The non debate over GSTQ at Croker

Snickers Man

I am actually amazed that so many people seem to think there is something to debate about a visiting team playing its national anthem at Croke Park.

Only today in the Irish Times the GAA president pointed out that the stadium was leased 'clean' to the IRFU and GAA and they were told they could honour any normal pre-match protocols, like playing a visiting team's national anthem, they liked. He reiterated that he and the GAA had no problem with GSTQ being played in that context.

Didn't stop the Irish Times taking up nearly two pages trying desperately to conjure up a controversy where none exists.

Then on tonight's Questions & Answers the panel were asked whether they thought playing it on Saturday would be an insult to the dead.

They all said unanimously, and briefly, that it would not.

There were, of course one or two neanderthals in the audience who thought otherwise.

And at the risk of sailing very close to the wind, doesn't the guy (2min 15 secs into the clip) from the audience objecting to it look just a tad like Cork Con and Munster winger Anthony Horgan? It couldn't be, could it?

Ponster

As most of us realise by now, it's nothing but a way to get people to buy more newspapers.