Is it 's or s'?

[Fuzzman]

What a thread. 5 pages from 10.15pm to 1.54am all about spelling and grammar.
Yisin's' are wile craick Hi, so yis are, aye!

Poor O'Neill's, up at 5.50 must have got a wile gunk!

Doesn't say much for the interest in the national leagues though.

[Farrandeelin]

Also "could've went" drives me bananas.

I've seen more "I seen" written down as well.

[Main Street]

Can we agree that the club in Derry, Padraig Pearse's GAC, would be Pearse's Midfielder, while the club in Galway, Padraig Pearses GAA Club, would be Pearses' midfielder?

A club is singular, a team is plural.
Club is named Padraig Pearse,  the team is also named Padraig Pearse
It is a nice club and they're a good team

Pearse's away dressing room stinks of vomit.
Pearses' goalkeeper is a giant.


Regarding "Padraig Pearses"  I wouldn't have agreed to that name, not a good name.

This thread has lost the run of itself.

[AZOffaly]

The clubs I am talking about are not named Padraig Pearse though. They are explicitly and clearly named Padraig Pearses.

They might be wrong, as I mentioned before, but that's the way they are named.

[PW Nally]

In our own little way we are all Padraig Pearses.

[Hardy]

A club is singular, a team is plural.

What?

[AZOffaly]

Leave it so. Just leave it so.

[weareros]

Might be better solved by taking Saint Patrick as an example.
There's lots of "Saint Patrick's cathedrals" which is the equivalent of lots of "Padraic Pearse's GAA clubs", correctly spelled St. Patrick's and Padraic Pearse's - one too has to be careful with the use of a word and the mention of a word, thus the quotes.
Saint Patrick was a man
Padraic Pearse was a man
They had churches and GAA clubs named after them.
Their followers were often religious and passionate people but fairly poor at grammar.

[Esmarelda]

Also "could've went" drives me bananas.

I've seen more "I seen" written down as well.

What's wrong with it?

[Hardy]

Also "could've went" drives me bananas.

I've seen more "I seen" written down as well.

I'm waiting for "could of went". It won't be long.

[ONeill]

What needs to be done is a renaming of everything.

[Hardy]

OK. I'm gonna a be Johann Sebastian Shakespeare.

[Main Street]

The clubs I am talking about are not named Padraig Pearse though. They are explicitly and clearly named Padraig Pearses.
They might be wrong, as I mentioned before, but that's the way they are named.

Got you.
The Derry club's official name is the one that's on the club constitution, in gaelic. 
2.  The official Name of the Club shall be
AN CUMANN LÚTHCHLEAS GAEL
___________ the English version of which shall be
____________G.A.A. Club.

I assumed the club, CLG Pádraig Mhic Piarais Cill Ria  was called Patrick Pearse in english  and the full official english version being Patrick Pearse's  GAA club Kilrea.  The club is singular.

[AZOffaly]

The one in Derry is called, in English, Padraig Pearse's GAC.

The one in Roscommon, Galway and every other example I looked at, is called Padraig Pearses GAA Club.

The Limerick club is called Na Piarsaigh.

[joemamas]

I am consistently annoyed at the amount of people that misuse the apostrophe every single day

This one wouldn't annoy me too much. What annoys me is the use of Their, There, They're.

One I always have to think about when writing it, is 'it's/its'.

It's a lovely day
Its colour.

Well it annoys me no end, almost as much as having missed this debate up until this point.
I think you're all right. I was with FOSB but I think Moysider makes a good point too. The problem is that the club made a balls of naming themselves.

I'm delighted to see so many posters having a very good grasp of the almost discarded apostrophe.

Mixing up Your and You're unforgivable. Seeing businesses make mistakes with the apostrophe in advertisements and the like and people adding an apostrophe before the s just for the craic in a professional setting are pretty bad.

Financial Director in my last place started every email with 'Guy's'

In the end I pulled her on it. Couldn't take it any more.

In the past, when I was sending emails to multiple parties, I was not sure how to begin salutation, if it was two I would go with "Dear Jack and Jill, if it was three I would use a ,
more than that I would go with "Hi everyone" or "To all", which sounded a bit too formal/bossy for my liking.