All things Camogie.

expectationlost · 08-05-2025 12:40AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123421955#Comment_123421955

If it such a small issue why did so many delegates vote against it?

Red Silurian · 08-05-2025 09:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123427451#Comment_123427451

https://www.rte.ie/sport/camogie/2025/0508/1511680-special-congress-called-to-vote-on-camogie-skorts-issue/

Special congress called for 22nd of May to discuss and vote on the skorts issue

12 months ago the closest vote was 45% in favour of scrapping skorts to 55% against. Will there be much of a swing this time around?

poppers · 08-05-2025 09:18AM

After all the publicity this week there should be some cowd at the munster final. if only to see what happens if the teams refuse to change.

greenspurs · 08-05-2025 10:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123427810#Comment_123427810

The Ragg won't hold that many comfortably.. only one sideline with the stand , and behind one goal ..

Pity all these day trippers that are sooo invested in Camogie wouldn't go to more games regularly, or maybe volunteer to help out....

Dial Hard · 08-05-2025 10:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123427774#Comment_123427774

Can someone explain to a complete Camogie ignoramus exactly who these delegates were that voted on the issue at the congress last year? Because they certainly don't seem to have been representative of the players views, as a whole, from what I'm reading.

Red Silurian · 08-05-2025 12:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428090#Comment_123428090

I assume it works in the same way as the GAA, delegates are nominated by county boards and provincial councils and those delegates decide on the rules and regulations of the games. Not sure if the players themselves get any say in the matter

BP_RS3813 · 08-05-2025 01:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428090#Comment_123428090

Just because someone is elected does not necessarily mean they will represent the voters views correctly - see literally most politians.

I imagine there are some dinasaurs in there who although working for clubs great at a local level for some issues have some quite old fashioned views gained from back when they played.

BP_RS3813 · 08-05-2025 01:50PM

Saw an article saying something along the lines of the game can go ahead according to the rules if players are fined for not wearing the skorts but the fine amount is not set so a few refs have just bypassed the skorts thing by charging teams a €1 fine. Is that the way things will be until things are officially changed and voted on?

Spanish Eyes · 08-05-2025 01:50PM

Is that a male I see in charge of Camogie? You could not make this stuff up could you?

dxhound2005 · 08-05-2025 02:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428692#Comment_123428692

He is not in charge of what the players can wear.

greenspurs · 08-05-2025 02:06PM

Jaysus chr1st ..…

🙄🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷

VinLieger · 08-05-2025 02:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428691#Comment_123428691

Yeah that's the Dublin county Board have directed refs to let teams play in shorts and they will fine the teams 1 euro so technically the rule is still being followed. Its making the Camogie association look like absolute fools which is why they have announced an EGM for the 22nd to discuss the issue, considering the bad press they are getting id be very surprised if an amendment isn't finally passed to allow shorts.

LeoD · 08-05-2025 02:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123426046#Comment_123426046

I doubt they are made to "purposefully restrict movement". My question was what about sports like women's field hockey, tennis, netball, etc that wear things like skorts - are they all up in arms demanding to wear whatever they want? Is it just some camogie players that want this? The discussion around this is a bit one-sided with anyone thinking that skorts should be the uniform must be backward/a dinosaur.

crusd · 08-05-2025 02:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428692#Comment_123428692

The Ard Comhaile comprising 9 women and 7 men is in charge. The the position of President is not a dictator. The decision on what they can wear is made by the delegates from clubs and counties all over the country, many of which are women. These are the people who did not take the opinions of players into account when casting their ballots, not the president.

While "you could not make this stuff up", you could deliberately misdirect your outrage at an easily identifiable target.

I am sure you were blaming the GAA yesterday until it was pointed out the GAA has nothing to do with the sport.

crusd · 08-05-2025 02:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428893#Comment_123428893

Women have the option to wear shorts in tennis.

In womens hockey they also have the option to wear shorts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/hockey/65837779#:~:text=The%20International%20Hockey%20Federation%20has,the%20same%20colour%20and%20design.

LeoD · 08-05-2025 03:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428941#Comment_123428941

That's fair enough then. Don't watch much hockey - odd game during olympics - but I thought they were all wearing skorts.

crusd · 08-05-2025 03:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123429049#Comment_123429049

By choice

Spanish Eyes · 08-05-2025 03:55PM

Well I suppose I am griping about the GAA in general, but I did also realise that camogie was a separate entity (kind of).

