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What would be so wrong with them walking down with children in Armagh jersies?

Look forward to seeing that lol

Of course always two sides to things, but Bannigan is pissed off and rightly so. Fair play to him for speaking his mind but noise like this rarely tends to benefit the team.

He says 2 older players wanted change and went to the county board and he had a load of lads ringing him after he was pushed out saying we didn't know we needed to go to the county board in support of you, if we had known then we would have 100%.

A clearly concerted social media campaign from nationalist politicians to have RTE overturn their 'decision' to geoblock the fight in the 6c.

Who wants to tell them

It shouldn't be blocked. Simple as.

[What can be learned from their effort to improve ours]

Yes 60 % is right up there with paisley juniors supermajority crap. 50%+1 is enough the problem is if you include the neither in the polling then it's never getting above 45%. Ie a supermajority by stealth. The unionist tally could drop to 35 % in 10 yrs yet a poll still wouldn't happen as all the middle ground gets conveniently lumped in with pro status quo.

So you'd be confident that a poll showing 50+1 % is worth doing? And like the the Scottish one, set it back for 10, 20 years again? 2014 was the Scottish referendum 55% to 45% loss for independence, the Scots were confident late on that it would go through at the time as polls showed a very slight lead the days before..

When do the Scots go to the polls again? What can be learned from their effort to improve ours

Personally I'd prefer to wait 20 years and it defo go through than having to deal with the disappointment and smugness if it doesn't go through

For me, 50+1% is a recipe for disaster approach

What lost it for the Scots was the absolute landslide of last minute scaremongering around financial issues like pensions/trade/currency/benefits/national debt/EU membership etc etc.

Those issues for the most part don't apply in this instance as the 6 counties won't be going 'out on our own' but would be joining a hugely successful economy, which is part of a wealthy and relatively successful* trading bloc.  We are almost guaranteed to be financially better off.

The only scaremongering that will carry any water in this referendum is below:

Orange issues (will only frighten the bigots)
NHS (crumbling anyway)
Loss of dual access to trade (which the bigots want rid of anyway)

Anyone with a brain cell will see this for what it is.

NHS is a big one, but anyone with a brain will see the way it's going, pensions another one, plus dole/dla. The scaremongering needs to be all countered with the actual facts, if you're looking at it logically it's a no brainer. We're too small of an island for separate entities.

Any agreement to let them down the road will be seen as another trip back to the 90's, they'll not be able to do it with dignity or grace, the triumphalism would be too much to listen to, impossible for them to to do it to whatever stipulations are put forward

Id said earlier if it happens parades will be opened up all over the place, place is a shit show

c***ts had Newry totally shutdown last Saturday for near enough the whole day. They've a right to parade unfortunately but stick to Protestant areas and minimise disruption to people and businesses.

Can't wait for the Easter parade in Markethill next year

Give these c***ts an inch and they'll take a mile

Joyce did say his aim was an AI when he took over, and it was seen as ambitious, but were Dublin not in their pomp at the time and people were resigned to their dominance? Kerry and Mayo were seen as the legitimate challengers. So while expectation did rise in this tenure, the football landscape has changed dramatically too. It's a much more open competition. Not saying he may not have improved them, but I don't think this current Galway team would stay with prime Dublin. And they played some poor stuff at times too. Time will tell if he overachieved or was actually the wrong man at the right time.

They probably got a kind enough run to the final in 2022, scrapped past an Armagh side on penalties who weren't that fancied and obviously Derry were a decent side but you'd have taken them before the big 2. Final could have went either way and ended up a shootout between 2 superstars. 2023 they lost to a poor Mayo. 2024 they did well beating Dublin and McGuinness' Donegal, the final was there to be won although I just had a feeling all day we weren't gonna lose it, they'll look back on that one with huge regret. 2025 and 2026 losing to Meath and Dublin was poor work for a team with AI ambitions. 

Quit blocking RTE would be a start

Farage and his buddies well caught. Will they get into bother though, the p***k seems like teflon same as Trump. The brain dead pricks that vote for both don't care about the corruption

How true the theory among some Galway people and certain journalists that Joyce was holding Galway back will be seen now by whoever they bring in as his replacement.

Well the current group of players are past the point where they can win Sam now.
Conroy will retire whilst Walsh and Comer are past their best. We have been poor at underage generally for a while so don't have the quality coming up to replenish the team unfortunately.
We got a lot of players off the u20 AI winning team of 2020 but haven't won Connacht since and have not won a Connacht minor since 2018 either (albeit won the AI through the back door in '22).
We might not have got over the line but we were nowhere near AI contenders when Pj took over.

I remember when Joyce came in he said he was there to win an All Ireland, thought at the time they were miles away, but the talent was definitely there and could very easily have won either of the 2 finals. The years outside of that were very poor though.

