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#21

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Applesisapples - Today at 10:57:24 AM

Another example of Tyrone being refereed differently again. How can one be a yellow card and the other black?

Did you see the whole incident or just what we seen on the telly?

To be fair the BBC could not find why there was 1 black and 1 yellow appeared bizzarre, a big call that impacted on the game. Do you know why?

I only seen what the telly showed, as did most? My thinking is the the Tyrone man pulled him to the ground and what we seen was the grabbing each about on TV

Is that a black card?

#22

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by tonto1888 - Today at 10:54:31 AM

For all the blather about "Michelle and Emma" and a bright future for NI, it's 2024 and the British are still trying to suppress the truth.  25 people involved in this murder, most of whom were loyalist touts, RUC and UDR members.

Excellent programme that showed the devastation visited on families during the Troubles.

And one active member of the RIR allegedly..

Is your man Swinger Fulton still alive?

He "hung himself" in prison

#23

GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game

Last post by Armagh18 - Today at 10:53:43 AM

The problem is not too many games on the same day though. Why do you need to spread out completely different counties playing?

As a neutral I wouldn't have minded watching both Mayo vs Rossies and Cavan vs Tyrone. But not the end of the world that there was a clash. 

#24

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by 93-DY-SAM - Today at 10:48:55 AM

For all the blather about "Michelle and Emma" and a bright future for NI, it's 2024 and the British are still trying to suppress the truth.  25 people involved in this murder, most of whom were loyalist touts, RUC and UDR members.

Excellent programme that showed the devastation visited on families during the Troubles.

And one active member of the RIR allegedly..

Is your man Swinger Fulton still alive?

He is dead over 20 years ago. Rotting in hell.

#25

Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by Truth hurts - Today at 10:48:22 AM

This is a fantastic opportunity to make it to an Ulster final, so I hope there is a lot of support on Saturday night.

#26

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by johnnycool - Today at 10:39:58 AM

For all the blather about "Michelle and Emma" and a bright future for NI, it's 2024 and the British are still trying to suppress the truth.  25 people involved in this murder, most of whom were loyalist touts, RUC and UDR members.

Excellent programme that showed the devastation visited on families during the Troubles.

And one active member of the RIR allegedly..

Is your man Swinger Fulton still alive?

[Powerful programme but don't think anything that wasn't already in the public domain came out of it.]

#27

GAA Discussion / Re: Murder of a GAA Chairman

Last post by 93-DY-SAM - Today at 10:33:09 AM

I knew a lot of the story but what got me was the State going after the Coroner, a respected senior judge, for revealing to the families the number of state agents involved.

Powerful programme but don't think anything that wasn't already in the public domain came out of it. Still very important for the family to keep this in the headlines and keep the pressure on.

Wasn't only the cameras on the police station in Toome that weren't working that night, some of the 'locals' in Bellaghy also had mysterious malfunctions.

Horrible times.

There may not have been anything new in it to anyone who knew anything about this. But, I bet many people in the South from both GAA and non-GAA backgrounds probably didn't know much about this story, if anything. In particular the level of a dirty war that was being engaged by the Brits against Northern Catholics and the steps they went to to cover this up. Right the way to the top of the British government. But sure then it was all in our heads!

The utmost respect for the Brown family for what they had to endure at that time and in the intervening years since.

#28

General discussion / Re: Things that make you go Wh...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 10:32:22 AM

A friend of mind works dealing with benefit claims, she does England mostly, she says it's amazing how rude these folk are, how clued in they are, how persistent they are, how confrontational they are, she says when she clearly identifies fraud and passes it to her line manager more than not it is ignored - no wonder the country if fucked!

I've said before, these people work dam hard at not working, the levels of understanding the benefit system is way above the actual people working in it

I remember being at a garage on the Shankill years ago, guy was filling up his rather new BMW, he was chatting away to a fella in the shop telling him he was heading to the dole who were interviewing him for the DLA renewal.

He was basically covered in shit, clothes were hanging on him and he smelt of booze, told him that it works every time and they never keep more than 5 minutes due to the smell.

This isn't taking away from multi national companies not paying full tax btw 

#29

GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game

Last post by imtommygunn - Today at 10:31:07 AM

The problem is not too many games on the same day though. Why do you need to spread out completely different counties playing?

#30

GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game

Last post by seafoid - Today at 10:25:17 AM

We need a separate hurling and football show, both 2 hours long especially at this stage of the season where there are so many games each weekend. The hurling show could be on Sunday night with football on Monday or vice versa. That would mean we could see proper highlights and allow for analysis which isn't rushed. That said we need better pundits than cavanagh and staunton who are both dismal.

The problem is that everything is squeezed into less space. There is nothing and there is too much


Just this weekend we had Cork v Kerry, derry vs Donegal, Tyrone v Cavan,  Cork vs Waterford, Clare vs Limerick , Dublin v Wexford as bangers plus a few others

With a longer season these could be spread out