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Train, bus, match tickets, food,  accommodation (if staying) per person could cost over £300. Ticket to Everton or OT would cost a lot less

Good jaysus you've little to worry about 😂

And if there was an actual Protestant or someone from a unionist background stripped out for Down yesterday, what's the course of action then? "Ah don't worry, it's only a bit of sledging"

In the absence of any Prods about the place, I think the Carlow lads are to be congratulated for their ingenuity and imagination.

Just a shame that the Down boys can't show the same qualities in actually getting a few more Prods into their own team.

Or even one.

(I'll leave that thought with you  )

Shall I correct you on that one?

Always enjoyable watching a smug tw@t making a fool of himself.

With his little emojis and everything. 

It's ironic that one of the lads in questions name is actually in the report in the first post  .

His Da is a proud East Belfast Glensman, born and raised, tattoos and all who helps out with our pitch maintenance.

And if some of you remember a while back I put up a post about some village idiot in Portavogie giving out about people wearing GAA tops in the village. Found out on Sunday whilst talking to a lad originally from Bangor (also not Catholic) whos daughters play camogie for us that it was another wee girl and her sister who's dad is originally from SA (not Catholic either) but living in Portavogie that the idiot was giving off about. They were wearing our tops..

Always happy to break down barriers.

Genuine question - Where was the young fella educated? If he went to a GAA playing catholic school, arguably his involvement in the sport has more to do with that, rather than any GAA outreach.  If that's the case, his Da having a few Glentoran tattoos is kinda irrelevant.

That particular fella went to the Red High in Downpatrick, then onto Jordanstown so I get where you're coming from, but he's as much a protestant as a catholic in "cultural" terms and the reason I mentioned the Da is that he's proud of his roots and absolutely no one in the club gives a flying fúck that's he's a prod from East Belfast.
There's possibly another lad on the panel who went to Regent House the former alma mater of the legendary Blair Mayne and hurling hotbed, he's U20, so might be training with the seniors but not making the panel, is on an Ulster Rugby development squad, the Dad is protestant, him mum is my cousin who like me has a Granny from Republican Portavogie, the most disgusting thing about it is that he plays for Ballycran  .

We've a lad also in our club going to Regent currently, was invited to the Down U17 hurling trials, he just hadn't the time to go between football and schools rugby but he'll play with the club, protestant background, came at 10 years of age as he was mates with lads who did play, loved it, his mum and dad went with us to Cork for a National Feile and she thanked me for how welcome we'd made her and her family as she was a protestant from Cloughey and was a bit fearful at the start when her son told her he wanted to go hurling with his mates.

No one gives a shit, they genuinely don't and like all things good about the GAA, outreach will happen at the local community level where the GAA is at its strongest, it's so Cliché but it's so true.

Great to hear, thanks for the insight.

Seemed to be a lot of light lads who need to bulk up a fair bit getting game time last night, is this a lack of S&C or young bucks who will fill out over time?

[scouted and recruited]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2022/0107/1272382-ups-and-down-unders-mixed-returns-from-afl-life/

Everyone talks about Sean Wight as the first Irish AFL player, I found this article very interesting a few months ago about Stuart Magee from Belfast who made over 200 appearances
https://www.the42.ie/stuart-magee-afl-belfast-5521895-Aug2021/

Aside from that, a lot of inaccuracies in the rte.ie article which would only take a couple of hours to research

"Listowel's Sean Wight, who played midfield in Kerry's 1982 All-Ireland minor final loss to Dublin, was the first player from these shores to be scouted and recruited when he joined Melbourne in 1985 "

Emigration and sons of emigrants are a different category surely.

Hard to feel sorry for Djokovic in this whole saga!!

See Serbian prime minister and president getting involved now, ridiculous stuff, stating he is not being treated same as other players - maybe he should man-up and not fall back on his super star status to get vaccine exemption.

Baile an tuaigh contae Aontroma.

Go deas, áit an álainn.

[lose an all ireland semi final to an invigorated and hungry Dublin.]

Tyrone

Hope - obviously winning back to back titles for the first time would be nice.

Expectation - lose an all ireland semi final to an invigorated and hungry Dublin.

Connacht v Ulster semi final next year. Are you expecting one of Tyrone, Dublin not to win the provincial title in 2022?

Go on Blowitup put up your own county's hopes v expectations!

Cá bhfuil sé sin?

Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir. Go mbeirimid beo ag an am seo arís.

That was very enjoyable but how come Kelleher allowed to be so far off his line when saving those 2 penos?

[18 - 12 - 2021]

Dia Sathairn 18 - 12 - 2021
Derrygonnelly Harps v Clann Éireann  beo
6-30pm

Dia Domhnaigh 19 - 12 - 2021
Ballyhale Shamrocks v Clough Ballacolla   beo
1-30pm

TV licence alert!!!!

They probably have more playing members than any of the  the smallest 4 Counties
How many GAA clubs in Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown

Geraldine P. Morans
Shankill
Cuala
Naomh Olaf
Stars of Erin
Ballinteer St. John's
Cabinteely
Kilmacud Crokes
Foxrock Cabinteely (think female only)

Awful news, sorry for your great loss.

A tough time of the year for many people.

Is Shefflin not in charge of some lower down club now? I thought I saw him on the sideline on some of those TG4 games.

Managing Thomastown who are playing intermediate, Shefflin said won't manage against Ballyhale Shamrocks who are only 10 minutes down the road.

Fair play Tyrone, deserving winners. More composed on the ball and better organised. Defensively impressive. Enjoy the celebrations, sound group of Tyronies around us. We were very poor, turned over consistently and forcing play. Credit the pressure on us all game long.

One thing odd about this year's final, is regardless of who wins tomorrow, at best they'll start as 3rd favourite for the All-Ireland in 2022, or if Tyrone win a tight one, probably 4th favourite.

Jeez, how's that favourites tag for 2021 working out for ye!