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Topic was on prime time there this evening. Anyone with RTE1 +1 will get it at 22:30

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Great praise for those Dublin GAA volunteers from the chairman of Na Fianna. Undoubtably the best and hardest working volunteers in the land. And an example to the rest of us.

The Na Fianna man refused to acknowledge the exorbitant funding available to Dublin GAA. He confirmed the bar has been raised and it is up to all other counties to raise their levels to catch up. And  he mentioned the hundreds of thousands of hours the volunteers put in including his club's 174 teams

It was pretty pointless having someone like him on prime time (a club mate of John Horan). He had no authority to speak about the Dublin finances.

You have to admit it was poorly covered. McStay was asked his opinion and he danced around the issue.  The Na Fianna lad stuck to the script, ''we have suffered, it's our time now, full credit to our amazing volunteers''. Sounbytes were played from an Ewan McKenna interview done earlier on Skype. Ewan on Twitter said the interview was 19 minutes long and was condensed to 90 seconds. So you can imagine how much detail was used from that interview.

In all it had a feel of RTE wanting to cover the topic but not wanting to ruffle any feathers in the Capital.

It's dangerous ground here. You don't want to be upsetting sponsors and a majority of the work force in RTE are from Dublin.

So here we are the rhetoric from Dublin who has set the bar so high, telling us (the rest of the Gaelic family) To get our house in order and try harder.

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"

Answer these questions though:

Is your county team manager and his backroom team as good as Jim Gavin and his crew?
Have they instilled the same humility, dedication to the process and mental strength into their panellists?
Is your county board as good as Dublin's?
Does your county board develop strategic plans to move your county forward and see them through?
Do you have a defined, successful pathway to develop underage players through to the county setup?
Do you rush players into the senior team in the hope they can bring instant success rather than introduce them gradually?

I think nearly all counties are falling short in some way. Dublin are probably at maximum at present. My experience over my lifetime tells me that this doesn't last forever and no Dublin supporter I talk to thinks it will either. And it won't. This crying and cribbing over money used to coach kids in national schools is pitiful really.

Peter Canavan said that Dublin uphold an amateur ethos with a professional structure while the rest maintain an amateur ethos within an amateur structure.
They have professionalised player development.
Dublin Country board insist that they still have loads of work to do in Cherrywood so please keep the money flowing in.
They don't care about the health of the game of Gaelic Football.
Neither do the suits in Croke Park.

Did anyone ask Peter where the €120m from the British Govt to the Ulster council is gone? has this been distributed equally among all 32 counties?

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Read the thread

If we want to have the funding discussion lets have it but it has to be balanced.

Is the funding (most of it cash) from the counties with big supporters clubs included in the annual figures?
What about cash from 'influential backers' such as those alluded to in getting rid of Stephen Rochford?
Do the Ulster counties get funding from multiple sources - Westminster/GAA HQ and Ulster council?
What happened to the (heavily funded by Intel) Kildare underage development scheme in the 90's? Cash get misplaced?
Are Kildare still getting six figure grants from Intel for their schools and clubs and if so, where is this money going?

If Cake is your evidence......

https://books.google.ie/books?id=eOL4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT195&lpg=PT195&dq=ulster+council+british+grants+gaa&source=bl&ots=jRh_IhDej1&sig=ACfU3U1m2GJUrHOGUK3UA45PbvY1GOpSuA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQuMPKudzkAhUG1xoKHV1eDqc4FBDoATACegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=ulster%20council%20british%20grants%20gaa&f=false

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Did anyone ask Peter where the €120m from the British Govt to the Ulster council is gone? has this been distributed equally among all 32 counties?

Most immature post of the year.

How so? This funding coincided with the AI wins of Armagh & Tyrone did it not?

Topic was on prime time there this evening. Anyone with RTE1 +1 will get it at 22:30

Great praise for those Dublin GAA volunteers from the chairman of Na Fianna. Undoubtably the best and hardest working volunteers in the land. And an example to the rest of us.

The Na Fianna man refused to acknowledge the exorbitant funding available to Dublin GAA. He confirmed the bar has been raised and it is up to all other counties to raise their levels to catch up. And  he mentioned the hundreds of thousands of hours the volunteers put in including his club's 174 teams

It was pretty pointless having someone like him on prime time (a club mate of John Horan). He had no authority to speak about the Dublin finances.

You have to admit it was poorly covered. McStay was asked his opinion and he danced around the issue.  The Na Fianna lad stuck to the script, ''we have suffered, it's our time now, full credit to our amazing volunteers''. Sounbytes were played from an Ewan McKenna interview done earlier on Skype. Ewan on Twitter said the interview was 19 minutes long and was condensed to 90 seconds. So you can imagine how much detail was used from that interview.

