stuff Emmet

Drew, Brent and Ryan Wylie are good committed footballers, and when Ballybay won the county title last year, the first thing Paul Finlay did in his speech was to thank their parents for all their hard work.

In a county like Monaghan with a small population, 15% of which is protestant, we should be reaching out to as many people as possible to play our game, not turn them away.

Ironically, Magheracloone would have had protestant footballers in the past.

Would his popularity cut across the sectarian divide? I seem to recall some Loyalist paramilitaries incurring the wrath of their mammies when they threatened Daniel O'Donnell. Or was that an urban rural myth?

I know that in Monaghan, the whole country scene seems to be popular with the young brethern

While I don't agree at all with the idea, I have sympathy with a bachelor farmer who drank 3 pints on a weeknight and drove home for years having that taken away from him. But the is no logical way to allow drink driving in any shape or form.

I do think however, that Ray Darcy came across as condescending and bad mannered. He evidently had his mind made up about this man, and his idea before he came in air. So why did he even want to interview him if he wasn't going to let him speak?

I agree with Darcy's views on the subject, but I strongly disagree with how he treated Healy-Ra

[burnt out before 30]

I don't think some realise how professionally run Crossmaglen have become. If Jamie keeps going he will be burnt out before 30, he deserves the break and should come back fully refreshed good luck to him.

Oisin seems to be doing ok on the training regime!