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Non-Gaa Forum - 5 Like(s)
While not a fan of this Government, the alternative is an absolute waste of time and effort, they would lead us into Narnia for about 12 months before bankrupting the country for at least five years. Be careful what you wish for.
SouthOfTheGap (National) - 14/04/2026 22:37:06
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
That was a monumental win last weekend. Just huge. Theres been a spark in every football conversation I've had with people in the county since the game. We don't get these days too often so we need to embrace it.
For a team missing a huge amount of players who we would all have on the team and panel to get a result like that away from home is just fantastic.
McNulty, Keegan, Prior and especially Ryan O'Rourke were immense on Sunday.
I've been a critic of Poacher as I don't think our results when you look at them as a whole over the two years have been good enough. Especially after some of the interviews he gave last year and his behaviour on the sideline in many games.
But it has to be said the two games he had a long time to plan for Mayo last year and Sligo this year he has got excellent performances from the group.
Poacher had Cillian McGloin tagging Cian Lally on Sunday and Ryan O'Rourke playing deep as a creator - both plans worked brilliantly.
The talk is that both Donal Casey and Darren Cox are back doing some running and may see game time in the Tailteann Cup.
So before a ball is kicked next year we will have at the very least Casey, Cox and Jack Foley back on the panel. That's 3 starting players. Adam Reynolds and Paul Keaney are also still in and around the panel doing their Rehab from their long-term injuries.
When you then realise that Poacher did not start any of our U20s (Which was a shock) you can argue that we are starting to build depth. I'd say theres quiet a few of this years U20s who will be mainstays in the senior team in the coming year.
The main benefit of Sundays win will hopefully be that it will convince the other players in the county that are talented enough to be on the squad to commit to the panel for 2027. We have a crop of players throughout our clubs to get out of Division Four and really challenge in the Tailteann Cup in the coming years.
Leitrim ABU!
third midfielder (National) - 15/04/2026 13:19:57
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Roscommon GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Just recovering from a great weekend in New York. Great to see such a turnout of Roscommon supporters enjoying themselves. Well done to all the volunteers who organised/coordinated the club trips and the organisers of the various events in New York. (County Board/Club Rossie/Shannonside/ Irish Bars in New York etc)
Good to see the strong interaction between the players and supporters in Time Square, on the pitch and at the airport etc.
Lets keep the momentum going and bring massive support again to Castlebar on Sunday week. This is where the support is really needed; from the first whistle to the final whistle.
letsgetgoing (National) - 15/04/2026 10:00:47
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To LongfordgaaAbú: "A few months before Longford beat Kerry (and then Westmeath), Clonguish reached the Leinster Club semi-final and came within a whisker of being the first Longford senior club to reach the Leinster final. That period had some unique generational talent including Paul Barden & Padraic Davis who would have slotted into any team in the country at the time. Now we can't buy a win in Leinster club. Something needs to change at club level because you can't wait for generational talent to magically show up. Championship structures is as good a place as any to start, because the current arrangement does nothing for Junior and is producing Intermediate winners who get whiplash from their inevitable drop back down the following year. But it needs clubs to commit rather than crying foul if they are the ones relegated.
