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Hurling Championship 2026 - 3 Like(s)
Thank God for the Leinster Championship
twbm (National) - 24/05/2026 17:43:31
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Kerry GAA Thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To peiledoir20: "Kerry were the epitome of bad losers yesterday.
Both fans and players.
The mask really slipped yesterday from Kerry. For a county that pontificates to Ulster counties about playing football the right way.
The treatment of Michael Murphy was disgusting yesterday." Should Murphy have even been allowed to play yesterday? After his behaviour in the league final.
Serious question.
I think he should have been given a lengthy ban.
Seniorleague (National) - 24/05/2026 14:48:34
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Seniorleague: "Whats your take on Murphys behaviour in the league final?
We're looking for consistency here...." What's with Galway posters having a fit over Murphy. We all accept he should have got the line in the league final but he couldn't send himself off, so what should he do ban himself. It's football, move on enjoy the games I didn't hear Jack O'Connor crying about anything yesterday a proper GAA man who takes it on the chin and moves on.
Jimmymark2 (National) - 24/05/2026 21:22:35
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Saynothing: "RIP Frank the King. I tried to start a topic on his passing on this site but to no avail. A legend of Tyrone football. They turned up in their thousands from neighbouring counties to watch him play club football for Ardboe when he came home from America." Yes Rest in peace Frank.An all time great footballer and his Ulster final display in 1984 was one of the greatest ever.11 points from play I think.Some with the right,some with the left and a couple with the fist.One of the All time great.Hope Frank rests in peace and sincere condolences to his family and friends..
CiarraiMick (National) - 24/05/2026 20:37:07
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Maroonatic: "A few of us oldies will remember Frank McGuigan. I was lucky enough to see him play, including in Croke Park in '84. What an addition he'd have been to the '86 team. God rest you Frank" RIP Frank the King. I tried to start a topic on his passing on this site but to no avail. A legend of Tyrone football. They turned up in their thousands from neighbouring counties to watch him play club football for Ardboe when he came home from America.
Saynothing (National) - 24/05/2026 20:13:07
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
A few of us oldies will remember Frank McGuigan. I was lucky enough to see him play, including in Croke Park in '84. What an addition he'd have been to the '86 team. God rest you Frank
Maroonatic (National) - 24/05/2026 19:09:51
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To SamandLiamSoon: "Shane kicked a long range free, against the wind, from well outside the arc for two. And did the same against Roscommon for a 45 and a long range free. What exactly is he doing that you think Barry would do better?" Shane is a mighty freetaker when he's fit and in flow. The only player in the country who can kick them from range off both feet. He was outstanding in 2022 on the frees. Unfortunately, he's prone to injury and actually had to stop kicking them off the ground for a while due a persistent issue.
You don't think we should be planning for such an eventuality? We lost an All-Ireland in 2024 due to having no backup plan, even though Shane was already carrying an injury that summer.
Nobody's talking about replacing him. But having someone who could come on and nail pretty much any free from inside 50m would be some asset to have.
WanPintWin (National) - 24/05/2026 18:52:12
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
the fixture felt like a dead rubber in some ways....we will get a better read on Galway's status after the Leinster Final.
Congrats to the lads
Gaillimh Abu
suckvalleypaddy (National) - 24/05/2026 16:50:42
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Kerry GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Seniorleague: "Should Murphy have even been allowed to play yesterday? After his behaviour in the league final.
Serious question.
I think he should have been given a lengthy ban." Jesus wept, do you not understand the GAA disciplinary process ? Michael received a yellow card in the league final, that was the sanction, it couldn't be revisited. Now David Clifford's elbow in the face of Brendan McCole is considered a serious infraction and his action will be looked at as he received no card in the game. He could be looking at a ban of at least two matches.
Ulsterchamps72 (National) - 24/05/2026 16:17:33
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Sickening defeat, the errors that led to so many of Tyrone scores and amounts of scores we wasted, certainly a win we keft behind us. Three week break before a knock out championship football without stating the obvious lots to improve on if we are to reach round 3.
The_analyser (National) - 24/05/2026 16:00:19
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Good win last night, well done to the Leitrim lads. Looked ominous when we were 5 down halfway through the first half, it looked like Carlow would build up a big lead, backed by the strong wind. However we got to grips with them from there on keeping possession and got a few scores to keep us well in touch at halftime. We kicked on with the breeze with some great two pointers early in second half , a freak Carlow goal from a wicked bounce from a great Mark Diffley block threatened to spoil our momentum but we pushed on again and were well worth our 6 point win in the end. Everyone played a vital part but Killian Gaffey was solid in goal ,was unlucky with the wicked bounce for the goal and kicked his frees well. Defensively we were struggling a bit early on but tightened up significantly as the game went on, Eoin Mc loughlin and Keith Keegan played stormers Conor Quinn won a world of ball at midfield and up front Paul Honeyman was outstanding backed up well by Ryan and Riordan O'Rourke and the other forwards played their part too. Hopefully we can get a home draw in next round and hopefully it's a 2 week break until our next outing so we might get some of our injured lads back.
