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Monaghan GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "I take it you didnt see many of the previous games in 2018 then. Hindsight is 20/20." For the bloke who deals in 'facts' you've assumed wrong again, was down in Fraher Field on that beautiful day for the First Qualifier. While frustrating at the best of times, the statement I use to describe Kieran Hughes is "Form is temporary, class is permanent". Malachy definitely got the best out of the players at his disposal and gave us many great days, the above is my only minor disagreement. It's an awful pity your envy and begrudgery can't see past that Mr. 'fact' man.
ConyersHill04 (National) - 05/06/2026 09:42:26
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Monaghan GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Good luck to Buggy Joe and minor team tomorrow. Far from titles in this county that we can turn our nose up at lower division titles so everyone should be behind the boys
farneygael3 (National) - 05/06/2026 08:09:42
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Football Championship 2026 - 2 Like(s)
Cork midfielder O Callaghan to miss next game as his red card is upheld.They are playing donegal.Onc again donegal benefit from the GAA s disciplinary group.
brayballer (National) - 05/06/2026 15:40:42
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Leinster SHC - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "This is the norm these days.
Dublin is a very cosmopolitan (?) city nowadays.
And with the Massive decline in followers for the Dubs on match day, it really is a case of Houston We May Have a Problem…!
The promotion and marketing of games is embarrassing tbh. Not good at all.
And not just in Leinster. I had to double check when the Munster Hurling Final was on….!" Walk around Galway town and you'll do well to notice we're playing in Leinster final this weekend. Go out the country to the villages and small towns and you'll see plenty flags.
WanPintWin (National) - 05/06/2026 13:47:55
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Monaghan GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To farneygael3: "Good luck to Buggy Joe and minor team tomorrow. Far from titles in this county that we can turn our nose up at lower division titles so everyone should be behind the boys" You must be a corduff man
Monaghan_football (National) - 05/06/2026 13:02:25
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Leinster SHC - 2 Like(s)
I was talking to my father earlier. He was in Dublin yesterday and was on O'Connell Street, Temple Bar, over to Grafton Street. He said you would not know there was two big hurling matches on in Croke Park on Saturday.
So we have how many thousand tourists walking through Temple Bar and Dublin City this weekend, and not even on one billboard is there a sign that there is a match on.
People will be sitting in a pub in Temple Bar on Saturday evening and then will realise a hurling match is on a mile up the road.
The Leinster Council could have sold 10k extra tickets with some promotion of the game, even a billboard in Temple Bar.
Shocking promotion of the game really. Or maybe its not shocking.
StoreysTash (National) - 05/06/2026 11:59:23
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Ger Brennan - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "lol
You must not go to many games, if you think that could lead to a legal case….
"…messing with his ear…"
Omg ;o)
LOL" Brilliant spot. "..messing with his ear" LMFAO.....one of the funniest things I've ever read on HS.......
avonali (National) - 05/06/2026 10:21:42
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Dublin GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To TrueBlue35: "What is the feeling in Cavan this week ahead of the game?? I have a couple of mates up that direction and both were saying it has been strangely flat this year in football terms. Few very good lads not making themselves available to McCabe etc and expectation has been quite low. Probably fairly similar to here in terms of our new readjusted expectations so very hard to know what sort of a game we will get. I think a few of the Dublin looks look like they want the season to be over but I'm hoping for some sort of a response to the last two outings." To be honest it would be hope rather than expectation for a win. It wouldn't be acceptable for anything less than leaving everything on the pitch by the players and there are no better supporters for when players do that. Cavan football seems to always be in transition so we never know what to expect, one thing we do know is that there is ability and application within the player pool so on any given day they should give a good account of themselves, managers, coaches, tactics etc. will always generally dictate what level of relative success any group of players gives a county when the players apply themselves properly.
In reality Cavan are a long way off winning an ulster let alone competing at the later stages of an All Ireland, however progress can be made and a scalp like Dublin, whilst unlikely (look at bookies odds), is attainable on any given day. Such is the intercounty standard playing pool of players currently available to Cavan at the moment that not having players like James Smith in Midfield and Padraig Faulkner in defence are a massive loss to replace.
