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GAA President - Jarlath Burns - 11 Like(s)
Replying To CCFabu: "I found his comments about Michael to be distasteful and badly timed to be honest. One of Michael's lowest moments of his career and the camera goes on him and he's on the big screen as Burns waxes lyrical about him. Even the applause for Murphy wasn't that big, I thought the crowd picked up on it not really being a good moment.
Everything Burns said about him was true, he is the greatest to ever play for Donegal, but Kerry had won Sam and had won it convincingly - there was no need to be going on about Murphy there. Felt like bad timing and a bit disrespectful to Kerry as champions as well to be honest" Mother of God, this is pure mopery. A person can't say a kind word about someone now without being criticised. Why would Kerry find it disrespectful? That is mental that someone would come to that conclusion. I'd say most of the Donegal crowd were gone which might explain why it wasn't a raucous roar. I don't know if it's scrolling endlessly through social media on constant negative feedback loops or watching too much reality TV and all the negativity that comes with, but people seem to see the bad in everything now. He was praising someone from each team. There was a possibility that could have been Murphy's last game, why not pay tribute to a great player.
His speech was 3 minutes. You'd swear he was talking for 20 by the way people are going on here.
FullOfPorter (National) - 30/07/2025 10:21:58
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Roscommon GAA thread - 9 Like(s)
RIP Don Connellan. A great player and manager. Condolences to his family and friends.
FullOfPorter (National) - 05/08/2025 10:25:40
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Mayo GAA Thread - 7 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Outside managers rarely do well with counties . You seem to really begrudge Andy ." It'll be an interesting experiment to have a Rossie in charge of ye.
FullOfPorter (National) - 12/08/2025 17:04:51
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Roscommon GAA thread - 6 Like(s)
Replying To bláthach: "Thanks for the update. Was great to find all that information out. Pity people couldn't watch it for themselves and had to depend on yourself to fill them in on what happened in the game. Nearly as good as you giving out teams before games. Should really tell people this is all on google. It would save you a lot of hassle really. But thanks again please." You are one angry amadan.
FullOfPorter (National) - 06/07/2025 17:35:06
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Roscommon GAA thread - 6 Like(s)
Replying To endgame: "That's how far behind we are. A long way unfortunately. Roscommon well beaten by a Galway team beaten by a Meath team hammered by 20 points today in an All Ireland semi final. The County Board need to have a very serious look around over the next few weeks. They need to get the next Managerial appointment right. The two best teams are in the All Ireland Final. Outside of them , the standard is poor. Tyrone not good yesterday. Dublin are a pale version of their great team. Roscommon , with the players we have, should have been at least in the quarter finals this year." While I agree we are under achieving and definitely need to be getting this appointment right, you cannot judge teams too much by who bet who this year. Mayo should have drawn with Donegal and could have beaten them. Mayo lost to Cavan yet beat Tyrone. Kerry lost to Meath but now are transformed. Kerry swat Tyrone away with ease while Tyrone managed to beat Donegal in Ballybofey. Both teams that are in the final have put in their best performances when they needed them most, in knock out. A good management team and a motivated young squad can take big learnings from that defeat there today. Be interesting to see how Meath get on next year.
I think of that heavy QF replay defeat to Mayo in 2017 and Roscommon should have been using that to drive them on in terms of fitness, conditioning and defensive strategy. Don't know if it was management or a case of management not getting the buy in from the county board to bring them to the next level but we stagnated instead of getting things in place to get to the next level of a semi final.
FullOfPorter (National) - 13/07/2025 20:57:19
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Galway Football thread - 5 Like(s)
Replying To JimB1991: "Very different circumstances. Mayo would have won an All Ireland in another era, just beaten by the greatest team of all time.
Galway emerged as surprise All Ireland finalists in two strange years.
Would agree though that Galway didn't bottle it, they were just short on quality to win an All Ireland." Sure the one they should have been winning Dublin weren't even in the final.
