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I heard snatches of the game on satellite radio which ended as soon as Monaghan scored the second goal.
The goal sounded great though and maybe the fitness levels were better than Down even though they had 2 games already.
Finlay's late point, sublime?
Did Monaghan perform better than what the Down supporters are writing?
Any chance of the game against Derry being televised?
Where will it be played?

BTW, what does RGD mean?

You mean RGB, its a better quality of Scart.

Remember, hot plugging Scart Cables is not a great idea.

Their elligibility or otherwise has not yet been decided. I have studied the FIFA/UEFA regulations inside out and backwards and I can not see any grounds on which they qualify for the RoI. I could declare for Brazil but it wouldn't make me elligible. The fact that the FAI haven't actually played any of them would suggest, that they are (at the very least) dubious about their elligibility

Firstly there's no such team as Ireland (as you already know) and secondly and much more importantly, elligibility for a passport has absoluely no baring on elligibility to play for a country's football team. You have to meet the relevant criteria, as laid down by FIFA, namely be born in the country, live in the country for 5 years or more or have a parent or grandparent from the country

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I see there are over 70 pages of a thread on the subject of defectors on the OWC website. Surely Sammy with that level of debate intensity you would have been aware that there were more that 2 declarees.
An Irish national born in another football juristiction is no impediment to playing for Ireland. If the young lad has been capped at youth level for NI, it is still no impediment but just the FIFA Players' Status Committee will have to rubberstamp the move.
The FIFA rules were tightened up to deal with the Oman's passport for sale to Brazilians.
The exception  is article 15.3
When a player has a choice, FIFA recognise the Youth's intrest first and allow for change until he is capped at A level and under 21 years of age.
I would not put any money on the IFA appeal no matter what the odds were.

Firstly there's no such team as Ireland

No offence meant, just we call it Ireland, passport says Ireland, Minister of Foreign Affairs says I'm a citizen of Ireland.
AFAIA ROI is a discriptive term which in some contexts is used officially to differentiate.

Who are the many, I only know of a couple and none of those have actually played for the RoI.

Well Sammy I did say DECLARED not played.
I suppose I used "many" to describe the selection of 4 declarees on a competitive underage squad, off hand there's O'Connor, Wilson, Gibson and Kane.
That would be over 20% of the squad. I assume that they would have been good enough to make the NI squad. Within a narrow context of competent young talent then 4 is many, there may be more I don't know.

Of course they can, what has that got to do with this discussion?

What's the point of that the two federations can co-exist and compete? Sammy have a refresh on the thread content. My point is that its a total non issue for the 2 federations uniting. If any talented young lad doesn't want to play for NI then it is his civil right to obtain an Irish passport and declare for Ireland.

Final score,
Monaghan 2.15  Down 1.15

Monaghan meet Derry in the UC SF

 
Monaghan stretch lead to 4 points, going into extra time

from RTE

Monaghan got the result of the day in football by beating Down 2-15 to 1-15 at Páirc Esler in Newry.

The game was an ill-tempered affair and it took two goals from Castleblaney Faughs star Ciaran Hanratty and a barnstorming finish from Paul Finlay to see the Farney through.

It was the first time since 1988 that Monaghan recorded a Championship win over their Mourne neighbours.

Goal for Monaghan, 2 point lead, 5 mins left,
Rte Ad break 

You don't half talk some shite. FIFA/UEFA will not allow two separate countries to form one team, not now not ever. It would be the end of international football as we know it. What possible justification would there be for asking them to change their rules, especially as neither the FAI or IFA want it, the fans of the two teams don't want it (with the exception of a few nutters, most of whom have never been to a match) and I'd doubt if the players would want it as it would reduce their chances of getting a game.

Sammy,  FIFA do not have any power. The football federation map in Europe has changed radically since the break up of the SU.
One exception to the fragmention was with 2 seperate countries, West and East Germany,
now one country, one football federation. Never say never, there is a context.
FIFA's role is to set the regulations and rubber stamp the claims of a federation for recognition.

NI doesn't quite cut the mustard to be called a country. It's maybee a bit more than an Isle of Man with a football federation.
I am quite happy with the Irish Constitution granting citizenship to all born on the Island and any young lad can declare for Ireland as many have done. The 2 federations can coexist and compete as in the Setanta.

Strangely enough with the Stormont Parliament dead as a dodo, the British walking backwards out of there, Shinners sharing power, are the loyalists any more fearful and paranoid now than during the 50 years of the Stormont Parliament ?

I doubt that Shane would be up to much these days.
Anybody know if Ron Kavana is doing any performances?

Should this thread be renamed to
iPod, iTunes & iSomnia help

Yes, it's on the breaking news about the TV coverage.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0606/breaking7.htm

No-one helping me with my problem?

When you put new songs on Itunes you have to sync them with your Ipod,make sure on the options screen you have sync all music ticked maybe thats why that album isn't on your ipod it probably is on itunes but just not ticked to be synced to your ipod

You don't have to have your iPod synced in iTunes in order to put music on it.
I wouldn't want to complicate the instructions for Ziggy.
I find it easier to manage the content on the iPod if syncing is turned off and just transferring new stuff or desired stuff to the iPod manually in iTunes.
If Syncing is turned on, iTunes will automatically dump all the stuff from your library on it and update everytime you connect your iPod.
Ziggy, test to see if the same song on your iPod is skipping in iTunes as well as your iPod. That means play the song in iTunes without your iPod being connected to the computer.

One option is delete the skipping track from your iPod and transfer it again to iPod from iTunes after you have determined that the iTunes track is good.

I woudn't miss this game for anything.
Dublin Meath games should have form of an amnesty  just because a camera picks up a cowardly punch it should not mean a suspension.
In a game like that you need two refs.
In the end it was a draw and that was fair natural justice.  
The worst tackle that I saw on screen was the 2nd half 'tackle' on a Dub player in mid air while fielding the ball was clearly flung with force to the ground and got hurt. Nobody seemed to take a blind bit of notice even though everybody seemed to see it.
I'd grudgingly say Dublin played some great football while Meath out fought them. Dublin had the better discipline when I thought they should have been responding in kind to the Meath tactics.

Do the neutrals enjoy this spectacle more than the Meath and Dub fans?

Do you think he would have enough cop to record his marathon session with Dell support and then upload it to You Tube?

By the way, I have a hilarious mp3 about a guy who phones up DELL support because he cant switch his mums laptop off. If you want a copy then pm me your email address. Alternatively, if you can host it then pm me too.

This is it I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSaDXVRSIbo

I wonder who put it up on You Tube? I doubt that it was the inbred with sh#t for brains calling support.