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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on July 21, 2019, 11:33:04 am
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Watched a bit of yeaterdays fare from Croker a dissapointing crowd .So here is the question is the GAA dead financially as nobody are going to the games .the biggest crowds at any of the main Grounds this year have been conserts .I had one of the Dublin County Board in the car last night and I put this to him then I said was he aware that the new stadium is it Casement Park in Belfast was delayed because the local council (God save the Queen ) would not grant them an entertainment licence as it was a sporting venue and was in reciept of Government funding from Westminster ,and without concerts it was a financial red herring .He sort of agreed he recons its Dublin fans that are keeping the Association out of the red he said they need Cork back near the top as their supporters turn up.Looking at the Curragh yesterday the crowd was poor for an Irish Oaks Day .Is there just too much sport available .
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Only 17k at the Munster football final this year.
I remember back in the 80s going to a Cork and Kerry final down the park and around 50k there.
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Dublin in September is not the same without the heads from Cork good sportsmen dont take themselves to serious unlike the stone munchers from Mayo a desperate shower of hate filled bastards .
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What makes me sick is the government continue to pour absolute millions into an organization that doesnt need it,and the same cunts give the league of ireland nothing.giving the Grab All Association money is like bringing an apple into an orchired
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What makes me sick is the government continue to pour absolute millions into an organization that doesnt need it,and the same cunts give the league of ireland nothing.giving the Grab All Association money is like bringing an apple into an orchired
Irish soccer is a second no third rate product a total waste of money the heads running it would purloin any funds .The future for LOI is to go back amateur and local lads playing locally Wouldnt matter how much money you trow at LOI football its absolute shite .Until LOI sides are obliged to have Schoolboy sides affiliated the league will get no better .Go out any sunday and watch schoolboy football its all hit and run total lack of skill .Kids dont learn ball control any more playing street football .Cherryorchard and Ballyfermot Utd were huge teams thought boys how to play Homefarm were world leaders but now nobody gives a fuck about schoolboy football .I use to manage a schoolboy team but I wouldnt bother now .A good mate of mine was sued because a player fell getting off the bus Insurance didnt cover it but the kids parents said that my pal did not control the group .The case was lost but still cost over 8K to defend it .He won but he lost .FAI destroyed the game all about a big statement stadium and wages and fuck the players .
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What makes me sick is the government continue to pour absolute millions into an organization that doesnt need it,and the same cunts give the league of ireland nothing.giving the Grab All Association money is like bringing an apple into an orchired
They pretend it's about culture, but in reality it's about votes.
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John our club ,Bohemians have an affiliation with st Kevins,and its working out well.I believe the problem with LO. I the Irish people would rather support the brits,then support their own.you say our league is shite but the problem is the fukkin brits keep coming over and taking our best players awayin,as well as our supporters
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Got a fare from the Brian Boru just after the Dublin game finished yesterday going to Beaumont....crowd had dispersed by the time I got back to Drumcondra...if the 5 in a row happens at the beginning of Sept don't be expecting to fill yer boots on that particular Sunday.
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Well tell me this then, if Bohemians have a tie to St Kevin’s, why isn’t there a St Kevins team in the LOI?
My local club have an academy for 4-7 year olds and over 25 different teams going up to men’s senior. Why isn’t that team in LOI?
Because it’s shit, that’s why.
Play for the passion of the sport, like GAA. amateurs make better players
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John our club ,Bohemians have an affiliation with st Kevins,and its working out well.I believe the problem with LO. I the Irish people would rather support the brits,then support their own.you say our league is shite but the problem is the fukkin brits keep coming over and taking our best players awayin,as well as our supporters
Our best players there arent 20 decent Irish Players earning a good living in the UK The problem is We teach 9 year olds to play on a full size pitch our standard is retarded dirt ansolute sub standard our standard is so shit poor that Irish players cannot get a game in any other european league .Then you have clubs only waiting to sell their grounds for profit your own included .Ballyfermot UTD sold their pitches for housing .Soccer is a business clubs want to develope livestock to sell on .
