GAA and Rangers unite to promote Gaelic games

[Mr Crowley]

THE GAA has formed an unlikely relationship with Glasgow Rangers football club as part of its efforts to promote Gaelic games overseas.

Rangers is working with the GAA’s games development officers in Scotland as they seek to turn Gaelic football into a successful export industry.

The soccer club has an extensive network of community workers who have granted access to Rangers heartlands to the GAA’s development officers. As a result, boys and girls in areas of Glasgow which are Rangers strongholds are now being introduced to Gaelic games.



A Co Meath primary school, St Michael’s CBS in Trim, has become the first schools Gaelic football team from Ireland to attend a Rangers league match.



Recently, controversy has erupted again over Rangers fans’ singing of a song about the Famine, containing the lyrics “The famine’s over now/Why don’t you go home”. The club has urged fans not to sing the song, and one fan has been found guilty of a breach of the peace for doing so, but the fan groups have rejected claims that it is racist.


“In Cardiff, one school has replaced rugby with Gaelic football as its primary sport. The work of the games development administrators is opening the GAA up to a whole new generation of players,” said Mr Gormley,

GAA and Rangers unite to promote Gaelic games - The Irish Times - Mon, Mar 02, 2009

[meriwether2]

Ive seen it all now.

[Pauli]

Could you not have waited until April 1st with this??

[joel]

As regards Rugby, Gaelic is a safer game to play - and better to watch!

[Mr Crowley]

Could you not have waited until April 1st with this??

Check the link, I did quite the double take when I first saw it. The whole business of the Meath primary school kids at a Rangers game is mad; were they isolated in a soundproof box?
I would imagine this is a PR stunt for Rangers an equivalent of getting community service over the actions of their fans.

[Iarmhi Gael]

Glasgow Rangers 1-10 - Ballina 0-9

Barry Ferguson Goal on stroke of Half time knocked the wind out of Ballina

[Mr Crowley]

Nah the one I want to see is Crossmaglen Rangers V Glasgow Rangers.

[Molly Maguire]

At Croke Park.

ps, sorry to bring up a thread from a year ago, it must be the green in me, waste not want not.

[The_SR]

Why are people surpised. One shower of bigoted supremicists with a false historical narrative and 'cultural' aspirations beyond sport helping another....








[COLOR="White"]someone will deffo bite on this line[/COLOR]

[gallowglass]

At Croke Park.

ps, sorry to bring up a thread from a year ago, it must be the green in me, waste not want not.

I checked this story out for a piece for the Irish Post when it broke.
It came down to misreporting at a GAA bash in Castlebar.
There never was any plan for a formal (or informal) arrangement between the GAA and Rangers FC.