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    #782
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    Most of the Westmeath heads living in the part of town west of the Shannon wouldn't know a Gaelic football if it hit them in the face.

    Should they need to? Athlone is a Garrison town and has alot of Football clubs with good histories (Willow Park and St Peters). Indeed the town themselves are doing alright lately and will get crowds if successful.


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    #783
    White lighting
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Should they need to? Athlone is a Garrison town and has alot of Football clubs with good histories (Willow Park and St Peters). Indeed the town themselves are doing alright lately and will get crowds if successful.


    :rolleyes: They are useless playing a useless standard of football in a useless league. They might get a couple more down if they start to stay winning but it will still only be small crowds. They have no local connection apart from playing half their games in the town. Dog poop


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    #784
    veryangryman
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    White lighting wrote: »
    :rolleyes: They are useless playing a useless standard of football in a useless league. They might get a couple more down if they start to stay winning but it will still only be small crowds. They have no local connection apart from playing half their games in the town. Dog poop

    Indeed there are very few Athlonians in that team. Fairly sure the prima donna teams across the water have a similar ratio of locals.


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    #785
    4ensic15
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Should they need to? Athlone is a Garrison town and has alot of Football clubs with good histories (Willow Park and St Peters). Indeed the town themselves are doing alright lately and will get crowds if successful.

    Athlone is not a garrison town.


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    #786
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Athlone is not a garrison town.

    It definitely is. There's been a military presence in the town for centuries.


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    #787
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Should they need to? Athlone is a Garrison town and has alot of Football clubs with good histories (Willow Park and St Peters). Indeed the town themselves are doing alright lately and will get crowds if successful.

    Oh yeah, 100%, that's my point. It's reflected in Athlone's relative lack of success in GAA. Athlone always was a soccer town. I'm more GAA myself but would always take an interest in ATFC.


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    #788
    nice_guy80
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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    Oh yeah, 100%, that's my point. It's reflected in Athlone's relative lack of success in GAA. Athlone always was a soccer town. I'm more GAA myself but would always take an interest in ATFC.

    Athlone GAA have more senior football titles than any other club in Westmeath


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    #789
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    Athlone GAA have more senior football titles than any other club in Westmeath

    Yeah but what, 2 titles in the last 30 years


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    nice_guy80
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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    Yeah but what, 2 titles in the last 30 years

    How are Garrycastle doing? Alright, it seems


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    #791
    White lighting
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    Two gaa clubs in the wider Athlone area played in ALL Ireland club Finals in the last decade. That doesnt tell me there is a lack of success in the town


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    #792
    4ensic15
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    It definitely is. There's been a military presence in the town for centuries.

    A military presence does not mean it is a garrison town.


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    #793
    nice_guy80
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    A military presence does not mean it is a garrison town.

    surely the word 'garrison' gives it away.

    ie a military garrison...


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    #794
    GolfVI
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    A military presence does not mean it is a garrison town.


    Yes it does ? Thats the whole reasoning behind it being called a garrison town.. A garrison is a body of troops stationed at a location, and the therm “ garrison town” was used to describe any town with a military presence nearby


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    #795
    flazio
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    I meant to ask sooner, why was the parade on Saturday 16th and not Sunday 17th?


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    #796
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    How are Garrycastle doing? Alright, it seems
    White lighting wrote: »
    Two gaa clubs in the wider Athlone area played in ALL Ireland club Finals in the last decade. That doesnt tell me there is a lack of success in the town

    Garrycastle and St Brigid's are not Athlone, even if Garrycastle does have some urban catchment in the area, I was referring specifically to Athlone GAA Club and its catchment.


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    #797
    Sunny Dayz
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    flazio wrote: »
    I meant to ask sooner, why was the parade on Saturday 16th and not Sunday 17th?
    I think I read somewhere that the parade organisers wanted to get some floats and stuff in the parade and so had it on the 16th when more groups would be available to take part in it.