Before Clonguish dominated underage in recent years, Killoe dominated it. Before that Northern Gaels dominated for a while. I grew up in the 80s and 90s when underage amalgamations were commonplace and everyone was trying to beat Granard. I never played in a juvenile or minor championship team that wasn't an amalgamation. They have long been a feature of club underage and I don't think now is any more/less than before. Underage players have more facilities, more opportunities, and more games development and promotion structures than we could ever have dreamed of, so it begs the question why underage success is so lobsided (all credit to Clonguish for it), and why we seem unable to develop generational talent, rather than being lucky when it shows up every 15 years or so. I don't know the answer to that." When Mullinalaghta won Leinster there was a 12 team senior championship, likewise when the county were last in Division 2 in 2013. It didn't hold either back. The championship structures need to change for the clubs sake. The junior and intermediate ones getting hammerings when promoted and for the senior ones giving out the hammerings. It benefits no one. The point is that it is not the silver bullet to fixing the county team. Our teams walking these underage championships are not particularly strong, I have said it before 1998 and 2003 teams were far better. Barden and Davis did not happen by magic, they were products of years of dedication and coaching. Other clubs have fallen by the wayside and need to get their acts together. Another poster said it is going to be a long process. Longford county board need a strong focus on coaching in the secondary schools, Mels, Granard, Ballymahon, Moyne. It will not be easy as we do not have it all our own way anymore with soccer and rugby also very popular
liosbreac6265 (National) - 15/04/2026 15:20:59
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Fahy
Hanrahan
Burke
Morrissey
Mannion
Trayers
Glennon
Daniels
Lee
R Burke
C mannion
Killeen
Niland
Rabbitte
Whelan
Gaillimg abu
BigBàsMan (National) - 14/04/2026 20:07:36
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Trayers will play 3 or the league was a waste of his time
I'm not in love with PM at 6 but I suspect this will happen.
Is Dáithi Burke available?" I think you are probably right. I would Imagine Trayers at 3 with Daithi probably on the bench to come in later.
Kinvara (National) - 15/04/2026 14:58:16
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Does Anyone See Past Limerick Winning The Hurling All Ireland? - 1 Like(s)
"But no, our whole focus is to do better out here, get better ourselves, try and get every last per cent out of it."
"We kind of think maybe sometimes we could get a bit more help out there from our own lads,"
"Obviously, there'll be bits and pieces that are said that'd come back to you, you'd hear about them and stuff like that"
Ronan Curran Cork coach in an interview yesterday, clearly torn about whether or not Cork are focusing on themselves or obsessing about whats being said about them
And then Alan Connolly says "When we're at our best, I don't think anyone can beat us'.
So he thinks they are the best team in the country, and its just that they have not been at their best in a series of games most notably the last 2 AIs but also the League Final, the round robin last year v Limerick, the Munster final, last year (draw)?
New coaching team, underachieving squad, and out there feeding the media regularly - risky business
I am sure Tipp are happy about all of this
Yadse (National) - 15/04/2026 14:46:42
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Best of luck to our under twenty team tonight please. A very winnable game against one of the weaker teams so hopefully we can do it. I know Enda and the guys were targeting this game from early in the year. Thank you all so much for agreeing with me please.
bláthach (National) - 15/04/2026 14:21:08
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To minor77: "Even if they did stand down you're going to find the same 2 parties in power again S.F have no interest in being in government so they will stay in opposition" Sinn Féin are running part of Ireland for Britain. Not too well either. Even worse housing waiting lists and social decline. Most of all for the people who vote for them. Avoid that one,
BarneyGrant (National) - 15/04/2026 13:37:52
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To liosbreac6265: "When Longford were top of Division 1 after defeating Kerry there were 16 teams in the senior championship. A much bigger issue has been the collapse in standards across the underage clubs. We have cleaned up with little to no opposition for a number of years now. That is far from boasting it is fact and it has not helped us at senior" A few months before Longford beat Kerry (and then Westmeath), Clonguish reached the Leinster Club semi-final and came within a whisker of being the first Longford senior club to reach the Leinster final. That period had some unique generational talent including Paul Barden & Padraic Davis who would have slotted into any team in the country at the time. Now we can't buy a win in Leinster club. Something needs to change at club level because you can't wait for generational talent to magically show up. Championship structures is as good a place as any to start, because the current arrangement does nothing for Junior and is producing Intermediate winners who get whiplash from their inevitable drop back down the following year. But it needs clubs to commit rather than crying foul if they are the ones relegated.
