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I heard a class song today  but can't find out who it's by. It goes, "I wish I was a fishmonger, bumbling on the bees"
Can anyone help??

[2002 All Ireland Senior Final Armagh beat Kerry]

Why don't you a thread about every final Armagh didn't make?

Ok,

1992  All Ireland Minor Final  Meath beat Armagh
1994  National League Final  Meath beat Armagh
2002  All Ireland Senior Final  Armagh beat Kerry
2003  All Ireland Senior Final   Tyrone beat Armagh
2004  All Ireland U-21 Final  Armagh beat Mayo
2005  National League Final  Armagh beat Wexford
2009  All Ireland Minor Final  Armagh beat Mayo

As a much smaller county within a much tougher province, Armagh have obviously not qualified for anywhere near as many National Finals as Mayo over the same time period.  But have managed the full house of a Senior, U-21, Minor and National League.  They have won 4 out of 7 Finals, Mayo have won 5 out of 32

[2001 National League Final Mayo beat Galway]

1989 All Ireland Senior Final  Cork beat Mayo
1991 All Ireland Minor Final  Cork beat Mayo
1994 All Ireland U-21 Final  Cork beat Mayo
1995 All Ireland U-21 Final  Kerry beat Mayo
1996 All Ireland Senior Final  Meath beat Mayo
1997 All Ireland Senior Final  Kerry beat Mayo
1999 All Ireland Minor Final  Down beat Mayo
2000 All Ireland Minor Final  Cork beat Mayo
2001 National League Final  Mayo beat Galway
2001 All Ireland U-21 Final  Tyrone beat Mayo
2004 All Ireland U-21 Final  Armagh beat Mayo
2004 All Ireland Senior Final  Kerry beat Mayo
2005 All Ireland Minor Final  Down beat Mayo
2006 All Ireland U-21 Final  Mayo beat Cork
2006 All Ireland Senior Final  Kerry beat Mayo
2007 National League Final  Donegal beat Mayo
2008 All Ireland Minor Final  Tyrone beat Mayo
2009 All Ireland Minor Final  Armagh beat Mayo
2010 National League Final  Cork beat Mayo
2012 National League Final Cork beat Mayo
2012 All Ireland Senior Final Donegal beat Mayo
2013 All Ireland Minor Final  Mayo beat Tyrone
2013 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2016 All Ireland U-21 Final Mayo beat Cork
2016 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2017 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2018 All Ireland U-20 Final  Kildare beat Mayo
2019 National League Final  Mayo beat Kerry
2020 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2021 All Ireland Senior Final  Tyrone beat Mayo
2022 National League Final  Kerry beat Mayo
2022 All Ireland Minor Final  Galway bate Mayo

Galway bating Mayo now for the first time in a National Final

My suspicion is that there are still better sections still to be released  but I don't really know

Does anyone know how ticketmaster operate this?
Should I take the shitty tickets that are on offer now. Or are more sections still to be opened up?

If you could start a new job/career what would it be?  Forget about restrictions about money/time/homelife/location.  If there were no barriers what would you do next?

From my understanding....

Imagine a 5 seat constituency where SF manage their vote almost perfectly. The threshold is 5000 votes and the 3 candidates all get elected on the first vote.
Candidate 1 has 5000 votes. No excess to transfer.
Candidate 2 has 5100 votes, 100 to transfer. All 5100 votes are reviewed for next preference but 5496 votes did not express a preference beyond those first 3. 4 voters did, 2 to SDLP and 2 to Alliance. In this case the 100 votes will be allocate 50 to SDLP and 50 to Alliance.
Candidate 3 has 6000 votes. 1000 to transfer. Again the majority did not vote beyond the first 3, 2 people had SDLP at 4 and similarly 2 went with Alliance. However there was 1 family of 4 gave a 4th preference to the local TUV man. A personal vote, he came to the Fathers wake and he milked the cows when the daughter go married.
Those 1000 votes would go 500 to TUV, 250 to SDLP and 250 to Alliance.

If you care what your votes does go down the list.

This is totally incorrect.  It is nowhere near as complicated as that.

But his point is valid, in that you should vote until you boke.

As an Armagh man it's personally 2002, obviously, but other than that,

My favourite was Clare Hurlers in 1995.  Ger, Davy, Dalo, The Lohans, The Sparrow, Jamesie, Marty, The Clare Roar, Up the Banner!

A potential shock is on the cards in Newry and Armagh, Lots of people that I have spoken to are going to vote for Independent candidate Gavin Malone.  A lot of people are writing him off saying that he won't get any votes outside of Newry.  He doesn't actually need that many votes outside of Newry,  he just needs more first preferences than Newry SF candidate Liz Kimmins.  If he can stay above Kimmins, then he will almost certainly be elected,  If she is eliminated her transfers will be from Newry people which should boost Malone above Alliance and the UUP for the final seat.   If he doesn't stay above Kimmins then he's out.

