U-16 GAA match abandoned over alleged racist abuse ( WHAT A DISGRACE!! )

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http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/u16-gaa-match-abandoned-over-alleged-racist-abuse-30660129.html

> Player racially abused was basically the star performer of the team ( clann na ngael )
> The opposition saw that he was a major threat as he had been scoring all of the teams points and dominating the game
> Player racially abused was annoyed and furiously hurt in the match by the opposing team and had enough of his markers 'BS'.
> Victim of racism had enough and got sent off
> Team pulled away

MonkieSocks

The Word was NAGGER

El Weirdo

LuckyDude12 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/u16-gaa-match-abandoned-over-alleged-racist-abuse-30660129.html

We on Reddit now?

How Soon Is Now

I dunno what to do with the amount of pure detailed information in that article!

Karl Stein

I heard about this from my Niece. Fair play to the manager for taking the team off the pitch and bringing attention to the issue. The GAA should come down hard on racism.

kneemos

Karl Stein wrote: »

I heard about this from my Niece. Fair play to the manager for taking the team off the pitch and bringing attention to the issue. The GAA should come down hard on racism.

Fair Play to the young fella for standing up to it as well,a lot goes unreported I'd imagine.

Karl Stein

Karl Stein wrote: »

I heard about this from my Niece. Fair play to the manager for taking the team off the pitch and bringing attention to the issue. The GAA should come down hard on racism.

From the sounds of it he left it a bit late to do it.

PizzamanIRL

LuckyDude12 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/u16-gaa-match-abandoned-over-alleged-racist-abuse-30660129.html

> Player racially abused was basically the star performer of the team ( clann na ngael )
> The opposition saw that he was a major threat as he had been scoring all of the teams points and dominating the game
> Player racially abused was annoyed and furiously hurt in the match by the opposing team and had enough of his markers 'BS'.
> Victim of racism had enough and got sent off
> Team pulled away

It's a disgrace, LuckyDude.

Senna

Breeding the scumbags of tomorrow.

fleet_admiral

Goooood aftanoon Madaaam, I am calling from your GAA club

Ronin247

Team is losing
Star player gets sent off
Player says it is "racism"
Coach sees chance to get a replay and pulls team from game.

Not saying this is true, but it is exactly what the other team will be claiming.

Laois6556

I think we'll have to wait to see if there's any truth to the allegation. The team were losing before they walked off.

whupdedo

Would they have walked if they were up by 6 points ? Probably not .....

mikemac1

They were losing and the best player got sent off

This better not be a ploy to get a replay or the next time a claim will just be seen as tactics

diomed

The GAA will excuse their way out of this, or more than likely say nothing, as we all know nothing happened.
But we all know what happened.

WesternZulu

diomed wrote: »

The GAA will excuse their way out of this, or more than likely say nothing, as we all know nothing happened.
But we all know what happened.

Why do you make that out?

They have banned players for racism before:
http://www.joe.ie/gaa/wexford-gaa-hand-out-bans-to-players-for-racism-towards-county-star/37326

They obviously should do more as such actions cannot go unpunished, but that is often the case for all sporting organisations unless it is a high profile case.

Turtyturd

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

It's a disgrace, LuckyDude.

An alleged disgrace.

anncoates

Ronin247 wrote: »

Team is losing
Star player gets sent off
Player says it is "racism"
Coach sees chance to get a replay and pulls team from game.

Not saying this is true, but it is exactly what the other team will be claiming.

Just slyly implying it.

kneemos

Turtyturd wrote: »

An alleged disgrace.

Doubt the young fella would make a false allegation in fairness.They've also made a complaint which suggests there is something to it.


Curiously there is a lot of cynicism in this case as opposed to the normal hanging brigade?

El Weirdo

diomed wrote: »

But we all know what happened.

Except we don't.

Streetwalker

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

Gatling

Streetwalker wrote: »

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

Were getting to desperation at this point

WesternZulu

Streetwalker wrote: »

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

Ireland comes out quite favourably in terms of tolerance and inclusion in comparison to other nations....3rd in the world in fact!

http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/en/data/spi/components/com11#data_table/countries/com11/

So yeah, we could do better but we're by no means 'rife with racism'.

