Belfast GAA is dying...

[johnnycool]

East Belfast having to put out a statement clarifying they are only using a council facility at Cairnshill on a temporary basis.

Presume local agitators have been making noise again. City is coming down with soccer pitches, god forbid a Gaa club might wish to book some council facilities.

If the Gaa made the same demands on councils as soccer the City would need to provide another 20 Gaa pitches, at the minute any dog and his mate can start a soccer team, enter a league and expect the council to find them room.

If the soccer lads are feeling the squeeze perhaps they could stop inviting non city teams into the Belfast leagues, effectively a national league largely being run on Belfast pitches and paid for by Belfast ratepayers.

Boils my brain.

Boils my brains too as I'm sure there's loads of rate payers within the ranks of East Belfast GAA and they're entitled to council facilities as much as anyone.
That area would be semi middle class, so you'd have to wonder who the agitators are!

[imtommygunn]

Agitators don't need to be from that area I would expect. The henry jones playing fields are a decent job now too - I imagine they near have too many for those pitches.

There are just bitter twisted people who have it in for east belfast gaa as they don't want GAA in east belfast. They may suck it up.