Before Clonguish dominated underage in recent years, Killoe dominated it. Before that Northern Gaels dominated for a while. I grew up in the 80s and 90s when underage amalgamations were commonplace and everyone was trying to beat Granard. I never played in a juvenile or minor championship team that wasn't an amalgamation. They have long been a feature of club underage and I don't think now is any more/less than before. Underage players have more facilities, more opportunities, and more games development and promotion structures than we could ever have dreamed of, so it begs the question why underage success is so lobsided (all credit to Clonguish for it), and why we seem unable to develop generational talent, rather than being lucky when it shows up every 15 years or so. I don't know the answer to that.
LongfordgaaAbú (National) - 15/04/2026 13:02:08
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Basically a Connacht U20 Quarter final in Hyde park tonight at 7pm. Unfortunately we have lost one of our best forwards Charlie O'Carroll to injury for this game but in good news Cathal Enright and Sean O'Donnell return from their injury lay offs to make the 24 for the first time this year.
The published team.
Patrick Gaynor - Western Gaels
Diarmuid O'Higgins - Clann na nGael
Michael Gillooly - Roscommon Gaels
Nikita Berzins - Shannon Gaels
Keelan Kelly - Padraig Pearses
Eoghan Carthy - Roscommon Gaels
Conor Grogan - Roscommon Gaels
Niall Heneghan - Michael Glaveys
Cathal Enright - Elphin
Cathal McKeon - Boyle
Dean Casey - Ballinameen
Eoin Collins - St Croans
John Curran - Castlerea St Kevins
Ruairi Kicline - St Dominic's
John McGuinness - Roscommon Gaels
Subs
Mark Carroll - Kilmore
Colin Murray - St Ciarans
Ruadhan Henry - St Michael's
Kevin Hester - Castlerea St Kevins
Declan Kennedy - Shannon Gaels
Stephen Tighe - Strokestown
Liam Finneran - Castlerea St Kevins
David Higgins - Western Gaels
Sean McDonnell - Strokestown
Best of luck to the young Rossies tonight.
The_analyser (National) - 15/04/2026 12:49:12
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
@yew_tree (Mayo)
I post on each and every Connacht county thread. If I had cent for every time someone was thinking I'm a fan of Galway,Leitrim,Mayo,Sligo and Roscommon I'd be very rich now. On the national thread a Kerry man thought I was from Cork other than that I don't recall any other so it must be a mainly a Connacht thing to label you as a supporter of someone when giving an opinion?
I'm born and bred US full neutral if you want to believe something else then that's your problem and knock yourself out.
On the topic of neutrals like myself Smaller Fish podcast and GAA+ plus the view said what Dáire Cregg did was no red card offence.
Gaa_lover (National) - 15/04/2026 12:15:49
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Croke Park expansion - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ExiledInWex: ""And realistically - how often would Wexford, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, etc., actually need a ground that holds 40,000 or more? As opposed to how often would Leinster need a ground of that size?
Pikeman96"
We need 1 in the province, not 3-4 of them. The problem at the moment is Leinster as Storeytash says, we have many 20k but nothing then for that slightly bigger game.
The weakness in the argument is that say Nowlan Park was the place, most Leinster hurling final would be on their home patch. No county would agree to that. But get one venue upgraded and then worry about what next." The reality is that any upgrade of a stadium or stadiums in Leinster, that would hold c40k would be beyond the reach of the financial resources of the GAA. It would also be madness to consider a stadium of this size without a proper business case to fully utilise it, meaning that corporate / concerts / other sports would need to be catered for. The GAA got stung for POC by letting a county board go off & build a stadium and were left carrying the can. That's not going to happen again.
In reality, Dublin does need a municipal stadium, possibly on the south side & one that has decent transport links etc. If it's ever going to happen it will likely be on Dublin GAA land at the Spawell but given the FAI hasn't a pot to **** in, it's unlikely to happen in the near future. Maybe if Parnell Park could be sold for a good price that might change but if the whole thing it to make financial sense, it has to be for all sports with financial input from all 3 (GAA, IRFU & FAI) & Government.
Square_B (National) - 15/04/2026 11:41:54
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Yep. New day. Sadly the same old clowns in power." Democracy.
