National Anthem at GAA games

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Originally Posted by Torn-Ado

Nationals anthems are outdated across the world but they're the national anthem. They wont change. Scotland, Sweden, American, Danish, all written in the past about historical wars etc.

You cant just change the anthem to suit a period of time Ffs

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Rumour has it that scotland may be changing their N anthem at international football games. I for one would like to see NI change their N anthem as well. An anthemin my opinion is only a N anthem if it means something to the people from that country.

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Originally Posted by strangeirish

Easy there Superhoops. I can recommend a toll free helpline if you need it.:D

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Thanks, I'm all right now, I've taken my pills! :D

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Originally Posted by John83

Not everyone pays mindless respect to a few patches of colour just because it 'represents' the arbitrary nation state they were born in.

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Said with far more eloquence than I could hope to muster

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Originally Posted by John83

Not everyone pays mindless respect to a few patches of colour just because it 'represents' the arbitrary nation state they were born in.

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I doubt there's many watching a GAA game who think that way

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Originally Posted by Dodge

I doubt there's many watching a GAA game who think that way

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I'm one :):o

Yeah but your an arch-contrarian so its expected of you :D

exception to every case, is what dodge is trying to say lim.... ;)
....somehow though I reckon you will take exception to being an exception of every case :D

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Yeah but your an arch-contrarian so its expected of you :D

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Guilty :)

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exception to every case, is what dodge is trying to say lim....
....somehow though I reckon you will take exception to being an exception of every case

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D'uh

Although that explanation is exceptional :p

Only found this thread now but Im glad some one said this, the GAA go on about to be irish is to play GAA but the anthem is totally disrespected. Rugby fans are the most respectful and I think the irish football fans are heading the way of the GAA ("real Irish") fans.

I've been monitroing the anthems now and it is beginning to annoy me. The only incident I didn't hear it was at the Monaghan-Derry game where noone sang the lyrics.

But every other game, just before the last line, these eejits all start cheering. It annoys the hell outta me and I definitely consider it disrespectful. I don't watch Ireland international football games but at el cup finals, iirc, it hasn't happened that fans have started cheering before the lyrics are over.