I know it’s probably not correct and proper, or indeed wise to bite the head of the beast that feeds you, but Paul Galvin in The Sunday Times is doing just that. The GAA made him a household name back in his day. I still get the shudders when I think of his fellow county man, Maurice Fitzgerald who scored this point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXEONcn_4XM. Also, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07it4_evog&t=182s. I couldn’t resist the Tyrone reference.
Yep
HE made himself a household name by being an exceptional player and someone of “distinguished” character.
They don’t feed him anymore, and in carving out his own path he raises an issue that could be a very real threat to the reputation of the game.
Shayna
I know he’s loved in Kerry, his students adored him and now he has a different career. The GAA still feed him, he wouldn’t have a career without it. The drugs issue is something that was a tad evident in 2002 when Armargh guys were bursting out of their jersies in Croke Park. My point was, originally, that of course there is drugs going on, but don’t mention it.
Shayna
Armagh (sorry)
cluster
Why would not mentioning it be the right approach?
Custo
Drugs are rife in GAA.
Frilly Keane
“More sinned against than sinning”
BTW I’d reconsider the use of the expression “distinguished” when talking about Paul Galvin
And I’d definitely wouldn’t refer to his relationship with his students
Happy Molloy
he was a thug on and off the field but, to be fair, he cleaned his act up. his last few years he had people pulling and dragging out of him but wouldn’t react.
Wonder will Dermo ever manage the same? he’ll probably be gone for the summer now
Sheik Yahbouti
Is this website now to be called Gaaaaah Sheet? No matter the topic, this woman has to shoe horn in some reference to it.
Shayna
Sorry, I clearly can’t help it!
Sheik Yahbouti
You don’t say. :-D
Sailor
Gaasheet? Well it IS full of stuff on Varadkar
Scoops4all
very good
Topsy
Is it the fags Galvin’s on about when he talks about drugs?
Happy Molloy
she’s welcome to in my book. I love the gaa in the summer
cluster
agreed
Shayna
I thought I was moving from the obvious to the obscure in my comment. Oh well!
Frilly Keane
Spaking’ of drugs in the GAA, by Paul Galvin
Dancing with the Stars Cup and Galvins team mate Aiden O’Mahoney had a bad test
And one’ve their New up and coming lads has accepted a ban
Happy Molloy
when are cork going to come good again?
Frilly Keane
We did alright for ourselves on Donkey Derby day din’t we
Nathins won or lost yet
Twunt
It is amazing how many top athletes ‘discover’ they have asthma in early adulthood
Frilly Keane
Int’it
Formerly known as @ireland.com
You may have heard this one…
I know why I am not a top level athlete, I don’t suffer from any long term medical conditions.
Frilly Keane
Heard it?
I wrote it
Well, a former associate did
Jimmy Russell
Once again innocent muslims will bear the brunt of this, they will be met with suspicion ad scrutiny now, in many ways Islam is the biggest victim of all this. We cant dwell on the past we need to move on already europe needs to learn to live with these unfortunate incidents and put these unfortunate events behind us otherwise we are playing into the hands of nazi’s like trump and farage
Henry Woods
You’ve really rustled my jimmies with that post.
Nigel
Trump seals a 10 billion dollar arms deal to a fundamentalist Islamic regime and the UK is flooding Middle East hot-spots with a variety of weaponry but the real solution is to get sarcastic about people who are worried that moderate Muslims are going to be subjected to abuse and opprobrium for this attack. https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/871346889991573504/photo/1
petey
may, too.
Yep
Marcon will continue in the very lucrative export market too.
Ron
Air strikes carried out by the US and it’s allied partners including the UK in Syria have killed the highest number of civilians on record since the bombing campaign began.
A total of 225 civilians, including 36 women and 44 children, were killed in the period between 23 April to 23 MAY 2017
The toll is the highest number of recorded deaths since the international air campaign against ISIS began in September 2014..
Where is the 24 hour rolling Sky News coverage? Where is the international condemnation? Where is the front page news stories? Why is the Facebook ‘I’m safe’ check in system not activated like they have done in London?
I hate war of any kind. My condolences to all the innocent people killed in Syria, Iraq, Manchester, London etc.
