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IT HAS BEEN confirmed that, if required, the draw for the semi-finals of the Sam Maguire Cup will take place on Sunday evening live on RTÉ 2 following the Dublin-Mayo match.
The draw will be subject to avoidance of repeat pairings from the overall championship, where possible, with the semi-finals set to take place on 15 and 16 July in Croke Park.
Fixture details will be confirmed by the Central Competitions Control Committee on Monday afternoon.
The possible repeat pairings are as follows: Kerry v Cork, Kerry v Mayo, Cork v Mayo, Tyrone v Armagh, Tyrone v Monaghan, Armagh v Derry; Monaghan v Derry.
A GAA release issued today noted the following items:
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I dislike Varadkar but his handlers response that he thought that it was a parody account is an excellent retort.
@Michael Lang: Agreed, I’ve not much regard for him as a politician either but whoever advised Leo to say that was spot on .
@Sandra O’Fucáif: Totally
@Frank Cauldhame: his expensive spin doctors?
@Sandra O’Fucáif @Frank Cauldhame @Michael Lang:
ahh folks can you not give a compliment that’s not backhanded.
@Sandra O’Fucáif:
‘This island has moved on’
‘typical hateful unionist’
Hasn’t moved that much!
@Sandra O’Fucáif: ‘typical hateful unionist ‘ Good to see you have moved on Sandra. Not.
@Frank Cauldhame: YES SPOT ON
Leo is born in Ireland, a proud Irishman. Taylor on the other hand has the confusion of being born in Ireland and thinking that he is a Briton.
@James Darby: He actually thinks he’s English. Wants the English national anthem played before all Irish games. If he does not know what it is to be his own nationality, how can he possibly know what any other nationality looks or feels like. Should be stripped of his peerage.
@James Darby: Leo’s intelligence to the fore again. We are lucky to have someone of his caliber leading the country.
@James Darby: Taylor is an odious individual, probably one of the most disliked persons on the island of Ireland that they gave him a peerage so as to get rid of him. Taylor is the idiot who said of the Good Friday Agreement that he ‘wouldn’t touch it with a forty foot barge-pole’.
@Ben Gunn: I agree .. we need a new peer at rush harbour!!! Could we have his ? He won’t miss it … we are expecting an Indian summer
@Ben Gunn: why? all he did was behave like a typical english ‘Lord’
@James Darby: Must be all those British stamps, red pillar boxes, and banknotes he encounters on a daily basis that leads to such confusion. It’s almost as if part of Ireland is in a different country. Strange.
@Ben Gunn: What does his passport say he is Ben?
@gregory: you say so. Get over it he is half Indian. There are people out their called names everyday
Surprised he didn’t follow it by “Some of my friends are Indian” or “I even occasionally eat a curry”… yes definitely a disguised insult.
@DrDucati: Or I used to watch cowboy and Indian movies all the time
Why are the Journal exalting this man by referring to him by a “title”? His name is John Taylor.
@SquideyeMagpie: Naw.I’d call him Pri£k John Taylor.He also insulted all of us by saying “Native Irish PM’s.”What the fu*k does this term mean.We have no “PM’s in The Republic.We have Teachta Daila.TD’s to ignorant pri*k guttersnipe Taylor.The Journal should ignore this dinosaur.
@Billy McNamara: PM not MP
@Billy McNamara: Leo is also native to ireland having been born here like all our PM’s although some were technically British in the old days
@Seán O’Sullivan: Not all our Taoisigh were born in Ireland: Eamon de Valera was born in New York. Like Leo Varadkar his father was not Irish. This did not make him less Irish. Taylor’s comments betrays an ethnocentric mindset. “Republican” is not just a tribal label but political philosophy that values all citizens equally.
Consider too these quotes from John Taylor – a man who was once favorite to become UUP leader (surprisingly losing to David Trimble):
(Speaking against the Civil Rights Movement’s suggestion that there should be ‘One Man, One Vote’: “Nothing could be further from the truth. Both in the republic and Britain individual voters are given many additional votes on the basis of property ownership.”
“I am not surprised that the army should take such action when one recalls the provocative manner in which hurleys were used in connection with an IRA funeral in the city.”
Defending the British Army murders of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie: “I would defend without hesitation the action taken by the army authorities in the city of Londonderry against subversives during the past two weeks where it was necessary to shoot to kill. It may be necessary to shoot even more in the coming months.”
