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4k in Carrick* and De Páirc. About what you'd expect at those 2 fixtures.
Dungarvan just over 1k, probably about what you'd expect.
Didn't see any figures for Leinster where crowds have been declining for years in a one team Competition.
Cavan v Monaghan was a pretty poor turn out for a fixture which regularly drew 5 figure crowds.

*€30 for a stand seat was a disgrace for a Qtr Final. No wonder the Stand was half empty.

I was on the hill in Clones and there was hardly a Monaghan fan around me. Maybe they were all in the stand but it felt like there was more Cavan support at the match?

Would the lower cost of the hill have attracted more Cavan supporters. 

And it is nearer Cavan.

Didn't see any figures for Leinster where crowds have been declining for years in a one team Competition.

The likes of Kildare and Meath should have substantial numbers of supporters and have had in the past, but now lack any sense of championship.
However, a few Wicklow people will likely turn out for the Kildare game.

"In December 2023, public sector jobs as a proportion of the population were 11.7%, which compares to 8.8% for the UK as a whole."
So,what do these extra people do?

[40% civil service workplace]

Dublin has pretty much created an all-island economy, kept north in EU single market, got EU to already approve unification, so that the process will be more seamless. It's building an energy connector to France, and supplying whole island with one grid. As I said, the North has to do its bit too and start reducing a 40% civil service workplace. And actually decide they are Irish become the last census was pretty lame with 29% Irish only. Are the 20% "Northern Irish only" unity supporters or Our Wee Country supporters? Would be nice to see more who see themselves as Irish. Even tne worst west Brit Free Stater knows they are Irish.

Where does that figure come from?

There are approx. 23,000 civil servants in the north - just below 3% of the workforce.

The public sector as a whole is about ten times larger, but still comes in at only ~27% of the workforce up here.

Meant public sector which is almost half the private sector workforce (220,000 to 595,000) compared to the South 350,000 to 2,300,000. 27% overall, correct there Ed.

That is just not sustainable in a UI and it's up to the North to ready itself for unity too and start changing that ratio.

Are all teachers, doctors and nurses in the South regarded as public sector?

Yes. However I don't know what all the extra public servants are actually doing in the North. It's not in education or nursing because republic has 5x more teachers and 4x more Nurses for a population of 5m versus 1.9m.

It would he hugely interesting for someone to identify where this surplus is, if it exists.

Dublin has pretty much created an all-island economy, kept north in EU single market, got EU to already approve unification, so that the process will be more seamless. It's building an energy connector to France, and supplying whole island with one grid. As I said, the North has to do its bit too and start reducing a 40% civil service workplace. And actually decide they are Irish become the last census was pretty lame with 29% Irish only. Are the 20% "Northern Irish only" unity supporters or Our Wee Country supporters? Would be nice to see more who see themselves as Irish. Even tne worst west Brit Free Stater knows they are Irish.

The question is now economic as much as anything else. SF will talk plenty, but when FG have their next budget they'll criticise them for putting too much money aside and they'll do nothing to sort out public spending in NI.

Hamas has allowed Fatah protest and rallies in Gaza so what you suspect is wrong.

Fair enough, some protest have taken place.

Yes, I doubt very much they like Israelis and especially zionists after 75 years of occupation but that does lead to the points outlined in the graphic.

Let's say that it is easier to go to a mosque in Israel than to a synagogue in Gaza.

There is only one side committing a genocide, occupying, expanding settlements, creating an apartheid system and its not the Palestinians.

This reflects capacity more than attitude.

you are one excusing Israel, the graphic has been shown to be a joke!

also my points are about your comment about weather the Israelis are the same, not the graphic.

the graphic says the palestinan but I  just looked at a few pieces from Hamas who you consider evil, in their charter state the following points

[1] Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage

2. Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. It provides an umbrella for the followers of other creeds and religions who can practice their beliefs in security and safety.

3. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine.

4. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.

