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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To harleys: "Can't understand the need for a week off this weekend, surely run off the group stages, then a week off and run QF and Relegation finals off. This would allow all championships to be concluded sooner, looking at the master fixtures and expecting a replay or two we will be playing off championships into December. Now for a county who are always knocked out of the inter county scene in May or June this seems backward. We should be playing championship football in summer and concluded by September/October.
Allen Gaels look certain to go up, Melvin Gaels certain to go down, leitrim gaels will win senior and Manorhamilton will be the team with the most gained and plenty of optimism for the years ahead with such a young team.
With the new format and only 8 senior teams the team coming up from intermediate will likely always struggle to stay up if Melvin Gaels are anything to go by, have they won a game all year?" St Mary's and fenagh have both played about 7 weeks in a row now between last 3 games of league , league final and first 3 rounds of championship. A break week in the middle of championship is badly needed for players with niggle and knocks. Still thinks it's a bit of a joke that the league final is the week before championship. Players deserve a break especially after the extra time game in Div 1 final this year.
Roadtodiv3 (National) - 04/09/2025 01:33:01
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "2-3 in 4mins doesn't illustrate anything to me, bar a purple patch. It was succeeded by 0-3 in 14mins, and an exit to Meath." Does the last sentence mean anything to you?
StopTheLights (National) - 04/09/2025 09:41:02
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To alalalalalum: "They'll never increase population of the west. And there's not much room for Knock airport to grow either. Always thought a midlands airport located between Mullingar and Athlone would boost more growth in that area." How is there not much room for it to grow?!
TheFlaker (National) - 03/09/2025 18:38:02
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To katser: "The only Galway town to win both Collage and V.S All Ireland Senior Hurling Finals in the same year 1995!
KB (Broder) scored 3-01 of D O'Suillivan that day, But the Rock went on to win 1 Minor All Ireland, 2 u21 All Irelands and 3 Senior All Irelands afterwards!!!" Back when hurling was survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten. Good achievement. Loughrea schools always had plenty of input from surrounding parishes. Kilconieran, sarsfields, cappy, mullagh, tynagh abbey duniry, Leitrim kilnadeema, Thomas' etc. They will battle it out with respective clubs but have battled together at secondary school level. No bad blood at the end of the day
BigBàsMan (National) - 03/09/2025 19:25:59
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "Changing your tune then so, 'It wouldn't upset me at all if she won' that's good to know, wouldn't want to see the like of you upset.
We'll learn more about these candidates now as the thing progresses, I think it's important that our Uachtarán is fluent in our native language imo anyway,
not sure how fluent Jim Gavin is? this could be a closer race than many think, I think the Dublin vote will be the decider though, Jim Gavin will be hard to beat if he gets the FF nomination.
Sir Bob's a non runner imo, we can't have a knight of the realm as Uachtarán na hÉireann can we?" Dont see how Jim Gavin will be hard to beat if he gets the nom. Has no political pedigree. plenty wont know him or what he stands for. Like what does he stand for. have we seen him speak much on anything beyond the GAA in any depth over time
KillingFields (National) - 03/09/2025 21:50:40
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "2-3 in 4mins doesn't illustrate anything to me, bar a purple patch. It was succeeded by 0-3 in 14mins, and an exit to Meath." Doesn't it mean we're "capable" of scoring 2-3 in 4 minutes.
What other team in Ireland is capable of that?
The rest of the game was a tactical nightmare from the sideline!!
3 more years of over thinking on the way!!
StopTheLights (National) - 04/09/2025 09:29:02
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Tailteannchamps: "Would those 2 fixtures in the park this weekend have anything to do with the matches being streamed on iarmhitv? The only matches that ever seem to be streamed are in Cusack park and with a lot at stake in group b this weekend my thoughts is that the county board wanted these to be the streamed matches.
But even so you've mentioned some great grounds with great facilities that could host this double header but is it possible to stream from them is my question?" Possibly does have something to do with showing them but its a silly venue if trying to maximise attendance. A good few neutrals, myself included would have went to the game if it was locally.
