Some bogger talking about interlockers.he is a dick
Miriam offering her âCommiserationsâ to the deputy Mayor as though his team has just lost a football match
Pubic transport?
Itâs a drama, not a documentary.
GAA documentaries almost always end up being just âalrightâ and being a rehash of stuff you already knew.
Iâm not a huge fan of the fly on the wall following a team documentary genre. Theyâre usually quite cliched and sanitised beyond a couple of teaser scenes to lure you in. That goes for âA Year 'Til Sundayâ and the one about Dublin in 2005 too. You always get the feeling that a lot of players arenât particularly comfortable with the idea.
Only saw the first half of the Crossmaglen one last night and while the bit I saw was watchable, it wasnât in any way ground breaking or anything and the players featured didnât appear to have many interesting stories to tell beyond what most people already knew or would have guessed. Perhaps the second half of it was much better than what went before but it didnât give me the impression it was going that way.
Iâm sure BBC did a previous documentary on Crossmaglen years ago, it must be back into the 90s when they were only beginning to emerge as a national force. Everybody has known all about them and their history for years though at this stage so I donât think itâs a particularly interesting subject for a documentary. In terms of topics for a fly on the wall documentary it would be more interesting to follow a particular player (maybe Tiernan McCann:grin:) or a really shit junior team.
There have been some decent ones to be fair. There was a referees one which featured Pat McEneaney and Michael Curley which featured a few memorable scenes particularly the ones filmed at the 1999 Munster football final. There was also a documentary done for the centenary in 1984 which I canât remember the name of but wouldnât mind seeing again. The Dublin-Kerry one from last year was also decent enough.
There are a whole load of stories out there though that could be examined in depth in â30 for 30â or âAmericaâs Gameâ-style formats or even a big screen docu-film format like âSennaâ. You could easily get two hours of a docu-film out the Harte story for instance if you took it from 1997, with all the stuff thatâs happened Tyrone since then.
Other topics ripe for proper documentary treatment include:
The four matches between Dublin and Meath in 1991
The RDS Clanna Gael controversy
Bloody Sunday in 1920
The GAA and the Troubles
David Hickey
The Kerry-Offaly final of 1982
The Hurling Revolution Years 1994-1998 (or one about each individual year)
The Cork strikes
Some of those have already been covered in excellent books and I think theyâd transfer well if given the documentary treatment. The stumbling blocks would be i) money and ii) getting the protagonists to really âlay themselves bareâ, metaphorically.
Found it odd that in one of the years that their first championship game was only in August and they only played 4 games to win Armagh. That has to be a massive advantage when it comes to the Ulster and All Ireland Championship, although they actually did poorly that year. In comparison in Tipp we have our first championship game in 2 weeks and if you won your first 4 games youâd only be in the last 16 and maybe a divisional quarter or semi.
the exact word I uttered when I saw the interview. GIMP.
Ashbourne RIC barracks coming under fire. Could be something to do with this eveningâs shooting in Ratoath.
The Battle of Ashbourne is over. The rebels have won.
Why did RTE have a debate on 1916 without any republicans involved?
Three argued for, three argued against. Watch it first before you decide it was missing something or someone in particular.
Cos theyâre generally whingy chip-on-the-shoulder no craic paranoids?
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If that was the criteria then none of the 6 selected would be there. Have you got anything of value to add?
And they may also have followed the US example on their security checks.
Nothing to add, Iâm just getting a shot off and legging it. Itâs the Provo way!!!
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Maybe you should go and shoot one of your own in an internal feud, thatâs the sticky way.
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Thereâs only myself and the other fella in my company. If I shot him thereâd be no-one to blame anything on.
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Foreman v Frazier 1976 setanta now
I am traveller currently on RTE2âŚinteresting enough.
Katie Hannon looking ravishing on Prime Time. 
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Was a decent laochra gaelic about the Dublin Meath saga. I really enjoyed it. I think a lot of the 30 for 30 are tripe and overrated. Agree with your post though. Some great stories there over the years that would make for great tv