I have a friend from Galway who came out to join her husband, who’d been here a year or two.
Went home after a month.
Came back six months later.
Left again.
Came back again and hasn’t left in the last 30 years.
She’s had some very senior gigs too, as CIO at both Jetstar and Sensis. Not sure where she is now.
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As Conor noted himself his goals were to be able to play AFL and become a top player which he achieved. Once that had occurred he was restless about going home.
A huge part of the pull of him going back to Ireland was to play Gaelic with bestmates and win this championship which appears to have happened. He’s also going to be able to spend 1-2yrs with his family which was the other driving force.
Maybe he resets now new goals and has winning an AFL premiership with the mates he formed the friendships with here at the club from 18-23yrs old. Maybe he commits to 3yrs and is all in this time.
There is no doubt Disco would remain in contact.
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Playing Monaghan in the Ulster final 31 July. Donegal win was a semi-final.
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I don’t know what any of this means.
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If you read it in an Irish accent it all makes sense
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Ulster is one of the 4 provinces of the island of Ireland, each of which has their own championship. The others are Munster (SW), Connaught (W) and Leinster (E).
Then the winners of the 4 provincial finals play each other in prelim finals, and the winners of those play in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park in Dublin.
The counties of Ulster are Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan (all in the republic), Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone (all in N Ireland). Conor plays for Tyrone.
Is that clearer?
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Can you say it with an Irish accent??
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I had no idea he was from Northern Ireland. Is he a Protestant or a Catholic?
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Ah so when he says “good to get first championship win” he really only meant first finals win.
Not quite there are far winning the provincial final. And 2 games off getting to the AIl Ireland final.
Hope he gets there and wins!
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Thanks. I learned something today (genuinely).
I was in Dublin when the 2010 All-Ireland final was on, watched it from a nice bar/restaurant in the centre of town. It was a great game, (Cork d Down 16-15) and I regret not taking a barman’s advice and getting a ticket from a scalper.
Also, I miss Conor. He was ■■■■■■■ awesome.
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This might be clearer, Tyrone are the Red Hands
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Let’s not pretend that committed and settled Conor wouldn’t make us a better team.
Hind, Redman, Durham, McKenna streaming out of the back half would be hella fun to watch
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Committed Conor is an oxymoron
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Give up guys…he is not coming back
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WSPHU
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County Tyrone is majority Catholic, rest of Northern Island is nearly 50 / 50 these days.
In my experience (my Mum was born in County Cork which is 90% catholic), the Irish are not the pious Catholics that some make them out to be. And today the young Irish adults may identify with being catholic, but most never actually practise this faith and certainly do not attend church. And priests are just getting old and dying out, with the average age of priests in Ireland over 70, and many of the younger priests are imports from India and Sri Lanka. Similiar here I think.
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It’s less about religion and more about underlying historical prejudice.
I was wondering if he was an Irish Irishman or and English Irishman. Seems the former.
I remember him picking up an interviewer who was referring to him coming from Northern Ireland. His repsonse was something like “We just call it Ireland”.
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You wouldn’t find a lot of diehard Prods saying that, but then, diehard Prods aren’t interested in GAA.