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Roscommon GAA thread - 4 Like(s)
Replying To dave1988: "Did he strike him? Don't think anyone saw a strike only lines man" Was no striking by Daire Cregg, two or three New York players roared at the linesman claiming he did and the linesman went with that and told Cawkey to show a red. It was very poor officiating.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 13/04/2026 13:42:07
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Hurling Championship 2026 - 3 Like(s)
It's like Christmas week, with Championship starting this weekend.
Looking forward to sitting down for the weekend and soaking it all in.
How is everyone feeling?
Any predictions or Team news or rumours?
LimerickandProud (National) - 13/04/2026 11:52:21
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Sligo GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To SligoScot: "Yep, I'll stand by the comment. We were beaten by Leitrim at home in a championship game where we are expected to win and win comfortably. Sligo are supposed to be well ahead of Leitrim in their development. Yes Sligo are not anywhere close to being a tier 1 or 2 team but maybe you need reminding.... Leitrim not close to anything of a decent standard on all known recent form. Its not arrogance to expect to put a poor Leitrim team away....its what's needed in counties like Leitrim and Sligo so we can move on to a higher table and develop as serious football counties. Enjoy your spotting of a Swallow as I know that in Sligo over the years we had the odd Swallow spotting and quite frankly celebrating this glance every now and then is what is holding back counties like ourselves. So being beaten at home by fellow Swallow spotters and not to call it out as shameful and embarrassing would be a further step backwards. Beat Galway and Mayo/Roscommon and we will reassess" Time for you to get off this forum and stop making a fool of yourself. Yesterday you were looking for the team selection
Taypot (National) - 13/04/2026 15:06:01
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "Regardless of whether you believe its a choice or not i think we can all recognise the influence that our family, peer group and environment have had on us and who we have become.
We all made our first friends, had our first fight, drank our first drink, smoked our first cigarette and/or other stuff, kissed our first girl or boy etc etc within the environment that we grew up in.
We did a lot of what we did and formed our ideas about life and society because of the influence of our family, peers and environment. We found our role models and ambition there and it heavily influenced the outcome. Most of us got to where we are today because of it and some of us in spite of it
Now imagine growing up in one of these notorious council estates. Imagine the influence your peers from there and the environment would hsve on you. Imagine what you would have been exposed to and the peer pressure you would be under to experiment. After all most of us just want to fit in when we are that age so we follow. Its not difficult to imagine how young lads from these areas see joy riders and drug dealers as cool and as role models. Its not difficult to see them drop out and disengage. Its just what people do. It takes guts to stand out and stay in school, go to uni etc. We were lucky. We didn't have those influences and environment to deal with. Therefore we will never understand it. Thats okay too. Hopefully noone belonging to us ever will but dont judge them by our standards. Thats all im saying." For the last 15 -20 years, every new housing development in Ireland has been required to have both public and private housing, the objective was to abolish the "Council estate" tag, to no longer marginalize those from lower income families.
In time that should start producing environments that have less negative influences to youngsters.
As for a more immediate solution, FF/FG Government basically started offering younger criminals from inner City Dublin the chance for them and their families to move out to others places upon release from prison to start over, provided with social housing, furniture etc and options to enrole in the ETB courses while getting full payments. A new life.
The problem is that it has enabled the drug industry to spread more rapidly to every rural corner of Ireland, rather than give up crime, they used this as a networking tool. Not all have done that, but we seen a noticeable surge in drug availablity in tiny rural villages and it seemed to coincide.
Also we have people regularly in court with over 100 previous convictions, who are given €300 fines and maybe 2 months in prison, its a joke. Then if locals attempt to deal with such anti-social behaviour, the Gardai are all over the locals, almost like they are protecting the criminals. If they seriously want to stamp out repeated criminal offending, they need they need to start putting people with exhaustive criminal records away for 10 - 20 years.
