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19 years ago the GAA abolished rule 21 with Down GAA at the forefront of this. The PSNI are not having a recruitment drive and what i want to ask posters from the six counties, how would you club react to a senior footballer joining the PSNI? Young cops are still forced to move away which is a shame

I doubt our club could ever live with the shame of having a footballer in its ranks

99 times out of 100, if a news report says "died suddenly" with no other details, it's suicide

Has anyone received their renewed season ticket in the post before Christmas?

Renewed my dad's on November 15 and it just dropped through the door today

Sticking to my guns, Glenties or kilcoo wouldnt have made it out of tyrone

FFS, You's couldn't make it out of Fermanagh!

This is a perfect response

Welcome Latharna. Developing Larne is a big ask but not impossible....especially if Gaelfast coaches go in for a few years and light the spark. Maybe start with an under 12 and under 14 team, that would be enough to get started if there were half a dozen mentors capable of looking after this and stepping up to under 16s in a few years. Wouldnt look any further than this to begin with. Good thing about Gaelfast is, they will also coach the coaches, so thats a huge bonus too.

It's been difficult enough at times keeping the hurling going, and the hurling club's been there for more than 50 years.

Was listening to a match at Dr Cullen Park on the radio and they referred to the "Supermacs Drive-Thru End"

[If we end up us v Laois in a playoff, anyone know if we would be at home given the regular league game against them is away?]

Very frustrating not to get the draw at the end and I really think the ref should have have shown a bit of common sense and blown after Neill's free. So important to stay playing at this level, and ultimately it probably will come down to games against Offaly and Laois. If we do end up in bottom 2 it means a playoff which will be a huge game.

Beating Laois next week is a hard ask away from home and they did well on Saturday v Galway too.

If we end up us v Laois in a playoff, anyone know if we would be at home given the regular league game against them is away?

Thats also the first time in ages that an Antrim game had to be delayed to allow the crowd to get in - I was glad I had bought my ticket in advance!

If it's the same regulations as last year – a big if – Antrim would be at home because they had two matches at home during the League while Laois had three

Graffin and Shiels for McFadden and McGill

TG4 are showing the three matches on their website, not on TV

[The only question is 'Was Hawkeye Operational on Saturday?.']

I just had a twitter exchange with John Fogarty, who wrote that article, and he confirmed that it is the case that *all* scores are reviewed, regardless of the signal from the umpire/ref, and if they spot an error, they immediately buzz the ref to correct it.

The only question is 'Was Hawkeye Operational on Saturday?.'

If it was, Meath's question is irrelevant. If it wasn't then Meath might well be right, but at least it would answer why not refer it to Hawkeye.

I was at CP for the Antrim match and the Armagh one before it and I was sure Hawkeye was operational but I am starting to doubt myself. I know I have seen it somewhere over the weekend so it can only have been the Waterford v Clare match - was there any Hawkeye calls during it?

Before the Antrim match they announced all the officials - including replay official Dickie Murphy - so Hawk-Eye was obviously intended to be operational for the match. As it happens, the scoreboard operator mis-spelled his name as "Dichie Murphy"

He had a right 'mare

And for the first 15 minutes of the Rackard final the Dublin crest was up on the screen instead of the Armagh one. Bad day all around

[The only question is 'Was Hawkeye Operational on Saturday?.']

I just had a twitter exchange with John Fogarty, who wrote that article, and he confirmed that it is the case that *all* scores are reviewed, regardless of the signal from the umpire/ref, and if they spot an error, they immediately buzz the ref to correct it.

The only question is 'Was Hawkeye Operational on Saturday?.'

If it was, Meath's question is irrelevant. If it wasn't then Meath might well be right, but at least it would answer why not refer it to Hawkeye.

I was at CP for the Antrim match and the Armagh one before it and I was sure Hawkeye was operational but I am starting to doubt myself. I know I have seen it somewhere over the weekend so it can only have been the Waterford v Clare match - was there any Hawkeye calls during it?

Before the Antrim match they announced all the officials - including replay official Dickie Murphy - so Hawk-Eye was obviously intended to be operational for the match. As it happens, the scoreboard operator mis-spelled his name as "Dichie Murphy"

It's incredible that no one on either bench that was tallying scores (as you do) asked the ref to check the score. It's almost unbelievable and it wouldn't happen at a club match. I was involved in a club match recently where the ref told me that we were 2 points up at half time and in my own head I counted 3. Checked with a few lads and all agreed with me. I asked the ref to check again and ask his umpire. He agreed as he has forgotten to mark a point down. It's just amazing no one did the same in a final in Croke park.

Woody McKinley said he alerted the sideline official to it during the match and got the brush off

If Croke Park agree or try to facilitate a replay they would be setting a dangerous precedent although they've replayed similar in the past and at other times not.
You gotta love this association as sometimes they make up the rules as they go along!

I wonder is there much heart in Antrim for replay as I get the impression they can't wait for this year to be over, senior inter-county hurling wise!

If I was an Antrim hurler I'd not be too bothered about a replay as I know when the Down lads who were involved in the game being blown up early in the first ever Christy Ring final didn't really want a replay but were a bit pissed off by the lack of support from the county board at the time.
Antrim CB will ask for a replay, CCC won't give it to them, a bit of a sweetener to the county coffers, a few vouchers for the players, everyone is happy....

If Antrim are awarded a replay then I presume Derry will be awarded a replay for the 1997 Ulster final v Cavan when Cavan were awarded a point for a shot which was clearly several feet wide and the difference at the end was one point. I'm sure several other teams will be looking for replays for injustices.

It's an entirely different situation to the one you describe above. This isn't the ref exercising his judgment incorrectly (awarding a point that was clearly wide, giving a yellow instead of a red card, blowing up 2 minutes early). This is a ref who "gave" the point but, for whatever reason, failing to add the total up correctly. Having awarded the point, the subsequent error made was objective rather than subjective (unless you argue that simple mathematics is subject to a discretion)

Exactly. The rule book is very clear. An objection can be lodged on the basis a score has been incorrectly recorded or not recorded. It can't be lodged on the basis a score should or shouldn't have been given.

The CCCC is meeting tomorrow morning to discuss.  Apparently the ref said he got the score wrong?  If that's true, it should be the end of his inter-county refereeing career.  TG4 don't come out of this well either.  We really don't need to see shots of people in the crowd when you could show whether the umpire has raised a fleg or not.

right, blame TG4!

I'm not "blaming" them but they did f**k up the score on a couple of occasions if you follow the screen grabs on RTE's chronology.  Who do you "blame"?

TG4's mistake - and the referee's I would suspect - was to doubt themselves. They had the score right until they noticed the stadium scoreboard said something different. Instead of trusting their own correct tally they changed it to fall into line with the stadium scoreboard - which was wrong for most of the second half. That RTE chronology is based on watching the match on TV and not realising what was going on in the stadium. The quotes in the story pointing the finger in part at TG4 are a bit rich too as RTE didn't appear to have any sports staff reporting from the stadium themselves.

Get the train to Central station, take right out of the station then the next right and its a 10 min walk to ground

10 minutes? That's some pace to be keeping