Due Process...my arse

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07/12/2006, 3:57 PM
Calcio Jack

Due Process...my arse

Those glorious defenders of the wellbeing of the youth of Tallaght, Thomas Davis... today launched a sneak attack down in the Four Courts. Briefly they filed a petition to try and convince the court that the setting of a date for their Judicial Review of Tallaght should be postponed untill a different appeal concerning another case that is due to be heard by the Supreme Court sometime in 2007 takes place.

Thomas Davis hoped that by doing this they would be able to delay the hearing of their own Judicial Review 'till sometime in 2008. If that had happened and even if the South Dublin Count Council were to be sucessful, Tallaght wouldn't be available to Rovers untill sometime at earliest in 2009.

The good news is that Thomas Davis had thier application declined today...

This is just another example of the GAA via Thomas Davis engaging in a sickening act of attempting to destroy Rovers whilst hiding behind a self righteous spin that under due process they have a democratic right to behave in this manner....
07/12/2006, 3:58 PM
Dazzy

****ing *******s!
07/12/2006, 4:02 PM
dublin15bohs

who sponsors thomas davis they need to be told about the bad publicity

lets hit them GAA ****ers were it hurts
07/12/2006, 4:04 PM
gspain

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Originally Posted by dublin15bohs

who sponsors thomas davis they need to be told about the bad publicity

lets hit them GAA ****ers were it hurts

Absolutely way to go

Anybody know who sponsors them? They need a letter writing and phone call campaign
07/12/2006, 4:04 PM
londonhoop

Des kelly carpets.
07/12/2006, 4:16 PM
seand

Excellent... I'll ring Des Kelly and tell them I'm cancelling my order as they are associated with a bunch of fascists.

(Obviously I don't actually have an order with them, but that's beside the point!)
07/12/2006, 4:19 PM
OneRedArmy

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Originally Posted by londonhoop

Des kelly carpets.

How apt.

They clearly know they are beat and are trying to force a delay hoping Rovers will go to the wall in the interrim.

Typical underhanded bogball protectionism on full display.

Great article in today's Indo about attempts of certain county boards to hush up the media about some of the violent club incidents recently.

I just wish the GAA in general would be subject to the same critical scrutiny the EL is.
07/12/2006, 4:20 PM
gspain

Is this correct or is it a wind up? Des Kelly sponsor Bohs.
07/12/2006, 4:25 PM
Schumi

Quote:

Originally Posted by londonhoop

Des kelly carpets.

LOL :D
07/12/2006, 4:27 PM
wws

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

How apt.

They clearly know they are beat and are trying to force a delay hoping Rovers will go to the wall in the interrim.

Typical underhanded bogball protectionism on full display.

Great article in today's Indo about attempts of certain county boards to hush up the media about some of the violent club incidents recently.

I just wish the GAA in general would be subject to the same critical scrutiny the EL is.

Your post touches on a very real point - the soccer journalists that cover the EL for the Times and the Indo tend to overstate the case for the negative within our game (often in a falsely exaggerated way) - whilst Sean Moran for example in the Times will do anything possible to avoid direct exposure of anything that paints the GAA in too bad a light. This is of critical importance when it comes to drumming up corporate sponsorship.

This season was easily the best on record (Derry's Uefa scalps, fantastic setanta cup and league finals, nail biting title race, corks CL run, Drogs heroics in UEFA, utterly thrilling FAI cup Final)

yet the summary pieces of Malone and the Indo concentrated on the administrative angle (which turned out to be a ball of smoke - as anyone remotely familiar with fai/el arbitration process was only too well aware from the outset).

Would Sean Morans review of the GAA year be so heavily slanted on meaningless angles which ultimately did not lead to a "league of farce" as predicted by the sensationalists?
07/12/2006, 4:43 PM
passerrby

this nails the argument that its about sport or children having a outlet, its about power control and keeping soccer out of south dublin, shame on you GAA
07/12/2006, 4:51 PM
OneRedArmy

Agree totally WWS.

The reason for most journalists taking the easy route of a praise-only approach is that in essence the GAA hasn't changed that much since the 60's when they blackballed critical journos and refused them entry to games.

Whilst the GAA-church axis control of the state isn't what it was 30 or 40 years ago, the tentacles of the GAA still reach all the way around the country (both in rural and urban areas) and the organisation and its members can make it a lonely place for a journalist who is deemed to be critical of the organisation. This is reinforced by the GAA's inbuilt defensive mentality as the guardian of all things Irish which means that despite its assertions to the contrary, under the surface it remains inherently xenophobic, particularly against all things British ( ie towards soccer and to a lesser extent rugby).

Ergo if you are deemed to be overly critical to the GAA you can suddenly be seen as almost a traitor and anti-Irish in your views.

Its ironic that its almost de rigeur to criticise the church in modern Ireland (a bandwagon I'm happy to jump on personally) but attempts to criticise the other bastion of Irishness (the GAA) sees you liable to being viewed as committing treason against a protected institution that we somehow should all be thankfully to and say a prayer every night for protecting our nationality.
07/12/2006, 4:59 PM
passerrby

go to any GAA match up or down the country and tell me that thugishness and bullying is not approved of, not only it is approved of its taught in most clubs
07/12/2006, 5:05 PM
Jerry The Saint

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Originally Posted by wws

yet the summary pieces of Malone and the Indo concentrated on the administrative angle (which turned out to be a ball of smoke - as anyone remotely familiar with fai/el arbitration process was only too well aware from the outset).

Can't blame them for that - the FAI and (almost all) the clubs decided that administrative bullsh!t was more important than on-pitch activities this season.
07/12/2006, 5:17 PM
BohsFans

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Originally Posted by londonhoop

Des kelly carpets.

quite similar to our own sponsor, Des Kelly Interiors.
07/12/2006, 5:32 PM
Jerry The Saint

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Originally Posted by BohsFans

quite similar to our own sponsor, Des Kelly Interiors.

Owned by Des Kelly, the Interior man:confused:
07/12/2006, 5:47 PM
Buller

this whole thing really shows up what the gaah are all about, WHY ARENT THE NEWSPAPERS COVERING THIS?????
07/12/2006, 5:54 PM
BohsFans

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Originally Posted by Buller

this whole thing really shows up what the gaah are all about, WHY ARENT THE NEWSPAPERS COVERING THIS?????

They're probably covering this: http://bohsnews.crispynews.com/artic...um_in_Monaghan
07/12/2006, 5:58 PM
strangeirish

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Originally Posted by Buller

this whole thing really shows up what the gaah are all about, WHY ARENT THE NEWSPAPERS COVERING THIS?????

The Journo's don't want to miss out on a free meal ticket to croker.
07/12/2006, 7:13 PM
gspain

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Originally Posted by BohsFans

They're probably covering this: http://bohsnews.crispynews.com/artic...um_in_Monaghan

Good news for Monaghan United then as surely the GAA will be consistent and insist on making the stadium available for all sports. :mad:

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