The Hyde gets a new name

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/11/roscommon-gaa-home-ground-to-be-renamed-king-moffatt-dr-hyde-park/

Roscommon GAA home ground to be renamed King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park

[armaghniac]

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/11/roscommon-gaa-home-ground-to-be-renamed-king-moffatt-dr-hyde-park/

Roscommon GAA home ground to be renamed King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park

That trips off the tongue...

[Rossfan]

Will still be "The Hyde".
Good to see it's a local Company and hopefully the €s will keep the place in good shape.

[armaghniac]

Will still be "The Hyde".
Good to see it's a local Company and hopefully the €s will keep the place in good shape.

The King's shilling.

[AustinPowers]

Surely only a firm that is called , or rhymes with , Jekyll , should have  been considered?

It would be the  only  way you'd actually remember the sponsor.  The only one I recall is Kingspan Breffni. The  other sponsored grounds  , I don't think I could  recall any

[Blowitupref]

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/11/11/roscommon-gaa-home-ground-to-be-renamed-king-moffatt-dr-hyde-park/

Roscommon GAA home ground to be renamed King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park

That trips off the tongue...

Hastings insurance MacHale Park another that roles off the tongue.   

[Rossfan]

Mentioning Hastings...
https://www.hoganstand.com/Article/Index/334342

[Don Cockburn]

I always felt the expression 'The Hyde' was somewhat disrespectful to Douglas Hyde.
Anyone else?

[Rossfan]

 No.
Rumours of ructions in the Rhubarb camp?

[Tubberman]

No.
Rumours of ructions in the Rhubarb camp?

Rumours died before they got going.

[weareros]

I always felt the expression 'The Hyde' was somewhat disrespectful to Douglas Hyde.
Anyone else?

Never thought of it like that. When I was young, my Dad took me across the street from The Sheepwalk Inn to the Protestant church in Tibohine and we walked through thistles and briars till we got to an unkempt grave. There said my Dad shaking his head lies the first President of Ireland.
It's a lovely interpretative centre now thanks to EU funds but it took a while for Hyde to be respected. He was removed as patron of the GAA in 1939 for attending a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. He was never invited to an All-Ireland again after that, and missed Roscommon's only two wins in 1943/44. Fianna Fáil stayed away from his funeral and Fine Gael remained parked outside the church lest they incur the wrath of the Catholic Church. Given how much he did for the Irish language, I'd say his own preference would be: Páirc de hÍde. But he might equally want nothing to do with the GAA and he wouldn't be wrong.

[Rossfan]

At least Ros CB didn't airbrush him when we named the then new ground in his honour.

[Armagh18]

I always felt the expression 'The Hyde' was somewhat disrespectful to Douglas Hyde.
Anyone else?

Never thought of it like that. When I was young, my Dad took me across the street from The Sheepwalk Inn to the Protestant church in Tibohine and we walked through thistles and briars till we got to an unkempt grave. There said my Dad shaking his head lies the first President of Ireland.
It's a lovely interpretative centre now thanks to EU funds but it took a while for Hyde to be respected. He was removed as patron of the GAA in 1939 for attending a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. He was never invited to an All-Ireland again after that, and missed Roscommon's only two wins in 1943/44. Fianna Fáil stayed away from his funeral and Fine Gael remained parked outside the church lest they incur the wrath of the Catholic Church. Given how much he did for the Irish language, I'd say his own preference would be: Páirc de hÍde. But he might equally want nothing to do with the GAA and he wouldn't be wrong.

Never knew any of that. Wasnt there some daft stuff went on, that is wild.

[Don Cockburn]

I always felt the expression 'The Hyde' was somewhat disrespectful to Douglas Hyde.
Anyone else?

Never thought of it like that. When I was young, my Dad took me across the street from The Sheepwalk Inn to the Protestant church in Tibohine and we walked through thistles and briars till we got to an unkempt grave. There said my Dad shaking his head lies the first President of Ireland.
It's a lovely interpretative centre now thanks to EU funds but it took a while for Hyde to be respected. He was removed as patron of the GAA in 1939 for attending a soccer match between Ireland and Poland. He was never invited to an All-Ireland again after that, and missed Roscommon's only two wins in 1943/44. Fianna Fáil stayed away from his funeral and Fine Gael remained parked outside the church lest they incur the wrath of the Catholic Church. Given how much he did for the Irish language, I'd say his own preference would be: Páirc de hÍde. But he might equally want nothing to do with the GAA and he wouldn't be wrong.

Wow, that is worse than I thought! Different times.

[Rossfan]

Attendance at foreign dances was also forbidden.
I recall reading a tale of some well known players being suspended for that in the 50s.
Apparently there were vigilance committees (of non members) set up to go to "foreign" games and dances!!