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Non-Gaa Forum - 4 Like(s)
Replying To Breffni40: "The reality for young trans people is that "the current madness" is more likely to persuade them to take their own lives. "The current madness" is more likely to result in adult trans people being murdered. Statistically this is objectively true.
I'll use they/them, if that's what they prefer, in that context but I guess that's my woke agenda" All statistical data says they are more unhappy post op my friend
Doylerwex (National) - 11/02/2023 08:39:08
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2022 All-Ireland Hurling Championship thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To bloodyban: "GAA fans can be as big a sickeners as football or rugby supporters. This big all able to mix together is just navel gazing. Some GAA supporters think they are gods gift to sport like the Irish football supporters think of themselves as a cut above the rest of the soccer countries. Its typical Irish rubbish..ego stuff.
In my experience Iv always liked Cork supporters most...very magnanimous in victory and defeat. Iv liked Tipperary supporters the least. That's my experience..Im always open to having my mind changed. The best supporters of them all are Limerick city rugby supporters who go to the hurling in the summer. Fine bunch" For real?
GAA is God's gift to sport. Particularly hurling.
It's managed to remain authentic, honest and community based in a world where everything else is corrupted.
As an organisation, the GAA isn't perfect, but they're excellent at investing in grass roots and have never lost touch with their role in the birth of our nation and nurturing our identity when we needed it most.
It's so much more than sport.
Irish soccer fans are a cut above most.
Doylerwex (National) - 07/05/2022 09:08:02
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Is GAA, Or More Specifically It's Prominence, A Bad Thing For Irish Sport? - 3 Like(s)
Are you just talking about soccer?
Boxers, golfers and jockeys all seem to doing just fine.
Rugby aren't too bad either.
We're pretty small and can't do everything.
Our own sports are just better.
Doylerwex (National) - 22/09/2023 16:12:33
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Galway9801: "Okay well that seems to be a total contradiction.
You justify banks unreasonable policies by saying that their purpose is to make money. It is their mantra etc. Not customer satisfaction or loyalty.
Yet landlords could say the exact same thing about rental properties. Their purpose is to make money, not customer satisfaction or loyalty.
Yet you apply two completely different outlooks on both entities." They are different though.
Banking is unfortunately a necessary evil.
Landlords are not. Not all, but many are white collar criminals rubbing their hands while everyone becomes more and more hopelessly miserable.
That sarcastic post is over the top but honestly the lack of empathy you've shown has shocked me.
I don't know you. You might be a lovely fella, but I cannot wrap my head around how anyone could try to justify the state of our housing market.
There's no rationale. It's the darkest period in modern history and we're destroying our society.
By and large we're a really charitable people, but we're turning into greedy monsters.
What our own elites are doing to people now is a thousand times worse than 800 years of oppression we suffered.
Doylerwex (National) - 27/03/2024 19:51:58
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Páirc Uí Chaoimh - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "The naming of / renaming of a stadium hardly has any grear effect on the sporting tradition you're talking about. And let's be perfectly truthful about the names of some GAA clubs and so forth... the forefathers of the GAA I doubt would be impressed about celebrating terrorists and the like. There will come a time where a line in the sand may need to be drawn and if that day comes, we'll all have to face it. Our friends in the IRFU have worn this path long before us and they're getting on just fine. Not in anyway suggesting that I am in favour of professionalism but the GAA operates in a competitive environment and whether you like it or not, it has to be funded." That terrorist remark sums up your view nicely. How did a fella like you end up in Connaught of all places
Doylerwex (National) - 19/01/2024 13:14:09
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Will Rugby World Cup Harm Gaa. - 3 Like(s)
I think not to be honest.
Very very different demographics for the most part.
GAA is not just sport. It is culture.
Everything will have peaks and troughs but the gaa is too engrained in every community. Nothing will ever challenge it.
Doylerwex (National) - 13/10/2023 14:14:31
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Lockjaw: "The ordinary decent folk of the North Inner City are as genuine a people as you could meet mo chara.
There is no doubt that there is a sinister right-wing element festering away, not just in Ireland. They have a big problem with it in the UK, and unfortunately in other EU countries rightwing parties have made grounds in Italy, Holland and Slovakia.
