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What else would we do?" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/H2FFAEO2DQLWAXHZT7AGOUO4MA.jpg?smart=true&auth=a73fb9000e3eb0953ca22685026e3f13d8bba5b07aeb8442841d0d07385c3073&width=800&height=533" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/H2FFAEO2DQLWAXHZT7AGOUO4MA.jpg?smart=true&auth=a73fb9000e3eb0953ca22685026e3f13d8bba5b07aeb8442841d0d07385c3073&width=400&height=266 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/H2FFAEO2DQLWAXHZT7AGOUO4MA.jpg?smart=true&auth=a73fb9000e3eb0953ca22685026e3f13d8bba5b07aeb8442841d0d07385c3073&width=600&height=399 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/H2FFAEO2DQLWAXHZT7AGOUO4MA.jpg?smart=true&auth=a73fb9000e3eb0953ca22685026e3f13d8bba5b07aeb8442841d0d07385c3073&width=800&height=533 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/H2FFAEO2DQLWAXHZT7AGOUO4MA.jpg?smart=true&auth=a73fb9000e3eb0953ca22685026e3f13d8bba5b07aeb8442841d0d07385c3073&width=1200&height=799 1200w" width="800" height="533"/></figure></a><hr class="c-divider"/></article></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">This emerging consensus demonstrates the strength of feeling that something needed to be done to address the state of football, as well as the bona fides of the committee and its chair.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Members of the committee will privately suggest that this consensus partly derives from the extent of the consultations that have taken place – and that’s plausible – but there is a further factor. Whereas there are some disagreements with certain of the report’s proposals, there is no broad agreement on specifics. Everyone’s quibbles are different.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fuQba8T6Jr6YD-3-4-3-bef452b7a4a87" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fuQba8T6Jr6YD-3-4-3-bef452b7a4a87" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Again the Football Review Committee has been proactive. As soon as anything like a disagreement emerged from the interprovincial trial matches in October the decision was taken to discontinue the four-point goal as fears were being expressed that matches could end up getting away from teams.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The committee’s view that weekend in Croke Park was that uncompetitive matches were a function of more than scoring values but they responded to the first signs of trouble.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Whereas there is a positive outlook for at least the preponderance of the rule changes, the first part of Saturday morning’s clár, an enabling motion, may trigger the most intense debate. This specifies that the whatever rules are adopted should have universal application and not just at intercounty level.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">There have been anxieties expressed within certain units that rolling out the changes at club level throughout the country would be too challenging in terms of player education and pressure on local referees.</p><div class=" paywall"><figure class="c-media-item"><div style="aspect-ratio:800 / 450;background-color:var(--global-neutral-1)" class=""><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Former Kerry All-Ireland winning player and manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice. There is an understandable desire not to have the games at intercounty and club diverge too much. Photograph: Cathal Noonan/Inpho" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5DQMP5PKH7K2Z4AMLL4DOXATWY.jpg?auth=015362601fce417b3b98693d322db75e199861ba311dac2819497fb1336a79a6&width=800&height=450" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5DQMP5PKH7K2Z4AMLL4DOXATWY.jpg?auth=015362601fce417b3b98693d322db75e199861ba311dac2819497fb1336a79a6&width=400&height=225 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5DQMP5PKH7K2Z4AMLL4DOXATWY.jpg?auth=015362601fce417b3b98693d322db75e199861ba311dac2819497fb1336a79a6&width=440&height=247 440w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5DQMP5PKH7K2Z4AMLL4DOXATWY.jpg?auth=015362601fce417b3b98693d322db75e199861ba311dac2819497fb1336a79a6&width=800&height=450 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5DQMP5PKH7K2Z4AMLL4DOXATWY.jpg?auth=015362601fce417b3b98693d322db75e199861ba311dac2819497fb1336a79a6&width=1024&height=576 1024w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5DQMP5PKH7K2Z4AMLL4DOXATWY.jpg?auth=015362601fce417b3b98693d322db75e199861ba311dac2819497fb1336a79a6&width=1440&height=810 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 400px, (max-width: 440px) 440px, (max-width: 800px) 800px, (max-width: 1024px) 1024px, (min-width: 1025px) 1440px" width="800" height="450"/></div><figcaption class="c-media-item__fig-caption"><span class="c-media-item__caption">Former Kerry All-Ireland winning player and manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice. There is an understandable desire not to have the games at intercounty and club diverge too much. Photograph: Cathal Noonan/Inpho </span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Confusion for match officials is a live possibility. One statistic being nudged around during the week is that 40 per cent of local referees officiate at both football and hurling, making greater divergence between the games more problematic.