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Could potentially be opening up a huge minefield for the GAA as a whole.
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Which is why Jarlath will issue a Mea Culpa of some sort and it will quietly go away.
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That is a really interesting thought when paired with the Game Changer initiative that Jarlath was apparently guided by

Jarlath used Game Changer to throw shade, the consequences were felt in someones private life, the repercussions will play out to a greater or lesser extent in court

While Game Changer has its merits, I think the GAA need to step well back from community based whistleblowing-shaming of people for things outside the GAA domain, or in their own words "support the challenging and disclosure of abusive behaviours"

You would want to be very careful before making unsubstantiated claims of this sort because of the ramifications it can have, on this occasion Jarlath has victimised Rory

Some excellent points here in the kickout discussion. The big winners I think are Tyrone. Malachy and Co will be flat out working out an A, B and C approach to avoid thst 14 point drubbing Armagh took through total domination of the kick out.

Rafferty is a phenomenal keeper but I can't recall him absolutely booting it to the opposition 45. Maybe he doesn't have it in his locker but we can see how effective it is. Two keepers who absolutely do have this is Morgan and Patton. We got at least 2 if not 3 scores of Dublin in the second half with deep kickout flicked on inside the Dublin 45.

If Kerry win the break then the long kick pass directly into the Kerry FF line isn't really on. Furthermore, it might encourage the press to back off a lot more to allow a safer shorter option.

Fascinating stuff and at the end of the day it might be a case of pure luck rather than any design as JoG2 mentions above.

I'd attribute Kerrys purple patch and overall performance to a greater hunger rather than luck, sometimes you can't out-tactic a team who are in a flow state with that fire in the belly

I get where the idea of luck comes from but I can't ascribe that to the greats of the game on song, desire would be overriding for me, they beat Armagh to the punch - I also feel the Jarly Og incident was a turning point

It was reminiscent of Tyrone's approach with Kerry in 03, outfought and outthought, but Armagh were principally outfought

You can deploy a tactical press all you want but in the end when the ball goes long and up between 2 players with 2 or 3 more waiting for the break its really a question of fire in the belly on that particular day

In recent years the game was far too weighted towards non-contact piggy in the middle dross, the rules have re-introduced a throwback element to the game that was badly missing - its a godsend to have high fielding at MF, breaking ball contents at MF, and shots sailing over from beyond the arc

How much game time did Blaine Hughes get this year?

I feel that the fortuitous change in GK last year had a huge bearing on Armagh's A-I win, especially in the latter stages - Croke

It gets to the point where you need specialists in all roles, hoping that someone can wing it usually doesn't end well, was disappointed to see Hughes dropped back to backup GK for Championship this year

Wonder will the climate change issues that's stopping the A5 stop the gold miners?

Cemtex for them boys surely

[Any case against the GAA will mean that they (GAA) will present all of the his court case details on his alleged domestic abuse.]

It's a silly move by Gallagher. Any case against the GAA will mean that they (GAA) will present all of the his court case details on his alleged domestic abuse. From what I hear that will not be pretty!
The reality is that is there was no contract with Naas and if he goes down that route he'll have to declare what he was promised. There is no case to answer here and Gallagher is on a hiding to nothing.

I'd hope the GAA would think twice before doing this, they need to engage proactively with the case and not the jackboot approach taken so far

[Kilkenny]

Any time for the scheduling announcement?

Saturday 12 July

All-Ireland SFC semi-final
Kerry v Tyrone, Croke Park, 5pm - RTE/BBC


Tailteann Cup final
Kildare v Limerick, Croke Park, 2.30pm - RTE

Sunday 13 July

All-Ireland SFC semi-final
Meath v Donegal, Croke Park, 4pm - RTE/BBC

All-Ireland JFC final
New York or Warwickshire v Kilkenny or London, Croke Park, 1.30pm - TG4 YouTube

So Kilkenny footballers second game of the season could be a curtain raiser to the All-Ireland semi final at Croke Park

The AI minors being shunted for this farce

I call bullshit

HQ decided a few years ago that Croke Park is not the place for U17s. They stopped captain speeches and U17 players can't be interviewed post-match either.  At that age profile, the GAA are minding them mentally more so than anything.

