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Was the banner carrier a member of the bourgeois classes?
What are you doing here HM?
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The one in the lower Davin was telling Dunphy to shut his Trap! Seems ridiculously heavyhanded for what it was, why shouldn't the fans be able to put an inoffensive point across? Though that said, that seems to be the society we're increasingly moving towards.
And you ask me to help you??!! Man is evil!!!! Capable of nothing but destruction!
I was walking by the incident on my way back and the Gardai, followed by stewards, pushed us out of the way to get to the banner.Originally Posted by geysir
I think it's shocking treatment. The banner said "Bring Back Andy Reid". WTF is the problem with that? It'd be one thing for the stewards to take it down, but the fact that the Gardai, assumingly at the behest of the FAI, took the banner down and took the fellas' details is ridiculous.
This another reason for me to hate the FAI.
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Out of curiosity, if you went to a U2 concert in whatever arena and started waving a banner saying something that puts down Bono. How do you think organising authorities would react to that?
I find that "Davy Keogh says hello" banner highly offensive. Just who the hell does he think he is? He never bothers to pass the time of day with me for months, and then whenever Ireland play he's up there with his banner, saying hello to everyone with a TV set. It's sickening!
The FAI have experimented with communism in the past, particulaly Stans 4 year plan to drag us from the footbal backwaters to make us a world power.
Article 40.6.1 gives the citizens of the state the right to free speech.
Hard to see how taking a banner asking for the return of a player is allowable by law.However, this may not be used to undermine "public order or morality or the authority of the State". Furthermore, the constitution explicitly requires that the publication of "blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter" be a criminal offence
Croke Park probably counts as private property. If you want to hold up a banner in my front room, I doubt I have to let you! There's no need for the FAI to remove these though, it's symptomatic of the fear of criticism in the organisation though.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Surely there has to be a valid reason though, If I have a hat that says "kiss me quick" then I doubt you can take it from me just because you dont fancy kissing me, quickly or otherwise.
Outrageous. Surely thats a breach of one's civil liberties. What would have happened if the people holding the banner refused to hand it over?
If arrested, would they be prosecuted?
What next? Teeshirts printed of Andy Reid with a crown of thorns on his head??
Or maybe of him similar to the Che Quevara picture with a beret?
Last edited by Emmet7; 15/10/2009 at 9:12 PM.
The question is on what grounds the Gardai intervened to support the stewards.
At the behest of the fai according to the guy who made the banner - he was on newstalk earlier.
Indeed, I don't see what would have required the Gardai to be involved.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
By the sounds of it, the little banner that people would have forgotten about 1 minute after seeing that fleeting image of it on RTE, has now become a national sports news item.
Well done to the FAI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effectBy the sounds of it, the little banner that people would have forgotten about 1 minute after seeing that fleeting image of it on RTE, has now become a national sports news item.
Well done to the FAI
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heard the guy on off the ball last night. apparently when the "senior" gardai came over to question what was going on he realised that the boys had done nothing and told them to go on ahead. common sense really.
OP-just more evidence if any was needed about the PC mentality in this country that has taken over everything. Whatever about peoples opinions on reid, that is an absolute disgrace. If I was one of those fans I would seek legal advice if any attempt was made to stop me going to another ireland game on the basis of something like that. Sickening.
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