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Wow ye are so absorbed by a random argument that ye have ignore the Sigerson altogether.
Wins For DIT and CIT.
DIT 3-8 UCD 1-4
CIT 0-14 NUIG 0-13.
DIT massive underdogs for the final after loosing Paul Brogan (Alan and Bernards brother) and possibly John Coughlan (Joxer) for the final through injury, to add to Barry Moran on the injury list and Vaughan on the Kilmacud won't let him play list.
CIT, with home ground, home ref better team on paper must be massive favourites.

EDIT: http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2009/0227/sigerson.html

the suspension is completely unfair when you compare it to what galvin done last year.
Galvin only missed 3 match's while ricey will miss 4

this is what makes the suspension look ridiculous

what he done was wrong and deserves a suspension but in order for it to be acceptable it must be in line with other suspensions given out for the same offense and the punishment should be related to the crime not to how people perceive the offender

Yes but Galvin missed 3 championship matches, big difference to 4 league games.
Also, the word around Tralee (and this is complete heresay) is that McMenamin had Galvin's Girlfriends number on his hand and kept showing it to him through the match.

Thats the thing... im not sure any ban is sufficiant enough. Ban's are there so players can be pucished for their actions, in an effort to make sure that they don't transgress again. Does anyone truly believe that if given a Month's ban, in which McMenamin would miss just one league game, that he would change his ways and give Darran O'Sullivan a big hug and Kiss on his way to collecting Sam this September?
No. I don't think a 6 month ban would even change his ways to be honest with ye!
Then again no one thaought Galvin would change. 12 months on and we've seen a marked improvement in his dicipline.

Billy Keane is talking through his hat.

McMenamin deserves the ban that's coming for him but I'm sick and tired of listening to Kerrymen defending Galvin since the Paddy Russell incident. If he had slapped McMenamin one - and it's not like he doesn't know how - people would have more respect for him than that measly little dive.

Some of you might be old enough to remember Conor Counihan grabbing Jack O'Shea by the nuts in a Munster Final in, I think, 1991. Jacko chased after him with the intent to do him harm. Enda Colleran, God have mercy on him, remarked on the Sunday Game that sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

Im sorry... point out one place in that article where he defends Paul for the Paddy Russell incident! ... Plain and simple he doesn't. He lauds Galvin... a notorious hot headed player for not going off the handle at another rediculous decision against him!!!
What Galvin did last year was indefencable! Referee's , no matter how bad the decision must be shown respect. He should have handled it like he did against Tyrone, made his point and gone off.
As for "Slapping McMenamin one" ... as you so thoughtfully put it... Well that would have ended his career, plain and simple. The GAA would have come down hard on him, 12month ban for repeated ildicipline. And Ricey would get off scot free.
Finally "Measly little Dive" ... You are obviously a female. If you had been pinched by the balls, no matter how softly... well then you would know how bloody painfull it really is. FFS it wasn't even a dive, he slipped to his knees, recovered his breath and got back to his feet.

That's not true. And the province extends a good bit further north and west of Belfast. Try telling someone from Derry, Donegal or the north of Antrim that Croke Park is easily accessible for them.
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I know i was going to add that about the Donegal people.... but that would have F()cked my whole argument up 
Having said that I still think Limerick was a far more logical choice, as was Galway two years ago.

[Travel times from the south. Croker is only 2 hours from the North (at most)... Its 4 hours from Kerry, Therefor it makes sense to have a game accesible for us in the south]

Are ye all serious, coming up with paranoid reasons for why Casement didn't get the game!
Here's why,
1) Too small, Limerick holds around 20,000 more
2) Travel times from the south. Croker is only 2 hours from the North (at most)... Its 4 hours from Kerry, Therefor it makes sense to have a game accesible for us in the south.
3) The norths objection to the rules really hasn't stood well for them. (A La Mickey Harte)

Yeah, makes sense to have the game in Limerick over Belfast because its easier for people from Ulster to get to limerick, than it is for people of Munster to get to Belfast 

No, please read the post again! I said that Croker is only 2 hours from Belfast (at most) so that game would be accessable for all from the north and from Leinster.
Limerick is halfway between Cork and Galway... two hours at most from either of them... So there is a game accessable for people from all  4 provences!
Jeez just because im from Kerry doesn't mean you have to disagree with Everything i say. 

Childish... but good for a laugh 

Great Article from Billy Keane. Strange to see him so worked up, as usually his column is a lighthearted one. He is great for getting his opions across it has to be said.
Great point about the appology. But that was never going to come, because an appolgy is almost an admission of guilt... and Mc Menamin is so up himself that he thinks he hasn't done anything wrong.

[3) The norths objection to the rules really hasn't stood well for them. (A La Mickey Harte)]

Are ye all serious, coming up with paranoid reasons for why Casement didn't get the game!
Here's why,
1) Too small, Limerick holds around 20,000 more
2) Travel times from the south. Croker is only 2 hours from the North (at most)... Its 4 hours from Kerry, Therefor it makes sense to have a game accesible for us in the south.
3) The norths objection to the rules really hasn't stood well for them. (A La Mickey Harte)

Yeah mickey speaks for us all on the International rules. catch a grip o yerself

No Im not saying that. I was just using Micky as an example. Many other ulster players and officials have come out against the Series, as have southern officials also i am sure. Im just saying that the most prominant voice in Ulster football at the moment happens to be Mickey Harte as they are AI champions. Therfor it doesn't look good when he comes out so strongly agaisnt them.
Just my opinion.

Are ye all serious, coming up with paranoid reasons for why Casement didn't get the game!
Here's why,
1) Too small, Limerick holds around 20,000 more
2) Travel times from the south. Croker is only 2 hours from the North (at most)... Its 4 hours from Kerry, Therefor it makes sense to have a game accesible for us in the south.
3) The norths objection to the rules really hasn't stood well for them. (A La Mickey Harte)

Nice win for Kilmacud.  Vaughan was fairly handy, some point from the right hand side.
I wouldn't agree that Crokes were lucky. The final score reflected their dominence.

I hear DIT did quite well, even without their 2 Dublin stars Mark Vaughan and Paul Flynn. They were disappointed at this stage last year, i'd fancy them to do well.

Ciarraíoch anseo,
would just like to add my opinion. The game was interesting. Kerry looked unstopable for a while before succumbing to the usual failings of leaving teams back into it.
Tyrone fair play to them never game up. Tommy Walsh needs to wise up. I know the goalkeeper did well, but in reality if it were Cooper instead of Tommy, he would have taken the step around the keeper and stuck it away.
McMenamin was ... well my fellow Kerrymen have come up with enough adjectives... lets just say i wouldn't be disappointed if I never saw him on a football field ever again.
Ye nordies should stop rising to the bait... the fellah saying it was Sexual Assault is taking the p1ss!
I was more angry with his tangle with Marc Ó Sé at the end and a typical reaction of a sore looser. He also lead the charge for the melee at the end, trying to fight every kerry player within 30yds of him.
Take a leaf out of Seán Cavenaghs book and stick to the football.