Maybe the same level of outrage that we see for Manchester and London is because that’s not supposed to happen in nice places like the UK. Thats not supposeed to happen to people like ‘us’. So long as the UK and their partners continue on a foreign policy path that is war mongering and hostile to other countries, you can probably expect a lot more of the events we have seen in London and Manchester etc. RIP to the thousands of innocent people killed all over.
mildred st. meadowlark
Great comment Ron. Completely agree, and you said it better than I certainly could’ve.
jungleman
Well said.
Also, that facebook thing is just fuel for narcissists, like everything else on facebook..
Yep
Al Jazeera if you’re looking for coverage. Not being smart but it has a lot to do with geography.
Like you, I have no doubt there will be many more attacks like last night. Pop on to the Al Jazeera site next time. The comment section in the live feed is a real eye opener.
Sheik Yahbouti
Ah, Ron. I’m so heartsick I can’t even comment beyond this. BTW wrong forum – GAAAAAH, Povs and the content of Cadbury chocolate boxes, with a rivetting controversy between Barrys Tea and Lions tea. ‘shakra, when the walls came down’.
Frilly Keane
C’mere all that stuff has a place too ya know
If it didn’t
You wouldn’t be here
It takes all sorts ya know
That’s what they mean by tolerance BTW
If we’re not grand enough or high-brow enough for you here
There’s always All Jazeera
Sheik Yahbouti
Sorry Frilly, in bad form. Found a dead dog on my travels today – and it wasn’t natural causes, or even ‘a belt of a car ‘. Just bummed out
@ Yep…
…Making yourself cryptic doesn’t make your statement concrete.
No truer statement was ever typed, and it isn’t typical of this site to have someone say so but I agree.
I’m in ‘moderadion’.
Frilly Keane
There’s nothing cryptic
That is a direct quote from a 2 page IT spread on Galvin the Saturday before he clattered the black book out’ve a refs hand
And then clattered one’a the O’Se’s who was only trying to came the ape down
Guess who authored it?
Yep
You?…
jungleman
Just had a look at the Al Jazeera comments threads there. They appear to have been completely taken over by right wing nut jobs (the lack of moderation is actually astounding). Was that the point you were making?
It’s my belief that Britain is being targeted because of two things… Brexit & Trump.
(Not Facebook & Google.)
Isis sees Britain as weakened and isolated. The opposite to Mrs May’s spinning.
Protect Democracy by talking like a Dictator…. Who was it who did that…?
He looked a bit like Charlie Chaplain.
I can’t remember his name…
–
…and when I say …’sacrificing some teenagers who haven’t got jobs‘ you know perfectly well who I mean and what that strategy entails…
Mrs. May’s bravery in sacrificing another Mother’s son or daughter is truly inspiring. She’s not brave enough to do a TV Debate, but she does have a very hard neck..
When she wins the election next week we will ALL be poorer.
Yep
They were targeted a long time before Brexit or Trump….
Oh, sorry.
It happened in the past…
– Let’s repeat it, let’s see what happens…
What could go wrong?
Wimmin can’t grow moustaches, so why worry?
Zena
@ Memes
Due to the fact that US war planes refuel at Shannon, we are not considered ‘neutral’. These planes have been passing through Shannon since around 2002, bringing all types of weaponry with them. Very unfortunate state of affairs for a once neutral country.
Zena
+1 Ron
Lilly
I agree with you to a point Ron but why was Stockholm attacked?
Zena
@ Lilly
Sweden is part of the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in the Mddle East, that makes them a target, the same as any other country involved.
You’re welcome. I agree, it’s very depressing, the whole situation.
Ron
At times like this I always think about that famous quote from Carl Satan when they photographed earth from billions of miles away in space. A pale blue dot barely distinguishable…
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known
Ron
*Sagan… Not Satan :)
Sheik Yahbouti
Agreed, Ron, every word. Perhaps we could make a start by not further fouling our one and only nest, and try to repair some of the damage already done.
Zena
Ron, are you a writer? Your posts are beautifully written, moving and poetic, you’re truly gifted.
#Pray4Sunday
I know it’s probably not correct and proper, or indeed wise to bite the head of the beast that feeds you, but Paul Galvin in The Sunday Times is doing just that. The GAA made him a household name back in his day. I still get the shudders when I think of his fellow county man, Maurice Fitzgerald who scored this point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXEONcn_4XM. Also, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07it4_evog&t=182s. I couldn’t resist the Tyrone reference.
