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Monaghan GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Farney25: "Great to a revived Monaghan team named for Sunday. Hopefully we can get a strong win over the neighbours who surely have their tails up. Good mix of both experience and youth, this team will only get stronger next year with the introduction of brion sherry who would be a great burst of energy for the county. not to say we cant make a final this year and push on." Who? If you're gonna talk on this, don't put rubbish like that up. Another one of them yahoos
ahref37 (National) - 18/04/2026 10:08:19
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "Legally we cannot prioritise orish citizens as you put it. That would be a breach of equality legislation and human rights violations.
Then you have the people who make themselves homeless. They aren't sleeping on the street or in their car but have surrendered or refused accommodation to remain on the housing list for their preferred location. This is a lot more common than you think. Take Dublim, for example, Northsiders dont want to live on south side etc etc. The same may apply to Athlone peopl3 not wanting to live in Moate or Kilbeggan etc. They refuse the accommodation to stay on list and make themselves technically homeless to stay high on the priority list.
Then you have the element of society that are almost impossible to house longterm. They make themselves homeless through anti social behaviour etc.
When you strip it all out the numbers of irish people who are genuinely homeless and on the street is low. I know that it should be zero but I come in contact with people of all walks of life in my job and I have never met an irish person that is sleeping on the street or car longterm ( more than a week or so) that isnt in the second category . Ive met lots that give out about the housing situation and claim to be homeless but all had a roof over their heads and most had been offered accommodation that they declined as the deemed it unsuitable. The reasons are mainly location but next is number of bedrooms eg offered a 2 bed and holding out for a 3 bed etc.
Its a complex issue and it does everyone a disservice to simplify it as you have done" Irish Equality legislation is flawed and needs to be changed, as it is downgrading the rights of tax contributing Irish Citizens to the same priority status as incoming refugees and immigrants who have contributed nothing to the State.
Irish Equality legislation includes nine Protected Grounds:
- Gender,
- Civil status,
- Family status,
- Sexual orientation,
- Religious belief,
- Age, disability,
- Race (including nationality or ethnic origin).
- Membership of the Traveller community.
The Irish Government are the legal legislators for the Irish state, they can amend existing legislation where necessary.
Commodore (National) - 18/04/2026 12:27:51
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "I am not pointing the blame at Kinnegad, they have one of best Club facilities in the County. The pitch in Kinnegad is bound to be cut up, catering for their own teams in addition to hosting County Minor and U20 matches. It is bad enough having to look after your own without baling out the County Board. If it was not for Kinnegad and St Loman's (presumably the only viable floodlit venues to host a Inter County Championship game), the County Minor and U20 teams would have no home games? The referee made the correct call on the night, he did his job. It is not negligence in that moment but over time from the County Board. If a County has no floodlit pitches for the purpose of County teams, relies on Club pitches that are already being used 6 or 7 nights a week and still has no Centre of Excellence or long term facility plan, then the County Board has failed in its duty to provide proper infrastructure for its teams. It is like this, if your only car breaks down, it is not your fault that journey fails. But it is your responsibility if you never invested in another car." Can someone please tell me why other floodlit venues cannot host games? Is it that we choose not too or is there a regulation that is holding back these other grounds?
OverTheHill85 (National) - 18/04/2026 19:24:10
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
What a win lads. I didn't see something like that coming in the first round of the championship. Fair play
Doylerwex (National) - 18/04/2026 19:06:20
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "So we are sticking with simplistic MAGA style politics. Fair enough." Prioritising your own people is what all sane countries do.
Not the opposite!
BarneyGrant (National) - 18/04/2026 14:51:23
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Come on Barney. This immigration seems to be a hobby horse of yours. Tell us your solution. Ban them all? Time to nail your colours to the mast. I was in for treatment yesterday. The ward I was in had probably 12 to 15 staff. Possibly 3 "native Irish" as the hard right would say. What kind of health service would we have without them. And these are just healthcare workers. Go look at the staffing numbers in the nursing homes. Other walks of life they are doing works that the hard right wouldn't dirty their hands with. That is if many of them work at all as the same people seem to be able to attend every dinner and dogfight of a parade going. Then, hey presto, the aristocratic Englishman who changed his name to a commoner seems to be able to turn up at a moments notice to fire things up. Not that I am aligning you with these people for a moment, far from it, as I reckon you are on the left of our politics, as indeed I was once, still am but probably more left of centre nowadays. But there is a fine line to be drawn." It's "hard right" to think that turning any country into one in which people of "native heritage" are on way to becoming a minority?
