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Non-Gaa Forum - 6 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Plenty of stats on here, it must be said. That query re "vetting" is interesting. It's one that's used quite regularly by people of a particular political persuasion. A question. How many Irish single males over the age of 18 are "vetted" ??" Why would they be? They're citizens? They commit crimes too, and I'm in favour of much tougher sentencing but that's a separate issue that has zero to do with immigration.
Doylerwex (National) - 14/10/2025 22:33:39
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Non-Gaa Forum - 6 Like(s)
Replying To cluichethar: "This is a question for both sides on here about immigration.
What would be an acceptable immigration percentage be every year?
Or do you have an acceptable number in mind?" The number is unimportant. My own view is it needs to benefit us in the manner it does Australia and Canada. They important the skills they need. No more no less.
We need healthcare and construction workers so we should recruit them from abroad.
We do not need more social welfare recipients or criminals. We are well able to produce them ourselves.
Doylerwex (National) - 14/10/2025 22:38:21
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Non-Gaa Forum - 4 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Plenty of stats on here, it must be said. That query re "vetting" is interesting. It's one that's used quite regularly by people of a particular political persuasion. A question. How many Irish single males over the age of 18 are "vetted" ??" A quarter of the population is born outside of the state. That is a completely unnatural and disastrous situation for any nation. Vetting or not vetting is a minor consideration.
PS. If Irish males are allowed into the main countries where tens of thousands end up you can be assured they are vetted. Try landing in JFK or Sydney with no passport or plane ticket...
BarneyGrant (National) - 14/10/2025 22:22:24
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Plenty of stats on here, it must be said. That query re "vetting" is interesting. It's one that's used quite regularly by people of a particular political persuasion. A question. How many Irish single males over the age of 18 are "vetted" ??" If you have a better word then let's hear it. I mean wouldn't you want to know who is walking in your front door? Just because you say yes doesn't make you a monster. What is so terrible about knowing who is coming in to your house or country?
SouthGalway (National) - 14/10/2025 20:43:28
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Club Football Championships - General Discussion - 3 Like(s)
Replying To IamADragon: "The Cavan and Meath finals were both on yesterday. Would have made much more sense for TG4 to show one of those. Both countries with a much deeper history in football than Antrim." History is on the side of Antrim , they have won the Ulster senior club Cship 4 times ,No Cavan team has ever won it
germac (National) - 14/10/2025 21:17:16
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Non-Gaa Forum - 3 Like(s)
Replying To GreenandRed: "There's never been as many college courses available Cluichethar, fulltime, part-time, classroom, online, blended. The standard of education being delivered from all courses is debatable." I'd argue many college course aren't worth the paper they are written on. Too many bogus courses. Big focus needed on trades and apprenticeships. There is a huge shortage in this sector. If I had my time back again id be going down that route. Great money and plenty of work.
Many who went to college will find it hard get work in the coming years due to AI.
yew_tree (National) - 15/10/2025 12:00:42
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Plenty of stats on here, it must be said. That query re "vetting" is interesting. It's one that's used quite regularly by people of a particular political persuasion. A question. How many Irish single males over the age of 18 are "vetted" ??" The best vetting of all comes from living in a locality where you are trusted, because of your actions & mannerisms.
Age, skin colour, nationality don't matter.
slayer (National) - 14/10/2025 20:29:55
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To MayoDan: "If Caelin Doris isn't from Mayo then Messi isn't from Argentina..
Has a Galway man ever captained the Irish rugby team?" Was Ciaran Fitzgerald born in mayo or galway?
jm25 (National) - 15/10/2025 16:56:13
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "I'd argue many college course aren't worth the paper they are written on. Too many bogus courses. Big focus needed on trades and apprenticeships. There is a huge shortage in this sector. If I had my time back again id be going down that route. Great money and plenty of work.
Many who went to college will find it hard get work in the coming years due to AI." Many lads I know working in construction/trades didn't go back after the last crash. Some I know had to suffer visits from Social Welfare inspectors to their house. Those visits often comprised of the inspector looking at their house and telling them they are not entitled to welfare because their house is big. Almost as if it was nothing to do with them being in the trade, getting trade prices & working their backside off in their own time to build on the cheap.
