LAST UPDATE | 3 Nov 2017
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, THE Aviva Stadium will play host to the FAI Cup final between Cork City and Dundalk.
They’re the two best sides in the country and have been exchanging pleasantries for a while now, so it should be a fascinating encounter.
To preview the game, we brought in League of Ireland legends Stuart Byrne and Neal Horgan on the latest edition of Close Calls but we also want you to get out your crystal ball and tell us what you think the correct score will be on Sunday.
To enter, just head over to our Close Calls Facebook Live, and comment with the score.
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Campbell was the better fighter on the night. John joe did us proud.
That’s sport. But the lad done very good. He did the Irish proud
You’re one of the two very best boxers in the world today, John Joe, that’s not failure, that’s success. Your Olympic medal is proof, as if any were needed.
He gad a great achievement . The article is very pessimistic heading.
I think he is good
@aiden I think you’ll find it’s a pun on the fact he won a silver medal – silver lining. Not pessimistic. It’s an achievement to get there in the first place and a better one to come out with a medal for his efforts.
Unlucky John joe, you’ve let nobody down. We’re still proud of you.
On another note, I wonder where all the Irish fans were tonight :-/
The Irish fans were there, but didnt have home support, naturally enough! Good man john joe
I heard fans cheering tonite as John joe was on
Amazing fight and no complaints. He’s still an absolute hero!
Great achievement .. Still very young at 23 and is capable of going all the way in 4 years time!
Failure? No. Legend? Absolutely!
Fair play Join Joe.
Don’t despair, your a legend to even get there. TBH I don’t follow or know anything about boxing, but well done, be proud of your fantastic achievements!
Unlucky not getting gold but well done getting silver.
Great fight, did well against a south paw with a huge reach, silver medal fantastic achievement , nice one John Joe
Well done by the boxers put track and field to shame
heroic young fella. brilliant
That was horrible to watch. Tactics were all wrong again. You cant let Cambell lead the way in a home fight.
Well done Luke Campbell!!
You’ve joined a very elite club John joe, the Irish Olympic Medal Club. Proud as punch ( pardon the pun) of all of our Olympians. It gave us all a sense of pride our nation has been lacking for quite some time. Well done!
Well done John Joe!
Because all the sport played in New Zealand is also played internationallly. Our national games, GAA, are purely domestic.
Ben Gunn, 2,718 GAA clubs worldwide. Hardly just a domestic sport!
By the way, the second round was 5-4.
Cheers Peter
Proud!
John Joe has been a fantastic competitor for Ireland, a silver medal is a fantastic achievement, but he has won gold in my mind for his sportsmanship and representing our country. A true fighter!
From the above photo the english chap looks quite excited indeed…..on the other hand well done john joe,we got bronze,silver and gold at the games well done Ireland…
Why does a country like New Zealand win 5 times more medals than Ireland? We have roughly the same population, yet they always produce far superior athletes! Just curious like!
I think there are a few reasons the Kiwis did better. They seem to put a higher onus on sport and it is more engrained in their lifestyle. I think they put more money into the games and development. Their team was more than 3 times the size of the Irish team as a consequence. Add to that the fact they are of similar genetic stock, but when the people travelled conditions were tough and the “weaker” people died, leaving a stronger gene pool. And, probably most controversially, it is a very isolated country (unlike Ireland) and sport is a way to get out of the country, travel and see the world, so motivation is added. There are likely many more reasons, but those are what I can think of offhand.
Simple answer to that Rodrigo. GAA. It swallows up a lot of talent.
Gaa does take a lot but that ain’t a bad thing, look at the great stuff they do at a local level for so many thousands who would never get to an Olympics….we should be very proud of our gaa players big and small. It’s great to have great Olympians, and long may it continue, but the GAA and all local sports contribute immensely to the local communities….well done Ireland and its awe inspiring olympic athletes
Rugby is not an olympic sport… and New Zealand still over achieve. Gaa is not the reason. Plenty of room to play GAA/Soccer/Rugby and also compete in athletics or some other olympic sport.
@Ognetty NZ “are of similar genetic stock, but when the people travelled conditions were tough and the “weaker” people died, leaving a stronger gene pool”
we also had our own little survival of the fittest contest called “the famine”
i dont think that GAA swallows up talent rather than, and this is coming from a GAA family, everything else is frowned upon as being a pansy sport. if i had of told my da that i wanted to throw a javelin he would have thought i was a troublemaker. add to that that me or anyone else ive ever known have never jumped into a pit of sand or thrown a disc in any school ive attended. athletics were great… up until they stop them past age 12. time to stop shoving football, rugby and hockey down our throat as the only choice.