HE made himself a household name by being an exceptional player and someone of “distinguished” character.
They don’t feed him anymore, and in carving out his own path he raises an issue that could be a very real threat to the reputation of the game.
I know he’s loved in Kerry, his students adored him and now he has a different career. The GAA still feed him, he wouldn’t have a career without it. The drugs issue is something that was a tad evident in 2002 when Armargh guys were bursting out of their jersies in Croke Park. My point was, originally, that of course there is drugs going on, but don’t mention it.
Armagh (sorry)
Why would not mentioning it be the right approach?
Drugs are rife in GAA.
“More sinned against than sinning”
BTW I’d reconsider the use of the expression “distinguished” when talking about Paul Galvin
And I’d definitely wouldn’t refer to his relationship with his students
he was a thug on and off the field but, to be fair, he cleaned his act up. his last few years he had people pulling and dragging out of him but wouldn’t react.
Wonder will Dermo ever manage the same? he’ll probably be gone for the summer now
Is this website now to be called Gaaaaah Sheet? No matter the topic, this woman has to shoe horn in some reference to it.
Sorry, I clearly can’t help it!
You don’t say. :-D
Gaasheet? Well it IS full of stuff on Varadkar
very good
Is it the fags Galvin’s on about when he talks about drugs?
she’s welcome to in my book. I love the gaa in the summer
agreed
I thought I was moving from the obvious to the obscure in my comment. Oh well!
Spaking’ of drugs in the GAA, by Paul Galvin
Dancing with the Stars Cup and Galvins team mate Aiden O’Mahoney had a bad test
And one’ve their New up and coming lads has accepted a ban
when are cork going to come good again?
We did alright for ourselves on Donkey Derby day din’t we
Nathins won or lost yet
It is amazing how many top athletes ‘discover’ they have asthma in early adulthood
Int’it
You may have heard this one…
I know why I am not a top level athlete, I don’t suffer from any long term medical conditions.
Heard it?
I wrote it
Well, a former associate did
Once again innocent muslims will bear the brunt of this, they will be met with suspicion ad scrutiny now, in many ways Islam is the biggest victim of all this. We cant dwell on the past we need to move on already europe needs to learn to live with these unfortunate incidents and put these unfortunate events behind us otherwise we are playing into the hands of nazi’s like trump and farage
You’ve really rustled my jimmies with that post.
Trump seals a 10 billion dollar arms deal to a fundamentalist Islamic regime and the UK is flooding Middle East hot-spots with a variety of weaponry but the real solution is to get sarcastic about people who are worried that moderate Muslims are going to be subjected to abuse and opprobrium for this attack.
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/871346889991573504/photo/1
may, too.
Marcon will continue in the very lucrative export market too.
Air strikes carried out by the US and it’s allied partners including the UK in Syria have killed the highest number of civilians on record since the bombing campaign began.
A total of 225 civilians, including 36 women and 44 children, were killed in the period between 23 April to 23 MAY 2017
The toll is the highest number of recorded deaths since the international air campaign against ISIS began in September 2014..
Where is the 24 hour rolling Sky News coverage? Where is the international condemnation? Where is the front page news stories? Why is the Facebook ‘I’m safe’ check in system not activated like they have done in London?
I hate war of any kind. My condolences to all the innocent people killed in Syria, Iraq, Manchester, London etc.
Maybe the same level of outrage that we see for Manchester and London is because that’s not supposed to happen in nice places like the UK. Thats not supposeed to happen to people like ‘us’. So long as the UK and their partners continue on a foreign policy path that is war mongering and hostile to other countries, you can probably expect a lot more of the events we have seen in London and Manchester etc. RIP to the thousands of innocent people killed all over.
Great comment Ron. Completely agree, and you said it better than I certainly could’ve.
Well said.
Also, that facebook thing is just fuel for narcissists, like everything else on facebook..
Al Jazeera if you’re looking for coverage. Not being smart but it has a lot to do with geography.
Like you, I have no doubt there will be many more attacks like last night. Pop on to the Al Jazeera site next time. The comment section in the live feed is a real eye opener.
Ah, Ron. I’m so heartsick I can’t even comment beyond this. BTW wrong forum – GAAAAAH, Povs and the content of Cadbury chocolate boxes, with a rivetting controversy between Barrys Tea and Lions tea. ‘shakra, when the walls came down’.
