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Kerry 1-7 Cork 2-14,
Tyrone 0-12 Dublin 3-6,
Kildare 1-13 Westmeath 0-6,
Mayo 1-8 Derry 0-2

Cheers, results all going Mayo and Dublin's way.

Just got a text of a Derry goal!

West Ham making it messy, I don't like the look of the game so far.

Div 1?

AFL Division 2 (HT): Armagh 1-03 Donegal 1-05; Laois 1-10 Down 1-01; Louth 0-08 Meath 1-04; Monaghan 0-08 Galway 0-05.

Kerry 1-6 Cork 1-7, Tyrone 0-6 Dublin 3-5, Kildare 1-9 Westmeath 0-3, Mayo 0-8 Derry 0-1.

Looking good for the Maritimes & Metropolitans. 

[That is one paper I hope to never read again]

I assume you are talking about Aiden Henry ,Iolar.That is one paper I hope to never read again in my lifetime after the hatchet job they done on Horan last september

You mustm t be the only one who decided to boycott the Connaught Telegraph because I just heard it s gone into recievership

I hadn't heard that. It's a terrible pity. I hope they can save the paper. The Western is owned by Examiner Group, and the Mayo News by the Indo, I believe. Hard for the Telegraph is hold its own in a small and shrinking market against that sort of financial clout.

Have not bought the Connacht in about 4 and a half years. I used to buy it every week, but found it had gotten really lazy and things you would get away with before the Information technology era don't cut anymore. The Western People has upped the play being on sale on Monday morning and the production of the Mayo News has been superior for years at this stage. The emergence of the Mayo Advertiser as well could not have helped in regards revenue from ads.

I used to be a regular Connaught Telegraph reader (being Castlebar based) but switched to the Mayonews a few years back, I have to admit the Westport based Mayo News is a high quality product.

Shame as the Telegraph is the oldest surviving local paper in Ireland. Est. 1828, but it is linked to older papers as far back as start of 1800's.

Mayo were 0-04 to 0-00 up a while ago.

Cheers, should win this. Derry really playing an experimental team.

Yeah, you'd expect a comfortable Mayo win.

You would but anything is possible with Mayo.

Mayo were 0-04 to 0-00 up a while ago.

Cheers, should win this. Derry really playing an experimental team.

Any division 1 football scores lads?

Wheres the best bars in castlebar to catch a few drinks before the game lads?

Mick Byrnes, John McHales (Jonnys is how its known), Coady's, Rockies, McCarthys would all be grand spots.

Agreed, as long as we are clear.

SKY SPORTS DO NOT BROADCAST TO THE IRISH DIASPORA BEYOND THE UK. IF ANYONE SAYS SKY IS GOOD FOR THE GAA BECAUSE IT BRINGS GAA ABROAD, THIS IS NOT TRUE.

Up to everyone to educate themselves though (including Mickey Harte).

But it will bring the GAA to approx half a million Irish in Britain. Is it not good for them? I think by abroad they mean Britain.

Britain is near abroad. They have many Irish cultural features such as the full irish breakfast, man utd and malt vinegar with chips.

Since emigrating to Britain, I have encountered a lot of nationalists from the north of Ireland who seem to not consider Britain abroad and are taken back by my assertion that I am living abroad. Some of these are quite republican in their conversations which makes me think a lot of them are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

We know Tony here.

He's a good poster.

However, he hates the binary opposite of what he follows, be it sport, religion or politics. Call it bigotry, sectarianism or norrow-mindedness. And you might be right. But that's our Tone. He'll revel in others' misfortune.

Misfortune being the opposite of the fortune one spends in booking a hotel room on the wrong weekend.

A good friend of mine now living in London and I talk about this all the time. Not so much the underachievement of Protestants but the over-achievement of Catholics.
We can point to a load of friends and people we know who came from tough backgrounds but became very successful because of what we attribute to be "Oppressed Catholic syndrome" There is a work ethic and drive and a chip on the shoulder that protestants don't have or at least one they don't use as a tool to drive success. We all hit rough patches but the Catholic will drag himself out of it one way or the other I think. I might be talking a pile of shite ha but that's how I look at it all anyway.

It is nothing to do with Catholic or Protestant, it is a nationalist-unionist thing. The working and middle class Protestants of the Republic are in nobody else's educational shadow.

It's only nine games FFS! Viewers in Ireland lose 9 games, international viewers gain them all. We come out ahead overall.

It is Irish teams that are playing in these games and the people in these places that will not be able to see their county. Let the GAA provide British games to people in Britain if it wants, but stop taxing people in Ireland to facilitate foreigners.

Oh, so you lose Irish citizenship as soon as you emigrate? Am I a "foreigner" now?

The poor ould Armagh boy would rather watch it on the BritishBC and pays taxes to the government in Dublin to fund RTE I'm sure.

Only winning 4-0 will cost us 

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