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I see Paddy Cosgrave is torching his Web Summit business with unwise tweeting.
He annoyed the Israeli tech community and it has spiralled.
He has always tweeted edgy stuff about the Irish scene and gotten away with it, like making up some yarn that 4 nurses had died at the start of Covid.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/meta-google-and-stripe-to-boycott-web-summit-on-back-of-paddy-cosgraves-israel-comments/a1235054615.html

The football team certainly does put things into perspective. I know people say we should not celebrate failure but we just witnessed a great Irish rugby team beat South Africa, hammer Scotland and just be pipped at the post by the All Blacks in a World Cup. They have been playing unbelievable rugby for the past couple of years. Then we look at our football team and lets be honest its a sad joke.
Could you imagine an Irish football team getting to a World Cup only to lose out at knockout stages, it literally would be beyond our wildest dreams given our recent history.

You are comparing apples with oranges though. They are 2 completely different sports.
One has a global following with any number of professional international teams. How many professional international rugby teams are there?
 The fact that Ireland can't get past the last 8 is damning, and that they needed Kiwis to even get that far. But until people wake up and realise they are failing on the biggest stage over and over and stop heaping bucketloads of superlatives on them then nothing will change.
Football fans are not shy of calling a spade a spade when it comes to the team or management.

The last line is nonsense. For some bizarre reason many fans and most of the Irish football journalists have been backing Kenny as if he was the second coming. Any rational person would have seen it was going horribly wrong very very early on. Some here have taken about 2 yrs extra for it all to finally sink in.

ah come on, anyone I know who follows the team have realised Kenny is nowhere near good enough. every result over the last few years and been texted around the WhatsApp groups "well is this the final straw?" its mad he has got so far.

Most journalists who write about the Irish national team are League of Ireland journos the rest of the time.
Kenny is seen as LOI gene pool manager and they don't want to put the knife into someone from that stable.

Tina Satchwell officially dead as well. God help the poor woman. Husband always came across as a weirdo.
 

Too many lads glad Ireland lost, can't understand that attitude. Better u stick on the GAA thread.

Have to agree. I'm far from a rugby fan, but just find it bizarre to not be cheering for your country in a sport. Even worse again to be gloating like a kid in the playground when they get beat. Takes all sorts I suppose.

A lot of Irish soccer fans are getting more bitter towards rugby as ROI team gets worse.

Too many lads glad Ireland lost, can't understand that attitude. Better u stick on the GAA thread.

I'm very disappointed but it's ok to say this happens every four years. It's like counties winning National Leagues and challenge games and then are left embarassed when teams are focused. There is a lot of great rugby to enjoy but we're unlikely to ever reach a WC semi final.

It's down to the draw. Ireland would beat Wales or Argentina pulling up in a quarter.

There is the over confidence again. I don't understand when we look at our record.

Both of them are very average and NZ will beat Argentina easily in the semi.
You'll make yourself a few quid if you fancy the Pumas to do something.

Too many lads glad Ireland lost, can't understand that attitude. Better u stick on the GAA thread.

I'm very disappointed but it's ok to say this happens every four years. It's like counties winning National Leagues and challenge games and then are left embarassed when teams are focused. There is a lot of great rugby to enjoy but we're unlikely to ever reach a WC semi final.

It's down to the draw. Ireland would beat Wales or Argentina pulling up in a quarter.

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A lot of the male pundits are awful. Very hard to claim that female pundits are dumbing it down in any way.

What are the ones from China like, quality wise?

Ireland has 4 Grand Slams in over a century . Scotland has 3. England, France and Wales are way ahead. $
Ireland has 25 wooden spoons. Scotland has 18.
Ireland has been in zero RWC semi finals, Scotland 1 ..
In GAA terms, Ireland would be the equivalent of Kildare
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsD9k82uAjo

Professional era is a different ball game though. Before that, Ireland were a complete joke shop.

Some people are getting upset about 'Zombie' by the Cranberries being sung by the Irish rugby fans.
When it was the Wolfe Tones, we were told "let the people sing", it's only a song etc.

Did anyone catch this from Diane Caldwell?
These are very big claims from her, I think she is stretching it.
From what I saw in the world cup, Ireland were no great shakes. A lot of the players had poor control, first touch and game awareness. I can't see how Pauw was holding them back from greater things.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2023/0918/1405986-caldwell-republic-of-ireland-success-in-spite-of-pauw/

Haha, must be a wind up.  Forward nicks the ball past the keeper and keeper clatters him then it's a penalty.  Always the way.  Happened last night and no penalty.  Very odd

You've described a case where the forward has control of the ball.
Players regularly collide when going up for a cross. Those aren't given as penalties.

Supposedly they want all the big players to play at the World Cup so they're being super lenient.

Farrell in the clear. The rugby CCCC is as lenient as the GAA one for letting fellas off the hook.