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I wasn't there yesterday so I'm not going to judge too much, but all I'll say is that I'm certainly not going to get unduly worried with the team not running up a big score against a poor opponent that conceded the first seven points in a row. Yeah, tuning out with 15 to play is not ideal, but there...

Questions answered. OFFALY: Eamonn Cleary; Conor Hardiman, Ben Conneely, James Nally; Dara Maher, Killian Sampson, Eoghan Parlon; Paddy Delaney, Jack Screeney; Liam Langton, Joey Keenaghan, Conor Langton; Cathal O'Meara, Shane Dooley, John Murphy. Subs: Stephen Corcoran, Paddy Clancy, Eimhin Kelly, ...

I absolutely wouldn't look at it from the point of view of "who do we want to play in the final". If ever there was a logic that was destined to end in painful, ironic defeat, that's it. Now don't get me wrong, if we do field an understrength team in Carlow next weekend, that accusation wi...

Back in the day I applied for one of these administrator roles, and there's no doubt that a huge part of the issue is the fact that the GAA still runs on the fuel of volunteer energy, and (rightly so) there is a lot of awareness from those recruiting for these sort of positions that they don't want ...

I was absolutely delighted to see the celebrations, and I really hope the lads do feel like they're ten feet tall afterwards. This is the thing about sporting culture that drives me cracked these days - it always has to be about "the bigger picture", and the greater scheme of things. Some ...

Given that Kildare hurling is largely centred in the north of the county, relatively close to the M4 (Naas excepted of course), you'd wonder if Mullingar would be a consideration? Offaly minors playing there earlier in the day would make it much better from an Offaly point of view too.

Just seen this comment in this weeks offaly indo ‘ The absence of a significant cohort of players making an impression in the Fitzgibbon Cup is a concern’ Has anyone an idea of what players we have making an impression in the fitzgibbon cup? Sorry, just to come back on this - the point was that we ...

As it happens, I was in Ederney for Fermanagh's win over Longford. Very simple football, but well executed by Fermanagh. Daragh McGurn was very involved from centre forward, and Che Cullen completely shut down David McGivney, who was the lynchpin of the Longford attack in the O'Byrne Cup final. Offa...

The fact that St. Kieran's just won their semi-final convincingly would suggest to me that the final will be a very high quality, competitive affair, and that might save the concept of Offaly Schools for another while, particularly if it is explained that this is an anomaly of a year (which it is). ...

Yes, we're missing players next year - but it's easy to look at Offaly and say that we'll miss John Moloney, and we'll miss Jordan Hayes, and Eoghan Rigney, and possibly a few more too, including (it seems) the most talented footballer the county has known for a generation. But that's the reality of...

Just out of interest, I noted that Killybegs in Donegal brought pretty much the same motion to tonight's Donegal GAA convention. It secured 54% of the vote, but needed 60% to carry, so was voted down.

I’d agree with most of the above but I think if you tried the two tier OAP pass, almost all will opt for the cheaper option because what’s the incentive not to? Just on this, I think if you market it on the basis that we're able to do the discounted ticket because we believe in the honesty of those...

I can see both sides of this. As a societal group, there is a huge amount of wealth in the pension-age cohort of people, and as POTH hinted at, the pensions available to people of that age who worked their full 40 years (or close enough to it) in either the public sector or the big semi-state employ...

Apparently tullamore have withdrawn the motion This is correct, Tullamore put out a press release this evening as follows: Tullamore GAA have decided to withdraw their proposed motion around the parentage rule. The club is committed to supporting the three children who currently cannot be members o...

Won't this work both ways though? I know that just across the Barrow from me in Laois, you can declare for, or transfer to, your parent's home club and it doesn't get in to too much detail about length of membership or anything either. Quite a few young lads then start out with, or move to, their d...