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Kimmage at it again

clint_silver

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/paul-kimmage-why-is-no-one-being-held-to-account-in-the-gaa-36993655.html

3rd or 4th hack at the gaa in recent weeks.

"Four weeks ago, we reported that St Mary's in Athenry had been ordered to suspend their juvenile hurling and football programme - that's 18 juvenile teams who haven't played in over a month. But nobody is interested. There hasn't been a word in any of the papers or on any radio stations.

A week ago, we posted a list of important questions for the árd Stiúrthóir Tom Ryan but the silence, again, has been deafening. And who can blame him?

Why take responsibility when nobody holds you responsible? Why be accountable when nobody holds you to account? It's how the GAA do business."

Does he want the GAA to be accountable to him? Who does he want them to be responsible to?

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clint_silver

largepants wrote: »

Is it not about time someone took the GAA to task? They are like a mafia.

I went through a disciplinary issue with my county board. Despite having witnesses (the opposition included) to back up my story I still received a suspension. To this day I categorically deny what was in the referee's report. Basically he lied and was believed.

So I've no problem with Kimmage's crusade.

Who would you want them to be accountable to though? Whats the end goal in putting names in the paper here of volunteers? Whats that going to achieve.
If anyone ever feels hard done by theres appeals processes all the way to croke park and beyond. And even if those are exhausted, what more do you want to happen? Where do you want it go? Im asking same question of the kimmage article, other then selling newspapers I dont know what he wants to happen.

Tell me how

Poor_old_gill wrote:

He has banged the drum about doping in rugby and GAA for a couple of years now- with little or nothing to back it up.

Would you call former French international, Laurent Benezech's claims that growth hormone and corticoids are rampant in the sport as little or nothing?
Or the director of the French anti-doping agency who said that they were seeing more failed tests from rugby players than any other sport?

People hate Kimmage because he reveals the ugly truth.

largepants

Is it not about time someone took the GAA to task? They are like a mafia.

I went through a disciplinary issue with my county board. Despite having witnesses (the opposition included) to back up my story I still received a suspension. To this day I categorically deny what was in the referee's report. Basically he lied and was believed.

So I've no problem with Kimmage's crusade.

Poor_old_gill

Tell me how wrote: »

He's not making these stories up though is he.

If he wants cycling to look better than everything else, why has he written so much about the troubles in that sport?

He just wants fair and honest participants and administrators and whenever he points out any shortcomings in either respect, he's accused of having an agenda.

He has banged the drum about doping in rugby and GAA for a couple of years now- with little or nothing to back it up.

He has an agenda and a very clear one- he is shown up his own sport and now he wants to engage in whataboutery. He's an out and out crank.

Heres Johnny

It's just gaa season so it's topical and he goes after it. When rugby season is on he goes after it too. He's a great writer but he is a moan. Seems bitter, if he could write a positive story I would read him all day

Tell me how

Poor_old_gill wrote:

Kimmage comes from (and loves) a sport that is synonimus with corruption and is probably teh dirtiest sport in the world- he is and will continue to take swipes at all and sundry on his quest to expose other sports and thus, in some relative way, restor some credibility to cycling

He's not making these stories up though is he.

If he wants cycling to look better than everything else, why has he written so much about the troubles in that sport?

He just wants fair and honest participants and administrators and whenever he points out any shortcomings in either respect, he's accused of having an agenda.

Tell me how

clint_silver wrote:

Does he want the GAA to be accountable to him?

No.

clint_silver wrote:

Who does he want them to be responsible to?

Their members. All of them.

Poor_old_gill

Kimmage comes from (and loves) a sport that is synonimus with corruption and is probably teh dirtiest sport in the world- he is and will continue to take swipes at all and sundry on his quest to expose other sports and thus, in some relative way, restor some credibility to cycling