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Anybody who is concerned about the pay for play capitulation:

There's a meeting of GAA people planned for the Elk, Toomebridge, next Wednesday night at 7.00pm

Let's all get there and start some resistance to this sell-out .

Great men on great club and great county teams.

Nothing more needs to be said about these two.

They did all their talking where it really counted.

Lone Shark, you're spot on.

Brilliantly put.

The tragedy is we're now on that road thanks to what Nickey Brennan has overseen this week.

Leading GAA players are now to get money for being leading GAA players no matter what way Brennan and co try to dress it up.

Well at least the GAA was good while it lasted.

RIP.

 I'd be with you re a GPA All-Ireland.

It would be the first virtual GAA game - no venue, no volunteer back-up, no one attending, but probably huge media interest given that in the Irish sports media the scale of their interest in somethnig seems to be in inverse proportion to the interest of spectators to the same thing.

Anyway, like it or not, it's on its way after Nicky Brennan's (and it has to be down to him) disgraceful sell-out re the grants issue.

What's that the Wexford men always said about Kilkenny men pissing on the powder?

When the GAA itself has been allowed absolutely no discussion on this issue (and when we can't even be allowed to know what's in the bid that went to the govt) there's not much point in having a discussion here!

Quite simply, The Greatest Game of the greatest game.

You name it, it had it.

Hardy,

Well said.

Nothing much more needs to be said.

OK Muppet, what about:

1. We're now in a position where we can't play the GAA League finals (football and hurling) and can't guarantee the Ladies' final in our national GAA stadium but can accommodate several soccer and rugby games there as well as their training sessions
2. No sign of anything magnanimous in return for the opening up, such as not designing our national games out of the "national" (that's a laugh) stadium at Landsdowne? Or what about RTE giving the national games a weekly slot like what they give rugby in Against the Head? Or giving a decent coverage of the National leagues, even a percentage of the soccer coverage they provide mid-week and week-ends?
3. Do we need to flag up the Tallagh debacle again?
4. When people travel overseas to follow the soccer or rugby teams, it's flagged up as something great. No word of it being unpatriotic and all that guff - but the tune changes if there's any chance that the travelling overseas was because those games chose not to provide themselves with proper stadiums. And somehow the name of the tune then becomes "Blame the GAA"
5. Rugby Union football, a professional business that we compete with never ever had a weekend's profile like they got last week. They'll live off it for years. And we handed it to them. The week before we even gave them a free run by shifting the times of our games. We've conceded our stadium and our timetable. Anything else we'd need to hand over?
6. The "sure it's only temporary" argument is already being attacked and watered down after just two rugby games in Croke Park. And by not sticking to the original spirit of the Congress motion we're at grave risk of there being no new Landsdowne stadium and the cuckoos demanding to stay in the Croke Park nest.

OK Muppet, what about:
1.

Greenan takes massive criticism for his position on Croke Park but how many of those many others opposing its opening up have the courage he has to put the anti case?

I thought his bit in the Tribune was good and well put.

I think I've seen it all now - so a tackle by a Tipperary rugby player on an English equivalent will represent "revenge" for the murder of Michael Hogan and the others?

I'm not into revenge myself, especially for things that happened 85 years ago but I do believe in honouring and respecting what happened and especially seeing if the equivalent is going on today.

This sort of trivialising our history is part of what's making the Republic the increasingly unpleasant place it's becoming.

But sure roll on Germany later in the year. Maybe a sliding tackle on the Hun will allow us to put The Holocaust to bed.

Not in any particular order

Down v Derry 1994
Offaly v Kerry 1982
Tyrone v Kerry 2005 and 2003 and 1997 Minor replay
Tyrone v Armagh AI Semi 2005
Tyrone v Dublin 2005 draw
Armagh v Tyrone 2002, draw and replay
Tyrone v Galway NFL draw and replay 2004
Armagh v Kerry 2000 and 2002
Armagh v Donegal Ulster Final 2004 for Armagh being so brilliant
Galway v Kildare 1998
Dublin v Mayo 2006
Derry v Dublin 1993
Derry v Donegal 1992

Ask Joe to speak at a GAA event and see what he charges ... ZERO!!! Unlike many of the others on that circuit who just rip off the GAA grassroots.

He's the real thing, not just in what he says but in what he does.

His article today in Gaelic Life for many of us just sums up what the GAA is about and should be about. Keep going Joe.

 I think Greenan was right at the time, is right now and will be proved to be right in the future.

I for one was amazed to see the rugby people getting FIVE training outings in the stadium when GAA teams have the greatest of difficulty getting even one - and our ladies apparently are having problems getting in at all this year.

The motion to let the others in was on the basis of Landsdowne being closed for redeveleopment, ie when the wrecking ball would have moved in, NOT being closed just so that they could apply for planning permission to rebuild it.

Another part of the bargain at the time was that the new "national stadium" at Landsdowne could cater for gaelic games. That turned out to be another of the pups in the litter we were sold. And as for Tallaght?

Its an overused word but he is a real legend. Total class, style, modesty and ability and an absolute gentleman with it. Mickey Linden is one of those people who makes you proud to be a GAA man along side him.