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">A variety of officials have suggested that greenlighting the assessment of the new rules in next year’s league and championship is the main purpose of the special congress and that this should not be jeopardised by a desire for universal implementation.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fVXNppHnA0bqg-3-4-4-a1677bffd585d" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fVXNppHnA0bqg-3-4-4-a1677bffd585d" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">There is disagreement on the matter, though. The Football Review Committee is adamant that the rule enhancements should apply everywhere.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall"><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/29/frc-want-to-see-successful-new-rules-applied-at-both-club-and-county-level-in-2025/" target="_blank">Speaking to Gordon Manning this week on these pages</a>, former Kerry All-Ireland winning player and manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice made the following point.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“One of the big games for Kerry in the National League next year will be Armagh coming down in March to play on a Saturday night. You’ll have a lot of club players attending that game. But then the next day you could have a scenario where those same lads are going out playing a club game and they are encountering 15 players behind the ball and so they are not getting a chance to experience what they watched the night before.”</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">There is an understandable desire not to have the games at intercounty and club diverge too much and for that side of the argument having significantly different playing rules would be a step too far. It is also argued by the Football Review Committee that counties have a derogation until the end of March if they feel it necessary.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">It will be a debate worth following, as it may indicate how enthusiastic the delegates are about the report in general, as well as whether they intend to decouple the intercounty game from club activity. Current best estimates are that the committee’s recommendation will carry even if narrowly.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The Football Review Committee has grouped the motions into 17 categories – not counting the enabling motion which starts the congress. They are listed below.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fYKctXj7wt6xL-3-4-5-c9c64e42c5f33" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fYKctXj7wt6xL-3-4-5-c9c64e42c5f33" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">For some, including a few players who took part in the interprovincials, the changes to the kick-out, requiring it to clear the new 40-metre arc, and the 3/3 structure, mandating teams to keep at least three outfield players inside each half of the pitch, are the key provisions and everything else is ancillary.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">There are reservations about the 40-metre arc rule that awards two points for kicks over the bar from that distance but the Football Review Committee is proceeding cautiously with a review due after the 2025 league as well as championship.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Other reforms that have proved popular include the disciplinary crackdown on gamesmanship and disrespect for match officials – punishable by advancing a free 50 metres. Only captains are to be allowed communicate with the referee, which may create problems in a game with no set plays or at least increase the likelihood of middle third players being obvious choices to lead teams.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Anything too urgent for the scheduled reviews is covered by the facility of asking Central Council to implement “patches” if some of the rule enhancements end up causing unwelcome unforeseen consequences.