But it's not just that. As you say last night's events can't solely be blamed on the far right though. A good proportion of them would also appear to adhere to the ideology of just being a ****." Why is that happening though?
There's serious unrest because legitimate concerns have been ignored for 20 years.
People can't get a gp, a school place or a home and the government is completely ignoring it.
What happened in Dublin was inexcusable. Opportunistic criminals jumping on a chance to cause havoc.
However, we need to have a serious conversation about the social problems that created these people.
I believe we should help where we can, but we cannot ignore the fact that our society is crumbling in front of our eyes.
Immigrants aren't the issue. A lack of controls is part of it. But it's very easy to win disillusioned people over by offering a simple solution to their problems.
What we're seeing is exactly the kind of thing that happened all across Europe in the 30s.
We need to undertake massive social housing and infrastructure projects on a scale we've never seen before it's too late.
Doylerwex (National) - 26/11/2023 00:07:14
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Is GAA, Or More Specifically It's Prominence, A Bad Thing For Irish Sport? - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfanbocht: "Except the ALL IRELAND football Final of course.
Hurling doesn't concern many of us north of a line between Galway and Dublin." The football is fine, and much more palatable for visitors, but for me there's nothing like the hurling.
It's the real display of our culture and our people.
It's a terrible shame there are so few who take it seriously among us.
Doylerwex (National) - 24/09/2023 12:44:18
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Seanfanbocht: "Anyone applying for International Protection is NOT ILLEGAL unless their application is refused and they don't leave.
They are "vetted" as part of the checking their application process.
The eejits next door have stopped people from Europe immigrating but have had to get 500,000 people from India and Nigeria in instead." Do you have any idea how many people turn up in shipping containers?
Doylerwex (National) - 05/12/2023 22:43:48
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To TheFlaker: "The amount of misinformation on immigration is absolutely hilarious. None more so than across the crowd next door. We are slowly starting the same rhetoric here. It's dangerous." What misinformation? Be specific
Doylerwex (National) - 05/12/2023 22:45:54
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2022 All-Ireland Hurling Championship thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To bloodyban: "You're facts aren't correct in that incident. The Wexford guy got sent off because he started it. But you're right it's a long time ago and both counties have gone on vastly different trajectories even though one of those counties has a huge rugby playing population. I for one would love that Wexford/Limerick rivalry reignite." Forget 96.
I for one was pleased for limerick in recent times, but now like any other hurling fan want to see them beaten.
Massive admiration for how they've raised the bar.
It's up to the rest of us to try and catch them.
One of my fondest memories is a limerick couple that came to Wexford Park for the all star game in 96 with a fog horn and fully decked out in green.
They were serious craic
Doylerwex (National) - 12/05/2022 11:09:18
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All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2023 - 2 Like(s)
Clare just got robbed. Casey hit on Kelly at the end there is shocking
Doylerwex (National) - 11/06/2023 15:26:23
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To baire: "The best time for Wexford to play KK is when KK have already qualified. Wexford have been fortunate to have met them in this position in recent years. Go through each line of that KK team and tell me where it's weak? The Galway HFs v KK HBs for instance?" In 22 they'd have been out of the championship if other results didn't go their way.
Fair enough on 23 but you don't get bad Kilkenny teams. If there's one thing they do it's try and win all the time.
Doylerwex (National) - 28/04/2024 22:14:55
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2021 Hurling Championship - 2 Like(s)
Replying To munsterchamps: "looking at the year ahead if limerick put their best foot forward its hard to see them been beat.......i'd be afraid of galway tho as o'neill has put a very good panel together and 6 real good forwards .
going to give my predictions here only my opinion.
going for a limerick waterford munster final with limerick winning.
going for a galway kilkenny leinster final with galway winning .
last 4 limerick , galway , waterford and tipp.
so a limerick galway final with limerick getting over the line in the game of the year." That's exactly what people should expect.
The beauty of our game of course being that it won't happen.
Doylerwex (National) - 20/06/2021 12:22:17
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National Hurling League - 2 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "If lessons have been learned in recent years, the league needs jeopardy. The divisions of 7 seems to be striking a fair balance. 2 counties will be out of Division 1 for a brief year without being cut off for too long.
