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1/ Kildare......lot of friends from there.
2/ Dublin.......the genuine GAA men from Dublin are very sound
3/ Down.......someone has to be 3 rd choice
4/ Cork.........I pray the wont. 1000 Cork fans for a Q/F means they should NEVER be allowed win anything. Tight-fisted shower.

Surely Geoffrey Claffey should be well in contention? Only one goal conceded in 4 games and some great saves and catches made in both CF and last Sunday. How Cluxton could get one after conceding 5 goals in a game is beyond me.

Roscommon did as good as could be expected against a far physically stronger Cork Team. Cork have 20-22 players of top tier inter county standard while Roscommon have at best 10 at this stage of their development. Roscommon can and will be back in Croke Park in August over the next few years but there is still massive work and improvement needed. A lack of scoring forwards and an inability to hold posession against physically stronger and bigger opponents was telling. Still Kerry and Meath took somewhat similar drubbings to us and both those teams were favourites. The underage structures in Roscommon are bearing fruit and an additional 4-5 new players coming through over the next three years should have us well capable of being a top 4 team. Kildare,Cork,Dublin and Down have all taken big hammerings in the past couple of years and are now close to the summit so I think we have a very bright future.

With respect to supporters the lack of Cork people in Croke Park was embarassing. With the new motorways its only a 2 and 1/2 hours from Cork to Dublin and yet out of a population of 450,000 only about 2,000 supporters showed up. This should be remembered by the GAA come September if Cork are in the final against well supported teams like Down and Cork. There were probably more Cork people at West Life in Sligo than Croke Park.

Without been condescending I did feel sorry for the Sligo supporters. They outnumbered us by at least 2 to 1 and were very vocal and took their defeat very well. It must have been very painful. I believe there is nothing to stop them beating Down as by all accounts their game against Offaly was woeful.

whats all this talk of fighting in the ground after the match. It was on tv3 news apparently

I saw it clearly. It was after the presentation down at the goal Ross were playing into in the second half. About 15-20 buckos beating the lard out of each other. Knocked over advertising hoardings. No GAA  jersies in evidence so cant blame it on any county's supporters. A few women behind the goal were quite distressed but it only lasted about 30 seconds or more. Eejits.

Did anyone hear any results from either of the leinster semi finals last weekend?

Leinster Semi Final in Ballymore:
Rince Foirne..Kildare & Louth
Solo Singing: Longford and Dublini
Recitation:Meath & Kildare
Music:Westmeath,Dublin and Kildare
Ballad Group:Westmeath and Longford
Quiz: Kildare and Longford
Novelty Act:Westmeath and Longford
Set:Westmeath and Kildare

they're embarrasing.

I agree and they take up too much time.

God love ya having 10 hugely important minutes of your life taken away. If you don't like them, leave when they come on. I doubt you'd be too badly missed.

Winners from Armagh last night were;

Ceili Dancing: Dromintee
Set Dancing: Dromintee
Solo Singing: Girl with a harp, can't remember where she was from
Recitation: Girl from Carrickcruppen, very high standard in this, thought the two from our club were excellent as well
Instrumental: Think it was Madden but wouldn't swear to it
Ballad Group: Cullyhanna 
Quiz: Silverbridge - performed superbly, only missed one question all night
Novelty Act: Silverbridge

Can you remember the questions from the quiz?

Tyrone/Derry/Donegal Ulster Semi Final on this Saturday 6th March in Dun Uladh Killyclogher Co.Tyrone.

Good night also!


Dromore Instrumental group.....savage!! 

Anyone going to this would they mind taking a note of the questions? Thanks

[Well I'm taking part in the Quiz so hopefully I should remember most of them!]

Armagh final is this coming Sunday night.

If you are attending would you mind taking a note of the quiz questions and posting them up here. I enjoyed Newbridges set.

Well I'm taking part in the Quiz so hopefully I should remember most of them!

Results of the Down Scór (from Down GAA homepage);

Ceili dancing - Saval
Solo Singing - Bredagh (Aíne Brolly)
Instrumental Music - Darragh Cross (Hurling)
Recitation - Glenn (Micheal McConaghy)
Ballad Group - Rostrevor
Novelty Act - Clonduff
Set Dancing - Clonduff
Quiz - Longstone

Anyone hear about the Monaghan/Armagh results as they usually feature well in Ulster?

Is that Joe's wee sister?

Yes.

Best of luck! Hope you remember the answers too!

Armagh final is this coming Sunday night.

If you are attending would you mind taking a note of the quiz questions and posting them up here. I enjoyed Newbridges set.

[I was at the Tyrone Final and it was a great nigh]

I was at the Tyrone Final and it was a great night.




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No Ulster winners this year! Argh!  I thought the Instrumental group and Novelty act would do well... also crosserlough set dancers. They were amazing in Ulster.  I was very shocked when i heard the results. 
Comment back.... lol.

Can you remember the questions from the quiz?

Any idea what sort of questions came up in the Quiz? Thinking of taking part this year.

Even though I've had a couple of stinkers at the mic in my years in the quiz I would far go back to that format.

Just to come back to you on your point about preparing for the quiz, how exactly do you do this.  We might learn the managers of a the main counties, and read the papers in the run up to a quiz but mostly its impossible to prepare for.  You either know it or you don't!

You need to know managers of ALL counties. Plus things like All Stars,current holders and names of all cups, texaco award winners, clubs from counties, counties of Referees, etc and thats just 10% of GAA. Huge amount of prep work needed to get to an All irELAND.

All Ireland Final 2009

1 How many counties have won All Irelands but not won Sam Maguire
2/Who was first man to win the freedom of Dublin
3/ Into what channel does the River Slaney flow
1/In what year did DJ Carey win his first All Ireland medal
2/Who founded a monastery at Glasnevin
3/ What river flows through Limavadey
1/ How many sets of brothers on 1982 Offaly team
2/ Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1972
3/ Who is Former Attorney General and Chairman of BP and Goldman Sachs

team

1/ In what year did Malachy Brian Borus sucessor die
2/ Who was first Goalkeeper to win five all stars (as gaeilge)
3/ Who is the chairman of FAS
4/ Who was only man to captain a winning team before and after introduction of Sam Maguire  
   Cup

Does anyone have a positive opinion on the Trath na gCeist format? Its totally dead as an audience pleaser and the centre was less than half full for Saturdays final. They need to bring back the microphone questions at least for provincial and All Ireland finals. Its fine to have written questions up to county level if but for big finals the written format is a disaster. The teams on Saturday had 32 all Ireland finals appearances between them and I doubt they are scared of the microphone.

The written format is a total turn-off for the audience, and indeed for the contestants. There is zero excitement whatsover.

If you watch an tape or dvd of old Scór quiz finals, you will notice that there used to be great audience participation in the quiz - cheering, applause and sometimes laughter in reaction to a witty comment or facial expression on the part of a contestant. Now things are so bad that the quizmaster doesn't even bother asking for silence anymore, or warn against prompting.

What used to be a highlight of Scór is now more like one of Samuel Beckett's more experimental plays.

Ha Ha! Thats good! I spoke to a senior scor person who claimed it was his idea to change to written (a Meathman I think). He claimed people were too nervous to take part in TnaC especially at Scor na nOg level. I rubbished this claim as competiors in recitation and solo singing etc have to face the audience. There is going to be a major attempt to revert back next year and anyone who has contacts in Scor should tell them to support the change. Even if this was only for Provincial and All Ireland Finals where the crowds are big and the contestants are experienced it would suffice. There is a certain snobbish attitude, particularly at Croke Park level towards the quiz.