Commodore (National) - 13/04/2026 16:25:02
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To dickie10: "Big win for westmeath, I thought it wouldbe much tighter and maybe even a shock on cards if westmeath slept walked into it. Meath will have there work cut out next sunday, it will be very tight, only thing the margin of victory has meath on the alert big timenow, but still thing it will be a tight game. meath fans will be making a lot of 2015 game and trying to push the idea of a revenge mission for that game, that hurt them a lot that day its being referenced a lot even before it was sure it would be Meath v Westmeath, i cant see them going in too cocky for this." I think its a bit of a stretch to be looking for revenge for a game that was 11 years ago!! Rediculous assertion.
Meridian (National) - 13/04/2026 15:12:21
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Sligo GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Congratulations to Leitrim, they were the best team on the day. In simple terms they fought a lot harder than Sligo, Poacher won the battle on the side line and McNulty was the standout player on the pitch.
I think a lot of the damage was done in the first half and we had the wrong man picking up Prior, also McNulty was excellent and Sligo were not able to handle him. We conceded a poor goal in the first half and kickouts once again were poor.
Not going to name and shame players as I believe they put enough hard work all year for Sligo GAA but the reality is that we had players on the field that are simply not good enough for Senior level, we also have players that have been excellent servants to Sligo but it is time for them to pass the baton over to someone else.
Our coaching team does not have much intercounty senior management experience and I think this also did not help us. Not trying to kick them when they are down, this is just the reality. We have some coaches that have never been involved with a senior county or club team and some that have only experience for 1-2 years.
I don't know what happened at the end with the free, was it planned to pass the ball or was it a confidence issue? Nobody really knows and I was as shocked as other people when the free was not kicked directly. A tough one for the player to take as it is very similar to the county final 2 years ago. These things happen in sport and no doubt it will sit on the mind of the players for a few weeks but we have to move on.
Some players will probably go away for a week or two on holidays and others will go back to their clubs but most important thing is that we are on the terrace to support them for their next game in the Tailteann Cup.
Best of luck Leitrim against Galway and I will be there in Carrick shouting on the underdogs as I have family and friends from Leitrim.
RealSouthSligo (National) - 13/04/2026 12:33:05
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Deadballmerchant: "Blayney seem to be the fan favourites for all the trolls on here, always being bumped up looking for a response. Back under your bridges!!!" Most successful club in the county for a reason
Respect them
Gaels1989 (National) - 13/04/2026 15:58:44
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ohwow: "I don't know how anyone had Sligo such firm favourites, they just beat Clare, Limerick and a poorly coached Fermanagh in the league.
But anyway that game is done now and there seems to be a lot of anger towards the management on Sligo thread, we've been there ourselves
Still amused to see some of them saying shameful and embarrassing with regards to this result. Obvious notions above their stations.
A free shot against Galway, no one is expecting a miracle but there should be some motivation there for the Leitrim lads with who is on the backroom staff for them.
Galway are one of the big two in the province as we all know and there is a formidable weight of history against Leitrim winning, with only 5 wins in championship history against them. I'm not sure if we have beaten them ever at home. Someone else might know that one." I agree with you on this thank you for giving me the opportunity to do so. We probably won't beat Galway, let's be honest here but if we give them a good rattle it will be progress thank you. However, imagine if we did beat them heading to a Connacht final against Mayo (bring back memories of 94 again). I would like this please. Thank you.
bláthach (National) - 13/04/2026 15:05:56
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To SouthGalway: "I'm happy. As some of you already pointed out no major injuries and they got the job done without their best players. Kilkenny will be a much tougher test as usual. I don't care what KK have done or not done they will be tough against Galway as they always seem to save their best for us." The best of this Kilkenny lot would want to be an awful lot better than they have shown recently. Sometimes the emperor doesn't actually have much clothing.
They have to win the next day out to win the group where a draw will do us and it wouldn't greatly surprise me if Wexford overhauled the 23 point scoring difference deficit to finish ahead of KK, not that it ultimately matters much as both will make the semis regardless. If we win on Saturday I'd expect Niland and Rabbitte to be released for that game.
Maybe KK are saving it up for us on April 22 but I'd be sceptical about that. From what I watched on Saturday I would rather be playing them in a potential LF instead of Wexford who were much improved on their first day out where they were never 14 points worse than us on balance.
