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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "I'd agree with that, though it's a guaranteed advantage to Kerry most would say but I suppose it's not Kerry's fault Munster is weak enough and uncompetitive in football terms in comparison to the likes of Ulster especially." For all the talk about Ulster ,I think Leinster and Connaught are more competitive this year and Munster although maybe weak still have two teams stronger than Donegal.Kerry destroyed Donegal last year and Cork beat Donegal the previous year.
brayballer (National) - 11/04/2026 01:15:13
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "Ah would you stop. Uneducated nonsense. What do you want, an organisation run by a crowd of incompetents like the FAI who have absolutely SFA playing infrastructure for the people who enjoy & play the sport? You can give out about the GAA for lots of things but they run a tight ship & they have to but people like you can't be talked to. An amateur organisation that owns 4 stadia that can hold 40k+ people and many more that can hold around 25k. No other sporting organisation in Ireland comes even close." Not uneducated, simple facts lad
Munster hurling championship price hikes in 2024 and 2025 5 euro each time, why because the gaa know they are sell outs.
All Ireland quarter finals and semi finals, tickets increased in 2025 as well.
As a donegal exile living for the last 30 plus years in Leitrim, i can tell you for 2 adults last year following donegal almost 1000 euro on tickets alone. How about a family of 4? For context You can get a Bayern Munich season ticket for less than 150 euro.
Corporate GAA forget than many of their patrons are supporting weekly lotto, 50/50 draws etc as well.
An amateur organisation??? Run by paid officials who are more interested in lucrative sponsorship deals and filling croke park at every opportunity, regardless of whether it is gaelic games , concerts, American football, or now by the looms of things even a champions league final.
totalrecall (National) - 11/04/2026 02:21:03
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "Why did you bother applying if you acknowledged I was right in your last paragraph.
If some can afford it and others can't that's inequality." No, that's what's called a meritocracy.
What you seem to be pining for is some sort of socialist Eden.
What country would you most like us to be like, out of interest?
cavanman47 (National) - 11/04/2026 06:00:20
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
A great article for you Barney.
Cabra's golden memories - from road leagues to Croke Park appearances, all part of Naomh Fionnbarra's folklore | Irish Independent https://share.google/KwP6suFXWentknBmc
Viking66 (National) - 11/04/2026 08:35:25
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To leitrim4sam: "Defeat to Roscommon minors tonight by 1-13 to 0-02.
Sligo and Roscommon are both ahead of us in population I know, but comparable to us in numbers of clubs.
We are still the only county without a title in any level of Connacht club championship.
We are the only county without a win at all in either under 20 or minor championship.
I've said it before - our guys look good until the play outside our county bounds. Then they get really exposed to their level.
I don't know what the other counties are doing - but it's different to what we are doing. Not an option anymore - it is a fact" Nothing is going to change because there's no appetite for change. We claim to be footballing mad but all the evidence suggests otherwise. Wanting to win is one of the reasons to play sport. We'll continue to exist in our little bubble of mediocrity and convince ourselves that all is well until we get out of our county and then we're exposed again and again. Next year, as every other year, we'll be told we've a good minor or u20s team.
Regarding our population, Sligo is a good example where that argument doesn't hold water. Sligo Town is a soccer town. Rugby is also very strong. Take the town out if it and we're close to it in terms of population. The difference is that they have invested time and effort into their coaching at underage. The results in recent years speak for themselves. They've used their resources well. Far from perfect but a lot better than us.
I've said it before, it's not the players fault. It's the system they've been brought up in. Make any suggestions here and you're shot down. Hence my acceptance that we're not serious about our football. It's a mindset that's taken hold over the past 20 years. The relative success of our ladies teams in the same period proves this. No excuses, they just get on with it.
Anyway, best of luck to our senior men's team. I hope I'm proven wrong.
ThePowerhouse (National) - 11/04/2026 08:48:05
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To brayballer: "For all the talk about Ulster ,I think Leinster and Connaught are more competitive this year and Munster although maybe weak still have two teams stronger than Donegal.Kerry destroyed Donegal last year and Cork beat Donegal the previous year." Kerry are still number 1, but there's no world in which you can say Cork are better than Donegal at the moment. You're only on the wind-up with that.
