Hurling (Sport)

*a third national paper, I meant.

I swear I have looked at all hotels above the Liffey, where I want to be, but booking.com offers the best deal at Best Western for 150 a night. Steep! Nothing in the 80-120 range at all, a dece price range you can still get in lotsa other EU capitals. And I feel like I'm too old for dorms ffs. Seen every Airbnb too but they were all meh and I don't have the energy for meeting ppl and sharing loos and petting kittens when I'm just there to do my own thing tbh.

Will drop by here tomorrow if to say if I got the nod, if anyone is up for a fap on Saturday night,

Xp two nights. Coming in on Sat and returning early Monday because I have a funeral to attend here :-/

U should prob webmail a friendly irishman imo

Will def do that D! :)

Kinda meant before u book anywhere

I kinda realized that straight after. Am expecting to hear a def go or no go by this morning, will keep you posted

Woof this match

Waterford must be gutted. Will watch todays semi later on YT hopefully.

Semi final fell through, but the final is a def go, got a good deal w/ a daily wanting to print the story. /davecool.jpg

Dublin fap anyone? Ronan, you about in the motherland weekend of sept 3/4?

Alriiight

Did you go see it in the end? I was in London unfortunately, pretty good game tho. Tipp were brilliant to watch.

Was there at Croke Park, saw it all. Tipp in the second half, especially Séamus Callanan, was mind blowing stuff. Had the best seat in the stadium, and was impressed by how the GAA takes care of the press. And got to chill at Darraghmac's for two nights, which was wonderful. Once in a lifetime experience for me. Handed in my story today, should be published tomorrow in two big Dutch dailies (the Dutch Observer and its separate paper for youth). Will post a screen here tomorrow.

What struck me about Dublin in the end was how the poverty is so on the surface. So many beggars, so many drunk somber people trying to reach out on the streets. And especially, so many lonely old people in ill-fitting suits without teeth, drinking their pint, grabbing onto me like as if I were their chance out of grim death. Sad really. I didn't realize on forehand. Holland has swept the streets clean of beggars and homeless, which is probably for the worst. But the poverty and depravity was really in my face. And I wasn't even looking for it.

That shook me up, but the All Ireland was simply amazing an experience. Words can't describe.

"got to chill at Darraghmac's for two nights, which was wonderful. Once in a lifetime experience for me."

Fair review imo

http://i.imgur.com/hSLWGXq.jpg

Great article LBI! (Just read it with Google Translate). As you mentioned Ballybough is very poor. I moved in nearby (about a mile away from Croker) two years ago and I was shocked by the deprivation. There is a homelessness crisis across the city but I'm talking about endemic poverty, malnourished-looking kids etc. I've lived in the inner city for more than a decade and I've never seen anything like it (apart from some traveller settlements).

I'm pretty sure it's been that way for years - Ballybough comes from the Irish "Baile Bocht" which literally means poor town. Since moving here it's often struck me that many rural Irish people must have a very particular impression of Dublin as a whole if they've only ever seen the area around Croke Park. Wonder if the GAA could do more about this. It's not a given that the area around a stadium must be shitty, the other major stadium (Landsdowne Rd aka Aviva) is in an extremely well-heeled part of town.

P-dog, thank you! And for going through the trouble of finding and translating it, too, really appreciate that.

I was struck by the very same deprivation. Deems and I spoke about the homelessness problem as well, as there seemed to be way more homeless in the city than I'd anticipated (and it lead me to wonder about the Amsterdam homeless; they're there, but the city sweeps the center clean I think... :-/)
It'd be hard for rural Irish people to only see Croke Pak or Ballybough though, because all transport (buses and luas) go through the better off areas. Initiatives like this will be very welcome I'm sure.

Were you at the match or out and about on Sunday? Atmosphere all around was great.

Liked this bit from wiki:

n 2013, Dublin City Councillor Nial Ring started a controversial campaign to change the official Irish name from Baile Bocht to Baile Bog, on the grounds that 'Poor Town' was insulting to the residents. A counter-campaign was started by some Irish-speaking residents.

It may be Poor Town but it's our bloody Poor Town.

Great article LBI!

why would you want to be called "soft town" instead of "poor town"

"baile iontach" obv the choice here.

Thanks SV, means a lot!

Had more social-cultural stuff in there but had to bring it down from 1400 to 1000 words 20 mins before deadline :-/ Trying to get an English version of it published too. If only to cover costs lol.

Baile funk would be my pick tbh

(soz)

Put a guy up for a few nights and all he wants to do is slag the town off

:)

Work related Q: anyone here familiar with tehF0rtyTw0.ie? They'd like an English translation of my piece (for an outsiders view). Happy to oblige, but wondering if I can ask for a (translation) fee. If they are a commercial org or just some public initiative without a dime. Will prob do it anyway, but learned the hard way in the past of doing work for nowt.

F33 sorted.

Piece is up! Lol at the comments.

42 is a fairly big sports site in Ireland, possibly the biggest website beyond older media, it's connected to Daily Edge I think.

There's some very irate Tipp fans over Seamus Callanan not getting hurler of the year

seems the player awards are now just a pat on the head for the team that lost.

Don't know how it was in previous years, but that seems otm for this year.

(do we not have a rugby thread on here? happened to watch last nights second half seeing you tweeting abt it Ronan, that was fantastic!)

swap ye so

http://www.theprovince.com/sports/hockey/98absolutely+zero+similarities+retired+netminder+journeys/12994152/story.html

former canuck alex auld to try his hand at hurling

and lee chin to the canucks

id think chin would get destroyed, but theyll prob go easy on him

stoked to watch that toughest trade show

That could be good

Ah yeah, down with this.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/lee-chin-surprised-by-levels-of-drinking-and-fighting-in-nhl-1.3003990

“And they have this thing called a ‘change up’, when a player is not on form, not scoring. The manager will call a ‘change up’, and basically that player has to go out and ruin himself for the night, then come back the next day, with the attitude of you just don’t care.

“So they send him out, drink 20 pints, go off with a couple of women, whatever he wants. And come back the next day. That’s the way they live. It’s the culture, what they believe in, letting off steam like that. I don’t know if they look at the science behind it.”

more gems here https://thestanch.wordpress.com

shouldn't that really be in an nhl thread

glad u asked

answers no

I think ye should consult an authority

Answers no

otm

The Wexford hurler spent a week training with the Vancouver Canucks last month, one of the top teams in the professional NHL

I'm going to need a fact checker here stat

top like one of the further north

that was one of the more harsher one tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXus8AbWGps

previous episode on yt as well

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2017/0310/858773-canucks-president-blasts-chin-drinking-culture-comments/

go home chin yr drunk

lee up

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/breathless-brilliant-bewildering-cork-sink-tipperary-in-epic-1.3091096?mode=amp

this were good

sounded fantastic alright.

that is some wild scoring, a score a minute almost. ffs.

that sounds amazing. good write-up too.