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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "That's an opinion, not a fact." Is it not factual that government have given Rte millions to cover loss of license income
How many Rte staff have ran for ff fg recently
jm25 (National) - 09/12/2025 14:36:35
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Galway Hurling thread - 3 Like(s)
And all the talk from Mr Bellew was the county final under lights was to get the winners ready for the all Ireland series. Is it expected to be dark next Sunday at 1pm in Parnell???? My god
CillTormoir (National) - 09/12/2025 12:38:06
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
I see all of Loughrea's prayers have been answered for the semi final fixture, it's not under lights , it's early in the day and it's not in Salthill. I imagine they will have massive support as all the obstacles that hindered being able to enjoy the county final have been removed. I sincerely hope they can come away with a convincing victory.
backtooldwall (National) - 09/12/2025 15:55:06
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Dublin GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Ballyboden St Enda's (Dublin) 2-18 Athy (Kildare) 1-14 FT
Excellent win for Boden in Croker last evening.
It was 1-07 to 0-07 at half time
The Athy goalie made up for his mistake for the Boden goal, with a later save to deny Collie a goal.
The wide count finished 8 to 6 for Boden but Boden will be disappointed with their last few minutes.
They had a 14pts lead but at the end only 7 separated the two teams. So bits to work on for sure.
Dublin's domination of the Leinster club football championship continues with 11 of the last 13 titles now going to the capital, including 6 in a Row. This was Boden's 3rd Leinster football title, to go with their 5 Dublin SFC titles.
Ross McGarry top scored for Boden with 5pts and he had an excellent game.
Collie was relatively quiet tbh.
The ever young Kildare/Athy man Kevin Feely top scored with 7pts.
Boden will now meet Dingle in the All Ireland Club Semi Final on Jan 3/4.
Heartbreak for Finbarr's in the Munster club Final. A 2pt free in the 4th minute of injury time with effectively the last kick of the game for Dingle.
I said it months ago, and I maintain my view - 2pts for a free should be scrapped, especially for a free that is moved up for an infringement. 2pts from play, yes. But from a free - no.
Anyway, we have the makings of a cracking semi final now in 3 weeks." I must say I agree with you Fionn although I was happy for Dingle,I like two pointers but they should be from play only.I saw someone on the Kerry forum comment that a 45 is one point and you could get a free in closer on the 40m area and get two points from it.It does nt make sense. The two point frees should be scrapped.
gaa.88 (National) - 09/12/2025 19:00:01
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "By the way Cuala have used imports in the past - eg Darragh O'Connell.
Fine hurler in fairness." A fine hurler and a huge loss to Kerry Fionn but tbf to him he was teaching in Greystones and found the travel up and down to North Kerry very hard. He used to train with Cuala for a while before he ever transfered.
gaa.88 (National) - 09/12/2025 18:48:26
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Remind us again, which ones ?" Has he not got things settled between Isreal and Palestine compared to mess he inherited?
India and Pakistan agreed to ceasefire
The info is out there if you think freely and not have trump derangement syndrome
As I've said dont like him but just criticising his bad and not calling out things he has done well is not very balanced
jm25 (National) - 10/12/2025 10:57:47
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To SouthGalway: "Trump sued and won against CBS news for altering the Kamala Harris interview, the Media covered for Biden until the so called debate when the whole world saw the truth, they denied the existence of the Hunter Biden laptop, etc so I don't know what media you're talking about. As for dysfunctional in the USA there were 25 Republicans in a recent enough primary and I think 24 Democrats in a recent enough primary yet the Irish President race was very limited and I won't even bother mentioning all the spoiled votes. Wake up." You seem to be an expert all thingsAmerican, and fair play to you. You probably are American and that's as it should be. But you might read up on the constitutional guidelines governing the selection of candidates for a largely ceremonial role as president of this country. Last time there were many more made it through. Twenty odd runners for each party in primary's is great, as they were for positions as lawmakers. Running for the Dail or county councils here could have many candidates, which is again, as it should be, as the positions are again, for lawmakers and legislation.
