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The Corona Virus And Possible Effects To GAA Matches - 12 Like(s)
Replying To MesAmis: "I can't agree with the narrative that young people are to blame and not following guidelines etc.
For every person under 25 not following guidelines there are plenty over 50 not following them either from what I can see.
Young people are watching their futures fall apart as the economy gets killed by this thing. They're part of this effort to try and protect the over 65s (and those with underlying conditions) and then they get the blame from some!
Older people are in the main, pthe beneficiaries of all this effort from all across society, younger people are the ones that are going to pay for it." I believe the percentages clearly show the virus is most prevelant among young people (even if the vast majority display no systems). But, everyone has lost out, is losing out, I was not able to attend my mothers funeral. I have also lost my entire livlihood, my young son and daughter will lose out more though with that loss. There are no winners or losers, each section of society is suffering. But there is a percentage both young and old who just don't give a damn. There should be a deep dark place for these people. I dont agree with a lockdown that dedtroys peoples lives, but thats what the country seems to want. If I follow the law I sure as hell expect others too including the so called polutical class.
arock (National) - 21/08/2020 21:49:18
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The GAA And "Northern Ireland" - 8 Like(s)
Replying To Onion Breath: "You need to look up democracy." Demorcratically elected by whom? Ireland in 1921 its population was 4.5 million just under 1,000,000 "voted" for Northern Ireland, 3.5 voted for a Republic. 3.5 did not vote for chunk off it to be excluded. Read your history not the selective ala carte version you have constructed in your own head just to have a tease and laugh here.
arock (National) - 18/04/2021 12:04:00
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Dublin V Roscommon - 8 Like(s)
Replying To mayotyroneman: "The game started with Dublin hand passing the ball around for 1 min and 20 secs before attempting a shot which went wide..the game ended with Dublin hand passing the ball around for 1 min and 50 secs before the ref gave up and blew the final whistle..that sums Dublin up...a negative hand passing team" So for the first and last two minutes they are a "negative hand passing team" surprising how they even scored, good summary there though
arock (National) - 03/03/2019 17:00:20
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The Corona Virus And Possible Effects To GAA Matches - 8 Like(s)
Replying To bloodyban: "Youre the revisionist,not me. There is no recorded genocide in Ireland, none. There were lots of mayhem and murder and attrocities. But by you saying it was a genocide lessens actual genocides elsewhere. The 16th and 17th centuries were bloody all over Europe. Again Ireland wasn't a special case as you presuppose. It didn't suffer more than most.
The 'attempt to erase us' comment is pure gobbledygook. Its quiet frankly laughable and if you're going around in 2020 believing that then you are deluded.
I hope FF and FG do a better job than they have been doing. If they improve then they can keep power out of the hands of Republicans indefinitely." And records and defines genocide? You? Or your like? Definition of genocide "the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group"
1641 to 1656, Irelands population was reduced by 80% through war, war induced famine, complete ethnic clearences of Wicklow, Wexford by General Fairfax, according to William Petty Surveyor, from the horses mouth. In 16th century Ireland, Laois/Offaly plantations, the Desmond clearences and the pogroms after the battle of Kinsale meant untold amount of men, women and children where butchered. During the reign of Queen Ann you couldnt even own land, be educated, speak your tongue or express your faith. That is genocide, and that is from the mouths of tge English. Grow up and learn your history.
arock (National) - 26/08/2020 23:33:32
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Dublin Senior Football Team - 8 Like(s)
Replying To P.Mckenna: "So for all of you brushing this off as an overreaction, here are the stats. Almost 4.7k deaths in the country, families impacted beyond words & traumatized as they had to pick and chose who could attend funerals- hurts & traumas that will never heal. Many long established businesses have been destroyed - some of them having been in families for generations. I haven't seen many members of my family in a year - elderly people prisoners in their homes in their twilight years. Missed cancer diagnosis & delayed health care delivery.
As a country we will be paying the multi dimensional psychological & economic costs of this pandemic for years. It is about the spirit of the guidance & that sense of the collective that has been lost and a damned sense of entitlement by a few - whether that be golfing societies in Mayo, vaccine distribution by those who have power over supply or inter county players conducting training sessions. I would suggest that the next time these players look to do their photo opportunities in hospitals, they should not be given access. What they did was a slap in the face to the bereaved & to front line workers & to the sacrifices made by so many." And how many of that was caused by GAA players? Consider the huge amount of deaths caused by a Govt that didnt consider nursing homes, levt airports open etc etc. Spare us the outrage, my mother went into hospital last summer with a stroke and got covid off a member of staff and died. So yeah the system is a killing machine
arock (National) - 01/04/2021 22:27:17
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Dublin Vs Kerry Replay - 7 Like(s)
Replying To mayo_123: "12 steps who else but Dublin would get away with it but that said fair play great achievement congrats" Maybe the likes of your lot, Keegan and O'connor serial divers, media darlings the face that all is bad in the game, sling your hook.