FullOfPorter (National) - 20/07/2025 11:21:55
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Galway Football thread - 5 Like(s)
Replying To Kew: "Why are people on about mcgeeney? Did he have a great bunch of players early on? It's completely different why didn't Roscommon keep Davy burke for 10 years?" You must be a gosoon because Galway were not up to much before Joyce. One semi final appearance since ye won in 2001, Mayo lording over Connacht, getting knocked out by the likes of Antrim and Tipp and wasting a number of good underage teams. Granted there was some improvement under Walsh. Burke was no improvement on Cunningham in the end, Anthony managed at least a Connacht title so there is no comparison with us. The question is has the team progressed under the manager and you'd have to say Galway have. Joyce has ye cemented as the best in Connacht, 4 in row with that and 2 All Irleand final appearances from a team that could manage one semi in twenty years. All the while one of his best players has been cursed with injury and his other top player not far behind in the injury stakes. McGeeney had planty of talent Jamie Clarke, Forker, Murnin, Grugan, McKeever, Campbell, Grimley.
FullOfPorter (National) - 01/07/2025 10:35:16
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Non-Gaa Forum - 5 Like(s)
Replying To suckvalleypaddy: "The theocracy in Iran is overtly anti-semetic and has called for genocide for years.
This is an inconvenient truth to many Europeans. The Iranians deserve better leadership.
Hope they sort out the region peacefully but it looks ominous. Russia is also looking at this.
Scary times." While Israel actually practices genocide and is also a theocracy but no one is seems to talk about regime change there.
FullOfPorter (National) - 18/06/2025 11:18:33
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Roscommon GAA thread - 4 Like(s)
Replying To bláthach: "Promotion from division two in year two. The usual. lol." Another account you've created to talk to yourself through. Lol indeed!
FullOfPorter (National) - 18/08/2025 15:08:19
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Trump getting nowhere with his tariff fiasco has resorted to war which he said would never happen. Completely ignoring his advisor on Irans nuclear capability. Suits Donald nicely as it distracts from his economic policy failure and suits Bibi nicely as they can murder starving people at will and still not make the headlines.
FullOfPorter (National) - 22/06/2025 10:11:08
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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Donegal_abroad: "That's total nonsense to be honest. That's a bit like saying if I go out on the street and pull a face at you, you and your mates have the right to physically assault me and it's all good. Think about that for a minute. It's all fine coming on here talking the hard man and chatting about big boy pants but it wouldn't be okay on the street legally so why is it okay on the pitch." If as reported in the media that is was sectarian abuse, it is more than just pulling a face, which is not ok on the street legally either.
FullOfPorter (National) - 13/05/2025 10:06:30
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "Their size doesn't matter. That rationale would be good for any nation. The needs of the society aren't that different, if anything we should be better at it that them because of our size.
The sign off from Brussels remark is an interesting one. I understand the spirit of the EU but I would argue our representatives tend not to rock the boat. Do we have the best arrangement we could have? I think not." There is an impression out there, possibly due to our politicians, that we have no power over this ourselves. It suits them to hide behind Brussels and not make their own decisions, but our immigration policy with regard to non-EU countries is very much our own. Fair enough we can't stop free movement of EU citizens, but we do have the power to deport them if they committ a crime. It is up to us how to control non-EU immigration and Denmark has established a very rigorous immigration policy despite being in the EU.
FullOfPorter (National) - 15/10/2025 11:36:21
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Roscommon GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Whatever has happended I hope they can put it behind them for this weekend. Even just for themselves, the players have given up a lot and trained hard, some lads with not too many years left either. We really need to go after Meath hard. They have played a tough Leinster final a few weeks ago and now will have only the week since their Cork game. Need some of the senior players to really step now.
FullOfPorter (National) - 26/05/2025 13:32:37
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To zinny: "While I don't disagree, it does smack a bit like people being killed in Palestine are the only people that are or have been killed in wars. Does anyone in Ireland know where Chechnya or Xinjiang are, the history of the Kurds and how they were robbed of their homeland, the history of the Armenian people, Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea? There is no such thing as an Axis of evil, just evil people and governments all over the world looking after their own vested interests. Being a victim of colonialism it allowed us to have a clean soul when it came to historical acts as a country against others however, once the Irish people left these shores they have shown that we are nothing special and easily became the perpetrator." Thats true but a lot comes down to your cultural sphere of influence. The atrocities during the Yugoslav war obviously were huge here but Chechnya less so. Israel is almost like an adopted European nation, think Uefa, euro vision etc. Add in US involvement, a country we are also culturally heavily influenced by. Not saying other horrors are less so but the high horse that western people love to ride on to distinguish ourselves from the savages nearly expect that behaviour from China or Russia or whatever other pariah. But Israels genocide is actively supported by our supposedly more noble western countries. We love waving the rule of law stick at China and Russia but when it comes to support of Israels conduct and general western involvement in the middle east that law no longer applies. Sure look Britain was the beacon of global civility in the 1800s, home of magna carta and all that. Yet look what they were at here and India.
