Yes Ormond you can believe everything you see by people who post on rugby forums, you should get out more and meet real people. How about Ian Keatley, Fionn Carr, Sean Cronin, Mike McCarthy, Jerry Flannery, James Downey, Victor Costello, Paul Warwick, Nathan White have been taken from Connacht by Leinster and Munster, sure many of these players may not have be born in Connacht but every province has players not born in there own province and any province would struggule with the loss of that many talented players. And last Saturday the indo had a familiar story of a player who is A connacht man Robbie Henshaw moving to Leinster. The same old story a player shines in Connacht and then gets moved to Munster or Leinster.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 02/12/2014 21:56:31    1676182

ormondbannerman
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1676148 Parts of that Sweeney article are true but others laughable. He has form in knocking rugby. He has something against the sport..

Not really true,In fact his columns in the last few weeks have spent quite a bit of time praising Irelands current rugby team, I remember a few years ago he named the Grand Slam win as the greatest moment in the history of Irish sport.Its just that because Sweeney is 100% focused on rugby he can see through a lot of bull attached with it at times.

uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 03/12/2014 08:06:03    1676186

1pm. Sunday. Still no preview on the RTE Sport website of today's Ballyhale v K/K Leinster Club SHC Final. It does however carry previews of the 4 weekend Rugby Union matches and the 3 games in Women's National League soccer. The next time someone tells you RTE Sport gives balanced coverage remind them of this and the hundred other examples highlighted here over the last two months alone.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 07/12/2014 13:06:26    1677183

Good work mediaman .

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6193 - 07/12/2014 13:39:06    1677191

02/12/2014 21:56:31 ROS1
Yes Ormond you can believe everything you see by people who post on rugby forums, you should get out more and meet real people. How about Ian Keatley, Fionn Carr, Sean Cronin, Mike McCarthy, Jerry Flannery, James Downey, Victor Costello, Paul Warwick, Nathan White have been taken from Connacht by Leinster and Munster, sure many of these players may not have be born in Connacht but every province has players not born in there own province and any province would struggule with the loss of that many talented players. And last Saturday the indo had a familiar story of a player who is A connacht man Robbie Henshaw moving to Leinster. The same old story a player shines in Connacht and then gets moved to Munster or Leinster. None of those players are from Connacht except for Robbie Henshaw who hasn't moved anywhere yet and will still be a Connacht player until at least June 2016.
Ian Keatley, Fionn Carr, Sean Cronin, Jerry Flannery, James Downey all are from other provinces and moved to Connacht for game time from their home province and then moved back to their home province or another one to play at a higher level at another province.
Nathan White went from Leinster to Connacht not the other way round.....
Mike McCarthy grew up abroad and had played with London Wasps, Newcastle before his main stint with Connacht.
Henshaw would be completely different to all those players as he unlike all those is a home grown out and out Connacht man.
07/12/2014 13:06:26 mediaman
1pm. Sunday. Still no preview on the RTE Sport website of today's Ballyhale v K/K Leinster Club SHC Final. It does however carry previews of the 4 weekend Rugby Union matches and the 3 games in Women's National League soccer. The next time someone tells you RTE Sport gives balanced coverage remind them of this and the hundred other examples highlighted here over the last two months alone. What other than posting here are you doing about this. As just posting here will do nothing
Why don't you contact RTE Sport's GAA writers and ask why they don't do more?
07/12/2014 13:39:06 Greengrass
Good work mediaman. Is it??
Will any of this be brought to the attention of powers that be that could change things? No most likely..

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 07/12/2014 17:31:30    1677236

RTE Radio 1 Sport must be praised for today's extensive coverage of Ballyhale v K/K in the Leinster Club SHC Final which it featured on Sunday Sport. Yet a game deemed sufficiently important to be given national coverage on radio didn't rate a mention on the RTE Sport website until it was all over. It suggests the right doesn't know what the left hand is doing. The website editors have questions to answer yet again?

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 07/12/2014 17:33:33    1677237

Coverage on the 6 o clock news was good too .

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6193 - 07/12/2014 18:51:51    1677243

it is good work..it highlights blatant bias...its informative

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 07/12/2014 19:12:19    1677246

Most of those players started here pro careers at Connacht it was not as though the had played for another province and then moved to Connacht, no Connacht gave in a start and the Irfu decided to move them to other provinces. Indeed Jerry Flannery was born in Galway. Most of the international players are contracted centrally to the irfu so the can move them if the wish and Henshaws contract is only untill the end of next season and the classic leaking stories to the friendly media to the pave the way has begun. You say players get moved to play at a higher level which proves my point that Connacht are getting handicapped by players been taken away from them. Look at Ian Keatly for example playing for Connacht and then moving to Munster to sit on the bench behind Rog or Fionn Carr who was excellent for Connacht but went to Leinster and sat on the bench and came back to Connacht a shadow of the player he was.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 07/12/2014 19:35:18    1677252

