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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Really?
There are a million people already on the Island who don't consider themselves to be Irish after hundreds of years." Most of them might not consider themselves to be Irish but that doesn't change the fact that they are Irish. The Orange Order is an Irish Protestant institution, founded in Ireland, by Irish people. If they choose not to accept that fact that's an issue for or with them, not where they are from.
Viking66 (National) - 16/10/2025 09:11:35
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Ideal scenario would be that our senior and intermediate championship group games (which give everyone a very good chance of progressing to knock-out) should start 2 weeks after our senior county hurlers/footballers (whoever lasts longest) are knocked out of AI contention. OK, clubs may be missing a few lads in US (but will hopefully have enough in the tank to make KO), but it gets the ball rolling and increases chances of games being played in better weather.
batitout (National) - 16/10/2025 16:30:10
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To SouthGalway: "Very true. Them courses that are poorly run will be yanked like weeds in a garden. Word of mouth, research, and choice will be their downfall. I agree with what someone said about Trades being so useful. You'll always find work whether in Ireland or wherever. AI and Robotics are already making a dent in other fields. The CEO of Ford Motor Company just got back from China and he was shocked at the amount of Robots there doing jobs." Read that article too. Photos of robots that looked straight out of Star Wars!
Viking66 (National) - 16/10/2025 09:08:45
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To SixtiesKid: "Dreadful weather promised Saturday night.
Hurling under lights in the pouring rain
What a way to promote hurling.
Are we mad?
The split season, which Galway has so adamantly supported was supposed, to increase the chances of playing games in better conditions.
Nothing has improved" It's mid October...in our climate the chances are that we'll have bad weather rather than good for our county semi finals and final. I dont know what better solution you can think of apart from
moving the semi finals to Lanzarote or the Costa Del Sol? Do you think we should run off the county championship in August and September? Well then we would have to go back to the old style straight knockout competition. Our county champions wont play their All Ireland semi final til mid-November (let's campaign for Lanzarote for that one!) so if the final was being played now or earlier it would be too long a gap and would hamper their chances of reaching the All Ireland final. Of course from now on, with senior club reduced to 16 teams, there will be the possibility of playing the final around now or possibly earlier in October and entering our county champions in the Leinster club championship though I wouldnt be an advocate of that myself. But certainly they would need to take part in a provincial championship if the county championship was to be run off any earlier than it currently is.
PoolSturgeon (National) - 16/10/2025 15:42:20
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To SixtiesKid: "Dreadful weather promised Saturday night.
Hurling under lights in the pouring rain
What a way to promote hurling.
Are we mad?
The split season, which Galway has so adamantly supported was supposed, to increase the chances of playing games in better conditions.
Nothing has improved" Just as well there's a fine big stand in Salthill which will keep the patrons dry. Most would be drenched if it was in Athenry.
I do agree with you that the county board are to blame for the poor weather forecast on the weekend. It's one of the biggest scandals I can remember in Galway GAA.
Although, they've done well over the past 2 weeks on that front, with two very dry weekends.
I'm pretty sure most rounds of the championship have been played on dry weekends actually.
Have we gone soft in Galway, giving about the threat of rain? We definitely need to develop more hurlers from west of the Corrib if that's the case. They're well used to the rain.
WanPintWin (National) - 16/10/2025 15:34:17
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To countymonaghan: "I clearly said depending on Intermediate results. You must be from a town team that ain't going so well you are very defensive on this whole thing.
Scotstown, Clontibret, Inniskeen, Maghercloone, Corduff, Cremartin, Truagh, Latton are all villages.
And yes I clearly said 'populated' areas. So more to pick from.. It is up to them to make it a good environment and make it appealing to their people to stay and join and stick with their club." What Orielman means is that it is impossible for there not be a town team promoted as one of Carrick, Blayney and harps are guaranteed to go up.
updafaughs (National) - 16/10/2025 14:11:12
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To farneygael3: "Who'd back against Scotstown at least reaching an All Ireland club this year? What teams would you fear in Ulster??" based on the last 30 plus years, i think you would find plenty that would back against them reaching the semi... If you think the derry, tyrone champions or kilcoo (who schooled them last year) would fear the untitled parishes... think again... barstool talk in moynas doesn't win ulster titles...
mick2007 (National) - 16/10/2025 14:06:40
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Read that article too. Photos of robots that looked straight out of Star Wars!" All done in what they call "Dark Buildings" robots don't need lights
cluichethar (National) - 16/10/2025 13:26:08
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To gaelsboy: "It will take a few years yet before they get anywhere, they did not set the intermediate championship alight and Gort could be relegated yet." Thank you for your great insight and input.
southleitrim_mafia (National) - 16/10/2025 13:25:56
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To more4me: "what type of safeguards can you put in place?
