G_S_J
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Post by G_S_J on Feb 12, 2015 17:12:12 GMT
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Feb 12, 2015 17:21:16 GMT
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 12, 2015 22:18:21 GMT
I remember an article by Con Houlihan at the time. He said that there was no need to write a special song to assuage the Ulster rugby people. He said that Ireland Mother Ireland should be sung.
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Post by sullyschoice on Feb 13, 2015 1:48:33 GMT
In all fairness the Rose of Tralee is as much of a national anthem as Irelands Call. But that is a different argument altogether.
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Feb 13, 2015 8:01:55 GMT
In all fairness the Rose of Tralee is as much of a national anthem as Irelands Call. But that is a different argument altogether. That would be an ecumenical matter
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Post by animal on Feb 13, 2015 8:48:03 GMT
In all fairness the Rose of Tralee is as much of a national anthem as Irelands Call. But that is a different argument altogether. ROT is not exactly what you want to be listening to before going into battle now is it? Imagine being all fired up and the you hear "The pale moon...." 15 pairs of shoulders immediately drop as the passion and fire is slowly drained from them....
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Feb 13, 2015 10:06:45 GMT
I challenge some Kerry musicians to put words to the ride of the Valkyries and we should play that very, very loudly before every Kerry game with 20.000 supporters chanting along loudly and wildly. The team will enter the pitch dressed as the Fianna brandishing swords and spears and perform a ritual designed to strike fear in the hearts of our opponents. I'm sure that would be a very good way to get fired up for a match.
Playing anthems before games is a fairly recent thing so I don't really see the point in it. Almost every nation has its incidents where players don't know the words, don't show enough emotion or won't even respect the anthem played. The eternal criticism in the Netherlands is that hardly anyone knows the words, in Belgium the Flemish will sing the Vlaamsche Leeuw but not the Brabanconne, in South Africa a lot of people will only sing the last 2 stanza's, in Wales and Brittany people sing along having memorised the words but do not actually speak the language fluently (kind of like Ireland), in Germany players of foreign origin don't show enough emotion during the anthem, and so on, and so on.
An anthem is not needed to get the players fired up and in the case of Gaelic Games I would actually prefer if they would play the anthem before the warm up. All the warm up to get the muscles going for the game and then we make them stand still for a while (sometimes in the freezing cold) in shorts. A lot of people don't even respect the anthem anymore, don't take of their heads or caps, start shouting before the first stanza is sung, etc., etc. So many people don't know the words and just mumble along or lip sync. Young, talented singers performing Beyonce-like R&B renditions of the anthem or opera singers dragging out each note for 15 minutes and using the full range of their 15 octaves? I would like to see the anthem being played properly and the audience singing along and showing respect until the end. If that can't be the case than what is the point of it all? Tradition? Or a false sense of tradition?
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 13, 2015 10:21:49 GMT
In all fairness the Rose of Tralee is as much of a national anthem as Irelands Call. But that is a different argument altogether. ROT is not exactly what you want to be listening to before going into battle now is it? Imagine being all fired up and the you hear "The pale moon...." 15 pairs of shoulders immediately drop as the passion and fire is slowly drained from them.... Either of the Monkees or the Boomtown Rats singing Banana Republic would do fine.
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Post by inforthebreaks on Feb 13, 2015 10:53:26 GMT
so... The Derry game went well anyway
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Post by Jo90 on Feb 13, 2015 16:41:17 GMT
Forget about an anthem, we need our own version of the Haka. How about the interval act of the 1994 Eurovision!?!
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Post by keane on Feb 13, 2015 18:48:14 GMT
Decided to listen to the terrace talk episode out of boredom and was interested to hear that Bryan Sheehan is 34 years of age according to the well informed panel!