</p><h5 class="b-it-article-body__h5 paywall"><b>Grouping of motions:</b></h5><p class="c-paragraph paywall"><b>Enabling Motion (motion number 1)</b></p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">1 v 1 throw-in (2, 3, 4)</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0f6RPR7vA01bMt-3-4-6-15808491fb4ab7" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0f6RPR7vA01bMt-3-4-6-15808491fb4ab7" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Kick-outs (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Goalkeeper (13, 14, 15)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">3/3 structure (16, 17, 18)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Advanced mark (19)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Scoring (20, 21, 22)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Delay fouls (23, 24, 25)</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fTB5060bBt6oG-3-4-7-d72d0da5102ff" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:728px"><div id="arcad_f0fTB5060bBt6oG-3-4-7-d72d0da5102ff" class="arcad ad-728x90"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Solo and go (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Black card (33)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Fouls (34, 35)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Advantage (36)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Dissent (37, 38, 39)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Captain (40, 41)</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Pitch markings (42, 43, 44, 45)</p><p 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Even if it’s a little disjointed at times, it’s always thoughtful and always probing, chasing the elusive why.","type":"text"},{"_id":"77IJR6ZO3VDGXF4YNAVEH4OVRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877218681},"content":"<b>A Farewell To The Fairways by Dermot Gilleece (Red Stripe Press, €19.99)</b> is a gorgeous sign-off from the doyen of Irish golf writers. Gilleece graced the pages of just about every paper in town over the course of six decades and this is his reflection on it all. The words are exacting and precise now as they ever were, needless to say.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMJRM72JIBC7TDKAAWFWLXULAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877218682},"content":"On which note, <b>The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2024 edited by Jane McManus (Triumph Books, €24.00)</b> isn’t to be missed. Get it for the Sally Jenkins masterpiece on Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert – Bitter Rivals. Beloved Friends. Survivors – which genuinely worth the cover price all by itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTKY4SVQHJDGLFBENPT66TYHQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877218637},"content":"<mark class=\"hl_yellow\"><b>The Kids</b></mark>","type":"header"},{"_id":"HSCMGTWYTJBNXHVKXVGVVOUYAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877218685},"content":"Never has there been a greater spread of sports books aimed at young people, from illustrated histories to biographies to YA novels and beyond. <b>The Story of Irish Rugby by Gerard Siggins (O’Brien, €19.99)</b> is the perfect primer for a young person just getting into the game, artfully written by Siggins, author of the popular Rugby Spirit series. Beautifully illustrated by Graham Corcoran, it’s a must for any rugby mad youngster.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLRSKZ6KWNGQDJKXNCXOGKDOPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877218686},"content":"<b>Ireland’s Call by Paul O’Flynn (Gill, €14.99) </b>is a lightly fictionalised retelling of the 2024 Grand Slam, aimed at the 8-11 year-old age range. It keeps to the general story of the Six Nations campaign and scatters a few imagined conversation between players and coaches throughout.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5XFAKKDRNCR7DGYXYMDFOR6ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877218687},"content":"And for younger readers – or older ones who want to read to them – <b>‘Twas The Match Before Christmas by Julianne McKeigue (O’Brien, €16.99)</b> is a lot of fun. A reworking of the most famous Christmas poem of them all, it’s set in Croke Park and illustrated by Brian Fitzgerald. Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Malachy Clerkin"}},"name":"Malachy Clerkin"}]},"description":{"basic":"Johnny Sexon, Joe Canning and Richie Hogan all have highly readable offerings and Miguel Delaney’s book on the hijacking of modern football is not to be missed"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Sports Books of the Year: Conor Niland’s The Racket the best in a year dominated by autobiographies","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HSQIAFL7CBDJFPMAUYCWFBEUM4","auth":{"1":"57955f1488272f7f96f48ea653fd839cbf4942161db89faa479143c41e53601b"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HSQIAFL7CBDJFPMAUYCWFBEUM4.