Queen Elizabeth to visit Croke Park

Eamonnca1 · April 07, 2011, 05:46:33 PM

GAA will welcome Queen Elizabeth to Croke Park during her state visit. Details at eleven.

gerry · April 07, 2011, 05:55:03 PM

Its a fecking disgrace it was bad enough with gstq being played a few years back. What next will the gaa do for a few cents.

Seamroga in exile · April 07, 2011, 06:06:25 PM

I guess I'll still go to games whether she comes to croker or not. No big deal really.

Orior · April 07, 2011, 06:12:26 PM

Will her host be telling her "And here m'am, is where your soldiers shot completely innocent Irishmen"?

Well, I hope she enjoys the trip. Imagine that one is visiting Croke Park and one has never been to Windsor Park. Does one not know the occupied six counties exist? Shame on you unionists!

Rossfan · April 07, 2011, 06:14:52 PM

Will continue to support Gaelic games and hope to have good reasons to visit Croke Park many times in future years.
Meanwhile hopefully the visiting Head of State of a neighbouring island will offer an official apology for the behaviour of her Country's soldiery in Croke Pk in 1920.

muppet · April 07, 2011, 06:23:12 PM

Quote from: Orior on April 07, 2011, 06:12:26 PM
Will her host be telling her "And here m'am, is where your soldiers shot completely innocent Irishmen"?

You think she is a dissident then?

Denn Forever · April 07, 2011, 06:31:36 PM

Flags, hats or Headbands?

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(sorry LL, couldn't resist)

Eamonnca1 · April 07, 2011, 06:35:58 PM

Let the past be the past. The head of state of the country next door should be able to visit without it being a big deal.

Let's not forget, there's plenty of English and Scottish children playing Gaelic games nowadays. They're as much a part of the GAA as the rest of us. Imagine one of them being disrespectful to our head of state over something that happened 80 odd years ago (before you were even born) and you'll start to see how silly you'd look if you did likewise.

SHEEDY · April 07, 2011, 06:56:25 PM

the head of the british armed forces being welcomed to croke park. think its a disgrace.

Mike Sheehy · April 07, 2011, 07:00:49 PM

I am quite impressed with the GAA administrations ability to wind up the Nordies. They take it to a whole new level

mayogodhelpus@gmail.com · April 07, 2011, 07:00:58 PM

Its like Jurassic Park in here sometimes.

Eamonnca1 · April 07, 2011, 07:03:48 PM

Quote from: mayogodhelpus@gmail.com on April 07, 2011, 07:00:58 PM
Its like Jurassic Park in here sometimes.

+1

If Stephen Hawking wanted to prove that time travel was possible, he should have a look in here. Some people seem to be caught in a temporal rift where it's still 1920.

mayogodhelpus@gmail.com · April 07, 2011, 07:05:20 PM

Quote from: muppet on April 07, 2011, 06:23:12 PM
Quote from: Orior on April 07, 2011, 06:12:26 PM
Will her host be telling her "And here m'am, is where your soldiers shot completely innocent Irishmen"?

You think she is a dissident then?

True Muppet, the only Irishmen getting shot are by the filthy terrorist scum.

RadioGAAGAA · April 07, 2011, 07:10:16 PM

Quote from: Eamonnca1 on April 07, 2011, 07:03:48 PM
If Stephen Hawking wanted to prove that time travel was possible, he should have a look in here. Some people seem to be caught in a temporal rift where it's still 1920.

We can do better than that - there are a whole bunch up here that think its still 1690!

ONeill · April 07, 2011, 07:25:45 PM

Full statement from the GAA:

The Gaelic Athletic Association has for well over a hundred years embodied and taken its stand with the mood of the nation, culturally, socially and politically. In unity with our players, administrators and supporters throughout the island and abroad, we were strongly committed advocates of the peace process, and we have welcomed, supported and celebrated the developing reconciliation which has resulted from the Good Friday Agreement and its endorsement by the people, North and South, in referenda.

We now welcome the further development of this process, and the consequential deepening of relationships, which will flow from the invitation by President McAleese to Queen Elizabeth to pay a State visit to Ireland. The GAA is pleased to have been asked to receive Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by President McAleese, at our headquarters in Croke Park and to showcase our stadium and facilities to the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and their accompanying party. We believe that this request reflects and acknowledges the special place of the GAA in the life and history of the nation.

We are confident that this historic visit to Croke Park will be welcomed by those who play, administer and support our games, at home and abroad, including of course throughout Britain. We hope also that it will encourage a greater interest and participation in our games by our fellow Irishmen and women of the Unionist tradition.

The visit to Croke Park will provide the Uachtarán of Cumann Lúthchleas Gael with the opportunity to convey to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh a sense of the history and values of the Gaelic Athletic Association, and its unique and leading place in Irish society.

In the best traditions of our Association, we will extend a warm welcome to Croke Park - a Céad Míle Fáilte - to Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by the President and Dr. McAleese and Philip Jordan.

The GAA will be making no further comment.