The SOLE motivation being the interests of multi national capitalism. I suppose to say that is hard right now too?
BarneyGrant (National) - 18/04/2026 15:42:57
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Come on Barney. This immigration seems to be a hobby horse of yours. Tell us your solution. Ban them all? Time to nail your colours to the mast. I was in for treatment yesterday. The ward I was in had probably 12 to 15 staff. Possibly 3 "native Irish" as the hard right would say. What kind of health service would we have without them. And these are just healthcare workers. Go look at the staffing numbers in the nursing homes. Other walks of life they are doing works that the hard right wouldn't dirty their hands with. That is if many of them work at all as the same people seem to be able to attend every dinner and dogfight of a parade going. Then, hey presto, the aristocratic Englishman who changed his name to a commoner seems to be able to turn up at a moments notice to fire things up. Not that I am aligning you with these people for a moment, far from it, as I reckon you are on the left of our politics, as indeed I was once, still am but probably more left of centre nowadays. But there is a fine line to be drawn." Do you personally think there is a immigration problem in Ireland and in Europe?
I'm not anti-Immigration, but seeing the problems caused by excessive immigration over the last 50 years in places like England, Europe and the US, I think there is strong evidence to support the need to control the annual Immigration flow in our Country and indeed other Countries.
Immigration numbers should not exceed 5% of the current total population in total over 20 years, so our population is ~5.3 million at the moment, 5% of that would allow 265,000 people in over 20 years. This would allow the Irish state time to absorb them and adapt infrastructure to accommodate them, also enable incoming people to integrate to their new communities too.
Otherwise you end up with divided Countries and divided Cities like Leicester in England.
Commodore (National) - 18/04/2026 22:14:59
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Our backs arent against the wall. We will have done our due diligence on Kildare, as they have good players, and we will need to know as much as we can about them. We will be properly motivated, get our on the day preparation right, and win the game.
No outside noise will make any difference to that." If we need to motivate ourselves with shtick like our backs are against the wall stuff to play Kildare then we truly are in trouble. (Not sure how our backs are against the wall in a competition that hasn't even started yet)
I seen a comment about beating Kildare by 20 points and how we shouldn't think like that cos we aren't Tipp or Limerick. Its because we dont think like that that we aren't like Tipp or Limerick.
A comfortable win, liking away in the 2nd half is my prediction and absolutely we should be aiming to win by 20 points if we can. And thats no disrespect to Kildare because they are a good team but we are a far better team and need to show it. We aren't nearly ruthless enough, Westmeath a few years ago a prime example where we weren't and got caught and the same can happen again unless we develop that ruthless streak and when the chance arises push on and put up that score.
We need to change our mentality, not backs against the wall and fighting for our future the nights darkest just before the dawn stuff. Thats the mentality that holds us back because it relies on things being in a bad way before we react. I hate that mentality, I dont believe in a siege mentality, I believe in not being under siege in the first place.
We need to be more arrogant and I mean that arrogance in a good way nit constantly looking for our motivation to come from bejng up against it. We've been trying that schtick since 96
tearintom (National) - 18/04/2026 09:52:36
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "So we are sticking with simplistic MAGA style politics. Fair enough." We have between 10,000 - 17,000 Irish people who are homeless, can't get suitable housing in their home Country, and the Irish Government formed by the majority of elected TDs to govern our Country, is allowing in between 80,000 and 100,000 refugees and immigrants and telling the electorate "We can't prioritize Irish people for housing because of our Equality legislation".
We have hospital services crippled across the Country, because they don't have the infrastructure or resources to deal with the mass influx of extra people, as a result we have people sitting in hallways for days sometimes and medical staff run off their feet in A&E.
