In fairness I found it informative enough. Didnât realise Charlestown won a Mayo SFC in 2009 and that he broke into the Mayo team as a teenager.
In what way?
The misogynists silence is deafening here ⌠the two weeks the women have been covered this season there hasnât been a peep on here âŚAine Wall was a smashing footballer , a real eye for goal âŚ
Come back to me when the show is on Vikki Wall
After Sue, there was nothing else to say
Iâm almost sure I saw @Fagan_ODowd in the footage from crowd in croker in â92 when the Deise ladies won âŚthe Whitesnake back patch on the denim jacket was the giveawayâŚ
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Finishing up watching the Anne Dalton episode. Iâm in tears here
Liam Sheedy is a cunt, could they not get someone sound? Like George OâConnor?
Thought Hotpoint would have got a mention. Airbrushed from history.
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The brother John is some character, was he the goalie in 84 when Cork caught them late on min the MF, he batted down a ball going over the bar and SOL buried it. One of the better episodes I thought.
He was yeah. Nice fella. Worked for CIE out of Limerick for years.
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The 1992 All-Ireland football final was a classic of the September sunshine genre @peddlerscross @Cheasty. Iconic scenes.
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The angle of the sun is the single most important factor that should be taken into consideration when fixing a Sporting calendar but thanks to the split season zealots the GAA have abandoned this protocol.
It was a beautiful day alright, the very definition of the September air. I was up in the corner of the Canal End over the playersâ tunnel. It was some view across the Canal End terrace with all the Donegal and Armagh flags.
1995 had wonderful September air. I was on the Hill that day, just on front of the temporary big screen. it was the only All-Ireland football final I was at which had both the classic September air and where I also had the classic view of the hills of South Dublin in the background over the Toyota clock.
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Myself and yourself are at one with nature when attending these major sporting events.
The rest of TFK are very wooden and may as well be playing Sims on the computer for all they reach the pitch of an occasion.
I think we think of these major matches as experiences. But not in the modern, corporate sense of the term. As somebody who has family roots in the Croke Park area, there is something about the area that is very special to me on a visceral level. My grandad was born in Cahir and came to Dublin at about 6 years of age but always remained a Tipp man. He was in that Croke Park area from probably 1902 onwards, around then, and attended Croke Park through Bloody Sunday up through the days of the Thunder and Lightning final through the days of the Rackards and the Tipp team of the Doyles and the arrival of the Dubs in 1955, the year my oulâ fella started attending Croke Park. My family had a presence in that area until the house my grandmother on my fatherâs side lived in was sold in 2010 after she died in 2009 (right at the bottom of the market). I now see myself as the curator of that family tradition, Dublin 3 is my spiritual turf and I donât like when things are meddled with.
I also have great respect for the individual traditions of people from other counties vis a vis Croke Park, the ghost train tradition of Kerry for instance and how the train remains an integral part of going up to Dublin for so many. I talked before about how I arrived at Heuston Station at the exact same time a train load of Kerry people were making their way down platform 2 at around midday the day of the Kerry-Dublin semi-final. That was the moment the pandemic ended in my mind, a full stop and a new beginning.
But that hot mid-summer air is not the air of an All-Ireland semi-final. This yearâs final is July 30th. July 30th has the air of a suffocatingly tense Leinster football final between Dublin and Meath, not an All-Ireland final. July 30th, 1995 was the archetype of this. September brings something different, that air of finality, the evenings drawing in and the inter-county action drawing to a close. A natural cycle.
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Those baking hot Saturdayâs in July are for Box Office Industries Qualifiers in Newbridge, Portlaoise and Navan.
Nobody should really need to go to Dublin until August.
I think you said it best when you said the optimum date for the All Ireland Football final is Sunday September 17th and the optimum date for the Dublin Football County Final is Monday October 28th so you work backwards from those two dates and build things around them.
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September 17th has the most reliable record of any date of providing that magical September air.
1989 Cork v Mayo
1995 Dublin v Tyrone
2006 Kerry v Mayo
2017 Dublin v Mayo
All beautiful days. September 17th is a Sunday this year.
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I enjoyed that Lochra Gael this evening. What happened to Molloy in Donegal is a warning to any captain or panel member from a County that makes a big breakthrough. For all the celebration his life went downhill for years after it.
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Thereâll be some exceedingly attractive double header from Donegal on TV that day involving St Eunanâs, Glenswilly, Naomh Conaill and Gaoth Dhomhair.