GAA need to step up

It has never been explained what, other than trespass by a few idiots, it has to do with the GAA?

The home of the Ulster football was used similarly by supporters of the H-Blocks the night before an Ulster Final. Massive H's drawn in cresote on the grass. The grounds walls are STILL spiked and barbed wired to try and prevent reoccurance.

People use sports all the time, loads of examples. Reasonable people aren't opening threads to have cheap shots.

Hi Mark.

I posted this earlier in the thread but I think you may have missed it. It is an official statement from the club concerned.

Buying a poppy is donating to terrorism, unless you think the murder of Innocent Catholics is justified.

As in the Defense Forces ?

I don't ever remember hearing of the bombing Iraq or anything similar

Surely surely even you can see that Mark's claims that the club

"has appeared to just whitewash the incident" and

"clearly some of its members organised this"

are at best lies and at worse libellous when read alongside the official statement from the club?

And as also said before, the statement is dated 9th of September. Worth pointing out too that it clearly states the club did not grant permission for the event, because you appear to have missed that too (again). It only became "factually untrue" after the fact, when the event organisers chose to ignore the statement and turn up there without permission anyway.

I believe the GAA is a great organisation in many ways, but its greatness doesn't extend to the ability to see the future.

If I put up notices to say there'd be a rave in your garden next weekend, you replied with "I have not given permission for a rave. There will be no rave", and then I went ahead with it anyway, would it automatically follow that you must have in fact have been complicit in the rave in the first place? Because of your "factually untrue" statement?

And if I and the other organisers of the rave were self-styled and intimidating "hard men" who are capable and probably willing to give you a good beating or exact some other retribution if you stood up to us, would you publicly condemn us anyway, or would you stay quiet about it for the sake of your own and/or your property's safety?

The thread where mark and downcow make stuff up and hope it sticks.

More than 1,000 people killed by members of the GAA? Sounds pretty bad all right. I'll give him that.

But here's one that's even worse:

Just about all 3,500 victims of the Northern Ireland troubles were killed by people who'd watched TV in the previous week.

The BBC and ITV must be complicit in the whole thing too.

You think thats bad you should look at how many of the terrorists speak English.

So I reckon based on that stat that its actually the English are at fault for this whole mess.

I have read some ridiculous posts on these forums but this one has to be right up there with the very worse.

... Where to start ...

To actually state that it must be "pretty clear" that the "local GAA refused to condemn the use of their facilities" AFTER BEING SHOWN THEIR OFFICIAL STATEMENT is bordering on trolling.

Next up without a shred of evidence we have the poster would be "shocked" if they were not "members of the GAA" and "I think we all know that" ... again not a single shred of evidence just plain and simple ignorance and bigotry.

Then comes the killer quote ...

"I saw stats" ... "over 1000 were killed by members of the GAA"

I think when you resort to this type of nonsense Downcow, you have nothing to contribute to this thread.

It makes me sad to see such levels of prejudice against a sporting organisation simply because "them-uns" play those sports. Those views do not belong in a progressive society of the 2020s.

Actually opened this thread thinking it was going to be about the special Congress..

Had I noticed the OP, I'd have not bothered.