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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To ohwow: "It's probably just roadworks in fairness" Regarding roadworks its just Stephen Poachers way of parking the Bus,,,, Weekend predictions all fun aside ,if Galway do manage to overcome Leitrim in Carrick Its safe to say the margin could be a lot smaller than Roscommons impending defeat to Mayo....
fundamunda (National) - 23/04/2026 18:55:20
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Is it me or have the county board no interest in u20s, still on website to be played in kinnegad, a late post just an hour ago to announce change of venue, no time announced for game, no info that its free in, I wonder how many primary and secondary kids were invited and asked to bring colour to support the team, a massive opportunity missed AGAIN. What is going on
Upforthegame23 (National) - 23/04/2026 18:10:42
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Pikeman96: "Good man Barney. Take one case out of the more than 20,000 that are granted citizenship each year, and try use that to demolish all the facts and stats that are stacked up against you.
I don't know what case you're referring to. Maybe you'd let me know, or put up a link? If it really was so high-profile and widely-reported, am sure the mods here would have no issue with that.
By the way, when I type "is Irish citizenship easy to obtain?" into Google, here's what I get:
"Irish citizenship is relatively straightforward if you have Irish ancestry (descent), but it can be a long, strict process through naturalization, typically requiring five years of legal residency."
So yeah, it's relatively easy if e.g. you're the child or grandchild of somebody who emigrated from here, you were born wherever they emigrated to, and then you moved back to Ireland yourself.
Are you now suggesting that it's these "easy to get citizenship" people who are committing the crimes and being sent to prison? i.e. somebody born in England and who has an Irish granny is more likely to commit crime and be jailed after moving here, than somebody who has citizenship by actually being born here? Seems a strange one too. Would love to hear your theories." Facts are not stacked against me. One third from annual report of Prison Service is closer to the daily snapshot for one day chosen by you.
As were my stats on % of population born overseas and proportion of population growth - 90%! - down to immigration.
You obviously think this is a good thing? Why?
BarneyGrant (National) - 23/04/2026 13:42:54
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Foreign Born - 2 Like(s)
Replying To countyman2022: "Theres alot from counties in the North who are not Irish with All Ireland medals." Name them, there are none.
Saynothing (National) - 23/04/2026 16:00:02
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Barney - you say "One third from annual report of Prison Service is closer to the daily snapshot for one day chosen by you."
Please show where that report says that.
What it actually says is that 75.3% of committals to prison were Irish nationals. Simple maths shows that means 24.7% were non-nationals. Not one third.
Only mention of one third anywhere (other than by yourself) is in the self-proclaimed "good" estimate on Gript.
And even that refers to the number of committals, whereas your original claim here was that one third of the prison population were non-nationals.
I gave you the most up-to-date correct figures available for the actual prison population, from the same source (Irish Prison Service), and you now dismiss them as just "a daily snapshot" because of how they give such a lie to your own wildly erroneous claim.
Let's leave aside all talk of citizenship, how you seem to believe good people turn bad after getting it, and so on, and concentrate instead on how you're both confusing and conflating a number of different things. Do you still not see?
Pikeman96 (National) - 23/04/2026 15:43:25
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Wexford Football 2025 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Pikeman96: "I said I wasn't about to try defend you :)
Bit churlish to try deny that Louth are on the rise. Even if you just confine it to League standings, like you seem to want to do:
In both 2024 and '25, they finished sixth in Division 2. This year, they went into the last round of games with a chance of promotion. Is that not an improvement - i.e. on the rise?
Or in championship - they've gone from being in only one Leinster Final in more than 60 years, to being in the last three finals in a row. Is that not an improvement too - i.e. also on the rise?
Or think about ourselves here. Clearly on something of a rise now (despite last Sunday's result!) after two successive League promotions. But think about the League in the few years before that:
2022 - finished 6th in Division 4. Only won two matches.
2023 - Moved up to 4th place. Finished two points off promotion.
2024 - Finished in 3rd place. Missed promotion only on the head-to-head result with Leitrim after they beat us with a highly controversial last-minute penalty.
I'd contend that we were already on the rise during those few years. But based on how you view Louth, your take on it would be - "Huh. In Division 4 for the three years. If any use, would have made the step up quicker."" Louth have been doing alot of things right over recent years, starting with increasing the number of GPOs/GDAs going around the schools, and working up from there.
Good results on the pitch have naturally followed.
Viking66 (National) - 23/04/2026 14:27:10
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Gaa_lover: "Not for the first time a point has flown very high over your head. And we'll see will a published team on a Thursday will actually start come Sunday.
For the record I said on the Mayo thread recently that R Hennelly,J Coyne R Brickenden ,P Durcan
B Tuohy D McBrien,J Carney R O'Donoghue J Flynn
C McHale A O'Shea would start leaving four spots open. Yet you got all upright over that post aswell" Your comment on the Mayo thread after the London game..
No more than 2 or 3 changes I would expect the next day.
Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3925 - 12/04/2026 14:00:06
You also said nobody would start that didn't feature vs London and again repeated your line that Mayo wouldn't be relying on U20s..