[However, there is a danger of conflating demand for a border poll with the need to prepare for one which is going to happen.No one is arguing or demanding one before the next British and Irish elections, but that's no reason not to prepare for one – primarily the job of the Irish government, and Martin refuses to do it because a successful poll is the end of Fianna Fáil.]

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/09/02/michael-mcdowell-andy-burnham-is-right-holding-a-poll-to-test-the-waters-on-unity-should-be-off-the-table/

Good article from a man in favour of unity.

Here's an even better one. From a man who's actually done some spadework in promoting reunification:
"https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/brian-feeney-sooner-or-later-the-answer-to-our-problems-has-to-be-a-border-poll-DEMNDE6HQVGF5EPBG577EWGQTE/"


"...In the last decade, southern governments – now it seems the forever government of FFG – increasingly distanced themselves from northern nationalists, epitomised by Micheál Martin's stance.

The louder the clamour for a referendum, the more it drives Martin bananas, he says.

Of course it's nonsense that a reunification referendum is a matter for the proconsul of the day.
It will only be called "if it seems likely" a majority want reunification. That means a prime minister has decided to end the UK, which is a very big deal indeed.

However, there is a danger of conflating demand for a border poll with the need to prepare for one which is going to happen.
No one is arguing or demanding one before the next British and Irish elections, but that's no reason not to prepare for one – primarily the job of the Irish government, and Martin refuses to do it because a successful poll is the end of Fianna Fáil.

In the meantime, no, there's no "route to some sort of progress we can all buy into", because, like Belgium and other divided states, a large proportion of the population doesn't believe in the legitimacy of the state, let alone how to run it.
What makes the prospect of a crisis more acute, is the culpable ignorance of the British prime minister and the taoiseach's refusal to prepare for constitutional change, equally unforgivable."

Martin isn't refusing to prepare for reunification.

There is a sovereign fund with over 12bn and growing explicitly for the reunification tab. The most senior civil servant is working on the Shared Ireland initiative full time.

MM is a wet fart, but Feeny is wrong here

He went on a bitter rant just last week about how talk of planning for border polls "drives him bananas" and, again, was not "tripped up" when he refused to say he was a persuader for unity. Rather, his comments have been in step with every utterance he's ever made about it. In the same interview, he suggested that reconciliation be a pre-requisite for a border poll - a position totally at odds with the GFA with the sole aim of making a border poll absolutely unachievable. If the same pre-condition was laid down for the GFA referendum, it still wouldn't have been signed to this day. He is also on record as insisting, repeatedly, that his "shared Ireland" fund is not about prepping for unity. If anything, as Brian Feeney has pointed out, it essentially duplicates much of the work that is already supposed to be done by the GFA's NSMC.

The only body that can make the necessary preparations for a border poll and who can make plans for an Ireland post-border poll that will carry any real weight in the conversion, is the Irish Government. And Micheal Martin has made it repeatedly clear that he wants nothing to do with it.

Be interesting to see who's in charge after Meehole. A halfway decent FF leader and there'll be serious pressure for a border poll within the next decade.

As for reconciliation, you're never going to bring the mongrel class of loyalist along, you can only work with the ordinary decent people and dispel their genuine concerns, clowns like Bryson will only try to incite violence when push comes to shove.

James from South Armagh opened the show today. He had to say he was from South Armagh about 10 times lol. So no surprise then when he was keen for Orangemen to walk anywhere they wanted. When Nolan asked him if it would be ok for a republican band to to go up the shankill his answer was of course no because the residents wouldn't want it lol. Nolan just let that comment go instead of hammering the hypocrisy of it. Bryson shit stirring as always and not even hiding the fact the initial drumcree proposal is not a resolution and that they will try for more and more

Thats wild

Whenever Micheal Martin stands down the Irish Government should go full scale preparation for Unity.  There is a strong possibility after AE2027 that there will be more MLAs in favour of a United Ireland than those opposed to it. If the Irish Government continue to ignore the issue then I would really love to see SF/SDLP/PBP walk out of Stormont and head straight to Dail Eireann and demand action.  That couldn't be ignored! I know the Brits are still in  charge,  but until The Irish government stand up  nothing will ever change.

They aren't ignoring it. They are taking a long view. The Shared Island thing is bubbling away.

MM might have said what he said, but reality is a slow building of the groundwork.

MM is a tube. But yes plenty going on in the background.

I didn't argue against anything.
Just stated a fact.
If I was to keep repeating "Border poll now" maybe the Army Council would appoint me leader of Sinn Féin?

Gobshite...

The end of the handpassed point is a massive positive.

Why?
Actually see the fisted point as a skill .

Me too. Some of the best scores you'll see are well worked fisted points. Just thinking of 2 brilliant ones that stick out, Mayo's insurance score in this years final and the one Turbo got at the end of the Armagh Kerry semi in 2024 after Rians brilliant kickpass

Obviously they were both similar in that they were breakaway points when the other team was chasing the game, but Armagh have had plenty this year from memory after well worked attacks.