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This template was far too garish, so I have modified it to something much more subtle whilst retaining the Northern Irish flavour about it. -- Bob 21:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, with regards to your statement of soccer being more popular than Gaelic football, I'm afraid I have to disagree. In most of Ireland, the majority of townlands have their own Gaelic football teams, and if not, then their parish does. Catholic Primary schools, as with Catholic grammar and high schools all have their own teams too. Drive a few miles through a rural area in anywhere but a town with a vast protestant majority, and you're sure to see a Gaelic football field. Granted, if you mean by the amount of money that's spent on games, you may be right, as the IFA has a few professional players, but in terms of supporters, players, pitches, clubs or anything else you care to mention, Gaelic football is huge. Most townlands have at least seven male Gaelic football teams. Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16, Minors, Seniers, and reserves. Lavey in County Londonderry has twenty three Gaelic teams (that includes hurling and camogie, however), and that's fairly typical. In the Ulster Gaelic mens football final this year, between 70-80,000 supporters were there. In one of the largest ever soccer game in Northern Ireland (attendince wise) (n. Ireland vs. England last october), there were 14,000 supporters, and that was an International game! To press further, look at television coverage. Only International Northern Ireland games in soccer, are the games ever shown live, whereas even school Gaelic football matches are shown live occasionally on BBC (never mind the county matches!). Every single game that a county plays, the stadiums are at least half full. Compare that to the muddy pitches with a few hundred supporters that are seen as professional games in soccer. Sorry for going on a bit of a rant here, but I want to get the point across, that soccer is in no way, shape or form bigger in Northern Ireland than Gaelic football is. Looking forward to a well thought out reply. I have seen your edits and contributions before, and I know you're generally a logical man. Pauric 21:44, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I replaced the flag of the former government with an outline of Northern Ireland, as Keithgreer suggested at Talk:Northern Ireland#flag. However, another editor immediately reverted it with the comment see Northern Ireland. What do you think? -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 08:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
The former flag used for Northern Ireland has no legal status, and shouldn't be used, it should be replaced with the outline of the map of the area.-- padraig3uk 00:58, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I wanted to improve the template but couldn't (yet) due to undocumented (or opaque) hidden variables. Can anyone enable editing of?:
Society links to (somehow-there is nothing in )
I managed to add Invest NI in that section. DadaNeem ( talk) 19:48, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Northern Ireland topics template. |
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Northern Ireland Template‑class | |||||||
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This template was far too garish, so I have modified it to something much more subtle whilst retaining the Northern Irish flavour about it. -- Bob 21:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, with regards to your statement of soccer being more popular than Gaelic football, I'm afraid I have to disagree. In most of Ireland, the majority of townlands have their own Gaelic football teams, and if not, then their parish does. Catholic Primary schools, as with Catholic grammar and high schools all have their own teams too. Drive a few miles through a rural area in anywhere but a town with a vast protestant majority, and you're sure to see a Gaelic football field. Granted, if you mean by the amount of money that's spent on games, you may be right, as the IFA has a few professional players, but in terms of supporters, players, pitches, clubs or anything else you care to mention, Gaelic football is huge. Most townlands have at least seven male Gaelic football teams. Under 10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16, Minors, Seniers, and reserves. Lavey in County Londonderry has twenty three Gaelic teams (that includes hurling and camogie, however), and that's fairly typical. In the Ulster Gaelic mens football final this year, between 70-80,000 supporters were there. In one of the largest ever soccer game in Northern Ireland (attendince wise) (n. Ireland vs. England last october), there were 14,000 supporters, and that was an International game! To press further, look at television coverage. Only International Northern Ireland games in soccer, are the games ever shown live, whereas even school Gaelic football matches are shown live occasionally on BBC (never mind the county matches!). Every single game that a county plays, the stadiums are at least half full. Compare that to the muddy pitches with a few hundred supporters that are seen as professional games in soccer. Sorry for going on a bit of a rant here, but I want to get the point across, that soccer is in no way, shape or form bigger in Northern Ireland than Gaelic football is. Looking forward to a well thought out reply. I have seen your edits and contributions before, and I know you're generally a logical man. Pauric 21:44, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I replaced the flag of the former government with an outline of Northern Ireland, as Keithgreer suggested at Talk:Northern Ireland#flag. However, another editor immediately reverted it with the comment see Northern Ireland. What do you think? -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 08:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
The former flag used for Northern Ireland has no legal status, and shouldn't be used, it should be replaced with the outline of the map of the area.-- padraig3uk 00:58, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I wanted to improve the template but couldn't (yet) due to undocumented (or opaque) hidden variables. Can anyone enable editing of?:
Society links to (somehow-there is nothing in )
I managed to add Invest NI in that section. DadaNeem ( talk) 19:48, 15 June 2015 (UTC)