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Petrol up 9p a itre from this morning in a local petrol station. Oil going through the roof too. It's going be a long and expensive winter by the looks of it.

Just out of the Spar there...£6.80 for a smallish plastic bottle of Olive oil and £5 for butter

RTÉ have confirmed peak viewership figures of 1.6 million from Saturday's historic fight at Croke Park.

There was an average of 973,000 viewers plus 552,000 streams via the RTÉ player.

For comparison, RTÉ's peak viewing figures of the Ireland v Czechia World Cup playoff also hit 1.6 million people at peak time.

I was one of the 1.6m RTE viewers - the coverage of the undercard was abysmal.

From extra.ie - viewers complain

Irish folk complaining? I'm not having that

- it won't happen
It's announced
- it won't sell out
It sells out
- well it won't happen again
- better events have happened in Croke Pk
(Kevin and Perry wouldn't have a look in 🤣)

[We saw Mc Monagle against Magherafelt do we think he is county standard? Allow for the fact that a lad who has yet to play senior Inter county football was marking him?]

Apparently last year Cahir McMonagle would not commit himself to the Senior panel as he wanted to play soccer for a year.Also, for whatever reason, Oisin Doherty would not commit to the U20 county team.  If both of them would be available for the incoming season,they, along with a fully fit Danny McDermott,Donncha Gilmore, Martin Bradley and Ryan McNicholl of Glenullin are surely worthy of serious consideration. Past experience  shows that unfortunately from a Derry perspective (and most other counties have the same problem),there are four or five talented individuals who just do not want to commit to the county cause which is their right to do so. From a purely selfish county point of view that is sad  but it is their lives to make their personal choices.

Donnacha Gilmore I think could be good squad player and I think Martin Bradley has done enough to justify a place around it.

I'm unsure about Mc Dermott or Mc Nicholl, both Mc Dermotts are series athletes but I don't think thats enough to get you on a County team. Seem very injury prone also.
We'll see how Mc Nicholl goes on Wednesday, he had good spells against Loup but there needs to be more than that. Tiarnan Moore alot more impressive that him against stronger opposition.

Are you suggesting that someone who chose not to commit because they wanted to play soccer should be offered another opportunity? Does that bring Jack Doherty and Conor Mc Ateer into the mix?

We saw Mc Monagle against Magherafelt do we think he is county standard? Allow for the fact that a lad who has yet to play senior Inter county football was marking him?

McMonagle had a poor enough day out on Sunday, especially with the wind on his back in the second half and still managed 1-07. The Magherafelt defence gave him more respect than you do that's for sure.
He absolutely should be in the panel. Would love to see T Moore and O Doherty in there too

Alex Doherty was electric yesterday, would love it if he could commit.

- welcome to the board Alex

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St Joseph's O'Connell Boys of Dublin are putting forward a motion to remove Allianz as sponsors.

Good for them. Jarlath still had time to do the right thing...

Not a hope...did he not describe them was 'wonderful' in his post final speech ?

This thread is epic..moanometer in the red zone, move over The Late Late Show thread 🥳

Celtic Park gig?

Saw the reasoning behind the rumour. It's either Celtic fans being absolutely crazy or a genius piece of marketing.

Apparently they'll be at least 3 nights at Celtic Pk. Same with the City ground, Munich, Stade de France etc...the dynamic gouging machine is thirsty

Nick name is the animal and their game plan worked to a t.

Itauma beat himself. Needs to switch trainer ASAP to get the best out of himself. He was unreal apart from the last round and showed that he has a chin and heart too.

Yes, he was unreal until he wasn't ie about 5 power punches in. He was that unreal he punched himself out against a guy who could take everything he had and continued down the a path that obviously wasn't working.
If the bout was a 7 rd fight you have a point, but it was 12, so saying Moses was unreal is unreal.

But he was unreal until he was exhausted. Hrgovic didn't show anything that suggested he was an animal. He hoped he could take him into deep waters but nobody expected the tank to run out as suddenly as it did.

Ah lad, he took everything Itauma had, a boxer who had knocked out 90% + of all his previous opponents for 7 rounds, touched a glove on the canvas once...that is animal levels surely? Any road, it was a brilliant bout and hopefully there is a rematch.

Nick name is the animal and their game plan worked to a t.

Itauma beat himself. Needs to switch trainer ASAP to get the best out of himself. He was unreal apart from the last round and showed that he has a chin and heart too.

Yes, he was unreal until he wasn't ie about 5 power punches in. He was that unreal he punched himself out against a guy who could take everything he had and continued down the a path that obviously wasn't working.
If the bout was a 7 rd fight you have a point, but it was 12, so saying Moses was unreal is unreal.

Nick name is the animal and their game plan worked to a t.

A crazy fight. Itauma, like flicking a switch at the end, was dead on his feet in an instant. The Croatian is one tough cookie

McMonagle should absolutely be in the Derry panel...we lament the dearth of inside forwards yet we've a seriously talented inside forward not involved. Riddle me that 

McMonagle should absolutely be in the Derry panel...we lament the dearth of inside forwards yet we've a seriously talented inside forward not involved. Riddle me that 

Your man has a big issue with North Of the Glenshane as weve seen with previous posts

Magilligan woman holidaying in South Derry turned him down at the Slaughtneil disco many moons ago, still raw

McMonagle should absolutely be in the Derry panel...we lament the dearth of inside forwards yet we've a seriously talented inside forward not involved. Riddle me that 

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Welcome to the board Cahir

Last 2 winners have played Division 1 in the league might be a good omen for Limavady.

Desertmartin, Coleraine, Dawson, Greenlough, Claudy, Foreglen, Drumsurn. Which of those do you consider to not have a realistic chance? I wouldn't be surprised if any of those won it, going to be a cracker

Couldn't agree more.

For me Foreglen will win intermediate. Thran hoors, perfect for championship

Are you including the current Reacher series in that rating. Loved the last few series. But while they were always a bit ridiculous, the current one is just a different level. I know they are park the brain for 40 mins, sort of shows but the current one goes over the top, in the ridiculous levels. Just not enjoying it as much.

Oh yes. The man has no car, no house, no phone, eats constant junk food, wouldn't know what an over night bag was if it hit him in the face and never goes near a gym..but boy can he take down the baddies