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well done Sligo but keep the heads Galway will be tough to beat in the final.

galway in the connacht semi final. Or did you mean the all-Ireland?

Anyway for what it's worth from a Tyrone Gael that Galway team was my favourite team ever in any code (aprt from my own county of course). Fantastic... Keady, McInerney, Finnerty, Naughton, Cooney, Sylvie, Lynskey... loved them

Any one of the forwards could score 4 points or more on the day. It was a class team.   

Kevin Walsh must be a good manager. He can take over from big Joe whenever the need arises . Nice to see Sligo beating Mayo. They might even beat Galway which wouldn't be a bad thing either. Imagine beating the big three to win Connacht. That would be some achievement.

Mayo fans shouldn't be too down. Galway lost to Ros in the first round in 2001 and ended  up beating them in the qfs and then going on to win the all-Ireland. It is still all to play for, surely.   

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As an Antrim man I'd like to AVOID

Derry, Donegal, Armagh, Mayo, Kildare, (Dubs, Meath), but fancy we could give it a lash against the rest.

Surely Antrim could take at least Mayo and Kildare the way things are going. Some of the thoroughbreds are going to be very demoralised going into the qualifiers.

Them Mayo followers in Meath maybe so Hardy , but part of me wants to lose the next day... and isn't it any wonder.

It sounds like a bipolar condition, Hardy.

Some weekend with Mayo, Kildare and Armagh all losing

That one wasn't like John Gough. when they did the Laochra Gael of Tony Keady the programme clearly showed were Denton penalised Galway and let Tipp off with all sorts. I still believe the hierarchy told him to do that because of Galway's anger at the Keady affair. It diminshed Tipp's title that year and it was good they came again in 1991 to show they were worthy All Ireland champions.

That was a good tipp team but they weren't as good as Galway that year. I suppose they were desperate. 1971 was the last time they won it I think.
not that they won much since  

There will probably be more than 9 dead. A great week for Israeli PR.

You should have left the word murder in the title

I could not agree more, this was nothing but State Sanctioned Murder and it looks to me that they will get away with it, absolutely disgusting and the US and UN should be absolutely ashamed of themselves in the way they have handled this situation.

Obama is a disaster at this stage and I think McCain would have been much better equipped to deal with this situation.

McCain would be worse. He's addicted to Ziocaine. The thing about Obama is you never know what he is really up to. the health thing looked dead in the water and he pulled something out of the bag. It looked like Bibi  ran rings around him and then when Biden got ignored in Israel he really shafted Bibi in Washington. He made him wait for an hour while he went for something to eat. That just doesn't happen in global diplomacy. This latest charade is very very bad news strategically for Israel. There is an awful lot of political capital that has just disappeared. Israel has lot a lot of casual support. Trade flows from lesser  things. The BDS campaign couldn't have got a bigger boost this week.   People are going to think twice about brand Israel.

[It was hard to feel sorry for Galway in 89 - the focus that should have been there (from an experienced team that they were) just was not there.]

Anyone catch the Laochra Gael programme last night on the Tipperary/Galway rivalry in the late eighties - early nineties?
20 years on and you feel the bitterness is still there.  Maybe I am wrong but I don't think any rivalry in the GAA has come close to the hatred those two teams felt for each other, condensed into those 4 - 5 years. It was hard to feel sorry for Galway in 89 - the focus that should have been there (from an experienced team that they were) just was not there.

Nonsense-they were absolutely robbed in that semi-final. It was one of the most disgraceful ever refereeing displays in Croke Park.

Yeah. I couldn't believe it when Hopper got sent off. Denton was a disgrace. And it was effectively the all-Ireland final.

Did he ever ref a big match after that ?

i think the money that Benitez is taking for leaving Liverpool to jump into another job is disgraceful, especially considering the  state of the finances of the club and the number of unemployed Kop fans in an area that suffers from very high unemployment. 

i wouldnt mind seeing Frank Rijkaard to be honest. did well at barca, and plays good football.
think hes at Galatasaray at the minute going into the second year of a 2 year contract.
Hidink would be number one choice, but just cant see that happening.

Frank Rijkaard has lovely suits

Israel won't allow building materials into Gaza. 5000 people remain homeless following the Israeli assault on Gaza in 2009.
Israel doesn't allow non Jews to build in East Jerusalem. It doesn't allow Palestinians to build on the 60% of the West Bank it claims is state land that belongs to Israel for the exclusive use of Zionist Jews.

Israel has turned into a nightmare.

Israel is simply shameless

Israel has confiscated some of the most important material for the investigation, namely the films, audio sections and photos taken by the passengers and journalists on board and the Mavi Marmara's security cameras. Since yesterday, Israel has been editing these films and using them for its own PR campaign.

Check this out also:
-   Israeli soldier who killed six of passengers might receive medal of honour
-    IDF Retracts claims about flotilla's Al Qaeda links.

(from the promised land blog)

Look at the people murdered- most them were fathers .

http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/06/putting-names-to-faces.html

The Gaza siege's days are numbered. Even if the US gives Israel cover on this occasion enough damage has been done to Israel's image in the court of world opinion.

The fairies that live underneath the motorway must have brought on the recession. Fianna Fail don't know of any explanation for the absence of the soft landing so it must be the fairies. 

It might be an interesting development if every country that is opposed to this action formally removed Israeli embassies from their jurisdictions immediately.

It would be more than interesting, it would be a miracle.

We still have diplomatic relations with a State that withholds information regarding decades of abuse of our own citizens. We won't be making a stand.

Even Britain and Australia expelled diplomats in retaliation for the passports debacle. We did nothing.

I think it must be related to the influence of the multinationals in Ireland. why else would Ireland do nothing? Frank aitken would be stunned.