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Anyone any advice of affordable but reputable holiday insurance? Websites etc?

Would always tend to go with an established insurance company. One thing getting the cheapest travel insurance but the most important thing is making sure that they will  in fact pay up in the case of an emergency overseas.

Personally, would recommend you get it via your house insurance company, credit union etc to make sure that the company is reputable.

Do NOT go anywhere in Europe without your E111  ( I think) card . Worth its weight in gold if you need hospital care in the EU.

The Mayo lads are definitely indulging in a bit of reverse reverse psychology, if you ask me.

Don't worry , it won't last. Give it a week or so before the Mayo fans and posters start the chestthumping.

In all seriousness, you could not have scripted a better way to an AIF for Mayo. They must be licking their lips.

Bar the couple of wides I thought BB was very good on Sunday. Double marked and never stopped running and trying to create space. The balls that went in to him by and large stuck and struck a couple of crucial points.

He will not be dropped.

Some amount of biased journalists out there selectively pointing out the injustices to Kerry on Sunday.............. ignoring of course the ones that went against Dublin.

Last Kerry point for example was scored after 10 steps ( I counted them last night I' m afraid)  and AOM dropping of Philly minutes before the Kev Mc's shoulder all but ignored. Two very soft frees given to Kerry in front of Hill 16 before half time also all forgotten about in the wailing about a 45 that was given.

Oh did I forget the goal they got that may or may not have been over the line. The journos would have had a fit if it was Dublin got the decision.

Priveledged to be at game and to come out on the right side of a game I thought we had lost twice.

For what it is worth, thought referee was excellent. He was consistent and that is all teams want.

Kerry for me seem to be whingeing about the last shoulder by Kevin and in real life it looked plum to me. Kerry got away with a more blatant one a few minutes later when Aidan O' Mahoney nailed I think Phlllie to the delight of the Kerry fans. I think the referee was consistently giving the benefit of doubt to the "shoulderer" which is fair enough.

Almost sure also the rule in gaelic football is different from soccer in that the internal part of the white line is the boundary and if the ball goes over that , but not necessarily fully over the external part of the white line it is a goal, sideline or whatever.

Anyway, Mayo couldn't be heading into an AIF in any better position.

2 best teams in the country imo left.

Large amount of Kerry fans cannot and will not accept we (for the moment) have a better team than then. Until they and more importantly their management accept that they are going nowhere for a few years.

Canalman

Your last sentence is a very silly statement .  Are you suggesting the Kerry management should gleefully accept that Dublin are better and lie down ? Really ??

Nope. My point is that Kerry has to go back to the drawing board, introduce new younger players (no shortage of them) , retire some of the older guys, rejig the team  and go on from there.

If and this is imo again, they feel that they have been "robbed", "unlucky", "never showed up" yadda yadda in the last 5 big games they have played Dublin and come back again next year with basically the same team/ tactics they imo are doomed. Imo of course.

Priveledged to be at game and to come out on the right side of a game I thought we had lost twice.

For what it is worth, thought referee was excellent. He was consistent and that is all teams want.

Kerry for me seem to be whingeing about the last shoulder by Kevin and in real life it looked plum to me. Kerry got away with a more blatant one a few minutes later when Aidan O' Mahoney nailed I think Phlllie to the delight of the Kerry fans. I think the referee was consistently giving the benefit of doubt to the "shoulderer" which is fair enough.

Almost sure also the rule in gaelic football is different from soccer in that the internal part of the white line is the boundary and if the ball goes over that , but not necessarily fully over the external part of the white line it is a goal, sideline or whatever.

Anyway, Mayo couldn't be heading into an AIF in any better position.

2 best teams in the country imo left.

Large amount of Kerry fans cannot and will not accept we (for the moment) have a better team than then. Until they and more importantly their management accept that they are going nowhere for a few years.

A draw would be a fair result. Both teams deserve xtra time and a replay.

Yep. That would be the ideal preparation for whichever team wins through. Can't beat games as a preparation ............ imo of course.

Last year' s replay win for us was priceless as preparation.

Have plenty of time for Dean Rock as a contributor from play. Not the flashiest of forwards but very effective imo. Baffling decision imo last year in the AIF to take him off.

Berno, no?

Not quiet yet. A bad semi final after the poorish quarter final ( by his very high standards) might kibosh him.

Think we (Dublin) have only the one cert at the moment in Brian Fenton. Lose on Sunday and that is probably all we will have . Imo anyway.

Stumbled on a film called Pilgrim Hill ( I think) over the weekend. Irish mockumentary film. Very very good in an understated way.

Yep, remember hearing years ago that Galway weren't keen to go into underage in Leinster. Counties in Leinster now not so keen to have them now seeing that most years it would mean one less Leinster county in the AI series.

Very frustrating to see pundits still not know the first thing about the blackcard rule.

Mayo couldn't have scripted a better way to the AIF.

Having said that, they are where they fully expected to be at the start of the year.

The Goldbergs is pretty good at the  1980s nostalgia thing as well. Not a bad show to while away half an hour or so.

The problem with any initiative to cut out cynical play, be it the black card, or automatic 20 metre frees, or anything else punitive for the foul, is that it encourages an equally cynical act, the dive. If I'm soloing the ball 40 metres out, and a lad is tracking me, my best option percentage wise is to 'draw' a foul as the Americans euphemistically call it. Mick O'Dwyer would have had Martin Lynch going down like a hooker when an Aircraft Carrier comes to town.

If the black card is dispensed with, then maybe they should wrap diving up into their list of cynical fouls for the next initiative, or else add Diving to the black card list as is. The problem with that then is you are asking Referees to adjudicate a deliberate dive. Hmmmmmmm.

That "draws the foul" saying does my head in. Close to that other nonsense saying of "putting in a shift" during a football game .    "strengthening the squad" another one together with "there was contact" when someone falls in a heap in the penalty box when barely touched.