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The GAA was built on principles of volunteerism, humility, amateur status, desire to express our Irishness, community identity and so on. 

Obviously it will evolve with the times and great things are still happening everyday such as the All Stars teams which are springing up in clubs across the country and are amazing.

But:
Threatening SuperMacs?
Journeymen coaches scouring the country for their next small club and fifty quid a night?
Card only at the gate?
Banning charity advertising?
Casement Park debacle?
Games behind paywalls?

That's just off the top of my head. Basically there's a lot of corporate thinking has crept into the organisation that's undermining the core principles and that is wrong in my book. 

Will he ask about the embarrassing legal threat to Supermacs over the April Fools joke?

They'll not apologise for clamping down on ambush marketing and rightly so.

They'd want to pick and choose their battles.
Corporate Croke Park against a homegrown company that is a big GAA sponsor isn't likely to win much popular support.

Who is "corporate Croke Park"? There is only one GAA and these people are charged with protecting the brand to raise revenue for all of us. Supermacs should be undermining the brand in this way and would likely be just as protective of anyone using their brand.

It was a bit of craic on April Fools Day from a company long associated with the GAA. Paddy Power is at it every day of the week. Trumped up nonsense from know alls in HQ who have lost the run of themselves.  The same muppets who would ban charity advertising on jerseys and are driving the GAAGO  paywall. 

I think they 'banned' Tipperary from wearing the DQ Foundation jerseys last year iirc.

Bit of common sense would go down well at HQ.

Can only hope Jarlath will knock a few heads together and bring decision making back to the basics - look after your community and cherish the things that are unique about the GAA.

Will he ask about the embarrassing legal threat to Supermacs over the April Fools joke?

They'll not apologise for clamping down on ambush marketing and rightly so.

They'd want to pick and choose their battles.
Corporate Croke Park against a homegrown company that is a big GAA sponsor isn't likely to win much popular support.

Who is "corporate Croke Park"? There is only one GAA and these people are charged with protecting the brand to raise revenue for all of us. Supermacs should be undermining the brand in this way and would likely be just as protective of anyone using their brand.

It was a bit of craic on April Fools Day from a company long associated with the GAA. Paddy Power is at it every day of the week. Trumped up nonsense from know alls in HQ who have lost the run of themselves.  The same muppets who would ban charity advertising on jerseys and are driving the GAAGO  paywall. 

According to the Examiner, Pairc ui Chaoimh will  host a European Rugby semifinal on the weekend of 4/5 May. The stadium can hold over 40,000 . The last time it hosted a rugby game, €5.6m was spent by patrons between tickets and refreshments and a further €3.7m was spent in Cork.


Imagine that happening in West Belfast on a regular basis

Define 'regular'?

Supermacs having their Facebook and Instagram accounts suspended over Croke Park April Fools joke

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/supermacs-facebook-and-instagram-accounts-suspended-over-croke-park-april-fools-gag/a1653191732.html

Corporate head office bollocks from the GAA. Embarrassing.  I was hoping Jarlath would put an end to guff like this.

Get working ye lazy hoors...

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0404/1441589-united-ireland/

The FitzGeralds, well known for their economic nous.

It would seem 'making Northern Ireland work' is a clever enough long term strategy by SF, but over-indexing on benefit bluffers and civil service dossers badly exposed here.

if assembly goes down again could anyone be arsed with listening nolan and crawley talking every day abou twhen it will be back up again.

The rent a mob crowd of "commentators" like David McCann, Alex Kane and Suzanne Breen will be happy anyway

I find Gareth Gordon the pick of the current bunch.  Comes across as down to earth and well informed.

how does this effect northern ireland and all ireland will they not just move on from this and throw donaldson under the bus how does this change NI politically apart from an internal dup thing.

A big opportunity now for the opponents of the Windsor Framework.  Gavin Robinson doesn't have the kudos to take the party forward, they are too divided.  Nigel Dodds is a big string puller in the background and then you have the mavericks like Sammy and the hardliners like Carla. They'll chose a new leader but I'm not really sure how they hold it together because they're not sure whether they are for or against the current arrangement - border in the Irish Sea and second fiddle to Michelle, but trying to 'make NI work'.  And ironically that means instability for the Assembly etc.

Sadly a victim or victims at the heart of it, but the bollix in me is having a laugh at Nolan, no show until Monday morning, he'll be gutted.

I don't listen to Nolan, why's the joke on him.

Because he loves to break the big stories and be the main man. 

Sadly a victim or victims at the heart of it, but the bollix in me is having a laugh at Nolan, no show until Monday morning, he'll be gutted.

Donald Tusk warming that Europe is not prepared for war. Laughable five years ago but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility now with Putin well and truly untouchable in his own country.
Where does that leave Ireland, a geographic soft spot on the western fringe of UK and Europe?
Has NATO a blueprint somewhere to save Irelands ass for their own welfare?  And does Ireland know about it?

[Except for the fact last year was the hottest on record globally.]

Global warming my hole, cold wet and miserable March.

Except for the fact last year was the hottest on record globally.


Some people need to understand weather and climate.

Not here it wasn't as I can mind debating whether (pardon the pun) or not to put on the fire last Summer which i'd never done in any summer prior.
Doesn't Weather refer to short term atmospheric conditions? cos it's been shite for a good while now.

It was the warmest year on record in Ireland.

[Clubs are finding it hard to attract coaches or committee members, it's sadly a sign of the times in modern day Ireland]

If a principal has an interest in GAA it will feed it's way down. Training a school team can take time for teachers and some might be reluctant to do it as it eats into their personal time. Clubs are finding it hard to attract coaches or committee members, it's sadly a sign of the times in modern day Ireland

They either couldn't be bothered listening to yappy entitled parents or are away chasing forty quid a night at some other club. 

Heartbreaking to hear all this.  The country is full of good people. Keep talking.

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Brutal from Antrim. What a let down the county board has been to GAA in the county. With the size of the population it is a outright disgrace that the CB would put such a team out. They must be doing zero work at club and schools underage level. I don't blame the players at all, in fact to pull on the jersey and go out and represent their county they are a credit to themselves. 
Having McEntee and others up managing the senior team while ignoring underage is f**king pointless. The CB and Northern Switchgear would be better off taking £100k out on to the Falls road and setting it on fire. If I was an Antrim man I'd be calling for heads.

Utterly pathetic.

You ain't wrong but you might want to look about your own greenhouse when you're lobbing bricks at others.

21 point defeat today for Tyrone.  Clearly they aren't putting enough effort in.  Utterly pathetic.