all the anglo sports except cricket and maybe tennis with above average interest in golf and horses, and gaa on top of that
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah we fucking love sports
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Athletics does well interest wiseGaa goes crazy for the few months of the year
Rugby- half of us go mad for it
Golf- half mad
horses- half mad
Soccer- mad
We'll watch anything if we can drink during sure
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
And to continue to claim malahide as northside is shambles on every level except for geographically imo, disgraceful sleight-of-land imo
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
wrong. it's not a poor area but north county dublin is a v diff place to south dublin. i don't have any personal claims about my class or whatever but i don't really get the south dublin thing either, it's a v diff world, compact, close-knit, nearer south city centre etc.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
Game face off for a sec, wc 95 and simon geoghegan and all that seemed like the advent of rugby taking off (out west obv) and the golden generation and club successes have made it a widespread sport to follow all over (except connacht i still think)- but i also think you'd have to acknowledge it can prob only fall from current popularity, and ime there is no grassroots outside of the rugby schools.....
no way it can only fall from popularity though, the sport is well-run, frequently entertaining, and ireland have some of the best players and clubs in the world. connacht is growing too, it's all growing, as long as international football remains turgid and faintly corrupt rugby will keep growing. we can't claim to produce any significantly good footballers anymore, not relative to rugby when we have 2/3 all-time greats and 4/5 world class players.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
aiden mcgeady would be a world class football player if it were only played in ireland/uk, new zealand/australia/south africa/france/italy/argentina/polynesia
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
although maybe argentina in that list raises the world class level a bit about poor old aiden
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
/above/
will you stop banging on about mcgeady? everyone knows hes shit
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
he wouldn't be world class even if it was only played in ireland/uk
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
not shit! but anyway, he's a placeholder there for the argument that world class necessarily means less in rugby than football, replace him with james mccarthy and he would probably be one of the best ten midfielders from that list of nations, but wouldn't be in a list of thirty worldwide
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
this supports lg's reasoning though, that success breeds popularity and the reasonable prospect of international success is in the favour of rugby wrt football
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
can't argue with that, but i'm not sure that relative lack of meaning translates to fans, plus the smaller size of union does tend to mean better teams playing each other more often. that concentration of power does have its advantages.
xpost yeah like it's not that diff from gaa really, nobody is going to start talking about world class in an ireland-only sport but on a small island people are still going to get excited when an accessible team sport based on technical skills and aggression is practised well. rugby does appeal to the disgruntled uk/ire football fan too in some ways, with less of the class stuff in ireland to drag it down (despite what deems says!)
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
International rules football (Irish: Peil na rialacha idirnáisiunta; also known as inter rules in Australia and compromise rules in Ireland) is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players.
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
There is a great Apres Match clip about international rules.
http://youtu.be/CTog_cbfH-g
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
nakh has prob repped for mcgeady more than anyone else who has ever had to watch him on ilx
to the level of trolling tbfh
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
Rugby is ridic popular among all the GAA types I know, including the All-Stars. Popularity of golf and horse-racing probably underrated upthread too.
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
did we? i thought we paid them due respect tbh!
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
idk, maybe it was my ~circles~ but people fucking LOVE their golf and horses ime, and anything else seems underrating it.
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
heh maybe
my 'half mad' is a reference to half of the country being fucking *mad* about em tbf
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:19 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they qualified for the T20 World Cup only today
― veneer timber (imago), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
ye'll have cricket e'en so's it's so you'll develop yer eoin morgans and boyd rankins and hand 'em over when ripe
― veneer timber (imago), Friday, 22 November 2013 05:39 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― veneer timber (imago), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah but no one cares
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
unless we beat the English obvs
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
there was a tiny ripple of interest when we beat England that time but that was cos y'know, we beat England
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's the interest in other sports, the chance to beat the brits obv
re: golf- interest comes and goes a good bit imo, but when the ryder cup or w/e comes along it's feverish
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:39 (1 minute ago)
right
― a poet and Educational Consultant based in Peterborough (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
feel like horses are the real irish sport
― a poet and Educational Consultant based in Peterborough (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
~glory~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqwnWWegVI
― veneer timber (imago), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
mmm, but all the golf courses/pitch & putts throughout the country though? I'm sure I read we had one of the highest golf course/people rations in the world.
also, we have actually produced golfers worthy of the Ryder Cup & they'd be pretty recognised.
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
well we're kinda a golf course waiting to happen all over the country- had an argument with tuomas before on this re it being an elite sport everywhere in the world- and with that comes production of golfers i guess....kinda like being one of relatively few countries playing rugby (tho for rugby it's through an infrastructure of private schools and privilege obv)
but im not arguing that golf isn't a big sport here!
but it is one of them that swells and ebbs every few years. snooker, darts, f1- often i dont wonder if they each have a few years in cycle with what RTE covers that few years or w/e- but yeah golf's over that plateau now ito the availability and popularity of participation
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
ah golf is big at every major ime - more in terms of watching it than necessarily playing it tho.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
club membership out west is about 100 quid a year and most lads would have a set of clubs or access to same, so plenty would play it regularly when weather allows but yeah again with a big event interest peaks ito watching/discussion
blather and dhrink is still a big part of irish interest in whatever is on tv tho id say, we're all experts on the high jump once every four years etc
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
Or the laser...
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
don't know if that's peculiar to the Irish so much as pub folk in general
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
maybe it's the prevalence of pub folk then......
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
well that wd follow, but that sudden knowledgeability about any sport no matter how obscure, you come across that on an afternoon round any bar where two or three regulars are gathered i think
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
nah scratch that, i mean a certain kind of pub and tbf there are more of that kind of pub over your way to the best of my knowledge
― uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
well we need to put all of our bar-room experts somewhere
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
blather and dhrink is still a big part of irish interest in whatever is on tv tho id say
betting is another factor to take into account too here
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Monday, 25 November 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
which is part and parcel of dhrink i suppose
musha and tis
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Monday, 25 November 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/why-isnt-ireland-doing-anything-about-its-heroin-problem
― Number None, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/twelve-pubs-of-christmas-is-a-booze-orgy-too-far-for-ireland-1.1628784?page=2
i went to college with the writer of this. it's just... bad on so many levels.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 December 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Fuck the irish times this past year
― Bigsam: flotsam and jetsam @ whetsam? (darraghmac), Monday, 16 December 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
Didnt see who it was til now. Appallingly moronic, or at best reaaonably talented clickbait generator. Near enough #1 symbol of decline in the paper imo.
― Bigsam: flotsam and jetsam @ whetsam? (darraghmac), Monday, 16 December 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
wait til you read her Beyonce liveblog!
― Number None, Monday, 16 December 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Wait ti i dont hey
― Bigsam: flotsam and jetsam @ whetsam? (darraghmac), Monday, 16 December 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
The writing itself is just awful, like there are so many poorly constructed sentences. Beyond that, prob best not to use a word like hedonism when trying to highlight some new modern evil.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Monday, 16 December 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link