More Trouble for Rovers?

[Sam Savic]

In fairness they're an excellently run GAA club with huge membership. I'm not a fan of the sport but they're pretty prominent in Tallaght and surrounds

Huge membership - would that be the membership figure that they give when applying for grants or their actual membership figure?

Two clubs in the Fingal district were recently caught falsifying membership figures when applying for council pitches. I could tell you a similar true story about Thomas Bigots but I'll leave it for another day.

[Dodge]

Just saying they're hardly in "obscurity"

Not trying to justify anything they've done

[passerrby]

there attempting to stay large in the community at the expence of another sport.. true sportmen would encourage kids to play all sports

[Mental Man]

We haves a great sports programme on a couple of times a week on local radio hosted by a blues nut, but last week there was a debate about opening up Choke Park and letting "foreign Games" in to it.
A high profile GAA bigot said that if the opening up of Choker set a precedent of allowing "foreign Games" to be played in other GAA games he personally said he would go into the ground on the night before a match and personally DIG UP AND SABOTAGE THE FIELD.
I couldnt believe my ears when this was said on local radio and then the texts came flooding in from people shouting disgust at these comments, also was another bigot in the studio saying how disgusted he was that Choker was been opened up to other games.
What really disgusts me is that these people are involved in training young kids every week, so i wonder are they instilling these highly bigoted views into the minds of these young kids, they should not be let near our kids not now or never, shame on them, i never will step inside the ground of a GAA field again while there are arse holes like these around, pure filth is what they are !

[Passive]

In fairness they're an excellently run GAA club with huge membership. I'm not a fan of the sport but they're pretty prominent in Tallaght and surrounds

Yeah, they have such a huge fanbase that their pitch is a field with a bit of auld rope tied around it.

They may be "huge" in GAA club circles but that means nothing. GAA people don't care about clubs - if it wasn't for the county championship that sport would have died a death decades ago. The vast majority of GAA fans are the exact same as our Ole Ole fans - all they care about is the glamour of the international / intercounty games. The only GAA club games that get anything resembling a crowd are county finals.

Thomas Davis are watched by two men and a dog most weeks - and the men are there only to protect the dog from the players.

[gspain]

We haves a great sports programme on a couple of times a week on local radio hosted by a blues nut, but last week there was a debate about opening up Choke Park and letting "foreign Games" in to it.
A high profile GAA bigot said that if the opening up of Choker set a precedent of allowing "foreign Games" to be played in other GAA games he personally said he would go into the ground on the night before a match and personally DIG UP AND SABOTAGE THE FIELD.
I couldnt believe my ears when this was said on local radio and then the texts came flooding in from people shouting disgust at these comments, also was another bigot in the studio saying how disgusted he was that Choker was been opened up to other games.
What really disgusts me is that these people are involved in training young kids every week, so i wonder are they instilling these highly bigoted views into the minds of these young kids, they should not be let near our kids not now or never, shame on them, i never will step inside the ground of a GAA field again while there are arse holes like these around, pure filth is what they are !

Be thankful they just talk about it now.

See

http://archives.tcm.ie/thekingdom/20.../story6957.asp

Used to happen often in rural areas up until the early 80's. A friend who picked more than his fair share of broken glass off a field in an Irish town still hasn't decided if he'll darken the door of Croke Park in March. He hasn't missed a game for years.

[LeixlipRed]

I remember a lad with a hurl threatening me and my childhood friends for us having the cheek to use a GAA goal to play a game of world cup in. Delightful chap

[Buller]

I remember a lad with a hurl threatening me and my childhood friends for us having the cheek to use a GAA goal to play a game of world cup in. Delightful chap

ahahaha, I expect you apologised for playing a foreign sport on gaah grounds?! You should have taken out a baseball bat and challenged him to a duel!

[TommyT]

Passive,

TD would have a large number of amateur playing and social members, its a different type of club.

What you say about the GAA may be true in Dublin but not elsewhere in the country where a huge proportion of the population in towns/villages would get behind the equivalent of the local pub side for the champunship

[BohDiddley]

A high profile GAA bigot said that if the opening up of Choker set a precedent of allowing "foreign Games" to be played in other GAA games he personally said he would go into the ground on the night before a match and personally DIG UP AND SABOTAGE THE FIELD.

Is he high-profile enough to have a name and title?

[passerrby]

very true tommyt but its not about the sporting event more about the hatred between parishs and the digging match that will take place in the name of sport