That is alarming to me, it should be a major concern for all Irish people.
Commodore (National) - 18/04/2026 21:53:44
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Take that. Shocking pitch, not great on the first half but certainly improved and grew in confidence. It's a long time since we could say our subs improved us. Some good champions debuts as well. Got the job done, on to the next assignment.
It's not ideal for us that Kilkenny got hammered. They'll be saucy, but we just have to bring our very best performance. We've won in nowlan park in the championship before. I think the only county to have done so actually.
Fair play to Offaly, from what I hear they should have won it. A draw there was a good result for us.
Leinster could have some surprises.
Doylerwex (National) - 18/04/2026 21:21:27
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Monaghan_football: "Yous really don't like giving Blayney men credit. Suppose i wouldn't either giving they won everything throughout your childhood" Nothing to do with what club he is, it's facts that are well known at this stage.
MonaghanMan44life (National) - 18/04/2026 21:04:35
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Onion Breath: "Good luck to the hurlers this evening. We've now got our full squad back, I can't see anyone missing, even Jack McCullagh is back in I see and James Doyle is starting. It's by far the strongest squad we've had for any game this year. Hopefully a big step up in performance but as mentioned earlier we really need to also change tactics or we'll just be giving the ball back to Leix. They also have a strong squad, and it looks a good bit stronger than when they caught us with a last minute goal last year. After the start to the year we've had and looking at the Leix team being stronger than last year, I'd take a draw again now if it was offered but be great to get the win.
Regards underage, while results have been disappointing so far in hurling and football at least the minor footballers won the other night v Wexford and so made the knock out stages again this year. Last year the minor footballers topped the group, this year they've come second, so not all doom and gloom. I said before I think there's a number of very talented young footballers coming through, some from last years minors and some from this years. For a small county it's seldom we'll get them all coming together the one year to make a generational team but I can see the makings of a very good county U-20 team in a couple of years as the ages tend to converge post minor.
Then last night the U/20 hurlers had a great win by 2 points v Westmeath. I didn't see that coming as I thought we were awful when losing to Kerry last time out but fair play the players and management turned it around last night. Although not a top tier county Westmeath are making great strides at underage hurling so it's always good to beat them at underage and hopefully that helps keep our noses just in front of them at senior. We'll need to keep ahead of them if we're to get back into Liam McCarthy hurling." Well done carlow. A lot of honesty, pride in the jersey against the neighbours, and determination in that performance. Never doubted the hurlers character which was tested when Laois levels in 2nd half! Good weekend for county hurling with u20s beating a fancied Westmeath team last night.. we won't burn the hurls just yet,
Disappointing for minors but with co board showing no interest and not appointment a management team till January we're way behind everyone else with prep..
Carlowtothecore1 (National) - 18/04/2026 20:21:44
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Content with the win, with plenty of scope for improvement ahead of what should be a caludron in Nowlan Park against the wounded (but beatable) Cats.
Upped the intensity levels after the break and some of the new lads showed up well, especially Wickham who proved some of the doubters wrong. I think he compliments Hearne well in the middle. Carley had his best game in a Wexford jersey imo and O'Leary looks to be an addition too. Bit of a reality check for Roche though, although I wouldn't be too worried about his credentials at championship level.
Navigated a potential banana skin quite well after which is the main thing. And going by noise elsewhere online, this Kilkenny team are in a bit of a rut so aren't to be feared. Although may have a point to prove Saturday week. With Offaly bloodying Dublin's nose today, it looks like tighter than ever before
beano (National) - 18/04/2026 20:04:28
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To SouthGalway: "I wish I had your confidence Katzer. I'll be happy with a one point win. KK will be much improved over the League match." Happy with 1pt win, its backwards KK are going.
Lucky Kilkenny weren't beaten 25pts.
katser (National) - 18/04/2026 18:40:06
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Ye won by 1 point would not get carried away and hardly makes up for the beating we gave ye at under 20s. .." Ah what are you talking about buddy?
Do you see anyone getting carried away?
