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Joe Connolly:A Speech to Remember

  • 06-07-2010 12:00pm
    #1
    Starie1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭


    Just read this on gaa.ie.

    http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/11/2906101541-joe-connolly/

    It truly was a speech to remember, one I will never forget but the Article fails to print his speech in the language it was delivered in. This is one of the main reasons the speech was so powerful. Instead they print the speech in the English language. It's like singing the Irish national anthem in English, IMO.


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  • #2
    megadodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭megadodge


    I think the main reason this speech of all speeches was so powerful was the sheer raw emotion involved.

    57 years with so many near-misses and frustration is a hell of a long time to wait!

    Plus the fact that a natural orator was making the speech in very natural, unforced Irish. There was nothing prepared about it, it just seemed to come from the heart.


  • #3
    User Friendly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭User Friendly


    Good speech alright,bettered only by Anthony Dalys,by far the best speech every made by a gaa sportsman, rem "we're no longer the whipping boys"

    great stuff!!:)


  • #4
    Gingy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭Gingy


    They often said that in Clare, we should stick to the Irish music, in Clare we love our Irish music, but we love our hurling as well!

    Tar éis seacht blian is caoga, tá an Liam Mac Carthaigh ar ais i nGaillimh!


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