There are GAA football and hurling pitches in the park at the back of my house. One day I woke up to see diggers and all sorts churning up the pitch and a few acres beside it. WTF said I? Did the people around the place here get as much as a note in the door from GAA about this, no. Was there anything on the website about it and what the heck they were doing, no. In the end the local councillor got information for us residents. Drainage and re seeding or something like that. It will go on for the rest of the year. So I do think they are a law unto themselves sometimes.

As for yer man being the President, what does he do, sit there and just get his photo taken or what?

forumdedum · 08-05-2025 03:57PM

2nd item on RTE Radio News this morning. Dear God, what a joke

poppers · 08-05-2025 04:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123429174#Comment_123429174

If you were involved/member in the GAA club that owns the pitches then im sure you would have known the drainage was cap and is getting fixed.

My local GAA club is getting work done on their grounds at the moment they didnt hold a local meeting or send out post to all the area but members knew what works were going to comence.

As for yer man being the President, what does he do, sit there and just get his photo taken or what?

Probably the same as the president of any other sporting organisation and just rubber stamps the democratley sanctioned vote, do you want him to be a dictator and set the rules that he want regardless of the vote.

Uncle Pierre · 08-05-2025 04:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123429174#Comment_123429174

I obviously don't know where you live, but if it's a case of GAA pitches "in the park", is it possibly a case of them being Council pitches in a public park, and therefore owned and maintained by the Local Authority, rather than by the GAA?

Dublin City Council, for instance, says it has 230 such pitches, split mainly between GAA & soccer:

https://www.dublincity.ie/dublin-city-parks-strategy/4-resources-and-services/42-parks-and-recreation/422-field-sports-playing-pitches

If so, your beef wouldn't be with the GAA, and would be with the Council instead.

crusd · 08-05-2025 04:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123429174#Comment_123429174

You are determined to rant aren't you even when reality is pointed out. It should be said once more. This issue has nothing to do with GAA

Organisations are entitled to maintain their property as long as they dont disrupt people during unsociable hours. Do you expect your neighbours to post a flyer in your door when getting a new driveway?

The role of a president of an organisation is to chair the executive committee, set strategy and implement decisions made at an organisational level. You seem to believe he waltzed in, said "I am the man here, ye are going to all wear skorts forever more"

Uncle Pierre · 08-05-2025 04:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123428692#Comment_123428692

Are you referring to the President of the Camogie Association?

First-ever male to have that role, after 120 years of the Association, and voted into the role at a Congress where the electorate were mostly female.

If a woman were elected President of the GAA, would you be equally incredulous?

BP_RS3813 · 08-05-2025 04:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123429174#Comment_123429174

It is not 'kind of' seperate, it is seperate.

If works were going to be commenced right around your house then I'm sure notice was given to club members who probably mentioned here and there to friends and community members. They (it might have been the council depending on the circumstances surrounding the pitch) can't possibly ask everyone for their opinion. The work has to be done.

I imagine he does work that is needed - the president of an org is not a dictator who says 'whatever I say goes'. Also whats wrong with him being male?

Spanish Eyes · 08-05-2025 05:37PM

All you GAA types are very touchy aren't you? Typical of all of them I've come across. My nephew is an under 18s hurler and he knows it too.

As for the pitches at my house. Access to the park is completely restricted and people now have to add the bones of a km to their walk across it. Parking is gone for now and our roads are chock a block with cars of players/spectators who are using the soccer pitches in the interim. Fair enough it might be the Council doing the works, but the GAA use it, so someone could have put a notice up somewhere to inform (non GAA) people about restricted access surely. But look it, it's just my area affected I know that. Still annoys me.

Anyway I'll leave you all to your superior defensiveness. Whoa!

BP_RS3813 · 08-05-2025 06:05PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123429524#Comment_123429524

I know f*ck all about GAA, what I do know I would regard as commonly known knowledge. Touchy? Maybe but making assumptions and comments when you don't know anything will only get 'touchy' answers. You made a snide comment regarding a male who was elected by women to be president and unfairly blamed the GAA - what did you expect?

My sport is athletics, havn't touched anything about GAA since I played it a good 8/9 years ago. I still keep up to date with other things like GAA, Football, camogie, cycling etc because I don't live in my own little bubble.