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by SearingDrive
Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:27 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Long Summers
Replies: 6
Views: 4925

Re: Long Summers

Too true Townman Winning Leinster v Louth in 60, what a day that was for this then 12 year old and it got better, 68 beating the All Ireland Champions in a Leinster Semi 71, 82 and on and on, so many long summers, quite a few of them were wet days too !!!! I thought I was the only one to remember t...
by SearingDrive
Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:31 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Club football championship
Replies: 162
Views: 120054

Re: Club football championship

God knows, no doubt we will be once again playing our final in October, despite exiting the championship in June.
Can we not finish matters in September?.
by SearingDrive
Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:27 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly vs Cork - SHC Qualifier Rnd 2 07/07/2012
Replies: 112
Views: 76269

Re: Offaly vs Cork - SHC Qualifier Rnd 2 07/07/2012

I think Cork will win this one, they have improved from last year. Hope i'm proved wrong.
by SearingDrive
Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:32 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly versus Kildare 16th June 2012
Replies: 111
Views: 75530

Re: Spot yourself in O'Moore Park yesterday

Bord na Mona man wrote:
Plain of the Herbs wrote:The Offaly folk are the ones with their hands to their faces . . .
http://tag.huggity.com/fanpic/020-2012-leinster-gaa/
I can get another look at that very plummy member of the Kildare gentry with the sleeveless jumper.
Think he was a refugee from the K club. Went along to see the plebs.
by SearingDrive
Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:41 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship
Replies: 133
Views: 86906

Re: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship

The important thing is that Offaly won tonight, although it was tense in the last few minutes, as Wexford pulled us back. Wexford started and finished the game stronger, while Offaly were dominant in the second and third quarters. Offaly need an improvement if we are to trouble Galway or Westmeath ...
by SearingDrive
Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:42 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship
Replies: 133
Views: 86906

Re: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship

The important thing is that Offaly won tonight, although it was tense in the last few minutes, as Wexford pulled us back. Wexford started and finished the game stronger, while Offaly were dominant in the second and third quarters. Offaly need an improvement if we are to trouble Galway or Westmeath i...
by SearingDrive
Thu May 31, 2012 10:37 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship
Replies: 133
Views: 86906

Re: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship

townman wrote:yes it was all about wexford tonight and 1996 never said anything about 1969,81,82,84,88,94,95,98,2000,
and we will add 2012 this weekend :wink:
I suppose that was 'groupthink', very popular in RTE!
by SearingDrive
Thu May 31, 2012 9:57 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship
Replies: 133
Views: 86906

Re: Offaly Vs Wexford 2/6/12 Leinster Championship

Let's give Wexford a taste of Offaly passion on Saturday night, and send them back to pick strawberries for the summer. According to RTE's GAA programme tonight, hosted by Marty Morrissey, we haven't a hope. Come on Offaly.
by SearingDrive
Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:13 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: tom coffey new offaly manager
Replies: 25
Views: 19155

Re: tom coffey new offaly manager

Just heard on RTE that Tom Coffey is the interim manager. Does that mean we will go through last year's charade again after the championship?
There won't be too many candidates queueing up for the job.
by SearingDrive
Tue Apr 10, 2012 12:30 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Relegated
Replies: 50
Views: 34697

Re: Relegated

I think if there was a Division 5 Offaly would wind up there at present!!. The switch of the Kildare game to Sunday, where it will be part of a double header, as Brackngh Boy wrote, means RTE want at least one competitive game that day. All about viewers. Wonder are Ireland playing in Euro 2012 tha ...
by SearingDrive
Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:10 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Best chipper in Offaly?
Replies: 21
Views: 16589

Re: Best chipper in Offaly?

Think it has to be Macari's in the Market Square Tullamore. It's clean and the food is good. Supermac's is not bad either.
by SearingDrive
Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:43 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: o byrne cup vs kildare
Replies: 32
Views: 23091

Re: o byrne cup vs kildare

I never thought Offaly would win today, the scale of the defeat was vey disappointing. Offaly were 10 points down at half time with the wind!. 4 points were scored in the second half, to 7 from Kildare, who had eased off then. Kildare were bigger, fitter, and better, but as posters said, Kildare are...
by SearingDrive
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:31 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: St. Vincent's Senior Team
Replies: 64
Views: 63893

Re: Lost in the Bog

Killeigh has always been divided into hurling and football areas, the former around Killeigh, with football concentrated in the Geashill/Cloneygowan area. In recent years Raheen entered a junior hurling team, Killurin have been a separate hurling club since 1985. Ballinagar are a junior football clu...
by SearingDrive
Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:04 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Faithful Pioneers: Offalys Football Breakthrough, 1960/61
Replies: 27
Views: 31743

Re: Faithful Pioneers: Offalys Football Breakthrough, 1960/6

Like POTH, I attended yesterday's launch of Faithful Pioneers, and it was memorable to see so many of the players from that era, who put Offaly football on the map. I was only a small boy when I attended with my late parents, and extended , family, the 1960 Leinster Final, Offaly's first, and the Al...
by SearingDrive
Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:02 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach
Replies: 72
Views: 50539

Re: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach

Personally, I don't think that this thread should be on this website, as I don't believe that it has anything to do with GAA in Offaly. There are plenty of other forums out there to discuss politics in Ireland. This forum usually gives me an outlet away from all of the political news (which went in...