sport in ireland is deeply corrupted by the bigotry and jealousness of a sporting organisation that knows if it was on level terms with football, (ie: got same funding + stadium grants), that football would easily thrive. Therefore it must be said they have done an excellent job at keeping the worlds greatest sport in the trail of gah by using clever & cunning tactics, (tallaght stadium delay... government funding), to maintain its "supremacy"
Agreed with all of that. But it has to be said that if the gah wasn't as successful as it is then we'd have to have a tribunal to explain why not. Infact, given the special treatment they get on every level its should raise some eyebrows as to why they aren't even more successful.Originally Posted by Buller
What gets me is the way they go on about 'our forefathers' and what they represent, the history etc. yet their tactics seem to suggest double standards and nothing like they claim.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
agree with that too. but even in the current situation some el clubs are doing well all round while others just faulter. i'd like to see more backing given to clubs who are doing things right and by right i dont mean just financially. i mean everything from community involvement up. some clubs dont even bother about being a community leader yet expect the community to back them no questions asked. when people living across from a ground dont go to games yet manage to travel to games in the UK then something is seriously wrong. i dont know whether it is but being a key player in local communities should be part of licencing.
Precisely. And it's not just a fading memory. Get a load of this.
"I believe we should be promoting our games, not those of our rivals. By opening Croke Park, we're promoting their sports and raising finance for them to do so. The GAA will make money from opening Croke Park but rugby and soccer will make five times as much. There no point making a pound for yourself and five or six for the other fella.
"... Anybody who plays Gaelic Games should have a prospect of playing in Croke Park. At the moment they don't, yet we're allowing other sports in. If you play soccer for the 26 counties - not for Ireland because it's a partitionist situation - you'll get into Croke Park but not all GAA players can. We should be looking after our own first.
"You wouldn't let other people in to your own house and stop your own family sleeping there," he said.
GAA vice-pres Michael Greenan in today's Indo
I wonder if he's getting tickets for the euro matches.......anyone got his address ?
Bye the way, seemingly he attended George Bests funeral and was a keen footballer in his younger days. He has said his problem is not with playing these 'foreign' sports but where they are played. Thats like saying I like to poke me wifes sister....but not in our bed.
"I just came in to buy a stamp"-Padraig Pearse, April 24th 1916
I don't begrudge the GAA their cash for Croke Park as its been proven in anothter thread that they have received a little more the FAI & IRFU will each receive for Lansdowne Road. Approx 80-100m each...
I may bash the GAA from time to time but if the FAI, IRFU & GAA actually got together & presented their case against the Horse & Dog Racing Industries they would be able to expose that shame & get more money for themselves.
I agree with the point about greyhound racing getting state funding. Haven't they abolished betting tax? Why don't they use their profits from on track betting to fund their activities, not to mention gate receipts. If what we are told is true, greyhound meetings are well attended . They are also held in completely sheltered grandstands which serve food and refreshments.
And as regards horse racing it's supposed to be the sport of kings and therefore they don't need any money. Well I mean why should the state be funding Dog food production ! Cause that's where all the losing horses end up in a can of Pedigree Chum
To be fair to O'Donoghue he has been quoted as saying " Hell will freeze over and I will have all the gold in SOuth Africa before GAA will be played in Tallaght Stadium", at least he is onside on one important issue!
That isn't stopping Cowen giving stud owners fresh tax breaks in the Finance Act this week!
As for the argument that football and rugby have now caught up on the Croke Park giveaway, the real deficit in funding is at league and junior level. We have a long way to go there. In fact, it may well be the FAI's anxiety to keep onside of the government, so as not to jeopardise their showcase stadium, that forces them to tolerate underfunding elsewhere.
I believe they only changing the current rules because the EU has said is currently illegal. IMO its a false gauge of standard of irish horses as they just irish in name - ship the mares into Ireland & stamp 'Made in Ireland' on the foals arse.
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