Are you being unpatriotic if you don't like GAA. Keep it clean please.

A conservative would see it as unpatriotic. Sadly there's a lot of them.

It's not as black and white as if you like GAA ur patriotic and if you don't then you're not.

But take a rugbyhead and take a GAA man and who do you thinks going to be more patriotic?

I quite like hurling, but I hate football, and I dislike the GAA generally. Couldn't care less if some silage-head thinks I'm not patriotic.Who gives a shit?

To me, 'the gah' is lumped in there with parish priests, Fianna Fail, gombeenism and crap local 'arts festivals' Seeing that idiot in Munster become an M.E.P purely on the back of 'the gah' just summed it up perfectly for me*, its been made a cornerstone of the typical rural community and maybe its the great rural-urban divide but god I really h ate Jacky Healy Rae Ireland and everything about it.

I'm a League of Ireland man anyway.

I speak the Irish language, am studying mainly Irish History and am a keen lover of Irish traditional music, I'm not some "West Brit gah hater" as some might say, but I can't stand them. They'd play the national anthem before taking a sh/te.

Also, what has it got to do with peoples attitude to the North of Ireland? Nothing.One of my best mates is a republican socialist and he agrees its a pile of sh/te that falls beteen Killinascully and Father Ted.

they used to call us Dublin kids Sassanachs

I normally just respond by asking them where they were in 1916

Remember these are the kind of people (see Roscommon if I remember right) that returned as many/if not more Fianna Fail cllrs.recently. Sure Granddad didn't fight for Enda Kenny.


*In relation to 'that idiot', the cancer has spread to FG. The 'gah' is not your entry to politics!

I love the GAA and I can't stand this 'east of country' referall to the G.A.A. as 'gah'. GAA is something that's in the blood or not and if you have it it's wonderful.

I actually nearly started a thread earlier in LL while I watched the hurling match just to say aren't the GAA boys great? isn't it wonderful that championship season is in full swing? don't ya just love the whole thing? It doesn't have to be an inter-county match, I love going down to the pitch and watching the lads, listening to/having the banter on the sideline and watching people playing a sport for the love of the game, the pride of the parish.

I can understand though that if someone doesn't have that sense of belonging, the sense of community, the sense that your ancestors battled it out on the very same playing field then they surely can't understand what it means to people.

I blame soccer and the English and Sky Sports for these negative attitudes. And as for bringing in foreign sports to the sacred ground....

Ok the last bit was said in jest but for God's sake, haven't you all seen the AIB ad on TV. You know the little fella talking about how many sandwiches the old lady has made or how the aul fella lines the field. PRIDE OF PLACE. SENSE OF BELONGING. COMMUNITY.

Edit: To answer the OP's question. No, you're not unpatriotic if you don't like the GAA. But I think there's something intrinsicly Irish missing in the genetic make-up of someone who doesn't love it.* Maybe it's just the culchie gene that's missing. Now that's another thread entirely 'isn't it wonderful to be a culchie? can you imagine life if you weren't a culchie?' Maybe tomorrow.. :-)

* has no scientific basis, purely personal opinion