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Non-Gaa Forum - 4 Like(s)
Replying To peiledoir20: "Scotland had a similar frantic finish in their game last night - great to see them qualify after 28 years. If we don't qualify I'll be rowing in behind them given our close ties and mutual glee in seeing the English beat!" Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back.
WeGoAgain (National) - 19/11/2025 11:57:19
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To WeGoAgain: "Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back." Aye and the biggest bluffers going about how much they hate the English and all.
They literally had a vote for their own independence but their own tightness wouldn't allow them to do it!
Lockjaw (National) - 19/11/2025 13:51:36
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Anti GAA Agenda - 2 Like(s)
Replying To KillingFields: "Ridiculous to say no need for alcohol to be sold in the ground. it would be loss of hundreds of jobs as well both kids part time and some full time jobs as well which isnt a good thing" Jobs for local GAA people or foreign people? Ridiculous comment about loss of jobs. As the man says, no need for drink inside grounds. But I suppose the D4 people are different.
Saynothing (National) - 19/11/2025 17:25:08
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Just a wild guess at tomorrow's World Cup Play Off Draw...
Italy v North Macedonia
Denmark v Sweden
Turkey v Romania
Ukraine v Northern Ireland
Wales v Republic of Ireland
Poland v Albania
Slovakia v Kosovo
Czech Republic v Bosnia Herzegovina.
katser (National) - 19/11/2025 16:06:05
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To updwell: "The rugby crowd can't enjoy a game without being fluttered-perfectly understandable." Its the only way you could sit through 80 minutes of that stuff!
Seanfan (National) - 20/11/2025 11:01:28
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GAA County - Centres Of Excellence - 1 Like(s)
Replying To KillingFields: "what do they have planned and cross community and multi sport how?" They have teamed up with the Royal School nearby so I think there hockey Pitches, Swimming pools etc.
More GAA Pitches, cafes bars, and stadium upgrades planned I think, possibly handball courts too
Hard to know if it will all be built.
Couple of links below.
https://www.anglocelt.ie/2024/01/26/regional-sports-campus-plans-to-seek-permission-in-march/
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cavan/news/cavan-to-get-state-of-the-art-regional-sports-as-government-sanctions-19m-cash-injection/a481947510.html
drumalee11 (National) - 20/11/2025 10:17:57
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Gaagael15: "Sean o Domhnaill on the maroon and white pod calling for 4 divisional teams to be added to senior and reduce the number of senior clubs to 12. Quoting roscommon as where its worked brilliantly but from talking to guy who follows the Roscommon club scene he says its a disaster and whilst they only come in provisional qf stage they've been hockeyed and hasnt had huge buy in form clubs. Don't know when he thinks they're going to play the intermediate championship for players involved in these clubs in what is a compressed calendar without mentioning the limited time in calendar between football and hurling for dual clubs." Fair play to him he won all Irelands and was a good servant for club and county but when I listen to him on that Pod a lot of what he says I would not take seriously
jm25 (National) - 20/11/2025 09:21:55
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Gaagael15: "Sean o Domhnaill on the maroon and white pod calling for 4 divisional teams to be added to senior and reduce the number of senior clubs to 12. Quoting roscommon as where its worked brilliantly but from talking to guy who follows the Roscommon club scene he says its a disaster and whilst they only come in provisional qf stage they've been hockeyed and hasnt had huge buy in form clubs. Don't know when he thinks they're going to play the intermediate championship for players involved in these clubs in what is a compressed calendar without mentioning the limited time in calendar between football and hurling for dual clubs." A non runner in my opinion , it worked in Kerry and Cork because there is history of it , and even with that you have less Divisonal teams now in Kerry then ever. What could be looked at is a Divisional Competition like they have been running in Meath , and Dublin have had something similar this year. So Meath have 4 teams they play each other and its a shop window for the County Team
They are playing at the moment so lads that are finished a good weeks with the club . You could have for example
Conamara v City Pearse Stadium on a Tuesday
North Galway v Galway South/East in Ballinasloe on a Wednesday
Have a final on a Sunday , and split the Gate with a charity - think thats what they do in Meath . And its given lads exposure and its had some very good games .
