GAA WTF

[imtommygunn]

Exactly. Very odd that one.

I think they may have got a new twitter admin. They may be getting another new one by the look of it 

[johnnycool]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/hurling/2023/0206/1354027-meath-gaa-apologise-to-down-after-offensive-tweet/

Meath GAA have apologised to their Down counterparts after an offensive tweet from their official account targetted the facilities in Ballycran.

Ronan Sheehan's side hosted Offaly in the Ards venue on Sunday and in the aftermath of their 0-21 to 0-18 loss, a tweet from the Meath account calling McKenna Park a "kip" and stating that inter-county games should not be played there.

Sheehan took to social media slamming the tweet, which was swiftly deleted, before later praising the Royal County for quickly addressing the issue.

I saw that, cheeky hoor...

I bet they did lose an awful lot of sliotars at the top goals though.. 

Why were Meath commenting on the venue of a game between Down and Offaly?

Fúck knows as they're neither in NHL 2A, nor the Joe McDonagh.

[oakleaflad]

I'd say the admin didn't realize they were still on the Meath account instead of a personal one or some other alias.

[marty34]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/hurling/2023/0206/1354027-meath-gaa-apologise-to-down-after-offensive-tweet/

Meath GAA have apologised to their Down counterparts after an offensive tweet from their official account targetted the facilities in Ballycran.

Ronan Sheehan's side hosted Offaly in the Ards venue on Sunday and in the aftermath of their 0-21 to 0-18 loss, a tweet from the Meath account calling McKenna Park a "kip" and stating that inter-county games should not be played there.

Sheehan took to social media slamming the tweet, which was swiftly deleted, before later praising the Royal County for quickly addressing the issue.

I saw that, cheeky hoor...

I bet they did lose an awful lot of sliotars at the top goals though.. 

Why were Meath commenting on the venue of a game between Down and Offaly?

Fúck knows as they're neither in NHL 2A, nor the Joe McDonagh.

Yeah, very strange indeed.

[seafoid]

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2023/0209/1355699-fingallians/

Dublin GAA club denies that four young siblings were banned
Updated / Thursday, 9 Feb 2023 14:39
A Dublin GAA club has denied a claim that four siblings were banned from participating in the Dublin GAC's activities.

Micheál Ó Scanaill SC for several officials at the Fingallians GAA club told Mr Justice Brian O'Moore at the High Court that Sinead O'Farrell's children are entitled to take part in all relevant club activities, and it is not a case that they have been banned from doing so.

Ms O'Farrell, of Sandford Wood, Swords, Co Dublin, began proceedings late last month against several Fingallians' club officials seeking orders including an injunction removing the alleged ban on behalf of her children aged ten, eight, six and five.

Ms O'Farrell claimed that, along with their father Jason and herself, her children had been told to stay away from the club.

The action is against Fingallians club chairman Colin Foley, vice chairperson Carl Jones, club secretary Eoin Martin, juvenile chairperson Denis McCarthy, children's officer Sarah Nixon and disciplinary chairperson Pat Ward.

When the matter returned before Mr Justice O'Moore today, Mr Ó Scannail said there was no urgency to the claim as the O'Farrell children were not banned from the club, nor taking part in activities.

He said there was no evidence that they were banned, except for an assertion made by Ms O'Farrell and that the matter was not urgent.

He said from his clients' perspective several legal issues arise in the case, including if the action should be against the club's trustees, and not the named defendants.

Mr O Scannail said it is also his clients' case that the O'Farrells are bound by their membership of the GAA to have their claim go through an arbitration process through the GAA's Disputes Resolution Authority and not a court of law.

He added that if he was wrong on that point, it was their case that the dispute should be heard by a lower court than the High Court.

The O'Farrells reject the club's claims.

Richard Kean SC for the O'Farrells said that the O'Farrell children would not be before the court if they were allowed to fully participate in all of the club's activities with their own peer group.

He said that the proposed arbitration process is designed to deal with allegations that the GAA's rules have been breached, and disciplinary matters.

The O'Farrell children had neither broken the rules nor have they been disciplined, he said, adding that the injunction application should be heard as soon as possible.

Mr Justice O'Moore said that the case was an unusual one, where both sides were diametrically opposed to each other.

The judge added that he was making no criticism of counsel in the case but said that the application for the injunction should be heard as soon as possible.

The judge fixed the hearing of application, when all legal arguments can be advanced by the parties, for Friday, 17 February.

The matter is expected to take half a day to hear.

Previously the court heard that the O'Farrells are all paid-up members of Fingallians, Seatown West, Swords, and all of the children take part in both football and hurling.

In a sworn statement to the court Ms O'Farrell said that a dispute arose following a football tournament for U-9 boys in Newry, Co Down last year.

She claimed that her husband, other parents, and volunteer coaches were unhappy with the approach to the tournament taken by Richie Herity, who had been the head coach of the club's U-9 boys' group.

Arising out of the fallout within the club from that tournament, she said her husband, and other adults whose children were part of that group of boys, were fired as volunteer coaches of the U-9s in September.

She added that since those parents' removal there have been a series of communications and meetings involving club officials, the O'Farrells and the other parents have taken place, without any of the issues between them being resolved.

She said that her husband and her family were told in one communication by a senior club official last month, who asked the entire family to refrain from attending at the club, until a meeting had taken place with her husband and the club's chairperson.

Ms O'Farrell said the entire affair had caused her and her husband the most profound shock and distress.

The O'Farrell's solicitors wrote to the club seeking undertaking including that no steps be taken by Fingallians to prevent the O'Farrell children from accessing the club's facilities.

In a letter to the O'Farrell's solicitors, the club said that their children are "entitled to the same access to the club's facilities and activities as all other club members in good standing", and it had "no intention to exclude them."       

However, no undertakings were given, and Ms O'Farrell commenced an action seeking injunctions restraining the officials from interfering with her family's right to attend the club and participating with club teams or groups.

She also seeks declarations, including that a message sent by the club to her husband earlier this month purporting to ban the family from training is unwarranted, unjustified, unlawful and has no legal effect.

[screenexile]

WTF is going on with Karl Lacey and the Donegal Academy??!!

[Armagh18]

https://www.sportsjoe.ie/gaa/282649-282649?fbclid=IwAR3_dgtJ0nGb0hDQZ-QXBySMA4I0kvjBngG6LOkpHt64c8xXByFO0lLuvVY#ldynhp19x3n8a2y57hp

[square_ball]

Not sure if posted elsewhere on the board but WTF!!!

https://twitter.com/ourgamehq/status/1624163310214995987?s=46&t=iecGij65wWLAgrw4jXoPRQ

[Kidder81]

Not sure if posted elsewhere on the board but WTF!!!

https://twitter.com/ourgamehq/status/1624163310214995987?s=46&t=iecGij65wWLAgrw4jXoPRQ

Surprising but not surprising at the same time

[Wildweasel74]

How he get away with that for so long?

[Kidder81]

How he get away with that for so long?

And it's not as if he, or family, have an unblemished record when it comes to fraud

[Smokin Joe]

How he get away with that for so long?

Who?

[Kidder81]

How he get away with that for so long?

Who?

Sent you a PM

[armaghniac]

How he get away with that for so long?

And it's not as if he, or family, have an unblemished record when it comes to fraud

Unrivalled, perhaps.

[Tony Baloney]

How he get away with that for so long?

And it's not as if he, or family, have an unblemished record when it comes to fraud

Unrivalled, perhaps.

Far from his first rodeo in this regard. And never done by halves either.