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big mervyn wrote:
Kofi Annan wrote:
Shan wrote:Langers beaten. Limerick march on to the final. A good day.
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The two All Ireland hurling semi finals just played at the weekend were extraordinary sporting occasions. Full of athletic ability and tense to the last moment. Gah football is a rubbish game of pulling and dragging that bores me, but hurling is very special.
I am daring to go to Ballycastle up your way for our bank holiday weekend :duck: visiting the Titanic en route.
Is it possible to watch the hurling replay up there on TV?
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Dublin4 wrote:The two All Ireland hurling semi finals just played at the weekend were extraordinary sporting occasions. Full of athletic ability and tense to the last moment. Gah football is a rubbish game of pulling and dragging that bores me, but hurling is very special.
I am daring to go to Ballycastle up your way for our bank holiday weekend :duck: visiting the Titanic en route.
Is it possible to watch the hurling replay up there on TV?
Should be. Ballycastle and the Glens is something of a hurling hotspot in the North. If you wait until our public holiday you could take in the Auld Lammas Fair.
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Kofi Annan wrote:
Shan wrote:Langers beaten. Limerick march on to the final. A good day.
Does anyone here care apart from yerself
I don't know.
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I care Shan.
Two terrific games played in a decent spirit. Both exciting right to the final whistle. A great advert for sport generally, let alone hurling. One of my regrets has been that I was never able to attempt to play football (GAA) in my youth.(If the IRA hadn't of shot me the UDA certainly would have) Now I wish I could have hurled. Good luck to Clare,my favourite county of your 26.
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Shan wrote:
Kofi Annan wrote:
Shan wrote:Langers beaten. Limerick march on to the final. A good day.
Does anyone here care apart from yerself
I don't know.
Kofi's disgust [most likely] stems from the change in rule 42 that allowed soccer and rugby to be played in croke park.
If you remember most opposition to the change came from Ulster.
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WeeWorld wrote:
Shan wrote:
Kofi Annan wrote:
Shan wrote:Langers beaten. Limerick march on to the final. A good day.
Does anyone here care apart from yerself
I don't know.
Kofi's disgust [most likely] stems from the change in rule 42 that allowed soccer and rugby to be played in croke park.
If you remember most opposition to the change came from Ulster.
Kofi is well able to speak for himself of course, but if I were a betting man, I'd say Kofi's distaste comes from the GAA being the Sporting wing of the RA.

Ask Peadar Heffron.
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BaggyTrousers wrote:
WeeWorld wrote:
Shan wrote:
Kofi Annan wrote:
Shan wrote:Langers beaten. Limerick march on to the final. A good day.
Does anyone here care apart from yerself
I don't know.
Kofi's disgust [most likely] stems from the change in rule 42 that allowed soccer and rugby to be played in croke park.
If you remember most opposition to the change came from Ulster.
Kofi is well able to speak for himself of course, but if I were a betting man, I'd say Kofi's distaste comes from the GAA being the Sporting wing of the RA.

Ask Peadar Heffron.
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Going to be an Ulster team in the football final this year. Monaghan's comfortable win over Galway in Salthill this evening means they'll face one of Donegal or Tyrone in the semi-final next Sunday.
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Cormac wrote:Going to be an Ulster team in the football final this year. Monaghan's comfortable win over Galway in Salthill this evening means they'll face one of Donegal or Tyrone in the semi-final next Sunday.
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Cormac wrote:Going to be an Ulster team in the football final this year. Monaghan's comfortable win over Galway in Salthill this evening means they'll face one of Donegal or Tyrone in the semi-final next Sunday
I'm as excited about that as I am about the hockey. :sleeping:
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BaggyTrousers wrote:
Cormac wrote:Going to be an Ulster team in the football final this year. Monaghan's comfortable win over Galway in Salthill this evening means they'll face one of Donegal or Tyrone in the semi-final next Sunday
I'm as excited about that as I am about the hockey. :sleeping:
He has a point about gaelic football, it's a dog's dinner of a game.
Hockey does nothing for me either as a game but I'm certainly going to watch today's game.
It's partly an Irish thing, if Ireland were in the world cup final of dressage, I'd probably watch that too.
But it's also the David v Goliath aspect. That's what had me supporting Croatia in the World Cup final.
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WeeWorld wrote:
BaggyTrousers wrote:
Cormac wrote:Going to be an Ulster team in the football final this year. Monaghan's comfortable win over Galway in Salthill this evening means they'll face one of Donegal or Tyrone in the semi-final next Sunday
I'm as excited about that as I am about the hockey. :sleeping:
He has a point about gaelic football, it's a dog's dinner of a game.
Hockey does nothing for me either as a game but I'm certainly going to watch today's game.
It's partly an Irish thing, if Ireland were in the world cup final of dressage, I'd probably watch that too.
But it's also the David v Goliath aspect. That's what had me supporting Croatia in the World Cup final.
Sure, Donegal or Tyrone will effectively be in the world cup final of bogball. There should also be a Dáiví agus Góiliat element.
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Daithi is Irish for David.
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Jetstream wrote:Daithi is Irish for David.
I knew that. Just testing to see if any of youse non Gaels would spot that.
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