Hooliganism at GAA games

[Dandahan4]

Bloody disgraceful. The GAA seriously needs to get a grip on this type of thing. The criminals responsible needed to be reported to the police and dealt with in the courts. Banning them for a few weeks is not a deterrent.

GAA supporters are not criminals and emotions run riot with physical confrontations as part of the mix.

Can the sports involved be given an acceptable set of rules, acceptable to all and understood by everyone?

Or are the GAA games not suitable for defined , universal rules?

To date the GAA have failed to provide acceptable , universal rules and codes.

Every player and every spectator has a personal perspective on every action on the pitch.

What hope has the referee of satisfactorily managing a game?

[louis bernard]

GAA supporters are not criminals and emotions run riot with physical confrontations as part of the mix.

GAA supporters who run onto a pitch and assault players are most certainly criminals.

[The_SR]

GAA supporters who run onto a pitch and assault players are most certainly criminals.

Thank you. The narrative is fascinating. Football hoolies are criminal scum who need exterminating but gaa hooligans are different. Lads will be lads, mans game, bit of auld handbags

[TimBuckII]

So it seems nobody give a ************************ about how the GAA would handle this after all.

[jetttxyz]

Probably the dumbest thread in the world. You use an incident of alleged hooliganism at a single match and then go on to claim that this makes rugby supporters better?
If you want to make a case about hooliganism in GAA then at least make a decent OP highlighting a few examples and demonstrate that no such thing ever happens in rugby if you are going to compare it to that sport.

A group of us (post-Leaving Cert) were in France and were asked (by some local lads) to give the basic rules of Gaelic football.

"You can do anything except bite a player" came the reply from one wit of our travelling group !

[MaireadKelly1]

Possibly because rugby players see enough savaging on the pitch.

The sight of players stomping opposition players while they are on the ground is nothing but GBH.

As I mentioned on the smoking thread, I've worked in both SCI and ABI and the injuries we get from rugby are life altering. I've seen rugby players with locked in syndrome and complete cervical tetraplegia ie. life is fek'd for the rest of their existence. A common enough practice seems to be "spearing", where a player is thrust downwards direct on to the top of their head. What's worse is that a lot of the guys this happens to are at schoolboy level.

Why do we not hear more about this on the media, one wonders?!!

[DaveM]

Why do we not hear more about this on the media, one wonders?!!

When the media starts relying on the depths of eskimador's imagination for copy then I assume that will change.

[CarnivalOfAction]

Nice to see the finest trainee teachers behaving themselves. Lets call a spade a spade - this isn't a GAA issue, it is an nordie football issue.

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It's a Kerry issue; they whine when they can't beat Tyrone teams.

[shiel]

The debate on professionalism in the GAA on prime time last night was advocating the end of the GAA as an amateur organisation.

Gaelic football is close to collapse under a weight of cynical professionalism and a tolerance for all kinds of physical violence.

If the GAA is to survive as an amateur organisation it should ignore the stuff about paying everyone that was on TV last night.

Unless the win at all costs, arrogance will get you everywhere, physical assault and battery is got rid of from the game of gaelic football it has no future.

The whole point of the GAA is that you support your local team whether they are good or bad. Once that is replaced by tolerance of the will to power which prompts people to seek to taunt and dominate other people by foul means everything is lost.

Soccer has been reduced to just a money game for a few Russian oligarchs and a few celebrity players whose private lives are playthings of the media.

If the GAA is to lose its respect for the pride of place and the dignity of the human being then its reason for existence is gone.

[ergo2]

It seems that in Soccer and GAA there is not much respect for referees.

Rugby Union seem to be better in that regard.

The recent event in Galway after a St Marys Belfast and NUIG match was disgraceful - players and spectators threatening the ref.