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Monaghan GAA thread - 4 Like(s)
Best wishes and many thanks to Gabriel Bannigan for his time as Monaghan manager. It is easy to forget how bleak the situation looked when he took over from Vinny a couple of years ago. No takers at the time so it took a real Monaghan football man to step up.

Plenty of good days in the meantime. A great league campaign in 2025 capped with a really enjoyable spin to Croke Park, a decent win over Cavan in USFC '26 to end a horrible run of results there, then a miracle win v Derry and a brave showing in the Ulster Final. The wins v Roscommon and Westmeath were great days, as too was the Louth game in Newbridge last year. Not a bad highlight reel. On the flip side, the failure to make the right calls in the last 20 v Donegal in Clones last year, and two very disappointing quarter finals in HQ were hard to take. Especially against a quite beatable Louth. You could argue too that we left an Ulster title behind this year.

All told, the man has done the county some service indeed and we should be optimistic for the medium term. The players are there. Clean slate needed for a few big options too.
Big call ahead for the county board. It's hard to know where to go next, but very clear where not to turn. Avoid the 'back to the future' option, that's for certain.

Eddie the Exile (National) - 27/08/2026 22:34:43

Anti GAA Agenda - 2 Like(s)
Why are people still obsessed with the All Ireland at the end of August or start of September. It's not going to happen. Players are happy with this new schedule and it's more important to keep them happy than the couch potatoes with the remote control

Taypot (National) - 27/08/2026 13:14:55

Wicklow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)

Replying To Albundy19:  "Any thoughts on the weekend? In my opinion st Patrick's and Roundwood should tell us something about the standard of this year's championship. Also the young village side v Tinahealy should be interesting."
Very interesting weekend ahead. I think AGB will beat kiltegan which will send them into the relegation. Eire og to beat Hollywood and Carnew to beat Bray. That will be the 3 teams in relegation. Tinahely could end up as 4th team from bottom and season over because of their score difference. Baltinglass and Blessington will be a good match but both teams should progress to the quarterfinals

kodak13 (National) - 27/08/2026 13:06:57

"It's Worrying For Hurling!" - 1 Like(s)

Replying To Seanfan:  "There are historic reasons hurling is mainly confined to south of a Galway to Dublin line.
Better land, bigger farms, landlords promoting it....
I recall reading somewhere a game called "commons" (from camán I presume) was once played in Northern half of Ireland and was similar to shinty as in no hands and played in winter.
It died off due to population growth, no spare land, landlords not promoting it and ironically Protestants of Scottish ancestry opposing it.

Handling the ball and driving it long distances was a Munster/South Leinster thing plus obviously South Galway.

By the way how many GAA units promote rounders?"
I'm well aware of the history of hurling and the variations of it that were played in different parts of the country. But the circumstances that prevailed in the distant days of the past shouldn't be seen as a handy reason for why things are the way they are today.

Every football club in Roscommon, for example, has a pitch upon which hurling could be played, could buy the equipment necessary for hurling, and can access basic hurling coaching courses that are available to everyone. The fact that your forefathers didn't have the same opportunities shouldn't be a reason for not doing it now. If you took that same view on everything, then you wouldn't have a car, or live in a house with electricity, or be online to read this.

Quick bit of googling tells me the Roscommon Soccer League has developed from just 10 teams when it was founded in the 1970s to more than 30 today. Seems reasonable to assume then that many new clubs were formed in areas where soccer was never played before. They didn't say "but there's no real tradition of soccer here, that sport has only ever been strong in other parts of the country". If new soccer clubs can be formed, why not new hurling clubs?

Not sure of the relevance of your rounders question, but a more pertinent question might be - if there was a move on to expand rounders to more areas, how many units would actively oppose it, in the way they oppose the notion of introducing hurling?

Pikeman96 (National) - 27/08/2026 15:54:14

GAA Journalism - 1 Like(s)
Shane Rice Coaing is one of the best journalist in my opinions. He has coached great players in gaa such as Karl Gallagher, Sam Mulroy and many others. Hes also from the elite club of scostown so has a great insight to how they are so successful and is friends with key players such as Rory beggan so this gives him great insight to current set ups. Everything he writes for the Gaeliclife is always correct and many other journalists could learn off him. He does coach with Dublin clubs and PT so his knowledge is endless. Gentleman when meet him in person and is very popular on social media with young generation.

GAAFAN1234512345 (National) - 27/08/2026 16:41:50

Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Shocking treatment of GB.

ORIELMAN85 (National) - 27/08/2026 20:59:03