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Silky views mustn't be uncommon in the South, while down at Oxegen a girl from Cork started talking to a few from our crowd(Down & Antrim people) and after no longer than a minute talking to us she announced that we were, "more like Eng**sh than Irish!". Wee bint wasn't long getting told where to go!

Hope you got the ride of this balloon before you told her to f*** off

On Sunday Tyrone play their 5th all ireland senior final in 22 years.  My first game following Tyrone was November 84, V Armagh Frank Mc guigans last game for his county.  After winning a great Ulster that year and with a settled Mc Guigan in all star form, it was probably hoped that Tyrone could challenge again and stronger the following year and pick up another coveted Ulster Championship - only 3 having come our way before that year.   Mc Guigans car accident smothered that hope.  Derry took Tyrone in a muddy Balinascreen battlefield the following May
In 86 a Tyrone team that were failing again in a dour championship battle to Derry produced a magical late goal by centre half back Noel Mc Ginn to stop the demise continuing.  The ripple of hope led to the most memorable season in Tyrone football history culminating in an all ireland final and a Mc Cabe penalty to win the game with 20 minutes to go.........
There was something there though and by 89 we had unfinished business and we hadnt our heads right to play Mayo.
By 95 we had hope a promising new team and momentum was rolling but we didnt realise how much more it was important it would be for the GAA if the Dubs could only win...
By 96 we were arrogant again and we thought we could win it without taking hits, without being cynical...
In 2002 we had a national league but we needed to beat Sligo to take out Armagh and have a go...
In 2003 we floated to an all Ireland win many lessons learned along the way, many tweaks, but a great win
In 05 we learned to tamper with and develop our system  along the way to await inspiration, to take our chances when they came, to play champagne football.
In 2008 Tyrone face their biggest test,.  The county is preparing 2 teams for 2 all irelands on one day.  This is the systems they put in place, this is the stuff club Tyrone told us could happen and would happen.  This is Tyrones greatest day.  Its been a journey for us all whether your first all Irelanmd was in 05 or your looking forward to your 5th - the message is the same.  Good luck to these incredible people from Tyrone who have kept the dream alive and who keep bringing us back to the table.  Good luck also to Mayo and Kerry men themselves with their own dreams for the day.        

Great post RRHF ... nobody (i.e the so-called experts) gave us a hope in 2003 ... nobody gave us a hope in 2005 ... These same experts aren't giving us a hope in 2008 ... know what I say ... F*** EM!!!!!

I'd recommend Lagos.  Stayed in Albufeira a few times as a base when Ireland and the Celts were playing in Lisbon, getting the train up to the capital.  Managed to get across to Lagos last September as a friend has an apartment there and I thought it was really nice spot ... not as touristy as Albufeira, the old town is really nice with its fishing harbour, there's a new marina with plenty going on and the beach was top class ... would go back tomorrow

Most clubs already have an allocation of tickets  however they are waiting until the final allocation before distribution.

once that happens there will be an abundance of tickets.

Hope you're right Bensars

Surely Canavan got the award in 1995, as he was the only Tyrone player to show up that day

No, it was definitely Paddy, he played an absolute blinder for the Dubs that day

So which ones were the best (leave out Joe Connolly's 1980 effort etc as if has been well documented) For me, nothing will ever surpass the totally spontaneous effort of the non media friendly Kieran Mc Geeney in 2002. In the midst of euphoria he displayed commendable compassion and concern for Armagh fans with the immortal words "Stand Back, Stand Back, you're hurting the ones at the front".

The flip side was Canavan's prescripted boring monologue in 2003 which was a real cure for insomnia

I dunno, the heartfelt sentiment expressed about his father who passed away earlier that year moved everybody who heard it (sorry, everybody but you)

Starting to get worried now ... Wednesday and not even a sniff of a ticket. This is as bad as I can remember it compared to 86, 95, 03 and 05 ... the only thing giving me hope is that on all those four occasions I didn't get sorted out until very late

[I feel nothing but contempt for Irishmen]

Tankie I would make the same statement about an Irishman joining the French/German/Russian armies.
If someone is killed whilst fighting for a foreign nation I will not shed any tears.
As for your economic or culturial/sporting comparisons, well they are just ott, but I'm sure you knew that already.

i think you are being a bit harsh on people joining foreign armies. without the world armies defending freedom we would probably be all been run by germans or russians, its all well and good to say that people shouldnt join other armies but if Ireland was ever to be attached the first place the Government would go running to is the Brits and I dont think many would complain about them landing in Ireland to defend our fredom just because we do not have an army big enough to defend the country. You are taking a very old world view on joining foreign armies.

There's many an Irishman down the centuries joined foreign armies to fight the English, cos it was the only way they could get back at the enemy.  Personally, I feel nothing but contempt for Irishmen who join the British army, especially considering their behaviour on the streets of the six counties

you feel nothing but contempt for your fellow irishman??


says a lot about you.

No, I feel nothing but contempt for my fellow Irishmen who join the British army.

says a lot about your ability to understand basic english

When did being Irish involve waving a butcher's apron and singing gstq ... by their own admission they're not Irish

Tankie I would make the same statement about an Irishman joining the French/German/Russian armies.
If someone is killed whilst fighting for a foreign nation I will not shed any tears.
As for your economic or culturial/sporting comparisons, well they are just ott, but I'm sure you knew that already.

i think you are being a bit harsh on people joining foreign armies. without the world armies defending freedom we would probably be all been run by germans or russians, its all well and good to say that people shouldnt join other armies but if Ireland was ever to be attached the first place the Government would go running to is the Brits and I dont think many would complain about them landing in Ireland to defend our fredom just because we do not have an army big enough to defend the country. You are taking a very old world view on joining foreign armies.

There's many an Irishman down the centuries joined foreign armies to fight the English, cos it was the only way they could get back at the enemy.  Personally, I feel nothing but contempt for Irishmen who join the British army, especially considering their behaviour on the streets of the six counties

The OWC reaction to this incident, although predictable (watch out Holly, aged 8 from Kent) is quite amusing. They've an 11 page thread running a debate on whether Neill Lennon deserved to get knocked out cold or not and an 8 page thread on how this was a totally unprovoked and disgusting attack. 

While I'm sure these boys didn't deserve a kicking, I'm skeptical about door staff pouncing on people for absolutely no reason. Add in the Irish bar connection and the selection of songs your most likely to hear at a six county soccer match, I think we could reasonably assume there was some sort of provocation (not that responding to that kind of provocation should be an acceptable defense).

I have it from a very reliable source, who got it from an owc fan who was in the bar, that the trouble kicked off after a couple of aggressive scumbags from Rathcoole pulled down a tricolour from the wall.  A barman, who is from the south, felt sufficiently intimidated by said scumbags to request help from the bouncers ... the rest, as they say, is history, i.e the poor, innocent self-styled best supporters in the world were battered by those nasty Slovakians from Hostel II

got completely drenched walking from lower lisburn road to royal avenue ... bloody rain's been mad

Aye, well at least we've never lost an All Ireland final to our neighbour

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Great, the RIR, heirs to the UDR, a bunch if murdering, colluding bastards, themselves heirs to the B Specials, a bigoted rabble of scum, being given the right to parade through the city centre just cos unionist councillors labour under the misapprehension that the statelet is as british as finchley ... how many innocent civilians - most of them children - were murdered in an allied airstrike in Afghanistan last week? 80? 90?  And we're supposed to cheer the perpetrators of this? BALLS