Freethinker (National) - 10/12/2025 09:46:50
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To alalalalalum: "Still a sizeable chunk of the population who believe what that organisation churns out God bless them" There are many ways to pick up informed news on what's happening in the world, and in fairness, RTE are pretty fair in their coverage, unlike those two bastions of democratic discourse in your country, Fox and CNN. We should be defending our instruments of democracy really, when you see what autocratic regimes do to the "free press" .
Freethinker (National) - 10/12/2025 09:38:02
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Its a shame its not a double header in Parnell Park" Slaughtneil in Parnell Park will be no joke. Tight pitch and those boys will work like dogs. Would be great to see Loughrea win it. Best of luck to them.
GalwaysFinest (National) - 10/12/2025 09:37:14
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To IronSleeve: "Ok. So the 8 team championships I think it's safe to say are a success. But the structures need work. The Championships and Leagues not aligned can lead to silly stuff. If Aughavas had an off day they'd be Div1 league and Junior Championship next year. But even teams playing one division lower in the league are not prepared properly for a higher championship.
The current 4 game open draw is a bit of craic alright but not really fit for purpose if you want your championship to be merit based. Most had a good oul laugh at Mary's this year. Truth is though they got a rough draw and if they were relegated they'd have made Intermediate very uncompetitive next year, probably even more so than Allen Gaels this year. Funny perhaps but not good for Leitrim football, especially for the 7 other Intermediate clubs.
So what to do? How about this? Align league and championship asap. Same teams in both in all grades.
Play the league and then seed a 2 groups of 4 championship based on league performance. FIrst and second in league seeded one for championship, third and fourth seeded two and so on.
The league thus becomes very competitive because it will have a big bearing on your chances in the championship. You want your team to have as high a seed as possible so the league in effect becomes part of the championship (without being part of the championship!)." Partly what made the senior championship entertaining this year was the fact Carrick were in such trouble. That is what the luck of the draw is all about. The club with the biggest population in the county and a large management team shouldn't have struggled so much but they did.
If they weren't good enough for the senior championship which they almost weren't this year then they should have been dropped to intermediate...or are you suggesting they get an indefinite stay in senior? That's a bizarre take.
They barely beat last year's intermediate champions in a relegation battle remember...who is to say how they'd do at intermediate in that case.
alalalalalum (National) - 09/12/2025 21:55:38
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To TrueBlue35: "It's a really tricky one because it's hard to prove a club have actively pursued players to transfer in as is being suggested by a few twitter experts. And then there's the point of what are these lads supposed to do if living and working in Dublin and not in a reasonable commutable distance from their home clubs (4 main ones are from Antrim, Kerry, Mayo and Galway). Take D'arcy for example, he lives out around Knocklyon, works in Dublin and therefore felt it was worthwhile transferring to a club which he felt would give him a better platform to play top level club football but also cement his standing as a Galway starting midfielder, which it has. Win win for both I'd have thought. It has been happening for years in Boden with transfers within the county even i.e. Darran Homan, Dotsy O'Callaghan, further back to Andy McCann from Armagh (all ireland winner) and then plenty of other clubs have done it in both recent times and going further back. Sure UCD were winning club championships lets not forget." I agree its tricky and I would have no problem with a lad like Darcy who is living there but maybe there should be a limit of 2 or 3 outsiders allowed play.
gaa.88 (National) - 09/12/2025 18:53:58
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To jm25: "Is it not factual that government have given Rte millions to cover loss of license income
How many Rte staff have ran for ff fg recently" Still a sizeable chunk of the population who believe what that organisation churns out God bless them
alalalalalum (National) - 09/12/2025 18:53:41
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "This annoys a lot of Dublin supporters tbf.
