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O'Duffy was a leading GAA figure in his day.He got booted from Ulster GAA but also has the terrace named after him. That has to go IMO
Heard tales when he was Ulster Secretary he wouldn't accept Referees' reports if Monaghan lost but would find some technicality to order a replay or award the game to Monaghan.
surprised there’s not a George Mitchell’s somewhereCouldn't they just say they are named after Joni instead of John?
Or Frank. Keep it local
Haha-or Phil from Eastenders
Or Charles from RTE back in the day...
Now the BLM has gained a bit of momentum in the UK and the pulling down of that slave trader statue in Bristol the establishment there are now having to look at their wrongdoings in the past and face up to them of sorts except Winston, he's an all round good guy and off bounds for critical analysis of his various misdeeds.
This is a great wee website tracing those involved in the slave trade and were paid off by the British taxpayer to stop their evil deeds.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Prentices in Newry and Armagh feature.............
Oh he'll get his historical comeuppance too. WWII is sacred in the UK, but that might not last forever. Peter Hitchens, hardly a pinko leftie, has written about how the UK went into WWII not to save the world (and certainly not to save the Jews, if anything they did nothing to stop the holocaust when they could have) but to preserve Britain's status as a great power. Germany was bemused when the Brits joined in. They were like "WTF has this got to do with you?" WWII was originally an eastward-looking conflict. Hitler wanted to conquer lands to his east in order to feed the German industrial machine. Knocking France out of action was a prerequisite for his main objective which was capturing Eastern Europe.
The Western campaign was a distraction for the Nazis, and it ended up costing Britain it's great power status rather than securing it. It took Suez to get it into their heads that they'd lost it, although I'm not sure if it ever fully sunk in.
Perhaps you should consider it may be yourself who is truly out of touch with reality.What "mob"?
White polismen who kill black suspects?
https://www.latimes.com/visuals/graphics/la-me-g-lapd-race-20150319-htmlstory.html
Sometimes I truly get the impression that Irish (and most other european nationalities tbf) people are truly out of touch with reality in America despite having very strong opinions on how America should do things. I do understand this I was that person
What "mob"?
White polismen who kill black suspects?
If my sport excluded 48%(?) of the population of NI I'd certainly be embarrassed.And even though I think that it should be a source of embarrassment that 1/6th of the population of Ireland is excluded - or feels itself excluded - from playing particular sports, I might add that I'm not "offended" by this.
Are you embarrassed because you exclude yourself from normal life in Ireland because you identify with the 17th century?
That's because I try to live my life in the 21st century, where what "foot you dig with" shouldn't determine what foot you kick with.
Justin case your not feeling free to explain why GSTQ gets an airing at NI matches and not in Wales or Scotland? Danny Boy is widely recognized as a neutral alternative.I, and a whole lot of fans I know, would greatly prefer something like Danny Boy.
But the IFA is not going to change GSTQ anytime soon, at least while England retain it, not because of some inalienable attachment, but because it would just raise another shit-storm from DUP types who don't even follow the game. Meaning it's easier just to play it for 8 or 10 internationals, out of the thousands of games played up and down the country every season. Meaning they're craven rather than dogmatic.
But it's interesting that you call for a "neutral" anthem. Would the GAA be willing to adopt a neutral anthem too, at least for games played in NI?
And should the IRFU drop the SS completely and just make do with Ireland's Call, for the sake of consistency?And if the whole Nationalism thing is just a formality maybe you could explain why Windsor Park is decked out Union Jacks from pillar to post, then there is the sectarian chanting, booing of Catholic players. I think its fair to say most Catholics prob just put up with it as its a commercial opportunity.It isn't "decked out with UJ's from pillar to post". A few fans bring them - it's hardly illegal - but they're only a small minority of the flags and banners on display.
Nor is there "sectarian chanting" and Catholic players do not get booed.
I suppose you might be forgiven for believing that, since you've clearly never been to an NI international, yet certain people with an agenda perpetuate these outdated myths which (presumably) suit your own perspective.
Meanwhile, those who do take the trouble to attend, know that the reality is far different these days eg:
https://www.northernslant.com/son-first-northern-ireland-match/
Then again, you might already have known this, since didn't your very own Jerome Quinn go to a game at Windsor in his GAA top looking for a "story" and the best he could come up with is that some people "looked at him" (Er, you're "that fella from the telly", Jerome); a fanzine seller gave him a free copy ("How dare he"); oh and the fans hummed the theme from "The Great Escape" (the very essence of sectarianism...).
I suspect that if you attended, you'd be similarly disappointed ("Disabused" rather than "Abused"?)
On another note.... is that your Linda?Oh my aching sides.
Why not ask them?
Does your flag and anthem mean there’s no room for fenians in your team?
As I said in my earlier Edit, the flag and anthem in GAA fairly reflect the whole ethos of the sport(s), at every level, in every corner.
Whereas with football, the NI flag and anthem only appears because it is a requirement of the world governing body, FIFA, that for internationals (only) they be included in the pre-match protocol.
And while some people get teary-eyed etc for 90 seconds before kick-off, most appreciate that it's just a formality, we're really there to play the Germans (or whomever).
Meanwhile, for 99% of matches in NI, none of this applies. And nobody cares.
(For myself, I find the playing of the anthems is the perfect time to go for one last pre-match piss, the queue for the bogs having died down by then)
What?? Your joking for the craic right? What 'traditions' at Ulster Rugby need to be changed?I think those who heard her on the radio did listen to her. They decided they didn’t want what she was asking for. Which is fair enough, I think.The wannabe types from our side don’t go asking Ulster Rugby to change their traditions to suit us.They just go along and pretend they are like them.Linda Ervine either joins up under our traditions or else just keep getting the coin for what is her admirable work in the promotion of the Irish language.We are what we are!
Fantastic. Just shows you the pent-up demand there is for GAA activity in places you'd least expect.
A bit to go before Portavogie and Donaghadee are challenging for hurling honours.
