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[The village of Eglinton was originally known as Muff]

Is Wallworth not GLACK!!! LOL!!

careful now...

What about Eglinton?!

'The village of Eglinton was originally known as Muff, and alternatively as Moigh, Mough or Moyegh (all anglicised from Irish: Magh / an Mhagh meaning "the plain").[6] These were the names of the townland on the site of the original settlement.[6] The village was founded in 1619 by the Grocers' Company of London. As part of the Plantation of Ulster, James I had granted a large area (15,900 acres) of Faughanvale parish to the Grocers in 1609.'

fck me, it used to be Muff! Never knew that...Bring back Muff!

It wasn't renamed Eglinton due to the plantation though. It was because peoples post was going to Muff in Donegal. There's a forest near Eglinton called Muff Glen

As a northerner and a Derry Journal Reader I'm embarrassed at that article from Joe Brolly. Joe's an extremely intelligent man but he's also extremely insecure as are many northern nationalists. The Derry Journal is a cross border paper in which a fair portion is dedicated to Inishowen and that kind of rhetoric is uncommon in that paper.

He seems to have Sinn Fein tinted glasses on when talking about Martin McGuinness and neglects to mention the fact that Mary Macaleese was a popular president. During that period too many people got being anti-Sinn Fein with anti northern. The fact is that if Martin went for an MP seat in his home town he probably wouldn't win. Is that Derry people being anti northern?

What I find with a lot of fellow Northern Nationalists is that they are so obsessed with trying to overcompensate their Irishness that they aren't comfortable in their own skin and overreact when something small like that 2 weeks ago happens. Joe Brolly being a case in point. He's a bigotted little man when all's said and done.

My first post on here and what a humdinger of a thread. Sledging is part and parcel of the game which I have experienced a lot of during my playing time. I think the agenda to turn football into a non contact sport is a contributory factor as it's now easier to get a player booked. I also blame the win at all costs "including your dignity" mentality that's come into the game.

As for what was said in this particular instance. Well of all the people to get on their high horses I have to laugh at Armagh. Armagh fans are definitly the most foul mouthed I've come across. I remember an Ulster final about 10-12 years ago I was in my mid teens and my cousin and I found ourselves standing in the hill in Clones surrounded by about 50 Armagh "men" who shouted abuse at us about "Londonderry" through the whole game. So they don't have my sympathy.