I don't blame them for not going back. Completely shafted by our Government whose answer was to introduce property tax and USC to compensate for the false economy they allowed to bloom via transactional taxes.
slayer (National) - 15/10/2025 14:15:24
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To PressureKick: "It's hard to make out what you're saying here.
Yes, relative to other counties, Rugby , Soccer and Hurling are unpopular in Mayo. Incredibly so. It's possible that those 3 sports are less popular in Mayo than in any other county in the country
What about my post is vague? Mayo have never produced any talented athletes ever in any other sport bar Gaelic football. Did you ever wonder why that is? Because young teenagers have no other option but to play Gaelic football
Given all those circumstances, for Mayo to only have 3 all Ireland (less than Wexford or Cavan etc) is a mystery upon itself" AS I said in a post that the admin wouldn't allow through - your generic statement doesn't hold through in any kind of reasonable test.
Take the Village of Killala (<300 people up to 1998 - rose to 600 in 80's and now back to 500 ish)
Aileen Gilroy - ex Irish soccer international and now AWFL player
Jimmy Walsh - player for NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox - played in the World series twice
John Garvin - Kilfian (neighboring parish) - won 4 All Ireland cycling medals in 1940's
Johnny Gilvarry from Killala played rugby for Leinster and was no less the Killala man for it. If going to boarding school (as your Caelan Doris statement implies) means you arent from the place you grew up in - then Dublin and all Leinster counties have produced no rugby players at all.
Ballina played basketball for many years in Killala, winning the national league and two national cups.
Thats only one village bursting open your claims of Mayo people not doing well in other sports - I would be here for the week if I went through every other village.
tirawleybaron (National) - 15/10/2025 13:07:54
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To PressureKick: "It's hard to make out what you're saying here.
Yes, relative to other counties, Rugby , Soccer and Hurling are unpopular in Mayo. Incredibly so. It's possible that those 3 sports are less popular in Mayo than in any other county in the country
What about my post is vague? Mayo have never produced any talented athletes ever in any other sport bar Gaelic football. Did you ever wonder why that is? Because young teenagers have no other option but to play Gaelic football
Given all those circumstances, for Mayo to only have 3 all Ireland (less than Wexford or Cavan etc) is a mystery upon itself" What a load of waffle. On our GAA club team for example, six lads also play soccer, 2 play rugby for the nearest rugby club, another is big into athletics. We've lost a lad in event years who got a scholarship to play Golf in the US.
New hurling club setup in south Mayo recently. The football nursery that is St.Colmans college now also have a hurling team.
I can drive 15 mins in all directions from where I live in rural south Mayo and find three soccer clubs, two rugby clubs, a tennis club, boxing club, two golf courses, swimming….
This view of Mayo you have is bizzare. You swear we are some island off the coast that only plays Gaelic Football.
yew_tree (National) - 15/10/2025 11:58:03
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Bib: "Every player would want to play semifinals and finals in athenry, I have yet to speak to anyone that would prefer to play in PS , Athenry is the best surface by a mile and generates the best atmosphere for players, PS has better facilities and is better for supporters with toilets seating etc , so it's hard to please everyone I suppose , at some stage wouldn't it be great if someone had the courage to sell PS and combine all ingredients into a decent venue that caters for players and supporters alike" A solution 'of sorts' might be to play the games in Athenry from noon, and broadcast the deferred pictures on big screen closed circuit in Salthill from 5.45 or so. That way, the players can enjoy the pitch and 'soul' of Athenry, while the spectators can sit and use the toilet, while enjoying the spine tingling cinematic experience........."under lights".
Pope_Benedict (National) - 15/10/2025 11:38:49
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "I will make the same point on construction as I did on healthcare. We didn't train anyone for about a decade. There's a massive shortfall to make up in housing stock. We need enough workers to close that gap. They may be immigrants, or we may offer incentives for our own people to come home (that alone would not be enough). I don't know how many people that is but it's an equation to provide your answer.
