GAA need to step up

Posters who compare the GAA and OO need to have a good look at themselves, like those who compare an inlclusive event like St Patricks day parade to that of the bigoted 12th parades. I don't know about others but when I think of the OO, the closest org is the KKK.

Some people will whinge about anyhing Irish

Except Downcow is comparing the OO to the GAA. The bone of contention being they are apparently being excluded because of a part of the GAA constitution that they do not agree with. Well technically they can also not participate in rugby, hockey, cycling, boxing, gymnastics etc, etc because they are if I am not mistaken, All Ireland 32 County Sports organisations and Downcow does not recognise a 32 County Ireland, so if Downcow is being consistent here, these sports are also exclusionary because they do not match their beliefs.

You want to see the end of the GAA commemorating IRA members, a very minor part of the GAA, fine. If it did happen it would have negligble impact on the GAA.

But if Nationalists were to demand the same from Unionists, that they stop celebrating an event that led directly to the persecution of Catholics for over 100 years and that they find offensive, what would Unionists have to say?

Well....there's your precious United Kingdom out the window. You lot regularly celebrate murderers well within living memory.

I'm just asking whether you actually hold to your own standards, Downcow.

Your quote doesn't mention sports, I'm just asking whether you're acknowledging that by your own standards, the United Kingdom isn't open to all? Given that you've said no exceptions and no contradictions, I just wanted to see if you REALLY held to, 'no exceptions, no contradictions', or if you'd managed to mentally compartmentalise enough to not even realise what you really meant was, 'themmuns can't claim to be open etc, but we're grand to because our murderers were state sponsored'.

See I'm actually fine with your stance about not celebrating murdering neighbours, I'd be totally fine if there was never a single Provo memorial again. You're clearly not.

Ironic that you started your originally quoted rant around the same time that thousands from your community and over forty of your bands were out for the annual Brian Robinson memorial parade yet I don't see your outraged posts about that anywhere?

If only I could compare Windsor Park to a stadium named after a group responsible for murder across the world, I'd really have you Downcow....not like the British Crown has been responsible for anything like that at all.

For the record, I have not and will never attend a single event memorialising the Provos or any other Republican paramilitary.

"strengthening the national identity in a 32 county Ireland through the preservation and promotion of Gaelic Games and pastimes."

This really should be changed at this point. Not because it's sectarian, but because GAA is played so much worldwide now, and used by Irish worldwide to preserve their national identity.

The Irish identity, among expats and 2nd/3rd/4th generation Irish. Same as it helps people like that in Europe, middle east, america. GAA is already played around the world Downcow. I think they should change the goal as the GAA is much bigger now than just the island of Ireland. It seems to me that you actually know very little about the GAA outside of the bubble that is Northern Ireland.

As to the question, of course not. Sports organisations don't colonise the world.

I'm saying that there have been an awful lot more deaths in the name of the British crown than were ever carried out by the Provos, Downcow.

That they were a legitimate force makes the children they killed worse, not better.

I understand how there can be some debate about whether a stadium is so named because of that person's involvement in the club versus their politics (or in the case of Windsor Park, where it is located rather than a specific tribute to the royals), but given how conflicted we continue to be in NI, and how unlikely we are to reconcile our differing views on our history any time soon, in an ideal world I wouldn't have any stadium or event named after any political figures.