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....watching the re runs on Sky at the minute.


One I had forgotten about was when Rodney took this upper class yoke to the opera at Covent Garden and Del Boy turned up with a slapper....was watching it this morning with tears running down my eyes...the wife thought I was on the sauce....funny as fcuk


Whats your favourite?

Not Croke Park and not your home county....

This is mine...Coomenoole, Corcha Dhuibhne...in aice le Dun Chaoin...

I see there's talk about a dedicated tv channel devoted to GAA matters ala MUTV or the likes......

I think its a great idea...wall to wall Laochra Gael, All Ireland Gold, srl, srl.

Any thoughts?

Anyone else on it....deadly.

...momentous year...

Down Minors won the All Ireland and one of my club mates got an All Ireland medal
I made an honest woman out of Mrs 5 Sams
It was the year that everyone shit themselves about the Y2k bug and then just got pissed when nothing happened....

However the biggest thing that happened according to BBC 1 was that "Ulster" won the Rugby European Cup......deadly achievement alright....


There was a great documentary about this feat on the BBC tonight..really enjoyable it was...however I never saw one Ulster flag on display during that epic adventure...just Norn Ireland/OWC/Red Hand with a crown on top type flags

I'm sure Tommy Bowe is delighted to be an "Ulster man"

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0227/kilteel.html

There's something really fishy about this...

Yer man is in his 20s and had full access to the keys to the bank and safes etc....

...right lads you have a time machine and can travel into the past ....which sporting event would you have like to have been at?

Forget about the GAA....we would have all liked to have been in Hayes Hotel in 1884 or in Croker in 1960 or the Polo Grounds in 1947....agus araile


For me the 1970 World Cup Final ...Brazil V Italy...or one of the Lions test games V the Springboks in 1974....the 99 call series.

Humphries, Walsh and McIlvanney are top of the tree in my book.....

Heaney is top class in the parochial environment he operates in...

Liam Hayes has made a fool of himself in the past but I dont think he's that stupid....theres obviously a method in his madness..


Loads of others deserve a mention but I couldnt be arsed at this time of the night TBH....gimme your views...

..right lads and lasses...like them or not the biggest band in the world are about to release a new album...and by all accounts they are gonna be playing ar an talamh naofa in July.

If you're a fan gimme your top 3 U2 tunes.......... if you're not a fan you know you love their music ...join in..

Seo mo rogha


Red Hill Mining Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytRekLUX3GE

Staring at the Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A8-N_SUcUc

And then of course the daddy of them all......

Bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyhYczii8I

...would that be Barack O'B now after today or is it still the Pope (doubt it), Muhammad Ali (mebbe), Saint Paul Hewson (could be) or is it someone from history...you don't have to be alive to be famous .....so my money is on JFK....

Whats your thoughts?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Postman-Shane-Symington-Loses-Six-Figure-Sum-To-Nigerian-Fraudsters-In-Internet-Scam/Article/200901315204286?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15204286_Postman_Shane_Symington_Loses_Six-Figure_Sum_To_Nigerian_Fraudsters_In_Internet_Scam

As discussed elsewhere on the board these people (TG4) are consistently churning out top class television. Its the first channel I go to when I come in in the evening.  And no its nothing to do with the girls doing the weather..

What's yours?

..right lads I've nicked this one of AFR....

Mickey Linden (and his brother Peter) and Wee James have tortured me in my time.

Marked Damien Cassidy in a McRory Cup Final and he only got a point.......

...following on from similar threads.


Which "sitter", "miss", "howler", etc, etc sticks in your mind...and maybe had a major bearing on the championship in that particular year.

Mine is hard to beat....Jim McConville's V Down in the 1st round of the Ulster Championship in Newry in 1991.......straight through, on an oul wet day, ball on the ground, only the keeper to beat and he screws it wide.....
As we all said coming out of the Marshes that day...."two bad teams".....


The rest is history

A PSNI Officer is buried with a guard of honour from his home GAA club with his GAA jersey and Police cap on top of the coffin.

Unthinkable a few short years ago....a powerful symbol now.

....Fermgael and Laois lad have been arguing about the best kangaroo piss on the market on a different thread ....this got me thinking about my favourite subject....beer.

Right lads cards on the table....gimme your top three beverages. no Cabarnet Sauvignon...no Merlot....no Jack Daniels...no Grey Goose..it has to be beer...stout lager ale whatever....make the call.


I want the top three beers among the learned folk on the board...might put a poll up later if I see a pattern developing.

I'll kick off...

1. Pint of Guinness...from a reputable hostelry of course...nothing else compares
2. Cold bottle of Erdinger Weissbier crystal
3. Again another cold bottle of Ekstra Draught...god bless our foreign friends for bringing this nectar to Ireland.



Discuss

Did anybody else see David McWilliams wiping the floor with Nigel Dodds and Jim Allister tonight?
No matter what youse lads in the 26 counties think of him he gave a masterclass in common sense tonight.

..right lads gimme your views.

Cavanagh is probably the most high profile ...and is one of the best exponents of the game today ...BUT...is he better than Tomas...Mattie...Canty..Benny..Clucko...what constitutes the best player in the land??

Take a moment in time this year and ask yourself...fcuk me me that's the best player in the country................


Just wonderin like???

sorry lads if this is being discussed somewhere else or maybe we're not allowed to discuss it but this must have been some batterin match...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7660982.stm

...Bertie's only after coming out with another classic on the NI programme Hearts and Minds...he said that "Cows will fly before the army council disbands".


I thought smoke and daggers was deadly but this beats the lot...