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Intercounty GAA sides are full of players on performance-enhancing drugs but it gets overlooked as the players are ''amateur''

Professional sports are much worse. Liverpool under Klopp the biggest offenders but it’s all hush hush.

Tennis is also rife with it but again, nothing to see here.

The problem with this suggestion is that I believe everyone in ireland should be moved to spike island with immediate effect.

I admire Travellers.

Ill go one further and say that people need to realise that travellers have been marginalised and abused through multiple generations by wider society, which has pushed them further to the edges of society and consequently into crime.

They can't get jobs, they can't get served in a pub or most restaurants. They're treated with suspicion and disdain everywhere they go. If they build a halting site there are protests. If they try put them in a house there are protests. Nobody wants them anywhere they go. People expecting them to suddenly just "get a job" and become part of wider society is real head in the sand stuff.

The other part is the fact that their suicide rates are huge, their prison rates are huge, they rarely live past 60, they arent exactly living a high life. If you are a traveller today you are born into this cycle and there is little possibility of a way out. Even the few I've come across who have broken out of the cycle and done well for themselves get constant abuse and discrimination, it's a no win situation for them

Well that is the problem right there . Sport around the world is about your team , your community , place , a team that represents you . That’s the way it is most places in the world , in rugby if your from Munster you support Munster , in GAA you support where your from , if your from New York you support the knicks or the yankees , even in English football the real fans that are from Peterborough , Reading , Bristol support those teams . In Scandinavia they have a massive support of premier league but still go to their own home clubs games and because of that have proper professional leagues .

Comparing supporting your sporting team to watching a movie or listening to a band sums it up really , it’s entertainment for Irish soccer fans , it’s a passion and lifestyle everywhere else

I don't know about anyone else, but if I was going to a country with a heavy-handed law enforcement, I'd keep my head down. You wouldn't take pictures of Kim in Pyongyang, or of the Sistine Chapel, you wouldn't jay walk or give cheek to a cop in the states, you would generally adhere to religious measures anywhere in the world. So maybe these hordes of the LGBT community seemingly travelling to Qatar for the World Cup, maybe shouldn't hold hands in public.

Indeed , the problem of Irish football and the fai being broke and not being able to run a professional league because most fans spend their money on foreign teams is in my mind

I wonder would Ireland be no 1 rugby team in the world if thousands of fans were heading over to watch Saracens or Bath every weekend instead of going to Thomsond park or the RDS

And it's a minority of travelers that have caused them to be marginalised. I live near a halting site and the people there don't want to mix with settled people.. if travellers are not willing to mix with settled people how are we ever going to get to know the nice travellers?

Motorcyclists who travel up between two lanes of moving traffic should be arrested and put off the road. Their insurance should be voided if the ever get hit by another vehicle while doing this.

Surely you're not saying that there is a correlation between Liverpools decline this season and the world cup coming up with all its drug testing?

It's probably the sudden drop of a cliff performances from the whole Liverpool squad in such a short period of time that has people thinking this about them.

Also there is no doubt the whole Man Utd squad have been smoking something since 2013 but it sure as fcuk isn't performance enhancing!

Ala MU in 2014 when SAF wrung the last drop out of an ageing team to win in 2013, that’s what eventually happens when clubs rely on the same players for too long, they all hit the same wall.

Liverpool have very little squad depth. Most teams, bar City, are in the same boat. Liverpool got very lucky with keeping “key players” fit for as long as they did.

Man City could play two different starting 11s every other week and they’d still win the league, or at least finish in the top 4. Wonder if that will be the “case” in Newcastle in a couple of years as well.

Will be interesting to see how the World Cup in the middle of the season impacts teams in January, though.

Ye it sure is without question & that only reaffirms that someone can have a great love an affinity for a team in different country ,

I get the rivalry of fans in football but I don't get why anyone would care who other people like to watch

When LOI fans start there nonsense you can sense they fell inferior for spending hours watching worse football ,Its ok lads nobody cares who you like to watch just enjoy yourself that's all that matters ,