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christ lads the Harris/Myarse/O'Toole bit was just me having an early morning rant.

Good fun all the same, although we should have seen through it as both Myers and Harris have both been blackballed by RTE for ages.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0209/1224311519762.html

Interesting picture and read...

That is a damning picture.

Myers (temporarily hosting The Last Word at the time) tipped Cavan to beat Kerry in 1997.

Harris' Sindo columns are occasionally good for a GAA yarn, particularly when Cork are going well.

Is there any way of picking up RTE in England? I know a few lads who have irish sky boxes which works but the place im in had BTvision

Saorsat might be an option , which is the satellite version of saorview, but coverage will be very limited as it is a spot beam focused on Ireland :



More info here:

http://www.saortv.info/satellite-saorsat/
http://www.satellitetv.ie/shop/index.php?controller=product&path=27&product_id=352
http://www.techtir.ie/saortv/saorsat
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055968485

Is this map for real? Is Inishowen's Saorsat coverage going to be as bad as parts of Brittany?

How many innocent Parish Priests will they doorstep for this programme

[Both long before Dromid said anything.]

In fairness it was all over the papers the Monday morning after the game and all over Joe Duffy later that afternoon. Both long before Dromid said anything.

Eh?? The Indo report on the Monday morning following the game read like a Kerry local paper report. Not one mention of any Derrytresk player, despite the fact that they won the game well.

Derrytresk (Tyrone) 1-10 Dromid Pearses (Kerry) 0-7

VIOLENT scenes marred yesterday's clash between Derrytresk and Dromid Pearses as the Ulster men progressed to the All-Ireland final.

A mass brawl just before the interval, which saw a number of officials and substitutes from both sides enter the field of play at Portlaoise, left Dromid midfielder Thomas Curran concussed and unable to come out for the second half.

At that stage, the Tyrone side led by the minimum (0-4 to 0-3) but they underlined their dominance in the second half with the impressive Niall Gavin helping himself to five points in that period.

The Kerrymen finished with 13 men and there were more unsavoury scenes at the final whistle when county star Declan O'Sullivan was struck with a handbag and then by a Derrytresk supporter as he left the field. Dromid selector and county board officer Diarmuid O Se afterwards called for an investigation.

"While Derrytresk beat us comprehensively on the day, I thought that some of the scenes out there were some of the most disgraceful I have ever witnessed at a football game," he said. "I cannot understand how the GAA can allow this to happen. There was no security there today for our players.

"Declan O'Sullivan got struck by a handbag and was struck by a Derrytresk supporter as well. That was seen by a steward and the gardai have it documented but I don't think Declan will be doing anything about it.

"The GAA have video evidence available and maybe it's time to use it."

SCORERS -- Derrytresk: N Gavin 0-6 (4f), J McKee 1-1, M Rea 0-2 (1f), C O'Neill 0-1; Dromid: T Curran, Declan O'Sullivan (1f) 0-2 each, M Sheehan, C O'Connor, N O'Shea 0-1 each.

DERRYTRESK -- A Quinn; S Slater, K Campbell, C Corr; E Rea, C O'Neill, J Dillon; C Gavin, R O'Neill; M Robinson, J McKee, C O'Neill; N Gavin, K Quinn, M Rea. Subs: P Kilpatrick for Gavin (56), G Devlin for Dillon (56).

DROMID -- A Hogan; P O'Sullivan, Dominic O'Sullivan, Donal O'Sullivan; Denis Shine O'Sullivan, K O'Shea, M Sheehan; C O'Connor, T Curran; A O'Sullivan, Declan O'Sullivan, A O'Connor; E O'Leary, N O'Shea, G O'Sullivan. Subs: M O'Shea for Curran (30), C Hallisey for G O'Sullivan (36), C Farley for E O'Leary (42).

REF -- F Flynn (Leitrim)

Irish Independent

Going on about the training ban last year was a bit like the child who didn't get their way so they picked on something else they thought they could win. Suprised they didn't ask him about the time the players kicked out Liam Austin!

Next week, OTB grill Declan on Cavan's culpability in the Jamesy Kernan incident.

The anti GAA BBC even have this now...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/16747663.stm

Well played Crokes ya crowd of stupid b*stards

A lot easier to blame everyone else isn't it?

what's your point?

My point is they have brought the issue of fan segregation, something of which we in the GAA are very very proud of never having to have and never will have, into the media. Totally ill judged and something they themselves are now furiously back tracking on. I'm afraid in the media age we live in, it's too late...

Media outlets love this kinda thing and the likes of the BBC especially thrive on it at every opportunity. They haven't tried to communicate the 'clarification' issued by Crokes, now have they? Dr Crokes have done the GAA a massive disservice in this case and should be ashamed of themselves.

+1 They have actually brought the Association into disrepute.

[Is it the same guy?]

Bad enough the Club doing it but the County Chairman rowing in too and volunteering to assist an investigation!

He can hardly talk, as he was the guy who ended up on his arse in front of the tunnel at half time in the 2008 All Ireland Final after 'bumping' into a member of the Tyrone party.

Is it the same guy?

Same guy.

And a Crokes man as well.

Bad enough the Club doing it but the County Chairman rowing in too and volunteering to assist an investigation!

He can hardly talk, as he was the guy who ended up on his arse in front of the tunnel at half time in the 2008 All Ireland Final after 'bumping' into a member of the Tyrone party.

Bad, bad mistake by Crokes to motivate Cross in this way. I had suspicions, based on what I had heard from GAA people up that country that there was a serious risk of complacency on Cross' part going into this game, and that Crokes would be well placed to catch them on the hop if this complacency affected the team. By insulting Cross and their supporters, Crokes have made certain that the real Cross team will line up on the 18th and they will whip the Kerrymen.

[The journalist Michael Clifford was there with his kids.]

I've read plenty of opinions from people that were at the game.
The journalist Michael Clifford was there with his kids.
You only want to hear the opinions that say 'There were two teams in it'.
Does anyone honestly think that if Dromid were playing a team from Dublin, Meath, Cork, Galway or wherever that this game would have had such a nasty undertone?
p.s. Tyrone men have form for grabbing balls!

I didn't know Michael Clifford was from Tyrone?

The actions of each of those people are then tracked through the footage, and if they're clearly aggressive, then they're banned from the next 3-10 Championship matches involving their club.

Match bans are not yet part of the GAA rulebook.

I can't help and feel that the GAA should have been onto both clubs on Sunday evening and told both not to make any public comments whatsoever and to instruct all officers and players to do likewise.

If the people behind either team had any common sense, they would have remained silent, and they shouldn't have needed anyone in the GAA to tell them that.  Instead they have created a media circus that reflects very badly on the GAA, but also on the two clubs and their respective officials and supporters.

Obviously in an ideal world there would be guards there,

Why? Aren't we better off with GAA stewards?