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#31
Quote from: highorlow on May 17, 2023, 06:49:35 AM
QuoteIS this game on RTE or GAAGO only?

It's on the latter only, hence all the controversy.

Thanks. Not based in Ireland, so only aware of the controversy in an overall sense, not specific games
#32
Don't know where all the expectation coming for a Mayo win.
Mayo with a lot of changes to personnel and system this year. Got training early and did their work early in the league, beating Kerry still on holidays and Tyrone who were very out of sorts; as well as looking very inconsistent in draws to Armagh and Galway.

Would think Kerry will be 4-5 points favourite.

IS this game on RTE or GAAGO only?
#33
Quote from: Eire90 on May 15, 2023, 02:04:53 AM
i dont mind penalties  but alternative could be golden score or first to 2 points

would be pretty tough tho if there's a gale force wind blowing one way
#34
Quote from: RedHand88 on May 15, 2023, 12:28:03 AM
Quote from: armaghniac on May 15, 2023, 12:12:07 AM
Quote from: RedHand88 on May 15, 2023, 12:09:46 AM
I really don't understand where this "penalties have no place in the GAA" nonsense comes from. Name me any sport that doesn't have a tie breaker. It comes across as typical anti- soccer rubbish.

Yes, but a tie breaker could be kicking 45s or throwing the ball up between two players, it does not have to be penalties.

They had this and people complained.

What's the difference in taking 45s and taking penalties, besides the fact that those terrible soccer hooligans have penalty shootouts? That's what this is really all about.

I have no issue with penalties - scoring goals, and scoring goals from penalties have been skills in the GAA for a long time. So have saving goals, and saving penalties. So you get 2 players involved in each action.

I would have loved if they had a free taking competition, from varying angles and distances with the kicks getting progressively more difficult, then back in to easier kicks. But you can only use each player once. Would be very tactical, how much 'risk' you take with the poorer kickers on the easy kicks etc.
#35
General discussion / Re: Drink Driving
May 12, 2023, 04:59:42 AM
Quote from: Dabh on May 11, 2023, 09:30:23 AM
Quote from: Pub Bore on May 11, 2023, 09:20:19 AM
"The current drink-driving limit is a BAC of 50mg. This means 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. For professional, learner and novice drivers the limit is a BAC of 20mg. Most people will have a BAC of 20 to 50mg after 1 standard drink."

From the HSE website.  No one should be driving after 6 alcoholic drinks.

according to Drinkaware.ie the limits for a blood test and a urine test are slightly different
it 67 milligrammes of alcohol per 100ml of urine  

This was urine sample of 414mg of alcohol per 100ml .. so a rough calculation is just over 3 pints would get you there .. not quite 'an enormous amount of alcohol' as the article states.. but i'm sure time & body size etc all affect this.

No one should be driving after half a pint if they want to stay within the law

It's not linear like that. The body processes alcohol at different rates as the volume of alcohol increases.
https://www.verywellmind.com/bac-and-drink-conversions-for-men-by-weight-22481#:~:text=After%2015%20drinks%2C%20the%20BAC,of%20cardiac%20or%20respiratory%20arrest.
Obviously a lot of variables in how each body processes alcohol, but according to this article, a reading of 0.45 is considered fatal for adults.
They talk about 15 drinks for a BAC of 0.3. It is unclear what they are referring to as a drink.

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/business-and-industry/heavy-vehicle-industry/preventing-alcohol-and-drug-related-harm-on-our-roads/employers-and-employees/blood-alcohol-concentration-levels
This article from Victoria in Aus, refers to 9-18 drinks to result in BAC of 0.15-0.30, noting that in Australia a standard drink is defined as 10g of alcohol


A pint of Guinness at 4.2% ABV would be equivalent to 1.83 standard drinks, so 15-18 standards would be somewhere around 8-10 pints.


Noting from both articles, you would be very drunk with a BAC of 0.3
#36
General discussion / Re: Drink Driving
May 11, 2023, 02:57:36 AM
Quote from: joemamas on May 10, 2023, 02:41:26 PM
6 times over.
If accurate, thankfully nobody was hurt or worse.

Indeed. Just clicked on the link in the previous post - from 2016 but definitely a hard watch

Reading that, don't think there are any questions to the accuracy of the result, given a urine sample is more accurate than a breath sample.

The appeal seems to be trying to get this thrown out on a technicality. It appears legal advice at the time wouldn't have changed the fact that the driver was over the limit, and was obliged to submit to a sample, so why not take your medicine and thank your lucky stars it's a drink driving conviction and not a cause serious harm while under the influence, or worse.
#37
General discussion / Re: Who’s Been Cancelled??
March 31, 2023, 12:24:56 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 30, 2023, 07:37:44 AM
Hannon is now media savvy so well able to throw out a statement showing his embarrassment at such a tweet when he was young and stupid and easily led, people develop and learn all the time and change their views regardless of what age they are.

This boxer on reflection at some point may change hers and that's a good thing too. As for her actually having a PR person are you sure she has?

