Unionist wants GAA jerseys banned from universities

[Gold]

Anybody got any pictures of a girl in a GAA jersey looking good??

Who the feck is she!?!

Una Healy from The Saturdays

[Estimator]

Anybody got any pictures of a girl in a GAA jersey looking good??

Who the feck is she!?!

Una Healy from The Saturdays

She is Una Foden now!

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

Mayo people suffer from this affliction worse than any other county I reckon. While a Tyronie will scout a Tyrone jersey and alternate it with their club, a Wexford one, a Dublin one, a Mayo one a Kilkenny one and back to a Tyrone one, in contrast a Mayohead will start with a Green and red Mayo one, followed by a red and green one, followed by a white with green and red trim, followed by the 1989 one, followed by the 1996 one, followed by the 2004 one, followed by the 2006 one, followed by a 1950 retro one, followed by last one before the current one etc. etc.

[Wildweasel74]

ah, we have a winner

[T O Hare]

The mucksavage thread was unreal lol maybe Jim was about Renshaws in the early turn off the century seeing young women after a few hours of three for a fiver in their carrickmore jerseys heading to Temps for a feed 

[JimStynes]

The mucksavage thread was unreal lol maybe Jim was about Renshaws in the early turn off the century seeing young women after a few hours of three for a fiver in their carrickmore jerseys heading to Temps for a feed 

You escorted a few home as well Tom. Gentleman that you are and all!!

[Apparently so]

Anybody got any pictures of a girl in a GAA jersey looking good??

Yes

Aye

[tiempo]

Unionist wants GAA jerseys banned from universities

a unionist wants thread wud be appropriate to pool all this shite in the one place, they're on a permanent weekly gripe/crisis/identity crisis mode

[T O Hare]

The mucksavage thread was unreal lol maybe Jim was about Renshaws in the early turn off the century seeing young women after a few hours of three for a fiver in their carrickmore jerseys heading to Temps for a feed 

You escorted a few home as well Tom. Gentleman that you are and all!!

Just looking after the fellow gaels Jim. Perfect gentleman lol

[Maguire01]

Is this the response? Equally ridiculous and narrow-minded.



Queen's University Students' Union is set to vote tonight on a controversial motion to ban the sale of poppies on its premises.

Student and Sinn Fein activist Sean Fearon is expected to propose the ban and has slated the Poppy Appeal as "politically charged".

The motion, which will be seconded by Kelly Ann McAteer, states: "This Council recognises that the Students' Union is an inclusive and neutral space for all students at Queen's University and therefore must offer a politically neutral environment regarding issues of the past to avoid offence and a sense of exclusion."

The motion concludes: "This Council, therefore, instructs the VP [vice-president] Equality & Diversity and the Union President to end the sale of poppies in the Students' Union to provide an end to political sponsorship of the Poppy Appeal, in the name of peace, inclusivity and progressivism."

The union's representative council is set to vote on the motion in a secret ballot.

Council members who are members of unionist parties have said they will vote against it.

SDLP-minded members have also indicated they will oppose it.

Cliona McCarney, who is a member of the SDLP, told the Belfast Telegraph she believed the motion is "very unhelpful".

"We are voting against the motion, it's not out of any great love for the symbol of the poppy, it's just the fact that the motion is discriminatory against a large section of students," she said.

"Equally if it was a motion to ban GAA tops – which came about at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown – I was completely against that as well.

"The union is constitutionally mandated to be a safe place for all students, and if we take the right away, where does it end?"

She said the council would be better discussing proposals to increase tuition fees.

Unionist parties have slammed the motion. DUP European candidate Diane Dodds said it was "regressive, backward-looking and an attempt to politicise the poppy".

Ulster Unionist Lisburn councillor Alex Redpath said he was "really disappointed" by the motion. Mr Redpath, who was speaker of the students' council in 2010, said he believed it has become a "less accepting" place.

"This sort of petty sectarianism has been displayed in the past by the University of Ulster Students' Union and the UUP's Youth Wing the Young Unionists successfully fought a campaign to stop the ban," he said.

TUV council candidate and Samuel Morrison said he was disgusted by the motion.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/queens-university-students-to-debate-on-poppy-sale-ban-30250072.html

[armaghniac]

Is this the response? Equally ridiculous and narrow-minded.

Proper order. A student's union in a place like NI is no place selling any sort of political stuff.
Note the proposal is not to ban the wearing, only the selling.

[Main Street]

Cliona McCarney, who is a member of the SDLP, told the Belfast Telegraph she believed the motion is "very unhelpful".
"We are voting against the motion, it's not out of any great love for the symbol of the poppy, it's just the fact that the motion is discriminatory against a large section of students," she said.
"Equally if it was a motion to ban GAA tops – which came about at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown – I was completely against that as well.

Since when does a proposed ban on wearing GAA tops equate with a motion asking for an end to student union political sponsorship of the sale of the poppy?
SDLP student member unwittingly gives out an idiot alert warning,
'I'm a moron, therefore I vote.  I didn't take the time to comprehend the motion and I make really weird connections in the universe that I inhabit'

[Maguire01]

Cliona McCarney, who is a member of the SDLP, told the Belfast Telegraph she believed the motion is "very unhelpful".
"We are voting against the motion, it's not out of any great love for the symbol of the poppy, it's just the fact that the motion is discriminatory against a large section of students," she said.
"Equally if it was a motion to ban GAA tops – which came about at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown – I was completely against that as well.

Since when does a proposed ban on wearing GAA tops equate with a motion asking for an end to student union political sponsorship of the sale of the poppy?
SDLP student member unwittingly gives out an idiot alert warning,
'I'm a moron, therefore I vote.  I didn't take the time to comprehend the motion and I make really weird connections in the universe that I inhabit'

I don't even know what they mean by political sponsorship.

[Maguire01]

Defeated 15 votes to 40.

[muppet]

Is this the response? Equally ridiculous and narrow-minded.

Proper order. A student's union in a place like NI is no place selling any sort of political stuff.
Note the proposal is not to ban the wearing, only the selling.

Who decides whether a poppy or a Gaa jersey are political?