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Post by Chinatown on Sept 14, 2014 13:43:31 GMT
Failed to get some Ky colours in Blanchardstown earlier. Any thought where I can get some flags etc around Dublin??
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 14, 2014 13:59:03 GMT
From the front of my house....
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 14, 2014 14:02:11 GMT
Seriously though. I got all my "classy" decorations down in Tralee over the years. You might try Elverys on Jones road under the Hogan Stand. Its probably too late to order online from anywhere at this stage.
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 14, 2014 14:58:07 GMT
A little of improvisation goes a long way.
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Post by Chinatown on Sept 14, 2014 14:58:19 GMT
Thanks good point re Elverys @ croker, thks..,,,ps if I come up short where do ya live as fall back
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Post by Chinatown on Sept 14, 2014 15:35:25 GMT
Gave jones road a shout, have nothing at moment and getting stuff in on Thursday/fri so anyone thoughts out there,?
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 14, 2014 15:51:32 GMT
Irish Wholesale Flags 16 N 17 Business Park, Galway Road, Tuam Galway, Co. Galway Phone: 093 42024 / 087 335 5456 Fax: 09342024 Email: sales@irishwholesaleflags.com
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Sept 14, 2014 17:21:44 GMT
Here behind enemy lines and have a flag out at the front door and at the back door.
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Post by jackiel on Sept 15, 2014 19:09:45 GMT
If you're near Blanchardstown, you're not far from Meath so why not try for Green n Gold flags without a crest. Not perfect but better than none at all. I hang Kerry jerseys in the upstairs windows also cos flags have been pulled down from the front of the house before.
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Post by bomberliston on Sept 16, 2014 8:46:02 GMT
Rare to see the word 'paraphernalia' without the word 'drug' preceding it!
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Sept 16, 2014 10:40:01 GMT
Rare to see the word 'paraphernalia' without the word 'drug' preceding it! Not allowed to post my other paraphernalia here I suppose.
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Post by onlykerry on Sept 16, 2014 17:48:13 GMT
Pity the clash in colours - a decent contrast allows each team assert its identity. Will just have to make more noise to let our team know we are there in numbers......
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 16, 2014 17:55:36 GMT
Put speakers out window with The Rose of Tralee on continuous loop. Then the neighbours might know what team your colours represent
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 16, 2014 17:57:23 GMT
If you're near Blanchardstown, you're not far from Meath so why not try for Green n Gold flags without a crest. Not perfect but better than none at all. I hang Kerry jerseys in the upstairs windows also cos flags have been pulled down from the front of the house before. I have been waiting for the eggs...but nothing yet. My flags are up too high for any filthy paws to get at.
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Sept 16, 2014 18:33:53 GMT
Carrigaline is a lot more civilised but the majority of people around here have reacted positively. Not because they want Kerry to win but because they think Kerry play the more attractively football. I have to agree there. Can't say that I would support Cork if they were in the final but it depends on the opponent too of course.
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Post by Chinatown on Sept 16, 2014 21:30:47 GMT
If you're near Blanchardstown, you're not far from Meath so why not try for Green n Gold flags without a crest. Not perfect but better than none at all. I hang Kerry jerseys in the upstairs windows also cos flags have been pulled down from the front of the house before. Yep that is what I am doin, also Elverys at jones road may have some gear on Thursday
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Post by ddtinexile on Sept 16, 2014 22:03:31 GMT
Anyone wondering who our neighbours Cork will be shouting for should have a read of the article by Michael Moynihan in the back page of yesterday's all ireland supplement in the CORK Examiner. I can't reproduce here but it's title is "Explaining Corks Kingdom dilemma " He finishes by saying " expect a good deal of silence on leeside on Sunday around half past three"
I sincerely hope they'll be silent for the next twelve months at least.
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Sept 16, 2014 22:11:44 GMT
Anyone wondering who our neighbours Cork will be shouting for should have a read of the article by Michael Moynihan in the back page of yesterday's all ireland supplement in the CORK Examiner. I can't reproduce here but it's title is "Explaining Corks Kingdom dilemma " He finishes by saying " expect a good deal of silence on leeside on Sunday around half past three" I sincerely hope they'll be silent for the next twelve months at least. My Cork neighbours are actually saying they will support Kerry on Sunday. I think they won't even watch the game though. Most of my Corkonian ex-colleagues will support Donegal though as they'd support anyone but Kerry.
