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Lads the days of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker on your village High Street are over, people want convenience and cheap goods. I can have basically anything I can think of delivered to my doorstep within 24hours. Any type of food I can think of within an hour.
Our lives are better now than they were 50 years ago. 

It's unfortunate but it's the way it is. Amazon have fucked local business, uber have fucked taxi drivers.

Find this argument pretty weak. If no one purchased from Amazon and instead purchased from their local providers, then local business would be thriving. If people chose to use Taxi's rather than Uber's then Taxi driver would be thriving.

The reality is that consumers like us are chasing lower prices - that's why the local businesses are struggling. And anyone who feels strongly enough about this, can be a champion by bucking the trend.

Predicted rain for the next week. Football counties look Irish, hurling counties mostly like Timbuktu.

Great to see Rathdowney on the map. Any map.

I was thinking the same thing - a big day for people from Burtonport.

Donegal 1992 All Ireland winner James McHugh has  died in a road accident in Co Cavan. His wife is seriously injured in hospital.

Shocking news.

https://www.donegaldaily.com/lead-stories/shock-as-donegal-all-ireland-hero-killed-in-horror-crash-645089

Unfortunately James' wife Noreen passed away yesterday too. A terrible tragedy for Kilcar and Donegal.

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"Thirty years ago they decided that education was their top priority, and they have used their education system to ensure that their young people know their history, know what they're about, and want to advance in whatever walk of life they find themselves in.

Congrats to the dubs. Hard to belive we managed to take it to ET, but the best team won out in the end. Plenty of soul searching to be done after this and likely lots of change needed for 2027.

Well done Down. A brilliant performance from them and the less said about us the better.

Very sad to hear that Michael Langan likely out for the year. He was absolutely flying.

The Ulster Fry has the soda farl, potato bread which you wont find in a traditional Irish fry (who the feck has time to mix flour and mash potato in the morning). The Irish fry's unique ingredient is the white pudding, which is not endemic to English or Ulster Fry, although now copied because its so good. Beans in a fry is English. Hash browns American.

We live in a global village so we can eat what we want! Vegetable Roll?

Indeed, and let him who has not enjoyed a little Irish, Scots, English fusion cast the first spud.

It's pronounced purdy.

I need to brush up on the oul Ulster Scots although it would seem that the Ulster-Scots "purdy" "pritta" comes for Irish for spuds, Prátaí.

Might do. Tattie hoaking (sp?) was a common saying at home. Lads had to head away to Scotland to pick purdies and send money home. But we used it to describe picking spuds anywhere.

[Sorry for the random diversion]

The Ulster Fry has the soda farl, potato bread which you wont find in a traditional Irish fry (who the feck has time to mix flour and mash potato in the morning). The Irish fry's unique ingredient is the white pudding, which is not endemic to English or Ulster Fry, although now copied because its so good. Beans in a fry is English. Hash browns American.

We live in a global village so we can eat what we want! Vegetable Roll?

Indeed, and let him who has not enjoyed a little Irish, Scots, English fusion cast the first spud.

It's pronounced purdy.

Jesus Shane. That's cat.

If we win it'll be for 2 reasons (a) we went flat out and (b) Kerry didn't give a sh1te.
If we lose it'll be for 2 reaons (a) we didn't give a sh1te and (b) Kerry went flat out.

I'd love us to win a national title. As was mentioned above, most counties (including us) have won feck all and it'd be great for the lads to have that title to their name.

Kerry a good bit ahead of the pack though, so all yerra aside, I think the result will depend on how much they want to lay down a marker.

Would you forever shut up@!

Beat me to it,

Donegal clearly have no interest in making a league final but may well end up there if results stay as they are 

It could well be true that we don't have a big interest in a league final, but don't let the scoreline suggest that we're just taking it handy. Monaghan are playing well and it's a good tight battle. We just got a lucky goal when Beggan was turned over soloing the ball out.

Good win for Donegal. Maybe the O'Donnell park hoodoo is behind us at last.

Mayo looked like they didn't really give a sh1t.

The issue for me is not the buzzer, it's that the game clock didn't start until the ball was played like a basketball clock. On every other occasion in the game, the ref restarted the clock BEFORE play resumed. Assuming the screen clock was correct, then there were 2 seconds to go. Ref should have restarted the clock and then blew the whistle. No way Kerry should have been allowed to get a score.

A question for Donegal men on here.
Was Mc Brearty better than Colm Mc Fadden ?

He never had a flawless season like McFadden did in 2012.

I think he was more consistent over his career than McFadden though.

I would agree with this. Paddy a level above because he delivered relatively consistently over 14 years. Colm Anthony had several solid years and one exceptional one.

A great servant for Donegal - 14 years of senior football is good going. Despite everyone knowing it was coming, that cut in from the RHS for a sweet strike off that left peg was incredibly effective over the last few years.

GRMA Paddy - some great days. The winner against Armagh in 2014 is probably the one that sticks out for me.