DONEGAL MANAGER Jim McGuinness said he wasn’t happy with a number of refereeing decisions as Galway edged a tense All-Ireland semi-final.
In a two-point game that was level on 10 occasions, referee Brendan Cawley’s decision to award Galway a 66th-minute free for an apparent touch on the ground by Donegal’s Ciaran Thompson was a huge call.
Donegal argued the toss at the time, Ryan McHugh in particular, but Robert Finnerty converted and Liam Silke kicked Galway’s insurance point after that.
“You guys will know that I don’t sort of make comments about referees, I try to stay away from that,” said McGuinness initially when asked about Cawley’s performance and the Thompson decision. “Everybody has got their job to do. I think there were a number (of decisions) today that we wouldn’t have been happy with. In the first minute, Ryan McHugh was breaking through, there were two men pulling at him, he blew him for over-carrying.
“I don’t really want to go there. It is what it is. We’ll have to reflect on a lot of different things over the course of the next couple of days.”
McGuinness continually circled back to Donegal’s poor scoring efficiency in the second-half when attempting to explain how they came up short of Galway.
“I suppose the summary of it will be that we converted five out of 14 (chances) in the second-half, and converted 10 from 14 in the first-half,” he said. “We ran out of steam a wee bit coming down the stretch I think. I think Galway looked a bit more battle-hardened than us, maybe that experience of a couple of years ago was beneficial to them.”
Asked if he was surprised about Donegal running out of steam, and their fitness waning, McGuinness nodded.
“We probably did (get a surprise), and we’ll have to go back and look at it, but it’s a huge day,” said the 2012 All-Ireland winning manager. “That’s what I meant earlier about Galway being there two years ago in the final. It’s a huge day and there’s a lot of emotion attached to the day, the stadium is nearly full and there’s 30,000 or 40,000 Donegal people. All of that ties into the players and they’re bringing all of that to the table.”
Galway’s fortuitous 24th-minute goal ultimately separated the teams. Paul Conroy’s point attempt dropped short and deceived goalkeeper Shaun Patton, flying to the net.
“It was obviously a huge blow,” he said. “But we ended up going in with 10 points at half-time so in terms of a psychological blow, they just kept doing what they had done the whole way through the Championship. They stayed on task, working through the processes.”
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Over 600 people on hospital trolleys, seven million overspent on a hospital which not one patient has ever set foot in.. Yet in Ireland we have people out on the roads protesting about a new elected president thousands of miles away..
Sigh! I see you have a lot to learn about virtue signalling.
Cosmo, the same clowns were probably out marching in the city for the blacklivesmatter nonsense.
@Cosmo Kramer:
The leader of the US does affect Ireland. Apart from being a massive employer and large trading partner we have a lot of Irish citizens living in the US.
Do say US doesn’t matter is to be blind to what happened in 2008, they started the global financial crisis..
Ireland has one of the most open economies in the world, if America get a cold we get pnemonia.
And if that happens there will be no money for hospitals…
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/822271024636923904 Not all heroes wear capes….or pants!
Same reason they introduced that bill last night
They don’t wanna get anything DONE they’re attention seekers
Americans have plenty of reason to protest, the fact that 54% of the country voted for someone else worry over him being a fascist but do you ever see people protesting the UK pm here?
It’s weird, when he starts a war yeh ok but he’s not even sworn in yet ffsake
Notice be it protesting invasions or leaders this shower never protest Russia or China or Serbia or Turkey plenty of fascist leaders and human rights abuses and invasions there…not s word
@Cosmo Kramer: People protesting a guy democratically elected, yet when taxes are raised, rights swindled away, corruption of the highest order rampant throughout, nobody bothers there ass’s….. good riddance to these people. Hope Trump gives them something to cry about…..
@william
Rights swindled away, corruption of the highest order, sounds like you’re reading out of trumps playbook.
@Peedur Dante: You would think that, but he has not been in charge yet, and these have already happened. Wars started in the last 8 years under Obama…. corporations getting huge contracts to fund a war…. yes, Obama’s have shown grace and class…. and people believe that crock of shlt.