I always feel it is unfair to refer to players not making themselves available, particularly from rural counties as the variables that impact the ability and capability of players to commit over a whole season to intercounty football are so much more. The world and career choices to 20 year old's plus now is a lot different to that of 5 - 10 years ago let alone beyond that. unfortunately in a lot of counties if some dominant players do not / cannot commit to intercounty football the affect on a teams capability is more acutely felt. That's my own view on it.
I expect Cavan to give, at a minimum, a good account of themselves and let Dublin worry about themselves, to date Cavan have, in parts, accounted for themselves well against Monaghan & Westmeath but not enough throughout the whole of the games to affect the result.
Always a good crack when the Dubs come to town, great supporters on the ground and hopefully a good competitive game with a narrow Cavan win always a possibility.
offtheditch (National) - 05/06/2026 08:08:37
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "I know, they're not always right a lot of the time and some outlets have their bias, however listening to the GAA on the build-up to Saturday evening it's almost as if they've written us off.
Yes Dublin are in good form and always have the players to trouble us and of course have already beaten us this season along with the fact of their Kilkenny game this season and the game last year against Limerick being massive results.
However they seem to think that over the past 2 or 3 weeks that Galway could only have stayed the same or gotten worse.
I don't see it myself and probably shouldn't pay too much attention, but are we ever going to be taken serious as a contender?" That's probably good listening for the Galway hurling fanbase, who tend to bring an overconfident air into most clashes with Dublin, since we entered Leinster in 2009. They've beaten us more than we've beaten them 2009-2026, so we've nothing to be overconfident about really. We also were emphatically beaten in the only Leinster Final to date between the sides, in 2013.
Pope_Benedict (National) - 05/06/2026 08:46:17
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Carlow GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Best of luck to the hurlers tomorrow. Laois have definitely improved since the first day out. They have plenty of pace in the forward line and it's crucial we don't allow them to win clean possession in the forwards to stop their goal threat.
We also can't afford to gift them long distance shots at goal as anyone from 5 to 15 is capable of scoring from distance.
The big pitch should hopefully suit our forward line, you'd imagine at least 30 points will be needed to win.
Days in Croke Park are to be cherished, please god the lads can get over the line.
hurlingguru (National) - 05/06/2026 17:03:31
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To endgame: "I'll go to the game Drax but not stay over. Your minors are playing in Ashbourne. Are you happy with the venue. Tyrone minors looked very good in the Ulster Final." Would have expected a county ground but a Leinster venue is the appropriate choice venue for a Connacht v Ulster match up.
Tyrone will be favourites but if Galway can play like they did in the 2nd half of the Connacht final the young Tribesmens will have a decent chance of pulling off an upset.
Drax_the_destroyer (National) - 05/06/2026 16:52:43
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Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "Walk around Galway town and you'll do well to notice we're playing in Leinster final this weekend. Go out the country to the villages and small towns and you'll see plenty flags." Rural Ireland remains "based." Majority of people in Dublin now will have no idea there is such a thing as a Leinster Hurling final. Nor the remotest interest if they did.
BarneyGrant (National) - 05/06/2026 15:46:16
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To yew_tree: "Well said. The original poster was bascially saying SF should stop engaging in politics in the six counties which is as daft and idea as you'll hear." Politics in Ireland should not be confined by British imposed institutions like Stormont.
Withdrawing from Westminster was considered a "daft idea" before 1916. I suppose you think they were all "daft" as well?
BarneyGrant (National) - 05/06/2026 15:44:20
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Team named for Saturday. Rushie and O'Donnell start in place of Bellew and McHugh.
Seán Currie on subs. First time out this year." Good to see Currie back.
brayballer (National) - 05/06/2026 15:42:22
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Magpie2: "Maybe it should be played in Wexford Park.
Plenty of room for your 12,000 supporters.
Our ground holds 18,000. And unlike some of your posters I am telling the truth.
Anyway I hope the game goes well for you.