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Your typical LOI knocker . Irish people who have never been inside the gates of a LOI ground in their. lives,and feel qualified to offer an opinion on the standard of our league.not only do I support my own club,but I will go and support dundalk in the next round of the champions league as I did in the first round.the dundalk people welcomed me as I stood there cheering on their team in Europe wearing my bohs Jersey and thanked me for the support
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Wasn't George best Irish? Well sort of...
I can't believe the kids here can't be as good as anywhere in the world...me 2 boys have started to play soccer last September and I'm amazed at the skills all the kids have....and the coaches I've met are all very decent dedicated volunteers that seem absolutely fanatical about football and the kids doing well .... The kids are all good mannered and polite and it's teaching them to handle aggression and disappointment...
I know nothing about the politics of soccer
But it does seem to have had a lot of bad publicity in Ireland lately..... The boxing is gone to shite with drug dealers taking over the show...
The lure of big money in England or Europe is surely going to take all the good players
Away....
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Your typical LOI knocker . Irish people who have never been inside the gates of a LOI ground in their. lives,and feel qualified to offer an opinion on the standard of our league.not only do I support my own club,but I will go and support dundalk in the next round of the champions league as I did in the first round.the dundalk people welcomed me as I stood there cheering on their team in Europe wearing my bohs Jersey and thanked me for the support
When I moved back to Ireland, I tried going to Dalymount. At least I tried. Thought it might be better than going to the pub.
It was shite. We went in on the Connaught St side @ the side of the shopping centre. There was no access to the food van on the posh side. The stewards disappeared a few minutes after the game started and people went out to the off-licence across the road and came back with a few tins. The football was absolute shite and we couldn't believe we'd actually paid in to watch it. I'm not saying this to annoy you but we honestly thought we could do better. We were dumbfounded to think the team actually thought they were good enough to charge money to watch them.
There was so little atmosphere, I reckon you could have a conversation with someone in the stands on the other side of the pitch.
If I had a tenner to spend again on Friday night Sport, I'd rather buy a few cockroaches and race them across my kitchen floor rather than submit myself to that experience again. Maybe things are different nowadays but I'll never know 'cause I ain't going back!
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Re the GAA, I'm not a GAA-head but I reckon;
- It's gone too expensive for a dad & his kids
- Too many women attending so the dads can't get away from the missus for the afternoon (maybe he should get a taxi licence!)
- There's only 2 or 3 good teams in each code so there's no real excitement or anticipation. At the start of the season, the conversation is usually about who'll play Dublin in the final.
- People miss the fighting on the pitch.
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I think gambling has ruined the quality of sport .Some desperate shite being organised for people to gamble on like first corner first free kick .Looked at tomorrows racing not one horse running worth more than its value as meat in reality most of them will end up as dog meat .If I want to watch horses I usually go the curragh early morning and watch themwork you usually find a work watcher who knows who is working and what race they are getting ready for .Aiden O brien has ruined Irish racing with 4,6 or 7 horses in some races and Mullins has killed jumps racing .Irish racing has little if any entertainment value British racing is absolute dirt .In two weeks we are going to be treated to slaughter house racing from Galway animals that should be slaughtered running for betting purposes only .
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Problem with the GAA on the football side is that they turned one quarter final into 3 separate games so the appeal of knock-out has gone, and on the hurling side they turned Munster and Leinster into Round-Robins. Too much outlay for the ordinary Joe and his 2 gay teenagers.
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It mist be the only knock out sport in the world,that when tour knocked out,your back in by the back door.they are not called the Grab All Association for nothing
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I played Gaelic football for 20 years but I'm glad to see the crowds are down, what has ruined football for me is how defensive it has become, free kicks going backwards, 15 players in their own half, diving, dirty play. that is why I wouldn't go to 99 per cent of matches.
the people slagging off loi here haven't a clue what they are talking about, like most people who say it's Shiite and have never even been at a game but fly to Manchester to cheer an English team, west brits.
