You were very special on AFR too.
Ah I was only a novice back then.
My breakthrough moment on here came the day I spied @backinatracksuit around Knockfierna. Jesus that was superb stuff 
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I remember AFR introduced the feature showing the number of posts each poster had made as a way to weed out the new WUMâs. Limerick Nomad had something like 25,000 posts and went absolutely buck ape when it was introduced in case his employer saw it. A special title of ârespected posterâ or something was created just for him.
AFR helped me find a pub in Koh Samui to watch Wexford beating Tipp in '07. And some Tipp lad called Zanussi flew up from somewhere in Malaysia for the weekend to watch it too as he knew thereâd be a few AFR heads knocking around the bar. The sight of a Tipp lad walking around the bar in Koh Samui asking every Wexford person there if âthey were Mac from An Fear Ruaâ will always make me chuckle.
Poor auld Liam had an unhealthy obsession with camogie and in particular Mary Leacy. RIP to him. He brought a load of us together which has indirectly meant good things for many Irish and Cambodian charities so he wasnât all that bad.
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I never realised he worked in RTE and presented the news.
Some powerful anecdotes here lads. As I said earlier, it wasnât on my radar at all. My early INTERNET days saw me go to Premierview and the music board Thumped.com. Social media probably put a stop to forums for me until @Thomas_Brady brought me on board here. I went to AFR a few times because a cousin of mine wrote a few articles for it, but didnât really know of the forum or its characters.
Wasnât there a column in the Irish Examiner on Mondays for a while? Jaysus, he wore a lot of hats. Journalist/broadcaster, historian, political communications guy, man of the INTERNET.
He told me he had hoped to monetize AFR but it just wasnât happening.
He was a political correspondent and economic correspondent. Didnât read the news. He was held out as an example to us in the school as to what we could achieve if weâd just let the brothers puck the heads off us.
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He used to advertise AFR in All Ireland Programmes. That canât have been cheap.
He used to be head of PR at intel as well which was where he discovered the INTERNET
Wasnt he doing a bit of writing for said publications? I wonder was it a bit of quid pro quo?
Yes An Maor would pen an article about an exciting day stewarding at Croke Park.
I never realized how many hats he wore. Some man.
I think his last public guise was as spokesman for Rural Ireland Says Enough (RISE). They wanted the right to gallop horses through anyones fields killing defenceless little animals.
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Big Labour man?
He was an adviser to Helen McEnteeâs dad I believe
Did a couple of gigs for FF too. The mothers side of the family were related to the Quinlans who were latterly FG councillors. His great grandfather was a Redmondite Mayor of Waterford.
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I remember becoming an AFR orphan, did he shut it down between the drawn and replayed 2012 finals? I was out in Gran Canaria at the time anyways, @Batigol sent me a panicked Facebook Messenger message and I flew home a few days later to an utterly changed world.
The auld site will remain permanently in maintenance mode so. Ar dheis DĂŠ etc. I hope someone archived the Limousin cattle thread for posterity.
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