@Cosmo Kramer:
The elevation of Trump and our crumbling public health system here are both symptoms of the same problem. That is the capitalist system which exploits the many to enrich the few.
@Ryan Carroll:
The purpose of the AAA-PBP bill last night was to prevent opportunistic evictions by landlords. Sale of property and family transfers are the most common justification used by landlords to remove tenants before the Part 4 tenancies expire and many of them are bogus in order to remove tenants and hike up the rent. The AAA-PBP bill was an attempt to close those loopholes and prevent the homeless crisis getting worse.
Interesting to note also that even neoliberal Labour party and free marketers like Stephen Donnelly voted for the bill as they understand that homelessness is a national crisis and cannot be allowed to escalate via forced evictions.
@Ryan Carroll:
Turkey
“Enough is enough! The government has long violated democratic rights, the rights of workers, trade unions and minorities. The violence in Gezi Park was only the tip of the iceberg. Around 8,000 trade union and Left activists, journalists and Kurdish politicians are imprisoned. And Turkish media broadcast – supposedly on Erdogan’s orders – TV cooking shows while the people try to find out through foreign media and the internet what is going on in their country!
We call for:
• The immediate release of all people imprisoned during the protests and freedom for all political prisoners
• An independent working-class commission formed by unions and democratically elected representatives of the movement to investigate the police repression and bring those responsible to justice
• Full democratic rights, including the right to demonstrate and to form trade unions and political parties
• Abolishment of anti-terror laws and special courts and of all the repressive and reactionary laws implemented by the AKP in the past years
• An end to the repression of Kurds
http://socialistparty.ie/2013/06/turkey-mass-movement-challenges-erdogan-government/
@Ryan Carroll:
Here’s a few words on Russia:
“Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a Russian political activist and member of the punk group Pussy Riot, was jailed in August 2012 for hooliganism and blasphemy. Her crime was to stage an anti-Putin protest, along with two other performers, inside Moscow’s Orthodox Cathedral. Despite claims that Russia has made steps towards becoming a more open society, those in power took immediate steps to silence the band’s radical feminist message…… Under these circumstances it is vital for the international community of working people to mobilise, demanding the release of Russian dissidents like Nadezhda, and an immediate end to state repression.”
http://socialistparty.ie/2013/11/release-putins-political-prisoner/
@Ryan Carroll:
And a few on China:
“ In the quarter century since the June 4th massacre, China’s economic growth achieved ‘miracle’ status, and despite its current slowdown is widely tipped to overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy before the end of the decade. The CCP’s model of ‘state capitalist’ development has created more dollar billionaires than anywhere outside the US, most of whom hold strong connections to the dictatorship and even sit in its auxiliary organs. The apparent successes of the CCP regime, after wading through the blood of anti-government protesters in 1989, has produced admirers among the world’s capitalists (even if many governments increasingly view China as a military and economic threat). This has also spawned the theory of “resilient authoritarianism” – a regime that has adapted, co-opted, and imitated, in order to stay in power.”
http://socialistparty.ie/2014/06/china-1989-25-years-since-mass-democracy-movement/
While you’re at it, how many sick or hungry people could be saved with the millions of dollars being spent on this inauguration charade?
Bread and circuses.. without the bread
Where did you get the 54% from?
@Cosmo Kramer: True there is a national demonstration tomorrow protesting about those issues and more and most of the people there this evening wont go to that ,why ? no politician will be let speak ,A.A.A/P.B.P. Sinn Fein ,wont support it ,as they cant control the agenda , shame on them
Enda Kenny, take note what trump said the people and the country come first not the banks the corporations or big business men .
Hold on, but isn’t he a big business man at the head of a big real estate corporation? I’m confused
I find Trump to be loathsome, but the vapid whinging about him is a very entertaining silver lining.
For example, you heard about the “women’s march”? They wanted to get as many women as possible to voice their concern about his attitude to women, and to represent ‘marginalised groups.’
Then they banned pro-life feminists from taking part. But not the Council on American Islamic Relations. Lol!
@Emeralds: Yeah! I heard that one of the “Pro Life” groups (Students for Life) wasn’t going to’stand in solidarity with women.’ Their intention was to change viewpoints.So yeah,they were probably told to pi$$ off.Rightly so, too..