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Tennis"},{"name":"Athletics"},{"name":"Boxing"},{"name":"Cycling"},{"name":"Gaelic Games"},{"name":"Golf"},{"name":"Hockey"},{"name":"Racing"},{"name":"Rugby"},{"name":"Soccer"},{"name":"Sport"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/sport/tennis/2024/11/30/conor-nilands-the-racket-is-the-best-sports-book-in-a-year-dominated-by-autobiographies/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/sport/tennis","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Tennis"}}}},{"_id":"GAV742HQQVGEJL5RNKKNC7EKDU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":275,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/c19a99b9-778f-48de-acda-4e9cf1a9b477/versions/1732899496/media/96c3954015195fa331cde8b0b6b866a7_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/30/cuala-likely-to-shade-it-over-st-marys-as-they-seem-to-have-the-priceless-ability-to-find-a-way/","content_elements":[{"_id":"SD3HJB54AZGTLLW2O5GMNDVBFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887180},"content":"<mark class=\"hl_yellow\"><b>Saturday</b></mark>","type":"header"},{"_id":"MSGERYFWRFAVTPPFFOMLHKI7CE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887181},"content":"<b>Leinster Club SFC final: St Marys Ardee (Louth) v Cuala (Dublin), Croke Park, 5.45pm – </b>St Mary’s arrive in the final as an unknown quantity in the sense that few expected them to beat St Loman’s in the semi-final, but looked at in the context of the past couple of seasons they have laid down markers. A year ago their recovery against All-Ireland champions Kilmacud was ascribed to a wind-assisted but doomed comeback after the match had effectively been put away. Yet they outscored the champions by 1-5 to nil in the third quarter to get the margin back to two.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGBM2P4VO5EDTCN6BOZOEZ6N2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887182},"content":"They have a capable manager in Cathal Murray, and have been making improvements to the team which has pace and – as demonstrated in the semi-final when falling behind early on – composure and economy, evident in a tally of just one wide in Mullingar and the nerveless strike by Seán Callaghan to win it at the end – as well as some serious county players: Donal McKenny was nominated for an All Star and Ciarán Keenan, key to last year’s revival, was again excellent against Loman’s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QS65NVWGEJD5RKKEKXWRYRI4NA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887183},"content":"Cuala had an edgy enough contest with Tullamore, who challenged throughout. St Mary’s will have noticed the Dubliners’ discomfort when defending against running attacks but the difference may well be at the other end. Just as his brother Niall did in the quarter-final, Con O’Callaghan drove the scoreboard at critical stages. They should have scored more goals but were able to raise flags whenever threatened. Their opponents, trying to take Louth off the list of three counties not to have won a Leinster club title, will give it a shot but you’d have to favour the Dalkey club, who have so far displayed the priceless ability to find a way. <b>Verdict: </b>Cuala","type":"text"},{"_id":"DR3VFKUWANDFBGN7MOU74QICSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887184},"content":"<b>Leinster Club SHC final: Na Fianna (Dublin) v Kilcormac-Killoughey (Offaly), Croke Park, 7.50pm [Live, RTÉ2] – </b>Both teams found it tough in the semi-finals although Na Fianna probably had more in hand at the end. Kilcormac emerged with a late Adam Screeney goal to see off a buoyant Castletown. Their blend of experience and rising talent should be well suited by the venue and its excellent surface. The Dublin champions have the experience of last year’s narrow defeat by O’Loughlin Gaels to guide them – and Dónal Burke is fit and firing this season – but you would imagine they’ll need to raise their game a bit on last week while hanging on to the determination and resilience. Their defence, Seán Burke and Conor McHugh especially, was excellent against Martin’s, and they will need to be again. <b>Verdict: </b>Na Fianna","type":"text"},{"_id":"7D6H2SJ2FJFH7H46IYWRE7FTVE","additional_properties":{"_id":"GFCV4K42NJDGZC43VXBL2YEFHI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SD3HJB54AZGTLLW2O5GMNDVBFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887186},"content":"<mark class=\"hl_yellow\"><b>Sunday</b></mark>","type":"header"},{"_id":"M6ELWASC6FHHLMKA6VT2MPR2HQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887187},"content":"<b>Ulster Club SHC final: Portaferry (Down) v Slaughtneil (Derry), Box-It Athletic Grounds, 5pm [Live, TG4] – </b>The semi-final win over champions Cushendall was a resounding retort to anyone who thought Slaughtneil may have missed their chance. By the reckoning of quite a few decent judges they should be second favourites after Ballygunner for the All-Ireland. Former football All Star Brendan Rogers has proven against the highest quality opposition what an exceptional forward he is, and the former champions have the depth to get past a Portaferry team, which has won three-in-a-row in Down and was unlucky not to derail Cushendall last year. <b>Verdict: </b>Slaughtneil","type":"text"},{"_id":"NAU2244GGJF6BCJTIXLDETYWE4","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZHUNDKRU3NEP5KTQFAQEMKPVXU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"E5VWMDSZMRAJDHE3X3ET4WEWBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887189},"content":"<b>Munster Club SHC final: Sarsfields (Cork) v Ballygunner (Waterford), Semple Stadium, 3.15 [Live, TG4] – </b>Cork