DUP halts £180k Glens community funding over '1922 IRA names on gates'

[Jinxy]

Give Pete a chance.

[Minder]

I see this is in the news again, our club held a vote last week and voted to remove/relocate the gates and our chairman resigned on the spot at the meeting.

[johnneycool]

I see this is in the news again, our club held a vote last week and voted to remove/relocate the gates and our chairman resigned on the spot at the meeting.

As I said before, take them down, build the community centre and then put them back up, but hopefully it won't cause too much friction within the club and community as that is the last thing you'd need.

Best of luck with the development.

[illdecide]

I see this is in the news again, our club held a vote last week and voted to remove/relocate the gates and our chairman resigned on the spot at the meeting.

IN stated today that 2 football managers resigned too over the vote...

[Il Bomber Destro]

Good to see some people still hold onto their principles.

[JimStynes]

I wouldn't be happy if the pitch down the road from was called Billy Wright Park or something similar. Well all know this is the equivalent but this is what it looks like to the other side of the fence. Hard enough to get grants and it certainly doesn't help a club to be named after IRA men and the local council dominated by DUP members.

[T Fearon]

There seems to be a misconception in the nationalist community that unionists should view the IRA as a benign freedom fighting non sectarian force.Not commenting on the morality or otherwise,but if you try to put yourselves in unionist shoes they see a force that killed their sons and daughters in the RUC,or innocents in Enniskillen etc.

I again don't see why politics and sport should mix.The outgoing Ulster GAA Chief Danny Murphy has emphasised the continuing need for outreach by the GAA particularly in the North and pointed out a number of initiatives he was involved in.This outreach will not be facilitated unless the GAA divests itself from all political linkages

[Minder]

I wouldn't be happy if the pitch down the road from was called Billy Wright Park or something similar. Well all know this is the equivalent but this is what it looks like to the other side of the fence. Hard enough to get grants and it certainly doesn't help a club to be named after IRA men and the local council dominated by DUP members.

Th club isn't named after them Jim, the pitch is. And I don't think anyone outside of our club would have known who McAllister & McVeigh were. The building that the funding is being sought for will not be owned or run by the hurling club, but will be on our grounds.

Sarah Clarke just said on UTV that the club is trying to build this facility to turn the club into a cross community club 

The "split" in the club is also being overplayed, there where three voted against it. People have come out now, people that couldn't be bothered their hole going to the meeting to cast their vote complaining that their voice isn't being heard !

[T Fearon]

How can cross community events be held and everyone expected to attend if they have to walk through gates to access the building bearing the names of paramilitaries from either side?

[foxcommander]

There seems to be a misconception in the nationalist community that unionists should view the IRA as a benign freedom fighting non sectarian force.Not commenting on the morality or otherwise,but if you try to put yourselves in unionist shoes they see a force that killed their sons and daughters in the RUC,or innocents in Enniskillen etc.

I again don't see why politics and sport should mix.The outgoing Ulster GAA Chief Danny Murphy has emphasised the continuing need for outreach by the GAA particularly in the North and pointed out a number of initiatives he was involved in.This outreach will not be facilitated unless the GAA divests itself from all political linkages

Can we not rename the Sam Maguire and Liam MacCarthy trophies? They cause offence.
I for one refuse to sit anywhere other than the Davin stand due to the paramilitary naming of the other areas at Croke Park.

[T Fearon]

Yes but Croke Park is not applying for a grant to develop a cross community facility

[rrhf]

Its time to talk about Cromwell Road...

[Over the Bar]

Put the gates up for auction.  A US club would pay a fortune for them.  Win-win.

[Wildweasel74]

Thinking about cromwell myself when this came up again

[Two Hands FFS]

Funding approved by the council tonight