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Mayo not perturbed about losing a FBD league. It's that a young Roscommon team beat them in the physical stakes. As one commentator on Willie Joe blog (great blog btw) said it was awful to see a Mayo team fu(ked about like that. That's the stuff of Mayo's worst nightmares and brings back to the surface the "laddeens" description that the county board chairman had immortalised a recent Mayo team with after an All-Ireland hammering to Kerry. Horan had done a great job in changing that, making Mayo a physically imposing team which they will continue to be and the real reason Mayo beat Roscommon last year is because they were a better conditioned team and were able to use that physical strength to turn over possession in last ten minutes. The physical domination by the young Rossies stuck in the craw on Sunday and the ref got booed in the end - so who really took the game too serious. We will now have the bizarre situation of a bit of needle should Ros and Mayo meet again in the championship. And the reason for the needle? Oh just some spillover from a meaningless January FBD game.

Interesting that Johnomahonyitis (bigging up London, Ros, Sligo, Nua Eabhrac, Leitrim when facts suggest the contrary) is the prevailing mentality that has come to dominate Mayo and Galway football supporters. He fairly left his mark. Too bad: the calling a spade a spade from James Horan was much more refreshing. Psychobabble never made a football team. Tabhair aire lads. Ye could be in for a rough year.

No coastline = shit county. Sin e.

Give me the shores of Lough Ree or Lough Key or the banks of the dark mutinous Shannon waves than the Mayo coast sponsored by Shell. What's the use of a coastline if ye don't respect it. 

Jases ye rhubarbs are awful thick.
Obv never heard of Hyde, Wilde, Matt Molloy, carty family, John Wynne, Patsy Hanly, Annalu of Loch Ce etc ad infinitum and so forth.

Don't forget John McGahern who firmly nailed his Rossie colours in his autobiography despite the Irish intelligentsia trying to pass him off as a Leitrim man for years. And Turlough O'Carolan who grew up and composed his masterpieces in Ros and buried in Kilronan. What has Mayo ever given us? Louis Walsh and Enda Kenny. Aw Jaysus Christ Lord preserve us from all harm.

Lar wrote:

"I'd love think that Coalition policies played a major part in stopping the recession but, going by the way in which it handled the water tax issue, I'm damn sure it didn't. "

Well that's an Irish trait, blaming them for what goes wrong and giving them no credit for what goes right. I don't think even Jesus Christ would have come out of Irish Water unscathed and he was a man who could turn it into wine. There's a lot who are not on breadline and simply believe it's a god given right to have free water. Mind you you won't see them drinking the stuff the Gods piss with abandon from the sky or the polluted stuff that fills our rivers and lakes, that we as irish people are solely responsible for (not Europe, not the Brits). Then you have those that believe it should always be state run, as if that is somehow better. CIE anyone? Then there's those who think it magically comes from taps for free, even though Dublin will soon have a huge shortage and needs to drain Lough Ree abd Lougn Derg and it's only a matter of time before what happened in Galway and Roscommon happens all over the country. Then we'll have a water system that is not only 40% wasted in leaks but littered with disease carrying bacteria. And the people will shout why didn't we fix this problem. And the answer will be that as a race of people we are a right shower of thickos who have no problem buying The Sun and The Mirror or heading off to NYC to fill the auld suitcase  and paying to watch our English soccer teams on Sky to Mr Murdoch but God forbid we cough up to invest in the single most important resource in our country.

Got a bottle of Laphroaig the other night on the advice of an expert Scotch drinker. Jaysus awful stuff. I had to ask myself how on earth do people pay a premium for this. I looked it up on the internet and even the distillery itself was proudly proclaiming that it tasted like a burning hospital. Actually if you took all the balls of cotton from your mouth after the dentist pulled half your teeth out and distilled it with poison tap water from Roscommon, that's what Laphroaig tastes like. Nearly put me off the drink for life. I don't care what anyone says but Irish whiskey is the nicest in the world. It's only flaw is that it's too nice.