5. Hamas believes in, and adheres to, managing its Palestinian relations on the basis of pluralism, democracy, national partnership, acceptance of the other and the adoption of dialogue. The aim is to bolster the unity of ranks and joint action for the purpose of accomplishing national goals and fulfilling the aspirations of the Palestinian people.

In 2015 they offered a 15 year ceasefire... Fatah would have similar opinions but work closely with the Israelis which only cements the unjust status quo.

That's a fair response, However, you have often pointed out that Israel say one thing and do another. Hamas says one thing, but their actions suggest otherwise. There are anti Netanyahu protests in Isreal at present, I suspect there never been possibility of an anti Hamas protest and since they took power there has been a notable lack of an election which might allow the population give a view on their performance. If they persecute Fatah voters in Gaza, one suspects that they might not be kind to Jewish people.

If Cavan never won another Ulster for 40 years they'd still have won more than anyone else.

Likewise if we never won an All Ireland again, we'll still have 5 more than Monaghan.

😂

Tell that to the fans taking the train to Clones tomorrow.

only for the pig ignorant.

hardly surprising coming from a poster that recently said Hamas were evil but 'the question has been whether the Israelis are much the same'..

this despite to name a few,  the nakba where 750k were mass displaced and dispossessed and thousands killed never to return as per their legal right of return. Operation cast lead, protective edge, the thousand murdered and maimed on the great march, the thousands of illegal settlements, murders, displacements in the West Bank, Israel also enable Hamas to rise to split the palestinans...

the graphic is a piece of garbage.

The graphic above does not excuse the Israelis, so what you say above does not counter render it inappropriate.
There is no doubt that US arms has provided greater capability to the Israelis, hence the above.

Presumably, you believe that the right hand side does not apply to Palestinians, and you can show why it doesn't rather than just making comments about the poster.

False equivalence if you ask me. The one on the left is accurate.

Unfortunately, they are both accurate in general.

[I don't like Brolly, that my prerogative]

No, I didn't see the earlier bit or know about it. Why have MDMA still there, if he had said his bit? I don't like Brolly, that my prerogative. He craves attention. His stories are renowned for the I was talking to such and such and that was the magic formula for winning the AI.
I understand you are from Derry and have a different perspective or Loyalty. And good for you!

The format of the Late Late is that the first guest stays on and plays a small part in the subsequent discussion. Brolly is a bit of  a windbag, but the format of the show was what you would expect.

On this day 50 years ago, ABBA won the Eurovision and Agnetha Fältskog was admired by teenage boys everywhere.

Good graphic posted on Slugger

Are we done with  the Dylan talk?

I had thought of doing  Nirvana next , as   yesterday was the 30th anniversary  of Kurt Cobain's death, and all that Tyrone talk.

I suppose that the difference is that owing to Cobain's demise that there are not as well known songs to choose from as the Beatles etc.

[There is only one GAA]

Will he ask about the embarrassing legal threat to Supermacs over the April Fools joke?

They'll not apologise for clamping down on ambush marketing and rightly so.

They'd want to pick and choose their battles.
Corporate Croke Park against a homegrown company that is a big GAA sponsor isn't likely to win much popular support.

Who is "corporate Croke Park"? There is only one GAA and these people are charged with protecting the brand to raise revenue for all of us. Supermacs should be undermining the brand in this way and would likely be just as protective of anyone using their brand.

Unfortunately I don't think that's true. Peter McKenna runs Croke Park as a corporate entity, there to make money, and as far as I can see he couldn't care less whether it's Taylor Swift or an All-Ireland final that's booked in, as long as it brings in the cash.
He's as far removed from the local club volunteers as it's possible to be.
I mention Peter McKenna as he's the name I know, but presumably there's a large team of people involved.

Peter McKee a does what he us told to do, which includes bringing in more money, which then makes its way to local clubs.
It us fine to say that he should d stop trying to make money, if you are happy to raise that money some other way or do without.