JimmyNail (National) - 24/05/2026 08:27:15
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Kerry GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To MunsterFan: "You know there's an excuse for being a bad loser but never one for being a bad winner. Great men for rubbing salt in the wounds. You did well today, our bench didn't react well when we went down a man, but 15 v 15 was a good contest, and we have a lot of players due back who are starters. Those are simply facts, not excuses" Kerry were the epitome of bad losers yesterday.
Both fans and players.
The mask really slipped yesterday from Kerry. For a county that pontificates to Ulster counties about playing football the right way.
The treatment of Michael Murphy was disgusting yesterday.
peiledoir20 (National) - 24/05/2026 10:30:33
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To galwayford: "Galway getting well beaten in Wexford at the moment. Some of the posters on here are living in dreamland by the looks of their posts. Anyway I hope it can be turned around. But Galway 10 points down at half time." You were only 6 down at halftime
Viking66 (National) - 24/05/2026 17:41:19
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Jonnytest: "Looks like the Barry mchugh chat will die down for a week or so now" Until the next time we're struggling to land long range frees. Watching Steven Sherlock put on a kicking display from frees and from play, while not exactly racking up the miles or high speed sprints on the GPS, makes me think there's alway room for a forward like that if he's such a good kicker. Sherlock doesn't look like a top athlete like the rest of the Cork team, but he's their best kicker of a ball by a distance.
The lads did what was needed this evening, but I have to say Kildare were awful. They brought very little intensity and it was a like a training match at times. Compared to what went on in Killarney and even in Cork earlier, it was played at a much more leisurely pace. We had a lot of sloppy turnovers until little pressure. You'll get punished badly for those against a better team.
Whoever we get next will be at a much higher level. Great to see Comer looking very sharp when he came in. Finnerty outstanding. Plenty room for improvement and we'll hopefully continue to see it.
WanPintWin (National) - 23/05/2026 22:51:18
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Bryson: "They have fixed plenty but u obviously dont want to see that. 2 U 20 Leinster championships 1 U 20 All Ireland. 1 Minor Leinster Championship and thats just Hurling. In Football 2 Leinster Minor titles and 1 U 20 Leinster title and 1 U20 All Ireland title but they have fixed nothing. We are in complete denial how bad we are down here and i dont like saying that." Fair play to them, but all they've achieved is based on one team that were lucky to beat us. We're competitive most years.
Now that the Rossi era us over we need to take stock.
What has actually happened in the last couple of years?
Decent teams at 14, 15 and 16.
Minors were decent in 24, shocking in 25 and better in 26. Should have beaten cork but didn't. So what. There are good hurlers on that team.
Same story for the 20s. Could have had Galway in the 60 minutes who will most likely win the all Ireland.
Seniors were a dodgy penalty away from a Leinster final in 24. A dodgy penalty away from 3rd last year, and just poor on every level this year.
On the positive side, a lot of new players have gotten championship game time. Carley, Lawlor, Redmond, Byrne etc.
Whoever comes in now needs to get our best players playing. We need to be patient with them.
I can accept losing if you've done everything you can and are beaten by a better side. Sadly we've got everything wrong. S and C, set up, selections, tactics, everything.
I saw enough in Croke park in the league and the first half in tullamore and the park to know we're not as far off as we think we are.
Doylerwex (National) - 24/05/2026 21:10:14
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "Round 1 - 2025 away wins: Tyrone over Donegal, Dublin over Galway and Cavan over Mayo. Wounded animals after provincial knockout are dangerous. The extra time to prepare and being able to scout finals in full knowledge of the next opponent is a bizarre reward for provincial knockout. Today's result in Killarney was no surprise. I was saying during the club championships that there were going to be a few counties in contention. While the vast majority disagreed at the time, that's not the case now." The extra time to prepare is what Kerry have been getting for years.
Kerry now have to play an extra match in the AI Series and will have less time to recover.
For Donegal it's just one victory but one match away from a quarter final is massive.
Scenicparish (National) - 24/05/2026 08:02:10
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Brilliant result and to do it without Barry and Tom is all the more impressive, Poacher and his backroom team deserve great credit, they have transformed the mood in the county and every player has improved that is the sign of a proper good coach. Honeymoon has all the attributes to be a serious intercounty forward. Squidgy is county player of the year for me. Up Leitrim.
3rdmidfielder (National) - 24/05/2026 08:20:22
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Kerry GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "Ahem. There is the small matter of a red card not given in the league final." Ahem, whose responsibility was it to reprimand Michael in that game? Not Michael himself.
There is no excusing that childish behavior from your supporters yesterday. They would have been better staying on to the end instead of leaving 10 minutes early.
peiledoir20 (National) - 24/05/2026 20:07:16
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
All well and good and many saying we could have won it but how did we not deny them space on their kick out second half out on the terrace side especially. Even after the Carey two point which was well worked and executed we totally turned off for the Tyrone kick out and gave them a free play for their last point. There in are the margins at the top level. Was any one not clued in on or off field? And improbably going to get lambasted for this piece of criticism!
moros (National) - 24/05/2026 19:48:50
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Very little being said from skittle and joe on the under 20s reaching the all ireland final and being leinster champions. Makes you wonder what went on with that squad the last few years that they under achieved. anyway, roll on the final
CillTormoir (National) - 24/05/2026 19:41:21
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