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looking forward to the match on Saturday and feel Armagh have every chance. Hope its a close game for the final as the last two finals have been easily won.

Football - Graham Geraghty, Trevor Giles, John Mc Dermott, Tommy Dowd, Colm O Rourke

Hurling - Johnny Pilkington, Paul Flynn, John Troy, Jamsie O Connor, Mark Landers, Petey Quigley

I like it.

Randlestown (are they Tir na Og) beat us (cuchulainns) by a point about 4 weeks ago, cant see the rush back then but we played at their home pitch on a festival weekend, they must have had 300 at the game with us being told to go back to Portydown-wtf??? because a wee Armagh team was able to ruff them up a bit.

But Pull Hard having played yous early this year I think at a neutral venue id fancy newry for the final

Harps drew with Cullaville up there, thats all I know, worked late lst night and in early this morning

Theres one flying about Armagh, half the towns on it as it owned by a local businessman

Torrid Kentavr 6.15 @ Galway

R. Walsh on board

£5ew on her at 10s

Brian Lohan and Jonny Corvan

Adrian Logan is a real GAA man and would have total coverage but his hands are tied - I know that he has had a lot of arguments and bitter arguments with them in relation to this issue. Same with the BBC men - Sidebottom etc.

If logies trying to fight for more coverage then it is up to us to bombard the two organisations with requests for more GAA thus giving him the amunition in the boardroom, surely if there was a sustained campaign of protest (fair and peaceful ) at the lack of 
GAA he would be able to make in roads with sponsers etc.

On that point could Bank of Ireland and Guinness, the two main GAA sponsers hold any sway, regarding whats on when advertising at peak times.

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Check out the new signing lads

Fantastic second half, once again these two teams provide me with the best hang over cure ever, Don't know about anyone but i didn't want it to end. hurling really is putting the big ball to shame regarding excitement etc. The game will bring Waterford further on, I fancy them to win the replay. If they fail they are surely the best team not to win an All-Ireland.

I felt McGrath had every right to go for goal and the rebound should have been netted anyway. Looking forward to the replay.

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Will the Harps get any Nicky Rackard Cup final tickets. Who do I need to contact regarding staking a claim, i am a fully paid up member thanks to our Leeds friend

I have Loves bidding here now, need a good start...

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Ulster Scotch

Just got a tip form a good source, about 70-30 with his tips.

3.20 Sandown Yasinisi 8/1

I'm taken a pop at this.

[But you can't deny the points made]

But you can't deny the points made. Windsor Park is located in the village, Linfield availing of huge revenues from the IFA thus gaining an unfair advantage over other Irish League clubs etc, also that there is no viable alternative to the Maze, when will that fact sink home?

Can't deny?

Windsor Park is NOT located in the Village - I have been there dozens of times and only once (I think) had to access it via the Village. One side of the ground backs onto the Village, with perfectly adequate and safe access available either via Boucher Road or the Lisburn Road. Speaking of which, the City Hospital is on the Lisburn Road - would anyone claim it is in the Village?

Second, no-one is suggesting that WP be redeveloped "in place of a new stadium in the Maze". If the Government insists on spending millions of taxpayers money on a Maze Stadium, so be it. However, soccer wants to continue to play its internationals in Belfast, our home for over 125 years. Most soccer fans would like to see a new, purpose-built stadium in Belfast, but would settle for a refurbished WP if necessary.

As regards paying LFC £400,000 p.a; it is curious that the writer selects this figure, representing as it does the highest annual figure LFC have ever received, but neglecting to mention the considerably smaller figures which were the norm even in recent years. Besides, does anyone really expect LFC to make their facilities available for free? No-one begrudges the GAA a rental of over €1m per match to the FAI or IRFU for Croke - even though those are two national teams, and this is money which is going out of those two sports entirely.As for WP being a "no no" for "certain other sports" - which sports can the writer mean? There was no problem with the local Camogie team using the facilities a while back - and for free, at that! Nor was there a problem for Cliftonville fans - almost exclusively drawn from Nationalist North and West Belfast - opting to use WP recently for their European games. Then again, perhaps none of them is a fan of any other sport, so that doesn't count?

The writer states that whether the Maze Stadium goes ahead or not, the "International Conflict Transformation Centre" will proceed nonetheless. I fail to see the relevance of this to his argument, since it will surely then go ahead whether WP is refurbished for soccer or not.

The writer berates BCC and certain of its Councillors for their "parish pump mentality", whilst going on to congratulate Mr. Poots for his "far-sighted courage". Whether courageous or not, the last thing Poots needs is farsightedness in campaigning for a major injection of other peoples money right onto his own doorstep - "parish pump" indeed!

We are told the old H Blocks will be a "major tourist attraction"; I have no idea whether this will be so, but I fail to see how/why the existence or otherwise of a sports stadium nearby will make any substantive difference to that assertion - so more irrelevance.

Finally, the writer commends the Maze as being the only "viable and neutral" location for a new stadium. We cannot say whether it is/will be viable, since the proponents of the stadium, including Poots, refuse point-blank to divulge their Business Case for the project, even when required to do so under Freedom of Information legislation.

As for it being "neutral" - it's undeniably in the middle of the Upper Bann constituency, an undeniably Loyalist area.

Then again, the writer* of this "excellent" [sic] letter would no doubt deny even that, if it suited him.



* - Own up, Fearon - your shite has too distinctive a stench to be disguised by a pseudonym...

This is a bullshit argument, the RFU and FAI are making much more out of Croker than they would have in Landsdown so to say they are losing money to the GAA is pure tripe.

I dont care were they play ther bloody internationals.

For the last time I didn't write this letter.

Also Croke Park's revenue from soccer and rugby is totally irrelevant. The fact is that Linfield are benefitting from an IFA handout and can't even keep the f**king place in decent condition. But then again, IFA cronies like Bowen also walked away with £0.5m for being a complete asshole.

In my opinion, due to crass incompetency, the IFA should be cut out of the loop, and the GAA and Ulster Rugby should be the sole tenants of the new stadium at Long Kesh.

By the way, Windsor Park is at the end of one of the most prominent streets in the village,therefore it is in the village, full stop

That statement really does put Linfield to shame,