arock (National) - 14/09/2019 23:44:42
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Congratulations To Limerick - 7 Like(s)
Amazing emotional win for Limerick, hats off and enjoy the long winter. Galway will be back and the team to beat next year, for me Canning was awesome today, a true great of the greatest game. But well done Limerick.
arock (National) - 19/08/2018 22:04:49
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Mayo V Dublin - 7 Like(s)
This doing the rounds "Haven't seen 15 Dubs do as much damage in under 10 minutes since the Lidl was flattened in Fortunestown"
arock (National) - 10/08/2019 21:18:21
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Do Louth Have A Hope Against The Dubs? - 7 Like(s)
Replying To greysoil: "A really sad day for the game & what the GAA stands for. Of course Dublin were simply a few €million times better, but I am sure the Louth team gave as much commitment to their preparation, made as many sacrifices & had as much pride in wearing their county jersey. So sorry for those Louth lads, their families & supporters. Something has to change or really what is the point of it all. It is becoming increasingly uncomfortable watching this evolution, or perhaps dissolution, particularly in Leinster of this increasingly partisan organization." And spell out how you would do this? Not let Dublin raise its own money? Ban players of a certain quality from playing for Dublin! Or what you really want is to bring Dublin down to the lowest common denominator, this is Sport only one loser. Maybe you should abolish the Super 8's and extend Go-Games to adults then everyone is a winner!! On a technical level how exactly does these mythical millions make Philly a better player? Go on have a go, a spend per Dublin Inter-County player per year! Remember we have hurling too and the two other female codes as well. Maybe if all the people in Louth stayed in Louth there might be some improvement - Dublin GAA has to look after Dublin GAA, despite very little from GAA HQ proper to the actual Dublin clubs who rely on their own County board. Maybe if counties invested in the actual games rather than building white elephant stadiums, centres of excellence all with other peoples money. Clean your own house before you decide to burgle Dublin.
arock (National) - 26/05/2019 12:33:15
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Tyrone Boycott Of RTE - 7 Like(s)
This goes all the way back to the worst piece of RTE crap in history when "RTE's John Murray show in August 2011, mocked him for going to see the Dalai Lama and then included the song Pretty Little Girl from Omagh. This came just months after his daughter Michaela had been murdered on honeymoon in Mauritius." Leave Harte alone, he is entitled to throw all the anger he can muster at RTE, just give him a break.
arock (National) - 21/08/2018 09:48:50
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All Ireland Football Final 2020 - Dublin V Mayo - 6 Like(s)
Replying To togoutlads: "Wow! The celebrations and that speech, timeless stuff!! Automatons. God help us, this professional, massively over funded machine is gradually smothering our beautiful amateur sport. Spread the damn euros around, GAA, or there's little point to what we're all slaving away at, at grass roots level around the country - and with substandard resources, as every Dublin club gets juiced to the hilt. We know the stats, we can read the accounts, we see the huge numbers on payroll. The disparity in our treatment across the country is shocking and it's past time it was fought. By the way, delighted for our young lads, the Galway U20s who stuck it to the money machine and beat the Dubs with football." Name one Dub club "juiced to the hilt", sheer bile and begrudgery. Maybe sport is not your thing.
arock (National) - 19/12/2020 19:20:42
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Well Done Davy Fitz And Wexford - 6 Like(s)
Great to see Mags D'Arcy being appointed goalkeeping coach by Wexford hurlers. Mags is a fine coach.
arock (National) - 06/03/2018 22:01:05
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Dublin Discussions - Sensible Or Crackpot? - 6 Like(s)
I'd love to debate this, but unfortunately for you all it is not going to happen, not now not ever and I would put my house on it. The only way something like it could ever happen would be if you ended the inter-county system altogether and just formed 14 professional teams. But not ever is it going to happen, should it happen just one good reason why a Dub should wear a different shirt and call the team something it is not, just to keep a few begrudging losers from outside the capitol happy!!
arock (National) - 09/06/2019 21:47:26
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Lads Off To The AFL - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Utter nonsense. Umpires have never received payment. Referees get a paltry mileage allowance. Players not out of pocket for their efforts. No one forcing them to play, it's a choice." Well said, the consequences of paying anyone directly out of revenue is a massive step and the wrong one. Fair play to these lads but the reality is this is an amateur sport.
