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Why are both Mulligan and Deccie Reilly on the 'wrong' wings?  Bizarre.

It's not often I'm truly surprised by this sort of behaviour, but this is surely plumbing the depths.

Well, for peace's sake I'll have to pretend to be pleased if they win.

Oh yes, we've been sent the video of that too.   

Ssssh Billy!!

Mrs. Boots is from Killala, Ziggy - my offspring have been sent Killala jerseys by the Mayo-folk, who really should know better at this point in history.  The psychiatrists fees are mounting steadily. 

Come on Killala!   

Wow, an informative report, whatever next?

I flew into Campino and was very badly ripped off by a taxi driver into the city.

So did I, by the way.

As far as I recall a 'Heveril' was a changeling.

Sorry Uladh, I only skimmed through it.

My Da, being a Connemaraman used to refer to Mayo-folk as Culchies, he once explained to me (right or not) that he heard it came from the building sites in Yorkshire where the Cunnies (from Connemara, residing in Huddersfield) would meet up for a row with the Culchies (from East Mayo, Kiltimagh??) occasionally.  Not saying it's scientific research, just an oul yarn.

Wuff Justice?

I don't think we're in a place to lecture people who have witnessed first-hand some of the atrocities described earlier in Sth Armagh

Fine.  But I won't be lectured to on my 'Irishness' either, or told what my opinion should be.

Longfordian, get as central a hotel as possible and walk everywhere.  Pick and choose what you want to see in advance, because you haven't a prayer of seeing nearly everything in a weekend.  Eating out is much cheaper across the river in Trastavere, and easily walkable.  Fantastic city, enjoy! 

I stayed in Hotel fortyseven, Via Luigi Petroselli (http://www.summithotels.com/hotel_horizontal.cfm?id=FCOFS), pricy enough but very close to everything.

you'd swear we were evenly matched rivals

Well you might, being deluded.

Therefore there was little need for your countyman to get quite so shirty about it.

Apologies tayto, I thought you'd been listening to those gombeens to our east.

O'Farrell (and latterly Farrell) was (and is) a very common surname in North Longford, in the same way as Brady is in South Cavan, and O'Rourke is in North Leitrim, and O'Neill is in Tyrone.  I guess this may explain the provenance of the Contae Ui Fearghail moniker, though I'd have thought it was more historical than football related.  I thought we'd a poll to decide this in the not too distant past, and had settled on The 'On the way to Places' County, or maybe The 'Where the F*ck is that' County or The 'Is that a county?' County.