Unfortunately Irish people don't give a shit. Same reason we destroyed our rail system, same reason we destroy our heritage sites, same reason we threw up ugly housing estates all over the place. You'd think as a people we'd be glad to fix those leaks and stop polluting our rivers and pay a modest amount to fix it. But sure begorrah doesn't water come from the sky. Look at Ros. Luke Ming Flanagan was part of a county council that oversaw a water system that was and is pure poison. He's now one of the "we won't pay". No surprise he's one of those intent to destroy our bogs. Sure cutting turf is a way of life. Let's keep cutting till we leave the province in shit.

Hey anyone want to go out and protest the relocation of pedophiles to our towns. Thought not.

The dirty truth is that Irish politicians are representative of Irish people in general. It's a good cross section of Irish society made up of crooks, psychopaths, thickos, alcoholics, sex abuse apologists, tax cheats, retired GAA stars, cowboy builders and amadáns of all stripes.

Sinn Fein's attitude not much different to Catholic Church. It was all about the protection of the institution. Anyone who who stood up for the sexually abused was attacking the Church. They gathered ranks and left the victim isolated. Those who might be inclined to stand up for the victim feared the wrath of the institution. Those who stand up today are anti the institution - and the victim is being used to attack the institution. God save the institution. Sinn Fein/IRA clearly showing themselves to the paramilitary wing of the padeophile Catholic Church. Two sides of the same bad penny.

That old John Donnellan quip  would fit Mayo here: "If it was raining soup, ye'd be out with a fork". I'd say in the history of the GAA most manager positions were filled a bit like this.  The problem is the volunteers in charge don't have the skills to deal with the modern world and the pace of how news spreads, and how quickly things can blow up. If back in the 70s or 80s an appointment was filled like this, the only news that would have got out would have been that they interviewed Connelly and Holmes and McStay and McHale and the first two lads got it. No one would have been any the wiser that they'd picked their man before McStay and McHale even interviewed. And even if they did, at most it would have only made the rounds of a few pubs before someone started moaning about something else... the weather, the price of cattle or the three soft All-Irelands Galway won back in the 60s. Did I mention John Donnellan.

What defines Poshness?  Accent? Affluence?

In Ireland it's the ability to squeeze your vowels.

Thought the Yes campaign started to lose the momentum they were rapidly gaining when RBS and Lloyds said they'd relocate to London. That was a spectacular missed opportunity by Yes to say "These are banks that failed and then even squandered the bailouts from the taxpayers... let's not take economic advice from these crowd of ganststers." Can you imagine Anglo Irish Bank having that effect in Ireland? Instead they turned on the BBC and were portrayed as fanatics. Even though they were 100% right about the BBC. And their coverage in the early hours of the morning put me to sleep.

But bottom line, the Scots are a spineless lot. They need to dump the Tartan Army, proud Celt, Scotland the Brave lark. Scotland the Brave was ripped off from O'Donnell Abu anyway. They will forever more be just known as a little piece of England. Such a parcel of rogues as Robbie Burns would say.

Easy attack Bruton and Geldof but most recent poll shows more Catholics in NI back remaining in UK that joining a UI. And the opinion polls unfortunately look being accurate in the Scotland poll. It's clear people  put the their pennies before their patriotism.

Funny how Roscommon people come out to post in times when there's a hint of upheaval in Mayo.

Maybe they have nothing else to add a bit of excitement to their lives

As the dark nights approach, the endess básin from the Mayo básahauns can always be guaranteed to provide a bit of amusement to help get us through the wet auld winter. Till the  FBD anyway.

This quote from Bill Clinton highlights all the BS the Yes side have to put up with.

"Because the independence vote is a decision for the Scots alone to make, and because Scots are already legendary for their independence of mind, I have been reluctant to express my views on the matter. I hope my decision to do so will be received in the spirit of friendship with which it is offered," Clinton said in a statement released through the Better Together campaign.

Oh yeah, not interfering in a statement released through Better Together Campaign.

Add to this the bias of the BBC, the British media at large, world politicians (Obama, Barrosa etc), the portrayals of Scottish Nationalism = bad, British Nationalism = Unity.

Hopefully, the younger generation of Scots will prevail tomorrow. And if they do, watch them become a modern and prosperous Northern European country.