C’mere all that stuff has a place too ya know
If it didn’t
You wouldn’t be here
It takes all sorts ya know
That’s what they mean by tolerance BTW
If we’re not grand enough or high-brow enough for you here
There’s always All Jazeera
Sorry Frilly, in bad form. Found a dead dog on my travels today – and it wasn’t natural causes, or even ‘a belt of a car ‘. Just bummed out
I’ve been looking for a dead dog for ages now…
…no, wait, hang on…
– I’ve been looking for a dead horse.
(I wanted to flog it, but don’t tell anyone.)
Ah Sheik
that’d put ya in a woeful humour alright
Frilly, he was beaten and garotted with a piece of cable. A boxer cross – maybe three years old. And people jeer ME for being a misanthrope?!?
That’s awful. What a truly horrible thing to do to a dog. Can’t understand why someone would do that.
Frilly, with all due respect, I enjoy your articles.
In general conversation you don’t have to pump up the prose. Making yourself cryptic doesn’t make your statement concrete.
Also, I agree about Galvin. That’s why it was in quotes.
@ Yep…
…Making yourself cryptic doesn’t make your statement concrete.
No truer statement was ever typed, and it isn’t typical of this site to have someone say so but I agree.
I’m in ‘moderadion’.
There’s nothing cryptic
That is a direct quote from a 2 page IT spread on Galvin the Saturday before he clattered the black book out’ve a refs hand
And then clattered one’a the O’Se’s who was only trying to came the ape down
Guess who authored it?
You?…
Just had a look at the Al Jazeera comments threads there. They appear to have been completely taken over by right wing nut jobs (the lack of moderation is actually astounding). Was that the point you were making?
…’allied partners including the UK in Syria have killed the highest number of civilians on record’…
Did you hear Theresa May’s statement after this morning’s COBRA meeting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_1LRjI7oBk
– She’s scared.
It’s my belief that Britain is being targeted because of two things… Brexit & Trump.
(Not Facebook & Google.)
Isis sees Britain as weakened and isolated. The opposite to Mrs May’s spinning.
Protect Democracy by talking like a Dictator…. Who was it who did that…?
He looked a bit like Charlie Chaplain.
I can’t remember his name…
–
Sorry… I left out a bit of my comment…
Mrs. May or might not, is trying to get her old mates back, by sacrificing some teenagers who haven’t got jobs.
She May do a DUET with DT or the EU, but that would be an anagram.
Aren’t YOU glad we’re a neutral country?
We don’t send our children to kill or be killed. Not a lot of people appreciate that.
…and when I say …’sacrificing some teenagers who haven’t got jobs‘ you know perfectly well who I mean and what that strategy entails…
Mrs. May’s bravery in sacrificing another Mother’s son or daughter is truly inspiring. She’s not brave enough to do a TV Debate, but she does have a very hard neck..
When she wins the election next week we will ALL be poorer.
They were targeted a long time before Brexit or Trump….
Oh, sorry.
It happened in the past…
– Let’s repeat it, let’s see what happens…
What could go wrong?
Wimmin can’t grow moustaches, so why worry?
@ Memes
Due to the fact that US war planes refuel at Shannon, we are not considered ‘neutral’. These planes have been passing through Shannon since around 2002, bringing all types of weaponry with them. Very unfortunate state of affairs for a once neutral country.
+1 Ron
I agree with you to a point Ron but why was Stockholm attacked?
@ Lilly
Sweden is part of the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in the Mddle East, that makes them a target, the same as any other country involved.
Thanks Zena. It’s all so flippin depressing :(
Girls, girls, girls…
We are NOT targets.
Everybody who’s been hurt in these attacks or anything related are victims, not targets.
Stop rationalizing madness.
*bloody spell-checker.
@ Lilly
You’re welcome. I agree, it’s very depressing, the whole situation.
At times like this I always think about that famous quote from Carl Satan when they photographed earth from billions of miles away in space. A pale blue dot barely distinguishable…
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known
*Sagan… Not Satan :)
Agreed, Ron, every word. Perhaps we could make a start by not further fouling our one and only nest, and try to repair some of the damage already done.
Ron, are you a writer? Your posts are beautifully written, moving and poetic, you’re truly gifted.