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Non-Gaa Forum - 4 Like(s)
Replying To Freethinker: "Come on Barney. This immigration seems to be a hobby horse of yours. Tell us your solution. Ban them all? Time to nail your colours to the mast. I was in for treatment yesterday. The ward I was in had probably 12 to 15 staff. Possibly 3 "native Irish" as the hard right would say. What kind of health service would we have without them. And these are just healthcare workers. Go look at the staffing numbers in the nursing homes. Other walks of life they are doing works that the hard right wouldn't dirty their hands with. That is if many of them work at all as the same people seem to be able to attend every dinner and dogfight of a parade going. Then, hey presto, the aristocratic Englishman who changed his name to a commoner seems to be able to turn up at a moments notice to fire things up. Not that I am aligning you with these people for a moment, far from it, as I reckon you are on the left of our politics, as indeed I was once, still am but probably more left of centre nowadays. But there is a fine line to be drawn." Do you personally think there is a immigration problem in Ireland and in Europe?
I'm not anti-Immigration, but seeing the problems caused by excessive immigration over the last 50 years in places like England, Europe and the US, I think there is strong evidence to support the need to control the annual Immigration flow in our Country and indeed other Countries.
Immigration numbers should not exceed 5% of the current total population in total over 20 years, so our population is ~5.3 million at the moment, 5% of that would allow 265,000 people in over 20 years. This would allow the Irish state time to absorb them and adapt infrastructure to accommodate them, also enable incoming people to integrate to their new communities too.
Otherwise you end up with divided Countries and divided Cities like Leicester in England.
Commodore (National) - 18/04/2026 22:14:59
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Football Championship 2026 - 3 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "Galway will be dangerous. Going for a Connacht 5 in a row. Drew with Donegal and Kerry in the league. Beat Armagh." Meath hype will have to take a back seat for a while. Outstanding result for Westmeath 4-18 was fine scoring.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 19/04/2026 15:52:29
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Westmeath Football thread - 3 Like(s)
Iarmhi Abu. Very proud Westmeath man today leaving Tullamore. Thanks to the players and management for this. Enjoy everyone.
A_Chairde (National) - 19/04/2026 16:42:12
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Well done to Westmeath from Carlow- great to see it, particularly sweet over Yer noisy neighbours!! I'd say a lot of them had a Leinster pencilled in !! Ye have a great shot at it
Bainisteoir (National) - 19/04/2026 17:03:28
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
Tiernan Killeen appreciation post
Didn't always rate him but he was excellent yesterday, always took the right option and linked play, covered gaps and used the ball superbly. A big factor in us decimating Kilkenny in the middle third yesterday.
Stool Pigeon (National) - 19/04/2026 12:15:12
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Galway Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Ye won by 1 point would not get carried away and hardly makes up for the beating we gave ye at under 20s. .." Ah what are you talking about buddy?
Do you see anyone getting carried away?
Cos I don't. That's an average Mayo team so well hardly be getting carried away with a narrow win over them
galwayman2 (National) - 18/04/2026 18:20:18
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Fair play!!!
Ye love to see it.
Best of luck in the semi now aswell.
Lúla571210 (National) - 19/04/2026 15:52:06
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Up westmeath credit to ye wexfprd was blip a very good side no reason why ye cant win leinster
Gaaforlife2023 (National) - 19/04/2026 15:53:17
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Big performance and win for Westmeath over Meath!
legendzxix (National) - 19/04/2026 15:54:46
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Meath for Leinster 2027
Walter_White (National) - 19/04/2026 16:25:23
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Tadhg2020: "So we are sticking with simplistic MAGA style politics. Fair enough." We have between 10,000 - 17,000 Irish people who are homeless, can't get suitable housing in their home Country, and the Irish Government formed by the majority of elected TDs to govern our Country, is allowing in between 80,000 and 100,000 refugees and immigrants and telling the electorate "We can't prioritize Irish people for housing because of our Equality legislation".
We have hospital services crippled across the Country, because they don't have the infrastructure or resources to deal with the mass influx of extra people, as a result we have people sitting in hallways for days sometimes and medical staff run off their feet in A&E.
That is alarming to me, it should be a major concern for all Irish people.