GerB40

Streetwalker wrote: »

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

The ratio of black people to white people overwhelmingly has whites as the majority. By the law of averages most most Gardaí are obviously going to be white.

Bio Mech

Streetwalker wrote: »

How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

Rhetorical eh, seven?

Shrap

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Goooood aftanoon Madaaam, I am calling from your GAA club

WTF?

sammy37

Streetwalker wrote: »

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

Thats just rubbish and you know it and all you want is to have a go at the gaa.Having worked away myself i find ireland a very tolerant country compared to others. We of course have racism here but nowhere on the scale of being rife you are on about.

whupdedo

Streetwalker wrote: »

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

How is that even a comparison, how many white irish cops do you see in Uganda or Nigeria,
(not the same I know, but if we're going to be throwing out random statements such as yours, I'd like to get in on the act too)

We seem to be fairly tolerant in welcoming other nationalities to our shores, sure you'll have the odd idiot who will take exception, but they're very much in the minority

homerjay2005

whupdedo wrote: »

We seem to be fairly tolerant in welcoming other nationalities to our shores, sure you'll have the odd idiot who will take exception, but they're very much in the minority

indeed, i believe we are one of the most open and tolerant countries in the world.

we do unfortunately have a portion of our population that are scum and occasionally they will attack people from other backgrounds. these people are not racists, they are just ignorent f*cks who dont really care where a person is from, they just use it as another reason to insult somebody.

in ireland i believe we are more prejudice towards our "own" than anybody else.

cletus van damme

anncoates wrote: »

Just slyly implying it.

it's only fair to question it.
We can't just rush in gung ho at any allegation.
It need to be investigated and part of that it to question the (if any) motive of the compliant

Streetwalker wrote: »

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

What a stupid comment. How many do you want?

http://www.integration.ie/website/omi/omiwebv6.nsf/page/managingdiversity-policeinitiatives-en

quite a diverse force we have . Even better when you count the reserve.
Plenty of africans represented there

Non-Irish national members of the Force

The recruitment of full-time Gardaí is governed by the Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) Regulations 1988. In 2005, the regulations were amended to facilitate greater diversity in the membership of the Garda Síochána. Recruitment of foreign nationals was made easier by modifying the requirement to have Leaving Certificate qualifications in both English and Irish. Recruits now only require the equivalent of a Leaving Certificate qualification in either language. In addition to EU, EEA and Swiss nationals, recruitment is also now open to non-European nationals who have resided in Ireland for five years. The number of non-Irish national full-time trainees and full-time attested members of the Force are as follows:

South Africa 1
USA 6
Canada 1
China 20
Denmark 1
Holland 1
Poland 9
Romania 2
Lithuania 1
Bosnia 1
Germany 2
TOTAL (at 12/06/09) 46



Garda (Police) Reserve

[/B]There are currently (May 2014) 72 non-Irish nationals in the Garda (Police) Reserve. The total force is 1,294 . These members are from 25 countries - Albania, America, Belarus, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Croatia, France, India, Italy, Iranian, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Syrian, Ukraine and Zimbabwe.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

"I hear you're a racist now, Coach?"

kneemos

cletus van damme wrote: »

it's only fair to question it.
We can't just rush in gung ho at any allegation.
It need to be investigated and part of that it to question the (if any) motive of the compliant



Rushing in "gung ho"at any allegation is very much the norm around here.
I wonder are those that don't seem to believe the kids complaint the same people that are so forthright about other alleged offenders?

iDave

Hopefully Cork county board are swift and fair in dealing with this. I remember Wexford were quick to hand out bans 2-3 years ago when Lee Chin got abused. A Meath minor player was exonerated after allegedly making racist comments to a black Westmeath player last year. Many at the game said it was a bad decision to come to so a more consistent approach is needed.
Hard enough one to deal with if its on the pitch and only the players are in ear shot. If you strike a lad its fairly obvious but this is more grey.
With a bit of luck GAA teams, county boards, fans etc help stamp it out as much as they can and not go down the Liverpool FC route of wearing T-shirts in support of alleged racists and boo those who claim to be abused.
Ethnic minorities need to be involved in Irish culture not to be made feel unwelcome. Integration > Segregation.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

iDave wrote: »

