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I've never been to an amateur or Sunday league soccer game - does the same go on there or is it worse at GAA games?

Never heard of a referee being stabbed at the soccer, so no.

But why even start the whataboutery

We can be fairly fickle on that to be fair. GAA managers the length & breadth of the country are in receipt of under the table payments. Not one continental fcuk do people give.

That's GAA money. You can be jailed if you don't fund RTE

Would  urge all to tread lightly and with any compassion that can be mustered. This thread could take a very rough turn but it's all relative and we are never in control of all the facts.

I've known him since we went to school together. A very smart man in his topics of interest, his posts were most informative. But he was socially and emotionally on the shorter side of the stick. Would have endured loneliness at best and bullies  at worst as a teenager and young man. Having a family member in this kind of space myself - it's not quite vulnerable adult but it's also not fully fledged everything is going well type adulthood either. Unless you've lived it you never have a clue what these individuals endure in their formative years. It's heartbreaking.

It's a horrible event, I'll be glad to hear when the injured parties and scared children etc involved are improving. And I hope he gets the help and structure he needs.

Edit: I'd noticed his posts here and his social media presence had dissappeared last year and was worried. I really do hope he gets some help as all was clearly not well when that happened.

The world has gone mad.

You can defend your best buddy from school all you want, but don't dare urge me to show compassion for a man who decided himself to pull out a knife and stab someone at a children's football match. I'm just glad the man was stopped when he was because God knows the damage he could've inflicted.

I understand what you're saying, the man might not be the full shilling or may have been dealt a bad hand but let's call a spade a spade, the man stabbed somebody. An absolute disgrace and should be held fully accountable for his actions, regardless of how many times you sat beside him on the bus or shared lunch with him.

He did not say the perpetrator should not be held fully accountable.
But he did say posters should refrain from making ill informed and inflammatory statements.
Do you think that is an unreasonable suggestion?

But that only became a thing when it emegred the chap alledged to have stabbed two.people posts on this board. Locking a conversation about something this serious on thise hrounds would look appaling

I was at a munster final in 1974, and there was a fracas on the hill, and while iI didn't see it myself i was told at least one person  produced a knife.

The crowd scattered to the 4 winds but it was all over in a couple of minutes or less.

Ah lads.

Stuff like that happened all the time - i definitely recall a story in primary school to be careful of students from a school we were playing as there was knifeplay in or around Croker previously. Derry and Dublin had a mental dingdong in the 80's with bottles flying.

It's rare but it's not new

This shouldn't have happened...What the hell was Derry doing in Croker in the 1980s...

70's and Kerry. Brainfog

It's tediously predictable that immediately after the ladies get to join the GPA there is a strike over money.

I don't doubt they are shabbily treated, but the letter from the captains was condescending and insulting. It struck me that in asking for the impossible from the GAA that when they don't get it they will escalate on their side.

What's the problem here. Clubs manage to look after their men's and ladies teams so why can't they all be under the GAA.

But they aren't. And the GAA commenting on LGFA or CI internal issues will set any merger back years

I was at a munster final in 1974, and there was a fracas on the hill, and while iI didn't see it myself i was told at least one person  produced a knife.

The crowd scattered to the 4 winds but it was all over in a couple of minutes or less.

Ah lads.

Stuff like that happened all the time - i definitely recall a story in primary school to be careful of students from a school we were playing as there was knifeplay in or around Croker previously. Derry and Dublin had a mental dingdong in the 80's with bottles flying.

It's rare but it's not new

Barter accounts are par for the  course in the  business. Unless they find more Tubs dirt I don't see why all the excitement is necessary

Are they though?

I see they paid €500 odd to Shamrock Rovers for a golf classic via the barter account. What money could Rovers have owed them to offset requiring this treatment? Looks like they were hiding transactions that benefitted high earners into these accounts

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there were crazier scenes with the Dub supporters in a game against Tyrone in the mid 80s.

Derry as well, pitch invasion and slaps

Of course there was worse, but there were no mobile phones and gobshites posting their idiocy on Instagram and the like.

While on the other hand people in general these days are a bit more polished

I think the point is to stop pearl clutching. there have always been slaps at games. Infrequent but we all remember them. Talk of seating the Hill over this is madness.

Shouldn't have happened but lets not lose the run here.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there were crazier scenes with the Dub supporters in a game against Tyrone in the mid 80s.

Derry as well, pitch invasion and slaps

is hooliganism creeping to the gaa fouled   by cocaine and the same hair cuts

Creeping in? We had dozens of rows a few summers ago, rember the auld wan braining a fella with a hurl? Wasn't dealt with then, won't be dealt with now.

Whispers are RTE to be split in two. The commercial bits like 2fm and RTE2 to be sold and the public service bit to remain

2 students from the same school in Dublin didn't make it back from their post leaving cert holiday as they passed away. Both were students at private St Michaels college. The cause of death has not been revealed in either case.

Looks like two totally unconnected incidents

They don't last - they just move to cxo role in another company and on it goes.

To an extent. But the particular malfeasance in RTE from executives going out of their way to overpay mediocrity wouldn't stand as in the private sector it's someones money

The CFO who doesn't know what his salary is. Like how do these people get jobs? There's a load of people in government and semi state companies who wouldn't be employable in the private sector. Anyone with any competence is working in proper companies. And it's all levels. North and South.

Deloitte have a lot to answer for here. They were at the core of the FAI scandal as well. They're absolute charlatans. Pay them enough and they will turn a blind eye to anything by the looks of it.

There are plenty of incompetent people at CxO level in the private sector too.

Absolutely. But they tend not to last.  The idea is to pay people the minimum to keep them there, not fleece the balance sheet.

To me the scandal is the behind the scenes staff took paycuts and redundancies in order to fund the top tier of talent and executives who didn't need it.

If the CFO is on 'around' 200k he should be on the list of top earners. Why isn't he? Did they forget to report executive pay to the Dail?