representatives Sarsfields are even longer odds than Portaferry in the Ulster final. The clubs met in last year’s championship with Ballygunner winning by 17 points. Perhaps the Sarsfields challenge will be more robust this time as they have reached the final. The champions – chasing a four-in-a-row – challenged as they were by Loughmore in the semi-final, were still able to run out double-digit winners. Can Sarsfields get a better grip on Dessie Hutchinson and Patrick Fitzgerald than they managed a year ago? And if they can what about the rest of the artillery? <b>Verdict: </b>Ballygunner","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT2YO2AEPFCYNIV5BMW4WKPOU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896887190},"content":"<b>Connacht Club SFC final: Coolera-Strandhill (Sligo) v Pádraig Pearses (Roscommon), Markievicz Park, 1.15pm [Live, TG4] –</b> Coolera-Strandhill struck a blow for Sligo when eliminating Ballina on penalties in the provincial semi-final and becoming only the second club from the county in 15 years to even get to the final. Pearses were champions just three years ago and are a solid unit between the Dalys and Paul Carey’s reliably productive play up front. For all Coolera’s heroics in countering and then beating the Mayo champions, this looks a step too far. <b>Verdict: </b>Pádraig Pearses","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Seán Moran"}},"name":"Seán Moran"}]},"description":{"basic":"Can Sarsfields give Ballygunner a more robust challenge than they managed a year ago?"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Cuala likely to shade it over St Mary’s as they seem to have the priceless ability to find a way","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"L3UJATTIHJH7FISSAC3FAKBEHQ","auth":{"1":"d98a181f4456a3603a9e2541716f513499831586558cbafe9799d6b77f2305da"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/L3UJATTIHJH7FISSAC3FAKBEHQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Gaelic Games"},{"name":"Sport"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/30/cuala-likely-to-shade-it-over-st-marys-as-they-seem-to-have-the-priceless-ability-to-find-a-way/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/sport/gaelic-games","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Gaelic Games"}}}},{"_id":"LMSOV7JS5BGU7CBGRHXZIJFE4U","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":344,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/66d7a484-a639-4789-82c2-89d96fa52892/versions/1732899727/media/2255e7533b93247f74b0ec019cf4d024_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/30/malachy-clerkin-whatever-happens-tonight-na-fianna-will-celebrate-it-what-else-would-we-do/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6AEW7XMMGRBWBM2CUAUPMFP4LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476001},"content":"Life comes at you fast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MDG66KRN6NAUZEAKZ6CZIYLTHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476002},"content":"One day, you’re a card-carrying culchie – usually a Mass card that the mother gave you with a picture on it of a neighbour you haven’t heard tell of since you were 19, but sure look it’s no hardship to keep it in the wallet for six months and surely to God the poor divil will be through security by then. Then you wake up one morning and you’re a jewel and darlin’ Dub, a city sham, a hair’s breadth away from canvassing for The Monk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2W3UF4SKFGGHDPJPPECZCGU7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476003},"content":"That’s how it felt in our house this week, anyway. For we are a Na Fianna house, Dubs to the bone. Blue and yellow flag hanging out the window, windscreen sticker on the car, MyHome.ie notifications enabled on the phone to keep abreast of the latest house-price moves. As we say around here, our club is set in the heart of Glasnevin or Finglas East, depending on whether you’re buying or selling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQDRANTBEJG5JPE5LTRFPTAAQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476004},"content":"Our club. That’s the shocking thing, the bit that still takes a bit of getting used to. We are blow-ins, rampaging culchie settlers. We are far from alone in that – plenty of Na Fianna parents still kit our kids out in the jerseys of our forebears, whether said kids are fully behind the idea or not. Our young lady spent some of her Communion money this summer on a half-and-half Dublin/Monaghan number. Or Monaghan/Dublin number, to give it its proper title.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJFGWCOWIBCNRNBPJR4PKESIM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476005},"content":"So many of us grew up in other clubs in other parts of the country. But though we’d be slow to admit to being Dubs now, we are (mostly) resigned to the fact that we are raising Dubs. The elastic that drags us back to our clubs of origin will never completely snap but the tension eases over time and eventually we have to face up to it. We are who we are.