Originally Posted by
TiocfaidhArmani
GAA is the second most played sport behind soccer. Soccer is the most played sport on the island yet you claim persecution. I don't need you to say you're bitter towards the GAA - your posts scream it.
Soccer is the most played sport on the island, more than gaelic football and hurling combined. Even if you added the ever growing rugby to the GAA numbers, soccer would still be top. Yet the homegrown sport is in dire straits. The media don't wanna know. Sponsors don't wanna know. All because it's popularity for the HOMEGROWN game is tiny. The reason for that is the homegrown bar stooler, nowt to do with the GAA, as much as that doesn't feed your persecution complex against them. The game itself, as in foreign soccer, gets far more coverage than the GAA, be it TV and written media, so its playing numbers reflect the coverage given to soccer as a whole, but the reason for the neglect of HOMEGROWN soccer is down to the ignorance of the Irish people, which translates to the ignorance and indifference to it by the Irish media.
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