As a proud irish man it pains me to say but bbc is better for ulster gaelic games then rte.The ulster club championship is a massive competition yet it gets little to no coverage on rte. They have a rugby bias. They don't show any nationalfootball league games, no club games and don't show highlights of any ulster club games bar a few mins of the final. Bbc had highlights of each match. Its . a disgrace what is happening . Kyle nugent has a lot to answer for. Only for tg4 we would have nothing

room2 (Monaghan) - Posts: 96 - 07/12/2014 20:01:11    1677263

ROS1
Most of those players started here pro careers at Connacht it was not as though the had played for another province and then moved to Connacht, no Connacht gave in a start and the Irfu decided to move them to other provinces. Indeed Jerry Flannery was born in Galway. Most of the international players are contracted centrally to the irfu so the can move them if the wish and Henshaws contract is only untill the end of next season and the classic leaking stories to the friendly media to the pave the way has begun. You say players get moved to play at a higher level which proves my point that Connacht are getting handicapped by players been taken away from them. Look at Ian Keatly for example playing for Connacht and then moving to Munster to sit on the bench behind Rog or Fionn Carr who was excellent for Connacht but went to Leinster and sat on the bench and came back to Connacht a shadow of the player he was. Which of those players careers started in Connacht? They were all members of other provinces and academies and moved when queue for regular games or top games was too much. The players wanted to move back home as well. Jerry Flannery was born in Galway but an out and out Limerick man. Connacht are not getting handicapped. The players choose to leave and want to leave to go home. Connacht are lucky to get some of these players in the first place
Keatley played a lot for Munster when O Gara was there and got to learn a huge amount from one of the best around. His move worked for him.
Carr's didn't but he was crazy to move in the first place unlike the others
07/12/2014 20:01:11 room2
As a proud irish man it pains me to say but bbc is better for ulster gaelic games then rte.The ulster club championship is a massive competition yet it gets little to no coverage on rte. They have a rugby bias. They don't show any nationalfootball league games, no club games and don't show highlights of any ulster club games bar a few mins of the final. Bbc had highlights of each match. Its . a disgrace what is happening . Kyle nugent has a lot to answer for. Only for tg4 we would have nothing Why don't you contact Ryle nugent if he is as bad as you think?
What coverage of ulster club championship do you want. RTE cant show everything in the GAA and TG4 outbid them for a considerable few items.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 07/12/2014 21:24:51    1677290

In today's Irish Independent Eugene McGee points out that RTE shows no live football or hurling for 33 weeks of each year. He cautions against changing the dates of the All-Ireland Finals because the minute the football is over RTE switches almost completely to rugby and soccer. At 8pm this evening the proof of that was obvious. Of the top 100 stories on the RTE Sport website just 6% were related to football or hurling, our national games. Tribunals have been launched for less.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 08/12/2014 20:39:50    1677491

There is not a whole pile to report on to be fair?

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 08/12/2014 20:53:51    1677495

O i see Ormond so it was Carr own fault for moving because it did not work out for him but all the rest of them were right as the did ok. Keatley was from Dublin, Dublin is not in Munster Ormond. McCarty was up from Leinster either, most of these players got played there first pro start for Connacht. You say Connacht have not been handicapped look at 2011 where the loss Cronin, Carr, Keatley and Hagan all to Leinster/Munster any team would struggle losing 4 key players in the same summer. Your attiude is the same the Irfu has shown Connacht over the years tht the should be happy with a few crumbs of the table. You can add Tony Buckley and Eoin Reddan to the list as well.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 08/12/2014 21:28:51    1677508

Thank god there are no ulster games shown. The ones in the summer are enough

MartinGerard (Longford) - Posts: 275 - 08/12/2014 21:31:19    1677510

Ormond do you really think Tg4 are cable of outbidding Rte for anything, it is funny then how Rte have the bigger events then Tg4.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 08/12/2014 21:31:25    1677511

The RTE Sport website is currently running only 7 football/hurling stories out of its top 100 stories and 3 of those relate to one topic, Roisín Jordan's appointment (which the RTE Sport website first reported on a full 12 hours after Hoganstand and the BBC). But there are numerous other stories which the football/hurling world should be informed of on our national station. Three alone relate to developments at Casement Park, Hyde Park and Croke Park and two of those might also relate to Rugby Union as well. There are always plenty of GAA stories. You just need the will to report on them.

mediaman (Antrim) - Posts: 355 - 10/12/2014 19:25:21    1677898

big drop in the tv ratings with rte for this years all ireland football final
last years final had 1.064 million people watch it entirely
this year 826 thousand tuned in
only 9th on the most watched list
along with the drawn hurling final making 10th only with 784 thousand
the replay final didnt even make the top 10 list.
ireland v france in the six nations was most watched sport event on rte this year with 878 thousand tuning in.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 11/12/2014 12:53:07    1678020

for those who say there is no media bias
read the very end two lines of this piece in todays irish times

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/sporting-advent-calendar-10-diarmuid-connolly-s-club-final-masterclass-1.2032577

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 11/12/2014 13:15:12    1678031

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1678020 big drop in the tv ratings with rte for this years all ireland football final
last years final had 1.064 million people watch it entirely
this year 826 thousand tuned in
only 9th on the most watched list
along with the drawn hurling final making 10th only with 784 thousand
the replay final didnt even make the top 10 list.
ireland v france in the six nations was most watched sport event on rte this year with 878 thousand tuning in.

Dublin were in the 2013 football final.

That pretty much explains the drop from 2013.

uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 11/12/2014 13:19:23    1678032