I have no idea whether she has or not, which is why I said
Quotebut surely her agent/PR person/someone in her backroom team would have discussed this with her since October

You don't need a degree in Public Relations (does such a thing exist) to discuss a story about her that was in the news at the time and one that she could have expected to be asked about
#38
General discussion / Re: Who’s Been Cancelled??
March 30, 2023, 12:25:38 AM
People can grow and change opinions / gain more experience and understanding of the world.

People can also throw an opinion out in the ether without fully thinking them through.
The difference as I see it, is that:
- KH opinion was a few months ago and she has not commented publicly on the tweet (afaiaa). Hannon's tweets seem to be ill-adjudged 'banter' between soccer following teenagers from 10 years ago
- If she was misunderstood, she could have either clarified her position, if not, she could have doubled down and explained. I think she panicked in the face of a live interview, but surely her agent/PR person/someone in her backroom team would have discussed this with her since October! She deleted the tweet, so she knew it was contentious.

I think if she said something like "I retweeted something that I took at face value, that later realised was from a non-reliable source. I was drawn to the story of a young girl raped and murdered." then some people would still not be happy, but it would have blown over.
I don't believe her statement issued since the incident goes far enough to clarify either way.

The reason she was so unprepared, is the fact that no journalist has actually asked the question to date (again, afaiaa)

Anyone trying to equate Hannon's tweets from 10 years ago to KH from October, has other motives
#40
General discussion / Re: Oscars
March 13, 2023, 01:36:40 AM
Quote from: dec on March 13, 2023, 12:59:43 AM
An Irish goodbye soon best love action short movie

Took me a while, but have deciphered this

'An Irish Goodbye' won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film
#41
GAA Discussion / Re: Liam Kearns - RIP
March 13, 2023, 01:33:45 AM
Fairly shocking news, he was no age.

Some list of achievements, a true GAA man who gave a lot of his life to the sports

May he rest in peace
#42
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2023
March 09, 2023, 04:14:10 AM
Mayo and Donegal have lost the same number of games at Ballybofey in the last 15 years!
#43
GAA Discussion / Re: GAA club names.
March 01, 2023, 06:13:30 AM
Quote from: Dreadnought on February 28, 2023, 12:03:53 PM
Interesting topic and something I've read up on before. I recall there being 12 protestants who have clubs named after them, and that isn't including Douglas Hyde who has Roscommon's stadium named after him. The 12 are Henry Gratten, Wolfe Tone, Charles Stewart Parnell, Roger Casement, Henry Joy McCracken, John Mitchell, Watty Graham, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Robert Emmett, Thomas Davis, William Smyth O'Brien, and Thomas Russell. Mitchell in there would a contentious one now though.

Closer to home for me, Cavan has some lovely names too. Drung Dalcassians, Drumlane Sons of O'Connell, Mullahoran Dreadnoughts, Maghera MacFinns, Killeshandra Leaguers. A lot of others went by the wayside when you had multiple clubs in a parish and they end up dissolving or amalgamated. Loughduff Millesians, Loughduff Volunteers, Finea Knights of Freedom, Killeshandra Fontenoys, Doogarry Raparees are some who don't exist anymore. Ballyconnell First Ulsters (initially Ballyconnell Joe Biggars) are now called Kildallan too.

Cavan oddly has a few names which are more associated with soccer. Ramor United (which was a uniting of 3 clubs in the same parish), and Laragh United. Lacken Celtic and Cootehill Celtic too. Cootehill also wear green and white hoops, as the club was founded by emigrants returning from Glasgow, and founded the GAA club with a nod to Glasgow Celtic with the name and club colours

and Countess Markievicz. No club (that I am aware of) but Markieivicz Park. She was born into CoI and later converted.
#44
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
February 28, 2023, 11:02:19 PM
Quote from: seafoid on February 27, 2023, 08:01:50 PM
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2023/02/27/six-nations-johnny-sexton-among-those-to-be-back-in-ireland-training-after-injury/

The knee injury sustained by Finlay Bealham in the first half in Rome has ruled him out of the remainder of the tournament. The Connacht prop had started every match in the Six Nations to date in Tadhg Furlong's absence.

Terrible for Bealham. Has been waiting a long time for a chance like this, and was taking his chance very well.
#45
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2023
February 28, 2023, 10:59:35 PM
Quote from: rodney trotter on February 28, 2023, 09:26:11 PM
Quote from: balladmaker on February 28, 2023, 08:47:46 PM
McGeeney made an interesting suggestion a few weeks ago ref. the league being a great competition, said he'd love to see it in a home and away format with 14 games.  That would be some league in fairness, though the calendar couldn't accommodate it as it currently stands.

If it was a 14 game League ,what type of Championship would it be? Teams are guaranteed to play 5 games in the Championship this year with the new system. Split season won't be changed.

The AFl is played as home and away 22 games March to September. But that is their focus. Gaa players have club games too.

Would love to see an AFL type system with a league and then finals. Every game would mean so much more.
The problem is the AFL has equalisation which (in theory anyways) allows for every team making the finals when it reaches their 'turn' on the cycle. That wouldn't be possible in GAA so you would have counties that never get there.
The teams that are up/down between divisions would spend a lot of years finishing bottom half of the division and no finals games.

So we need to take the pros (more games at similar level, meaningful games leading into finals) and try and plan out the cons (mismatch / equalisation / min number of games)