PuC and the Liam Miller Fundraiser

[mrdeeds]

This debacle does not deflect well on our organisation..

The game should go ahead in PuC.

To those who say it can't go ahead because of the rules: can we count at your enthusiastic support to change the rules at next Congress. If not, why not?

To those who say it shouldn't go ahead: why not? If Ulster Rugby had declined to facilitate a similar fund raiser coordinated aroun a GAA star what would the reaction have been?

Its very unlikely for Ulster Rugby to be asked to host a major fundraiser for a GAA  star as multiple GAA facilities in Ulster could be used . The people here who should be coming under criticism are the FAI. When have they ever put a decent stadium in place? No it is always a case of someone else can bale us out.

Did the IRFU  not host a game in Ravenhill because Belfast has no GAA stadium?

So your point is very silly. And wrong.

Yeah for Anto Finnegan.

[Jinxy]

Unofficial, but looks like it will go ahead in PUC according to those in the know.

https://twitter.com/cooper_m/status/1020729477519855617

[seafoid]

Unofficial, but looks like it will go ahead in PUC according to those in the know.

https://twitter.com/cooper_m/status/1020729477519855617

If that is true it is fantastic news

[seafoid]

Rumours intensified this evening that the GAA had agreed to open the stadium, but RTÉ Sport understands that there has been no update since this statement.

[Jinxy]

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Reports this evening that a @PaircUiCha0imh deal has been done have been dismissed by a well-placed source as premature - they're not aware of any deal. Also dismissed by source close to organisers - "adamant" no deal struck.
Expect clarification early in the week

https://twitter.com/SMurphyTV/status/1020750382300114944

[Milltown Row2]

Aviva not available? Bigger ground more money?

[seafoid]

Aviva not available? Bigger ground more money?

It's not in Cork, boy

[Plain of the Herbs]

That wouldn't have had the marketing potential that this week's exercise has produced.

Aviva not available? Bigger ground more money?

[Milltown Row2]

Aviva not available? Bigger ground more money?

It's not in Cork, boy

And? Dublin is only up the road, I'm sure the family want as much money as they can, Aviva would be obvious, plus playing for Ireland at the National stadium..

Hopefully it's resolved soon..

[Owen Brannigan]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/22/liam-miller-irish-sport-body-allows-charity-game-for-late-man-utd-star-report


If this is true it shows the hypocrisy of the GAA authorities who will allow this game to proceed but refused a similar charity game in Healy Park after 31 people were murdered and hundreds maimed for life by the IRA bombing in Omagh twenty years ago next month.

As sad as it is for Liam Miller's family to lose him due to cancer, I and I would suspect many outraged by the GAA refusal, had never heard of Liam Millar. I knew many of those murdered and maimed in Omagh.

[The Hill is Blue]

Of course this event should go ahead in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. It's a disgrace that there should have to be any debate about it.

[smelmoth]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/22/liam-miller-irish-sport-body-allows-charity-game-for-late-man-utd-star-report


If this is true it shows the hypocrisy of the GAA authorities who will allow this game to proceed but refused a similar charity game in Healy Park after 31 people were murdered and hundreds maimed for life by the IRA bombing in Omagh twenty years ago next month.

As sad as it is for Liam Miller's family to lose him due to cancer, I and I would suspect many outraged by the GAA refusal, had never heard of Liam Millar. I knew many of those murdered and maimed in Omagh.

My sympathies on how you were impacted by the Omagh atrocity.

As for the GAA it is important that an embarrassingly awful decision in respect to Omagh is not used as a binding precedent to force a similarly awful decision in Cork.

When you stop following your own mistakes you will be accused of inconsistency and hypocrisy. But when the alternative is continuing the mistakes it's what you have to do

[Milltown Row2]

Surely if soccer is your game or rugby or GAA, would you not want to remember having a charity game at the place were he was best remembered by? And In doing so finding the best, biggest venue?

For Liam the Aviva would have brought the biggest revenue plus his games for Ireland serving as a great reminder of his talent.. Even Celtic Park. Finishing his career back in Cork in Turners Cross would also be a better place

Playing in PUC has no relevance at all other than to generate money.. Aviva would bring a lot more money for his family I'd have thought.

[seafoid]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/22/liam-miller-irish-sport-body-allows-charity-game-for-late-man-utd-star-report


If this is true it shows the hypocrisy of the GAA authorities who will allow this game to proceed but refused a similar charity game in Healy Park after 31 people were murdered and hundreds maimed for life by the IRA bombing in Omagh twenty years ago next month.

As sad as it is for Liam Miller's family to lose him due to cancer, I and I would suspect many outraged by the GAA refusal, had never heard of Liam Millar. I knew many of those murdered and maimed in Omagh.

It would be hypocritical of the GAA to open Croke Park to rugby 11 years ago.
It would be hypocritical of SF to go into government with Paisley. It would be hypocritical of QE 2 to speak irish

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[Jinxy]

Surely if soccer is your game or rugby or GAA, would you not want to remember having a charity game at the place were he was best remembered by? And In doing so finding the best, biggest venue?

For Liam the Aviva would have brought the biggest revenue plus his games for Ireland serving as a great reminder of his talent.. Even Celtic Park. Finishing his career back in Cork in Turners Cross would also be a better place

Playing in PUC has no relevance at all other than to generate money.. Aviva would bring a lot more money for his family I'd have thought.

Cork is the only county this would happen in.
Dublin is another country to them.