No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

A neighbour is just back from Rhodes. Torture. 45 degrees. Couldn't really go out until after 9 pm and then you had to eat outside. Very badly sunburnt. Tiny airport queueing for ages to check in etc in the heat.

Those 3 mentioned need a good dose of climate change themselves. Sadbh o Neill, John Gibbons and Padraig Fogarty.

Anyone know if John Gibbons is related to the other farmer hater Michael Gibbons (archeological explorer) who is constantly re-educating the public that all farmers destroy every national monument on their land?

Holly Cairns has weighed in behind Fogarty now

Showing herself to be anti dairy more than pro wildlife.

I'm dairy and in dero and I've more wildlife than most. People like that should be called out for holding grudges against dairy farming. The farm where she grew up on used to be milking cows and then got out as claimed they couldn't make a living from it. Since then she seems to hold a grudge against those that stayed in milk and modernised or invested in the farm.

Holly Cairns will be doing very well to be re elected the next time. Being party leader of the soc dems she has to be seen to stick it to the farmer by her urban party voters but unfortunately for her she is in a constituency where a lot of jobs depends on agri.

It's a tight three seater. Michael Collins will romp home again. Chris O'Sullivan is making a big play with farmers down there and sinn Fein won't do as badly as last time and Clare O'Callaghan for them is also making a big agri play.

Got 8 this morning for Friday

Ahh I couldn’t be on that long so I left it. I’ll try again.

I felt a real sense of awe in the stadium in the second half. It was litterally for show.

They are an incredible team. Are they that good or are the rest all below par. I think it’s the former. Not really a weak area on the pitch and a strong bench to toast it.

Did you get to take your father there? I was looking on the gaa forum and seen you asking about access?

Yep. Got a few email address through people here……..and not a single reply from anyone in the GAA.

Got tickets through normal channels for lower hogan with minimal steps from the back to the seats and brought the wheelchair. Just left the chair abandoned out in the stand by the bar/toilets and no one touched it. Great job!

Myself and the buddy finished the shearing at 20 to 12 tonight.

Back broke, Achilles tendons on fire, hips making weird pains I never felt before.

Too many fxxking sheep.

I'd like to know who bred them all and kept all those bloody hoggets...

Done 44 ewe lambs for replacements, - too nice to sell, and you know like, wouldn't want to go short.

It's a fxxcking disease is what it is.

I'm 2.5 times overstocked over what I need to draw every grant and a lock of cattle about as well.

The fun will be well gone out of it by the time theyre all marked dosed Vectored and separated in the rain by myself tomorrow.

I'd there's a bit of a want in me really...

As a reformed alcoholic and sheep farmer once said, sheep farming is like drinking 1 is too many and 100 isn't enough

A goal from a corner kick.

You'd never think it possible.

Will be a long time until the final whistle. Fingers crossed they can hold on