Cos I don't. That's an average Mayo team so well hardly be getting carried away with a narrow win over them
galwayman2 (National) - 18/04/2026 18:20:18
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "CSO population projections (based on 2022 Census) indicate that under high-migration scenarios, net inward migration could account for ~91% of growth to 2057.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/07/16/irish-population-could-grow-to-over-7m-by-2057-says-cso/
Even the Irish Times has reported it." Come on Barney. This immigration seems to be a hobby horse of yours. Tell us your solution. Ban them all? Time to nail your colours to the mast. I was in for treatment yesterday. The ward I was in had probably 12 to 15 staff. Possibly 3 "native Irish" as the hard right would say. What kind of health service would we have without them. And these are just healthcare workers. Go look at the staffing numbers in the nursing homes. Other walks of life they are doing works that the hard right wouldn't dirty their hands with. That is if many of them work at all as the same people seem to be able to attend every dinner and dogfight of a parade going. Then, hey presto, the aristocratic Englishman who changed his name to a commoner seems to be able to turn up at a moments notice to fire things up. Not that I am aligning you with these people for a moment, far from it, as I reckon you are on the left of our politics, as indeed I was once, still am but probably more left of centre nowadays. But there is a fine line to be drawn.
Freethinker (National) - 18/04/2026 15:06:58
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Huge gap between the big two and the rest at all levels. The minnows 3 have limited resources to compete but we do our best
ohwow (National) - 18/04/2026 14:41:01
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Hurling Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Before a ball is thrown in, I think the three to come out Munster will be Cork, Tipperary and Limerick (but I couldn't even attempt to guess in what order they might finish). Main reason is Clare in my opinion still have too many injuries or doubtful players at the wrong time of year and the age profile of many of them is slightly older than the Limerick Team who they have had battled with over the last few years. 4 tough games in six weeks might just be a step to far.
In Leinster going for Galway, Dublin and Wexford to get out. I thought Kilkenny were really poor versus Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds, and really poor against Galway in Salthill and (similar to Limerick Last year, I don't believe you can just flick a switch turn on the form). There's always a surprise somewhere in the Championship and I think there is no county better able to do it than Wexford when the pundits write them off.
LimerickandProud (National) - 18/04/2026 14:27:13
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Good luck to the hurlers this evening. We've now got our full squad back, I can't see anyone missing, even Jack McCullagh is back in I see and James Doyle is starting. It's by far the strongest squad we've had for any game this year. Hopefully a big step up in performance but as mentioned earlier we really need to also change tactics or we'll just be giving the ball back to Leix. They also have a strong squad, and it looks a good bit stronger than when they caught us with a last minute goal last year. After the start to the year we've had and looking at the Leix team being stronger than last year, I'd take a draw again now if it was offered but be great to get the win.
Regards underage, while results have been disappointing so far in hurling and football at least the minor footballers won the other night v Wexford and so made the knock out stages again this year. Last year the minor footballers topped the group, this year they've come second, so not all doom and gloom. I said before I think there's a number of very talented young footballers coming through, some from last years minors and some from this years. For a small county it's seldom we'll get them all coming together the one year to make a generational team but I can see the makings of a very good county U-20 team in a couple of years as the ages tend to converge post minor.
Then last night the U/20 hurlers had a great win by 2 points v Westmeath. I didn't see that coming as I thought we were awful when losing to Kerry last time out but fair play the players and management turned it around last night. Although not a top tier county Westmeath are making great strides at underage hurling so it's always good to beat them at underage and hopefully that helps keep our noses just in front of them at senior. We'll need to keep ahead of them if we're to get back into Liam McCarthy hurling.
Onion Breath (National) - 18/04/2026 14:01:02
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Best of luck to the lads today. Won't be easy as Laois will be on a high after winning promotion but I'm sure our lads will put in a hugh display. The last puck of the game in the Mcdonagh game against Laois last year really hurt & that has to be a motivating factor.
Hopefully we can get a result & build some positivity to go along with our u20 hurlers beating Westmeath last night
carlo (National) - 18/04/2026 13:50:30
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