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Sept 16, 2014 22:13:05 GMT
By Michael Moynihan As we loitered in the catacombs under the Hogan Stand last Sunday evening, a colleague from an outlet in the North brought up the All-Ireland football final this Sunday coming.
“You’ll be shouting for the neighbours, I suppose?”
Suppose to the contrary: that was the general tone of my reply.
In fairness, he may have been looking for a rise — happy to oblige — but it did set me thinking.
Why don’t Cork people shout for Kerry when the Kingdom have gone further than them in the Championship? No, wait. Come back.
It’s not that outlandish a question. I’m sure when Waterford were in the All-Ireland hurling final a few years ago, most people in the southern counties were keen they’d win. Rooting for another county isn’t a regular thing for most people, but it’s not like it never happens.
I think there are varying reasons why people imagine Corkonians bristle at the prospect of cheering on the green and gold.
It might surprise you, but I think Kerry’s tradition of winning against Cork isn’t a huge consideration in that context. The effortless air of superiority you generally hear when Gaelic football opinions are expressed in a Kerry accent tends to grate with Cork people, but again, that’s an irritation as opposed to a fundamental problem.
A symptom, not the disease.
Personally, I think the main issue Cork people have is the sheer number of Kerry people inhabiting the Rebel County.
The movie Punchline isn’t one of Tom Hanks’s best efforts, but there’s one unforgettable scene when his character, a comedian, talks to the audience in a Manhattan nightclub.
“Hi there, and you are... a doctor? Are you Jewish? A Jewish doctor in New York, ladies and gentlemen, how unusual is that?”
On occasion, it can feel like that in Cork, too.
Sometimes it’s like everywhere you turn, there’s a couple of them.
Granted, most Kerry people have legitimate reasons for being on the premises, but there can be a gnawing sense that they’re gathering information and sending it back over the county bounds, probably in a diplomatic pouch, informing the intelligence services at home about football matters on Leeside.
That’s compounded by a slight sense among some of them of being... slightly put-upon at having to live in the second-biggest city in the country.
Some years ago, I was in company with a lady from the Kingdom who told me that, over the years she had spent in Cork, she and her family had “never lost the faith”.
On the contrary, they had “always flown the flag” despite living — and working — in the Rebel County, lo these many years.
I was going to ask how they had managed to avoid the crowds of torch-wielding mobs determined to burn them out, but it didn’t seem the right note to strike.
Expect a good deal of silence on Leeside on Sunday around half-past three.
Fundraiser to help former players
I note that Kerry and Donegal won’t be the only two teams meeting up next weekend in Croke Park.
The Gaelic Players Association is hosting a lunch in the stadium next Saturday for retired intercounty players – the Former Players Event, which is hosted by the GPA’s Former Players Group in Croke Park on the eve of the All-Ireland football final.
I understand the GPA hopes to have up to 400 former county footballers and hurlers present in Croke Park, with two special GPA Lifetime Achievement Awards to be given out on the day to honour two famous players from the past.
It’s an interesting initiative, and one which goes beyond the lunch and hooking up with old team-mates and adversaries: the GPA is actively looking to build a strong, active network of former players, such as exists in other sports, on a national basis.
Everyone knows of former intercounty team-mates – or opponents – who are particularly close because of geography, or work, but there isn’t a formal grouping that cuts across county barriers and operates as a mutually sustaining structure.
This lunch is another step in a process that aims to move beyond ad hoc planning and occasional encounters, but it has another, specific brief. It’s a fundraising event designed to help fund services and programmes for former players, particularly the benevolent fund for players who have fallen on hard times or need support for medical treatment.
This is the second year event has been held and former players still interested in attending can contact Sean Potts in the GPA office for further information on 01 8575686 or press@gaelicplayers.com
Lessons to be learned from the post-match postures
Anyone, or any two, who read this column on a regular basis will be familiar with our fondness for Joyce’s “retrospective arrangement”, a less high-faluting version of which is generally known as: “Ah, I knew that was going to happen.”
One of the more recent cases relates to last Sunday week’s All-Ireland senior hurling final. After the game ended in a draw, the Tipperary players chatted to reporters before heading to the reception; the Kilkenny players stayed in their dressing room a long time before coming out and boarding the bus without a word to the press.
