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Non-Gaa Forum - 6 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Nationality is not complicated or "fluid." A piece of paper does not make you Irish or Japanese or Swiss." Well said Barney, anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.
Bon (National) - 18/11/2025 16:01:02
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Non-Gaa Forum - 5 Like(s)
Replying To KillingFields: "Most sports allpw players qualify on residency in some form. He qualified and i dont see why it would be better for a lesser player to be starting Gibson park or any other qualifying on residency is better than any player just rocking up because they've a granny and never spent any time living in Ireland like plenty soccer players
Nationality these days isn't as straight laced as you make out. Thigs are far more fluid. H3 was signed to play for leinsterm he stayed. Got more contracts and worked up to play for irelandm" Nationality is not complicated or "fluid." A piece of paper does not make you Irish or Japanese or Swiss.
BarneyGrant (National) - 18/11/2025 10:34:21
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Anti GAA Agenda - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Because some people just like giving out?" Not talking about fans so much - we all have our clowns - but there is huge and long standing hatred between Dublin FAI and ourselves. No idea if that is case elsewhere.
They deliberately refused to use Hill 16 on tickets when we foolishly let them in. "Northern Terrace"!!
Some may mock me, but you don't sneer at our history and expect us to be overjoyed with your occasional success!
BarneyGrant (National) - 18/11/2025 10:19:57
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Non-Gaa Forum - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Viking66: "Ok Barney what does make you Irish in your book? Or any other nationality?" Being born here at a minimum! Unless of Irish descent obviously.
BarneyGrant (National) - 18/11/2025 20:50:57
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Not talking about fans so much - we all have our clowns - but there is huge and long standing hatred between Dublin FAI and ourselves. No idea if that is case elsewhere.
They deliberately refused to use Hill 16 on tickets when we foolishly let them in. "Northern Terrace"!!
Some may mock me, but you don't sneer at our history and expect us to be overjoyed with your occasional success!" I'm not anti soccer but I'm not a fan of the FAI.
Viking66 (National) - 18/11/2025 11:14:10
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
I even see it here in Donegal were I'd say a lot of soccer fans are very anti GAA, it's a weird state of mind wherever it originates.
Tirchonaill1 (National) - 18/11/2025 17:50:04
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
David Healy said last night he'd love if the Wee Province gets Ukraine away in Semi Final and then a home Final at Windsor Park.....sounds good, but if Austria and Denmark lose tonight then Austria,Denmark, Italy and Turkey into Pot 1 and Ukraine drop to Pot 2.
It's highly unlikely Austria and Denmark will lose so Pot 1 will consist of Italy, Turkey, Poland and Ukraine.
Ukraine away would be the cushy draw!
katser (National) - 18/11/2025 15:09:19
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Not talking about fans so much - we all have our clowns - but there is huge and long standing hatred between Dublin FAI and ourselves. No idea if that is case elsewhere.
They deliberately refused to use Hill 16 on tickets when we foolishly let them in. "Northern Terrace"!!
Some may mock me, but you don't sneer at our history and expect us to be overjoyed with your occasional success!" You can add the fact that when other sports and concerts were in the fans were treated better than the ordinary GAA supporters.
Saynothing (National) - 18/11/2025 12:36:55
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Not talking about fans so much - we all have our clowns - but there is huge and long standing hatred between Dublin FAI and ourselves. No idea if that is case elsewhere.
They deliberately refused to use Hill 16 on tickets when we foolishly let them in. "Northern Terrace"!!
Some may mock me, but you don't sneer at our history and expect us to be overjoyed with your occasional success!" Sligo can be nasty too as can Athlone townies.
Seanfan (National) - 18/11/2025 11:42:03
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Season Tickets - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Royal.Legend: "Anyone know when the season tickets will be on sale." "Soon" per gaa.ie.
Has been that for about 5 weeks now!!
Seanfan (National) - 18/11/2025 11:40:13
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Anti GAA Agenda - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Not talking about fans so much - we all have our clowns - but there is huge and long standing hatred between Dublin FAI and ourselves. No idea if that is case elsewhere.
They deliberately refused to use Hill 16 on tickets when we foolishly let them in. "Northern Terrace"!!
