It Must be Marching Season

[Dougal Maguire]

As part of Féile an Phobail, two Belfast GAA Clubs are running the Joe Cahill underage tournament, thus playing right into the hands of the Orange Order who can use this to justify their opposition to the East Belfast U12team participating in the North Down Cricket Club cross community sports event last Friday. You couldn't make it up

[Wildweasel74]

They used to play in Coleraine start of the 1990's, on a small rented pitch when in junior. You went to play there undercover. About 1992/3 were playing out at the University pitch. I couldn't see how they ever been fit to set up in the town. They been called Coleraine since the 1970s.

[Milltown Row2]

As part of Féile an Phobail, two Belfast GAA Clubs are running the Joe Cahill underage tournament, thus playing right into the hands of the Orange Order who can use this to justify their opposition to the East Belfast U12team participating in the North Down Cricket Club cross community sports event last Friday. You couldn't make it up

Wouldn't matter, if there was one named after someone from the 20's it be good enough to have the whataboutery

Personally naming tournaments after players/members would/should be the way forward

If it's a tournament named after a non player then it's will have literally no justification and while I've said it wouldn't matter at least there is some merit to it

Sport shouldn't be used as a political football, but on these shores it's weaponised

[NAG1]

As part of Féile an Phobail, two Belfast GAA Clubs are running the Joe Cahill underage tournament, thus playing right into the hands of the Orange Order who can use this to justify their opposition to the East Belfast U12team participating in the North Down Cricket Club cross community sports event last Friday. You couldn't make it up

Dougal, if it wasn't this it would be something else. They are never going to accept the GAA or Nationalists in any format, so why pander to them.

Increasingly obvious that this is a dying kick out them, so let them flail away. If you have Moore Holmes and Jamie Bryson leading their intellectual charge we are on safe enough ground.

[Truthsayer]

As part of Féile an Phobail, two Belfast GAA Clubs are running the Joe Cahill underage tournament, thus playing right into the hands of the Orange Order who can use this to justify their opposition to the East Belfast U12team participating in the North Down Cricket Club cross community sports event last Friday. You couldn't make it up

The Orange Order and people of that mindset cannot countenance anything Irish.
They'll always have reasons the GAA is unacceptable. Their demand is change the names of grounds, clubs, no national anthem at games, no tricolour, no use of the Irish language...
There are loads of Protestants involved in the GAA. The Orange Order and Jamie Bryson don't get to dictate their form of sanitisation for the GAA..

[Snapchap]

As part of Féile an Phobail, two Belfast GAA Clubs are running the Joe Cahill underage tournament, thus playing right into the hands of the Orange Order who can use this to justify their opposition to the East Belfast U12team participating in the North Down Cricket Club cross community sports event last Friday. You couldn't make it up

That tournament has been ongoing for about 15 years now ffs. Don't fall for unionism's performative outrage.

[BigGreenField]

Everybody is entitled to remember their own as they see fit, equally everyone else is entitled to have a view on that.

 Clubs attending I presume largely overlook the memorial aspect and are just after a bit of sport.

Unionism is getting wound up now as their wagons circle ever tighter and their own previously permitted excesses are brought into the light of the modern media as society moves in.

Personally, I don't see how having a sports tournament in memory of combatants in a recent war advances much for anyone and I'd have said the same thing at any time in the past 30 years.

[Snapchap]

Personally, I don't see how having a sports tournament in memory of combatants in a recent war advances much for anyone and I'd have said the same thing at any time in the past 30 years.

Joe Cahill wasn't just a combatant in a war, but one of the figures most actively agitating for a peace process to begin, but that's besides the point. I don't think anyone ever names a cup with an intention to "advance" anything. It's a cup that's been named after him for almost 15 years without an issue. Unionism is only jumping up and down about it this week to deflect from their PR f**k up last week. That is all. They'll feign horror for a day or two and then they'll move on to the next thing to be outraged about. Had the GAA club named the trophy after any loyalist you can think of, those same unionists still wouldn't be running to join their local GAA club. It's all performative nonsense. Don't fall for it.

[DaleCooper]

"Johnny Adair O'Rahillys" doesn't roll off the tongue

[Orior]

Personally, I don't see how having a sports tournament in memory of combatants in a recent war advances much for anyone and I'd have said the same thing at any time in the past 30 years.

Joe Cahill wasn't just a combatant in a war, but one of the figures most actively agitating for a peace process to begin, but that's besides the point. I don't think anyone ever names a cup with an intention to "advance" anything. It's a cup that's been named after him for almost 15 years without an issue. Unionism is only jumping up and down about it this week to deflect from their PR f**k up last week. That is all. They'll feign horror for a day or two and then they'll move on to the next thing to be outraged about. Had the GAA club named the trophy after any loyalist you can think of, those same unionists still wouldn't be running to join their local GAA club. It's all performative nonsense. Don't fall for it.

What's Mairia (I want more media attention) Cahill's view?

[DaleCooper]

Odd then that Cahill was telling Yanks at fundraising events in the US there wouldn't just be a meagre PP but a shiny new United Ireland™️

[Snapchap]

Odd then that Cahill was telling Yanks at fundraising events in the US there wouldn't just be a meagre PP but a shiny new United Ireland™️

What's so odd about a republican leader speaking optimistically about Irish Unity?

[DaleCooper]

The catch of course is this would be delivered by 1995...

[Snapchap]

The catch of course is this would be delivered by 1995...

And?

[Wildweasel74]

Ole Joe play abit of fball and hurling bck in the day?