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iluvni - another WUM.
Bet you expected everyone to be typing like mad about NI playing in CP, saying no way etc etc

Some have, some havent. Most arent remotely intersted. I am, thats why I asked the question.

Your point?

I would be categorically opposed to the North of Ireland soccer team playing in Croke Park. As one who was at the Omagh tribute game in 1999, at Lansdowne, when they besmirched our national anthem and generally set about antagonising everyone (one p***k at a chip van with his son was slagging a guy wearing a Celtic shirt about the Huns leading Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final), I would not be in favour of hosting them anywhere in Dublin.

In Croke Park, the occasion  would undoubtedly be used as an excuse by the love Ulster crowd (who make up the majority of the North's support anyway) to make political points in an aggressive way and could well lead to a repeat of the Lansdowne Road riot in 1995.

Did you foam at the mouth this morning as you typed that?

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.

Of course many had their issues with the England anthem that day.  Watching yer man McGurk and the RTE rugby coverage before the game you would have thought that the world was about to end...but it was played and the Republic gave itself  a pat on the back for respecting GSTQ.

Not sure Northern Ireland would be accepted at GAA HQ though. I think that might be a step too far, given the official support for the struggle for national liberation (or whatever the exact wording was).

Must ask the opinion here...

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

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

Clealry audible you say?
What tune was this Greysteel 7 Ireland 0 based upon?

Help us all out here, Mr Bigot.

Is this the same Sarsfield GAA club which held under-age GAA competitions as part of the IRA Hunger Strike 25th anniversary 'celebrations' a couple of years ago.

"A full schedule is listed below and everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy the Hurling and Football over the 3 days in what promises to be a great display of young talent and hopefully what should be a fitting tribute to the memory of the 1981 Hunger Strikers and also all others during our History, who sacrificed everything for the benefit of everyone else."
http://www.gaelsport.com/html/club/newfullstory.jsp?c=612&newsID=13938&p=n

Disgusting.

Perhaps she could contact David Miller from Strathclyde University to discuss the incident.  Be interesting to hear his take on the matter, given that he deemed the Red Hand a sectarian symbol, complained and obtained a BBC apology over its use.

Mope

He certainly was.

Perhaps she could contact David Miller from Strathclyde University to discuss the incident.  Be interesting to hear his take on the matter, given that he deemed the Red Hand a sectarian symbol, complained and obtained a BBC apology over its use.

KC - would you ever learn a bit of Gaeilge or else get rid of that non sensical rubbish at the  bottom of your posts.

I am interested in learning Irish  I am planning on getting some cd's or videos I honestly copied that from some Irish/american english website that translates the two languages.

more, more. keep it coming..  

I am honestly not a loyalist arse hole I am a American of Irish descent and catholic as well. I also belong to the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Kansas City,Mo www.kcaoh.org and Irish Northern Aid as well.

How about this for a deal, then, KC? When the "American" in you has sorted out all the crap the USA has caused in the rest of the world, maybe then we (or this Irishman at least) will welcome the help of the "Irish" in you in sorting out our problems...

Hear, hear KC.
Keep it coming.....

KC meet your first two OWCer's. 

You were  scared what this eejit was going to say next!

Hear, hear KC.
Keep it coming.....

The GAAModerator comments deserve respect there. I'll leave the debate on Huns etc at this point.

I asked for quite some time on this site, why has Fearon been continually permitted the platform to spout his sectarian talk about 'The Huns', demonising everything to do with NI fans, all leading up to his gloating laugh about the assualt on the NI fans in Bratislava.
Why wasnt that stopped long ago before things got out of hand?

I suppose this thread was bound to go down the usual lines 

By that I presume you are commenting on the fact that the majority of posters here condemn the attacks, whether the fans were causing trouble or not??

Somehow I dont think so.

The more info that comes forward, the more it seems that the nifans were running a bit of a muck in the Irish bar with offensive songs, gestures and taking down the flags.

Now I still dont think they deserve what they got, just think the reports from one side saying they were sitting hand in hand in the bar with flowers in their hair singing coom bay ya as gaeilge shows how some people will blindly defend them because of what they are without having a clue what happened.

I dont know how many times English football fans have claimed total innocence when the foreign police clamped down on their hooliganism.

Truth is, nobody here knows exactly what happened, its all hearsay, we can all claim to know a lad who was there, its an anonymous forum, but nobody here should presume one extreme or the other.

Of course the majority of posters here are totally opposed to what happened to the fans in the pub. Christ sakes, these lads are just the same as the majority of us..support our teams and banter the defeats and fans of other teams. Thats part and parcel of the appeal of sport, isnt it? Any wrong doing, I'd be completely and totally against it. Easy to say I suppose but the accounts of those in the pub on OWC ring truer than friend of a friend stuff.
What I was referring to when I said 'this thread was bound to go down the usual lines' is that we all know there are those, the Fearons  of this world and his  opposite on the other side' who arent able to settle for banter, but who have barely concealed glee that others have received a beating and suffered dreadful assaults. You'll always find them on threads  when NI football surface. The hatred spews out of them. They shame the rest of us, on 'either side', and their views deserve challenged at all times.