Thatâs a clamping.
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Joe taking no prisoners here.
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Ah thatâs outstanding!
Trevor was a mediocre journey man rugby player.
His buffoonery though where he led a mission to free Palestine 
or some such bullshit didnât exactly work but it did create an opportunity for him to carve out a little number on radio.
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Easy pickings for a man like joe heâs swatting them away like flies
Kieran Shannon wonât back down from this. With a festive drink or 10 in one hand and phone in the other this will hopefully escalate.
Are you shannon? Post away donât mind the ten drinks
Nasty partitionist slant from Poppy McGregorâs fans.
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Both not one bit surprising.
I would say there is a big correlation between those who are fans of McGregor on here and those who want @Smark removed from the Celeb Spotting adjudicator role. Knuckle draggers
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Konnor wil rod ure pipe.
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Brolly fairly savaged Kerry yesterday.
Any chance of sticking up the article or interview?
Joe Brolly: Croke Park was full of toothless simpletons with whiskers on their faces wearing dresses
A view of the Laochra entertainment performance after the Allianz Football League Final1
A view of the Laochra entertainment performance after the Allianz Football League Final
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Joe Brolly
01/05/2016 | 13:00
Watching the Laochra celebrations in Croke Park last Sunday reminded me of the episode of Iâm Alan Partridge where Partridge meets two RTE executives to discuss a series they want to make on modern Ireland.
Partridge nods and says: âYou know, I think the Irish are going through a major image change. I mean, the old image of Leprechauns, shamrocks, horses running through council estates, toothless simpletons, people with eyebrows on their cheeks, badly tarmacked drives in this country, men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings, lots of rocks, and Guinness. I think people in England are saying yes, dereâs more to Oireland dan dis.â Later, the topic turns to U2 and Partridge says: âI love that song Bloody Sunday. Really encapsulates the frustrations of a Sunday. You get up, youâve got to read all the papers, all the kids running around, youâve got to mow the lawn and wash the car . . . and you think to yourself, âSunday, bloody Sundayâ.â
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With Laochra, the GAA went for a mix of Braveheart and The Quiet Man. Croke Park was full of toothless simpletons with whiskers on their faces wearing dresses, scowling and waving swords. We also had a cailĂn with long red hair singing. To cap it all, there was Bono, as Irish as a Luxembourg tax haven. A fortnight ago, our most celebrated rock singer appeared before the US senate and made a novel suggestion about how to deal with ISIL.
To incredulous laughter, he said using comedians like Amy Schumer and Sacha Baron Cohen to lampoon ISIL would work far better than airstrikes. âDonât laughâ he said, âI think comedy should be deployed. Iâm actually serious. If you laugh at them, when theyâre goose-stepping down the street, it takes away their power. So, Iâm quite seriously suggesting that the Senate send in Amy Schumer and Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen, thank you.â Imagine Ali G appearing just as ISIL fighters in balaclavas are about to behead three US civilians and saying âIs it because dey is white?â
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The most disappointing features of the Croke Park parody were the fact that the King of the Leprechauns didnât make an appearance and grant everyone in the audience three wishes, and that Alan Partridge wasnât asked to narrate it.
Earlier in the day, Tyrone confirmed the feeling that they might just be the second best team in the country. I was listening on the radio, the only bearable way to watch a Tyrone game. With 10 minutes to go and Cavan six points down, Tommy Carr, who could give Bono a run for his money, said, âThis game could go either way.â With five minutes to go, he said, âIâm starting to get the feeling Cavan need a goal.â After the final whistle, he said, âIn fairness, Cavan were never really in this game.â
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I watched the game later that night. It confirmed my view that Tyrone are close to an All-Ireland. They are very powerful, very quick, and very mean. They also have high quality skills and make very few mistakes. Most importantly, they have a chemistry that was missing for several years, until their run through the qualifiers last summer. Their system, with Colm Cavanagh as the gatekeeper, makes it virtually impossible to score a goal against them. As Peter Donnellyâs coaching has taken hold, they have finally found a good defence/attack balance.
