irishblue

I'm not on either list, but if it's not too late, my team name is 'Kildare Blues FC'. Sorry I haven't been posting as much lately, by the way. I'll try to be more active.

Here's my entry. It's pretty much the same as the one I posted for the graphics competition last June apart from a few obvious changes so that's why some of you may recognise it. If anyone has any suggestions for changing it in some way, they'd be more than welcome and if I can come up with something else before the deadline, I might post that instead. I haven't been able to post much over this season because I've been busy with school and it will most likely stay that way until the middle of June. Anyway, best of luck to the other entrants and I hope that the show is a major success! Version 5:

Happy Birthday Jaimin!

Happy Birthday to both of you!

Group A Poland Greece Russia Czech Republic Group B The Netherlands Denmark Germany Portugal Group C Spain Italy Republic of Ireland Croatia Group D Ukraine Sweden France England Very tough group for us. England do have a very good chance to go through though. Most Irish people wanted both countries in the same group.

It's been ages since I last updated this and I should really have updated it for the major matches but didn't so better late that ever, even if no one pays much attention to this thread anyway. I'll try and keep it brief as I can too for once. All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final 2011 Kilkenny 2-17 Tipperary 1-16 The third year in a row these two played each other. After losing out to Tipperary and missing out on five in a row last year, the Cats got their revenge this time around. Henry Shefflin, as usual, played a huge part and the fact that they couldn't have his full participation last year was probably what made the biggest impact. All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final 2011 Dublin 1-12 Kerry 1-11 Finally, after sixteen years of disappointment having not won, Dublin won their 23rd championship ever. A close enough game from what I recall and the score there pretty much proves that. What sealed it in literally the dying minutes of the game was Stephen Cluxton's free facing the Dublin fans in Hill 16. He's a goalkeeper but often takes frees for Dublin and is arguably the best goalkeeper in the country at the moment. A lot of people questioned that free at the time, but I didn't and I'm not going to begrudge Dublin their win regardless. Cluxton never went up for the trophy presentation and went straight to the dressing room after the game finished, which was unusual, especially having scored the winning point. Composite Rules (Shinty-Hurling) First leg Ireland 1-16 Scotland 2-8 I personally found this game to be very dull considering how both sports can actually be very lively. I didn't go to the game despite the fact it wasn't actually that far from me, being played in Athy. Very few prominent hurling players were on to the Ireland team but there was a few Kildare players on it which was good to see from my point of view. I'm not so sure about shinty and what players made it on the Scottish team however. Ireland had a bit of an advantage especially with how awful the weather was that day. Second leg Ireland 2-9 Scotland 1-11 This game was played in Inverness and was much more entertaining. How Ireland won that is beyond me, considering Scotland were all over us for the vast majority of the match and Ireland only really drove on in the last ten minutes. Being on home territory really did seem to make a huge impact on this game. Ireland did have a few prominent players playing for this one, but still not many. Total Ireland 3-25 Scotland 3-19 International Rules (Gaelic Football-Australian Rules Football) First leg Ireland 80 Australia 36 I really can't comment much on this game having not actually seen it. It would seem though that Australia don't take this game very seriously, or didn't this year at least. There are a few AFL fans on here, so perhaps they could tell me if any attention is paid to these games over there? It was still a good result for Ireland I guess. Kildare's Eamonn Callaghan scored a goal which was good to hear, but one major disadvantage was Emmet Bolton getting a concussion. He recovered quickly enough afterwards though I believe. Ireland's AFL players were meant to have made a big impact too. Second leg Ireland 50 Australia 29 I was really poorly timed for when these were on and was away for this one, so once again, I can't comment much. From what I heard, Australia were more physical in this which could be suggested by the much closer scoreline. Wicklow's Leighton Glynn scored Ireland's goal, which in fact was the only one of the game. No injuries for either team unlike in the first test match. Total Ireland 130 Australia 65 I'll finish off on a note I already mentioned earlier in this thread - Celebrity Bainisteoir. As I'd already said, Tony Cascarino managed Laois club Killeshin and not only that, but went on to win the competition outright, beating former Irish politician Paul Gogarty's Oughterard of Galway 0-18 to 0-15 after extra time. That's a bit of a summary of the end of the GAA inter-county season for 2011, with the 2012 season picking up in January. Most counties now have their club championships at all levels over, so it's on to the beginning of the provincial club championships.

The Republic of Ireland beat Estonia 4-0 away in the Euro 2012 play-off first leg. Keith Andrews scored early enough in the first half with a header. Jonathan Walters headed in too about mid way through the second half after a sloppy save attempt from Pareiko, the Estonian 'keeper. Robbie Keane soon followed with a goal and scored again from the penalty spot in the 88th minute. Damien Duff took a bit of a knock, but they say he should be fit for Tuesday's second leg in the Aviva. Not a good night for Estonia at all and while they probably could have had some chances of their own, as the second half went on, it just seemed to get worse. Along with that scoreline, they were reduced to nine men while three others got yellow cards as well.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Jim!

If you're using Firefox, right-click the image and click 'Copy Image Location' and then like Super-Frank said, click on this icon and paste the link in and it should work. Chrome, Opera and Safari are more-or-less the same as Firefox, but it's 'Copy Image URL' (Chrome) and 'Copy Image Address' (Opera and Safari) instead. It seems to be a bit more awkward on Internet Explorer. The only way I can find (because I don't use it any more) is that you right-click the image, select 'Properties' down at the bottom and then find 'Address (URL)' and copy the link from there. I've covered all of the main browsers there so hopefully I've been of some assistance.

It's been like that since last Saturday at the very least, which was when I first noticed it.

Happy Birthday Steve!

That kit was from 2009/10 season.

Source - BBC Sport

I would assume so, but other than that article there has been no mention of it anywhere else and definitely nothing from either Chelsea or Celtic. It could still be that rumour I mentioned earlier although there is some more detail to that article so it's hard to tell.