“There is far too much talk about the handing in of guns… The time has come when the loyalists of Ulster must not give in to the campaign by Harold Wilson and the SDLP to disarm the law-abiding citizens of this province.”
“We should make it clear that force means death and fighting, and whoever gets in our way, whether republicans or those sent by the British government, there would be killings.”
In July 1974 he called for the formation of a Home Guard: “I believe that it will be armed, that it will be some 20,000 strong…it will be a force born of the people and with the people. It will be a force which London will learn to respect, a force which loyalist politicians will support with or without London government legislation.”
Complaining about nurses from the south working in hospitals in the north: “Too many jobs are being given to people from the republic and many of them probably sympathise with the killing campaign of the IRA.”
“One out of every three Roman Catholics one meets is either a supporter of murder or, worse still, a murderer.”
“There is in particular amongst the Catholic community now increasing fear of paramilitary activities… And, in a perverse way, this is something which may be helpful”
He also stated that if loyalists could not refrain from armed actiosn, they should not carry them out on “Ulster soil”, but in the south, stating that “the people of the Irish Republic are not innocent. Not one of them.”
@Tír Eoghain Gael: Don’t forget his response to the Sean Grahams Bookmakers atrocity, where 5 innocent Catholics were riddled with bullets by the UDA/UFF : it may even be a useful exercise for them (Catholics) so they can understand what fear is like
@Tír Eoghain Gael:
Lets not forget his contribution when he claimed
“northern nationalists are not equal to unionists”!
Irish Times 31/8/2017
@Martin Matthews:
Yes he’s a bitter man who has made outrageous comments but if had been gunned down by the IRA and left for dead, I might be left rather twisted.
@ted hagan: Seems you are even though you weren’t!
Any Indians I know are extremely well mannered and civilised.
@Gene Dexter: I find some are rude and some aren’t like everyone else
@Gene Dexter: And they’re great cooks!!!
@Kal Ipers: a bit like yourself then?
A racist comment from a Unionist !?! I’m shocked !! SHOCKED !!! No…wait a minute.. no, I’m not…
@Vigo The Carpathian: He should be made buy Leo a cake but not from Ashers….
@Vigo The Carpathian: I’m just waiting for someone here to say he’s a typical Brit for saying such a thing.
Kilclooney/Taylor or whatever he calls himself was never the smartest tool in the box…tool yes…smartest not
Typical Brit would be a lot of people’s response. Things getting a bit too PC these days.
@Paddy Flynn:
For “Lord” John Taylor to be labelled “a typical Brit” would make his day. There is nothing more a NI Unionist loves than be associated with the UK.
@Bat Daly: ‘associated with’??? They ARE part of the UK. Just as anyone on the republican side in Northern Ireland is part of the UK too. Whether they like it or not doesn’t change that basic fact.
@Jumperoo: I smell desperation from an orange…
@Jumperoo: You’re wrong there. Officially it’s “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” so…
@Jumperoo: Wasting your time. Pretending NI is not part of the UK is what these IRA supporters have been reduced to. Always were fantasists.
What’s an Irish “PM”
Post-Mortem?
He tried to excuse himself by pointing out he was only referring to “that Indian”, and then said Varadkar had been rude “more than Irish PMs”. That’s a contradiction, since then what else can “typical” mean but something which is set apart from “Irish”?
He then kept going on replying to people that they didn’t understand the difference between nationality and race, knocking down his denial of racism while presumably knocking down one stiff drink after another.
I laughed out loud as I read that thread because yes, it did indeed look like parody, except that it was really beyond sad.
If people really want to hurt him, hurt him in the pocket. His company Alpha Newspapers oen the Midland Tribune and The Tullamore Tribune.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Newspaper_Group#Republic_of_Ireland_interests
Anyway, he is a walking anachronism, a dinosaur of Irish politics
A man with ‘Lord’ as a title criticising anybody…
Typical blue blooded Brit
@Kenneth O Brien:Rotten comment, the Brits, in general are not at all like that, If you want to define him properly refer to him as a grossly bigoted, outdated and totally ignorant sectarian racist relic from a bygone age.
Hes not my favourite but Feck them Leo can stand proud of the fact he’s half Indian.
@Miriam Kane: Leo might be a useless waste of space but he’s our useless waste of space and we’ll not have one of them un’s saying anything against him…
Some of my best friends are indians
I bet he has Indian friends too.