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    #798
    TheRiverman
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    White lighting wrote: »
    Two gaa clubs in the wider Athlone area played in ALL Ireland club Finals in the last decade. That doesnt tell me there is a lack of success in the town

    One of those clubs is St.Brigids which is a Roscommon club,the other,Garrycastle,and I am open to correction here, was formed years ago as a breakaway club due to some dispute within Athlone GAA.


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    #799
    Zubeneschamali
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    TheRiverman wrote: »
    Garrycastle,and I am open to correction here, was formed years ago as a breakaway club due to some dispute within Athlone GAA.


    Garrycastle is also inside the Athlone Municipal District, so it is not just near Athlone, it is in Athlone.


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    #800
    veryangryman
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    TheRiverman wrote: »
    One of those clubs is St.Brigids which is a Roscommon club,the other,Garrycastle,and I am open to correction here, was formed years ago as a breakaway club due to some dispute within Athlone GAA.

    Its just over 5 minutes from the town centre. This is worse than the gowls who advocated leaving monksland in roscommom boundaries despite there being alot of nothing west of it.


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    4ensic15
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Its just over 5 minutes from the town centre. This is worse than the gowls who advocated leaving monksland in roscommom boundaries despite there being alot of nothing west of it.

    What distance is 5 minutes? Light minutes? Monksland is in Roscommon. It might not always have been in Roscommon and might not always be, but that is where it is for now.


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    #802
    TheRiverman
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    What distance is 5 minutes? Light minutes? Monksland is in Roscommon. It might not always have been in Roscommon and might not always be, but that is where it is for now.

    St.Brigids club covers a much bigger area in South Roscommon than Monksland and what about Clan Na nGeal,another South Roscommon club that borders Athlone.


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    #803
    4ensic15
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    TheRiverman wrote: »
    St.Brigids club covers a much bigger area in South Roscommon than Monksland

    Who said it didn't?


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    #804
    veryangryman
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    Did i say that it isnt in roscommon? I said it was daft to leave it there.

    Town needs to be allowed expand. And with country councils being the law of the land, the westmeath country needs to expand to allow for it.

    Right now Monksland cant grow e.g Donie Kennys recent attempt halted from supervalu


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    #805
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Did i say that it isnt in roscommon? I said it was daft to leave it there.

    Town needs to be allowed expand. And with country councils being the law of the land, the westmeath country needs to expand to allow for it.

    Right now Monksland cant grow e.g Donie Kennys recent attempt halted from supervalu

    How can Monksland not grow because it's in Roscommon? Genuinely interested


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    #806
    Subcomandante Marcos
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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    How can Monksland not grow because it's in Roscommon? Genuinely interested

    Because right now the largest urban population centre in Roscommon county (monksland) has almost no representation in county councils.


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    #807
    4ensic15
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Because right now the largest urban population centre in Roscommon county (monksland) has almost no representation in county councils.

    If there are so many people there why don't they vote in some councillors?


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    #808
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Because right now the largest urban population centre in Roscommon county (monksland) has almost no representation in county councils.

    That's fair enough, but I dont see how that limits the growth of the area. Didn't stop it growing over the past 30 years.


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    #809
    nice_guy80
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    Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »
    Because right now the largest urban population centre in Roscommon county (monksland) has almost no representation in county councils.

    monksland is not the largest urban area in Roscommon


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    #810
    4ensic15
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    It would be more logical to put South Roscommon from a line between Lecarrow and Ballinasloe into Westmeath and amalgamate South Leitrim with North Roscommon and Amalgamate North Leitrim with Sligo.


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    #811
    I says
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    It would be more logical to put South Roscommon from a line between Lecarrow and Ballinasloe into Westmeath and amalgamate South Leitrim with North Roscommon and Amalgamate North Leitrim with Sligo.

    Are you saying we should liquidate Leitrim altogether?


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