UTV & BBC & RTE & TV3

[Mike Sheehy]

good riddance. Sure, all they would have done for the rest of the year was taken cheap shots at the Munster teams or harped on about "dirty" Meath v Tyrone in 1996. Nordie bias is unreal...and they complain about the Sunday game !!

[comethekingdom]

So ??

[Maguire01]

good riddance. Sure, all they would have done for the rest of the year was taken cheap shots at the Munster teams or harped on about "dirty" Meath v Tyrone in 1996. Nordie bias is unreal...and they complain about the Sunday game !!

Pot. Kettle. Black?
Your only contribution on here seems to be your anti-Tyrone/anti-'Nordie' rants.

[Mike Sheehy]

good riddance. Sure, all they would have done for the rest of the year was taken cheap shots at the Munster teams or harped on about "dirty" Meath v Tyrone in 1996. Nordie bias is unreal...and they complain about the Sunday game !!

Pot. Kettle. Black?
Your only contribution on here seems to be your anti-Tyrone/anti-'Nordie' rants.

and your only contributions seem to be blathering on about politics or licking Tyrones backside. No wonder Monaghan have won nothing.

[Mike Sheehy]

Was it just me or did they ignore Joe Brollys views after the game today???  He was cut off a few times when he tried to give his point of view!!  Looked like Northern discrimination by the RTE IMO!!!

proper order. Sick of listening to the twat....he should just go off to the BBC with his Nordie bias.

[thejuice]

Look, theirs no conspiracy or discrimination, its all on the field. for f**k sake, its only the opinion of some has-beens on RTE. Their might be some rivalry amongst them, between Brollly and Spillane, especially with Pats, justice has been done today which seemed a bit strange. Unless Meath win something this year people might wonder why Colm O'Rourke is even on the panel.

[Any craic]

I'm told there was good coverage last night of Crossmaglen-Ogs on nordie telly. Does anyone know where that was and if you can watch it again? ty

[Carbery]

I'm told there was good coverage last night of Crossmaglen-Ogs on nordie telly. Does anyone know where that was and if you can watch it again? ty

Highlights and Interviews on the Armagh GAA Website
http://www.armagh-gaa.com/Armagh-TV.aspx

[Any craic]

I see the BBC nordies have signed off on their championship coverage for this year as Tyrone are now out !!

Never mind the TV stations ignoring clubs, look at the amount of web video that has cropped up across Ulster in the last while. I make it 5 different counties with some form of video content on their sites.

ARMAGH (from the weekend) - http://www.armagh-gaa.com/Armagh-TV/News/Videos-as-Harps-reach-SFC-Final.aspx//

ANTRIM (from yesterday) - http://antrim.gaa.ie/

DERRY - http://www.cnsports.co.uk/#/live-player/4534631074

DOWN - http://www.downgaa.net/

TYRONE - http://www.tyronegaa.ie/club/football/news/story.jsp?newsid=878

By way of comparison with the tv stations, there's a wee bit of video on the UTV website from Casement...

http://www.u.tv/Sport/Dunloy-keep-championship-title/621c5d5c-649d-4256-8067-6c0e5ae384c5

and 6 videos on the bbc website - all from the Irish League..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/default.stm

and this on the rte site..

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2009/0927/club.html

[orangeman]

Credit where it is due - BBC Newsline sent Thomas Kane and cameras to Dublin airport to welcome home Martin Clarke and Kevin Dyas - nice touch ! Well done.

[Cúig huaire]

Credit where it is due - BBC Newsline sent Thomas Kane and cameras to Dublin airport to welcome home Martin Clarke and Kevin Dyas - nice touch ! Well done.

Well done indeed. Home is where the heart is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/8283646.stm

[Doogie Browser]

Credit where it is due - BBC Newsline sent Thomas Kane and cameras to Dublin airport to welcome home Martin Clarke and Kevin Dyas - nice touch ! Well done.

Well done indeed. Home is where the heart is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/8283646.stm

Martin has the Mountains of Mourne on his shoulders this year, so no pressure!

[DownFanatic]

After five minutes of monotonous sports footage, UTV Live finally got around to reading out the Senior Championship results. Supposedly Kilkeel beat Loughinisland in the Championship. Poor poor journalism.