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3R3XNMJ5LBHONGJQ3LXRIBIMLA","additional_properties":{"_id":"7WXKJRRQBREDNB2KJZOJO4AEZE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"7RG6Q6RKXZELFLG5O7YUYFWPTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476006},"content":"And if we were ever in any doubt, this was the week that brought it home. Nothing will tell you who you are quicker than the outside world fitting you for a black hat and taking potshots in your general direction. You can’t know how much you care until circumstances inform you that actually you care quite a lot.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESZRUUT2DZCQFJC2G7XG37XWY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476007},"content":"It all came about because of a post on the Na Fianna social media pages during the week. We’re in the Leinster club hurling final on tonight and so the club is making a big day of it. Santa is coming to the nursery this morning, the Ireland-Aussie rugby match will be on in the bar in the afternoon, there’s a fan zone with face-painting and DJs and so on, all leading up to us marching together down to Croke Park for the game. So far, so wholesome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H4NK3PIGSRB5NF2LJ4FVX3OK7E","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"XDL7SKIJ4NCQBILQZ556ZB7UJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476009},"content":"The kerfuffle came about because of the last line of the post. ‘10pm: Team Welcome Home, DJ & Celebrations until Late!’","type":"text"},{"_id":"5MY7D3FXTVDEVJS2AFW6ML6CAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476010},"content":"And of course, anyone who ever had anything to do with a GAA club – or indeed any sports team ever – can guess what happened next. The word “celebrations” was taken to mean that Na Fianna had already decided that victory was a given. Offaly champions Kilcormac-Killoughey needn’t bother turning up at all. Send the cup up to Mobhi Road now and let the Croke Park staff go on away home after the Cuala crowd get back in their limos.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORYVYUVPTNBAVAMKAIQJ2QQCWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476011},"content":"“Arrogance,” pronounced one chap online. “Hope ye get trounced by KK. Arrogance with celebrations til late a week before the game,” said another. “Imagine they mentioned a rugby match too and they in a Leinster final only hours after, hope Kilcormac do the job,” said a third. A rugby match! Imagine!","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PMTFDU5FVGQPOPIUVWFJUEN3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476012},"content":"Here’s the thing. For the vast, vast majority of my sports-watching life, I would have had more or less the same reaction. Celebrations until late? That’s more of it, now. Typical stuck-up, snotty Dubs, dismissing the turnip-eaters from beyond the M50 without a second thought. The usual superclub shite from a crowd that have got way too big for their boots.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGWIMRIIFFDEFFRV7SITFI3ECU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476013},"content":"I’d have been rolling my eyes and sending it around endless WhatsApp groups, pointing out that Kilcormac-Killoughey actually have a Leinster title to their name whereas Na Fianna were never even in a Dublin final until 2021. I’d have been laughing like a drain and looking up clips of Adam Screeney and getting stuck into the 7/4 price about the Offaly champions. You mean, not only are they an arrogant shower but there’s money to be made too? Sign me up!","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZPM3ISWFHZCDTNVTWBCVGXRQRM","additional_properties":{"_id":"UP2BDULQRZE2JCJVP5T22UFWR4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2N7DJ7BKAJD3NF56VVNKDSC52Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476014},"content":"But instead, my instinct was to stand up for my people. No, no, no – ye’ve taken us up completely wrong here. The celebrations aren’t for any Leinster title. They’re for the journey we’ve been on. This is our 10th game of the championship – if you had any idea how close we’ve come in those games to not being here, you’d see that.