Aidan is a great guy.
The rte coverage of the semi final was absolutely bizarre.
The commentator was giving running updates on where O’Shea was and what he was doing and the ball was nowhere near him. All game, and the fella was having a nightmare
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Holmes and Connelly has AOS sussed.
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Anyone copy n paste this up?
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That Curtis gimp has some horn for all things Mayo. I’m beginning to think he’s a Jonah like @Lazarus .
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Someone needs to tell Roy that next year All Ireland Finals are in July. Give it a few more years and they’ll be played off in June before the kids are even gone on school holidays.
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July 17th for the football final next year I believe is the plan. Dr. Hyde Park will be even more depressing than usual on a cold, wet, sleety April Sunday for the Connacht first round than it is on a slightly warmer, wet July Sunday. It’s going to be some fiasco.
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All Ireland hurling final August bank holiday, football week after, premier league season starts week after, job done.
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What a fucking idiot
The correct fixture list for the business end of this year’s championships should have been as follows:
Sunday August 8th: Limerick v Waterford
Sunday August 15th: Kilkenny v Cork
Saturday August 21st: Kilkenny v Cork replay
Sunday August 22nd: Kerry v Tyrone
Saturday August 28th: Kerry v Tyrone replay
Sunday August 29th: Dublin v Mayo
Saturday September 4th: Dublin v Mayo replay
Sunday September 5th: All-Ireland Hurling final
Sunday September 19th: All-Ireland Football final
This coming Sunday is a good day to hold an All-Ireland Hurling final, even if overshadowed by yet more Dublin v Mayo mania.
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This would lead onto the club scene then when you’d get 10,000 people into Parnell Park on a Wednesday night in early October for a box office clash between Ballymun Kickhams vs St. Vincent’s.
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Magical nights. James McCarthy creasing some poor Vinnies misfortunate with a blind side shoulder, Ballymun leading for most of the match and then a trademark piece of Dermo magic, what people cross the city to see, to win it for Vinnies.
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There’s still something magical about the Hyde even though your description it rather apt.
It’s the walk up after a few stiffners in the late Tom Foxe’s, the colours of the rivals being flaunted with rural enthusiasm, the bullish confidence the chance of an upset brings, the dreaded graveyard end where your hopes will undoubtedly perish like the souls in it, the sight of Tony McManus warming up as your heart fucking beats faster with each pulsating minute ……
On the odd day your ship comes in and there’s nowhere better on those all too rare occasions….
You can then strut back down to Tom Foxe’s again with your head high and chest out and sew it into those thick rustics from Belmullet, Carraroe, Easkey and all parts of Roscommon……
I love the Hyde as a venue, hail, rain or snow.
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There can be comfort to misery. If something is there for long enough, whatever it is, people end up loving it.
As it was for Kim Il Sung’s death, so it will be when Dr. Hyde Park is no more, whenever that is.
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Would have been great to wait another 2 weeks for Limerick to beat Cork out the gate allright.
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One of the best days of my life was in the Hyde. Epic epic day. Harry McGee was bizarrely part of the convoy (two cars)
Unmissable