Any Tyrone people on here know who Paul Gags Gallagher is standing in West Tyrone?.  Is he a disident republican candidate or what is the craic with him?

I haven't counted Gavin Malone because he isn't standing as a Nationalist candidate.  He standing on a 'Man of the people's 'Save the Hospital ' 'Build the Park ticket. I've never heard him mention constitutional or identity issues.
McCloskey on the other hand was until very receive deputy leader of Aontú

[Independent Nationalists]

There are quite a lot of independent candidates in this election, and I was trying to work out which are Independent Unionist, Independent Nationalist or others.  I obviously don't have local knowledge of every area, so if anyone can shed more light, please do

Independent Nationalists
Mid Ulster - Conor Rafferty.
Foyle   - Anne McCloskey.
West Tyrone - Paul Gallagher.

Independent Unionists
North Antrim - Laird Shingleton
North Down - Alex Easton
North Down - Ray McKimm
Lagan Valley - Gary Hynds
East Derry   - Claire Sugden
Upper Bann - Glenn Beattie


Others
North Belfast - Stafford Ward
South Belfast- Elly Odhiambo
West Belfast - Gerard Burns
West Belfast - Declan Hill
West Belfast - Tony Mallon
Mid Ulster - Patrick Haughey
South Antrim - Andrew Moran
North Down - Chris Carter
South Down - Patrick Clarke
FST - Derek Blackhouse
FST - Emma DeSouza
East Derry - Niall Murphy
East Derry - Stephanie Quigley
East Derry   - Billy Stewart
Newry & Armagh - Gavin Malone
Strangford   - Ben King
West Tyrone - Barry Brown

Do any of the other parties seem to be having as much trouble with election posters as the SDLP? The cynic in me nearly thinks they're doing it deliberately to gain sympathy from voters.

The old double bluff!!  On a similar vein, it's interesting that there hasn't been a single act of vandalism carried out at the Kingsmill Monument since the late Willie Frazer passed away

The original Kingsmills memorial, was there for over 30 years, and was never vandalized once, not once.  When Willie and his mates were plastering the new one, they took a 30 minute lunch break and when they came back there was IRA scratched into the plaster!!  Did they plaster over it? Did they f**k, they rang every newsagency in the North who descended in their droves.  He even went over to Bessbrook and brought over the poor elderly wife of one of the victims to show her in his words, "What the people of Whitecross thought of innocent victims'
The SDLP when asked about it, couldn't state the obvious that Willie done it himself because they would have been roasted by the media for victim blaming.  SF for obvious reasons couldn't comment on it either.  But of all the shit that Willie got up to , this was one low act that was amongst the worst of his career.  Anyway f**k him, he's dead.

Has any team ever conceded 10 goals in an Ulster Championship match?

[2001 National League Final Mayo beat Galway]

1989 All Ireland Senior Final  Cork beat Mayo
1991 All Ireland Minor Final  Cork beat Mayo
1994 All Ireland U-21 Final  Cork beat Mayo
1995 All Ireland U-21 Final  Kerry beat Mayo
1996 All Ireland Senior Final  Meath beat Mayo
1997 All Ireland Senior Final  Kerry beat Mayo
1999 All Ireland Minor Final  Down beat Mayo
2000 All Ireland Minor Final  Cork beat Mayo
2001 National League Final  Mayo beat Galway
2001 All Ireland U-21 Final  Tyrone beat Mayo
2004 All Ireland U-21 Final  Armagh beat Mayo
2004 All Ireland Senior Final  Kerry beat Mayo
2005 All Ireland Minor Final  Down beat Mayo
2006 All Ireland U-21 Final  Mayo beat Cork
2006 All Ireland Senior Final  Kerry beat Mayo
2007 National League Final  Donegal beat Mayo
2008 All Ireland Minor Final  Tyrone beat Mayo
2009 All Ireland Minor Final  Armagh beat Mayo
2010 National League Final  Cork beat Mayo
2012 National League Final Cork beat Mayo
2012 All Ireland Senior Final Donegal beat Mayo
2013 All Ireland Minor Final  Mayo beat Tyrone
2013 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2016 All Ireland U-21 Final Mayo beat Cork
2016 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2017 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2018 All Ireland U-20 Final  Kildare beat Mayo
2019 National League Final  Mayo beat Kerry
2020 All Ireland Senior Final  Dublin beat Mayo
2021 All Ireland Senior Final  Tyrone beat Mayo
2022 National League Final  Kerry beat Mayo

Don't shoot the messenger!