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Antrim minors beat by 4 by Laois and finish bottom of their group. Antrim well behind and got it back to level towards the end

Antrim under 20s beaten by Westmeath at the weekend also. We are so far off the pace at juvenile level it is embarrassing. Meath up next for the Under 20s, that match could go either way.

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/03/28/all-ireland-winning-hurler-charged-with-perjury/

An All Ireland-winning hurler has been arrested on suspicion of committing perjury before a court arising out of an internal Garda probe into the alleged squaring away of road traffic offences.

The man, in his 20s, appeared by appointment at a Garda station in Limerick on Tuesday morning.

Gardaí have charged the well known sportsman who is due to appear before Limerick District Court later on Tuesday.

"As part of an ongoing criminal investigation Gardaí this morning charged a male and is due to appear before Limerick District Court today," said a Garda spokesman.

Not another one in bother with the guards! They are great on the pitch but they get into a right few scrapes off the field

While the exploitation of people at these 'international' car wash places needs to be investigated and those that are being used by criminal gangs need to be need to be brought to hand, the recent events in Newtownards is being ignored by Nolan lol!!

Nolan needs sent to work in a carwash for a week or two, some real work might do him good!

Big win yesterday for Tir na Nog away to Cushendun, Creggan look like they are in a relegation battle already
Glenarm and All Saints starting the new leagues with a win also

Sarsfields I'm guessing missing 3 Antrim players ? Tough for a Div 2 team to absorb

I was at the Shane Uí Néill Vs Sarsfields game. Glenarm made a great start and took a big lead. Sarsfields came back  with a rattle second half but had left themselves too much to do. Tough old match on a very heavy pitch.

A lot of the pitches are very heavy right now. Early start to the season and a wet spring combined with heavy training on the pitches is taking its toll.

Has the damage been done in the previous 4 or 5 years before Gleeson. Not developing a lower league forward to county level. A James O'Connell, Sean Duffin to give two examples. Im sure there are a good few others too. There are a few young lads showing promise (scullion-glenarm) but will they be ready for it by the time Glesson / McManus / Campbell step away. Possibly not

Whats the time scale on McCann and Clarke

Clarke did his cruciate which is normally 12 months, I wouldn't be expecting him back in time for the Leinster championship. McCann I don't know anything about.

The league in hurling is pretty meaningless compared to football.

revert back to what it was 4/5 years ago

when you had a top 6 Division 1

and the likes of Limerick Galway and Clare trying to get promoted out of Div2

Revert back to four divisions of 8 with two up two down. Seven league matches guaranteed 3 at home at least and something to play for in almost every match.

As many have said it was good to just get over the line. Perhaps its because Laois were not at the same level as Kilkenny or Dublin or perhaps we have improved but our puck outs were better yesterday. Elliot and McKenna were good targets and so was Joe Maskey.
Another bloody dreadful day weather wise, two matches in Corrigan and two soakings, hopefully its a dry day against Tipp.

Fair bit of needle in this game. Been lacking a bit in the league so far.

They certainly dpn't seem to like each other. Cracking match though. Although the second goal and the red card have probably done for Waterford

Who will replace Campbell at CHB I wonder? McManus and Elliot doubtful.

BIg big game as you say. They had our number last year by a bit tbh - hoping for better this year.

Gerard Walsh in at CHB according to Antrim twitter, Ryan Elliot back in goals and Nigel Elliot starting. McManus named at full forward.

Big, big match this weekend. We need to beat Laois because we won't beat Tipperary. No Eoghan Campbell I presume which is a blow. Laois have had our number lately so we need a big crowd in Corrigan and a big performance. 50/50 game in my opinion but its there for the winning if we can win our own puck outs.

Well all is not lost if we are beaten as probably be Westmeath in relegation playoff but we should be beating Laois, especially at home

Westmeath are not a gimme either, ran Cork to 6 points in Pairc Ui Caoimh last time out

Big, big match this weekend. We need to beat Laois because we won't beat Tipperary. No Eoghan Campbell I presume which is a blow. Laois have had our number lately so we need a big crowd in Corrigan and a big performance. 50/50 game in my opinion but its there for the winning if we can win our own puck outs.

All fair points MR2 and no disrespect to our wider panel but I think we can be a bit lacking coming off the bench at the very top level, and that's to be expected against the top teams.

I suppose the aim is to try and develop a very strong panel of 20-22 players, where we can put 4/5 subs on and not see any drop in performance

This is always the problem with Antrim/Down?Kildare/westmeath etc. About 10 players who are easily division 1 standard, another four or five who are a grade below and four or five off the bench who are that quarter of a second slower to react. Small margins lead to large consequences at the very top level but I would rather be battling and competing in division 1 than winning four out of five in division 2.

We're lesser known as John Mitchell's, A United Irishman, Presbyterian and all that, but his pro confederate slavery stance probably doesn't sit well when looked upon now.

He was right about this though;

"The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the Famine...and a million and a half men, women and children were carefully, prudently and peacefully slain by the English government"

There was a campaign a couple of years ago I remember to have clubs change their name from Mitchell's, was around the time they were tearing down the slave trader statues in England

Should the fact he  owned slaves mean he should be erased  from history ? Different times , and all that

In a few years ,  clubs/pitches might be named after  players/officials around  today.  They'll be calling for  names to be removed in years ahead,   because it was discovered someone  voted No in the  gay marriage referendum or  because he   burnt turf at home

So we're equating slavery with a vote in a referendum or burning fuel? Wow

That's not what I said ,

But  future generations may  see such actions as worthy of tearing down a statue , in the same way  slave traders/owners statues are being tore down now. Slavery  was legal  and accepted as normal in the past but not  now.

I get what you mean, but even by any standards of looking back to the past, or ahead to what might be considered amoral by future standards, slavery and a vote on gay marriage is really really not in the same universe. That's is an equivalence you did make in your post by mentioning both as if they might be teh same in future. There are many things done in the past that we look at now and consider poor taste or such. But we do excuse that as being of the time and so on and so forth. However terrorism and slavery and so on are ones that don't come into this - they can't be excused

And to go back to your point. No, they shouldn't be erased from history, but that doesn't mean that we should honour their name either with name of a club, grounds, cup, or so on. We can and should change these. That's not taking them out of the history books, it's just stopping honouring them

So should Tipperary be prohibited from singing the Galtee Mountain Boy next time they win the All Ireland because it honors and mentions rabid Nazi Supporter Dan Breen?

Should Casement Park be renamed because buy all accounts Roger Casement was a paedophile?

By all accounts Roger casement was a homosexual, evidence of him being a paedophile is basically non-existent. The dead can't sue for slander but there is no need to blacken the mans name.

Yeah an impossible task with 14 & into the wind. It's Laois or bust but I would be reasonably confident we will beat Laois, especially with home advantage. I think we do need to be getting a bit more out of some of the forwards though

No Eoghan Campbell for that match, we went into the Laois match last year confident of beating them and they were lying in wait for us unfortunately. We have undoubtedly shown better form than them in the league so far but form doesn't win matches scores do. Four of our six starting forwards failed to score at the weekend, not good. Hopefully we can get over the line but nothing is a given.

Waterford at least one red card 

I honestly think we've a better chance against them than Dublin. Hoping for a close game but like you say Laois the big test.

Unfortunately we got the red card. Still seemed a reasonable effort with 14 men, leading mid way through the second half then ran out of legs. From reading the report Austin Gleeson off the bench did a lot of damage in the home straight unsurprisingly. Guy beat us single handedly at Corrigan last year.