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The red card was harsh but Kilpatrick gave the red a decision to make
No square ball.

We often hear this trotted out.
A tug on the jersey gives the ref a decision to make.
The wrong decision would be to issue a red card. Just as it is here.

IMO, The tackle was careless, he made contact with the players head, albeit with his chest, and there didn't appear to be any attempt to play the ball. In real time that give the Ref a decision to make.

In rugby it would not even be in doubt as there is an onus on the tackler that is not in our game.

It's difficult to tell, player never would have got the ball In The first place if he didn't come across the square then out he didn't receive it on the square.

There is no prohibition on being in the square, only on receiving the ball in the square if certain conditions are met.

The red card was harsh but Kilpatrick gave the red a decision to make
No square ball.

Seems Donaldson has calculated he finally has enough support to push them back into Stormont. Big meeting on Monday to lay it all out. Maybe even back at work by the end of the week.

Response of the holdouts will be interesting. A bit of grumbling, but ultimately sticking with the DUP gravy train? Or does it become more messy? Unionism is so directionless at the minute - how stable can government be until they figure themselves out?

They didn't vote during the last meeting as it was leaked. So Bryson leaked about this one hoping for the same result.

Seen a great response to him from Newton Emerson. If you continually tell people they are not Unionist, eventually you will be right.

All those lists at each polling station are collated and the marked list (who has and has not voted) is available to anyone for a small fee.

From Niall Gartland on Twitter/X:

JP McManus donation: Tyrone GAA have worked out they have in effect 108 'clubs' affiliated to the three governing associations (the GAA, LGFA and Camogie). So in real terms a Tyrone club affiliated with one association receives just over £9k euro, a club with two, twice that etc.

What would the breakdown of that be?
47 Football clubs, 10 Hurling clubs, 8 Camogie clubs and 43 Ladies football?

So Carrickmore for example are entitled to 4 x 9k = 36k?

out of interest whats the make up of the 10 hurling clubs in the county?

Football and hurling aren't seperated as both fall under GAA.

E.g. Omagh would get 3 cheques - 1 for GAA (football/Hurling), 1 for Ladies Football and 1 for Camogie.

They would be separate if they are separate clubs, e.g St Colmcilles / Eire Og or Clarkes : Eoghan Rua.

Obviously, because they're seperate Clubs.

Eire Og get 2 cheques for GAA (football or Hurling) and Camogie.

Colmcilles get 2 cheques for GAA (football or Hurling) and Ladies Football.

Are there any examples of Hurling / football falling under the same club and missing out, e.g. Omagh, Fintona, Killyclogher?

From Niall Gartland on Twitter/X:

JP McManus donation: Tyrone GAA have worked out they have in effect 108 'clubs' affiliated to the three governing associations (the GAA, LGFA and Camogie). So in real terms a Tyrone club affiliated with one association receives just over £9k euro, a club with two, twice that etc.

What would the breakdown of that be?
47 Football clubs, 10 Hurling clubs, 8 Camogie clubs and 43 Ladies football?

So Carrickmore for example are entitled to 4 x 9k = 36k?

out of interest whats the make up of the 10 hurling clubs in the county?

Football and hurling aren't seperated as both fall under GAA.

E.g. Omagh would get 3 cheques - 1 for GAA (football/Hurling), 1 for Ladies Football and 1 for Camogie.

They would be separate if they are separate clubs, e.g St Colmcilles / Eire Og or Clarkes : Eoghan Rua.

Apparently Handball was not mentioned in JP's original offer.

From Niall Gartland on Twitter/X:

JP McManus donation: Tyrone GAA have worked out they have in effect 108 'clubs' affiliated to the three governing associations (the GAA, LGFA and Camogie). So in real terms a Tyrone club affiliated with one association receives just over £9k euro, a club with two, twice that etc.

What would the breakdown of that be?
47 Football clubs, 10 Hurling clubs, 8 Camogie clubs and 43 Ladies football?

So Carrickmore for example are entitled to 4 x 9k = 36k?

out of interest whats the make up of the 10 hurling clubs in the county?

Off the top of my head they are

Eire Og (Carrickmore)
Eoghan Rua (Dungannon)
Na Seomragi (Strabane)
Naomh Colmcille (Clonoe parish)
Omagh
Cappagh
Fintona
Benburb
Clogher Valley
O'Neill's (Cookstown)

NB, Eire Ogs is a distinct club from Carrickmore Naomh Colmcilles so they would get 9k for hurling and 9k for Camogie whilst Noamh Colmcilles have a ladies club and would get 18k also.


Looking at results there appears to be around 11 Camogie clubs.
Eire Og
Naomh Threasa (Dungannon)
Fr Shields
Oneills (Cookstown?)
Derrylaughan
Tattyreagh
Omagh
Eglish
Killyclogher
Naomh Brid (Brocagh)
Edendork

From Niall Gartland on Twitter/X:

JP McManus donation: Tyrone GAA have worked out they have in effect 108 'clubs' affiliated to the three governing associations (the GAA, LGFA and Camogie). So in real terms a Tyrone club affiliated with one association receives just over £9k euro, a club with two, twice that etc.

What would the breakdown of that be?
47 Football clubs, 10 Hurling clubs, 8 Camogie clubs and 43 Ladies football?

Recently Retired Opt Out Team for the Craic

1 - Mc Anenly
2 - Liam Rafferty
3 - Ronan Mc Namee
4 - Cormac Munroe
5 - Peter Og Macartin
6 - Ruairi Brennan
7 - Niall Sludden
8 - Mc Clure
9 - Padraig Mc Nulty
10 - Richard Donnelly
11 - Mark Bradley
12 - Nathan Donnelly
13 - Lee Brennan
14 - Paul Donaghy
15 - Emmett Mc Nabb

No Peter Teague?

What should they do then?

A good start might be to call on the DUP to go into government rather than aiming their anger at CHH.

They don't need the DUP in Government to get a pay rise. CHH has it in his power.

shes an 80 year old

Boomer!


Probably doesn't have a mortgage or kids to put through college.

If everyone in the public sector decided not to work and to live on £150 a week she would be just as outraged.

Many pleaded guilty and paid the "shortfall" rather than risk trial and imprisonment.

How many more quietly paid multiple small  "shortfalls" to regularly balance the books and are out of pocket with no record of the money lost.

Anyone have any idea what way the youth football is working this year?

Will it be U12 and U16 starting first with U14 and Minor running from July, like last year?
Or will it be back to U14 and Minor starting first, with U12 and U16 running from July?

The latter makes more sense if they ever finish off 2023 minors.

As county minors are u17 they dont disrupt club minors as much as when they were aligned. They would impact u16's as much as u18's.
Let club minors finish up to release players for Senior / reserve football.

Start date for Minors is maybe the biggest issue for underage football in the county at present.
Last year minors started in July and ended up clashing with Senior Championship and ran on until December.
The previous two years it started in March but was put on hold for the County Minor season to take place and ended up overlapping with U16s and still ended up being played into the autumn.
Both start dates created issues, maybe some sort of hybrid approach would be best. Start minors in March and aim to get league group phase played, and then put it on hold when the County season starts. At this point U16 season to begin and return to minors later. No straight forward solution to the Minor Problem.

In both those 2 previous years the club minors was u17 and aligned with county age groupings. Clubs are now back to u16 and u18 and so there is some overlap for both age groups with County u17's.
An additional complication may be the expansion of minor championship to a glorified league with a round robin.