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St.Bronaghs should hang their heads in shame, is there no one in that club with any wit..Beer drinking is one national past-time the G.A.A. should not be promoting, its a national scourge

I would have to agree

Yeah, we have to accept that.
And I didn't go for it so there's no point whinging about someone else getting it.

Anyway, what about the motions passed? U16s not allowed to play for county minors the biggest talking point. Fair enough, I suppose. Young lads playing a lot at that age.

When does the U16 rule come into effect this year or next. I sure there a few U16's on county panels for this year. Do they now have to be dropped or can they be on a panel and just not be allowed to play

I see the stewards in the Marshes got an awful hammering from Kenny Archer in today's Irish News.

Read the article, not just the stewards his anger was directed at our county chairman  didn't come out well either. I've had experience of these stewards lately telling my son he wasn't allowed to bring his hurl in as he said it was too dangerous. I'm sure that the same rule in Nowlan Park or Thurles. Kenny was right about one thing "clowns"

Downgaa.net website is a disgrace.

We are now in Tuesday - 4 days and 29 years since beating Armagh in the Athletic Grounds in the NFL - and not a mention.

Is there no-one out there who would take it upon themselves to sort the whole site out.

Don't look at me - I don't have the skills! 

I asked a similar question 3 weeks ago It would appear the county board men who we all know read this forum have chosen to ignore our queries

i see that Tyconnaught are quoted at 33/1 to win the Down senior football c'ship in 2014 on the Paddy Power website!!

Fair play to them considering they are in the intermediate this year

Does anyone know what has happened to the Down website, over a month since last update. Our senior footballers and hurlers have played 5 games and a word about them.

Some great resources on military archives.ie.

In the same IRA company as my great-uncles were:

Patrick McElwaine (James)
Patrick McElwaine (Pat) and
Patrick McElwaine (John)

Where  did you find the company lists, I cant see them on the site

Any word on how the hurling meeting went last night

Have to agree with johnneycool, this Ulster league my have been imposed on us from UC. Not sure if it was discussed at any county reps meeting or even at convention (not privvy to such information). As I stated earlier  we need to think long and hard about this format and do whats best for Down

On a not unrelated matter does anyone know nights/days for various adult and underage football and hurling fixtures for coming season

In reality most counties have too many clubs. Here in Down we have 48 clubs but imo the GAA population can only support about 40. Areas like east Down, mournes and west Down around Banbridge are struggling for numbers at adult and especially juvenile teams. Even the county board at the recent convention suggested playing underage games down to 9 a side. Perhaps people need to swallow their pride and seriously think about amalgamation. Down through the years clubs have folded or amalgamated but true GAA people have adapted for the good of the game, hopefully this will continue

There's a meeting been called of the hurling clubs for Tuesday to try and sort all this out.

Is this an open meeting or is it just for county board reps. As usual not a word about these proposals on the county website. So much for communication

With the Down hurling Board not long scrapped, I hear they have gone one step further and done away with the Down Hurling leagues.  A complete disgrace.  A 7 hour round trip on a Saturday evening for a hurling league game in Donegal is going to do wonders for the club game outside the Ards.  Development my hole.  Anyone an idea if the clubs agreed to this at convention or county board meetings?

Seems to be  very little thought has gone into this proposal. Surely we have have enough teams  of an equal standard to maintain a league of our own, take last years junior championship as an example. At least jf this Ulster league was more regional based ie Down/Armagh clubs it might have a chance. But in reality teams that could only field 13 players last year are going to have big problems.

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Delighted with 6th in first year. Thanks umpire