Journalism at it's worst

[rrhf]

 Parkinson is great

[moysider]

I though I would hate him but I actually like Parkinson. He s got great enthusiasm and find him honest and doesn t take himself too seriously.

[Croí na hÉireann]

If everything about Parkinson didn't come back to himself he'd be worth listening to.

[Main Street]

If Roy Curtis thinks Parkinson and Gilroy are idiots then the opposite is true,  scientific fact!!

[From the Bunker]

Parkinson is an enjoyable idiot!
Curtis (from what I remember) can write an article on any sport (Hurling, Soccer, Football, Boxing) and write it consistently bad!

[Syferus]

He's a mother-fūcking genius. Sprays rough indeed, Roy.

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

Parkinson is alright even though hes a windy fecker, he knows what sides his breads buttered on though.........................licks the bag and stamp off dublin gaa

[The Aristocrat]

Is fear of being lambasted by the Kerry propagandists in the media forcing officiating errors?

They have certainly got away with a lot over the years, with a bit of luck, including Sunday.

[Jinxy]

Hot on the heels of O'Sé's article in the Irish Times, where he made the earth shattering observation that opponents might have a go at getting under Diarmuid Connolly's skin, Roy Curtis pens the following article.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/roy-curtis-darragh-s-reveals-the-sleeveen-culture-of-modern-gaelic-football-31341616.html

As an exercise in po faced, holier than thou, hand wringing, his is about as bad as it gets.

You would swear that it never occured to any defender in the history of sport to try & gain a psychological advantage over  a forward by "pulling his tail a bit". All the top players in team sports have to learn to rise above it & to Diarmuid's credit he has learned to do just that.

I'm sure he must be scratching his head, as I am, wondering what stone Roy Curtis has been living under these past years or is it, as I suspect, just a lazy piece of writing trying to get a reaction.

This sort of negative, overblown crap does more damage to the GAA than any few well chosen words in a forwards's ear.

A superb article to counter Darragh and his cute hoorism. Nice for Dublin to stick the knife into the Kerry gaa biased media. Kerry have a monopoly on the GAA to promote their own agenda. Which currently is Dublin

Eoin liston
Darragh o cinneide
Darragh o se
Tomas o se
John o keefe
Pat Spillane
Sinead kissane
Billy Keane
Weeshie fogarty

Name one other county that has the above monopoly in the press? Stephen Rae the Sunday I do editor is also a Kerry man. Gerry o regan the previous indo editor was also a kerryman

That was a scandalous article by O se who was a right pup on a GAA field himself. Nice to see Dublin giving the two fingers to it.

Des Cahill
Daragh Maloney
Ciarán Whelan
Senan Connell
Tommy Carr
Roy Curtis
Joanne Cantwell
Vincent Hogan
John Kenny
Tom Humphries

The list goes on.............................

Coman Goggins
Charlie Redmond
Barney Rock
Colin Moran

Brush Shiels

The Brush is an adopted Meathman.

[Hardy]

We're unrelenting in our search for the parents.

[twohands!!!]

Is fear of being lambasted by the Kerry propagandists in the media forcing officiating errors?

They have certainly got away with a lot over the years, with a bit of luck, including Sunday.

Hanlon's razor.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

A lot of people seem to think GAA refs have an agenda (favouring the big teams,big names etc, playing for the draw) when in the vast majority of cases it's down to simply getting the call wrong.

You do have to wonder if the GAA should force/invite more pundits and media commentators to referee a few games and record the game, and point out what they got wrong just to show how hard it is to get all the decisions right/not miss anything, especially in terms of the speed at which an intercounty game moves.