What I love about All-Ireland Sunday

[Barney]

Come on lads even a Mayo man loves the whole occasion!

[haveaharp]

Come on lads even a Mayo man loves the whole occasion!

Climbing up onto the roof of the house to fix the aerial so we could get rid of the snow on rte wasn't one of the highlights.

[orangeman]

The buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz outside Quinns  !

[Shamrock Shore]

As a nipper always looked fwd to being Eddie Keher or Liam 'Chunky' O'Brien after the game out in the back field.

Was nealry always in the aunts for the football in the 70s if I wasn't at the game. She was posh cos she had a colour telly when we barely had a black and white one!

[Kerry Mike]

What I love about All-Ireland Sunday.......Winning Sam

[magickingdom]

nearly always stay in dublin the sunday night if kerry are in the all ireland. i love the hour/hour and a half after the match hanging around croker as the place empties and taking it all in, the whole season is done and dusted then. think its great..

[the Deel Rover]

nearly always stay in dublin the sunday night if kerry are in the all ireland. i love the hour/hour and a half after the match hanging around croker as the place empties and taking it all in, the whole season is done and dusted then. think its great..

funny enough magickingdom i can't get out of the place fast enough

[From the Bunker]

nearly always stay in dublin the sunday night if kerry are in the all ireland. i love the hour/hour and a half after the match hanging around croker as the place empties and taking it all in, the whole season is done and dusted then. think its great..

funny enough magickingdom i can't get out of the place fast enough

Yeah, i also have had the same experience, strange that!

[stew]

Flying home for AI finales. Going to the 02 final and enjoying every second of the day up until the hour before the minor match, then nerves kicked in and i didnt think I would make it into to park I was that hyped up.

Sitting in Croker in awe at it's splendor and thinking back to the times I have sat in this stadium with relatives, die hard fans all some of whom are sadly gone and sitting back and drinking in the atmosphere and colour that makes this the most special of days.

Watching your heroes play the shirts of their backs against the greatest foe they have ever faced and despite much adversity in the first half go on to win the AI for the first time ever.

I remember tears, thoughts for those who never lived to see this day and absolute joy, more tears and then shock sat in on the way home.

The people lining the streets from Dublin to Armagh to share in our joy and then arrival in the City to see thousands upon thousands going mental on the streets celebrating.

Straight down to the club where you could hardly move and the game was on again and I got to relive the game again and the pints of black are flowing like water. Nobody seems to believe that we won it, we did.

In 03 I was excited and had 2 tickets but gave them to my brother in law who had followed Tyrone all year and not missed a game, I had a bad feling about this game and so it proved. I remember being angry at the end not because we lost but because of the way we lost but nothing was ever going to touch 02, nothing will ever come close again  for me.

For AIF we are not involved in I usually head down to Chicago to Gaelic Park and make a weekend out of it, take in a baseball game and head out for a nice steak and a few pints and then the next morning get a irish breakfast and settle in to watch the game on the big screen and support the Ulster team if there is one involved  or the underdog and then we head home.

[donegal gael]

the anticipation and tension the last 20 mins before the game.. the coulour and noise when both teams run out onto the field

[we are blue... etc]

Me ma dishing up the dinner and saying "what's your man saying" the whole way through the minor match.

[The Real Laoislad]

Waving at the Kilkenny fans if they lose driving home thru Durrow 
We hate the Cats in Durrow

[The Real Laoislad]

We hate the Cats in Durrow

The sneaky wee bastards.

Durrow is only yards from the Kilkenny border we hate them Kilkenny feckers

[darbyo]

My own county hasn't been in an AI in my lifetime but I've been to most of the hurling and all of the football finals over the past 10 - 15 years, there the best days of the year, no contest. When your part of All-Ireland day you know your part of something very unique.

[Tyrones own]

For me, i think it's the flying home for the weekend and running into lads that i haven't seen
for years, school days etc, of course it helps when Tyrone are in the Final.
The atmosphere in Dublin is 2nd to none on AIF day.