"Inspirational score" - Mike Finnerty

TrevorPhillips (Cork) - Posts: 28 - 12/03/2017 11:30:41    1966332

Martin Carney - "It must be said".

iarmhi_an_mhaith (Westmeath) - Posts: 268 - 12/03/2017 11:54:53    1966337

'There was a coming together' borrowed from our soccer friends, sometimes a player is taken out of it cynicaly and the commentator says this instead of telling it like it is,

El_Torro (Tyrone) - Posts: 155 - 12/03/2017 12:29:05    1966347

In the 2014 Kerry v mayo replay in limerick you can hear Tom Carr telling Marty , oh that was a very opportunist opportunity by Kerry.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 12/03/2017 12:37:23    1966348

"Into the old onion bag" Martin Carney everytime there's a goal

SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2385 - 12/03/2017 12:55:25    1966352

Monagael (Monaghan) - Posts: 99 - 12/03/2017 12:55:52    1966353

Plasticman (Dublin) - Posts: 26 - 12/03/2017 13:24:19    1966360

The Camera pans to the commentator on the sideline after some banal discussion about the game in the studio beforehand.
"welcome here to... Looking forward to a mouth watering clash here this evening in the qualifiers between two evenly matched teams". Especially annoying when said two teams probably haven't scored 15 points between them in their previous games.

lilywhite1 (Kildare) - Posts: 2990 - 12/03/2017 14:39:15    1966369

'scor iontach' for a simple, practically unmissable score

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 12/03/2017 15:07:38    1966377

Ger Canning "foraging"
Brian Carty "tell me this ..."

Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1412 - 12/03/2017 18:21:44    1966449

An ITV soccer commentator watching England or an Arsenal match used to say this about a goalie when he caught a shot ' Seaman all over the ball' then we have Ger Canning's 'great defending by the defenders' what are they suppose to do, wave or blow kisses at the crowd? Pick daisies?, oh ya another one 'that was a daisy cutter of a shot' meant some fella who couldn't pick up the ball thumps it down the pitch about a foot off the ground that travels 50 metres. Kevin McStays constant praising of Dublin even if it was just sitting for the photo before the game but the one that drives me daft the most is when a commentator or panellist starts talking the same time as the loud speaker decides he is going to announce something to the crowd and you can't hear a word the TV person is saying and they continue talking instead of waiting for the loud speaker to finish

riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 12/03/2017 21:29:14    1966537

'No disrespect to their first round opponents but I expect these two to meet again in their provincial quarter finals'. In other words complete disrespect to their first round opponents. Sure they shouldn't even bother turning up!

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7345 - 12/03/2017 22:13:59    1966560

'He took the sensible option…'

After a player has blazed a one on one with the goalkeeper about 15 feet over the bar.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 13/03/2017 08:14:07    1966597

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9136 - 13/03/2017 09:44:17    1966609

"In the ascendancy".

It's either "gained the ascendancy" or "in the ascendant".

Being "in the ascendancy" means being part of the 18th Century Protestant aristocracy. I doubt many lads want to be tarred with that particular brush.

That particular gem is in no way confined to GAA but it always grates to hear it. Particularly when you've a lot of lads in Wexford whose ancestors spent a great deal of time trying to burn said members of the ascendancy out of their homes. Then pike them on their lawns. Then steal their jewelry. Good times.

scorthy (Wexford) - Posts: 19 - 13/03/2017 09:55:22    1966613

and my co-commentator today is Martin Carney.....

IrishGael3 (USA) - Posts: 1092 - 13/03/2017 09:57:43    1966614

Brian Carty on every score in a match his template is this - "The right/left footed shot by (players name), high and over the bar, and the point for (teams name) (time played) on the clock in the 1st/2nd half".

For example "The left footed shot by Sean Cavanagh, high and over the bar, and the point for Tyrone. 25 minutes and 33 seconds on the clock in the 1st half"

Every time - Drives me mad!

leitrim4sam (Leitrim) - Posts: 644 - 13/03/2017 09:59:50    1966615

Ger Canning's - "gives it some latitude" and Marty Morrissey's "he gets through AN AMOUNT of work!"

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12120 - 13/03/2017 10:11:35    1966619

Also Daragh Maloney after any score - "That's brilliant, that's fantastic!"

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12120 - 13/03/2017 10:12:53    1966620

After a particularly enjoyable piece of skill in an otherwise totally unremarkable hurling match (usually a provincial semifinal or earlier, and usually commentary by Marty Morrissey), they'll bring out the aul gem....


"......and that's why this is the greatest game in the world!!!!...."

extranjero (Wexford) - Posts: 375 - 13/03/2017 10:40:25    1966629