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I haven't watched the documentary yet but my mother was from Bellaghy. In the 1970s the Orangemen would go out of their way to parade through a Catholic housing estate even though they knew it was Catholic.

The draw suits me. At the start of the year I posted that I wanted Derry to give Armagh another sickener in an Ulster final. I didn't get that but they can always sicken them in Celtic park.

Celtic park seems to be lucky for Donegal, maybe because of the towns Tyrconnell history. I notice there is a street down the road from it called Tyrconnell street.

I see that the Derry Journal journalist wrote an article complaining about Derry fans reaction to the defeat. He said that they aren't real supporters. That is rich for him to say, he probably gets free tickets to the games. It is his job to go to the games.

I can forgive Donegal for beating Derry as long as they beat Armagh in the final.

Donegal have poked the bear and Derry will come back stronger.

I notice the Irish News journalists keep referring to Donegal as 'Tir Conaill'. The funny thing about Celtic Park is that it was in Tir Conaill/County Donegal at the time of the plantations. It was also in the Cenel Eoghain before that but the Cenel Conaill eventually won Inishowen in battle.
County Derry was formed when Derry (city) and South Derry (North East Tyrone) was added to County Coleraine (North Derry).

Great article/ piece with Jim Mcguinness in today's Irish News, a full throated defence of USFC & the provincial series. He made the point, that has been made here before, that counties trying to compete v Dublin and Kerry need financial support and development plans to make them competitive  again - as a better alternative to just scrapping them.

The provincial structure is broken and most people just want them moved to the start of the season. Most counties voted for a structure in 2021 which would see them be played first followed by a league based championship. Now we've ended up with a structure which tries to please everyone and is condensed into half the year despite having more games.

If most counties voted that it would have been seen with the vote The current structure we have was voted in by Congress and any change will have to be done via Congress again.

Anyone I have spoken to recently about this said that the system doesn't work. There is no objection to making time for clubs but they all say there are too many games in too short a time period. People hope Jarlath burns will put some smacht on things. 

Too many games doesn't wash. Nearly everyone thats ever played will say they'd far rather play more games rather than train for weeks on end behind games.

I predict a  grassroots movement for change at the next Congress.

Grassroots ?

Grassroots is the club's, son who are delighted with the defined split season

Not so happy are the paid shills and expensed intercounty managers who have had a bit of power taken away from them.

Oh and the prawn sandwich crew which live for the days in Premium in "Croker" and would struggle to find their nearest club grounds

Sure we casual fans can't win. When we don't go we have people complaining about low attendances then when we do you have people like you calling us the prawn sandwich brigade. I personally have never been in the premium section of Croke Park despite being a casual fan.

I think I deserve life long access to Derry v Donegal tickets. For the sole reason that I was in Clones in 2002 when Derry played Donegal during the World Cup.
It would be interesting to know if the people who call men like me "bandwagoners" where at that game? They complain yet they were probably sitting at home watching the ROI v Spain game that day.

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It seems that noone has posted about this, people must be more interested in discussing English soccer and unionist politics.

There were parts of a human body discovered near Lough Beg putting South Derry on the archeological map.

What I am curious about is what tribe this ancient South Derry boy was from or what kingdom he lived in. This person lived as far back as 500BC before any detailed Irish maps I can find. We know that before the Cenél nEógain moved Eastwards modern South Derry was home to a people called the  UI Tuirtre. They were here when St. Patrick was here but that still would have been 500-1000 years after this bog body was alive. Maybe he was a relative of those people or part of another tribe altogether.

The GAA were glad to get the army out of Casement park and now they can't wait to get Northern Ireland loyalist fans in.

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I see some Tyrone people bragging about their 4 All Ireland's on Facebook. Something must have upset them. Humility is a positive human trait. Apparently they "even won one without Mickey Harte".

One weakness for Derry is that they have no reliable off the ground kick taker. It seems that Glass is taking them now and he doesn't seem to have the power. That is one weakness that Derry didn't have in the 90s with Tohill putting them over the catching net.

By the looks of it American football is going the same way as the NBA did. There are only around 25% of whites in the NFL even though they make up 60% of the US population. Baseball is more of a white man's game.
Kicker and quarterback seems to be the only position suitable for whites although half of the quarterbacks are black too.
This isn't a racist post, I am just pointing out that it is unlikely that Irishmen will ever be that common in the NFL.
Derry could do with a few black men beside Shane McGuigan.

I use card when using a self checkout which is 75% of the time. I use them in supermarkets as I don't like small talk with cashier's.
If I go to somewhere like a petrol station I use cash, I don't trust cards to work as I have had bad experiences in the past with chips not working. It is not worth the embarrassment so I use cash on those occasions.
I recall once in Toomebridge, Co. Antrim I got diesel and went in to pay and realised I had brought the wrong credit card with me so I had no way to pay. I had to give the cashier my phone to prove that I would return with the money. I would have thought she would have trusted me to pay as I was a regular customer.

Will be interesting to see if Glen players play. Mickey Harte has no experience of managing that situation given that Tyrone have won no senior club All Ireland's. I wonder does that mean Derry are the more successful footballing county now? 4 club All Ireland's and 1 county versus Tyrone's 4 county All Irelands. After all you people always say that club is more important.