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Jackie Tyrell baring all on the GAA social podcast.

GAA Social

A very good listen and not afraid to come clean on his own discretions..

On the Cody/Shefflin hand shake he talks about, we'd Cody up last winter for a "legends" talk and Cody came clean on it and wasn't asked about it.

Cody is as Tyrell talks about is an out and out hurling man, his life is lived through that prism and more importantly Cody is a James Stephens and Kilkenny hurling man first and foremost.

Cody articulated that night that for the life of him he really could not understand how any Kilkenny hurler, especially someone like Shefflin who has gained so much from Kilkenny hurling could actually coach a team to try and beat Kilkenny in a Leinster or AI championship.

Old school alright but there's loads of lads with a similar attitude in every club and county in Ireland.

I'm sure there's lads in Tyrone would go mad if Mickey Harte coaches Derry to beat them...

If Kilkenny were winning it might be different. But kilkenny are really hurting. This is season 10 ...

They're still bagging Leinster titles like hot dinners and whilst they're not winning AI's it isn't Shefflins Galway that's preventing them.

Leinsters have no value in Catland
They get hammered on the big day and that really hurts.
Huw Lawlor has never won a senior all Ireland.
If you had said back in 2015 that one of the greatest players in the game, from Kilkenny, would have lost 4 senior finals and won none, nobody would have believed it.

I know all that,  my original point being is that it isn't Shefflins Galway inflicting these defeats, it's Kielys Limerick

Badly caught there Nash goes for the smash and ends up hurting himself then Crowley tried to go too high.

Should set it up for a good game though!

England are up for this.

1. The Brits are not going to top up the funding for the sake of 4 matches imo.

2. The IFA is one of the key institutions of partition but is very weak at the moment. I didn't realise how poor it was.

3. This is about ideology versus money. Partition and sectarianism are stupid. Refusing to play in Casement might be consistent but it would also be stupid.

This must be the first time on the North, assuming that Casement goes ahead, that the Croppies have superior infrastructure to the chosen people. That is why it is so interesting. Usually culture war participants don't turn up.their noses at money.



Let's see

The IFA allowed themselves to be rode bareback by Linfield at the time of the Windsor stadium redevelopment, so much so other clubs kicked up a stink, none more so that Crusaders who got a free pitch because of it.

Linfield get a lot of the matchday profits when it comes to NI internationals.

A new Casement would allow them to generate more money, IF they can do a deal with Ulster GAA, but that may be part of the extra funding from Westminster which CHH is indeed on record as saying that the money would be found.

My spidey senses tell me there's pockets getting lined to incentivize these recent pr initiatives. Just so out of character for the likes of Poots for it to feel real real

I'm getting quite uncomfortable about it, it's so out of character of the DUP I'm wondering if they've been hit by a collective bolt of lightning of the road to Damascus Ballymoney!

Deal is done,  wait and see the investment in the Shankhill over the next 12 months in an education hub linked to Ulster University. People are meeting with loyalist groups to get them on board. This is all about hearts and minds,  making unionist 'Irish' the norm so that the younger generation don't see any difference when the border is gone.

If that was the case that kids from those deprived backgrounds were getting a help out and a sight of a different future from building bonfires and looking up to drug dealers driving X5's then I'd have no qualms about that.

Getting loyalist groups onboard normally means greasing a few palms

Jackie Tyrell baring all on the GAA social podcast.

GAA Social

A very good listen and not afraid to come clean on his own discretions..

On the Cody/Shefflin hand shake he talks about, we'd Cody up last winter for a "legends" talk and Cody came clean on it and wasn't asked about it.

Cody is as Tyrell talks about is an out and out hurling man, his life is lived through that prism and more importantly Cody is a James Stephens and Kilkenny hurling man first and foremost.

Cody articulated that night that for the life of him he really could not understand how any Kilkenny hurler, especially someone like Shefflin who has gained so much from Kilkenny hurling could actually coach a team to try and beat Kilkenny in a Leinster or AI championship.

