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Leinster SHC - 2 Like(s)
I was talking to my father earlier. He was in Dublin yesterday and was on O'Connell Street, Temple Bar, over to Grafton Street. He said you would not know there was two big hurling matches on in Croke Park on Saturday.
So we have how many thousand tourists walking through Temple Bar and Dublin City this weekend, and not even on one billboard is there a sign that there is a match on.
People will be sitting in a pub in Temple Bar on Saturday evening and then will realise a hurling match is on a mile up the road.
The Leinster Council could have sold 10k extra tickets with some promotion of the game, even a billboard in Temple Bar.
Shocking promotion of the game really. Or maybe its not shocking.
StoreysTash (National) - 05/06/2026 11:59:23
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Monaghan GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To farneygael3: "Good luck to Buggy Joe and minor team tomorrow. Far from titles in this county that we can turn our nose up at lower division titles so everyone should be behind the boys" You must be a corduff man
Monaghan_football (National) - 05/06/2026 13:02:25
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Leinster SHC - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "This is the norm these days.
Dublin is a very cosmopolitan (?) city nowadays.
And with the Massive decline in followers for the Dubs on match day, it really is a case of Houston We May Have a Problem…!
The promotion and marketing of games is embarrassing tbh. Not good at all.
And not just in Leinster. I had to double check when the Munster Hurling Final was on….!" Walk around Galway town and you'll do well to notice we're playing in Leinster final this weekend. Go out the country to the villages and small towns and you'll see plenty flags.
WanPintWin (National) - 05/06/2026 13:47:55
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Cork midfielder O Callaghan to miss next game as his red card is upheld.They are playing donegal.Onc again donegal benefit from the GAA s disciplinary group.
brayballer (National) - 05/06/2026 15:40:42
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Football Format Changes Discussion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "...
From Option A above:
Seed 1 - Provincial winners.
Seed 2 - Ulster and Leinster runners up, and 2 highest league ranked.
Seed 3 - 9 to 12 on league ranking.
Seed 4 - 13 to 16 on league ranking.
Round 1:
Seed 1 home to Seed 4.
Seed 2 v Seeds 3, separate draw for home advantage.
Rounds 2 and 3:
Home advantage by luck of the draw. Provincial winners already sufficiently rewarded in Round 1." You are just not going to acknowledge the fact the provincials are not equal and giving the same advantage for winning massively different comps is unfair.
JimB1991 (National) - 05/06/2026 17:22:35
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To farneygael3: "Good luck to Buggy Joe and minor team tomorrow. Far from titles in this county that we can turn our nose up at lower division titles so everyone should be behind the boys" Interestingly 3 ulster counties, Monaghan, Donegal and Down, in last 4 of Paul McGirr cup.
It would be good for Monaghan to beat Louth tomorrow and have an all-ulster final.
The gap between the tier 1 and tier 2 is not that great at all, Monaghan should never have let Donegal beat them in Ulster and Derry, ulster finalists, only got the better of Down by one point.
It will be interesting to see how Tyrone and Derry get on in tier 1 quarters tomorrow too, so we can sort of measure the standard in Ulster against other provinces.
SouthMonMan (National) - 05/06/2026 11:17:20
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Best of luck to the hurlers tomorrow. Laois have definitely improved since the first day out. They have plenty of pace in the forward line and it's crucial we don't allow them to win clean possession in the forwards to stop their goal threat.
We also can't afford to gift them long distance shots at goal as anyone from 5 to 15 is capable of scoring from distance.
The big pitch should hopefully suit our forward line, you'd imagine at least 30 points will be needed to win.
Days in Croke Park are to be cherished, please god the lads can get over the line.
hurlingguru (National) - 05/06/2026 17:03:31
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To endgame: "I'll go to the game Drax but not stay over. Your minors are playing in Ashbourne. Are you happy with the venue. Tyrone minors looked very good in the Ulster Final." Would have expected a county ground but a Leinster venue is the appropriate choice venue for a Connacht v Ulster match up.