Donegal are top-2 in most people's books at the moment. Whether Cork beat them in 2024 is irrelevant. Cork can be a handful on their day, but they're still inconsistent. They lost by 20 points to Derry a weeks ago. Donegal are at a different level.
WanPintWin (National) - 11/04/2026 12:21:25
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Trumps Conflict - What Influence Will It Have On The GAA - 1 Like(s)
Replying To suckvalleypaddy: "The GAA could use Croke park more this summer with double or triple headers. Extra trains and buses could be useful to mitigate against expensive road trips also. It will still be expensive on families but it might help. I'm just not optimistic about the trouble in middle east getting sorted. Thank God for GAA +" This is certainly something practical that the GAA should do and by all means with different codes etc. We will have to see how this suitation plays out over the next month or so.
Square_B (National) - 11/04/2026 15:13:54
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To preddan: "great comeback for minor team, great win, well done all" Very strong wind but we had no luck in first half creating three goal chances but between bad luck and good defending didn't convert any.
In the second half we were completely dominant outscoring Offaly in Birr by 14 points. But what was even better was the battling qualities shown. It wont be easy playing so many games one after the other especially with ao many dual players but this team can compete.
II hold my hand up, I questioned why so few of the county finalists werent playing but everyone who played today were excellent.
jobber (National) - 11/04/2026 16:47:46
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
#Commodore.
The threads getting messed up and getting confusing, so Ill start again.
I dont want exact equality of wealth. I want equality of opportunity. Im not as wealthy as I could be, but that was my choice. Im happy with the choices I made.
I realise the importance of education, and Ive made sure my children have gone to schools which reflect the importance I put on education. I've positively encouraged them to remain in school until they do their leaving certs. Ive told them that I dont mind if they go on to 3rd level education, get a job which provides job specific training and a career path, or do an apprenticeship. What Ive told them Im not doing is paying for their food while they lie on my sofa at the age of 25.
Some children come from disadvantaged backgrounds and dont get this encouragement at home. And certainly dont get it from their peer group.
As a country it seems we just conveniently forget these lads.
And thats not equality of opportunity as far as I see it.
As regards what the state can do, more money needs to be spent on parent education in disadvantaged areas, and contacts with youth and social workers pointing out the different life choices that can be made. Im 100% certain that most of the people in those areas are entirely unaware of the grants you speak of.
Maybe this obscuring of information is, as you say, motivated by a perceived need to be careful with taxpayers money. But thats a shortsighted and false economy. If you reduced the "cant work, wont work" section of society by 50% say for talks sake, you will save far more on DSP payments than the cost of 3rd level grants and increased numbers of social and youth workers. And thats before taking into account the increase in tax revenue from the 50% that will then be working. You will also save a fortune in other types of social services to do with rehabilitation, from crime and drug and alcohol misuse, law and order expenses, court expenses, and prison expenses.
Viking66 (National) - 11/04/2026 18:05:08
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ElGranSenor: "Draw probably a fair result in the U20 game
Thought O'Brien was quiet enough for most of the game but he showed his class late on with the goal and the assist
Carley did well enough, good ball-winner, Dempsey did a good job winning the ball too although needs to look for the pass rather than going for the score
Not much between us and Kilkenny, Dublin are probably around the same level as us, it's just that Galway are streets ahead of everyone in Leinster
Kildare game is knockout for us now, basically a Preliminary QF, lose that and we'd also have to play one or two games to qualify for Leinster next year, I think
We're 23 points behind KK on score difference so we'd need them to lose to Galway and for us to beat Kildare and for the combined winning margins to be greater than 23 points
That game falls behind the first two Leinster SHC games so Galway will probably be resting both Niland and Rabbitte, they still have a lot of depth and quality though" Galway have the best 19 year old hurler in Ireland, Aaron Niland and the supporting cast of Jason Rabbitte etc are top class too, all prominent with Galway senior team this year too.
Similar to Tipp last year with Darragh McCarthy, Sam O Farrell and Oisin O'Donoghue.
It makes a massive different to an un20 team to have senior county hurlers on it.
Hard to look past Galway for the un20 All Ireland.
Past hurler (National) - 11/04/2026 19:48:50
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