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I'd say it comes down to a mixture of things, and a lot of the main reasons have been outlined so eloquently by Kinnitty's finest. In addition to those factors, I would say that individual player skill is way above what is was in the past now too. Teams are more professional and train more effective...

What a horrible contribution from the one guy on the Wexford discussion forum. I would like to think that if anyone came on here and used language like that, they would either be removed or have at least someone stand up to him and ask him to stop posting such things. It kinds of taints a lot of his...

What is the source of this quote? Is it in an interview on the Radio and if so, does anyone have a link to it online anywhere? Or if it was to the written reporters, could we see a more detailed version of the quote. I would love to read what question was posed to him and what his full answer was. C...

Gallen hammered the shite out of Carnew today. Congrats.

Good luck to Edenderry tomorrow.

best chipper in offaly? - has to be Shane Lowry -- BOOM!!!!!!

If its good enought to put this lad into a Coma its good enough for me ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsy8Via97o4 Roma all the way .. This will bring a few memories back for a few Tullamore exiles .. faily funny. Anyone know who that is? I think it could be local entertainer Dave Lawlor, but I ...

Out of curiosity, on the topic of putting your neck on the block, if you had 10euro a week for the last year and split it evenly across your predictions in the Offaly Independent (i.e. if you gave predictions on 4 matches, then it went 2.50 on each game, or 5 each on 2 games) what would you say the ...

It was Martin McHugh not Kevin McStay who said that. Kevin McStay wasn't even on the panel last night. Damn Autocorrect function :oops: Try it out on your phone - weird. I stand corrected, but the point stands - if he had nothing to contribute they would have been better saying nothing and just rea...

While I'm on the topic of media coverage of the Offaly game, did you see Sunday Sport on RTE last night? In the 20 seconds that they dedicated to Division 3 and 4, they all agreed that it is terrible to see Offaly at the foot of D3. Kevin Mc Stay's solution (I paraphrase): 'well the last time they h...

The Examiner printed more of the quote, so read into that as you will: We don’t like making excuses but we’re not happy with a number of things that went on out there," he said. "Generally you’ll hold your hands up if you’re beaten fair and square but we had five yellow cards and no cards ...

Reading the report online of the match, I wouldn't be overly pleased with the nature of Gerry Cooney's comments: " We had five yellow cards and no cards for the opposition and there wasn't a bad foul in the game. It's hard to take," said Cooney. "I spoke to the referee. He said it (th...

So you're telling me that Size matters. :) on a more general level, is there any real need to have seperate competitions anymore? Surely, you could just have every school play in the same competition and make more divisions. Would take a couple of years to really sort out who should be where, but yo...

Playing numbers definitely can be a factor, but looking at the quality of the F/B underage teams at the moment, there should be enough quality coming through the school for at least a few years to come to be very competitive at any grade. An equally important factor is the attitude and culture that ...

Gerry Cooney said on Radio 3 that Anton Sullivan will be the only one of the U21s playing in the league this weekend. Obviously it would be great to give them all a rest and a break, but I suppose that the Seniors need every help they can get too. Here's hoping he is use sensibly, if it is a necessi...

I see on Twitter that Gallen CS just won their Leinster semi final easily today and now Offaly schools are represented in the Colleges and Vocational Leinster finals. First and foremost, congratulations and good luck to both teams in their respective finals. After last years All Ireland success, I h...