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how can you pick a forward thats not from kilkenny after that display yesterday? All six of them can play in any position they want, I seen henry back helping out this half backs. I love how canning plays but the kilkenny forwards are special and shouldnt be broken up.

Richie Power was played (and taken) off the pitch.

Ken McGrath? Seriously? This year?

but this country has produced so many sporting icons and it is hard to quantify  what it is that makes any one the best as it is so subjective.

If we are talking about the best in the world then surely gaelic games have to be removed from the equation. How can anyone compare GAA greats like Christy Ring, Pat Spillane or Terence McNaughton with people like Harrington etc. who have contested on a world scale against the best the world has to offer.

It's not about where people you compete against are from, but how highly rgarded they are within their own sport. Football and hurling are largely native, so people like Henry Shefflin certainly deserve to be considered for accolades such as this as they prove themselves time and time again against the games' top players. The fact that the other top players are all Irish is irrelevant.

Hence why I have no respect for Kiernan after his rant over Shefflin winning the RTE award ahead of Derval O'Rourke.

So a majority of a people in a province of a soverign state want to be allied to it's much bigger and more powerful neighbour.  Interesting!!

Hmmm, slighyly different situation the Soviet Union broke up 20 odd years ago, not quite the same as 800.

Phelps' record attempt still on track - somehow. USA win the 4 x 100 freestlye despite the first Australian out, Sullivan, setting a world record in his first 100. Trailing to the French in the final leg, the American swimmer Lezak swam the last 50 a full second faster than any man in history to win the gold!?!?

Fantastic finish, vive USA.

So much gor the French "smashing" the US according to their relay team.

You'd think after what happened in Sydney, nobody would ever talk about "smashing" other teams again!

Chinese Taipei is Taiwan!

M50 floods.

[man]

Is this Ireland's greatest ever achievement in sport? And is Harrington now Ireland's greatest ever sportsman?

Not Michelle Smith then, LL?

They were abducted by aliens and taken to the moon. The whole thing was orchestrated by the Duke of Edinburgh.

He'd decided that in order to continue makiing public gaffes he'd have to insult aliens as he'd finished up with every race on the planet.

[Irish diaspora's most successful achievement]

I cannot understand why any Irish sports fan cannot have huge affinity and admiration for Celtic. The club was established by a Christian Brother from Sligo for cahritable purposes, and ethos which still exists to this day, and from such humble beginnings to arise to a position where it became Champions of Europe and one of the biggest soccer clubs in the world, is a truly remarkable achievement and one in my opinion that renders it the Irish diaspora's most successful achievement.

In short it is more than just a football club, it is a symbol of Irish identity all over the world and more like a family

God, this time you really have to be kidding, no?

Why I feel no affinity for Celtic? 'Cos I don't give a toss about supporting soccer teams? Because they're a shit team hyped up by their adimttedly phenomenal and fantastic support.

Jessica Kuerten is an example of an Irishwoman at the pinnacle of her sport. I don't feel any affinity or admiration for her.

[But the begrudgers would have you believe otherwise]

I was listening to the Dubliners this morning belting out The Hot Asphalt, and I despair at the lack of radio and tv coverage given to good folk music.

Would have to agree with the above statement.  I can testify that folk music continues to be popular throughout Ireland, although the mainstream media and those trying to be cool or trendy would have you believe otherwise.  Just look at the likes of The Dubliners, The Wolfe Tones, Christy Moore...they still continue to pack out venues, with the former two on the road for 45 years plus.  I can't imagine many of the current froth of fashion in the charts at present being around in 5 years never mind 45!

But the begrudgers would have you believe otherwise.....

Not really, some people just don't like trad is all. Or maybe people just got driven away ever since you joined the board and tried to paint the Wolfe Tones as some sort of epic patriots with every post.

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8.Still only our Rivers run Free-??? Superbly written song,Who wrote/recorded?

Christy Moore did the only version I know. No idea who wrote it.

Fermanagh guy called Micky McConnell did the original. Christy talks about it on the Planxty Live DVD. Wolfe Tones did an awful version of it

1. Raglan Road (it's sacrilege for anyone to attempt to cover it!).

2. Song For Ireland- can't make up my mind whether I prefer Luke's or Mary Black's version. Probably Mary's, her voice is just something else. Her son gave us that fecking "San Diego" song though, so that counts against her!

3. Cliffs of Dooneen- Planxty

I never understand why the West vociferously supports regions such as Kosovo in their battles for independece, but when it comes to a region that has close ties with Russia, they're strangely silent. The Cold War is over 20 years!

The w**ks - sorry Yanks, have an oil pipeline running through Georgia from Azerbijian (?) to Turkey, so I think they will put alot of pressure on the Russians to get this dispute sorted asap.

Yes, I know this, but why is the rest of the world silent? Whatever about Abkhazia, South Ossetia is about 70% Ossetian (who identify, naturally anough, with North Ossetia, and also Russia), not Georgia.

Its easier to demand that the Yanks do something (or nothing, whatever the case may be) than to actually take any steps of our own.

I'm not speaking exclusively about the states. It just seems that the Western powers are very selective when it comes to calling for independence to be granted, and in this case it appears that the will of a people matters little, it's the political (and economic) unrest in a region that it could cause is the major factor, not to mention the looming Red figure.

I never understand why the West vociferously supports regions such as Kosovo in their battles for independece, but when it comes to a region that has close ties with Russia, they're strangely silent. The Cold War is over 20 years!

The w**ks - sorry Yanks, have an oil pipeline running through Georgia from Azerbijian (?) to Turkey, so I think they will put alot of pressure on the Russians to get this dispute sorted asap.

Yes, I know this, but why is the rest of the world silent? Whatever about Abkhazia, South Ossetia is about 70% Ossetian (who identify, naturally anough, with North Ossetia, and also Russia), not Georgia.

Accomodation Offices rip you off any way you can. After my first year in Trinity Hall I was charged 30 euro for not having the standard matress protector. How the hell was I supposed to know at the start of the year when I checked the invnetory that it wasn't the standard one?! It's not as if it was emblazoned with a crest or anything. Complete cnuts.

I never understand why the West vociferously supports regions such as Kosovo in their battles for independece, but when it comes to a region that has close ties with Russia, they're strangely silent. The Cold War is over 20 years!