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The man says his team has been behind him all the way, and theres never been a problem with them.
Do you know different

No, I don't, I was asking questions.   Has his club been behind him all the way of this has been going on for years and other team-mates, as he said, knew it was going on and said he shouldn't have to put up with it.  Different things.

So instead of not reading them - you constantly add to them ass licking Tony - knob!

Long time dead, it was a genuine question, no need to throw personal insults in  

It adds to your attention seeking disorder - start a new thread to complain about threads you constantly post in. 

And a tad partitionist, too.

One thing I do not understand in this case is why, if the abuse was so severe and so prolonged, did his club not act on his behalf.

Have Lisnaskea made any coment on the whole thing ?

Not wanting it to get out and bring bad publicity to the non-sectarian sport?

Just wishing the county's Token Prod would go quietly?

Couldn't care less, he's only a Prod and shouldn't really be playing Gaelic anyway?

Who knows?

More shite from fcukwit Laverty in the Telegraph, who undoubtedly had a hand in the Opinion Column last Friday and styles himself an ex GAA Player. He is the worst kind of toady, pandering to the sectarian soccer mob so that they don't lynch him when he goes to Windsor Park. He should stick to doing what he does averagely, reporting on Larne Versus Loughgall games

You're still having trouble getting over the fact that "fuckwit Laverty" has got on in his journalistic career from a wee local paper to a big job at NI's biggest paper today.

Whereas, you ....

We feel your hurt, your pain.

"Last week's banner headlines were a major blow to the GAA's image, which they and their supporters like to portray as squeaky clean and beyond reproach.

But despite what you might hear, not every player is a star, not every ex-player is a legend, not every official is a character, not every manager is an affable and approachable gentleman - and not every fan is a happy, smiling, non-bigoted flag-waver.

So let's have a thorough Fermanagh County Board inquiry into the Darren Graham fiasco, let's hear which clubs had players and fans who subjected the player to such unforgiveable abuse - and let's see what stringent punishment is meted out to them."

50,000 ? Seems a bit high Donagh. Thats almost 10% of the Nationalist population. I know nowadays every bar stool republican claims to have been in the IRA but 50,000 seems way way too high.

Donagh is prone to a bit of exaggeration - sure he thinks a North-South Fisheries Commission is an embryonic united Ireland

And shure dont you think this mythical land called northern ireland is a country!

Whatever it is, it's hardly mythical - it is an internationally recognised region of the UK. Country, region, state, statelet, province, call it whatever you like - it exists and, in some shape or form, always will, I daresay it will outlive all of us and whatever becomes of it, none of us will take it with us.

See, I might talk shite a lot of the time, but I can be profound to at certain phases of the moon.

50,000 ? Seems a bit high Donagh. Thats almost 10% of the Nationalist population. I know nowadays every bar stool republican claims to have been in the IRA but 50,000 seems way way too high.

Donagh is prone to a bit of exaggeration - sure he thinks a North-South Fisheries Commission is an embryonic united Ireland

I still think it's interesting that the BBC sent two Linfield supporters to Clones to see a gaelic game, but didn't seem see fit to get them to go two miles across the town.  Maybe the Linfield supporters were (understandably) frightened, given Casement's history, or the BBC just weren't prepared to take the risk. There's several opportunities for you to go to Casement Park over the next couple of months, NIFan, so why not give it a go, and goo luck.  Or this week's Feile?

By the way, didn't one of the North's soccer team's regular nationalist critics go to Windsor Park with some of the team's supporterrs a couple of years ago as a guest of the BBC and had to concede there was nothing scary or offensive about it, but he just wasn't that interested?  Not sure of the details, it was on Radio Ulster.

It's obviously an outlet and therapy.

Here's some online advice for Mr Fearon in between forthcoming letters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/relationships/improving_your_confidence/feature_attention.shtml

There have been long-established pressure groups in the South from rural communities, including publicans and indeed even politicians, opposing strict policing of drinking and driving laws because they could undermine rural social life, etc. I'm not aware of any of this in the North. Are you?

I don't think I'm on any high-horse appreciate your counsel.

Actually the Belfast Telegraph provides very comprehensive coverage of gaelic games (so does Sunday Life, 4-6 pages of it during the season), it's often on the back-page, and at some risk of alienating the majority population in the North, though presumably they just turn the other cheek.  The GAA is not like other 'sports', as members and supporters often like to remind people.

This Darren Graham business is a wake-up call, soccer in the North realised it had a big problem and is tackling it, GAA in the SOuth seems to have been oblivious to it or unable or unwilling to tackle the elephant in the room, while the Northern GAA in general seems to have been happy to thrive on its assocaitions with the 'national liberation struggle' and its exclusivist outlook and exclusion of the Northern Protestant-British community. Graham has caused embarrassment, but maybe done a major service to those who would like this to just be a uniquely Irish, brilliant range of sports, but without the whiff of sulphur, in the longer-term.  If its forgotten about, the GAA will remain as attractive and relevant to Northern Protestants as the Orange Order is to Northern Catholics.

You need to look at this from UTV's and BBC NI's point of view, in covering GAA they already know that probably 60% of their normal potential audience will avoid thse programme straight-off because the subject matter simply isn't for or of them.  Of the remaining 40% or so, some people aren't interested in sport or even pseudo-sport like GAA, so the target audience is quite small. If they aren't going to support the programmes concerned, the BBC has to consider what's value for money and UTV has to consider its advertisers. Neither broadcaster is a charity.

Those were NI figures got by the BBC last week, not the Republic, isn't that right?  The big problem in the South isn't with immigants, but with rural pubs, rural publicans and rural drinkers who feel it is their right to drink and drive, it's well known and indeed the continual opposition to stricter drinking and driving laws and Garda powers on the subject is well-known, that isn't twisting anything, though we are all going well off the original subject.

Those of us big enough and ugly enough to admit to give and take criticism are do something about it owe Mr Fearon a debt of service for bringing articles like thos to the attention of ostrich/in denial types like Mr Fearon himself and other mono-culturalists.

All I hear are complaints about foreign nationals taking jobs, drinking and driving (though rural pubs in Ireland campiagn against anti-drinking and driving) and that there too many of them in Ireland, in spite of the fact that Ireland benefitted from foreign riches as part of the British Empire and later the world in general opened welcoming arms to our own emigrants.

How soon we forget.