In all it had a feel of RTE wanting to cover the topic but not wanting to ruffle any feathers in the Capital.

It's dangerous ground here. You don't want to be upsetting sponsors and a majority of the work force in RTE are from Dublin.

So here we are the rhetoric from Dublin who has set the bar so high, telling us (the rest of the Gaelic family) To get our house in order and try harder.

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"

Answer these questions though:

Is your county team manager and his backroom team as good as Jim Gavin and his crew?
Have they instilled the same humility, dedication to the process and mental strength into their panellists?
Is your county board as good as Dublin's?
Does your county board develop strategic plans to move your county forward and see them through?
Do you have a defined, successful pathway to develop underage players through to the county setup?
Do you rush players into the senior team in the hope they can bring instant success rather than introduce them gradually?

I think nearly all counties are falling short in some way. Dublin are probably at maximum at present. My experience over my lifetime tells me that this doesn't last forever and no Dublin supporter I talk to thinks it will either. And it won't. This crying and cribbing over money used to coach kids in national schools is pitiful really.

Peter Canavan said that Dublin uphold an amateur ethos with a professional structure while the rest maintain an amateur ethos within an amateur structure.
They have professionalised player development.
Dublin Country board insist that they still have loads of work to do in Cherrywood so please keep the money flowing in.
They don't care about the health of the game of Gaelic Football.
Neither do the suits in Croke Park.

Did anyone ask Peter where the €120m from the British Govt to the Ulster council is gone? has this been distributed equally among all 32 counties?

No, training dates and times are consistent, possibly my food and hydration has not been, but shouldn't cause the head fluster I have experienced this week!

Wiser men than me here but I would say diet and hydration could have a huge impact, and sleep too (although I wouln't have thought it would manifest itself at only 10 mile). I would imagine taking a training day off wouldn't go a great degree of harm.

Same as that but if it were me I'd be looking at hydration, diet and sleep.

Can I link a laptop to a tv - want to watch a few game bu want to transfer it to tv as it's a bigger screen.

Of course you can, your laptop has hdmi out? then connect it directly to the tv with a hdmi cable.
If you are running Windows OS  (Win 10) than you might have to select some available option in display settings.

Bear in mind that resolution/quality depends on the laptops graphics.

Amazon or Powercity

Not being smart MS, but where do I get a hdmi cable?

Fire Stick purchased!

If someone would be kind enough to PM me some recommendations/info on getting IPTV set up!

Not very technically minded when it comes to these things but hopefully easy enough!

https://firestickappstips.com/smart-iptv-on-firestick/

Anyone been to Turkey recently? I know people who love it and swear by it, but it's never appealed to me.  it's meant to be regaining popularity among UK holiday-makers again due to the weakness of the Turkish Lira v Sterling. Could be on my radar next year if the Brexit clusterfuck  becomes a mega clusterfuck.

Three years ago was the last time for me, had been in Istanbul regularly with work until the airport bomb.

It's a great city, cheap and loads to see/easy to get around. All the main sights are clustered in one general walking distance area.

Haven't been to a sun holiday resort there.

Congrats, savage running!

Its a great article with some interesting ideas and a great core message - I don't care if the call happened or not.

I assumed that whole phone call with Canavan was written tongue in cheek by Joe and he never meant anyone to seriously think that the conversation happened.,

That was my take too

Reillers

There's better men than me to advise you here but my guess is not to worry too much about your watts or pace over the winter but try and get more miles into the legs, the more times you get out the better you'll get and the speed will go up and the watts will follow.
What about joining a club and going out with them, that'll bring u on loads.

Same as.

Just get out on the bike and start cycling, if there is a club with a beginners group near you then even better. Too early to be worrying about watts

Looking to put Kodi on either a Smart TV, Fire stick or Apple TV - haven't used it in a couple of years - whats the best option?

Ideally would like to stream downloads from a NAS using Kodi and get some add-ons to stream movies and sports etc

Any suggestions welcome..cheers

Not sure if this is what you are after but using firestick..

Wizardtvsolutions.com

Using it around a year and the last 6 months it rarely freezes after it's app was upgraded

The + app has on demand box sets and latest movies..

Thanks Lynchboy, already use IPTV via an app

Looking for Kodi guidance and streaming downloaded torrents stored on a NAS

Looking to put Kodi on either a Smart TV, Fire stick or Apple TV - haven't used it in a couple of years - whats the best option?

Ideally would like to stream downloads from a NAS using Kodi and get some add-ons to stream movies and sports etc

Any suggestions welcome..cheers