36% of job seekers were not born in Ireland. That is too many. People routinely site the fact that Irish people have always worked abroad. That is true, but America, Canada, Australia, UK didn't exactly roll out the red carpet for us as far as my own memory goes.
To be honest I feel we have a moral obligation to provide asylum. Secondly other cultures enrich and compliment our own. The only thing I'm advocating for is a rational approach.
I only really started thinking constructively about this after the horrible knife incident in Dublin. It was so easily preventable. Hindsight is of no use to those parents." Ireland and the Western EU has had uncontrolled immigration for over 10 years now, possibly 15 years, which is now causing major strain on housing and services, because functional Countries cannot absorb such levels of immigration without encountering major civil issues. I'm not anti-immigration, but it needs to be put on hold for a few years to balance things out.
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are ultimately responsible for this, they pushed for Lisbon Treaty II to get passed, they have failed to act despite warning signs, so I am not surprised people have taken to the streets.
Commodore (National) - 15/10/2025 11:26:38
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Mayo GAA Thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To jm25: "Where is Andy Moran form?" These constant Andy Moran jibes are real childish
eoinog (National) - 14/10/2025 21:11:23
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Doylerwex: "The number is unimportant. My own view is it needs to benefit us in the manner it does Australia and Canada. They important the skills they need. No more no less.
We need healthcare and construction workers so we should recruit them from abroad.
We do not need more social welfare recipients or criminals. We are well able to produce them ourselves." Spot on. Zero problem with foreign immigration as long as it's legal and they are contributing to Irish society. Many as you say are, healthcare being the main sector.
It's the lads in groups hanging around street corner shouting that makes my blood boil.
yew_tree (National) - 15/10/2025 08:31:03
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
By some people's talk it's a big qualifier in Dublin tonight yet the place is half full. GAA is in a healthy position when you look at that rubbish.
Saynothing (National) - 14/10/2025 20:04:08
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Well done to Paul Doyle, Chris Nolan and Mouse Kavanagh on making the Joe McDonagh team of the year.
Unusedsub (National) - 15/10/2025 16:54:25
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "What an insightful contribution.
Let me try to help. They are statistically based estimates and forecasts. The official ones have been consistently wrong (gross under-estimates) whereas others have been correct.
The official ones are still likely to be underestimates, The population born overseas has jumped by 5% in three years since the last census.
The issue here is not the figures. The issue is whether you agree that this trend is a good thing and that it will withing 2/3 generations mean that the majority of the population of 26 counties will be born outside of the state and/or of immigrant families.
If you think that is a good thing, fine. Do not pretend that it is not happening." In 2 or 3 generations wouldn't the lads be Irish? How many generations would have to go by until you wouldn't be a blow in in your opinion?
By your reckoning alot of the leaders in 1798 wouldn't even have been Irish.
Viking66 (National) - 15/10/2025 15:59:57
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "That would mean that 10-12 players from Shandonagh would be suspended for the county final? Not one sub behaved in a really bad manner, no punches thrown on videos, visually it wasn't a great look but majority of players seemed to be trying to prevent situation escalating. If what you're suggesting as punishment were to happen the club would be busy with appeals. What punishment would happen to Milltown? They're finished for the year." PowellJohn3 is a Tubberclair man me thinks. Just had a look at past messages from him and they are very pro Tubberclair. County Board disciplinary decisions are not made on Hogan Stand my friend!!
Meridian (National) - 15/10/2025 15:50:15
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "A solution 'of sorts' might be to play the games in Athenry from noon, and broadcast the deferred pictures on big screen closed circuit in Salthill from 5.45 or so. That way, the players can enjoy the pitch and 'soul' of Athenry, while the spectators can sit and use the toilet, while enjoying the spine tingling cinematic experience........."under lights"." A better solution is if you're so concerned about sitting down and having a toilet beside you, the best solution would be to stream the games.
TanCanRan (National) - 15/10/2025 15:38:43
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