Hopefully Cork county board are swift and fair in dealing with this. I remember Wexford were quick to hand out bans 2-3 years ago when Lee Chin got abused. A Meath minor player was exonerated after allegedly making racist comments to a black Westmeath player last year. Many at the game said it was a bad decision to come to so a more consistent approach is needed.
Hard enough one to deal with if its on the pitch and only the players are in ear shot. If you strike a lad its fairly obvious but this is more grey.
With a bit of luck GAA teams, county boards, fans etc help stamp it out as much as they can and not go down the Liverpool FC route of wearing T-shirts in support of alleged racists and boo those who claim to be abused.
Ethnic minorities need to be involved in Irish culture not to be made feel unwelcome. Integration > Segregation.

Unnessecary and cheap dig at Liverpool aside, are you saying the GAA shoud punish every accusation of racism on the basis, "ah sure it probably happened, so we might as well throw the book at him."?

AnonoBoy

Just gag all players while they're on the field.

Problem solved folks.

iDave

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Unnessecary and cheap dig at Liverpool aside, are you saying the GAA shoud punish every accusation of racism on the basis, "ah sure it probably happened, so we might as well throw the book at him."?

No not saying that at all. Like I said its a hard one to deal with as its my word against yours situation. And even harder at club level with just one referee and no TV. I used Liverpool as an example of how not to deal with it.
The FA banned John Terry based on the balance of probabilities but the courts acquitted him because it wasn't proven beyond reasonable doubt. GAA has to figure out what way it wants to go.
But better education is something they will have to do.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

iDave wrote: »

No not saying that at all. Like I said its a hard one to deal with as its my word against yours situation. And even harder at club level with just one referee and no TV. I used Liverpool as an example of how not to deal with it.

We both know that's not true. Terry and Suarez had the same verdict. One was vilified, one was exonerated.

The FA banned John Terry based on the balance of probabilities but the courts acquitted him because it wasn't proven beyond reasonable doubt. GAA has to figure out what way it wants to go.
But better education is something they will have to do.

Which is exactly what happened with Suarez - the wording was "probably" guilty.

You can't have "assumed" guilt which is why both Liverpool and Chelsea stood by their player, and why the GAA would be advised to avoud such a verdict.

But fans and onlookers of the GAA need to be consistent as well. Soccer fans were as guilty as the FA were of making rash and stupid judgements.

diomed

diomed wrote:

The GAA will excuse their way out of this, or more than likely say nothing, as we all know nothing happened.

WesternZulu wrote: »

Why do you make that out?

30/01/14. http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/gaa-plan-to-give-racism-the-red-card-257064.html

GAA director general Páraic Duffy “I think any incidents of racist, sectarian issues do damage the reputation of the GAA ..." but nothing about the people suffering abuse.

crannglas

Streetwalker wrote: »

The GAA is rife with racism just like many sectors of Irish society. How many black Gardaí do you see for example?

The dumbest comment I ever saw in my life. The black people here are obviously not going for job or not getting in cause not qualified or can't check background etc.. etc.. grow up. With only hiring two hundred peopls , are you implying they should hire someone cause they are black to prove they aren't racist. Give me a ****ing break. They did have a black guy in garda reserve who got arrested for sixth grand welfare fraud. You're outrage is a joke. As for op. No child should be abused disgracful if true.

Ronin247

Ronin247 wrote: »

Team is losing
Star player gets sent off
Player says it is "racism"
Coach sees chance to get a replay and pulls team from game.

Not saying this is true, but it is exactly what the other team will be claiming.

anncoates wrote: »

Just slyly implying it.

No, just pointing out that there are two sides to every story. I grew up in a racially diverse area, where there were all colours and creeds in my life, I have seen extreme acts of racism and have carried out racist acts myself, due to peer pressure and stupidity when I was younger, and I have seen the race card played by friends and others as well, so I think, when one uncorroborated version of an event is presented, it isn't a bad thing to present an opposing view.