Seeing that youâre dispensing mea culpas you owe me an apology over on the Rip off Ireland thread
Headbanger logic again. You can make up all the sums you want but neither your âŹ32 million or âŹ80k figure are in the ballpark of correct.
Two days later and youâre still prattling on like a complete oddball - as if youâre somehow a victim. At least thereâs nobody actually out to get you
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You absolute bell end! 32m is closer to current funding - you claimed it was 8m
Youâre not even capable of using google, the free AI made a jackass out of you
Also, Not sure if youâve taken too many hurleys to the helmet but yesterday is not 2 days ago.
Born in mungret actually
Really? Always thought the family home was in Fanningstown between the Well & Croom unless there was a maternity in Mungret area
Original sources always
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It was yeah. On one of those bad bends on the way down to the Woodlands from the Croom side.
So they were Ballykeeffe originally and moved ?
Think his father was a herdsman or similar which was a job that moved round quite a lot.
I must find the exact location at some point. I found that record when I was looking for someone in my own clan.
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I wonder was it around Blackberry lane good few farms around there think the Gabbetts have land where the new roads went in.
I will have to go find it now
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Judith Chalmers
Wish you were still here Judith.
Legendary Tyrone Gaelic footballer, Frank McGuigan. RIP. Most famously scored 0-11 against Armagh, all from play in the Ulster Final in centenary year of 1984. Scored 5 with the right, 5 with the left and 1 with the fist.
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That was actually an urban myth that grew up. He scored 0-8 with the left, 0-2 with the right and one with the fist, a proper Mattie McGleenan/Paul Clarke style fisted effort, not a Jarly.
Frankâs legend was sort of based on him being the great âlostâ footballer, the best footballer you never saw, or saw once, a sort of fatally flawed George Best, Stan Bowles or Frank Worthington type.
He fit neatly into the sterotype of the mad Northern genius with George Best and Alex Higgins.
Frank was an idea, an idea of Gaelic football as the beautiful game, that if Brazil 1982 played Gaelic football, this is how they would have done it.
There could not have been a Peter Canavan without the idea of Frank McGuigan.
And there definitely could not have been a Brian McGuigan without Frank McGuigan.
Without Peter Canavan and Brian McGuigan, there are no Tyrone All-Irelands.
Tyrone have not played Armagh in an Ulster Final at Clones since Frankâs day of days in 1984. Itâs surely the greatest possible GAA fixture.
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Good friend of mine is from Castlederg. He wouldnât be the biggest football fan in the world, but does have a passing interest in it and would get very interested in it when Tyrone are on a run and goes to all their games in Croke Park as he lives in Dublin.
He was at the 2021 All Ireland Final with me on my tickets. We spotted Frank McGuigan on the way in. He was talking about 1984 and was at the Ulster Final in Clones with his father, who was a big GAA man. He was saying there was plenty of talk around Tyrone over the previous months in hushed times that âFrank was backâ. Home after many years working on building sites in New York. An expectation that something could be brewing. He certainly didnât disappoint.
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