arock (National) - 06/11/2021 17:05:07
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CASEMENT, BELFAST AND ANTRIM - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Jack_Goff: "The big clubs should be paying for 100% simple as. It doesn't have to mean job losses either. The GAA can offer some of the Dublin based GPO's work in counties like Meath, Louth, Westmeath, Wicklow and Kildare. Surely a little commute outside the pale isn't beyond them?" This is surrel, what exactly does a GPO do? Who funds them? You think these are for free? and what exactly do they do? they bring in kids into the GAA via local schools, boys and girls all codes and organise training structures for like children between 5 and 10, that is it!!! So you want to either sack them! move these guys from Dublin clubs to Meath and these Dublin clubs finance them! are you having a Royal laugh? The current structure is for GPO's to be paid 50/50 by clubs in Dublin (except in disadvantaged area's) the remaining 50% is from GAA or what is being proposed (by GAA) is for Dublin GAA to pay the 50% paid by GAA. So no, Dublin GAA/Clubs won't be doing away with their priceless GPO's and surrender their sports to Rugby/Soccer etc nor would they even entertain the ridiculous notion of paying for them to work in other counties, beggars belief. BTW the GPO's have to based on population you can't have a situation where in Dublin a GPO might be trying to cover 5,000/10,000/15,000 and yet the ratio in some counties would be 30 players to a GPO now what use is that going to do? What you want is thousands of immigrants to flood your underpopulated area's then you might qualify for a GPO because there is no need for them in underpopulated areas. BTW GPO's do not deal with adult teams or older Juveniles, they are a means to getting youngsters into the GAA first and foremost. I am afraid you will have to be more creative in finding spare cash from Dublin to fill your lazy/pathetic counties efforts.
arock (National) - 28/09/2019 18:01:17
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Why Are RTÉ Not Showing The Div 1&2 League Final Live? - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Is it still April Fool's? TG4 give fantastic coverage throughout the league, bit unfair to then give final to RTE who don't bother with GAA coverage except for championship" I agree only for TG4 GAA sport would be just RTE soundbites.
arock (National) - 02/04/2023 15:52:58
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Are The Rumours True? - 6 Like(s)
Replying To royaldunne: "Heard Dublin were. But then again that is probably just more mud to sling at them. I sincerely hope it's not true." It isnt true, clubs would be very unhappy with clandestine training sessions. The potential for cross team infection when county players turn up with club teams is huge. If no county teams train it is a level playing field of sorts. But GAA and GPA have let everyone down with their initial stances.
arock (National) - 06/07/2020 09:52:04
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Dublin V Mayo - 6 Like(s)
Replying To TheHermit: "Kerry v Galway was a great game, excitement, skill, great forward play and best of all none of the cynicism you associate with you know who :)" Devoid of Cynicism! Spoken in same breath as Kerry, impossible.
arock (National) - 02/02/2020 18:34:29
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Pairc Ui Chaoimh And Liam Miller - 5 Like(s)
Replying To Greengrass: "They're sophisticated enough to have provided their spectators and players with by far the best sporting facilities in the country. They're sophisticated enough to have by far the best attended sporting competitions in the country. They're sophisticated enough to provide meaningful sporting activity for hundreds of thousands of people played out in first class club facilities the length and breadth of the country. They are sophisticated enough to organise cultural activities such as Scor which take place all over the country. They are sophisticated enough to have thousands of clubs throughout the country that are the heartbeat of their communities in both a sporting and social sense . They are sophisticated enough to have become much more than a sports organisation but rather a sporting, cultural and social body that has contributed hugely to the wellbeing of this country for a hundred and thirty years. They are sophisticated enough to have organized themselves in countries throughout the world and to have provided support in a social and sporting context to tens of thousands of young people who have been forced to leave these shores in search of employment. The GAA is far from perfect but I do think sophisticated is a word which would describe the organisation, it's achievements and it's activities . Don't you alano ?" Well said the naysayers are really loving this. And when the match does go ahead at PUC they will hail it as a victory for themselves and then go back to lie in the long grass waiting for something else to appear and justify their prejudices.
arock (National) - 27/07/2018 19:11:16
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Timekeeping - 5 Like(s)
Replying To Donaldtrump: "The referee is entitled to do so. When the ball is not in play due to delays his real time clock is stopped. Watching the Dublin/Kerry game tonight the ref was absolutely right to add on the additional minutes.
This nonsense of people having a pop at refs over this that and the other after every game is ridiculous." It is not nonsense, if he is arbitrarily adding time that is wrong, nothing wrong with someone asking for transparent time keeping. The game was scrappy, stop start, that was down to him and people are entitled to ask why a game was 79/80 mins. That said a draw was a fair result.
arock (National) - 25/01/2020 21:15:15
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