---‐ but not too well." It doesn't be full too often I'd say thanks for this. Ye are a very poor team thank you for agreeing with me on this.
bláthach (National) - 05/06/2026 15:05:29
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To tireoghainabu: "Which is why nationalists in the six counties still refer to it as "the great betrayal"." Exactly, widely viewed as betrayal from Irish TDs who's vote democratically legitimized the Partition of Ireland.
Commodore (National) - 05/06/2026 15:01:03
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Kinnegad starting a hurling club is bananas thinking. Their players interested in hurling play with Raharney, Kinnegad would tell you that it's tough going getting volunteers to run their football side. Kilbeggan is 3 miles from Castletown so any hurlers there play with Castletown. Kilbeggan just about surviving football wise, who are the people who would organise a hurling club in these places and Moate etc? Getting a pitch alone would be a huge task, existing clubs pitches already over utilised with clubs having teams from under 6 to adult and LGFA also." Extraordinary reply. So according to you Its bananas to start a hurling team in an area with a population of 6000. As for playing with Raharney name me the Kinnegad players on the blues team.Kinnegad has a soccer team but no hurling!!!
This sums up the negative attitude towards hurling thats prevalent in official circles right now. What have the board done to help Castledaly? Answer little or nothing.
I made the point it will be difficult to start but if the will was there in an area with a 6000 population thats growing it is doable.
jobber (National) - 05/06/2026 13:49:08
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To MyOhMi: "The team of 96 are holding a 30th anniversary event in Ferrycarrig in early Sept! .. it will never end!" No issue with the team getting together to remember their achievement. They should. And good for them. They achieved more than the rest of us.
My issue is mainly with the amount of air time it has got, and how much focus it still gets in Wexford. Those who were around in 96 should now be coaching teams, bringing children to Wexford matches, driving things forward to make it happen again. This isn't happening from what I hear and in every club its the same faces doing it all year in year out while others take advantage of a babysitting service.
I'm moving home soon and will hurl for a few more years but hope when that ends to get involved in coaching. People are busy I get it but Michael Duignan said he said to a parent recently "what makes you think I've got more time than you do"? If anything, work from home etc should have freed up some commute time for some parents?
If Wexford people want another All-Ireland, we have to make it happen ourselves. Paul Kinnerk won't make it happen by writing a report.
We need parents hurling with their children and encouraging them to practice, not leaving the hurls in the car between training sessions. No parent can't put out the cones or help some bit in the training sessions. Even a bad hurler can practice and get better and make the next worst hurler get better and so on up to the top hurler.
We have to make this happen ourselves. We need everybody thinking "what can I do" and do it, not everybody saying "Viking or Doyler or Pikeman or whoever will do it".
StoreysTash (National) - 05/06/2026 10:19:46
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Leinster SHC - 1 Like(s)
Replying To StoreysTash: "I was talking to my father earlier. He was in Dublin yesterday and was on O'Connell Street, Temple Bar, over to Grafton Street. He said you would not know there was two big hurling matches on in Croke Park on Saturday.
So we have how many thousand tourists walking through Temple Bar and Dublin City this weekend, and not even on one billboard is there a sign that there is a match on.
People will be sitting in a pub in Temple Bar on Saturday evening and then will realise a hurling match is on a mile up the road.
The Leinster Council could have sold 10k extra tickets with some promotion of the game, even a billboard in Temple Bar.
Shocking promotion of the game really. Or maybe its not shocking." This is the norm these days.
Dublin is a very cosmopolitan (?) city nowadays.
And with the Massive decline in followers for the Dubs on match day, it really is a case of Houston We May Have a Problem…!
The promotion and marketing of games is embarrassing tbh. Not good at all.
And not just in Leinster. I had to double check when the Munster Hurling Final was on….!
Fionn (National) - 05/06/2026 13:07:30
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Not diminishing it but posting a well known made up story." A well known made up story according to yourself. You can choose not to believe whatever you wish however it would be pretty curious that no similar story has been posted after any other defeat suffered by Dublin over the past number of yours. Just the one v Galway. Funny that.
TrueBlue35 (National) - 05/06/2026 09:24:37
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