Like the EO management talking about structure were correct. They have one take but there are others on top of this, for a lot of football clubs in the county they lose players for 3/4 months in the middle of the year to go hurling(Fenagh could be more competitive if this was not the case), should there not be safeguarding there? Kilbride an aging club looking at their players walk past their own sessions on their own field too i might add while thier players hurl for someone else. What good is that to them?
The hurler on the ditch has to start realising that Carlow is a mainly football county as much as ppl may not like it. If it goes back to a similar rotation before the split and hurling struggles, it is because players are not as interested in hurling as everyone may think. In the same way as if players don't play as much football, but again I do not think that would happen as Carlow is mainly football.
People will come back saying but our county team are in Div 1B in hurling while our footballers are Div 4, fair point but about 7 counties in the country take hurling seriously while there are 32 teams in football. Within the county if you gave a budget to the county footballers based off the takings brought in from football and the hurlers based off the same hurling wouldn't go too far I would think.
Hurling has had priority the last few years here and it's time now to let it back to the way it was. Stop shoe horning football fixtures into terrible weather. Semi finals in junior A a week before final, not exactly fair for the two teams in the final, cannot be getting much build up before it." You're painting a very narrow picture of hurling there, to be honest. The idea that "only seven counties take hurling seriously" just isn't true anymore. It's mis-informed, emotional codswallop.
Look at Kildare, Antrim, Offaly, Westmeath, Laois, Down and even Meath who are all investing heavily, fielding competitive underage squads, and improving their senior setups. Add those to the traditional powers (Kilkenny, Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, Clare, Offaly, Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Wexford), and you're closer to 18 counties with meaningful commitment. Including ourselves.That's over half the country playing hurling at a serious level... hardly a niche sport.
Yes, Carlow might be "mainly football," but that's only because of numbers, not passion or potential. Plus, football is much easier to play and organise. The reality is that hurling has carried Carlow's name further in recent years (Division 1B hurling, Joe McDonagh Cup wins, and real development at club level). The county's national profile now owes more to the hurlers than to the footballers. Which has implications for sponsorship and Central funding.
And about those "safeguards." For a lot of lads, the dual structure keeps them playing, not the other way around. The minute you start forcing players to pick, you lose talent... and once it's gone, it's gone. Why should a player in Myshall or Ballinkillen/Fenagh or Mt Leinster Rangers be punished because Éire Óg and Rathvilly are too lazy to be proper full service GAA clubs?
As for fixtures. Fair point about the weather, but the split season isn't a hurling conspiracy. Football clubs asked to go second. If Carlow wants both codes to thrive, it needs coordination and not competition driven by pearl clutchers. The solution isn't to shove hurling back into the margins, it's to plan smarter so both get proper preparation and fair exposure.
Hurling's success brings pride and visibility to Carlow that football hasn't matched in six or seven decades (bar a brief interlude in the late 2010s). You don't have to pick one over the other. But if we're talking about which code is punching above its weight, it's not the one languishing in Division 4. Pick up your hurl and cop on.
CARPS (National) - 16/10/2025 12:39:31
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Westmeath GAA Football Finals Fixtures
Saturday October 25th
Shay Murtagh Precast Intermediate Football Final
Shandonagh v Tubberclair 15:30PM TEG Cusack Park
Sunday October 26th
M.J.S. Build's Minor Football Championship Final
Na Dunta v Mullingar Shamrock's 13:15PM TEG Cusack Park
Sunday October 26th
Shay Murtagh Senior Football Championship Final
Na Dunta v Coralstown-Kinnegad 15.15PM TEG Cusack Park
Saturday November 1st
Clarkes Bar Junior 2 Football Final
St Paul's v Tyrrellspass 14.00PM TEG Cusack Park
Sunday November 2nd
Clarkes Bar Junior 1 Football Final
Ballinagore v St Joseph's 14.00PM TEG Cusack Park
JoxerDaly (National) - 16/10/2025 12:03:07
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "So you know them better than they do themselves! Mind you, you are in good company. Pearse had same idea. Early Provos were realistic. They are entitled to be ethnic group with protected rights but under a 32 county state, not under London.
