Up Tipp

Barry Badrinath · 05-09-2016 06:30PM

It's only GAA.

Not as if it matters like.

Galwayguy35 · 05-09-2016 06:38PM

feargale wrote: »

And I was just about to post that this thread makes a pleasant change from the bile in other GAA threads. It's only a bloody game FFS.

Sure they would often nearly kill each other at the club matches and they'd all be from the same County!

feargale · 05-09-2016 06:51PM

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

Serious question, as I don't follow GAA. I've heard this "Up" business used before. Is it an abbreviation or slang as it makes no sense in the context of Up Tipp etc.

Cheers

It's a throwback to Westminster elections in the second half of the 19th century. Successful Irish Parliamentary Party candidates were raised shoulder high by their supporters, shouting "Up Murphy" or whoever.
It's still done at Dail election counts. It could leave you under the impression that Shane Ross or Mattie McGrath had just won an All-Ireland hurling medal.

feargale · 05-09-2016 06:52PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Sure they would often nearly kill each other at the club matches and they'd all be from the same County!

Yes, but they don't carry the baggage for life.

RobertKK · 05-09-2016 06:54PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I've been to Mullinahone.

Plenty to see and do there such as the church,the GAA field,a pub,the grain silo and why not visit the historic Knights Templar wall with a supermarket attached to it(seriously).

Is there a pig farm still beside the village, was down that way years ago going to the co-op down there and the smell of the ammonia from the pigs was strong.

Summer wind · 05-09-2016 07:12PM

My grandad was from Tipp and if he'd lived to see the game yesterday he would've been thrilled so I'm delighted to see them win:)

iDave · 05-09-2016 07:18PM

Well done Tipp on your Liam McCarthy success.

But it's not as good as winning Christy Ring twice in one year.

Hup Meath.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 05-09-2016 07:18PM

RobertKK wrote: »

Is there a pig farm still beside the village, was down that way years ago going to the co-op down there and the smell of the ammonia from the pigs was strong.

No idea.
I wasn't checking out piggerys the day I visited.Maybe the village just smells of piss.

K-9 · 05-09-2016 07:20PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Up Down.

That one never gets old.

An old guy had it painted on his flag at the 86 Donegal Down match in Ballybofey, hilarious to us kids at the match.

Don't Chute! · 05-09-2016 09:26PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Delighted to see it stuck to Kilkenny for once.

It's bitter posts like this that make the success we've had in Kilkenny over the last decade or so all the sweeter!

willowthewisp · 05-09-2016 10:06PM

I think yer man Bubbles let his team down with the swearing live on TV. Nothing wrong with having a bit of common decency.

05-09-2016 10:50PM

Tommy Kelly wrote: »

Easy known you're from Lowry the crook country.

An unbearable shower alright, no doubt about it.

Thickest and the most ignorant hurling supporters in the country.

Players are dirty tramps.

Cheers Mattie

RobertKK · 05-09-2016 11:25PM

willowthewisp wrote: »

I think yer man Bubbles let his team down with the swearing live on TV. Nothing wrong with having a bit of common decency.

I was disappointed with losing, but when he said We're champions of f***ing Ireland' well that cured my disappointment as I couldn't believe he said it and the self righteous part of me thought 'well if we had won that wouldn't have happened'.
:pac:

sligojoek · 06-09-2016 12:30AM

Great thread. Pity about the bitterness.

I'm a Toomevara / Nenagh man. Great well deserved win yesterday.

On the subject of songs and rhymes. Does anyone know a rhyme that has the lines "There's nowhere as mean (pronounced main) as Borrisokane."? I only heard it once and the man that told it to me is not around anymore.

feargale · 06-09-2016 12:44AM

willowthewisp wrote: »

I think yer man Bubbles let his team down with the swearing live on TV. Nothing wrong with having a bit of common decency.

Yes, barrackroom language at that time does lower the tone of the occasion. It wouldn't have happened in another era.
But is it right or fair when a man has burst his gut for 70 minutes to ask him to speak publicly? At that juncture he can't be fully right in mind or body. The media is too intrusive these days. And as for going into players' dressingrooms, as I've said before, next they'll be interviewing players while they're sitting on the privy.
I also think that the victory speech by the captain should be scrapped. Again I don't think it's fair to expect oratory after 70 minutes of hell for leather. And with a few notable exceptions it's usually the same auld "ta athas orm..." mantra.

Amanda.ie · 06-09-2016 12:44AM

I was delighted to see Tipp winning yesterday and to win by 9 points was the icing on the cake. I would be confident in saying that every county in Ireland bar Kilkenny was shouting for Tipp. Well done enjoy the moment. I know I did.

wil · 06-09-2016 12:56AM

Tip up

LorMal · 06-09-2016 06:43AM

Is 'Hon' culchie for 'Come on' now?

Tommy Kelly · 06-09-2016 09:39AM

Amanda.ie wrote: »

I was delighted to see Tipp winning yesterday and to win by 9 points was the icing on the cake. I would be confident in saying that every county in Ireland bar Kilkenny was shouting for Tipp. Well done enjoy the moment. I know I did.

I know for a fact that the good hurling people of Galway were not shouting for Tipperary. If it was any other county that was playing Kilkenny well then we would have but not Tipperary. We can't stand ye.

06-09-2016 09:51AM

Tommy Kelly wrote: »

I know for a fact that the good hurling people of Galway were not shouting for Tipperary. If it was any other county that was playing Kilkenny well then we would have but not Tipperary. We can't stand ye.

Ohhhhh nooooo...... the people of Galways opinion of us is the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning :rolleyes:

Champions

Suck it up

06-09-2016 10:12AM

sligojoek wrote: »

Does anyone know a rhyme that has the lines "There's nowhere as mean (pronounced main) as Borrisokane."? I only heard it once and the man that told it to me is not around anymore.

I've heard the expression too, but it was just a local slur on anyone you met from Borrisokane, as far as I know.

I did a quick search for it in the (Nenagh) Guardian's archive, and it doesn't appear anywhere; so although it may be the fragment of comic verse (of which there is plenty in Tipp), it seems to exist today only as a local expression.

Amanda.ie · 06-09-2016 11:51PM

Tommy Kelly wrote: »

I know for a fact that the good hurling people of Galway were not shouting for Tipperary. If it was any other county that was playing Kilkenny well then we would have but not Tipperary. We can't stand ye.

Im not from Tipp. Im sure the Galway people would much prefer to see Tipp winning on Sunday against Kilkenny.
Tipp did beat Galway but Kilkenny are still the enemy.:p

Arghus · 07-09-2016 12:11AM

Amanda.ie wrote: »

Im not from Tipp. Im sure the Galway people would much prefer to see Tipp winning on Sunday against Kilkenny.
Tipp did beat Galway but Kilkenny are still the enemy.:p

Galway person here.

Don't know what that Tommy Kelly fellow is on about.

I didn't hear a single solitary person here in Galway express any view but a desire to see Kilkenny beaten.

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