GAA need to step up

Are you willing to take down all memorials that people find offensive?

Simple question.

My answer to it is NO. I have never complained about a memorial to fallen British army members, RUC, UDR UVF Unionists, Loyalists etc.

My belief is we have to find a way to allow people to remember respectfully. And that memorial is no more disrespectful than a gravestone is.

It absolutely does - as well as fascists and propagandists for slavery - and there's a terrible denial within the GAA about this.

I say this as a GAA member and lifelong supporter of the games who attended Sunday's hurling final.

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Blanch the 'GAA' does not glorify terrorists, members occaisionally do. You just cannot handle debates moving on from your cheap shots at the Irish.

You don't want to go near finding a way for all on this divided island to remember and commemorate with respect. You thrive on the division. I get that now.

The GAA glorifies Kevin Lynch, Sean South, John Mitchel etc. These were all scumbag terrorists and/or propagandists for racism and far right ideas.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Anybody familiar with the GAA scene knows Kilcoo who are the current All-Ireland club champions are lavishly funded by dirty IRA money from the Northern Bank robbery.

That's a ludicrous notion and so crudely reductionist one wonders is it a wind up.

Sure it holds that Nazis should be commemorated equally with the victims of the Holocaust.

It holds that the GAA should commemorate the Bloody Sunday murderers equally with the victims.

I don't think many others would agree with you on that.

Well whatever the "solution" is I think the GAA refraining from celebrating terrorists and far right scumbags as it currently does is part of it.

Neither is this a demand from "the other side". I'm steeped in the GAA and I'm sick of it and there are plenty of good people within the GAA who think similarly.

You'v put words in my mouth there, I said no such thing. I would prefer that people would have the good sense to be sensible and not celebrate things manifestly unworthy of celebration.

Like, when Cork supporters used to fly the confederate flag - a flag that celebrated slavery and systematic racism - there were similar pretend offended cries from defenders of doing that to what you have now when people explain why Sean South shouldn't be sung.

Should the IRA murderers of Ronan Kerr be celebrated too because Casement Park is called Casement Park? What about the people who blew Peadar Heffron's legs off? Should they be celebrated?

the GAA does not glorify those individuals, who were soldiers fighting for their country against an oppressive and brutal, genocidal regime who wanted to ethnically cleanse all catholic nationalists from their part of the country.

kilcou is not funded by any criminally obtained money, as that would be against GAA rules, and the GAA as far as i am aware have stringent processes and rules in place to prevent such from happening.

You have continually denied that Sean South was a fascist. It's a documented fact that he was.

You're in la la land.

No, my view of the world is pragmatic.

Neither of your solutions has any hope of working in the real world which, like it or not, is divided here on this island.

I couldn’t care less who commemorates who as long as it isn’t taunting deliberately or disrespectful.

We have to confront this issue.