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Will Pamela Ballentine be standing for Sinn Fein?

nah sure she'd be the perfect DUP replacement for Iris

Have heard rumours of this as well. I'd love to get back to it for an all day rip. St.Paddy's might be too mad, but it may have to be visited on Tuesday after work

Any word on this new Tyrone website. With the underage season starting on Saturday there is an absence on news and fixtures on the old one/ current one.

Didn't know they were doing one but surely an improvement on the current one. The current one is good for up to date fixtures, results, tables etc but was lacking in other areas, wasn't that nice to look at or use.

I predict it'll look something like this;


They don't appear to have the fixtures & results sorted yet. It doesn't look like they are using sportsmanager.ie/clubscoreboard.ie for displaying fixtures & results

On the border thing, Drumragh and Killyclogher parishes are separated by the Drumragh & Strule rivers. Omagh is obviously on either side of this border, so they can have players from either parish, although I believe the majority of their members would be from Drumragh, even though they are based in killyclogher (as is st.pat's park that we have used for years).
Fox, no need for the personal insult a couple of pages back, it added nothing to the conversation. I was simply pointing out that no one from my club came on here complaining about st.endas 'poaching' players – surely it was fair to point this out to 'randomtask' who had suggested we had?
Can we put this to bed now? Airing all this in public is a little embarrassing.

TYP, you've mentioned on the board before about the move and how it will affect us.  So far its been very positive. Our club membership is 5 times what it was ten years ago – officially we have the 2nd largest club membership in Tyrone ( I know other clubs are bigger, but don't officially register all their members) Youth registration is today, and they would be expecting 250 youth members.
The majority of our membership would still be from the town. Families have allegiances to the club, I can't see this changing because we've moved out the road - the new facilities and general feel good factor around the club has actually attracted many new families that have never been associated with the GAA before.

While the Clanabogan area suffers greatly from bungalow blight (can't believe planners have allowed so many house in the countryside)

Supersarsfields, didn't you just build a bungalow in clanabogan? Tell him how you got it passed.. *brown envelope*cough*cough*

If Drumragh really believe in theri new home in the country then they should be confident enough to walk away from St Pat's Park.

Why? Sure there's no better place to be on a freezing cold February evening – none of this swanky stuff like warm showers and floodlights that you get at clanabogan

[instead of coming on here and complaining about it]

Maybe you could sit down and and figure out why there is an apparent mass exodus of drumragh players, instead of coming on here and complaining about it. could it be that a "wee team" like drumragh could do something wrong or is all the big bad teams that are doing everything wrong?

He didn't come on here complaining about it. Fox did.

[Does seem they are very much second class citizens in the GAA]

To be honest I don't know all the ins and outs but I chat to some of the players and they really want to give their all to play for and represent their county. Does seem they are very much second class citizens in the GAA.

If they had joined the GAA a couple of years ago when they were given the opportunity, and were now being asked to fund themselves, then it would be fair to say they are "second class citizens in the GAA"
The FACT is that we are talking about the The Ladies Gaelic Football Association of Ireland and not the Gaelic Athletic Association.

Does anyone know why the LGFA and Camogie Association didn't join up with the GAA? Surely it would have made more sense and meant that players would have been treated equally to their male counterparts

The strangest I've seen was at the 2005 MacRory Cup final in Casement, Omagh CBS V St.Louis' Kilkeel.

At half time we were standing on the terracing below the stand and to the right, and this spide came running down the steps beside us with nothing on but a pair of socks! He jumped the fence and ran out onto the field, throwing in a few Ray Houghton type tumbles on the way and waving to the crowd. He didn't make it as far as midfield and turned back when a not very athletic steward came running at him. The steward didn't get him and he jumped the fence and away up the steps. The strangest thing about it was that he didn't get much of a reaction from the crowd.

