Deleted User wrote: » They are, and your foreign garrison games are still your foreign garrison games no matter how many green jerseys you dress them up in.
Deleted User wrote: » Interesting. So, how are "national sports" created if not from a past? You think you just invent them one minute and they become "national sports" the next? Please do tell.
Deleted User wrote: » Yeah, not of course because his attack on the GAA corresponded with your own prejudices...
Utter Consternation wrote: » Foreign garrison games??? Do you fondle yourself when you're posting that sort of lame rhetoric? Dreaming of a 32 county republic and crying into your weak tea about 'blood sacrifices.'
Deleted User wrote: » Ha. So, soccer, rugby and cricket are not foreign games brought here by the British garrison and are instead Ireland's "national games"? Always entertaining to hear the fantasy history of the Irish haters/West Brits.
seamus wrote: » If you're annoyed about €2m to a body that runs valuable community sporting facilities in every parish in the country, wait until you hear about the €16m the greyhound industry gets so they can give prize money to a tiny handful of animal abusers involved in a niche sport that gives nothing back.
ohnonotgmail wrote: » it is that "You're either with me or again me" attitude that needs to stay in the past where it belongs. The world is not black or white.
Deleted User wrote: » More hyperbole. You seem to have serious issues with accepting historical facts you don't like. The GAA administers Ireland's national games and no number of denials from you or your fellow travellers will dress up the games of the British garrison as Ireland's national games. Next time don't make obtuse claims about the GAA and we won't have to highlight the politics of your British colonial games in response.
is_that_so wrote: » While this looks like a very good initiative should the taxpayer be on the hook for what is effectively a GAA only facility?https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0424/1045285-indoor-inter-county-games-at-connachts-3m-air-dome/
Utter Consternation wrote: » Less of the passive racism please.
Utter Consternation wrote: » You seem a bit tense and wound up over the 'Brits' as you call them.
blackwhite wrote: » I'm guessing reading comprehension wasn't high on the list of topics in dundalk schools then Clubs and county boards dress up a percentage that they think they can get away with as "Travel and Expenses". The rest is completely off the books and hidden by getting a sponsor to make the payment directly. So instead of getting sponsorship and making a payment - all of which would leave an audit trail in the accounts - they have arrangements with sponsors to keep the cash flow away from any official GAA accounts. These are the "irregular" payments,
dundalkfc10 wrote: » Went to school in Newry as why any kid would do the Leaving Cert when they can do A Levels (in subjects they want) 5 mins up the road! Besides the point, GAA clubs dress up money that they think they can get away with as expenses and travel! So they are corrupt bastards aswell?
Deleted User wrote: » Hmmm. Join Date: Apr 2019. Posts: 34. You sound very familiar with your patter and ad hominems so please go away and troll somewhere else.
blackwhite wrote: » Yes - that was the point. they bury some of the costs where they can get away with it, and have means of keeping the remainder "off the books". Congratulations on only needing three posts to understand it.
Jimmy_oc1998 wrote: » GAA are a disgrace. They go around all year with their hand out yet the clubs pay managers of intermediate clubs 15k a year.
dundalkfc10 wrote: » So you agree the GAA's members are acting totally against the ethics of the organisation?
Utter Consternation wrote: » I sometimes wonder if you're a parody account also.
blackwhite wrote: » A number of them are - yes. Did it really take you four posts to understand that?? I'd be asking that school in Newry for their money back :pac:
dundalkfc10 wrote: » I know for a fact my own club pay their manager with funds from the bar, lotto that are not been recorded. Players also pay a few euro a week to help. None of this is recorded. Sooner or later a GAA club will be caught and the FAI (Delaney basically) will seem like a great man again!
[Deleted User] wrote: » Ha. So, soccer, rugby and cricket are not foreign games brought here by the British garrison and are instead Ireland's "national games"? Always entertaining to hear the fantasy history of the Irish haters/West Brits.
average_runner wrote: » But the difference between gaa and fai, is the gaa give to thgrass roots, fai took from the grass roots
ted1 wrote: » It is our national sport
The Tetrarch wrote: » It might be our nationalists' sport, but Gaelic football is a modern game. "The first Gaelic football rules, showing the influence of hurling and a desire to differentiate from association football—for example in their lack of an offside rule—were drawn up by Maurice Davin and published in the United Ireland magazine on 7 February 1887." The ban introduced in 1901 on the playing of "foreign" games by the Gaelic Athletic Association, was not lifted until 1970. The GAA had only started and 14 years later they were banning people. There must have been "foreign" games in Ireland or else the GAA would have had nothing to ban.
Chancer3001 wrote: » You do know you're allowed to play and enjoy and watch sports that werent invented in your own country? Every country in the world does that. Its normal.
Yer Da sells Avon wrote: » I can think of worse things to spend money on than a voluntary organisation that gives immense pleasure to a sizable chunk of the population.
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