Old school alright but there's loads of lads with a similar attitude in every club and county in Ireland.

I'm sure there's lads in Tyrone would go mad if Mickey Harte coaches Derry to beat them...

If Kilkenny were winning it might be different. But kilkenny are really hurting. This is season 10 ...

They're still bagging Leinster titles like hot dinners and whilst they're not winning AI's it isn't Shefflins Galway that's preventing them.

You can put that where you want but it doesn't equate to moving their home venue to Casement Park.
If you think that is likely to happen, you are completely lost to reality.

Linfield won't allow it.

Young Bradley banging them in from all angles.

how they getting time off work

They book it as annual leave??

Even the self employed lads?

Jackie Tyrell baring all on the GAA social podcast.

GAA Social

A very good listen and not afraid to come clean on his own discretions..

On the Cody/Shefflin hand shake he talks about, we'd Cody up last winter for a "legends" talk and Cody came clean on it and wasn't asked about it.

Cody is as Tyrell talks about is an out and out hurling man, his life is lived through that prism and more importantly Cody is a James Stephens and Kilkenny hurling man first and foremost.

Cody articulated that night that for the life of him he really could not understand how any Kilkenny hurler, especially someone like Shefflin who has gained so much from Kilkenny hurling could actually coach a team to try and beat Kilkenny in a Leinster or AI championship.

Old school alright but there's loads of lads with a similar attitude in every club and county in Ireland.

I'm sure there's lads in Tyrone would go mad if Mickey Harte coaches Derry to beat them...

Big day for the DUP yesterday. Givan speaking Irish and ELP proving to be better with camog than Michelle. It was nice to see.

ELP went with the golf grip, either that or she's a cítog.

Michelle lost my vote after that, poor co-ordination altogether!

St Patricks day special, get them while stocks last.

Liverpool will be issuing a commemorative jersey with an orange sash on the 12th of July to celebrate their Orange Order heritage.

A year ago today since Liverpool beat Man United 7-0. Time goes quick.
Liverpool have improved since and Man United haven't got any better.

Yet the last time they played it was a draw, go figure!

Hmmmmmm.....

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/more-alliance-party-members-would-vote-for-irish-unity-than-to-remain-in-uk-survey/a691093736.html

I've been saying this for a while now.

Alliance is strong in mostly unionist dominated areas (MLA's) where an increasing Nationalist population are voting tactically to oust Unionist parties as well as Alliance picking up on the disillusioned unionist voters.

It was more than just unionist voters who would vote for the status quo in a border poll who are voting Alliance currently.

[If there's grounds for the GAA to negotiate on the grounds that this additional spend to upgrade to UEFA specification is not something they should have to foot then IMO they'd be well within their rights]

How can it go from £80m to over £300m in a few years?

That's mad Ted.

It's only a 30, 000 seater stadium.  Imagine if it was 60 000.

Begs the question, how much would a 20, 000 seater cost to build?

Well Spurs stadium is 60k and it cost over a billion!! Not saying this is similar spec but gives you an idea.

Evertons new stadium is 55K and it's costing £500M.

Some QS or other reckons it would cost just over £200M to build Casement if it was purely specified for GAA games, but if you add in the additional requirements for a UEFA spec'd stadium then it could cost closer to £300M to complete.

If there's grounds for the GAA to negotiate on the grounds that this additional spend  to upgrade to UEFA specification is not something they should have to foot then IMO they'd be well within their rights.

Obviously they aren't footing it. They aren't budging beyond £15m.

They are also treading a tightrope of "No bother, we'll use one of the good to go grounds we have on the reserve list."

That's a starting position that £15M, I'd hardly expect Jarlath to come out and say that Antrim GAA are going to cough up another £30M or the likes.

A decade later, this is our "starting position"?

Well you being an Antrim man/person are you aware of any fundraising initiatives from Antrim CB towards this?