FullOfPorter (National) - 22/06/2025 10:56:57
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To brayballer: "Ah hear! While Its nice to hear people speaking Irish its deffo NOT important for a President. Why do you think so? Will they be speaking Irish while meeting Trump or King Charles?" Very shallow and simplistic way to view the language. Does the Spanish head of state speak Spanish to King Charles or Trump, of course not. We are wrapped up in English being the be all and end of language and language usage. Firstly Irish is constitutionally the States first language and is the language of the Irish nation. Secondly while most people aren't fluent, it is the ancient language of all Gaels, with Gaelic culture being the cornerstone of Irish identity. It is symbolically important that the sovereign representative of the Irish nation speaks the language.
FullOfPorter (National) - 21/10/2025 22:26:33
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "I should have added another "sport" that takes Mayo players away is economic reasons. Mayo as a county lost more of its population during the famine than any other county on the island and that's a fact. We also continue to lose thousands of young people to the far corners of Ireland and the world. Now of course every county has that problem but Mayo probably more than most." Not to out done on the misery scale, Roscommon actually lost the biggest percentage of its population than any other county in the Famine.
FullOfPorter (National) - 15/10/2025 16:21:21
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "The earths climate has always changed Lock, has done for 'billions' of years, it will keep on changing long after the human species has become extinct in all probability." Indeed but our species is the first species to impact climate. Also the first species to drive mass extinction and we will probably be responsible for our own. No species has ever left such a destructive footprint on the planet before.
FullOfPorter (National) - 30/04/2025 09:31:00
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To endgame: "Cathal Cregg works for Connacht gaa. Doubt he could take a coaching job with Roscommon. Looking forward to next week, Kerry are Kerry but the success of Donegal shows the importance of a professional Manager/ Coaching set up. Over now to the County Board." Absolutely shows you what a serious management team can do. I remember that last league game we played them in the Hyde 3 years ago. Now their confidence was gone at that point but they looked dire. Donegal have some fine natural talent like Gallen, McCole and Murphy and blessed with big men around the middle but they have a lot of players who would look ordinary under a different manager. If you are in serious shape and match that with work rate you are a long way there. McGuinness has them playing in way to maximise their potential and hard work is at the root of it.
FullOfPorter (National) - 20/07/2025 11:15:33
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To sligo joe: "Well gasúr does appear in all the "foclóirí gaeilge" meaning boy but I'm afraid no sign of "gasún" probably a mis-spelling/mispronunciation of the proper noun Garsún" Always gasún or gosoon around Roscommon so probably pronounced that way in east Connacht Irish now dead unfortunately.
FullOfPorter (National) - 11/06/2025 09:40:17
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Prominent Dual Clubs In A County - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "https://hoganstand.com/Article/Index/338057
Just reading this on HS and it got me thinking, what dual clubs in each county have a realistic chance of doing the Senior Club Title Double - Football & Hurling.?
Dublin would have the Kilmacud Crokes, Ballyboden, Na Fianna and Cuala.
Others that come to mind are:-
Ratoath - Meath
Naas - Kildare
St Finbarr's - Cork
Loughmore-Castleiney - Tipperary
St Eunan's - Donegal
Slaughtneil - Derry
Moycullen - Galway
Eire Og - Clare
I know there must be a lot of other clubs in this position that dont come to mind immediately..." Padraig Pearses the only club in Ros with a good chance of winning both. Could have done the double in 2020, won the hurling lost the football.
FullOfPorter (National) - 03/10/2025 15:53:32
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