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Thank you for that 1990, a man after my own heart.id say John in particular has NEVER been inside a LOI ground
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Thank you for that 1990, a man after my own heart.id say John in particular has NEVER been inside a LOI ground
That's probably cos there isn't a bookies there!!
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Last game I went towas Pats V Derry cup final probably the worst game of football ever played on grass .League od Ireland football is pure dirt the best 11 players playing in the league wouldnt get into a team fighting relegation in the Championship standard is about equal to Scottish second division .
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Some facts the Dub haters don't admit........
1. Ballymun Kickhams, the team with most Dub players now, had NO underage players in 1995....source Paddy Christie.
2. Kilkenny won 8 from 10 possible Liam Mc's 2006-2015....not a fucking gay culchy word about it..
3. Cork "lady" footballers won 5 in a row before any "lady" from the rest of "Consanguine fucker" land even noticed.
4. Kerry had only to beat Cork and they were in an All-Ireland Semi.............and they still fucked the 5-in-a-row up...
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Ya see this is what the GAA (grab all association,) do when they are in financial trouble.they spin the line oh its 31 counties against Dublin.they actually go around inciting people with this kind of rhetoric by their spin doctors. They are masters at it.I guarentee you will see this kind of talk re emerge soon when they realise the interest is dropping off,and the numbers are down.fukkin gangsters
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The hurling round-robin's and the football super-8's killed it fer me, it's not a championship anymore, it's a glorified league.
Last Saturday Cork footballers played Tyrone, I didn't even know the match was on till a few hours before kick-off, Thirty years back and I most likely would have been at the game in me Doc's, Wranglers and Harrington draped in Red and White and full of Carling !
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.........not only do I support my own club,but I will go and support dundalk in the next round of the champions league as I did in the first round.the dundalk people welcomed me as I stood there cheering on their team in Europe wearing my bohs Jersey and thanked me for the support
Nice one DM.
I remember you saying that you went and I was curious to know did you wear your 'colours'.
You should have went to the away game, Riga is a different world !
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Ya see this is what the GAA (grab all association,) do when they are in financial trouble.they spin the line oh its 31 counties against Dublin.they actually go around inciting people with this kind of rhetoric by their spin doctors. They are masters at it.I guarentee you will see this kind of talk re emerge soon when they realise the interest is dropping off,and the numbers are down.fukkin gangsters
Dublin is to be split into four, Dalyer..........the 4 council areas etc. That will happen before 2025.............the reason the "Centre of Excellence" in Spawell has not been developed yet......in-camp murder.
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There ya go.they are now going to split one county into 4 to pit north against south,east against west,etc they probably see this as a way of generating more conflict between the four areas thus increasing more adversary between them
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Told ya before, Dalyer..........I hate the 5-a-side-inbreeding- shower-of-cunts that run the GAA..........The Dubs are winning too often .......it kills them....which is why I love proudly standing on the hill with my latest edition Farah slacks; New Balance trainers, and San Bernardo hipster jockies creeping over the hedge.
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Dublin GAA was always very political...before Jim Gavins tenure players from certain clubs regardless of their ability didn't get a look in and is why Dublin struggled even though in reality they had a bigger pool of players to choose from....now it's the opposite,you have more or less a first team sitting on the bench and the competition to be picked for first team duty is immense.
I'd say you look fantastic LL....I hope the tan accompanies the look!!
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Since the holliers in the S.E of Asia I've been clocking up 60 plus hrs a week, Hal.....so, yeah, my right arm and side profile look tanned alright. How yez lazy cunts can have 2 hoidays p.a. in Lanzo and spend so much time on here is beyond me.
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Time management!!
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Clever man, obviously....... ;)
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Buy a smartphone.I'm reading all this gick in town because I no longer like talking to my fellow rankers.Theres only so much nonsense I can listen to.
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Buy a smartphone.I'm reading all this gick in town because I no longer like talking to my fellow rankers.Theres only so much nonsense I can listen to.
Or read !