[Farrandeelin]

What games are on TG4 tomorrow? Will the Galway final replay be on?

[mattielennon]

Gaelic Games and Irish Transport
               By Mattie Lennon               

   
   John Cassidy is a voluntary steward in Croke Park and as such he has witnessed spectacular victories, defeats and draws in football, hurling and camogie.
   He is a Donegal man who won't let you forget that his county won the all-Ireland final in 1992. His day job is as a supervisor with Dublin Bus, one of the CIE  group of companies. In October 2008 he was responsible for bringing CIE Transport Gaels to Gaelic Park, New York, to play teams from the NYPD and FDNY; the first time any CIE team played in America. (In October 2010 he is bringing his team to Boston.)In his memoir he has written of how his childhood interest in Gaelic games was honed, "In McGettigan's field in Clogher" and how, "two older boys would select the opposing teams: every one present was included which meant we often played twenty a side. As our pitch consisted of the entire field this was no problem. With the goalposts (four jackets) in place the game would begin. It would end for one of the following reasons: Hunger, darkness or a pitch invasion by Mc Gettigan's cattle."
   John Cassidy's experiences, literary ability and research skills have been, once again, juxtaposed to bring us his latest publication.
   "Buses, Trains and Gaelic Games" is a history of Gaelic games in Irish transport from 1885 to the present day. The author traces the path of Gaelic football, hurling, handball and camogie teams from the days of Charles Bianconi (the father of public transport, in Ireland) to the twenty-first century.
   Since the foundation of Coras Iompar Eireann (CIE) in 1945 every section of the company, urban and rural, contributed to Gaelic sports and provided players at county, national and international level.
   In his foreword, CIE Chairman John J. Lynch, says, "I deem it a high honour and privilege to be invited to contribute a Foreword to the history of the many CIE G.A.A. clubs nationwide."    He goes on to praise, " . . .  the great sporting bodies within the CIE family " and refers to the fact that their achievements " both on and off the field, testify to the dedication of so many people . . . , which stands as a testimony to the organisational skills and tremendous sense of purpose which CIE has harnessed throughout its existence. Running a sporting organisation is a time consuming business but with the continued voluntary involvement of managers, coaches, administrators, players and supporters CIE will pass on a substantial legacy for future generations to build upon."
   Through, dedication, interviews and the relentless pursuit of source-material the author has given us a comprehensive and colourful account of clubs, teams and individual players associated with Irish transport over the generations. Some of these didn't get the coverage they deserved, from the media, during their careers. One such, who features in this publication, was the most decorated player in the history of Gaelic games. Camogie player Kathleen Mills made her debut with the Great Southern Railway Club, Dublin, in 1938. In 1941 she played for Dublin, when they were beaten by Cork, in the All-Ireland final. She was on the winning Dublin team which beat Cork in 1942 and 1943. She went on to win all-Ireland medals in 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1955. She was Captain when Dublin beat Tipperary in 1957.
   More All-Ireland medals were to follow in 1959, 1960 and 1961. The 1961 final was on her 38th birthday and it was the last time she wore the Dublin jersey. In retirement she was known as "the Christy Ring of the camogie world". She died in August 1996.
   Every parish in Ireland has its sporting heroes and almost every townland has someone who works, or worked, in CIE. And John Cassidy hasn't neglected the "sporting ballad."  Many clubs and individual players are lauded in such compositions as, "Kelly's Heroes", "Thirteen Men From CIE" and "Transport Gaels."  "A Tribute to Sean Kelly" by Christy Fitzgerald immortalises a legend.
Einstein said, "If I knew what I was looking for I wouldn't call it research."  Well, the gems that John Cassidy didn't expect to find in the National Library, publications as diverse as "The Freeman's Journal" and  "Ireland's Eye" and the conversations of ordinary people, are now recorded for posterity between the covers of "Buses, Trains and Gaelic Games".
    This history of Gaelic games in Irish transport over a century and a quarter plus more than a hundred photographs is a book not to be missed.
"Buses, Trains and Gaelic Games" is available (Price €15, including postage) from; Original Writing, Spade Enterprise Centre, North King Street, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
www.originalwriting.ie or you can get an autographed copy from the author, John Cassidy, 4 Ardmore Avenue, Dublin7. And you can  contact him at; johncassidy92@yahoo.com