An Fear Rua - Forum Closed

Won some Munster final tickets on there a few years back. Stopped posting on the site a few years ago and stopped even reading it recently. Just not worth the hassle of filtering through all the clowns and wind ups. Had been on the site since moving over from ch.com.

There were a few good posters with local GAA opinions that were worth a read, but the wum's seemed to outnumber them by a long way in recent times.

It was a great place to get a little bit of everything, Hurling, Football, news stories, political but letting a few idiots run amuck brought the place down. The was a few idiots from TFK who had been banned who came back posting all sorts of celebrity crap and wind ups as well as supposed unionist posters and anti GAA posters who should have been banned outright.
The fellas getting upset about being banned just baffles me. You could re-register and be up and running in 15mins again if you wanted but lots of lads were precious about their post counts. I was banned once but once I signed up again I posted the same as before. I just didn't rub the mods nose in it or confront him over it. Lasted another 4 yrs. TFK is alive with bile today. Ex posters delighting in dancing on the grave.

jordainius wrote: »

One of those spurious reasons in particular was down right ridiculous back in 2008. Many of the good established long term posters were culled over something down right stupid and it all went downhill from there. A fairly long thread on premierview will give more details.

Many of these banned posters migrated to thefreekick and premierview, and from what I gather on some of their forums many of those posters took their "revenge" and reregistered on anfearrua just to cause trouble and act the wum (sometimes with multiple accounts). It all got a bit ridiculous for a finish. The animosity between the websites just got a bit childish and tedious for a finish.

I'd say at least one third of the posters on there at the end would have fallen into the jilted category

Hawk Wing 2 wrote: »

I think the pompous, self serving "announcement" sums up that place the best, crying out for attention, it must be remembered that this joker benefited from the closure and the loss of the original and best GAA site on the net. Clarehurlers.com and took on most of the contributors when they folded due to unforeseen circumstances, a fact which the owner never acknowledged, in fact he sniped away during the period of 2000-2003 when clarehurlers was in its heyday

That really bugged the shoite out of me too. It was the closing of ClareHurlers that made AnFearRua - And he would never acknowledge it.

His ultimate downfall was his complete inability to moderate. He could ban someone for saying something fairly mild about someone he happened to like, while allowing shocking slanderous posts stay up about people he didn't care about himself.

Also, he made no attempt to clear out the obvious wummers which turned a lot of people off the forum. At any one time, at least half the topics on the front page were obvious wums.

And even when he did ban someone, sure they would just re-register again 2 minutes later.

I will miss it for local (Clare) GAA info. The only time I would log onto it in the last few years would be after a round of County Championship matches to see how they went, who played well etc.

At the end of the day, fair play to him for having a go at it anyway and best of luck to him in the future.

P.S. The Apes on TFK are really showing their class today

The guy just loved talking down to people, that's what I found the worst about him. Also got very precious over silly things. Should have delegated moderation duties to a few trusted lieutenants instead of keeping all the 'power' himself. Just couldn't let go and the site suffered really badly from idiots and wums in recent years. There were some cracking posters there a few years ago and the craic was good. Fellas like Gunther, Hud, Shannonsider, Sid Wallace etc but they all seemed to drift away or get banned or whatever and you were just left with the lunatic fringe.

Sad to see it go, was a good forum on general stuff. But attracted fools like Bressie/Nurofen etc, and worst of all was that idiot Cerebus who tried to join in every topic with a smart comment and was horribly unfunny.

Was a good forum, but ruined recently by Wums, and now it's gone.

Shame, i initially moved to anfearrua when upthedeise was on the way down. It was once a great site but i stopped reading it recently as the amount of WUMs on it was ridiculous. For a message board to work you need a team of volunteers to moderate, you'd go mental trying to do it on your own.

He really seemed to be losing it in the last year. He moaned about so many soccer threads, had a vote to remove them, then he didnt when the vote was passed. Then he went off deleting perfectly good threads about GAA.
It was beset with a few personalities (probably from TFK) who kept re-registering and posting rubbish. You had the boy who named himself after unionist politicians and posted anti GAA and anti Irish threads. A south Dublin type who hated 'gah' and always had his 'GAA Shame' threads and told how great Leinster Rugby were and how awful FF voting culchies were. The fashionista Celeb gossip guy who was also the arch 'grace of god' Munster rugby type and then the arch GAA bigot who posted articles about soccer and rugby players getting into trouble. He didnt deal with this and allowed the site to lose credibility. Still i enjoyed posting despite all this, i tried to get some football discussion going as it seemed to be lacking at times.

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

I was there for the duration. Some of the Offaly posters were on the defensive side but on the whole I enjoyed it. Lack of moderators was its downfall.

Lack of moderators a big problem, there were plenty of lads who could've carried out the job therfore making Cahill's life easier and the site better, but there was to be only one Duce.
That being said I enjoyed the site for years despite it's faults and wish Mr.Cahill the best for the future.