Bandwagon Jumping Councillor?

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08/05/2006, 9:15 AM
gspain

Bandwagon Jumping Councillor?

On RTE's morning Ireland Programme Labour councillor Aodhan O'Riordain announced he will be opposing Bohs move from Dalyer.

Now I appreciate there are arguments on both sides here and it is a divisve topic but it sounded like this guy had never been inside the gates in his life and frankly was just grabbing some publicity.

I wish the interviewer had asked him to name the Bohs manager or a few players. He was asked if he had spoken to anybody at Bohs and of course he hadn't.

He did claim to be a big "soccer (sic) fan" but never claimed to be a Bohs fan or an EL fan. My guess is he watches Man Utd or Liverpool on tv but can't be much of a football fan anyway.

Any Bohs fans know the guy and does he go to Dalymount?
08/05/2006, 9:35 AM
pete

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Originally Posted by gspain

On RTE's morning Ireland Programme Labour councillor Aodhan O'Riordain announced he will be opposing Bohs move from Dalyer.

He'd probably be the first Councillor to oppose a new stand at Dalymount too.

:rolleyes:
08/05/2006, 11:48 AM
BohDiddley

Not sure if he goes or not, though he sounds sincere enough.
I wish he'd done it sooner, but it's hardly surprising that someone has articulated the views of the north inner city.
More context, including the clip, here.
08/05/2006, 12:30 PM
Drumcondra Red

I saw him in dalymount for a Bohs vs Rovers game a couple of years ago, leading a dodgy keeper chant!!!
08/05/2006, 3:08 PM
gspain

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Originally Posted by BohsBohsBohs

Supposedly he is a big Bohs fan I hear.

If he is a fan and he goes then fair enough.
09/05/2006, 10:10 AM
pete

Surely Bohs memebers have democratically voted on this issue so those opposed to the move should accept the vast majority opinion.
09/05/2006, 11:08 AM
BohDiddley

I don't know of any active opposition among Bohs members to the move. There is no 1901 Club. The vote was overwhelmingly in favour. There may be some concerns about details, but the battle was won before it began.

If those outside the club, such as media or politicos, want to mount a solid campaign to provide BFC with other options, like rational development public funding that doesn't have nightmare strings like Ollie Byrne attached, then I don't think people will object.

The danger now is that well-meaning local opposition will merely go half way and succeed in scuppering the deal on planning grounds. BFC will end up stuck with Dalymount for political reasons, but with no money to develop it, also for political reasons.

It's the usual Irish hypocrisy: we want football, but far away in England or nice and safe with the boys in green from Hemel Hempstead or wherever. We want old Dalymount, but perish the thought that we might go there today to watch a match played by people with Dublin, Cork and Derry accents and with no flashy replays.

Des Cahill's Dalymount memories blub-fest last night was a good case in point. I gave up listening because it seemed to have precious little to do with Bohs and Dalymount now. We had lots of talk of legendary internationals and even some sepia-drenched Shamrock Rovers lore, which was fair enough. Then a segue into GAA, for heaven's sake, but there was little of meaning for the contemporary Bohs fan. Even as our broadcasters stoop to acknowledge the home of Irish football, they cannot help revealing their pathological aversion for any up-close encounter with LoI here and now.
09/05/2006, 10:32 PM
Roverstillidie

by sepia drenched Rovers lore do you mean how we will miss the place because we won multiples of the trophies there that you did in the old kip?

there are a lot of bozos opposed to this, bear in mind a lot of members left in protest at the way the club has been run of late...

labour v the bohs, a battle of the anti-rebel forces :D
10/05/2006, 9:43 AM
Philo

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Originally Posted by Roverstillidie

...bear in mind a lot of members left in protest at the way the club has been run of late...

And by "a lot" you mean one. Your usual uninformed rubbish.
10/05/2006, 11:26 AM
Aberdonian Stu

I know him. He's a good guy, sincere and means well but I disagree with him on this issue 100 per cent.

The investment is too good an opportunity for Bohs to pass up.

His point on St Francis seemed a bit odd as they didn't play in the city. In fact they would have been comparable to Bohs future in one respect, and just one respect, in that they would be a city club playing outside the city centre.