MayoDan (National) - 24/04/2026 10:01:22
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To leitrimlad15: "I hope they get the road work competed outside Pairc Sean before the game Saturday or it will be carnage." As a rossie living in carrick. I have the same concerns about how long its taking to dig a basic trench along a road. I am now starting to wonder, is this a tactic deployed by poacher to stop the galway bus getting into the pitch.
hontherossie (National) - 23/04/2026 15:13:50
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To 3rdmidfielder: "Agreed.
This was a great place to discuss Leitrim football, but there is a serious amount of nonsense on it now.
Anyway Im hoping for a good performance on Saturday, Galway are a different animal to anything we faced in a long time. Leitrim Abù." Indeed, I think some of the bucks on this page actually need some help... the help needed is up for debate....
Anyhow moving on, it's going to be a nice sunny day in Carrick on Saturday and my fear is that we'll run out of puff and Galway will just run through us so any tactics will have to take this into account. Not expecting a win... anything under 10 would be a good result to take into the Tailteann and learnings for 2027.
Square_B (National) - 23/04/2026 15:32:34
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Where will the final be if Leitrim win?
Gantric (National) - 23/04/2026 23:20:51
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Great to see and hear from Ros folk from Carrick on this forum. Plenty of reasonable comments. Love to all.
moros (National) - 23/04/2026 17:13:21
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "More chance I'd say of the Bishop throwing the ball in than you in Castlebar on Sunday and I bet you weren't in attendance to see Leitrim pull off a famous win against Sligo." Neither the Bishop or myself will throw in the ball, it will be the referee which does so
ohwow (National) - 24/04/2026 07:48:12
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Thought Thompson wasn't due to be back in the country until just before the Connacht Final anyways?
As for Comer everyone heard the rumours he was gone for the year and was repeated by various people in the media too.
So Tierney has a muscle injury, never seen a team have so many muscle injuries.
Great to see Daly & O'Laoi back too, we all know Daly's qualities and the new rules will suit him. As for O'Laoi he had a couple of outstanding games in the league before his injury.
Would have liked to have seen Mulryan on the bench but suppose he's played a fair bit of football in recent weeks.
TheBishop (National) - 24/04/2026 09:58:28
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
25% of prisoners in Ireland are not from Ireland? Dear me, I used to dream of moving back to Ireland one day, but it's now just another globalist industrial estate that exits to squeeze the life out of the people trying to live a life in peace.
dolfos (National) - 24/04/2026 10:04:52
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Joeynyc: "Damage??
He was poor apart from frees he scored." There's no possible way you could make that comment if you were in attendance last night. Kicking two point frees is not taken for granted but he also was our only player catching kickouts, he was our main attacking threat despite being targeted by Kildare defence. He made the crucial goal chance before half time, without him we were looking at a 15 point defeat. To describe him as poor last night is a total lack of understanding of the game.
Claretandblue (National) - 24/04/2026 10:19:36
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Gantric: "Where will the final be if Leitrim win?" You'd imagine it would be Dr Hyde Park, if the pitch is able to take it.
ohwow (National) - 24/04/2026 10:21:58
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To gaelsboy: "Very optimistic then again I reckoned Sligo would beat us easily so to hell with it, why shouldn't we try go out and win it, the pressure is on them not us.
A wet day would actually suit us better, the dry day and fast ball will test our fitness levels a bit too much and Galway will likely have a bit too much for us.
The Sligo gave us much to be proud of but until we get up to division 3 and stay there, we won't go toe to toe with division 1 or 2 teams for long. A decent performance could give us some belief in a proper run in the TC." Flynns on main street. Great pints
Zucker (National) - 24/04/2026 10:30:52
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Faithfulmeath: "Any idea what the story is about, Cian Lally? Seems a bit mad, good footballer, very athletic" Only comment I have is that it's no one's business only his own
eoinog (National) - 24/04/2026 10:44:57
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To MayoDan: "Your comment on the Mayo thread after the London game..
No more than 2 or 3 changes I would expect the next day.
Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3925 - 12/04/2026 14:00:06
You also said nobody would start that didn't feature vs London and again repeated your line that Mayo wouldn't be relying on U20s.." No more than 2 or 3 changes I would expect is what I said. According to the published team it says 4 changes and I could be right on the money come Sunday.
"I doubt Andy Moran will be relying on teens to play. More than enough cover to fill in while those lads finish out their U20 campaign" That was my opinion and we'll see come throw in
Over and out uptight Dan
Gaa_lover (National) - 24/04/2026 11:08:50
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Disappointing result for the 20s. We actually started very well - missed an easy free and a big goal chance, and we had plenty of ball in the first 10 minutes but just couldn't convert. That left us with a serious hill to climb.
Going forward in the B Competition, you'd like to see the likes of Seán Whittaker and a few of the younger lads get more game time. Even when we weren't at it, you could see how important Scahill is to this team and the damage he can do - definite Leinster-winning potential in this group over the next year or two.
Kildare are very strong. Some serious forwards - Móran Kelly and number 12 in particular were excellent, taking scores off both feet with real pace.
All in all, you'd hope Kenny gets another year or two with this squad. He's building something and you can see the progression from the Louth game.
Fighting-Cocks69 (National) - 23/04/2026 19:45:16
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