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Any interest in sharing GAA-related documentaries ye would recommend? There is some good stuff out there. Marooned A Year Till Sunday Jimmy's Winning Matches True North: Field of Dreams All Ireland Day Legacy Also some Laochra Gaels I've found particularly interesting: Oisin McConville Brian McEniff Mikey Sheehy greatpoint (USA) - Posts: 440 - 08/06/2016 14:29:08 1863648 Link
Not sure of the name of it (you may have mentined it above) but the Crossmaglen one was pretty good. Was on BBC and RTE a few weeks ago and is on Youtube. Laochra Gael is always fairly good - best one I think I saw was the Meehans one (Michael, Declan and the rest of the brothers). There was one about 10 years ago about the Clare hurlers under Loughnane in the 90s and it was brilliant. Made me never want to visit Crusheen!! cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5246 - 08/06/2016 17:40:28 1863778 Link
The 2 shows about Paidi O Se were very good. the Tg4 one was showed a month ago or so again, decent enough now but the one from RTE was better which was shown a few Christmas's ago. woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 08/06/2016 18:10:46 1863797 Link
TG4 did one about the supposed Mayo curse which I found very good. RTE also did one called 'Bonfires Over Bohola' about the last Mayo side to win an All-Ireland in 1951. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 09/06/2016 13:15:19 1864217 Link
A year till Sunday covering Galway football in 1998 is probably one of the best out there.. It covers every aspect of their league and championship and a total behind the scenes view of that set up.. One thing starting a documentry but finishing it with the sam maguire makes it one of the best ever Belclare1 (Galway) - Posts: 1626 - 09/06/2016 13:46:33 1864232 Link
Paul Galvin's 'Galvinized' is up on youtube and fairly good. Any others not mentioned above that are on youtube? TheDigger (USA) - Posts: 84 - 30/11/2016 19:45:23 1937667 Link
TG4 had the Dubs Ladies one on last night again. As usual TG4 put RTE to shame when it comes to documentaries, tehy ahve some great stuff not just on sprot witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 01/12/2016 08:54:31 1937732 Link
A few good ones here - https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOMLPL1i7Cb-Reg0LBMYZODEdtGJTZACx Apologies for going off topic but does anyone have GAA documentaries , old games, TV / Radio shows etc on VHS tapes, hard drives, PC or other ? With the knowhow of uploading them to torrent site, drobpox, YouTube etc? GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7981 - 01/12/2016 16:04:49 1937834 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "A few good ones here - https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOMLPL1i7Cb-Reg0LBMYZODEdtGJTZACx Apologies for going off topic but does anyone have GAA documentaries , old games, TV / Radio shows etc on VHS tapes, hard drives, PC or other ? With the knowhow of uploading them to torrent site, drobpox, YouTube etc?" I've used a device called EZ Cap to firstly transfer the VHS onto your computer , then format as MP4 , then you can upload to YouTube but the quality can be disappointing Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1038 - 01/12/2016 16:32:46 1937840 Link
Replying To Jack_Sparrow: "I've used a device called EZ Cap to firstly transfer the VHS onto your computer , then format as MP4 , then you can upload to YouTube but the quality can be disappointing" Cheers Jack. Poor quality would still be better than nothing. I tried uploading Dublin v Mayo 2006 to You Tube a few years ago but it was gonna take forever. When they show a full of a game is that because someone uploaded a compressed version or how does it work ? If a few of us got together we could add GAA stuff not on YouTube or elsewhere to YouTube, a torrent site, dropbox or elsewhere. I contacted RTE to see if they might add archived games to the player but the girl I e-mailed didn't seem to have a clue what I was talking about. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7981 - 01/12/2016 17:08:02 1937850 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "Cheers Jack. Poor quality would still be better than nothing. I tried uploading Dublin v Mayo 2006 to You Tube a few years ago but it was gonna take forever. When they show a full of a game is that because someone uploaded a compressed version or how does it work ? If a few of us got together we could add GAA stuff not on YouTube or elsewhere to YouTube, a torrent site, dropbox or elsewhere. I contacted RTE to see if they might add archived games to the player but the girl I e-mailed didn't seem to have a clue what I was talking about." Now you would think that's a trick the GAA has missed. Setting up their own Youtube channel or equivalent on their own website where they upload full videos of classic matches. It would be a great thing. I would love to watch some of the Kerry games from the last 20 years. TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 01/12/2016 17:51:51 1937862 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "Cheers Jack. Poor quality would still be better than nothing. I tried uploading Dublin v Mayo 2006 to You Tube a few years ago but it was gonna take forever. When they show a full of a game is that because someone uploaded a compressed version or how does it work ? If a few of us got together we could add GAA stuff not on YouTube or elsewhere to YouTube, a torrent site, dropbox or elsewhere. I contacted RTE to see if they might add archived games to the player but the girl I e-mailed didn't seem to have a clue what I was talking about." No I don't think it's compressed. Either they have faster internet speed than you and me or they start an upload and just leave their laptop to upload overnight ( or longer for a full match) but I would upload 1st and 2nd half separately to make it more manageable. Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1038 - 01/12/2016 18:56:33 1937877 Link
"A year till Sunday " its a cult documentary to an entire generation here out west. And yes, its all up on youtube, Im thinking of converting the VHS to DVD or Harddrive this Christmas - I could quote it by heart. Its shows behind the scenes - management dealing with unhappy players, the heartache of subs not making the panel for the All-Ireland final, the preparation for a final. Some of my favourite parts: - Mike Mac admitting his kickouts cost Galway the year before and how it hurt him - Ja Fa going through attacking tactics with Mikey Donnellan and Divley - Ja Fa with Sean Purcel after they just won Sam for the first time nearly 40 years - Bringing the Sam siar go Chonamara agus sé'ard a rinne é sin go peil I gConamara! O Mahony reading the papaers to the players after the first Roscommon drawn game, "Galway a nice team. Fancy Dans. Midfield partnership not capable of winning enough team possession. Lads, theres only one f-ing answer for that!" The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 773 - 02/12/2016 09:01:44 1937947 Link
A year till Sunday was excellent.The best I've seen. Condorman (Dublin) - Posts: 983 - 02/12/2016 09:25:50 1937949 Link
There is an RTE podcast documentary "the all ireland behind barbed wires" Well worth a listen, very interesting. tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1501 - 02/12/2016 10:25:50 1937962 Link
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2011/0930/646873-gaa-football-championship-fan-roscommon/ This Radio documentary Desperately Seeking Sam is quite good Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1038 - 02/12/2016 13:20:44 1938000 Link
Cheers Tom and Jack. Some great stuff, not just sport, on that Documentary on One page and app. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7981 - 04/12/2016 12:37:56 1938233 Link
As mentioned on the main page, here is the link to the 'Playing for Dublin and Fighting for Ireland' series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNvIjEEyQQn9GUAQMWL8jZe6rsS_dVHxQ TheDigger (USA) - Posts: 84 - 08/12/2016 20:22:53 1939140 Link
Ringy on TG4 was brilliant. Bring a tear to the eye. I would love to see that Clare one about Crusheen. Having read "Hurling the revolutionary years" I always thought I must visit that Pitch in Crusheen. That book was one of the best I have read across any spectrum. Cornerback1977 (Cork) - Posts: 67 - 16/12/2016 00:09:50 1940460 Link