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Tyrone GAA chairman wants Casement Park project scaled back and money shared around Ulster.

Tyrone chairman Martin Sludden has called on Ulster GAA to scale back its redevelopment plans for Casement Park and build a more modest stadium appropriate to the needs of the GAA in Antrim.

Rather than continue to spend hundreds of millions on the stalled Belfast project, he wants to see investment shared with the other eight counties of Ulster, where stadiums have fallen into disrepair.

"Having spent well in excess of £20m already with nothing to show for it, Ulster GAA appear willing to spend hundreds of millions on a stadium that's neither wanted nor needed," said Sludden.

Tyrone GAA chairmain Martin Sludden
Tyrone GAA chairmain Martin Sludden
"The stadiums across the province need significant capital investment, some having fallen into a significant state of disrepair, including Healy Park and I would appeal to the GAA at national and provincial level to ensure that the other eight counties in Ulster get their fair share of all of the funding sources available to refurbish their grounds.

"We should not direct all of the funding to one single project to the detriment of all the other counties."

none of this answers the question originally ask, who gets promoted from junior alongside the Aggies, will Laochra and Pearses be made play a playoff at this stage?

I would reckon gorts will get another reprieve with their friends in high places working it out for them.

The right thing for Aggies is to go to a new Div 3 (of 4) with clubs wishing to enter reserves (starting in div 4) allowing 4 divisions. One of the challenges of only 3 divisions is the step to the next division is too high, 4 makes much more sense and would let teams consolidate and progress.

Reserves should though stick to their own championship as to do other wise would kill junior and a lot of intermediate clubs.

I've always thought key to making the league competitive is to have it act as seeding for championship, would put some pressure on with county lads being missing but not a total end of the world with a low ranking.

Ultimately though this is putting lipstick on the Christmas dinner, until the quality of coaching in clubs (on a broad based basis) goes up and retention rates go up then it's pissing in the wind.

11 pts for Beggan?

Kilcoo mgmt team member hit someone a dig in stomach

Wasn't much force but certainly swung the arm.

Kilcoo out of ideas with the way they're shooting, Scotstown have it unless they make a disaster of a mistake now.

McCarthy v selfish there

They won't care now, he'd a man clean through ahead of him.

Lot of lads of a certain age be happy to get across the line.

Tension is entertaining, even if very little else is.

Kilcoo have got away with one to get inback level.

Hard to see where 2 and a half minutes extra came from.

Momentum with Kilcoo and Scotstown will need to find a chip on their shoulder.

Certainly led with his knees in that tackle.

Good to see the annual holding of the heads by both teams in good evidence.

Raul Malo, lead singer of The Mavericks.

Only 60.

Got diagnosed last year with stage 4 colon cancer. Kept touring until a few months back.

Had not heard of him so looked him up on youtube
Crying

What a voice, RIP

Ralph mcclean show tonight played this and a few others, worth catching on bbc sounds.

[2 Become 1 by the Spice Girls]

Underrated: 2 Become 1 by the Spice Girls. Always reminds me of Christmas, and I always liked it. I'm not ashamed of this.

Stay Another Day by East 17. Couldn't bate it.

In the classics, I'm fond of Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade, Winter's Tale by David Essex, and Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie.

Now that's the definition of a guilty pleasure

I'm still shouting for the SPICE girls to go on Austin's List. That's a cracking tune.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vnqvxre1o

"The judge said he did not consider the attack a terrorist offence."

As a convention report not a planning g document seemed ok to take a minute to say well done for all the effort (there Isn't a queue of people to do the roles nor a crowd applauding those who do)

I thought it was a straightforward enough document and was clear on a lot to do and focused on the positives around secondary school work/officers etc

For adult club level 2 main points. No change in championship structure "without significant consultation", maybe football reserve sides might play in the main leagues and to be assessed in Jan review.

Joni Mitchell - River
Paul McCartney - The Frog Chorus
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis

Honourable mention to De Burgh for Spaceman came travelling, smashing tune to join in with in the shopping centre and embarrass the kids. Dishonourable mention to Springsteen for Santa Claus is coming to town, what was he thinking.

"Layman's view on how to fix the issues, build more hospitals"
Has it occurred to anyone why we have an ever increasing sick population? Have we somehow created a system that incentivizes poor health, for as far as I can see most of this is self inflicted.
Also, how about tackling the systematic waste in the NHS. If something is "free", people can't help themselves but take the piss out of it.
I am for paying a bit less tax but paying for healthcare and medications as an when I need it.

The much vaunted Bengoa report which is probably defunct now said that we had too many hospitals and services needed to be centralised into specialist hubs.

image a Unionist minister giving the go ahead to close Lagan Valley or a nationalist minister giving the go ahead of closing Downpatrick or Omagh!

Total lack of leadership, the argument is people don't want to die on the road to [bigger population centre]

Well, you are going to die anyway as the consultant treating you as no experience which is why he is working in your local rural clinic.

It is one of the downside of mandatory coalition, why take the risk of changing anything, protect the status quo.

At some stage people have to be levelled with, if you want to live in the arsehole of nowhere then you can't expect the same services as large populations unless rates go through the roof, that includes the ability to drive into those large centres - get the bus or train or cycle or walk but stop polluting the town/city air because you want to live on a half acre next to your ma.

Does Lisburn have a soccer team?
Does Lisburn have a Gaelic football team?

What the hell is wrong with Lisburn?

St Pats,'doing good work seeing as they have to arm wrestle the unhelpful local council and the MOD on pitches.

They've improved a lot over last number of years. It'd be good to see them up to top end intermediate or even senior. Lisburn always was a fight to get a team in with the demographics and seem a bitter place. I would have used to play them in lower leagues and they were dreadful but they have improved a lot and seem to be holding their own in division 2 which is good to see. I would expect them to keep improving.

The demographics tilt in the last 10/15years has been marked in support of them, next big step is improved facilities.

If they could get Wallace or Friends to field a Gaa team that would turbo charge them, seems unlikely though.

For Antrim county the unploughed field is the likes of Methody/Inst/Wallace/Friends/Bra who all have significant Gaa populations and not school outlet - I'll send like an alliance party meeting with hopes here but at some
Point they will.