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Westmeath v Cavan match tickets sold out in 5 minutes

If any Cavan people got one, they can resell at a profit on the dark web.

Roscommon are now 5th favourites for the All-Ireland at 16/1, after Galway and Armagh 11/1.
Tyrone are 25/1

I had typed yerra earlier but I deleted it haha.

If this game was in Croker I'd be a lot more confident but with us having very poor support now and the Hyde will be noisy.

Re Tyrone's team there is still a few injuries about I've heard but hopefully we get a big game from K&K at midfield and McKernan and McGeary start getting back to themselves. Mattie was excellent v Armagh and hopefully Jordan kicks on from his good league showing.

What bookie is offering Armagh at 11/1 ?

I'd be interested in this also, as you only get 6/1 on Betfair. Not so good as 2024, when I got 33/1 on Betfair 

Perhaps 11/2 was intended, as usual Kerry are not great value. 

Times for TV, no consideration of supporters!!

Supporters want different things and only Mayo people have a really long journey in that list.

Presumably lost it in the sun.

No risk of that in Clones.

The Mick Lyons school of full backs is lookinh on, shaking their head!!

you wouldn't see Francie Bellew on Love Island!

55 years ago George Best made an eejit of Gordon Banks
https://x.com/fodboldword/status/2055318538949185997

Regardless we will always have 2023, and before that there's been a few to Monaghan's favour, the first championship game after the AI victory, next a qualifier win in Clones, only memorable for it's absolute drudgery (ie. except for Paul Finlay's winning point).
Then the one when Banty stuck a young Darren Hughes in goal, Armagh down to 14. Banty struck again in the Covid semi final against a very decent Armagh team. Any victories by Armagh have been memory wiped.

And you won the last one in 1938 and it played in Armagh. We can reverse that result now when you have home advantage, but not by 10 points.

Didn't read the article but a friend of mine his daughter wanted to go to Trinity or UCD not sure which one, but he said that she could only get in if there was any spaces available after the locals took theirs..

Purely anecdotal, just in case   

Not true
Son went to trinity so can speak from experience
Daughter applied for ucd  and was also accepted but ended up at queens as mates didn't go to Dublin
Reality for the good degrees  in ucd/ trinity you need 4  a levels but tbf you need a serious high number of points in the south also .

Should nationalist politicians be looking at stuff like that and making it more accessible to students from the six counties to study at southern universities?  That's a simple, practical step they could try to do.


And on that, I know a lad who's son was trying to get registered as a teacher in the south. He wanted to live in Dublin.  Qualified in St. Mary's, Belfast but the hassle and grief he was put through to get registered with the Teaching Council was unreal. He said it'd be easier to get registered if you were from Australia.


He said the grilling and paperwork he had to put in was crazy. Ironic thing is, he said, is that there's a severe shortage of teachers in the south, especially in Dublin and commuter belt areas on the eastern seaboard.

Again, this is an area tht nationalist politicans should be working on - making it more accessible to northerners.

College entry is not a real problem, teaching recognition is. Yet, these politicians rarely do anything as useful as this.

Why not? At 15 I knew loads of things I didn't want to study any further.

Perhaps your judgement at 15 is not the best.

I'm not arguing that one is better than the other, but that works both ways. It could be easily argued that the Leaving Cert doesn't prepare its students well enough in more specialist degrees.

Specialist degrees should provide specialist material, this degree of specialisation should not be happening at schools.

Maybe the uncertainty of getting the course you want due to the timing the cost of living and being classed as a foreigner is keeping people from the north of the island away..

Nobody is classed as a foreigner. Some people would be uncertain about their course, but if their grades are well clear of the points required that uncertainty is largely hypothetical.

Accommodation more expensive in the south yeah, but the fees are almost half. 

And much less than half when compared to England.

The results thing is a definite issue, as Leaving Cert results in the 26 counties have been greatly delayed in recent years.

But it is down to poor career guidance in many cases. You get people who will apply to TCD and UCD, but not to DCU, Maynooth or TUID, Sliog or Letterkenny, and will then pay €9000 to go to some ex polytech in England.

That's a weird way to measure it, surely it should just be from how far behind they were.

Armagh against Down last week, Armagh were 3 down early on and won by 28 so 31 point comeback there.

Fair point, I suppose I didn't really think of being 3 points behind as a notable thing.

The whistle had blown well in advance of Comer further fouling and then interfering with the Roscommon player who was in possession of the ball. This was exactly why the 50m punishment was introduced.

Exactly. It showed poor judgement by Comer, a bit like the Derry player who give Beggan the chance for the last minute free in extra time in the Derry-Monaghan game.

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What has been the maximum difference of a winning team from the point when they were further behind to when their final winning score?

Armagh v Dublin 14/03/26 : 13 Armagh 11 points behind, 2 point victory