Hardysaffron i think your footballers may have played us, Eoghan Rua Coleraine, in a friendly at the start of the year down at Coleraine uni?
One of your fellas got his jaw broke both sides that day? Was that you's or another team?

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 15/10/2009 11:51:18    455210

no worries bosch, none was taken! yeah that's right his jaw was fairly wrecked. he got the jaws wired, lost a fair bit of weight too. he's back playing now though. it wasn't you buried him, was it? :-)

hardysaffron (Antrim) - Posts: 12 - 15/10/2009 12:17:32    455225

oh right thats the ulster intermediate quarter finals then - who youse up against? Good luck!

stranmillis29 (Antrim) - Posts: 788 - 15/10/2009 12:18:19    455226

think it's the mon-ack-an winners. sorry bosch, couldn't resist! :-) i think so anyway, i don't know for definite.

hardysaffron (Antrim) - Posts: 12 - 15/10/2009 12:39:23    455257

No wasnt me although i was marking him at time. It was an unfortunate one, certainly not intentional by our fella. Glad to hear he's on the mend cos it was a nasty injury. Seen him later that day in a+e he could barely talk at the time.
Were you playing that day?
We'll maybe get another challenge match going next year....

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 15/10/2009 13:05:24    455290

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As per my earlier post about the different pronounciation of the letter H,


There is no letter "H" in the Irish alphabet and allegedly this is what causes the division.

Plausible? I don't know.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 15/10/2009 19:25:18    455758

A-hoch-ill further up the Glens, with an emphasis on the hoch. A-haw-hill sounds like the North Down/South Belfast pronunciation.

Benandonner (Antrim) - Posts: 459 - 15/10/2009 22:34:26    455963

haw haw haw

stranmillis29 (Antrim) - Posts: 788 - 16/10/2009 03:32:47    456148

The Irish "ch" sound (which is the same ch sound as the Scottish "loch") has no exact equivalent in English. This is the sound whose spelling is anglicised as "gh" in Monaghan (from the ch of Muineachán) and Ahoghill (from the ch of Achadh Eochaille) So it seems like maybe the 2 groups are using 2 different sounds as anglicisations of the Irish "ch". That might explain the difference in pronouncing "gh".

Sionnach (Kerry) - Posts: 77 - 16/10/2009 12:59:11    456390