Unlike native Irish pms … He really knows how to dig himself out of a hole. Surprised he hasn’t mentioned Leo’s sexuality
@Anne Marie Devlin: Irish pms is one of the reasons I’m dating a French woman.. ;-)
@Vigo The Carpathian: Lol
@Vigo The Carpathian: It took me a moment but… :D
@Vigo The Carpathian: not only do they not get fat …
Did u see the pompous head on him ..how could anyone listen to that
@James Delaney: Good thing he’s in the House of Lords where nobody has to listen to him…
“I hear your a racist Now Fr Kilclooney “
@Desmond Wisley: No. Lord Kilclooney. Not a racist. The Indians: a nice bunch of lads.
So if he thinks highly of Indians and said Leo behaved like a typical one does that mean he thinks all iriah leaders should follow suit? No? Didn’t think so, keep digging.
Leo is a ghastly individual but the Lord’s comment’s where racist in the extreme , it’s typically of a biggoted unionist has been, elevated to the Lord’s as a reward for his well documented hatred of all things south of the border.
@Joseph Dempsey:
Well he was shot and left for dead by the Provos during the Troubles. Maybe he has good reason to be bitter.
@ted hagan: Unfortunately he survived…he was the “justice” minister in the murderous Unionist Stormont Regime…lest we forget.
@Dessie Deratta:
Okay so you are a Provo supporter, who killed and maimed many hundreds of innocent men women and children. I wouldn’t be too proud of it.
@ted hagan: And your a supporter of a regime that done the same you clown ..
your are bad as this stupid Lord ..
At least he has refreshed the minds of people what the hard line unionits are really like and what the catholics in the north have to put up with
I would not be a great fan of Leo but I would not disrespect him as for this overpaid overweight lord donkey nobody takes any notice what he says
It would be like saying that all Northerm Ireland Unionists are obstinate, inflexible, prejudiced, negative, racist and backwards.
Digging an even bigger hole…..
@Sean Leonard: doubt he gives a shite
Taylor was born a bigot and looks like he’ll die one too.
@Paul Corcoran: Given the number of chins the man’s collected over the years that will probably be sooner than later..
John Taylor is an ignorant b0ll1x. Always has been.
Typical racist individual.
His name is John Taylor.
What’s with all this “Lord” s*it?
Typical Englishman (or West Brit)
@Dessie Deratta: He is a life peer so ‘Lord’ is how he is entitled to be addressed. It’s like ‘Taoiseach’ or ‘Tanaiste’ which are both forms of address with royalist roots, but because they are gaelic royalist roots people like you conveniently ignore them.
Me thinks Kilclooney speaks with forked younger. Typical Unionist!
“Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others acting like a master, a chief, or a ruler”
Mr Kilclooney is none of the above.
He is however a bigot and obviously has a large member on his head.
Can the UK please grow up and remove titles from these unrealistic A holes.
@Stephen Maher: It’s Mr Taylor actually….
Taylor is an old fart who, having discovered Twitter, is revelling in controversy.
Varadkar handled the matter excellently with a shrug and a smirk.
Bigots like Taylor are better ignored.
I don’t care what you think of him. His wit is brilliant.
What can you expect from a pig but a grunt
“Typical Indian” That is gold
No time for Leo, but that was a shameful remark no place for that comment.
The sooner these old bigots are dead and gone the better. They offer nothing for the future and are holding back progress on the island.
Taylor is as ignorant as pig sh*t – thankfully part of a dying breed in Northern Ireland. Far from being insulated, Varadkar should have been amused by such a comment that only typifies the old dinasaur’s mentality..
“ Lord “ ( like who calls themselves Lord , lol ) Taylor is moving us on to a United Ireland at great speed even as he is “ Lording ” it ………
Lord Taylor loves Indians, but doubts he could eat a whole one………
Racist bitter old f@rt who has no place in modern society. His bitter unionist ideals are crumbling before his eyes & he cannot accept it
You coudnt make this stuff up
@Barry O Toole: hard to belive allright
OMG the man is half irish please leave him be..
The truth hurts
You could barry you you could
The food must be pretty good in the House of Lards.
Someone take Lord shithead s shovel off him
OMG he is half irish let him be
Goodness gracious me *grabs coat*
Is there not a journal.ni.co.uk where all the Shit Feiners on here can eff off to with all their tiresome knuckle dragging?
Talk about a defeated political movement gnashing their teeth…
He. Looks like a bit of a Indian himself ,actually
What any unionist says should be taken with a pinch of salt,nothing more than a band of bigots ,lineing their own pockets
Unionists seem sectarian and racist in most cases and then they say they’re Christian???
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