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Replying To Seanfan:  "Is there room enough for a light rail/tramline overground?
Airport to Broombridge perhaps?"
A short extension from Finglas (whenever that will be built) to the Airport is all that would be needed. The Metro should still go ahead... the residents of Dartmouth Sq can't be let hold it up.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1598 - 25/11/2025 17:49:05    2646054

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Replying To norajohnson:  "In 1924 the GAA built a new stand along the Jones Road side of the stadium and took the historic decision to name it the Hogan Stand The Association also promotes Irish music, song and dance and the Irish language as an integral part of its objectives .primarily due to the immense mental pressure and the immediate, severe consequences of a single mistake. Other positions frequently cited as the most difficult are center defensive midfielder and wingback, which are physically and mentally demanding due to high running loads and the requirement to balance attacking and defending duties.
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What has this got to do with anything or is this poster just another AI bott ? Something seems to have knocked the needle out of the groove.

Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 1945 - 26/11/2025 09:46:46    2646094

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Replying To Square_B:  "A short extension from Finglas (whenever that will be built) to the Airport is all that would be needed. The Metro should still go ahead... the residents of Dartmouth Sq can't be let hold it up."
A light rail/Luas extension to Dublin Airport is not in the plans. In fact it has totally been ruled out by the authorities. The reason? They say that light rail is not suitable or designed for the transport of passengers with large luggage volumes. Make of that what you will, but that is what was stated recently when their plans were published.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2104 - 26/11/2025 13:09:09    2646128

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "A 32 county Republic is not a "mythical place." It was voted for by the Irish people in 1918. The socialist part was stuck on later, ironically by the same people who not only abandoned a 32 county republic, but also any pretence to be socialist!

Sinn Féin are a run of the mill centre left liberal part. They have at last found their true home along with Bacik and Cairns and Murphy. Pity they didn't spare their own people and everyone else all the wasted lives in deaths, prison, and so on before it was handed over to carpet baggers who never had anything to do with the movement when it was pursuing its sole objective of Irish unity."
100% agree about the 32 County being far from mythical, but I was never keen on the Socialist republic part of the proposition.

As for the "Carpet baggers" you mention, most of the people involved during the struggle up until 1998 are now are either dead, over retirement age or fast approaching it. The next generation are not cut from the same cloth, different life experiences and different attitudes, but that is to be expected.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1514 - 26/11/2025 13:24:16    2646131

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "A 32 county Republic is not a "mythical place." It was voted for by the Irish people in 1918. The socialist part was stuck on later, ironically by the same people who not only abandoned a 32 county republic, but also any pretence to be socialist!

Sinn Féin are a run of the mill centre left liberal part. They have at last found their true home along with Bacik and Cairns and Murphy. Pity they didn't spare their own people and everyone else all the wasted lives in deaths, prison, and so on before it was handed over to carpet baggers who never had anything to do with the movement when it was pursuing its sole objective of Irish unity."
Easy for you to say that from your safe haven in South? Dublin. If you lived on the Falls road, and were threatened by the UDA or burnt out by the RUC you might have another view. The Unionists were not going to share power on the basis of a strongly worded demand from John Hume or Garret FitzGerald. All that said, the loss of life is regretted.

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2694 - 26/11/2025 14:03:50    2646139

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Replying To Commodore:  "100% agree about the 32 County being far from mythical, but I was never keen on the Socialist republic part of the proposition.

As for the "Carpet baggers" you mention, most of the people involved during the struggle up until 1998 are now are either dead, over retirement age or fast approaching it. The next generation are not cut from the same cloth, different life experiences and different attitudes, but that is to be expected."
Lots of them were old enough. Only joined later, often having been in anti republican parties.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3842 - 26/11/2025 16:35:26    2646151

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Replying To galwayford:  "Easy for you to say that from your safe haven in South? Dublin. If you lived on the Falls road, and were threatened by the UDA or burnt out by the RUC you might have another view. The Unionists were not going to share power on the basis of a strongly worded demand from John Hume or Garret FitzGerald. All that said, the loss of life is regretted."
Lots of people in South were involved. Quite a few died. Well over 1,000 in prison.

I do take your point regarding effectiveness of pro British death squads. Point remains, we lost.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3842 - 26/11/2025 16:37:43    2646152

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Lots of people in South were involved. Quite a few died. Well over 1,000 in prison.

I do take your point regarding effectiveness of pro British death squads. Point remains, we lost."
Quite a lot of people in the "South" will be happy ye lost.
Especially the families of Séamus Quaid, Gerry McCabe, Patrick Kelly, Gary Sheehan, Frank Hand, Michael Clerkin, Tom Oliver, Eamon Ryan.... ....

Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 246 - 26/11/2025 16:55:46    2646154

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Replying To galwayford:  "Easy for you to say that from your safe haven in South? Dublin. If you lived on the Falls road, and were threatened by the UDA or burnt out by the RUC you might have another view. The Unionists were not going to share power on the basis of a strongly worded demand from John Hume or Garret FitzGerald. All that said, the loss of life is regretted."
I think it's perfectly understandable how and why violence ignited into a war when civil rights of Catholics and nationalists were being trampled on. People being burnt out of their homes, denied jobs and even murder. The same would have happened in the south.

However somewhere along the line it turned into some warped cause by some of those involved. Some of the atrocities committed were unbelievable and unjustified.
People experienced both sides of it, we had a hunger striker from this parish in south Mayo tragically die on hunger strike. We also had a Mayo footballer brutally murdered while on duty in Co.Roscommon.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11827 - 26/11/2025 17:34:41    2646160

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Replying To Freethinker:  "What has this got to do with anything or is this poster just another AI bott ? Something seems to have knocked the needle out of the groove."
Think your own needle is out of the groove.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3581 - 26/11/2025 17:41:07    2646163

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Replying To Seanfan:  "Quite a lot of people in the "South" will be happy ye lost.
Especially the families of Séamus Quaid, Gerry McCabe, Patrick Kelly, Gary Sheehan, Frank Hand, Michael Clerkin, Tom Oliver, Eamon Ryan.... ...."
It was sad what those families had to go through. The same pain that 3000 odd families in the North had to go through.
But are you suggesting that "the Troubles" were started by the Republican movement?
Or suggesting that the Nationalist population in the North shouldve just put up and shut up in the 1960s?
Or both?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17619 - 26/11/2025 19:03:24    2646167

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Replying To Seanfan:  "Quite a lot of people in the "South" will be happy ye lost.
Especially the families of Séamus Quaid, Gerry McCabe, Patrick Kelly, Gary Sheehan, Frank Hand, Michael Clerkin, Tom Oliver, Eamon Ryan.... ...."
It was sad what those families had to go through. The same pain that 3000 odd families in the North had to go through.
But are you suggesting that "the Troubles" were started by the Republican movement?
Or suggesting that the Nationalist population in the North shouldve just put up and shut up in the 1960s?
Or both?
Or maybe that 26 county lives and families matter more than 6 county ones?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17619 - 26/11/2025 19:14:12    2646170

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "Think your own needle is out of the groove."
Well hello. You trolling me again ?

Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 1945 - 26/11/2025 22:25:14    2646185

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Not much soccer talk here but do people think Slot can turn it around? It's a dramatic fall from Liverpool who are on their worst run of form in over 70 years. I hope he can turn it around but another loss this weekend away to West Ham could be fatal.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11827 - 27/11/2025 10:02:36    2646198

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