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Buy a smartphone.I'm reading all this gick in town because I no longer like talking to my fellow rankers.Theres only so much nonsense I can listen to.
Or read !
Exactly, Mr Stoney.....reading might fill that gap.
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I don't think you can judge on the basis of Dublin -v- Roshcommon. I wasn't in the country on Saturday afternoon and I made no attempt to find somewhere to watch it, I didn't even check the result but I can safely say I know Dublin won comfortably. Sunday's game was a better watch and it's the other group that will provide the entertainment in two weeks time.
However, there is too much sport. The Sunday before last we had a double header in Croke Park, the Cricket World Cup final, the Wimbledon (Tennis) final and the British Grand Prix. This week we have the World Matchplay Darts, England -v- Ireland in Lords (starts tomorrow) and the Hurling Semis in Croke Park. How many TV sets does a man need?
I agree with DM (much as I hate to agree with DM) regarding funding for the GAA. The organisation can afford to undercut local pubs up and down the country so surely it can afford to stand on it's own two feet. As for being amateur... ask my testicles. I'm not a soccer fan but I used to be dragged to Dalymount on occasion in my pre-teenage years and I did stop off to attend a game in Dundalk earlier this year on the way back from the UK as my father was with me and he likes his soccer. Given that the weather was good it was enjoyable enough from the perspective of someone who wouldn't know what a good or bad game looks like.
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Best game of the whole Super-8's is in Omagh in 2 weeks.....Dubs versus angry little Nordies.
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Buy a smartphone.I'm reading all this gick in town because I no longer like talking to my fellow rankers.Theres only so much nonsense I can listen to.
There's probably only so much nonsense they can listen to..
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Anger is an energy according to Mr I could be wrong, I could be right.
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Oh rat,could this be the start of a special relationship, ?? You actually agree with me on something ?
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Why are so many blokes fixated on balls?
They love balls,,,,
footballs, golf balls, snooker balls, tennis balls, cricket balls, hurley balls, basketballs rugby balls, ping pong balls, marbles, bowling balls baseball's, squash balls, volleyballs, handballs, pool balls, croquet balls, hockey balls, belly button fluff balls, cling on arse balls, billiards balls,...
Wats the obsession?
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Dopey cnuts
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Why are so many blokes fixated on balls?
They love balls,,,,
footballs, golf balls, snooker balls, tennis balls, cricket balls, hurley balls, basketballs rugby balls, ping pong balls, marbles, bowling balls baseball's, squash balls, volleyballs, handballs, pool balls, croquet balls, hockey balls, belly button fluff balls, cling on arse balls, billiards balls,...
Wats the obsession?
I think you forgot the most obvious Pair !! lol
If only we could Lick 'em !!
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I remember watching the best game of football that I have ever witnessed a few years back.
By coincidence Man Utd were also playing some very big Premier league game the same afternoon.
Later that night at work a fella sit's in to my cab,
He asks; "What was the score in 'The Match' ?
I tell him; "Two All",
"Who scored ?",
"Me Small fella got the First and we were 2 up at half-time, but de Kounts scrambled 2 poxy late goals",
"O..K.., who does your son play for ?",
"Ringmahon, Division 2 U-15's",
"O..K.., who were they playing ?",
"Churchvilla from Cloyne, our biggest rivals but still a single win in the last 2 games of the season will win us the championship",
"O..K.., Do you know how Man Utd got on in the Premier league ?"
"No, no idea !".
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Why are so many blokes fixated on balls?
They love balls,,,,
footballs, golf balls, snooker balls, tennis balls, cricket balls, hurley balls, basketballs rugby balls, ping pong balls, marbles, bowling balls baseball's, squash balls, volleyballs, handballs, pool balls, croquet balls, hockey balls, belly button fluff balls, cling on arse balls, billiards balls,...
Wats the obsession?
And not forgetting the one's you role after your picked them put lol
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And that the way it should be Ken.why should any Irish man have the sligjtest knowledge,or interest in a foreign league
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And that the way it should be Ken.why should any Irish man have the sligjtest knowledge,or interest in a foreign league
DM , in my case I was born in March 1958 the month after the Munich Air Disaster .
