Patrick Kielty and A Night in November

[fred the red]

I think Iluvni is just ripping that there is more people from the north of ireland attend Internationals at croke park than at windsor! 

[magickingdom]

Must ask the opinion here...

would the GAA allow Northern Ireland to play at Croaker Park?

Would that be harder to swallow than GSTQ when England rugby team played?

as hh already said the gaa in essence have allowed it. in all honesty i had no problem whatsoever with gstq or england playing in cp, hope they do it regularly. personally i would however have a major problem with ni playing there. i'm not going to be arsed debating the rights or wrongs of that but thats how i would feel

I suspect, despite what his holiness said, that there would indeed be ructions about the idea of NI playing. I agree no need to debate the reasons. We've heard them all before.

Secondly, how did the quote of my original comment see Croke Park changed to CroAker Park? I didnt spell the stadium name incorrectly.

dont know what happened iluvni u did indeed spell it correctly, i can only assume i hit the 'a' key accidently when i copied over your quote...

[iluvni]

I'd like to have seen your confidence in the GAA's 'democratic decision' put to the test, yer holiness.

Its not "confidence". the democratic decision has already been made!! 

If the Republic have a competitive game against the North during the period of time in which the GAA allow them in as tennants, the GAA cannot stop them playing as they have already said yes to any home competitive game.

But dont let that stop you making shite up.

Not making anything up, simply asking questions and voicing an opinion. You get  all aggro if you wish though.

[rosnarun]

this is exactly why the FAI scum should have been kept out of croker in the 1st place . can you imagine 20,000 Loyalists coming down to watch the IFA V the FAI team . they'd shit all over the place  and the norths supporters would be worse if the the stadium hadn't been despoiled by the English ruggerbugger some body might actually care

[Jim_Murphy_74]

I think from some of the responses to my questions, I was correct to assume there would be issues raised withing GAA circles about it.... as there were regarding GSTQ with England. Perhaps you prefer to ignore that or pretend questions werent raised but sure, thats up to you.
You defend Fearon as you wish.

Lads who went on about GSTQ, rugby and respect etc. are a ticket.  As far as I can see most of that discussion happen outside GAA circles.  Any discussion about it happen before Congress voted to open Croker.  Even the Cork delegate who was opposed to opening Croker stated that once it was open then it was up to the tenants to make such decision.

There was umpteen attempts to drag the GAA into whole thing but as our Uachtaráin pointed out that apart from the pre-paid corporate box advertising the stadium was rented "clean".  What ads, anthems, flags, security goons etc.. are employed by the IRFU/FAI is there own business.

If the crowd at the Ireland/England rugby international had disrespected the anthem it would have been blamed on the GAA no doubt, even though it would have been rugby fans doing the disrespecting.

If the IFA XI were to play the FAI XI I, as a GAA member, would have concerns.  This is not due to an inherent bigotry but due to the fact that there would be a certain element of the IFA XI support that would wish to take advantage of having access to the "Fenian GAA" HQ and a part of the FAI XI support who would respond in kind.  However, I wouldn't expect the GAA to renege on prior agreements because of this.

What elements of Unionsim don't seem to grasp is that the Croke Park thing was sensistive to a wider community in Ireland than just the GAA due to fact that it was the scene of civilian deaths at the hands of British forces.  However ignorance of such sensitivies has been displayed by the same elements with regard to another Bloody Sunday so it is hardly a surprise now is it?

/Jim.

[his holiness nb]

Not making anything up, simply asking questions and voicing an opinion. You get  all aggro if you wish though.

Not aggro just shocked at your failure to understand basic facts.

You say you would like to see my confidence in a democratic decision being put to the test.

The stupidity of this post is glaring. The democratic decision has already been made.
Theres nothing for me to have faith in, as its already taken place.

How can you want to see my confidence in something that DID happen already put to the test?
You arent making sense, then again, thats not suprising