That’s nice, Francis. But not what I was talking about.
New Wave Feminists were due to take part in the rally (not protest against it) but were kicked out for being pro-life. The organisers of this march claim to be speaking for women. So firstly, they presume to speak for women (including the tens of millions who voted for Trump) and secondly their “intersectional”-ism doesn’t extend to women who disagree on one issue…….but it’s ok for Muslims to disagree. Oh, but they still claim to speak for those women they’ve banned
Students for Life have their own protest. Their right to assemble and express themselves are just as valid as your hypocritical feminist friends’. The fact that you’re so blasé about squashing those rights by simply “[telling] them to pi$$ off and rightly so” reveals your authoritarian leanings. This is where words like “feminazi” come from.
Fortunately, you’re impotent. They can protest if they want.
But they are women. For some reason these protesters think women are one homogenous group that think exactly the same as them. I suppose the point is that nobody can claim to speak for all women.
“Fortunately, you’re impotent. They can protest if they want.”
So the “new wave feminists” were going to march in solidarity with the organisers of this march who said : “We believe in Reproductive freedom.We believe in safe,legal affordable abortion”? Hahaha..Let them protest away with the other “pro life ” yokes …
So it’s a march for abortion and Islam, rather than a march for women? They should say that then
@emeralds
Why would they ban the council on American Islamic relations?
For being, by ‘march for women’ standards, “anti-choice”. The same reason they banned New Wave Feminists
Just in case their links to Hamas weren’t enough
@Peedur Dante: “Their links to Hamas” <- never proven.. There were two posters on here before who went on with that crap…hmmm..
Great argument there Francis. The March for Women organisers have been vindicated by you typing ‘hmmm’
@Barnes: Oh dear ! Can you provide any credible evidence (court case) that CAIR were involved with Hamas ? Take your time.
@Emeralds : You were the lad/lass (I’m going with the latter) that went on waffling about CAIR and their ‘link to Hamas’ .So boring.
@emeralds
Why do you think the American council for Islamic relations is “anti- choice” ?
@Emeralds: Muslims aren’t inherently anti-choice, in fact I don’t think there’s a single Muslim country with more restrictive abortion laws than Ireland. Look it up.
I wouldn’t deny most Muslim majority countries are conservatives in other ways, but the reality is usually a lot more complicated. Same with the “vapid whinging” which is actually minority groups terrified for their safety, and rightly so. They already faired badly enough under Trump, let alone someone who puts avowed white supremacists and anti-LGBT extremists in his cabinet.
I think all the next 4 yrs will show trump being the same as every other politician taking care of his wealthy friends and breaking the majority of his promises, the swamp is already as full as ever
@johnp: Trump never took a salary
@johnp: So why are people not out there protesting every other politician? Because they are stupid, from a pussy generation, who devoutly follow fake news.
@William Kavanagh:
Very bad turnout!
So what were the tea party a protesting about then
Compared to obamas turnout it’s very small down about 50%
@Barnes: he meant poor turnout on thejournal.ie comments sections. The usual losers who talk rubbish yet turn a blind eye to the many atrocities committed by Obama.
Shit just got real.
@Dave Murray: Time to dig a shelter in the garden and make food/water/gas supplies for hard time. ;-)
Can’t stump the Trump.
Ah yes the season finale of America
A lot of his voters contrary to popular perception are bit racists they voted for him cos he marketed himself as a populist
That groups gonna get huge buyers remorse when :
•They loose their health insurance or premiums explode even more (polls show many don’t realise the affordable care act and obamacare are the same thing)
•He signs an executive order as planned to kill overtime rules
•signs bill privatising social security so pensions are wiped in the next stock crash
….and on and on it goes
They are gonna get s big shock
*not
I love the way the Hollywood elites got into such a tantrum over a man who will actually do something to help working people.
MAGA.
yes he’s been such a champion of the working man his whole life,stiffing contractors and putting people or e if business because he wouldn’t pay up, and then the wonderful trump university that screwed people out of there money, for nothing, you are so right he’ll be great for the working class and what an inspiring speech!?!!d*#k
Some snowflakes just move from one outrage to another, they need something to be outraged about constantly.
