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Is GAA tribalism a negative thing?

  • 16-12-2013 09:14PM
    #1
    Jimmy Garlic
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    Does it go hand in hand with parish pump gombeenism and make Irish people easier to control? The artificial division of people along the lines of county colours is a relatively new phenomenon that really didn't take hold until after the formation of the state. It seems to me that gombeens and the GAA have got a symbiotic relationship.


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  • #2
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    Hey, whoya calling a gombeen?? I've a good mind to shove my straw hat up yer hole.


  • #3
    thecatspjs
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    All I know is that my gut says maybe


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
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    The parish I live in doesn't have a GAA club (must be the only one in the country). It has as many gombeens and clannish neanderthals as everywhere else.


  • #5
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Whoever built the pale had the right idea. Perhaps the EU will pay for a rebuild.


  • #6
    Mint Aero
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    "It's the passion!" *cringe*


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  • #7
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Doesn't compute. Dublin - which has produced most of the corruption in the country - is not that GAA orientated.


  • #8
    dirtyden
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Does it go hand in hand with parish pump gombeenism and make Irish people easier to control? The artificial division of people along the lines of county colours is a relatively new phenomenon that really didn't take hold until after the formation of the state. It seems to me that gombeens and the GAA have got a symbiotic relationship.

    Have you carried out some kind of scientific study correlating parish pump gombeenism (whatever that is) and the GAA, or are you just a piss poor troll?

    You do know there is GAA in Dublin too?

    Or do you mean anyone who follows and likes sports?


  • #9
    SV
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    GAA is awful.
    Not the sport itself, that's fine ...just everything that goes with it.


  • #10
    DeadHand
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Does it go hand in hand with parish pump gombeenism and make Irish people easier to control? The artificial division of people along the lines of county colours is a relatively new phenomenon that really didn't take hold until after the formation of the state. It seems to me that gombeens and the GAA have got a symbiotic relationship.

    No, it's a physically and socially healthy pastime that makes life much less lonely for thousands of young men and women both here and abroad.

    It is in no way a bad thing.

    There are cretins in every organisation, this isn't unique to the GAA.


  • #11
    dirtyden
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    SV wrote: »
    GAA is awful.
    Not the sport itself, that's fine ...just everything that goes with it.

    What is this everything else that goes with it?

    Can you outline the negative aspects of it, and explain why they are detrimental to society?


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  • #12
    tin79
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    Whats a gombeen? Is it like a kidney bean?


  • #13
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    dirtyden wrote: »
    Have you carried out some kind of scientific study correlating parish pump gombeenism (whatever that is) and the GAA, or are you just a piss poor troll?

    Remember this?
    THE GAA has risked more controversy by approving a county board move to promote a rally in support of bankrupt billionaire Sean Quinn
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gaa-backs-promotion-of-support-rally-for-sean-quinn-28816043.html

    You do know there is GAA in Dublin too?
    There is yeah. Bertie Ahern was firmly hitched on to it. It was a key part of his "one of the lads" routine.
    Or do you mean anyone who follows and likes sports?
    No. Following sports is fine. It becomes unhealthy when it is the lynch pin of someones identity.


  • #14
    goose2005
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    No. Parish pumpism generally arises because local government is weak, underfunded, poorly run and poorly organised, so you need to 'know' someone to get anything done.


  • #15
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    GAA forum


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