Clubber Tv showing the club games in Roscommon don't seem to have any issues rocking up any ground in the county to show games live.
sourmilk93 (National) - 04/09/2025 09:37:43
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "I'll tell you a start would be finally completing the north south carriageway from Cork up to Donegal. Out 2nd and third largest cities (Cork and Limerick) not yet connected by motorway…a national disgrace.
The N17 north of Charlestown to Collooney can only be described as a cattle track. Two trucks have to slow down passing each other on the main national route way up the west coast. Navigating through towns like Milltown, Charlestown, Tubbercurry, Ballybofey etc…
Here in my part of rural south mayo we are still waiting for fibre broadband. GP and Hospital waiting lists through the roof. The only thing we appear to get is refugees landing into a small town with not enough resources for the local population…but sure that's a whole other debate." When did Cork become Ireland's second city?
tireoghainabu (National) - 04/09/2025 11:01:20
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To KillingFields: "Dont see how Jim Gavin will be hard to beat if he gets the nom. Has no political pedigree. plenty wont know him or what he stands for. Like what does he stand for. have we seen him speak much on anything beyond the GAA in any depth over time" As his full time jobs were public service ones he'd have had constraints on what he'd say in public?
Seanfan (National) - 04/09/2025 11:27:36
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To KillingFields: "Dont see how Jim Gavin will be hard to beat if he gets the nom. Has no political pedigree. plenty wont know him or what he stands for. Like what does he stand for. have we seen him speak much on anything beyond the GAA in any depth over time" Political experience doesn't seem to be a key requirement anymore, which I think is a positive. He comes across as intelligent, rational and measured any time I've heard him speak. He seems to display good judgement and isn't prone to knee-jerk responses. He's had a successful career off the pitch, having served in the Air Corps and his current role requires a high level of competence.
We'll hear a lot more from him during the campaign on various issues, so people can make their judgement then.
WanPintWin (National) - 04/09/2025 12:15:42
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To FullOfPorter: "Ireland was an agricultural country..less than 5 percent of the workforce is employed in agriculture and less than 1 percent of our GDP comes from agriculture. Even in rural areas, less than a third of the people living there are farming. We are a services economy with some manufacturing. There is no reason why housing and infrastructure development shouldn't be shifted towards the western half. If we want the GAA as we know it to survive it needs to happen. High speed broadband nearly all over the country. Fair enough scenic areas of Connemara the Burren etc but rural housing around small villages and even one offs are not a problem as long as septic tanks are functioning. Electric cars will be the norm in the not so distant future so the Dublin Green rubbish of we all needing to be in towns to be sustainable doesn't wash." The bottom two thirds of your post is reasonable, but the top third is very debatable. Agricultural production here is key to what we do broadly speaking, almost all of our beef is exported and that's a lot, almost 70% of farming land is used for agriculture. We are the second biggest Exporter of dairy products, we are also the second biggest exporter of butter in the world to the United States, I'm not up to speed on the pro's and con's of the farming industry but I do know that overall, we would be in a bad place without it, near bankruptcy comes to mind.
supersub15 (National) - 04/09/2025 12:45:28
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To KillingFields: "Dont see how Jim Gavin will be hard to beat if he gets the nom. Has no political pedigree. plenty wont know him or what he stands for. Like what does he stand for. have we seen him speak much on anything beyond the GAA in any depth over time" I was thinking on the Dublin vote being decisive given the population there, the GAA vote nationwide too, a lot of people like Jim Gavin, I suppose the purpose of the election campaign and debates is to let the people hear these people speak and learn more about them.
Jim is a cool customer from what I've seen of him in high pressure games on the side line, that's a big plus in an Uachtarán where a cool head is required, he considers he's saying and doesn't shoot from the hip so to speak.
Tirchonaill1 (National) - 04/09/2025 12:56:37
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Ulsterman12: "Is Andy mcentee monaghans solution ?" No
monaghanmad (National) - 04/09/2025 14:06:00
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