Projected National Hurling League 2025:
Division 1
Limerick
Kilkenny
Tipperary
Cork
Galway
Waterford
Clare
Division 2
Dublin
Wexford
Antrim
Westmeath
Offaly
Laois
Carlow
Division 3
Kildare
Kerry
Down
Derry
Meath
Wicklow
Donegal
Antrim in recent years would fancy their chances of making a Division 2 final. 4 MacCarthy Cup will be in Division 2 with 3 McDonagh counties. That's a fair enough composition. 3 McDonagh counties will in Division 3 with 4 Ring counties. Not ideal preparation for Kerry for example before a McDonagh Cup campaign but the jeopardy of not being in Division 2.
On the remaining divisions, Division 4 will have 2 Ring and 5 Rackard. Division 5 will have 1 Rackard and 6 Meagher. Some years Division 4 will have 2 Ring, 4 Rackard and 1 Meagher, with Division 5 having 2 Rackard and 5 Meagher.
Divisions of 7 should help have more fresh encounters between league and championships." Here we go again damaging the game for no reason.
It nearly killed wexford and limerick, and did kill offaly.
That division two will do nothing for Laois, offaly, westmeath or antrim.
Doylerwex (National) - 24/09/2023 22:27:15
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To zinny: "I would say the conversation has resorted to hyperbole but I am worried you actually believe rubbish.
Nobody has put forward a formula on how to solve the problem. Have you met a builder out of work? how would you suddenly create new houses - ask Leggo to get involved?
There is nothing wrong with landlords and they are necessary as not everyone can afford or want to take on a mortgage. So what you are asking for is for the state to discriminate against them by saying that the property they are in they need to leave because the landlord needs to sell it to someone who wants to own it and live in it. Ireland took its addiction to owning the house from the UK, in Europe the concept of renting is far common but then again Europeans do not have the same need to show that by owning property they are somehow better than others.
Banks are part of the problem and if you think that they are not taking advantage of the situation they you are pretty naive.
I don't believe anyone hasn't got empathy for people stuck in the current crises however believing in simple solutions is not helping." Just because Europe don't do it doesn't mean we should.
There are genetic markers of historical oppression that influence our desire to own something. This isn't me being emotive either, this is fact. It has nothing to do with being better than others. I small asset is not much for a lifetime of work.
Yes Europe are more into renting but you have security of tenancy, reasonable rents, you can have pets etc.
True not everyone can afford it, but a vast majority want to.
Do we all have to have standard construction methods? We can build five times as many modular homes without sourcing any new tradesmen.
Relaxing mortgage rules will make it worse. That will only increase competition for limited stock and ultimately increase prices.
The crisis is the banks fault. The taxpayer still holds considerable stake in most banks. We can further limit buy to let mortgages and increase/enforce vacant property penalties.
Then relax planning laws and rezone more land to increase supply of modular homes that can be delivered quickly.
Finance this via state housing agency or perhaps partnership with credit unions. The price is set at an affordable level and first come first serve.
That will solve the problem indefinitely.
Any job should provide enough to have a place to live, otherwise what is the point?
People need to live, not survive.
Doylerwex (National) - 29/03/2024 09:43:57
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All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2023 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To LohansRedHelmet: "The worst thing to happen Waterford was beating Tipperary this year if it meant Davy kept his job.
Now you have Cuntryman tipping them to come out of Munster next year. 16 RR games, 2 wins. There is no basis for anyone tipping Waterford............and anyone who does so (with the current season not even over) knows very little about hurling." Why is Davy so disliked in his own county?
He's instrumental in almost every success you've ever had.
There would be no Clare hurling without him
Doylerwex (National) - 15/07/2023 14:06:23
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2022 Wexford Intercounty Hurling - 2 Like(s)
C'mon Wexford!!!!!
Doylerwex (National) - 21/05/2022 18:40:18
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Wexford Hurling 2017 - 2 Like(s)
Delighted for guiney. Off the pace but fitness will come. 1-1 as a substitute not bad. Point was a beauty
Doylerwex (Wexford) - 05/03/2017 15:41:24
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Wexford Hurling thread 2024 - 2 Like(s)
It's pairc chairmann this morning for blitz. I'll be doing everything I can to make sure we've a team backboned by harriers in a decade or so.
Doylerwex (National) - 28/04/2024 09:17:02
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