Only an idea!
puckemhard (National) - 20/11/2025 08:49:35
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To alalalalalum: "Horrid silly and very childish comment. We'll have the same amount of trophies as yee at the end of 2026 no matter what divisions we are in. Just to explain in case you don't understand...that is zero trophies. Super." Well if the Rossies go out I'm supporting Leitrim. The Ridge all the way !
moros (National) - 19/11/2025 23:22:09
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To alalalalalum: "How can Easkey be competing still at junior level when they've won three in a row at that grade, according to the paper. That seems a bit unfair now" Easkey have to win the Junior All-Ireland to get promoted to the Intermediate Championship. Super isn't it? Please thank me later.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 19/11/2025 20:00:55
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To caltra04: "Barry Mchugh (mountbellew) back amongst the fray too im told. a good free taker with plenty of pace, should be utilised" The day we needed to be utilising Barry McHugh was the 2024 final v Armagh, when we missed anything up to 8 placed ball opportunities within Barry's range. These were made up of about 3 misses, 1o2 landing short, and 2or3 'elected to go short'.
Pope_Benedict (National) - 19/11/2025 19:39:28
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "That's a pattern we're familiar with though.
While Galway and Tipp were staging three 1pt margin semis 2015-2017, Tipp we're beating KK by 9pts at the 2016 final, while Galway we're losing the 2015 and 2016 Leinster Finals comprehensively, by margins of 6 and 7pts to Kilkenny.
Even when Galway we're clearly at the top of the pecking order in 2017 and 2018, they still needed two days out to see off KK at the '18 Leinster Finals." I remember chatting to former galway hurler his read was galway needed to be 8 to 10 points better than kilkenny to win scrape a win by one or two
minor77 (National) - 19/11/2025 18:40:07
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GreenandRed: "Is Gills open all year round Barney? Lovely pint in there." Only for matches still. Great pint. Love being there for league games and club as you get a seat! And short walk. Well run so doesn't get too jammed except on biggest days.
Hasnt changed much at all if you look at old footage of Behans filmed in there. Brendan books on display.
BarneyGrant (National) - 19/11/2025 18:04:43
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "I can see the point in having proper bars as there is in Premium and Corporate but that's probably my age talking as I find nothing attractive about standing cheek by jowl clutching a plastic pint!
Bars definitely took a hit but the older ones still do reasonably well. Gills still a great spot especially when the club games and league are on when its not too mad." Going to county matches a couple of hours early, going to local bars, having the craic looking forward to the match, yes. As you say, standing clutching a plastic pint with the wind howling around you in Croke Park, no.
Saynothing (National) - 19/11/2025 17:42:45
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Sorry Bon predictive text again! Some of our lads play for a soccer club called the Corach Ramblers, named after the local river :-D" Im only winding you up Viking! :)
Bon (National) - 19/11/2025 16:35:28
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To streaker: "As a fella said to me- "They're all Braveheart until they see a polling station"." Isn't that their entire history in a sentence? Even going back to before they had a vote? They very rarely stood together against the English.
Viking66 (National) - 19/11/2025 15:52:37
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Lockjaw: "Aye and the biggest bluffers going about how much they hate the English and all.
They literally had a vote for their own independence but their own tightness wouldn't allow them to do it!" As a fella said to me- "They're all Braveheart until they see a polling station".
streaker (National) - 19/11/2025 15:42:38
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
I see the Observer surpassed themselves this week with the Connacht reports. Have they heard of sub-editing and/or proofreading? Scores the wrong way around in the Cluanín Hurling and just X's where the Leitrim Gaels and Allen Gaels scores should be. No wonder no one's buying it any more.
IronSleeve (National) - 19/11/2025 15:32:42
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WeGoAgain: "Probably just pettiness on my part but I've no time for the Scots fans at all. Booing everyone and everything (especially celtic players but that's another story) and the "look at us in our tartan, aren't we mad crack altogether". Final straw for me was the rousing boos and jeers Amhran na bhfiann received in Hampden a few years back." For all the Scots talk about hating the English when they had a chance to vote for their independence enough of them wouldn't take it, they thought they might be a few bob worse off and they were too scared to break the umbilical cord to London, I know big Celtic fans over there who wouldn't vote for Scottish independence yet they go around with tricolours and sing Ra songs and profess to hate all things English, total hypocrites imo.
Tirchonaill1 (National) - 19/11/2025 15:11:08
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tireoghainabu: "Is that the time the doctor/ radio presenter raised a hullabaloo because the " rugger toffs" who obviously are much more cultured than the rest of us weren't allowed to bring drinks back to their seats?" Well, you're not allowed to bring drink to the seat there at any rugby match, so can't say if the one I'm referring to was the exact one where that happened.
Beer in the seats was allowed at the recent NFL American Football match, and that was newsworthy enough to get a mention in The Irish Times and several other places too:
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/09/26/it-may-be-a-flying-visit-but-the-steelers-have-transformed-croke-park-into-a-second-home/
Pikeman96 (National) - 19/11/2025 15:06:54
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