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCGFAC6AIJAKPLPELZWZ3DVDZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476015},"content":"Of our seven games in the Dublin championship, four ended with a lead change in injury-time. Lucan beat us with a length-of-the-field goal in the 64th minute, leaving us third in our five-team group – nobody was talking about Leinster title celebrations that day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYXUCFZILZG3XM7GDEJXZRCYWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476016},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.dublingaa.ie/news/na-fianna-edges-st-vincents-in-thrilling-extra-time-clash\" target=\"_blank\">We needed extra-time to beat Vincent’s</a>. Crokes had us gone until Ciarán Stacey’s goal with nine seconds of the final left. Last week against St Martin’s of Wexford, we were a point down against the wind going into the final quarter before <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/24/na-fianna-ride-out-the-storm-to-reach-a-second-leinster-final/\" target=\"_blank\">we stitched together the sort of rat-a-tat stick-passing goal we’ve been threatening to score all year</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6CAFDA6PJD5RORTHE2CI4NWOI","additional_properties":{"_id":"SMQYDS3IH5FSPEOD3IJJDCVDZM"},"content":"Dublin SHC final: Late Stacey goal seals the deal for Na Fianna in blistering comeback against Kilmacud Crokes","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YCWQBQMMNJFYFDOGQRBYUK4JQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476018},"content":"It’s been an amazing four months, it really has. Our under-nine girls have been heading over and back to Parnell Park throughout it and the only downside to the whole thing is that we haven’t got a road trip out of it. That would nearly be the biggest prize for winning – a jaunt to an All-Ireland semi-final somewhere down the country would be deadly for them. But if the road ends here, so be it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KE3NMONMDFBGDFVYX7WTRO3RCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732896476019},"content":"Whatever happens tonight, we’ll celebrate it. What else would we do?","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Malachy Clerkin"}},"name":"Malachy Clerkin"}]},"description":{"basic":"Turns out you don’t know you belong to a club until the club gets fitted for a black hat and people start taking potshots at it"},"display_date":"2024-11-30T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Malachy Clerkin: Whatever happens tonight, Na Fianna will celebrate it. 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As one official predicted: “The sort of people that go to congress are the sort that will need to be home for the fifth count.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FKPSDN64WVFY5MUUPR5APVIU44","additional_properties":{"_id":1732907780125},"content":"What it has done to an extent is suck the oxygen out of the room. Saturday Sport will not be broadcast this weekend as Radio 1 will be covering the outcome of the election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24E756GQVBHMDPKXWKKSK2A2QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732907780126},"content":"If this has fed into a waning focus on the future of football that also reflects the highly successful campaign that has been waged on behalf of the rule changes or enhancements. In the lead-up to this weekend’s deliberations the tension has gone out of the likely outcome. There have been no canaries dropping dead in the mine and the bulk of the proposals are expected to be accepted even with the requirement of a weighted majority.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWF6B5NVANHGVDZ2FYHE7BOWWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732907780128},"content":"This emerging consensus demonstrates the strength of feeling that something needed to be done to address the state of football, as well as the bona fides of the committee and its chair.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XMP5PDE6VFAV3FJVWJVYDHJZCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732907780129},"content":"Members of the committee will privately suggest that this consensus partly derives from the extent of the consultations that have taken place – and that’s plausible – but there is a further factor. Whereas there are some disagreements with certain of the report’s proposals, there is no broad agreement on specifics. Everyone’s quibbles are different.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VN4I5A5JI5AZXD7VXG67DLHWIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732907780131},"content":"Again the Football Review Committee has been proactive. As soon as anything like a disagreement emerged from the interprovincial trial matches in October the decision was taken to discontinue the four-point goal as fears were being expressed that matches could end up getting away from teams.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5FJY3JS7YRGTTBM64JG5V3C6RM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732907780132},"content":"The committee’s view that weekend in Croke Park was that uncompetitive matches were a function of more than scoring values but they responded to the first signs of trouble.","type":"text"},{"_id":"62FBU6DQIZFURNU5A2YRKOKWHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732907780133},"content":"Whereas there is a positive outlook for at least the preponderance of the rule changes, the first part of Saturday morning’s clár, an enabling motion, may trigger the most intense debate. 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