Poll: The Biggest controversy in modern GAA history?

homerjay2005

The last few days have seen huge negative publicity for the GAA. Some people have called it the biggest controversy in modern GAA history. others disagree saying its being blown out of the water.so what is the biggest?

1 - the mass brawl in 91 involving Louth and Laois?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPifUZdH6G0

2- the mass brawl in the 96 All Ireland final.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWdn6Gmrkz8&feature=related

3- The battle of Omagh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQqAKV4CcVU

4 - Semplegate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYVaHvzEVI

5 - Paul Galvin and Paddys Notebook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raDBPABAN-8

6 - The 2010 Leinster final fiasco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8WbAd0oAkc

or am i missing more?

opinions please.

(2 of the videos have been speeded up for added effect:P)

Ian_K

An Another - please specify.

What happened Sunday is certainly the most controversial GAA fiasco ive seen in my lifetime and you can imagine how hard it was to believe after missing it live and hearing it from a meath fan coming out of a tent in Oxegen!... i though the chap was off his head!

KevIRL

Offaly v Clare 1998 All Ireland hurling semi final

Jimmy Cooney blows up 2 mins early and with Clare leading by 3 points. The Offaly fans stage a sit in on the pitch. Mass outrage over the coming days. The game is replayed, Offaly win and go onto beat Kilkenny in the All Ireland final.

This is a glaring ommision from your list HomerJay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WeC1N1Ot6k

The_Kew_Tour

I think what Sunday highlighted was that we are living in dreamland if we think that the GAA is unlike soccer.

I have heard of numerous games been called off for fans and players fighting and punching officials.

This hopefully will wake people up and now more then ever the GAA needs to have a right look at itself as an organisation, otherewise the game is gone for good.

bubbleking

what about locking a ref in the boot of a car at a club match in Wicklow?

Professey Chin

bubbleking wrote: »

what about locking a ref in the boot of a car at a club match in Wicklow?

Apparently that was to protect the ref from a few of the clubs more unsavory members.
Im not sure is that better or worse

Hazys

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284335/GAA-star-camper-van-porn-scandal-Hurler-s-guest-role-video-sex-tour-Ireland.html

Clareman

Has to be '98. Also the whole Tony Keady affair could be worth a mention

teednab-el

The Battle of Omagh

The ref playing 8 mins of overtime in the Cork V Meath All Ireland final 1988. A bloody disgrace

leg

The referee getting a slap of a hurley in carrick

The_Kew_Tour

^^^ and how a Kerry man was in charge to ref the drawn game is baffling.

deisedevil

Waterford V Clare 1998 Munster Final: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkwUSNCTSA Willie Barrets take on it, first time I seen it and very honest of him.

Arguably the most controversial Munster Final ever.

bijapos

Paul Galvin and the notebook.

In fairness the above are mostly fights, the only special thing about them is they are televised, happens a lot of weekends up and down the country, but the biggest of the above to me are

1. Semplegate, people power and the ref making such a minor but critical mistake.

2. 2010 Meath-Louth. This one will run and run, if only because the GAA are now confronted with an attack on a ref on TV, something which happens all too regularly in small club matches

3. Paul Galvin. Sad example from one of the best players at the moment. The climb down by the CCCC from the original 6 month ban to 12 weeks so he could play in the final if they made it made it worse.

Apart from the above for me it would be:

1. Rule 21, Rule 42 and a bit further back lifting "The Ban".

Too young to remember the days of the Ban but at the time a lot of people involved in the GAA at a local level remembered the bad days of the 1920's and it caused a lot of division.

Rule 21 not too controversial but many were opposed to lifting Rule 42, glad to see they were proved wrong.

2. The last few winters of "strikes" by various county teams has led to plenty of debate.

3. Larry Tompkins going from Kildare to Cork ruffled a fair few feathers in its day as well. Some were predicting the opening of the floodgates, transfer fees etc. Never happened.

Not too controversial but does anyone remember the Kerry ad for the washing machine (or was it a washing powder) back in the day?

Flukey

That was Kerry and Bendix washing machines. I remember it. Bar the ban, I remember most of them. There are others associated with Kerry, like the free that never was and was taken from the wrong spot and taken while the referee had his back to the ball and before he gave it the go ahead. It led to Mikey Sheehy's goal in the 1978 All-Ireland Final. It should never have been a free. Nearly 32 years on and we still don't know what it was for. Even if it had been a free, for any of the reasons listed above it should have been retaken.

bijapos

Paul Galvin and the notebook.

^ Yeah I forgot Mikey Sheehy's goal. Btw something people seem to forget is that Eoin Liston got a hat trick that day.

1983 final was another big one, 1 Galway and 3 Dubs got sent off, the "Dirty Dozen" still won.

patmac

I would have thought the Cork Hurlers strike should be there as well, went on forever.

homerjay2005

The Battle of Omagh

ya, i left out 98 clare v offaly semi. that is definitely up there with the other 6.

but reading the thread, makes you realise just how much s*ite goes on in sport every year and the gaa is no different even though its amateur.


some good contributions alright, keep em coming! though to be honest, some of them are local events that not alot of people know about or made huge headlines compared to some other.

question, whats this about carrick and a kerry man reffing the drawn game?!! or maybe the poster is actually referring to a different post, maybe the cork v meath game? was it tommy sugrue that reffed that game or something?

adrian522

Surely must be something to do with tommy walsh, shouldn't he be serving life in prison at this stage?

derealbadger

An Another - please specify.

adrian522 wrote: »

Surely must be something to do with tommy walsh, shouldn't he be serving life in prison at this stage?

yes id have gone with that as well but wasn't one of the options and others takes to much writing:D

grenache

The Battle of Omagh

the 96 all ireland final brawl for me.

Warper

The Clare-Offaly saga of 98 probably cost Clare the AI that year so that is definitely bigger than last Sunday's game. I know the Leinster title means a lot to Louth but they are still in the Championship.

adrian522

Clares whole season in 1998 springs to mind...

I'm a Tipp man but Ennis in 2008, Munster u21 final was pretty controversial. Tipp prob didn't deserve to win it.

homerjay2005

The Battle of Omagh

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm a Tipp man but Ennis in 2008, Munster u21 final was pretty controversial. Tipp prob didn't deserve to win it.

was the ref abused as much as last sunday, the same, or worse? like, did people actually get near him?

aint seen any coverage of that, so i cant comment.

homerjay2005

homerjay2005 wrote: »

was the ref abused as much as last sunday, the same, or worse? like, did people actually get near him?

aint seen any coverage of that, so i cant comment.

that was pretty nasty alright. one lad threw a punch at the umpire and nearly hit a bangarda going by

just some of the images from inpho and sportsfile