How do you read that? Tipp bouncing and energetic, Kilkenny muted and withdrawn? Tipperary overconfident and set for a fall, or Kilkenny purposeful and focused? We’ll come back to this around 7pm on Saturday week, when the result will tell us how to read those expressions in the rear-view mirror.
New Yorker hits NFL where it hurts over domestic violence
Last week our man in America, John Riordan, outlined the latest problems of the NFL, including a hard-to-refute charge of insensitivity, at best, when it comes to domestic abuse, as a result of the much-publicised Ray Rice case.
Rice, in case you missed it, is the Baltimore Ravens player who was initially suspended for two games because he’d knocked his then-girlfriend, now-wife Janay unconscious in a hotel lift.
This was later turned into an indefinite suspension, and the Ravens decided to terminate the player’s contract.
These stronger sanctions were linked by many to the surfacing of a security video from inside the lift, which shows Rice punching his girlfriend, who then falls to the ground, hitting her head on a metal handrail in the lift on the way.
There are any number of interesting angles to this story, both specific and general: the baffling apologists who point out that Janay married Rice afterwards, which by their logic somehow makes what happened less serious; the Baltimore Ravens tweeting that Janay regretted her part in the incident, a message they subsequently deleted; and the NFL’s ongoing issue with the amount of domestic violence incidents perpetrated by its stars.
Amy Davidson of the New Yorker magazine, however, articulated many people’s thoughts on the harsher punishment for Rice which followed the release of the new video.
“The video from inside the elevator was not what some purportedly well-informed observers expected,” she wrote during the week. “The NFL had investigated the incident, after all, and only suspended Rice for two games; that didn’t fit with the pictures on the screen.
“But what did people think it looked like when a football player knocked out a much smaller woman? Like a fair fight?”
© Irish Examiner Ltd. All rights reserved
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Post by Seoirse Ui Duic on Sept 16, 2014 22:20:19 GMT
Brings me to the fact though that it is strange that there are so many Kerry people in Cork, but no Kerry association in Cork. It could make a lot of things easier for Kerry people in Cork. Especially for older people who might not want to drive all the way to Donegal for a league match or would just like an evening meeting more Kerry people. Rather than hundreds of Kerry people driving to games around the country in hundreds of individual cars buses could be organised, just like they are organised in Kerry and just like they are organised in Dublin by the Kerry association.
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Post by Jigz84 on Sept 17, 2014 8:41:29 GMT
Some very poor attempts by one or two large towns in the county to get the colours out.
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Post by ardfertnarrie on Sept 17, 2014 10:04:19 GMT
Have to say, Tralee town centre looks really good. Fair play to everyone involved.
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Post by keane on Sept 17, 2014 11:05:43 GMT
Any pics going around? Haven't been home in a while!
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Post by givehimaball on Sept 17, 2014 11:23:47 GMT
Killarney looking good as well - green and gold everywhere.
Also free squad posters available from the Killarney Outlook office on High Street
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Post by onlykerry on Sept 17, 2014 12:41:10 GMT
Driving around North Kerry this week I was struck by the number of flags and general display of the County Colours - not just confined to the towns and villages. Usual number of cars with those little flags and ribbons - notices them in particular outside the schools at collection time. There are road works on the Limerick by-pass with one lane closed both ways - hope this is gone by the weekend or it could be a bottleneck.
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Post by glengael on Sept 17, 2014 17:02:47 GMT
Fair play to Rathmore. Lots of new posters around the parish for their trio.
Killarney looking well also.
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Post by homerj on Sept 17, 2014 19:43:23 GMT
Completely forgot about a flag outside the house....must go and get something sorted!
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 17, 2014 21:20:37 GMT
I want a flag pole holder to fix to the front of the house. Any suggestions where i might get one. The likes of Woodies don't sell them.
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 18, 2014 21:32:56 GMT
There is a flag place on Montague Lane, off Camden St. They have green and Gold bunting for sale. Also do county crest bunting and all sorts of flags. I got my wall mounted flag pole holder there today. The missus will be horrified when she comes home from work tomorrow and its high up on the front of the gaff.
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Post by Chinatown on Sept 20, 2014 9:21:59 GMT
Got some posted up from the homelands and now up on the meath/dublin border, have some bunting also to put up...nerves starting to kick in Attachments:
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