Keith Banks, a lot if the emigration to NZ occurred during the great famine and certainly after the 1700s famine. So that group had a double “contest” surviving famine and travel by sea for months, fighting tropical illnesses in a foreign land, etc.
GAA takes a lot from the other sports potential in this country not only in terms of funds but also interest from youngsters …
It was far better than watching Kenny Egan’s jackets. Well done to John Joe and the entire Irish boxing squad for again hauling in the medals for another Olympics.
Well done JJ
Very proud of your excellent achievement
Very gracious in defeat too
A real sportsman
Well done lad..
it wad a good fight on both sides .
Sorry people but Nevin won the first round and should have been protecting a lead.
No he didn’t he lost it 5-3
Actually he was 3 Pts down in the first round…. Nevin your a legend for me
@the two people who replied to him.
Are you serious?
He meant that Jon Joe was better in the first round and should have been given the points.
Well done, John Joe. I’ve yet to talk to anyone who’s anything less than bursting with pride for you. You fought a great fight and Olympic Silver is a fantastic achievement!
Failure – not by a long shot.
Legend – to bloody right.
Did he do us proud? – You bet yer ass he did.
Hero – No.
The hero no is not a knockdown of the fella. Personally I see heroes as people who do or even attempt to do something to save someones life eg. firemen , cops, ambulance crew etc.
Excellent work john Joe. You done brilliant .
I think John joe was wonderful
He went out and did his best
Himself and team Ireland have done us proud
Well done to them all
John Joe ain’t no failure! A silver for Ireland is nothing to be sniffed at! Well done lad!
The reason we don’t win as many medals as we should is without doubt because of the gaa.. Kids are forced to play it by insular bigotted parents and as a result they end up bigotted and insular themselves. It’s an irrelevant sport that is played predominantly by talentless Neanderthals. However some of the players do have talent and the country and they themselves would benefit so much more if they paticipated in proper sports which are played internationally. Gaa sports are backward and that is the reason they’ve never taken off abroad. Poor mens’ football (that’s soccer for all u ignorant gaa heads) and poor mans’ hockey. I strongly believe the 3 things which have ruined this country are the holy trinity of the catholic church, fianna fail and the gaa..
Ps. Well done John Joe you pit in a fine shift so fair play to you and the rest of the Ireland Olympic team even those who Came home empty handed.. U all did us proud!
What an ignorant and so out of touch comment by someone who clearly has no knowledge whatsoever of the work of the GAA , or probably none either of any of the volunteer amateur Sporting Bodies who give so handsomely to the youth of our little Country.
In an hours time I watch my Grandson playing in an u10 football game with his Club Austin Stacks. He also trains in a Taekwondo Club – which is also of huge interest to him.
All of these sporting activities keep kids involved and out of trouble on the streets of our Community and also instills pride in Club and Community.
Would you ever get a life my friend – sport does not have to be to Olympic standard to have a huge value in our little Country!
Joey, there are 2,718 GAA clubs worldwide. Our national sports are played by thousands all over the planet. Hardly a sport for bigots. If you dont like certain parts of whats left of Irish national culture and identity, you can always move to somewhere more suitable to YOUR bigotry.
John Joe ain’t a failure! A silver for Ireland is nothing to be sniffed at! Well done lad! We’re so proud of you!!
It was a great fight. The best man won on the night, but Nevin was not at his best.
Well done eddie and fair play to your grandson for playing both sports.. However I d take offence to you labelling me ignorant. I have an in depth knowledge ‘my friend’ of many sports and have played competively in many codes. The one sport however, that a found there was always a negative bigot involved in was Gaelic football. Even today I know of kids who are not allowed participate in other sports because their father’s feel it would be a betrayal or even unpatriotic to allow them play a game which may not have it’s roots in a Tipperary hotel. Your grandson maybe a mighty talented lad eddie and you may be very proud of him but unfortunately that talent is being wasted down at Austin stacks. So for the kid’s sake I urge yo to take him away from that sport and give him a chance at a sport that actually means something in the world of sport and don’t allow him to become another wasted talent in a bigoted talentless sport that has helped ruin this country and Eamon de Valera has a lot to answer to the young people of this country for..
Imagine all the extra international glory this country would’ve achieved if it weren’t for the backward gaa..
So really Eddie I believe it’s u that needs the life and I hope for your grandsons sake the bigballers don’t try to turn him off tae Kwon do but I bet they do… Poor kid!!
Didn’t Read LOL
Maybe if he had kept his head in the game instead of getting involved in his families dispute with the publican that had to call the Gardai to them, he might
Have a Gold Medal now.