There are lots of ethnic groups around the world who do not consider themselves Spanish (Basques, Catalan being one off top of my head) or whatever 'nationality' is on passport. Ulster prods are the same. So are most foreign born people i know who consider themselves AND their children to be Polish etc." Where you are born determines what nationality you are for most people Ive met here, with some exceptions, and also for most if not all countries when it comes to issuing passports etc, although alot of countries would give a passport to someone born outside the country but to parents from the country. In Ireland it is more extreme as in a grandparent will do. There are plenty such people living here born in the UK but to Irish parents who you conveniently forget when quoting your figures about foreign born people here. I actually know over a dozen just in the small parish I live in. All but 2 sound like they are from the parish as their parents moved home when they were children, the other 2 sound like they are from Birmingham as they didnt move home til later in life. Id be pretty sure there are 10s of thousands, or more likely hundreds of thousands, such people in the country. Everybody in the village considers them to be Irish, they consider themselves to be Irish, but you dont consider them to be Irish.
On the other side of the coin Ian Paisley is Irish. His father, grandfather, great grandfather etc were all born on the island of Ireland. Most of them were born when it was all 1 country, albeit occupied, as in pre partition. There are probably numerous Irish people you know, possibly even including yourself, who's ancestors came to Ireland since his did. The fact is that if he chooses to label himself British he is wrong. He isn't from the island of Britain, he's from the island of Ireland. Had this debate with a good few protestant friends when I lived in the 6 counties ;-)
Viking66 (National) - 16/10/2025 11:45:38
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To TanCanRan: "An old league game with fringe players is a million miles away in terms of importance from a county semi-final." In your opinion
jm25 (National) - 16/10/2025 11:16:19
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "As shocking as spending €2.8m on a piece of land, doing nothing with it and selling it at a massive loss over 10 years later, the whole deal costing Galway over €3m with interest payments included?
If you think playing a game in floodlights in 2025 is shocking, god help you when you read about an actual scandal.
Plenty counties play big games under lights. The quality of the lights in Pearse Stadium is very good.
We beat Clare in the league earlier this year under the same lights and the players managed absolutely fine." An old league game with fringe players is a million miles away in terms of importance from a county semi-final.
TanCanRan (National) - 16/10/2025 10:47:58
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Croke Park expansion - 1 Like(s)
Was in a safe standing area at a game in UK before the international break. It was great, it should really be done for Hill 16.
ExiledInWex (National) - 16/10/2025 10:31:39
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "So the Dublin SHC Final will be between reigning All Ireland Club Champions Na Fianna and a Lucan team contesting their 1st SHC Final in 12 years.
2 cracking semi finals.
Fair play to Boden who made a right good go of it despite being 0-16 to 0-07 down at Half Time.
Boden got to within a point of Lucan with 15mins to go, but Lucan prevailed at the end 1-21 to 1-17.
Lucan had 8 players on the scoresheet to Boden's 11, with Lucan's Ben Coffey top scoring with 1-11
The other semi final was nip n tuck for long periods but 2 quick fire goals turned this tussle on its head.
This was a much anticipated encounter between 2 sides who have contested 3 of the last 4 Dublin SHC finals.
At half time it was 10pts each. but those 2 goals in the 50th and 52nd minute seemed to knock the sails out of Crokes.
A full time score of 2-22 to 0-17 flattered the Glasnevin men in my opinion. But it wont bother them as they go for 3 in a row... Na Fianna finished with 7 scorers to Crokes 9. Colin Currie of Na Fianna top scored with 10pts.
This will be only Na Fianna's 5th ever Final, but 5th in 5 years as they seek to win their 3rd title.
It is some run they are on.
For Lucan it will be only their 2nd ever final, as they seek their maiden SHC title.
And so the double is still on for Na Fianna...... but I certainly wont be writing off the underdogs Lucan, even after a weekend of shocks.... (https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/1013/1538231-club-scene-hit-by-48-hours-of-seismic-shocks/)" It's only Lucans 2nd ever county final. I'd love to see them do it but you'd have to fancy Na Fianna forwards doing too much damage.
WEXILE (National) - 16/10/2025 10:24:34
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