Tyrone will be favourites but if Galway can play like they did in the 2nd half of the Connacht final the young Tribesmens will have a decent chance of pulling off an upset.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 05/06/2026 16:52:43
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Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "Walk around Galway town and you'll do well to notice we're playing in Leinster final this weekend. Go out the country to the villages and small towns and you'll see plenty flags." Rural Ireland remains "based." Majority of people in Dublin now will have no idea there is such a thing as a Leinster Hurling final. Nor the remotest interest if they did.
BarneyGrant (National) - 05/06/2026 15:46:16
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "Well said. The original poster was bascially saying SF should stop engaging in politics in the six counties which is as daft and idea as you'll hear." Politics in Ireland should not be confined by British imposed institutions like Stormont.
Withdrawing from Westminster was considered a "daft idea" before 1916. I suppose you think they were all "daft" as well?
BarneyGrant (National) - 05/06/2026 15:44:20
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Team named for Saturday. Rushie and O'Donnell start in place of Bellew and McHugh.
Seán Currie on subs. First time out this year." Good to see Currie back.
brayballer (National) - 05/06/2026 15:42:22
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Magpie2: "Maybe it should be played in Wexford Park.
Plenty of room for your 12,000 supporters.
Our ground holds 18,000. And unlike some of your posters I am telling the truth.
Anyway I hope the game goes well for you.
---‐ but not too well." It doesn't be full too often I'd say thanks for this. Ye are a very poor team thank you for agreeing with me on this.
bláthach (National) - 05/06/2026 15:05:29
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tireoghainabu: "Which is why nationalists in the six counties still refer to it as "the great betrayal"." Exactly, widely viewed as betrayal from Irish TDs who's vote democratically legitimized the Partition of Ireland.
Commodore (National) - 05/06/2026 15:01:03
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Kinnegad starting a hurling club is bananas thinking. Their players interested in hurling play with Raharney, Kinnegad would tell you that it's tough going getting volunteers to run their football side. Kilbeggan is 3 miles from Castletown so any hurlers there play with Castletown. Kilbeggan just about surviving football wise, who are the people who would organise a hurling club in these places and Moate etc? Getting a pitch alone would be a huge task, existing clubs pitches already over utilised with clubs having teams from under 6 to adult and LGFA also." Extraordinary reply. So according to you Its bananas to start a hurling team in an area with a population of 6000. As for playing with Raharney name me the Kinnegad players on the blues team.Kinnegad has a soccer team but no hurling!!!
This sums up the negative attitude towards hurling thats prevalent in official circles right now. What have the board done to help Castledaly? Answer little or nothing.
I made the point it will be difficult to start but if the will was there in an area with a 6000 population thats growing it is doable.
jobber (National) - 05/06/2026 13:49:08
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Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To StoreysTash: "I was talking to my father earlier. He was in Dublin yesterday and was on O'Connell Street, Temple Bar, over to Grafton Street. He said you would not know there was two big hurling matches on in Croke Park on Saturday.
So we have how many thousand tourists walking through Temple Bar and Dublin City this weekend, and not even on one billboard is there a sign that there is a match on.
People will be sitting in a pub in Temple Bar on Saturday evening and then will realise a hurling match is on a mile up the road.
The Leinster Council could have sold 10k extra tickets with some promotion of the game, even a billboard in Temple Bar.
Shocking promotion of the game really. Or maybe its not shocking." This is the norm these days.
Dublin is a very cosmopolitan (?) city nowadays.
And with the Massive decline in followers for the Dubs on match day, it really is a case of Houston We May Have a Problem…!
The promotion and marketing of games is embarrassing tbh. Not good at all.
And not just in Leinster. I had to double check when the Munster Hurling Final was on….!
Fionn (National) - 05/06/2026 13:07:30
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "This particular discussion is about the Good Friday agreement, with Dublin poster Barney highlighting the Shinners recognition of and Participation in Stormont under the GFA as being a negative and selling out.
My point - It was the Pro-Treaty Dail Eireann TD's who by voting for the Anglo-Irish agreement made NI legitimate in 1922, it provided democratic cover for partition of Ireland. The remnant of Pro-treaty TDs is Fine Gael." Which is why nationalists in the six counties still refer to it as "the great betrayal".
tireoghainabu (National) - 05/06/2026 12:23:58
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