GAA 125 - Entertainment

pazza

Hi,

just wondering if anyone had any opinions on the entertainment in particular the 125 celebrations that the GAA had for the hurling and football finals. I was at both games and IMO I though the overall show (other than the games themselves) was very poor. I know they don;t have budgets like the Olympics etc., but I thought it all looked very amaturish. Why do we have to just bang drums and think this is entertainment...the GAA could have done so much better, but again - this was a big letdown. Pity there was no Plan B for the entertainment/show.

As for the games, well done to Kilkenny and Kerry, truely great teams and can only be admired. And well done to Galway in the minor hurling, was a great game, and Armagh in the footbal bridging a 60 year gap. All we need now is the GAA to pull the socks up.

Flukey

I was there at both sets of finals too. We don't expect much in terms of celebration, so there isn't much to be disappointed about. The real entertainment, what we are going there for, and what those 125 years are all about, is the matches. People prefer that. Their favourite fireworks in Croke Park are the ones between players. So I don't think too many people will be bothered about the show they put on.

Gingy

I'm not too bothered about the celebrations, but those bloody drums they had at both finals would give you a headache and I didn't like the way the played trad music on tape to go with the drums, they should have had it live. The Kids with the giant flags looked well.

deeno1975

Yeah didn't enjoy the half time entertainment in the All Ireland Senior football half time... The music was good but too loud with the no meaning for the two teams involved...

Really wished they went back to the auld days of singing the county songs when everyone (well maybe just me) sang along... Can't beat a bit of nostalgia...

Qwerty27

Does anyone know where I could get the highlights videos they should at the Dublin Tyrone league game and I think at all the Quarter Finals?

It was about 8-10 minutes long and showed some of the main highlights from the 125 years of the GAA....be very interested in seeing it again, some brilliant moments in it.

netwhizkid

The entertainment was bad, the banging of the drums for about 15 minutes was like a vinyl record stuck in the groove.

Sharon Shannon at half time was the biggest waster and Dustin would have been better. They should have Kerry and Cork girls set dancing with trad music before the game and Liam O'Connor and Lisa Aherne for half time <(the best in the business). The drums could have been could but it was the same thing over and over with no rhythm, (They used the drums last year too!) Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's song was class and should have been given a lash too, the two troll mascots were class too.

Gingy

deeno1975 wrote: »

Yeah didn't enjoy the half time entertainment in the All Ireland Senior football half time... The music was good but too loud with the no meaning for the two teams involved...

Really wished they went back to the auld days of singing the county songs when everyone (well maybe just me) sang along... Can't beat a bit of nostalgia...

+1, they defintely should bring back the county songs at half time, don't think I've heard them since about 2002.

On the positive side, at least they didn't have some high filuting opera singer singing the anthem and let the supporters sing along. There's something special about 82,000 people belting out Amhrán na bhFiann on All-Ireland Final day, really makes you proud to be Irish.

ardmacha

I was very disappointed with the "entertainment". The GAA crest was not in the centre of the field and was crooked. No need for this, as there are lines painted on the pitch and all you need is for the people carrying the crest to put their foot on the line to straighten it up. The county colours were initially at right angles to each other and they had to rotate Kerry around, once again a small bit of planning would have prevented this problem. The drums were just background, it wasn't as if someone was marching in time to them. I'd have preferred the Artane band to be honest.

I agree about the singer, usually they have a high pitched girl singing which the mostly male crowd cannot join in. If they are to have someone singing it should be a male choir, or at least a mixed one.

Mullet

To simply put it little imagination used. The same old reliables rolled out year after year and its pretty boring.