Not perfect but better than the alternative.
Seanfan (National) - 15/04/2026 11:21:32
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To katser: "Weather forecast for Saturday is good and I'm not sure if RTE are broadcasting the game live. There should be a big crowd in Pearce Stadium.
I'm expecting Galway to win, terribly unlucky not to reach the League Final and their form is good. MD has built a fine team who will get better throughout the Championship.
Galway to win by 5pts or more." Not on rte
minor77 (National) - 15/04/2026 11:12:46
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To REDANDBLACK30: "The Irish Government should stand down and call a general election. That would be honourable and restore faith in the Irish political system as it would show they recognise their failure." Even if they did stand down you're going to find the same 2 parties in power again S.F have no interest in being in government so they will stay in opposition
minor77 (National) - 15/04/2026 11:10:16
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Now that the dust is beginning to settle after the weekend it is time to wish Leitrim well against Galway and we need to radically look at our performance. Firstly I don't believe anyone was arrogant in the run up to the game. When we play Mayo/Ross/ Galway they always believe that they will beat us. When we turn them over now and again (minor last week) I don't call them arrogant for expecting to beat us. We expected to beat Leitrim but we didn't and the next time we play them we also expect to beat them and they probably feel the same way about playing us.
When the team was announced I have to say I was completely fooled. I never expected that team would be starting. After all the hot air over the last few months about building depth in a squad we were about to take the field with no fullback as Lyons was out . I am not privvy to what goes on at training but I would have great time for Conor Johnson.
Rossa Sloyane is better than at least 4 of the starting defenders.
Gavin Gorman did ok in the few league games he played but he got dropped for Sunday and a clearly unfit Cummins (who I have great time for) started midfield. Luke Towey who seemed to have found his mojo back at wing back at the end of the league was put into midfield a position he was tried earlier in the year and it didn't work out. So we went into battle with a makeshift midfield against a very strong Leitrim pair. MC Nulty scoring 1.06 tells us how that experiment Our corner forwards were withdrawn at half time which bluntly means that their selection didn't work out. A very out of sorts and dejected captain left the field shortly after. He has a lot of football played, he wasn't going well but I would have put my house on him to score the free Deignan missed. Words fail me when it comes to the last passage of play. These young players that have been introduced are learning nothing in this environment. They confidence in the team is on the floor and I'm not sure if they are capable of winning another game this year. I think a parting of ways with the mgt might be the best thing for all concerned. This is coming from someone who has consistently backed every manager Sligo had over the years. I was very happy after the game against Westmeath even though we lost but since then we have been a mess.
eoinog (National) - 15/04/2026 10:35:54
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Kilkenny seem very rattled by the result of a poxy league game in March don't they? We've all forgotten about it, certainly nobody here seems to think it will impact Saturday anyway.
If Paddy Deegan is actually trying to use it as 'extra motivation for Saturday' he might as well stay at home.
KK playing the poor mouth is something to behold though, not that there's much danger any of us'll buy what they are selling" Its the media. They keep asking the same question. Thats bound to annoy anyone. There are only so many ways to answer the same question.
Tadhg2020 (National) - 15/04/2026 10:14:57
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BigBàsMan: "Fahy
Hanrahan
Burke
Morrissey
Mannion
Trayers
Glennon
Daniels
Lee
R Burke
C mannion
Killeen
Niland
Rabbitte
Whelan
Gaillimg abu" Can't see Daithi or Lee lining out, straight away after returning from injury, if fit at all. Killeen and Daniels will be the midfield partnership.
Triffic (National) - 15/04/2026 09:55:36
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Fahy
Ryan
Trayers
Hanrahan
Mannion / Glennon
Daithi/ Mannion
Morrissey
Daniels
Killeen
Whelan
Mannion
Burke
Niland
Rabbitte
Molloy
(Above presuming Lee not available)
Overdahill (National) - 15/04/2026 09:39:41
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