I always maintained I was sent on this earth to play for them because of this , unfortunately it did not work out as I found Drink and women more attractive.
Supporting them was my next and only option.
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true story Ken.
My uncle scored the first goal ever scored by a league of Ireland team in the euorpean cup as it was then.it was against your beloved busby babes in old trafford.he played for shamrock rovers ,and was part of the famous codes colts then.that was in 1957'.busby was so impressed with him,he actually came over to house and my granny,being an offaly woman couldnt understand his scottish accent,and duly ran him from the door
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His name was maxie mccann
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Fir play Dalyer..........me Uncle remembers him. Asked him this morning in Bray having a outrageously over-priced Latté down the seafront....he's 88.
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Died 2 years ago
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Was talking about me Uncle, Dalyer....he's 88. R.I.P. otherwise....
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Died 2 years ago
His name was maxie mccann
The name 'rings a bell'.
R.I.P.
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Broke me toe bone last nite playing football.. Couldn't do me 4 hours shift last nite....
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true story Ken.
............it was against your beloved busby babes in old trafford........
Your getting confused there DM it was STC's who pledged his allegiance to Man Utd, not me.
I don't support or follow any football team (except whomever me small fella play's fer).
I was born in North London just a stones throw from Stamford bridge which would entitle me to be a Chelsea supporter, but I'm not, except when they win the Premier league !
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Broke me toe bone last nite playing football.. Couldn't do me 4 hours shift last nite....
Playing Football ? At your age ? Octy ! Really, Cop on !!
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Sorry belker,my mistake
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Sorry belker,my mistake
No worries ::cheers
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Broke me toe bone last nite playing football.. Couldn't do me 4 hours shift last nite....
Playing Football ? At your age ? Octy ! Really, Cop on !!
..I was hoping to get a five aside goin for the Christmas party ken.....
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Fr Ted got an over 75 s match going,I reckon some of us would qualify for that
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Broke me toe bone last nite playing football.. Couldn't do me 4 hours shift last nite....
Playing Football ? At your age ? Octy ! Really, Cop on !!
..I was hoping to get a five aside goin for the Christmas party ken.....
Yea, that be great !
Rings, Darts or Pool ?
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Broke me toe bone last nite playing football.. Couldn't do me 4 hours shift last nite....
Playing Football ? At your age ? Octy ! Really, Cop on !!
..I was hoping to get a five aside goin for the Christmas party ken.....
Yea, that be great !
Rings, Darts or Pool ?
You have to get 5 first! 8)
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Do you know The Harp bar in Cork, Ken? Silly question, of course you know it, you're a taximan FFS! Anywaysanall I noticed their sponsorship sticker on Steve Lennon (a Carlow man) and Willie O'Connor (a Limerick man) at the recent darts world cup... is it a big darts pub and/or worth including on next year's itinerary? I'd wouldn't mind spending a bit there given their support for our team.
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Do you know The Harp bar in Cork, Ken? Silly question, of course you know it, you're a taximan FFS! Anywaysanall I noticed their sponsorship sticker on Steve Lennon (a Carlow man) and Willie O'Connor (a Limerick man) at the recent darts world cup... is it a big darts pub and/or worth including on next year's itinerary? I'd wouldn't mind spending a bit there given their support for our team.
I do know the pub well Stephen, it's in the Ballyphehane (RA) territory, I've never been in it, but I have passed a few unsavoury flag-downs outside it late on a few weekend nights. I know that my Mother has or had some connection to the pub many years back, it could have been her uncle or gran-uncle or some relative that ran it once upon a time, I'll ask her about the connection.
And Yes of course it will be added to the itinerary fer next Jan. Cork is only a small city and the Harp bar is only a 5 minute drive from the city center.
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By pure coincidence I did have some Dart players in the cab last night from the Harp bar, but they were much too busy argueing amongst themselves on very important darts matters fer me to be able to question them !