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Saw someone share a post on Facebook yesterday of a girl who claimed to have been beat up by the so called victim. I think that's what's known as karma

Armagh split the reserves into north and south and play on a Wednesday night. About a dozen teams in each league. About another dozen clubs don't field reserve teams and then there are a few that play division 3.

Find it borderline ridiculous that a club can go from winning the minor championship last year to not fielding a minor team this year. Is there no lower grade they could enter and play 13-aside?

My experience of playing Belfast teams at u16 and minor back in the day in challenge games is that they always had big numbers, the players were all bigger, there was always one player that looked about 30 and they always told you that they didn't even have their full team cos half the panel played were away with antrim.

Locals always tend to say Lurgan is 50/50 because unionists act like they still own it but reality is the majority of development in the town over the last 20 years has been in the nationalist north end of town. Very much a commuter town to Belfast and plenty of people (all seemingly fenian) with no ties to the town setting up camp due to affordable housing and commuting distance to the city

Anywho, all the best to St Ronans tomorrow in the Hogan final tomorrow!

They flattened a pensioner in the process. Look forward to PSNI Craigavon's cheerful take on it on Facebook...

Did you see the video?

I've seen a few videos. They had two unmarked minibuses full of cops as well as a pile of landrovers.
I'm no support of RSF but they definitely could have dealt with it better. Next year will be a bundle of laughs, or maybe they didn't think that far ahead

They flattened a pensioner in the process. Look forward to PSNI Craigavon's cheerful take on it on Facebook...

Meanwhile their Arab "brothers" are busy trading away with Israel

Surprised you're not trying to justify the actions of your Israeli heroes

Over the last number of years I always felt Lurgan wad more of a soccer town. Only 1 of the 4 main clubs in the town plays senior football. In some respects though there may just be too many clubs for the area.

All of them have been in and out of Senior in the last 5 or 6 years. If Lurgan only had one club it would be some team

Truly baffling but all too common now in this internet age. Social justice warriors have zero interest in nuance. They form an opinion that fits their ideology and then they saturate the airwaves with their hard edged version of the truth. How can anyone of good conscience say what they are saying with such certainty and with such venom? These people don't give a fook about the truth or the impact on the lives of those who they disagree with.

Anybody who uses the words "social justice warriors" sort of destroys their own argument.

And why would that be sid? Typical of the style you see on twitter I have to say. 

Using the term "social justice warrior" is very Twitter alright. It's a tool to try and delegitimise debate. All alt-right terminology is.

By far the most venomous reaction I've seen has been from those who are seeking to vilify the complainant, by the way.

Then I suggest you take another look at some of the stuff on the #suemepaddy trend. Its character assassination stuff at this stage. Gary Walsh was turfed off the laois panel for what he said about the complainant (rightly so imo). By comparison, look at what the likes of what @flyingteacosy have said about PJ and it goes completely unchecked.

That flying teacosy woman is a psycho and fits perfectly the stereotypical man-hating militant lesbian.

The problem with social media and especially twitter is that it actively encourages you to follow with people of similar beliefs. What happens is that your newsfeed becomes dominated with posts from people whos beliefs and values fit your your own narrative, which then becomes fact in your eyes. This was clear in the shock and horror in some circles that they were found not guilty. These people had a pre-determined notion in their heads that the 4 were unquestionably guilty, because everything they read on social media concurred with this belief.

What is quite annoying for me is the presumption that everything in this case is black and white. I would follow a lot of "feminists" on twitter who I've since unfollowed after their OTT reactions to the not guilty verdicts. "I'd never come forward if I was raped" "no girl will tell the police after what she's went through" yet the PSNI have came out and said they've had something like 20 odd similar complaints since this case started which they say is well above average.

Lets be brutally honest, the League tables don't lie. Derry are a division 4 county and will find their level there. I'm sure a lot of the players are relieved they will no longer be going out to play games knowing they can't win.

Being brutally honest, I'll be extremely surprised if Derry don't regroup and win Division 4 next year. It's not the end of the world, embarrassing yes, (as is Division 3 for proud footballing counties) but they just have to bite the bullet and get on with it. Also all this talk about their county board and management being shite, probably deserved for the pathetic support the county team gets

Who's the last Ulster County to play division 4? Other tan our saffron friends?

Are the jury deliberating at present or what's happening today?

Judge is giving them direction today . . . going over how they should make their decision important points of evidence etc.

Looks like they deliberating will start on Monday/Tuesday.

Could be a good night in Ollies on Wednesday so.
Extra cocktail sausages being ordered

You'll be in your element

The macrory is a fantastic competition. The only thing that pains me about it is that no antrim schools are in it!

Great grounding for football in later years.

Was st Mary's CBGS not in it?

Possibly as it will give students more of a chance of going to University and entice them to stay on for  A-Levels, previously the majority of students from St Brigids would have went into trades/ quit education at 16, very few would have went to St Pats.  The amount of quality players form the Armagh area who miss out on McRory football because their education isn't t up to scratch is shocking. 

Not saying they will be automatically be contesting McRory cups year in year out, but you would expect the standard to be raised now the the catch net of available players available has been widened.   

Lurgan suffered this for years, St Paul's JHS produced some brilliant teams over the years but only going up to 5th year meant you'd a a load that went on to tech, trades etc with the rest going on to do A Levels at St Michael's. Likewise it remains to be seen if St Ronans will consistently be competing in the McRory, but you'd like to think the potential has certainly increased.