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Stranmillis is a stand alone club competiting in Div 3 football and in ladies competitions. It has the same rights and independence as St Mary's .
Queens lost this case before Christmas at the Higher Education Committee, then lost again at the Central Appeals Committee. Then went to the DRA and lost again. (Must have more money than sense)
Surely you are not suggesting that Queens can pick St Mary's students. Actually in the past before they had their own team Stranmillis students played for St Mary's, Stepen O Neill a good example.

It's all for the best. At least Stranmillis will now see why Tommy Joe was grooming them so ardently last year and they have fair warning that he will drop them as soon as they get too old serve no further purpose in sabotaging Queen's.

Now, if only the HEGAA community had an enthusiastic individual who could help develop vibrant thriving independent third level clubs in Magee and Coleraine so their (best) players didn't have to make the long trip up to UUJ...

UUC are alive and kicking, beat by 8 points in the Trench Cup quarter final by an inspired Ciaran Kilkenny  St Pats Dromcondra side who went onto win the Trench Cup

Good to hear. That they're alive and kicking, not that they were beaten, obviously...

Any chance Queens can get Billy Morgan up from UCC??

1 win in 6 years.. Dreadful

1 win in 8 years for QUB
1 win in 7 years for UUJ

UUJ will probably be looking for a replacement for big Adrian some time soon (was this his 17th season with them?) although I "genuinely" don't think Billy Morgan could be persuaded 

Whatever happened UUC? (Coleraine). Wouldn't be Sigerson level now obviously, but I haven't seen them feature at any level recently?

Heard a rumour that (Tommy) Joe Stalin decreed that they and Magee should be annexed into the Great UU Collective in pursuit of Sigerson glory? Wouldn't go down well in the NW I'm sure, if true, and a real slap in the teeth for those that put so much effort into the clubs up there (and not for the Sigerson glory). The manner of yesterday's defeat wouldn't help matters much either.

How many of yesterday's UUJ team are on courses based in the Coleraine/Derry campuses? If so, why are they still called UUJ and not just UU?

Is/was there not a rule in place for the McKenna Cup already? My recollection on this is hazy so happy to be corrected, but I seem to recall that the Ulster Council took the McKenna Cup off Mickey-Tyrone (after they had won it) early on in the experiment for playing University players illegally? However, Mickey-Tyrone appealed it as far as DRA and won. Don't know if there is any truth in the rumour that Human Rights were cited, but since then all Mickey-Tyrone players sign a letter (completely voluntarily of course) stating that they want to play for Mickey-Tyrone rather than their University. The Ulster Council have cowed ever since.

I would think the O'Fiaich Cup organizers would happy enough to escape Mickey's attention for as long as they can - demanding synchronised starting times (all on the Cross pitch) would be the least of their worries   

The world-wide congregation of Dorothys so wanted the New Wizard to be a Nice Man and breathed a collective sigh of relief when this particular Nice Old Man was revealed from behind the curtain.

Reform the Curia? Not in my lifetime or his. The Holy Spirit is no fool...

[opposing]

Wicklow finish with 12 men but still manage a draw.  FT Wicklow 2-7 Antrim 1-10.  Poor result and conceding goals yet again.

4 mins here

http://wicklowgaaonline.com/2013/03/10/highlights-wicklow-v-antrim/

What the hell was going on between the two Antrim players at 3:33? Was that Kelly keeping the ball away from Cunningham? That's the sort of childish craic you'd expect to see between two opposing players, not teammates!

Complete shite, his upbeat and terrible version of Green Day's "Time of your Life" is particularly sickening.

Was intrigued when I seen this.  So here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTjfMQrnYi4

But Paul Grimley's a quare accordian player. Fair play to him.

unfair 100%...managers have their reasons, and i blame Mickey harte here, but id do the same thing. would be nice to see the ulster council show some balls

So if you were a County manager you would do the same thing but would want the Ulster Council to stop you ?

Take responsibility for your own actions much? Why would you not grow a set yourself and just "do the right thing" in the first place ?

[Lionel]

Not sure that even deserves an answer.

But it is Rossnowlagh v Moville.

Moville are the outsiders but if Dan Ritchie and his brother Lionel are on form then they've a chance

Hello??? Truly???

I hear Moville are a fit bunch and could run all night long. But they will be dancing on the ceiling in the Moville clubrooms for sure if they do make it through.

<duck>

Have the IBRC seized it by mistake?

All 5 judges ruled against the actions she placed against Sean Quinn Jr's contempt. I could allow a certain leeway if it was 3-2 or even 4-1. A complete idiot would have seen the injustice in what see did. You don't have a major issue with that. I do. She was bending over backwards for Anglo. But in actual fact went so far that she made a mess of it for them.
Your happy to accept this as just a mistake by the Judge, and that Irish politicians getting involved in court cases in other jurisdictions is just "appeasing the voters". I don't. Call it a smokescreen all you like, but there's enough there to cast doubt.

Very selective there SS. Now you're at the smokescreening yourself. If you are holding up the judgement of the 5 Supreme Court judges in overruling Justice Dunne in her ruling that Quinn had breached 30 coercive orders and should be jailed indefinitely until this was purged, are you also holding up the 4-1 judgement that upheld findings of contempt against Quinn and upheld the 3 month jail sentence? You can't have it both ways. Or are the only judgements that are correct and impartial are the ones that suit your point of view?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1108/1224326307780.html

"...Last month, by a four-to-one majority, the Supreme Court had upheld findings of contempt against Mr Quinn and also upheld the imposition of a three-month jail sentence on him over that contempt.

However, all five judges found the High Court was not entitled to find he had breached 30 coercive orders aimed at reversing a wide ranging of asset-stripping measures when there were no actual findings he was involved in most of those measures.

They also found the High Court could not jail him indefinitely for breach of those orders..."

John or Trainor?

And every right thinking man and woman should be with them 100%. End this evil apartheid regime now.

Holy fcuk Don, do you get out of Derrylin much?