Nearly had me there

The Hogan Cup final has been played at Croke for years, and the AI minor should be too

The GAA is minding them mentally? That's plain old gaslighting if it's an official line from HQ. I'd suggest a Tyrone or Kerry minor wider panel/subs XV would hammer Kilkenny footballers out the gate, KK should absolutely not be given this huge carrot for totally disregarding the code

No issue with any of the other counties in the JFC or having a route to Croke but Kilkenny should be fucked into NFL D4 next year and told to suck it up

[has turned the game into a game of luck re kickouts]

But Outside D'Arcy of Galway very few of these kickouts are won clean, it's all mostly break ball. A team can be on top for 50/60mins and still get beat in the last 10mins. Under the old rules that wouldn't happen.

I think that's great and adds to the jeopardy of the thing and before if a team was 6 points up heading to the last 10 mins the game was completely over now you can't leave in case a comeback is on.

Teams are going to have to develop a set play kickout to break momentum. I imagine we'll see more of these next year becuase once you go on a run of losing possession in midfield things can get bad very quickly!

Great? It's by far the worst rule of the new rules*, has turned the game into a game of luck re kickouts. At some stage it'll be dropped.
Folk talk about working on the kickout, but there's v little you can do to gain an advantage

* love most of the new rules

Dara O'Se and Brian Dooher, no-one luckier

[Kilkenny]

Any time for the scheduling announcement?

Saturday 12 July

All-Ireland SFC semi-final
Kerry v Tyrone, Croke Park, 5pm - RTE/BBC


Tailteann Cup final
Kildare v Limerick, Croke Park, 2.30pm - RTE

Sunday 13 July

All-Ireland SFC semi-final
Meath v Donegal, Croke Park, 4pm - RTE/BBC

All-Ireland JFC final
New York or Warwickshire v Kilkenny or London, Croke Park, 1.30pm - TG4 YouTube

So Kilkenny footballers second game of the season could be a curtain raiser to the All-Ireland semi final at Croke Park

The AI minors being shunted for this farce

I call bullshit

What was the story with the slipping folks?  Understand that the tyrone game probably had the worst conditions and it was like bambi on ice at times.  Just one of those things?

I was there both days, have to agree.
Players were slipping a lot yesterday, seemed to be more prevalent on the 45 at canal end.
but was also noteable around other 45 also.

All 4 keepers slipped at kick outs too

poofs

Was hard going for the Tyrone Dublin game with Padraig "if they get their running game going they'll be hard to stop" O'Hora and Dave "untold damage" McIntyre

The Irish rage against the machine, sans talent

Holding a mirror up to the BBC IDF et al is where it's at and very effectively achieved

You can just say you don't like them or rap / beat music in general. To say they have no talent is just plain ridiculous

Yep. I don't like their music, which is no surprise seeing as I've never liked anything remotely associated to their music. But a hell of a lot of people do.
It's like Austin Powers playing God in the Top 3 songs thread. "Not worthy of inclusion". Nobody dies ffs.

I know nobody died, but, to say they've no talent is, as I said, ridiculous... Own it, it's 100%

Is being a spide a talent though?

3,000 acres vested for the road is to be returned to the farmers. Stormont now has to pay the cost of denying use of that land to the farmers from last November until the date they are returned to the farmers. Id say that cost alone will be in the range of 400-600£ acre. That's 12-18 million. Then there's the remediation cost of returning the fields to grass, replacing hedges, removing fill, removing fences and returning the old fences. That's probably another 50 million. Then there'll be the guts of 20 million in compensation to those affected by not building the road, contractors etc. They've spent 150 million up to now, I'd guess they'll not have much change out of 100 million once they return back to where they were at the start of all this.

£250 million to not build a road.

The road will be paid for 2 or 3 times over before its built

Unionists will consider that a win until the day its open

Long term its another contribution from Unionists to constitutional change as their intransigence won't be lost on those in Westminster who will be glad to get shot of them in due course

The Irish rage against the machine, sans talent

Holding a mirror up to the BBC IDF et al is where it's at and very effectively achieved

Dublin put out of their misery

Hope for 4 Ulster semi finalists at close of play this evening

Tyrone don't really look like All Ireland winners but they might take another scalp yet, McCurry won't be as poor the next day

2 weeks is an awful long wait for the next game