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Non-Gaa Forum - 4 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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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 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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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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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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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 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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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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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Can't see past wins for the big two next weekend unfortunately please. Thanks for this. Would be nice to have a Leitrim Roscommon final but not going to happen I feel. The big two, Galway and mayo to meet again for me. Thanks for agreeing.
bláthach (National) - 19/04/2026 12:34:12
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Any time I go to a hospital or clinic I see loads of Irish patients being seen or teated by lots of foreign staff.
How would there be no long waits if those foreign staff weren't there?" My comment was on the need for "Controlled" immigration, not "Zero" immigration.
Is this a case of Scopto - Where your mind sees what it wants to see?
Commodore (National) - 19/04/2026 11:56:54
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfan: "Any time I go to a hospital or clinic I see loads of Irish patients being seen or teated by lots of foreign staff.
How would there be no long waits if those foreign staff weren't there?" 25% of population is born overseas. Do you think that none of them get sick, old, draw social welfare, get social housing, use buses, schools, and so on and so forth?
There is an insidious narrative here that Irish people are in some way beholden to people from outside of the country - immigrants, EU, tach corporations, housing investment funds and should just sit in the corner and be eternally grateful.
BarneyGrant (National) - 19/04/2026 11:11:36
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "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." Any time I go to a hospital or clinic I see loads of Irish patients being seen or teated by lots of foreign staff.
How would there be no long waits if those foreign staff weren't there?
Seanfan (National) - 19/04/2026 09:51:58
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "I can assure you that there are not 10 to 17 thousand Irish people living on the streets in ireland." Homeless does not only mean living on the street, I'm referring to homeless in hotels or other forms of temporary accommodation, and I am not talking about luxurious hotel stays here by the way.
Do you think Ireland is managing well with the current levels of Immigration?
Do you think the levels of immigration that we have been seeing in Ireland is sustainable?
Commodore (National) - 19/04/2026 00:40:15
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Sunday Game - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "The games should be available to watch back. Reasonable highlights of all games as well. Why the GAA channel isn't providing that service is wrong IMHO. That blame is with GAA HQ on this one." how many sports organisations do that
at what cost should that be?
KillingFields (National) - 18/04/2026 23:38:16
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "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." That is a reasoned, well thought out synopsis of where we should stand. One problem is that, should every country in the developed world adopt that or a similar policy, that would not solve the problem of millions of people fleeing wars, created by tyrants, and despots all prioritising personal greed over ruling their countries for the betterment of their populations. Fleeing natural disasters brought on by global warming, which they had no hand in creating, Fleeing countries where religious maniacs have taken away basic human rights particularly from females - possibly a little like our own country in the thirties, forties , fifties and sixties when we flooded England with how many hundreds of thousands of immigrants, driven by our leaders vision of a closed, religious, Irish only state, though not quite as fundamental or radical as the Taliban or Pol
Pot. I am all for some kind of cap on immigration, particularly given the state of our housing situation, but I love would someone to come on here with thoughts on a solution to the above problem. Or do we all just do a Pontious Pilate on the thing, pull up the drawbridge and look the other way ??
Freethinker (National) - 18/04/2026 23:17:47
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Sloweddie: "Hard luck today you got off to a great start but lost your way in the end. Scoreline a bit harsh but you don't get away with silly mistakes at this level. Backs were very good today for the most part but you lacked a clinical forwards. Red and black cards on the harsh side and definitely didn't help Westmeath. We were delighted to get away with the victory Goals win games" You summed it up well a harsh lesson that we need to learn ftom very quickly. Against the wind going well and lets be honest silly mistakes. Also 14 points wont win against teams of this level.
jobber (National) - 18/04/2026 23:01:30
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "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." I can assure you that there are not 10 to 17 thousand Irish people living on the streets in ireland.
Tadhg2020 (National) - 18/04/2026 22:23:36
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Great to beat them across the river. Love to see it. Amazing result
CarlowJuniorB (National) - 18/04/2026 21:57:46
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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)
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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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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