GAA Response to Coronavirus

[armaghniac]

Hmmmmm....

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-40033820.html

Are the GAA finances being mis-managed?

How can they need financial assistance when a season is only a few months and what financial assistance could they need.

I mean how much does it really cost to run the games this season (assume TV money will still come in)

Gate revenue last year was €36 million. You can't just take that out and not have a financial crisis as most costs still remain. TV money is a fixed contract, in theory you could have more TV since it wouldn't affect gate revenues but can this be negotiated?
County teams cost a bit less to run than last year, but not that much. There could be extra costs; can you have a bus going to games, can players carpool going to training?

[Rossfan]

Hopefully not true.....
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0818/1159815-covid-19-blog/

[sid waddell]

Hopefully not true.....
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0818/1159815-covid-19-blog/

The reality is that if the Government is telling us it's not safe to have 50 people at a club GAA match or a League of Ireland match, they can't turn around and tell us it's safe to go into Penney's

[Blowitupref]

Hopefully not true.....
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0818/1159815-covid-19-blog/

A ridiculous decision. This new government has lost the plot already.

[imtommygunn]

Sports events to be held without spectators. That is ridiculous. The outdoors is the safest place you could be. They should be opening sports up to more not less.

[MayoBuck]

Crazy decision. It will result in more house parties at the weekend now that this social opportunity is closed.

[Taylor]

Is it just me that is confused here.

Are the Government saying it is safer to be in a pub eating a plate of chicken wings and drinking for a couple of hours than standing in the open air watching a sporting event?

Like seriously - who comes up with these changes.

Maybe I am being to simplistic

[Rossfan]

Hopefully not true.....
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0818/1159815-covid-19-blog/

The reality is that if the Government is telling us it's not safe to have 50 people at a club GAA match or a League of Ireland match, they can't turn around and tell us it's safe to go into Penney's

Do people in Penneys spend an hour and a half sitting beside each other shouting?

[imtommygunn]

It is complete double standards for shops / bars / restaurants etc etc plus this is outdoors vs not being indoors. It only makes sense if they're pretty much shutting everything to crowds again but they're not. It's a knee jerk decision.

[joemamas]

Hopefully not true.....
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0818/1159815-covid-19-blog/

A ridiculous decision. This new government has lost the plot already.

A crazy and stupid party in Temple Bar in March highlighted on social media was main catalyst for the closing of all the Pubs in rural Ireland,  At the time, it was totally understandable given there was no way to control Covid or how to contain it. Everyone respected that decision and abided by it.

Fast forward six months, some clown in a bar/restaurant in Dublin, pouring shots of booze in to customers.
Time to shut down all the rural pubs again as they are the cause of this behavior.
Oh wait, I forgot, they never were allowed to reopen.
Where your average customer aged 40-75 might have three or four pints and go home.
Thousands of livelehoods impacted.
House parties by young people have replaced them in almost all rural towns.
Obviously this is safer.

Government response, no spectators at sporting events. Even 200 where capacity is 2000.
IMO  "one rule for all of Ireland, just lazy and daft.

[sid waddell]

Hopefully not true.....
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0818/1159815-covid-19-blog/

The reality is that if the Government is telling us it's not safe to have 50 people at a club GAA match or a League of Ireland match, they can't turn around and tell us it's safe to go into Penney's

Do people in Penneys spend an hour and a half sitting beside each other shouting?

Some people will do anything for a bargain!

[Angelo]

Surely makes the 2020 AI highly unlikely now?

It's meant to get underway in 2 months roughly.

[thewobbler]

It's absolutely insane.

It was going to take some effort to top last week's decision to quarantine people based on county lines, but they're managing it somehow.

We have an increasingly bored and frustrated population. Preventing those people from standing well spaced apart in open environments is mentalshitbaskets.

Anyone know if this applies to juvenile football matches too? Or do we have to force parents to sit outside grounds in their cars when waiting for their children?

[GetOverTheBar]

Hopefully not true.....
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0818/1159815-covid-19-blog/

A ridiculous decision. This new government has lost the plot already.

A crazy and stupid party in Temple Bar in March highlighted on social media was main catalyst for the closing of all the Pubs in rural Ireland,  At the time, it was totally understandable given there was no way to control Covid or how to contain it. Everyone respected that decision and abided by it.

Fast forward six months, some clown in a bar/restaurant in Dublin, pouring shots of booze in to customers.
Time to shut down all the rural pubs again as they are the cause of this behavior.
Oh wait, I forgot, they never were allowed to reopen.
Where your average customer aged 40-75 might have three or four pints and go home.
Thousands of livelehoods impacted.
House parties by young people have replaced them in almost all rural towns.
Obviously this is safer.

Government response, no spectators at sporting events. Even 200 where capacity is 2000.
IMO  "one rule for all of Ireland, just lazy and daft.

If there was as many house parties as we are led to believe the country would be absolutely rife.

[Sportacus]

Covid is on the rise again looking for hosts.  There's any amount of pictures of spectators standing side by side at games and not wearing masks.  Can't see why the Government are getting the blame?  This is a lever they could pull to try and slow up a rising spread.  A surge into the Autumn is a very real possibility so the sacrifices have to continue unfortunately.  If it's inconsistent, then the other problems should be tackled as well.  As a GAA Board most of the comments will probably lash out at this through frustration, but sadly we're being asked to suck it up for the bigger picture.