Some may mock me, but you don't sneer at our history and expect us to be overjoyed with your occasional success!" Well that is pathetic that they'd rename the stand.
I will say however the national anthem is respected more and sang with much more gusto at soccer games than GAA games, even All Ireland final day. There is routine and normalised disrespect of the anthem at games, lads can't wait to cut it off early and feels like it's ending more prematurely by the year. Seem to be a bit better at given its due respect in Ulster games.
FullOfPorter (National) - 18/11/2025 11:39:00
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Dublin GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Fionn: "Not so sure it is that much of a surprise this year tbh.
NF have rode their luck on more than one occasion.
Being 2pts up in injury time, only for their opponents to hit the last 3 scores, and prevail by 1-21 to 2-17.
Although NF had a great chance to put some daylight between the teams but made a mess of a glorious goal chance late on.
Fair play to St Martin's who had Rory O'Connor top score with 9pts.
What is bad for Na Fianna can only be good for Dublin Hurling in that it gives the Glasnevin men a bit of a break now before playing for Dublin early in the New Year.
Over to Boden now......" Might work to Dublin's advantage. Be great to see AJ, Stacey, O'Dea, maybe a few others coming in.
Walsh Cup be good run in. Need to get promotion but there's a few games can be used as run outs. More games the better although last year two early challenge wins over Tipp and Limerick were good stsrt to year.
Be interesting to see what forward set up he will go with. I reckon we'll see less of Hedger but still an option. AJ and Stacey would bring pace.
BarneyGrant (National) - 17/11/2025 22:55:02
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GreenandRed: "Could be. I thought IRFU brought himself, Lowe and Bundee over as project players and put them in Leinster and Connacht squads until they were eligible for Ireland. Gibson Park, apparently, wasn't stuck for offers from top clubs before he came here." Don't think thats the case at all. Why pay a fortune for a project player? They were all good players who wanted to come here to work. Maybe part of their plan was to move here permanently and start a family. None of them were current internationals, though all 3 might have made it there if they had of stayed, they were all pretty young when they moved here.
Some lads just want to test themselves in the other hemisphere, Barrett and Ioane are here now for that reason. Leinster also pay well, think they have the highest wage bill in Europe. I doubt either will choose to stay here, although Barrett did spend part of his childhood here.
Viking66 (National) - 18/11/2025 10:24:15
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Galway Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "KK are 'beatable', remaining unbeaten in the last 6 Leinster Finals." Every team is beatable
Viking66 (National) - 18/11/2025 10:11:21
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To iarmhiabu: "My good friend, read between the lines. A bizarre decision given Barcelona Gaels do all their training on astro, in other words they would be unaccustomed to a soft to heavy grass pitch. Ballinagore were the home team in this fixture but someone done them a disservice with changing the pitch.
These are quotes from a Barcelona Gaels person: "Everything we do in Spain is done on Astro or 11 a side on rugby pitches with lower crossbars."
"We won senior mens, senior ladies, intermediate mens, intermediate ladies championships. That was great for us, but it is a completely different game to then going towards playing 15 a side on a grass pitch in Kilkenny in November."" They won that game in Kilkenny last year on a grass GAA pitch. The Downs was unplayable, Kinnegad was unplayable, there was 4 junior hurling games called off at the weekend, so that's another 8 pitches that were unplayable (8 cos if home ground unplayable then game switches to away ground). Where would you have played it?
stonemadbeany (National) - 18/11/2025 09:17:52
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Roscommon GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To S1234: "Fair enough. I actually think Bridgits are real contenders for the all Ireland ." I think they are too. But they think the Moycullen game will be very tough.
Viking66 (National) - 18/11/2025 07:47:55
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Non-Gaa Forum - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Kew: "So Ireland made the play offs before and after Stephen Kennys era? Did he have a lot of injuries to key players?" I think Stephen was more interested in getting Ireland to play a game that would be more attractive for the pundits including Dunphy to be able to swoon over. The beautiful game. We just weren't any good at that. He forget about the basic tenet of the game - get the ball into the oppositions net - as soon and as often as possible and by any means.
Freethinker (National) - 17/11/2025 23:18:05
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