This is absolutely ridiculous though.
@Gerard McConnell: Enough snowflakes can cause a blizzard and they can bring the country to a halt.
He’ll grab that bible by the …..
What speech.
Truly inspiring.
We’re all American today.
I’m having another Bud.
Butt hurt regressive left group Antifa smashing the place up aleady…Leftists are to true fascists in our society.
@Barnes: People like you are a literal cancer on politics on society. Fascism isn’t a word you can take and apply to anything and there’s good reason why it’s come up in terms of Trump. Just as Jews & Roma from holocaust surviving families – many of them have made the comparisons themselves.
Fascism is not the same thing as “violence” and in fact a myriad of other ideologies, including no doubt your own, justify or use violence. The difference is you most likely believe in bombing the middle east and executing black people in cold blood as opposed to physically resisting a fascist regime.
So were the allies in WW2 by the same extension “the real fascists”? I guess you root for the Empire in Star Wars huh?
In fairness the empire were trying to peace to the galaxy but the pesky rebels kept blowing up their Death Stars.
Imagine handing over a presidency to that…..Obama will need some Motilium!
Seems to be a very white crowd……..
Haha the amount of whinging losers in town earlier was hilarious, could barely contain their rehashed, Clinton sponsored talking points long enough to stop shaking. What a glorious day, look forward to seeing how much the losers rampaging through the streets let themselves down even further tonight as darkness falls and the paid protesters ramp it up. May even raise a beer later on, brilliant.
@Henry Krinkle: It’s not about whinging. It’s about the fact that the US elected a borderline fascist and people are terrified for their safety and rights. The LGBT & Civil rights sections were removed from the White House website, and you still don’t think we have anything to worry about?
@Leighanna Rose Walsh: Why is it every time lunatics on the left run out of reasonable/logical arguments you retreat under the Nazi/fascist/Hitler banner, grow up ffs.
Trump isnt taking a salary
Best of luck to him
I bet he’ll declare taxes for each year of his presidency and they’ll show $1 of income each year.
God help us all
God help the world
I just hope the grass on the grassy knoll is long enough to hide the snipers turret. 2 taps and we are gold
Kinder, gentler politics…
@Zx5vZulB: __ It was actually a fella that went by the name of Greasy Noel, the grassy knoll thing was a misunderstanding.
Perhaps it would be good idea to give him a year before judgment…….Trump has some new ideas let’s see how they work out ….He is not all evil and neither was Obama all good….Let’s hope he stops bombing countries in the middle east like Obama did yesterday Libya on his last day in office
In a show of solididarity to The Easily Offended, let’s all gather around a pyre of Riverdance cds, join hands, and belt out a few bars of ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing’.
There’s no one more easily offended than trump – ever see his early morning tweets? If trump was a duck, he’d drown with all the water stuck to his back.
gar, I think you might need professional help. Very unhealthy mindset you seem to have.
What a loser
The divided states of America.
@Tony Daly: The media did their best and CNN worked their hardest with even as it seemed to many, on giving ideas on how to kill Trump and acting like they wanted someone to do that?
Going to be a entertaining 4 years.
The only difference between Trump and his predecessors is that there’s no surprise factor when he facks them over.
Sinead, did you draw the short straw on this assignment or did you volunteer?
Well done Jackie. Beautifully sung. I shed a tear there. (or maybe it’s the onions)
“A man is defined not by what he represents but by what he hides”. God bless America.
“From this day forward it’s going to be only America first. America first.” What a statement when standing in front of the world. What an idiot made many promises to red neck America wonder how long before they start pointing their squirrel gens at Trump……
What a proud it must be for his kids
In the end Trump had to settle for the z street band to play
Before even looking I know this comment section is going to be full of people who value unsmashed windows more than the lives of minorities & LGBT people.
Windows lives matter.
Oh what a sad ‘country’ we are!!
Test
Who says Trump was a racist or anything but the media???
What a sad ‘country’ we are!!
Let the games begin
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