Commodore (National) - 18/04/2026 21:53:44
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "I am not pointing the blame at Kinnegad, they have one of best Club facilities in the County. The pitch in Kinnegad is bound to be cut up, catering for their own teams in addition to hosting County Minor and U20 matches. It is bad enough having to look after your own without baling out the County Board. If it was not for Kinnegad and St Loman's (presumably the only viable floodlit venues to host a Inter County Championship game), the County Minor and U20 teams would have no home games? The referee made the correct call on the night, he did his job. It is not negligence in that moment but over time from the County Board. If a County has no floodlit pitches for the purpose of County teams, relies on Club pitches that are already being used 6 or 7 nights a week and still has no Centre of Excellence or long term facility plan, then the County Board has failed in its duty to provide proper infrastructure for its teams. It is like this, if your only car breaks down, it is not your fault that journey fails. But it is your responsibility if you never invested in another car." Can someone please tell me why other floodlit venues cannot host games? Is it that we choose not too or is there a regulation that is holding back these other grounds?
OverTheHill85 (National) - 18/04/2026 19:24:10
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Galway Hurling thread - 2 Like(s)
What a win lads. I didn't see something like that coming in the first round of the championship. Fair play
Doylerwex (National) - 18/04/2026 19:06:20
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Is there any reason why none of the leinster football matches were not streamed today? Was always a ridiculous decision but even more so now when you look at the results.
ozbound (National) - 19/04/2026 17:03:10
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 32_4_1: "As I said I'm not actually bigging them up like some people seem to think, was their biggest critic also, but something clicked last year with Meath. Released from psychological shackles holding them back for years.
It's why they've improved tenfold, they were never close to being as bad as results suggested for the last 15 years, and what held them back has now lifted.
It goes in cycles. A blind man could see the dept of quality in the Meath forwards, and nearly all under 23, with a conveyor belt coming behind them in the youth teams. Meath will struggle to pick 6 forwards when everyone is fit, have about ten that can come in and kick two pointers from anywhere.
As laughable as it sounds, Kerry simply don't have that talent in the same dept, they can't always to be fair. Point is Donegal, Kerry etc are playing with seasoned professionals, at their ceiling potential wise with age of players etc.
Meath are already operating at the level of the other top teams, but not close to their ceiling in terms of potential, infact wont hit their peak for another few years, which is scary. This is the point everyone is either choosing to ignore or not accept!" I think you were bigging them up. Awful display today. As I said after the League Division 2 final your defence looked poor every time Cork ran at you.
Magnificient performance by Westmeath today. Well deserved victory.
Scenicparish (National) - 19/04/2026 16:44:36
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Wicklow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Not to be. A great performance nonetheless. Don't get too many chances to take a big scalp, and this was one, as it turned out. This should have the MOD team scratching their heads.
Freethinker (National) - 19/04/2026 16:51:21
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Well Done Lads. To a man you were immense. 1/8 from paddy Power was always an insult.
Put that in your pipe Sunday Game and the comments from Pat Spillane
Maroon Heaven (National) - 19/04/2026 15:52:27
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Another question. Interesting to see how many answers it gets. Define "Native Irish". How many generations do the self appointed heritage guardians judge as qualifying. I see many far right individuals when named with names that don't exactly go back to Brian Boru. In 50 yrs time, if these migrants are still here they may have grandchildren or great grandchildren. Would they be regarded as being Irish heritage that point. Look around at some of our seaboard counties and their inhabitants. Some would seem to figg to in quite well in Mediterranean countries. Wexford and some surrounding counties have many many Norman surnames. At what point were all these cultures absorbed into our "natural Irish heritage". Before someone gets on here, my parents both have surnames that go back beyond said Brian, with Mac Murrough Kavanagh and Cork Murphy's thrown in amongst many others.
Freethinker (National) - 19/04/2026 14:01:40
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Tiernan Killeen appreciation post
Didn't always rate him but he was excellent yesterday, always took the right option and linked play, covered gaps and used the ball superbly. A big factor in us decimating Kilkenny in the middle third yesterday." Very true, he would have been my man of the match, one amongst many yesterday as it happens. The lads upfront had a great day out and all plaudits to them, yet yesterday the real strength I think in this new team is the quality of ball winning and distribution in the middle third, particularly Killeen, Daniels, the Mannions and Gavin Lee. A few things to sort out in the fullback line though and easy to overlook after a 15 point win but hopefully fixable.
Flaherty (National) - 19/04/2026 13:10:10
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Can't see past wins for the big two next weekend unfortunately please. Thanks for this. Would be nice to have a Leitrim Roscommon final but not going to happen I feel. The big two, Galway and mayo to meet again for me. Thanks for agreeing.
bláthach (National) - 19/04/2026 12:34:12
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