I say they are close to an All-Ireland because only one team can win that. In the big game, Kerry, a bitter, mean-spirited team under Eamonn Fitzmaurice, threw everything they had at the All Blues. It was a must win game for them. This current Dublin team has banished the old Kerry condescension. The days when the league was something to let other teams win before Kerry came up in September and put manners on the rest are a relic of the pre-Gavin era. Kerry fought for this as though their lives depended on it, which in a way they did. Aidan OâMahony was as thuggish as ever. Shane Enright the same. A couple of Dubs were very lucky not to have been seriously injured.
As is customary under Fitzmaurice, Kerry dragged and pulled and fouled and blocked up the central column. The All Blues werenât in the slightest bit fazed. They just kept blitzing them at high speed from all angles, until Kerryâs mean spirit was broken.
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Afterwards, Fitzmaurice whinged to the press corps that, âKieran Donaghy was basically raped and pillaged and the ref did nothing.â Which was almost as funny as Bonoâs contributions at the US senate. In the 2014 final, Kerry put a saddle on Michael Murphy and rode him round Croke Park. The difference was that Donegal, and Michael, sucked it up.
Afterwards, Jim McGuinness never even mentioned it, even though the raping and pillaging of Murphy (to borrow Fitzmauriceâs delicate phrase) was what won Kerry the game. âKieran canât buy a free,â Fitzmaurice said, as the press corps tried to keep a straight face. Their minds were no doubt wandering back to the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick a few years ago where Kieran bought a whole batch of frees at knockdown prices against Mayo in the All-Ireland semi-final replay. No Eamonn, it wonât wash. Not that itâs relevant, but you were beaten by 11 points. And if Dean Rock had gone for goal from the penalty it would have been 13.
On the face of it, it might look as though it was neck and neck coming into the final quarter. That is a misinterpretation of reality. By the hour mark in Kerry-Dublin matches these days, Kerry have cracked and Dublin are ready to smash them up. So, in the final ten minutes, Dublin scored 2-3 to Kerryâs 0-0. It has become a familiar pattern in big games between the two.
There are two things to think of: Kerryâs blanket defence works superbly against almost everyone else but only partially against the Dubs. The blanket makes it very difficult for the opposition to score, but itâs real purpose is to mentally drain the opponent and cause them to lose heart, which will only happen if you can score decisively on the counter-attack. A classic example is Donegal v the Dubs in the 2014 semi-final. You endure, then puncture the opponent on the counter. Against Dublin these days, Kerry are simply enduring. They are, if you like, keeping the score down.
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Because Dublin defend brilliantly man to man, and like Kilkenny hurlers they can all win their own battles, they only need one sweeper and in Cian OâSullivan they not only have the gameâs best reader, but probably also its best defender. Of the Kerry forwards, only Donaghy poses a danger to them, so they put a saddle on him. The other big name Kerry forwards arenât big names to this Dublin crew.
They simply swallow up Colm Who and Darran Who and I canât remember the names of the other ones type of thing. All of which means the Dubs can constantly commit numbers to the attack. Unlike, say, Donegal they are not robbing their attack to shore up their defence, which allows them to maintain a brilliant defence/attack balance. Their astonishing athleticism all over the field allows them to attack, attack, attack. Before the sending off, Dublin had already had over 50 per cent more attacks than Kerry. Kerry, like all their opponents, were shovelling out the tide with a pitchfork.
Donegalâs ambush in 2014 has made the Dubs unbeatable. Like The Borg, they have now assimilated all known forms of football. It was a Bloody Sunday for Kerry and it wonât get any better.
As for the GAA, if we keep going the way we are, we will soon be as Oirish as Bono.
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A borg reference, fuck me it doesnât get better than that 
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Ah yeah but James OâDonaghue will be back to win them the All Ireland in September, so I have been told by those in the know. 
He has the Armagh lads seething.
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Brolly was spot on last sunday
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