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National Hurling League 2026 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Your local cinema must live to see you coming with your kids!!! Arguing that they should get in for free" An active underage coach having to pay for kids to go to games is like charging the cast to see the film in the cinema. Under 16s were always free. It's an outrage they've changed it. Cutting off their nose to spite their face as usual.
Doylerwex (National) - 25/01/2026 10:48:32
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National Football League 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Dublin are currently a work in progress but there are signs of greenshoots for opponents to be on their guard. Home league ground advantage at the business end of the championship can be the grain of rice. Interestingly with Meath playing their home home league games in Croke Park this year - a clash of Dublin v Meath in Croke Park in the championship this year will be the first time since 2011 that Dublin won't have home league ground advantage over an opponent in Croke Park.
legendzxix (National) - 24/01/2026 21:34:56
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National Football League 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Defo wont be the Dubs anyways lol" Will you ever stop with the childish replies. Dubs still more likely to win Sam than ourselves.
yew_tree (National) - 25/01/2026 12:31:47
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National Football League 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "Dublin are currently a work in progress but there are signs of greenshoots for opponents to be on their guard. Home league ground advantage at the business end of the championship can be the grain of rice. Interestingly with Meath playing their home home league games in Croke Park this year - a clash of Dublin v Meath in Croke Park in the championship this year will be the first time since 2011 that Dublin won't have home league ground advantage over an opponent in Croke Park." Meath always chose to play Dublin in Croke Park in championship for as long as i can recall.
In 1983 they might have moved replay to Navan but no. If Meath can recapture spirit of that team they'll be serious challengers in near future.
Must be 60s since last championship game in Navan.
BarneyGrant (National) - 24/01/2026 22:24:29
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National Football League 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Gaa_lover: "Will be a shock to many as most of those 7 will do well to reach the last 4 nevermind a final. And that is not the definition of what is genuine contenders." As only 4 teams can get into the last four then yes your post could be very correct lol.
brayballer (National) - 24/01/2026 21:43:31
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To foreveryoung: "Leitrim will field!" Oh you're so original please thanks so much. Nobody ever made that joke before. It's so funny thanks so so much for sharing your incredible wit.
bláthach (National) - 24/01/2026 13:40:03
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "Yet most Chinese people are very happy at how their Country is currently run, which goes against the grain of propaganda from the West peddled for decades. They have a system that is different from ours, which doesn't align with our values, but how they live or govern is their own business.
My problem with Irish Revenue, is that they use the excuse of Money laundering, a crime committed by a tiny percentage of the population (less than 1%), to monitor all financial accounts of all Irish citizens/residents and hound people in order extort additional tax for silly crap.
Like one example on the radio this week, where someone at Revenue noted that a woman had listed her house at a higher value thanks to an new extension, and the revenue person didn't think a PAYE worker of her means could afford without a loan and they couldn't see any loans from financial institutions. Turned out her Dad loaned her money or paid the bill, and now revenue have slapped her with a large tax bill.
If we are so free in Ireland, surely once we pay income tax on our earnings, the remaining money should be ours to spend how we like, but its not. If we buy a home for our family, we have to pay an annual tax on it for life. If you ask every Irish person how they feel about property tax etc, you would find we also have no say in how this Country is run." You say most Chinese people are happy at how their country is run, in the absence of elections can you provide one iota of evidence to support this. The massacre in Tiananmen in 1989 was a warning to dissidents that peaceful demonstrations will not be tolerated. In 2024 China was listed as the worst offender for journalists to be jailed because of their work.
tireoghainabu (National) - 24/01/2026 14:05:06
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National Football League 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Gavlar: "Yeah thought they would struggle in croker with the lack of atmosphere but fair play to them
I thought Derry would go up with Tyrone because of tradition but Meath have a massive advantage with that win interesting to see if Derry can bounce back" Not sure what "tradition" advantage Derry have over Meath?? Meath are also more successful than Tyrone. Tradition counts for little (as Meath have found out) if you don't have the players.
yew_tree (National) - 24/01/2026 18:24:27
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Two-Point Winners After The Hooter - 1 Like(s)
Two point winners after the hooter are more likely to come from frees awarded before the hooter at intercounty level.