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Post by kerryexile on Feb 13, 2015 20:56:14 GMT
I couldn't believe what I heard. I thought they were way off the mark. Later I found out that none of them were at the game but they proceeded to tell us all about it. I listen to it because I am away from home but sometimes it beggers belief what goes on. Sometimes they burst out laughing at a question from Weeshie. Once or twice Sean O'Sullivan and Mike Quirke were on and it improved 1000%.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on Feb 13, 2015 21:29:26 GMT
I couldn't believe what I heard. I thought they were way off the mark. Later I found out that none of them were at the game but they proceeded to tell us all about it. I listen to it because I am away from home but sometimes it beggers belief what goes on. Sometimes they burst out laughing at a question from Weeshie. Once or twice Sean O'Sullivan and Mike Quirke were on and it improved 1000%. Then you have lads on here picking MOTM and saying lads are flying just after listening to Radio Kerry.
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 13, 2015 21:33:46 GMT
I couldn't believe what I heard. I thought they were way off the mark. Later I found out that none of them were at the game but they proceeded to tell us all about it. I listen to it because I am away from home but sometimes it beggers belief what goes on. Sometimes they burst out laughing at a question from Weeshie. Once or twice Sean O'Sullivan and Mike Quirke were on and it improved 1000%. Then you have lads on here picking MOTM and saying lads are flying just after listening to Radio Kerry. I think that people are perfectly entitled to do so!
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Post by kerryexile on Feb 13, 2015 22:13:29 GMT
Entitled to do what??? Could I pick man of the match in a game between Man Utd & Liverpool if I listened to the game on 5 Live??? The mind boggles.
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Feb 13, 2015 22:24:49 GMT
Entitled to do what??? Could I pick man of the match in a game between Man Utd & Liverpool if I listened to the game on 5 Live??? The mind boggles. No idea what you're talking about? Man utd? 5 live? I suppose you're talking about John Mitchel's from Liverpool. Those who will get beaten by Brosna
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Post by fitz on Feb 14, 2015 0:42:56 GMT
If there is such a thing as thread categorization on forums beyond what the subject thread provides then I'd assign this one to the 'mongrel' in-tray. A post match discussion that involved players, performances, dirty ball, age, song/anthems, spears, warwear, European insights, radio "Hear no evil, see no truth", good pundits rubber stamped. An eventful journey since the final whistle last Sunday. Enjoyable for the most part.
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Post by dano on Feb 14, 2015 4:24:29 GMT
Good God!
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Post by ballynamona on Feb 14, 2015 4:43:18 GMT
Decided to listen to the terrace talk episode out of boredom and was interested to hear that Bryan Sheehan is 34 years of age according to the well informed panel! Yes,couldn't believe that they thought that.Wonder how old they think Marc and AOM are?
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 14, 2015 9:39:24 GMT
Entitled to do what??? Could I pick man of the match in a game between Man Utd & Liverpool if I listened to the game on 5 Live???The mind boggles. I have no idea if you could. but others are entitled to do so if they wish. irish people did it for years listening to Micheal oHehir on the wireless. its a free country. I wouldn't be inclined to do so myself mind you
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Post by Ballyfireside on Feb 15, 2015 21:04:05 GMT
The Production Line -dedicated to Kieran Donaghy and Joe Brolly Success not be a destination, but an eternal relay race. Minors made an example, the production line rolls on full blast.
Genealogical generational Star, takes baton into righteous pace. Conveyor belts the onion bag, of brain and brawn, of blitzkrieg craft.
Man and boy of steely stature nature, of grit, guts and graft on Croker grass. Written off was transition mission statement, now written into history of doubles of pure class.
Talking, not playing the Sabbath game, now only rises to field Pat's fart rants. 'What do you think of that Joe Brolly' Star talks the talk, bold as brass.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2015 10:00:25 GMT
just found this,around 7 mins of highlights of the game
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Feb 17, 2015 10:12:55 GMT
just found this,around 7 mins of highlights of the game The uploader certainly not being a Derry man
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Post by homerj on Feb 17, 2015 10:37:04 GMT
just found this,around 7 mins of highlights of the game The uploader certainly not being a Derry man Londonderry!!!!!
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Post by Ard Mhacha on Feb 17, 2015 11:32:22 GMT
The uploader certainly not being a Derry man Londonderry!!!!! Who put that video up? One of the DUP politicians?? You should NEVER NEVER NEVER use L word!
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Feb 17, 2015 12:14:10 GMT
Londonderry must be the only word in the English language with 6 silent letters
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