Racial abuse again in the Gaa

fearruanua

I really feel that the GAA have to come down really hard on such abuse during our games. And it needs to be stamped out now!!! In the next 10/15 years we are going to be seeing alot more players of different races playing our national games at all levels and this behaviour cannot be tolerated. Severe bans and a zero tolerance attitude has to be enforced or this problem could fester and become alot more common in years to come

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2012/1202/356407-gaa-to-investigate-racism-claims-at-ulster-final/

Mr Cumulonimbus

Disgraceful. Swift and severe punishments to follow hopefully.

Piece from BBC NI News.

His dad played for Crossmaglen and Armagh as well as for Portadown soccer club. He was in the stands yesterday and witnessed some of it.

cormac halpin

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

Disgraceful. Swift and severe punishments to follow hopefully.

Piece from BBC NI News.

His dad played for Crossmaglen and Armagh as well as for Portadown soccer club. He was in the stands yesterday and witnessed some of it.

Hangings for all.

68Murph68

Id like to see the GAA get much tougher on any sort of verbals on the pitch.

Basically its just scumbag behaviour and the game would be far better off if those who engage in it were turfed out of the game.

premierstone

So we are all just automatically assuming the Kilcoo players are guilty here??? Or are they entitled to a hearing??

sasta le

I was asked in ther other threrad he looks pretty white to me,so what if his father is black dopes

Billy Mays

Depressing stuff. Long bans need to be handed out for this sort of crap. Cross manager came out with some bullsh!t saying they won't be pursuing the matter any further. I wouldn't be too happy with that if I was Cunningham.

rebel girl 15

Billy Mays wrote: »

Depressing stuff. Long bans need to be handed out for this sort of crap. Cross manager came out with some bullsh!t saying they won't be pursuing the matter any further. I wouldn't be too happy with that if I was Cunningham.

But why would they?? The wheels have been put in motion, Ulster Council have come out and said it is going to be investigating the matter - if you actually read the quote from McAntee, you would realise it wasn't bull, the actual quote is "If the linesman who was beside Aaron at the time isn’t able to stand up and get the referee’s attention to it, then we will certainly not be."

Presume everyone has heard of the proposal by a Wexford club to their county board, and onto Congress to make any form of racial abuse a straight red card offense, and the president of the association has come out and given support to such a measure.

J Cheever Loophole

premierstone wrote: »

So we are all just automatically assuming the Kilcoo players are guilty here??? Or are they entitled to a hearing??

The players are of course entitled to a fair hearing. It has been said that the referee made reference to the two alleged incidents in his match report - that may of course have been Aaron appealing to the officials for help, rather than the ref witnessing any racist abuse.

Mark Sidebottom of BBC Northern Ireland Sport said that he was watching from the main stand at the match yesterday with four kids, and he heard numerous foul mouthed and racist references coming from an area where a group of Kilcoo supporters were sat, with the terms "f***ing n****r" and "black b*****d" being repeated at Cunningham.

Those terms are direct quotes from his interview on Radio Ulster this evening.

tim_sims

sasta le wrote: »

I was asked in ther other threrad he looks pretty white to me,so what if his father is black dopes

just saw his dad being briefly interviewed on bbc , he isnt black

Talk To Frank

tim_sims wrote: »

just saw his dad being briefly interviewed on bbc , he isnt black

You sure about that?
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000A3XTHmEj0vU/s/860/860/Cunningham-Joey-19850702JC.jpg

tim_sims

Talk To Frank wrote: »

You sure about that?
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000A3XTHmEj0vU/s/860/860/Cunningham-Joey-19850702JC.jpg

guy i saw interviewed must not have been his dad , anyway , the guy who lined out for cross , i only know him from the well known electrical store he works in , bought some stuff there down the years , id never have guessed he was mixed race , not that thats an excuse , i guess morons dont need a reason

DEFTLEFTHAND

It doesn't do any good for the game if these allegations are true, It's a problem that could spiral in years to come with players of different races and mixed race becoming more common. Unfortunately you'll still find the odd bigoted ignoramus in Ireland. It confuses me considering our history abroad and the aversion the rest of the world had to Irish immigrants not so long ago, surely we of all races should know not to discriminate.

cormac halpin

premierstone wrote: »

So we are all just automatically assuming the Kilcoo players are guilty here??? Or are they entitled to a hearing??

Hangings for all.

Talk To Frank wrote: »

You sure about that?
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000A3XTHmEj0vU/s/860/860/Cunningham-Joey-19850702JC.jpg

The tache really rounds off the look. I miss the 80's.

Juniorhurler

The GAA are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

A couple of examples of racism are highlighted and people are on the high horses all over the country (not necessarily saying here) about racism in the GAA. At least it is being tackled and they are not burying their heads in the sand.

rebel girl 15

Ulster GAA Statement

At tonight's meeting of the Ulster GAA Competitions Control Committee it was agreed to establish an investigation into alleged events at Sunday's Ulster GAA Club Final based on the contents of the referee's report. A group has been established to conduct the investigation and will be reporting back to the CCC in due course. There will be no further comment on this issue until the investigation is complete.