Any late late two point winners from play at inter county will have to be kicked before the hooter. If the ball is in flight, those will count.
legendzxix (National) - 24/01/2026 17:42:56
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Matthew: "More should be involved if they accepted invitations to join the squad but only one player accept an invitation!" Fair enough
Iarmhisamhi (National) - 24/01/2026 21:19:48
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
China is widely considered to have the world's most extensive mass surveillance system, utilizing nearly 700 million cameras and advanced AI to monitor its citizens.
We can compare and contrast but the fact is, as much that is wrong with our own system, we can critisize and mock our own government and then vote them out.
Do that in China and you'll get a knock on the door, fall out a window in Russia or just disappear.
yew_tree (National) - 24/01/2026 21:55:13
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To galway19: "Plenty of youth in for tomorrow night and it looks like they will all get plenty of chances in the league. Usually you'd say that having this many involved in a senior panel is too many but this 2026 u20 panel is well above average. Let them get their feet wet early in senior hurling." We've had touted 'well above average' u20 panels for a few seasons now. Well above average that is, until the Leinster u20 championship actually starts, and 'expectations' get revised then quite quickly.
Pope_Benedict (National) - 24/01/2026 22:24:45
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National Football League 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To brayballer: "As only 4 teams can get into the last four then yes your post could be very correct lol." Defo wont be the Dubs anyways lol
S1234 (National) - 24/01/2026 22:43:17
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To southleitrim_mafia: "It was really a bit of a nothing motion. He signed the Proclamation as Seán Mac Diarmada, and while Sheáin Mhic Dhiarmada might be grammatically correct in Irish, it wasn't the name he actually used himself. For that reason, I think the motion was deservedly defeated.
Although, I don't imagine that's why it was defeated. It was probably more about the cost of rebranding the signage at Páirc Seán, and the fact that we're already tied into a naming rights deal with the credit union. The current title is Heartland Credit Union Páirc Seán MacDiarmada, changing things now would only open up a whole set of other complications." Seems he was born as John MacDermott alright. But as is the form, Irish people generally have native Irish versions of their own anglicised names that they go by day in, day out in their English-speaking part of Ireland. So even an Irish-loathing James O'Brien from wherever has Séamus Ó Briain as the Irish equivalent, whether he likes it or not. Therefore, when you're naming something John MacDermott Park and calling it using it's Irish name, you'll include Seán Mac Diarmada in the translation. And yep, Irish is saddled with that pesky thing called grammar, one that has an even peskier thing called the genitive case* (just like German, Polish, and other languages), meaning that when you place Seán Mac Diarmada after Páirc, you get Páirc Sheáin Mhic Dhiarmada. And that's that; there's no two ways about it. So I disagree with you about the motion being deservedly defeated for the reason you stated. Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada is just wrong in its language, just the same way that City of Manchester Stadium is grammatically correct in English, and City Manchester Stadium would be wrong. But no-one would stand for City Manchester Stadium if someone tried to call it that, and that's the difference between English and Irish.
However, I agree with your second paragraph entirely. It's probably more hassle than it's worth (in officialdom's eyes) to change the name. Pity they couldn't have just got it right in the first place. Shoddy, sloppy, embarrassing (but they don't know it), lazy, shameful; really it is.
Apologies for the rant! It started off as something short but then took off.
*The tuiseal ginideach.
Tacaí Liatroma (National) - 25/01/2026 08:47:08
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National Hurling League 2026 - 1 Like(s)
A 26 point win away to Derry in D2 to start 2026! A welcome start after a tough 2025. Laois and Westmeath expected to bounce back to 1B. All about preparation for the CRC.
legendzxix (National) - 24/01/2026 16:46:58
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