A lot of Dublin clubs have/had done this - Parnell's we all know about, Na Fianna, Vinnies, Crokes, Boden, Judes, Plunkett's to name but a few.
Fully agree that there should be limits - both intra and inter county.
TBH there is no excuse for the likes of Boden or Crokes doing it - the size of their clubs....
You go the club games in Dublin and think, oh wow, he could play for the Dubs and then realise that he isn't eligible..
It is undermining the Dublin championships somewhat imo." I know its hard on Dublin players tbf but if lads are working or living in the area,its very hard for them to sustain travelling if they are from far away counties.However they should just transfer to the club they living or working near.I dont agree with a lad living in Ranelagh and playing with Na Fianna just because he can.
gaa.88 (National) - 09/12/2025 18:52:01
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To backtooldwall: "I see all of Loughrea's prayers have been answered for the semi final fixture, it's not under lights , it's early in the day and it's not in Salthill. I imagine they will have massive support as all the obstacles that hindered being able to enjoy the county final have been removed. I sincerely hope they can come away with a convincing victory." They wouldn't care if it was under lights or not. Under lights Vs Turlough and Thomas', against a gale and torrential rain they played very well.
BigBàsMan (National) - 09/12/2025 17:06:48
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To jm25: "Is it not factual that government have given Rte millions to cover loss of license income
How many Rte staff have ran for ff fg recently" While RTE are far from perfect it cannot be compared to complete lack of media accountability team Trump can get away with. Take for instance the recent presidential election here. Although the Gavin stuff was already in the papers it was Aine Lawlors interview on rte 1 that really finished him off....the candidate of one of the main government parties. That could not happen in America because of their dysfunctional democracy.
FullOfPorter (National) - 09/12/2025 15:08:56
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Magnificent win for CBS in UCD grounds, up by a point at half time and a great defensive effort in second half to win by 1. They're missing some key players like Will Scahill so it was a great win
Claretandblue (National) - 09/12/2025 14:52:43
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
It's a really tricky one because it's hard to prove a club have actively pursued players to transfer in as is being suggested by a few twitter experts. And then there's the point of what are these lads supposed to do if living and working in Dublin and not in a reasonable commutable distance from their home clubs (4 main ones are from Antrim, Kerry, Mayo and Galway). Take D'arcy for example, he lives out around Knocklyon, works in Dublin and therefore felt it was worthwhile transferring to a club which he felt would give him a better platform to play top level club football but also cement his standing as a Galway starting midfielder, which it has. Win win for both I'd have thought. It has been happening for years in Boden with transfers within the county even i.e. Darran Homan, Dotsy O'Callaghan, further back to Andy McCann from Armagh (all ireland winner) and then plenty of other clubs have done it in both recent times and going further back. Sure UCD were winning club championships lets not forget.
TrueBlue35 (National) - 09/12/2025 13:53:00
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Perhaps you could enlighten us as to how America at the moment sounds a bit like Ireland. ??" You reckon our media is fair and impartial, specifically national ones?
alalalalalum (National) - 09/12/2025 13:32:47
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Dara Ó Cinnéide made good point today about teams with smaller picks competing again big clubs who fill gaps with transfers.
Cuala didn't - all their own - but Boden have and its definitely unfair. Transfers are way too high. Needs to be limits, intra county as well as inter county.
This is undermining Dublin championship never mind nationally.
Boden would not be where they are without the transfers." This annoys a lot of Dublin supporters tbf.
A lot of Dublin clubs have/had done this - Parnell's we all know about, Na Fianna, Vinnies, Crokes, Boden, Judes, Plunkett's to name but a few.
Fully agree that there should be limits - both intra and inter county.
TBH there is no excuse for the likes of Boden or Crokes doing it - the size of their clubs....
You go the club games in Dublin and think, oh wow, he could play for the Dubs and then realise that he isn't eligible..
It is undermining the Dublin championships somewhat imo.
Fionn (National) - 09/12/2025 13:09:56
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