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Im on the Novenas hoping for Woy

Fúck no to him, Sam or Moysey..

Nuno I could live with IF Carlo goes and that's not a given either.

Real haven't the nails to scratch their own arse.

CL final, a big up to the referee who didn't blow for all and sundry. Did miss Rutiger taking out KDB but apart from that he let the tackles go and played on if someone was on the deck only for them to miraculously get up once they realised the game was going on anyway.


Chelsea clinical and I think we found out why TAA isn't first choice RB for England. Reece James is the real deal.

Wonder would Southgate push TAA into a more attacking role instead.

Would Ballygalget be the Cloughey area between portaferry and portavogie? Doesnt seem too built uo of an area population wise. Would Ballygalget be a more rural club?

We'd take from the Cloughey area which is now adorned in flegs and so would Ballycran to an extent as well. The demographics in that area has changed significantly since i was a teenager. A lot of new builds in that area have young catholic families in them considering the place had a "Cloughey True blues" pipe band..

We're almost exclusively rural although we take from areas like Cloughey and indeed Portaferry, neither of which are overly big places either.

JC a kind of related but also unrelated question... What club do Kircubben represent? Driving through there at the weekend and saw a load of hurls. I didn't think it would be a hurling stronghold.

The GAA really stood up during this pandemic (at a local level) in terms of loads of GAA clubs delivering stuff to vulnerable people etc and like you say run plenty of community initiatives.

Kircubbin is 80+ % catholic and that's where Ballycran would garner most of their players from. The Orange hall along the shore and the names on some of the local businesses would suggest otherwise but there you go.

Antrim having to travel to Waterford for a playoff game on a Sunday at 12.15 during a pandemic when last year Waterford refused to travel to Antrim for a league game and the game had to be played in Dundalk because of Covid concerns about the North .

Down hurlers had to take two buses for the team to play Kerry. Travelled down in the morning and straight back after the game.

Welcome to being a small fry that no one gives a f**k for.

There is a sense of identity you get with the GAA which you don't get with soccer. It's part of parish, who you are etc. Flying tricolours / playing national anthems has nothing to do with this.

very much so and that's the biggest selling point for the GAA. The community aspect.

Speak to the average protestant in the north and their perception of the GAA is almost like an IRA training camp and the Shinners run every GAA club in the north.

It's what they've been fed for years by their political leadership unchallenged but once they do attend an event or go inside a GAA club they're apprehensive at first but once they see the walls aren't adorned with tricolours or posters of the proclamation at every cut and turn.
We run various weight loss initiatives and dementia workshops who pull in from all sections of the local community and you can almost see the surprise from the local protestants and ones moved into the area that the walls have pictures and of various teams on them and that the nationalist agenda isn't a big thing but irish culture like the sport, language, dance and music are more important.


For me a UI is more important than retaining a tricolour or Amhrán na bhFiann if it came to that.

12.15 throw in. Are teams allowed to travel the night before the game and stay over? Otherwise that is a disgraceful time to have it after that journey.

GAA rules on travelling by bus is that you're only allowed 50% of the normal capacity so Antrim will need two buses and go down that morning.

Down hurlers had to do that against Kerry a few weeks back and ran out of puff in the second half.

Not ideal but I think hotel stays are still prohibited..

Surely a neutral venue midway makes sense to everyone, even in Croke Park FFS.

Is the Howe thing actually happening and if so why has it not been done before now considering he is available?

Is he waiting on one of the premiership jobs? He would be a good fit for the CP job when you consider it.

Apparently he's been waiting for Bournemouth backroom staff and their involvement in the playoffs has been the reason why that has been delayed.

The media seem fairly certain he will be appointed this week.

Not anymore . . .

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/eddie-howe-celtic-collapse-live-24206631

He's got Crystal Palace or even Spurs once Levy fails to pull in a big name.

Family have a farm, never been involved in lamping but I understand why farmers would do it when the foxes start lifting lambs. Locally there used to be a fella who basically did the farmers job for them. Not sure if still in action.

Every rural area has one of those lads;



Our local one was telling me the best way to kill ferrule cats was place a saucer of milk below a flat roof and to get onto the flat roof with a paving stone and once they'd got as many wee heads in the milk to let the paver drop. His record was 5 in the one go!!

Who gave the Clare player names to HSE?

Read somewhere that HSE officials watched a match video and then pinged the two lads by the colours of their helmets..

Is that even believable.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2021/0524/1223694-mcgill-close-contacts-call-came-from-hse/

South of Ireland in the longest lockdown in Europe, minimal figures (comparatively).....to be fair not really much of it about anyway.

Meanwhile India that was in flames just a week ago easing lockdown. These lads are having a laugh.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0528/1224439-coronavirus-global/

Depends on how much you value a human life.

The Caste system is rife in India so the farm workers and the likes are dispensable to the ruling elites.

Solar panels should nearly be mandatory on any new builds at this stage.
They're a no brainer.

Those would be my thoughts. Something is definitely not right but tbh I would have my doubts on the loyalist thing. I just don't see why but it's like anything and is just opinion and speculation. It is beginning to look like that is all there will ever be is opinion and speculation.

Probably a lot of truth in what you say but you always have doubts about the peelers for doing such a poor job of investigating and what motivated them to do such a half arsed job.

To paraphrase....a well known violent drug addicted criminal is able to walk the streets who may have possibly assaulted her son, she got a funny look from a fella on Botanic avenue with her friend, turns out it was him.

So the lad who tried to "fence" the laptop just so happens to be the son of a well connected loyalist and is purely a career petty criminal.

Don't think it's the same lad she walked passed in Botanic but you never know.

Badly.

I presume you're talking about the TV money or the likes, yes, no?