Stool Pigeon (National) - 13/04/2026 15:23:33
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Mayo GAA Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Gaa_lover: "Plenty of changes was always going to made after the manner of the defeat to Kerry, a natural reaction of any manager and far from a silly reference.
Durcan is now back which I already pointed out with the 4 changes. Loftus,Hession didn't feature at the weekend so are highly unlikely to be starting the next day.
I'd say about 4 spots are open for starting place as Rob Hennelly,Jack Coyne, Rory Brickenden; Sam Callinan,Paddy Durcan; Bob Tuohy,David McBrien; Jack Carney,Ryan O'Donoghue,Cian McHale, Aidan O'Shea should start the Connnacht semi-final" Also plenty of changes because Roscommon and Mayo knew they were going to be playing each other in a much more important game a few weeks later. It was just shadow boxing but you seem to think otherwise!
MayoDan (National) - 13/04/2026 15:50:30
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Sligoman1234: "You're confusing arrogance with genuine expecting better from our side. Losing at home in the manner we did is not what we expect nor deserve from Sligo. Last year we lost to Mayo in Castlebar by 3, year before a last minute goal at home in Markievicz to Galway. Yesterday we get lobbed, nutmegged and were 10 points down to the 7th ranked team in Division 4. It's not good enough for me anyway as a supporter and someone who pays into Club Sligo and goes to most games…and I'd imagine there's a lot more like me. It's not a sin to have higher standards!" I'm not confusing anything. We'll likely see ye again in the Tailteann, I hope there's more respect next time round.
Square_B (National) - 13/04/2026 14:11:58
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
The coverage online of the McNulty goal taken from someone in the stand is better than what rte showed. And they baffingly failed to show the most important part of the game...the last 30 seconds. But not entirely surprising with the product rte show.
ohwow (National) - 13/04/2026 16:15:11
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Monaghan GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Monaghan_football: "Inniskeen wasent the only team missing starters" Blayney missing a few big hitters too. Noticeably Brion Sherry a big man around the middle for them unfortunately out for the year with an ACL injury. A big miss for blayney of course but should push on nonetheless.
Farney25 (National) - 13/04/2026 16:23:06
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Was no striking by Daire Cregg, two or three New York players roared at the linesman claiming he did and the linesman went with that and told Cawkey to show a red. It was very poor officiating." I saw a video online of him swinging an arm back at a New York player. Pretty soft of course but if that's what the red card was given for then it will be difficult to win any appeal.
MayoDan (National) - 13/04/2026 17:03:58
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Wicklow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To wicklowsupport: "Yesterday was a fine performance by Wicklow considering what happened in Longford and the fact they were short four players who may have started especially Malcahy Stone and Kevin Quinn. Do supporters think winning a championship match like they did yesterday and playing Dublin next weekend is better than beating Longford and being promoted to division three?" That isn't an easy question to answer. But, when you look at the composition of the 2027 Div 3, I think that this team would struggle to stay up in it. This team is, for me, just too inconsistent. We can't even say that we get better as the year goes on as examples by last years display in Croker v Limerick. With just a few exceptions the team is pretty young and maybe another season in the basement might harden and toughen them up a bit which they would definitely have to do to survive in a higher division. They definitely need hardening up, both physically and mentally. JP Nolan was back in the squad so should be available again for selection. I don't know the extent of young Quinn's injury but it looks like Malachy stone is out for a while. Darragh Fee has a hamstring injury - I think so might be back for the TC. Problem is that all these players seem to be of a pretty similar standard. Our backs appear to have tightened up considerably yesterday. The Dubs on Sunday will show us where we are in the pecking order. We gave them a good game last year, question is, are they better now under Mr Brennan ?. Certainly they have some young exciting players coming through. We might even get more tv time next week and maybe even get a passing mention on MOTD. The panel last night didn't seem to think we were worthy of a mention. They went straight to that opinion poll table which showed over 60% of respondents tipping the Dubs to win Leinster. That was probably their way of putting lowly Wicklow in their place.