Ziggy: I think you need to read myles' post again

haven't seen this on the board anywhere, apologies if its already been posted;


Irishman urinated on French bread in protest at Henry handball, court told
BY KEVIN BRADY (newsfromireland.com)
(ROSCOMMON, IRELAND) A drunken unemployed plasterer who was found urinating on the French loaves section of a large supermarket in protest at the infamous handball incident in the France vs Ireland World Cup qualifier, was this week given a suspended sentence, fined and bound over to keep the peace.
Frances "Smokie" Larkin, The Meadows, Killareagh, Co Roscommon pleaded guilty to the incident at Maher's ValueStore supermarket, Killareagh, one week after the match which Ireland controversially drew after the French goal was deemed to have scored despite a blatant handball by French striker Thierry Henry.
Staff found the 46-year-old urinating on the Cuisine de France section of the bread shelves in Maher's, shouting "this will teach ye, ye cheating French b*stards," before he was taken away by local gardai.
Gardai Anthony Flanagan told the court that he had been called to the store at 11.15 on the morning of November 25.
"When I reached the shop, I was informed that Mr Larkin was causing a disturbance in the bread section and when I got there, he was urinating on the French bread section and stamping on a loaf. I later ascertained that the loaves were brioches, a sort of French bread.
"When he saw me, he tried to run away but I apprehended him and grabbed him by the arm. He said 'that's for Thierry Henry, guard. If you have any pride in your country, you'll let me go.
"Then he said 'that'll teach them, the cheating French b*stards.'"
Addressing the court, Angela Roche, solicitor for the defendant said that her client had a problem with drink and that normally he was a placid character.
"It is when he mixes alcohol with his passion for sport that he gets himself into situations like this," she said.
She said that Mr Larkin had become quite agitated with the result of the World Cup match and had worn an "I shot Thierry Henry" t-shirt that he had made up in a local t-shirt shop," she said.
In evidence, Mr Larkin apologised to Mahers store and said that he "had no axe to grind with them," but that they had been caught up in what he said was "friendly fire."
He said that he wanted to make a grand gesture to show that the Irish were not going to take the controversial incident lying down.
"The French loaf is the symbol of France and so by doing what I did, I was standing up for Irish pride," he said.
Mr Larkin had a previous conviction for setting fire to a tennis club shed in his teens, an incident from which he had earned the nickname Smokie.
In his summary, Judge Fergus O'Halloran said that what Mr Larkin had done was despicable and was also a threat to public hygiene.
"You did this without any thought to the consquences for the unfortunate shoppers who had to buy that bread.
"If it was in my power to recommend that you seek help for your alcohol addiction, I would do so and also suggest that you take some responsibility for your temper and inappropriate behaviour.
"We cannot have louts like yourself with half-baked ideas about national pride carrying out acts like this," he said, before sentencing Larkin to six months in jail, suspended on condition he does not breach the peace for one year, fining €500 and ordering him to pay €1,000 to Michael Maher for the clean up of the bread shelf areas.

Heading on trip number one tomorrow, yeeha.

Anyone been away yet?

7 of us heading to Val Thorens in the morning, can't wait. Anyone been there?

Yep, I know it's not likely to be that much, but I have the guys handout here and it says "annual website system costs of £800"
I'm thinking this might also cover text messaging

Still, I think £360pa is expensive for a club website.x10 what we pay.

do have an idea of what they cost...?

£800pa according to the warrenpoint PRO that spoke at the Ulster club conference.
I assume thats just for the first year and then they'll only charge for hosting

what club are you from leenie?

The one thing that annoys me most about the hill at the moment is the TV studio boxes  breaking it up and then the way the nally side is so narrow.
It would have looked better if they just had the terracing all the way along, with the big screen at the back and put the TV boxes in a corporate box. Obviously there was little they could do about it being so narrow at the nally end because of the train line.


-Just thinking. For GAA matches RTE are in a corporate box but for Rugby and Soccer they are down in those boxes on the hill. Anyone know why:?

Do you need the 4 ? 

Think we're using them all, but if there are any spares ill let you know

Have to say I have been getting a bit tired of moyles in the mornings now, but sure I'll give him this chance to redeem himself

Got tickets.
Just happened to be driving past city hall when it came on the radio.
Should be a bit of craic

I would always think of Rod Stewart as Scottish first so I think you are ok.  As if it matters.

Although he's English not scottish