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The GAA have just shot themselves in the foot, they have just re launched their "crap" website, and guess what, instead of their tried and trusted and extremely public views on promoting Irish goods and services.
Guess where their Hosting company are....
Drum Roll please.....
The company is based in New Zealand.
Could you get further from Ireland. Please,
breifne, delete one of these posts please....same one up twice..
...should be in off topic too
You could go on forever about so called 'hypocracy'. How about the players wearing foreign football boots or some the counties shirt sponsorships.
This issue is down to Croker and really in the governments hands. If they are issuing grants to the GAA then its time to say that it is a national stadium for all citizens, cultures and sports.
As music has been on the pitch many times, and as the GAA would shudder at any suggestion of it being in any way sectarian, i think it is high time those Irishmen known as the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland tried to rent the pitch for a day for a celebration of culture and music:D
don't agree with that at all.Quote:
Originally posted by Declan_Michael
This issue is down to Croker and really in the governments hands. If they are issuing grants to the GAA then its time to say that it is a national stadium for all citizens, cultures and sports.
If Rugby and Football are going to be played in Croker it has to be by invitation from the GAA. The government has given grants in the past with no proviso's because the sports are our national games.
It has nothing to do with the government, and if Bertie was to force or blackmail the GAA into opening croker I wouldn't want to be there.
A Poll over the weekend showed that 80% of people (which you can take as equating to 80% of GAA membership) want football in croker, give the grassroots members the benefit of the doubt. It will go through (at least in a temporary way during the landsdowne redevelopment), but it can't be forced through by the FAI or the government, neither of which (and rightly so) have a say in what the GAA will do with their ground.
It'll go through simply because the GAA will be dying to use the new stadium for the lesser games. All IRFU/FAI/Gov have to do is to use it as a bargining chip so hopefully in future, once the new stadium is up and running we'll be able to use Croker for the bigger matches in soccer like France/Holland Portugal etc and then the GAA can use the new stadium for the likes of national league finals, hurling semis etc.
Which makes perfect sense, so how long will it take to happen?
I see the GAA have jacked up the prices of tickets for the All-Ireland finals and Semi-finals as well as the club finals this year. It seems they'd rather rip off their own supporters to service their debts than open Croke Park to Football/Rugby. Unless the GAA cops on very soon and starts running CP like the business it should be they're going to find themselves in very murky waters financially. I doubt there's another sporting organisation in the world that wastes their biggest aset the way the GAA does.
By the way, the Cork County board were one of the first to complain about the hike in ticket prices, yet they were one of the counties who flat out rejected opening CP to Football/Rugby. How exactly do they expect the debts to be paid so?