Freethinker (National) - 13/04/2026 17:05:29
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Commodore: "For the last 15 -20 years, every new housing development in Ireland has been required to have both public and private housing, the objective was to abolish the "Council estate" tag, to no longer marginalize those from lower income families.
In time that should start producing environments that have less negative influences to youngsters.
As for a more immediate solution, FF/FG Government basically started offering younger criminals from inner City Dublin the chance for them and their families to move out to others places upon release from prison to start over, provided with social housing, furniture etc and options to enrole in the ETB courses while getting full payments. A new life.
The problem is that it has enabled the drug industry to spread more rapidly to every rural corner of Ireland, rather than give up crime, they used this as a networking tool. Not all have done that, but we seen a noticeable surge in drug availablity in tiny rural villages and it seemed to coincide.
Also we have people regularly in court with over 100 previous convictions, who are given €300 fines and maybe 2 months in prison, its a joke. Then if locals attempt to deal with such anti-social behaviour, the Gardai are all over the locals, almost like they are protecting the criminals. If they seriously want to stamp out repeated criminal offending, they need they need to start putting people with exhaustive criminal records away for 10 - 20 years." Agreed.
Have never seen sense in say a 5 year sentence with the final 2 suspended.
If you want prison to truly reform someone, make them do a year inside, with the following 10 years suspended. Break the law, in any way, upon release and serve a further 10.
You get 1 chance.
cavanman47 (National) - 13/04/2026 18:26:38
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Wicklow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Rockofsense: "Minors first test will be in the preliminary quarter final.Kenny has players on the starting fifteen who are good athletes but quite limited regarding football skills.Better and stronger footballers on the panel, also three players left off from last year who were worth their place.Some of his favourites went missing against Carlow and were left on. Preliminary Quarter final will see where this minor team ranks." Totally agree with everything you say. I have tried to post about the minor and u20 selections and what I think of their management set up but can't get it past admin, for some strange reason.
Freethinker (National) - 13/04/2026 14:23:50
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Congratulations on the win yesterday. Fancied ye before the game and it was nothing if not convincing. While it would have been widely accepted on our side we were coming up against a much better team, I would have hoped we'd have put in a better performance, but our same failings throughout the year continued. I don't see any reason why ye cant give the TC a good run this year. Unfortunately, from our side, we're going nowhere fast and there isnt exactly much coming through to give hope for the years to come.
LongfordSham (National) - 13/04/2026 14:13:22
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Sligoman1234: "The performance for Sligo was embarrassing. No one said Sligo were a Real Madrid but 15 years of being unbeaten and as a poster said bookies putting 7/1 or 9/1 on it, it would appear that only a very small minority in Leitrim would have backed the win in their mind today…and it very nearly wasn't but wouldn't have been a deserved win if Sligo did poach it. The lobbed goal gave great belief to Leitrim as up to that playing against the wind I thought we were going okay." Ah would you stop. There you've used the word again, embarrassing. Embarrassing suggests a sense of superiority, a sense that would make you 'embarrassed' to loose to Leitrim. Ye lost by 1 point not 20. Despite the losses we've suffered over the years, I never recall any victories from Sligo of any more than 10 points. In fact, in one notable game from the 90's (an All Ireland B final), Sligo were bet out the gate, scored 2 points over the entire game. The reality is we're closer than you think, so you can take your embarrassment with you somewhere else.
Square_B (National) - 13/04/2026 07:10:28
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Sligo GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Square_B: "An all time low... to loose to Leitrim. Wow. The arrogance is astounding but we're well used of it. Makes these days all the sweeter." You're confusing arrogance with genuine expecting better from our side. Losing at home in the manner we did is not what we expect nor deserve from Sligo. Last year we lost to Mayo in Castlebar by 3, year before a last minute goal at home in Markievicz to Galway. Yesterday we get lobbed, nutmegged and were 10 points down to the 7th ranked team in Division 4. It's not good enough for me anyway as a supporter and someone who pays into Club Sligo and goes to most games…and I'd imagine there's a lot more like me. It's not a sin to have higher standards!
Sligoman1234 (National) - 13/04/2026 13:10:40
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