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About LinkBacksWell. you were good riddance.Originally Posted by The_SR
Well. you were good riddance.
Thats not what you said though. The FAI got a grant, the IRFU got a grant. Individually they are far less than what the GAA got for Croker.
The government indicated hee haw. The LR site is tight enough, they were never going to amend for a GAA pitch. The Grab All Associations freeloading and sense of entitlement strikes again.
Retaliated?
Abbotstown is FAI property. Explain why the GAA are 'entitled' to use that?
To coin a phrase, stay out of our affairs. When the GAA open up their grounds that are on public property to all, like Pairc Ui Caoimh come back to us.
Until then, the deals football do with the state for funding are none of the GAA's concern. Mind your own business etc.
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"Thats not what you said though. The FAI got a grant, the IRFU got a grant. Individually they are far less than what the GAA got for Croker."
So you are playing with words to cover up your lies. The government provided more for the re-development of Lansdowne than it did for Croke Park.
"The government indicated hee haw. The LR site is tight enough, they were never going to amend for a GAA pitch. "
Do you admit that the government lied to the GAA?
"The Grab All Associations freeloading and sense of entitlement strikes again. "
If the rugby people are allowed to play on our main stadium, why should the reverse not be the case?
"Abbotstown is FAI property. Explain why the GAA are 'entitled' to use that?"
If it is FAI property, the GAA has no right to use it.
"the deals football do with the state for funding are none of the GAA's concern. Mind your own business etc."
If the public authorities are discriminating against the GAA, it is our business.
Glennshane AKA Roger, Please learn how to use the quote system. Your posts are unreadable.
Glennshane, on second thoughts don't bother as most of your posts are not worth reading.
Yes, but that is not what you said initially.
How would I know, but I would be exceptionally surprised if the govt offered the GAA use of a rivals stadium that would requre an extensive redesign and capacaity reduction. Linky?
Because a GAA pitch will not fit. And you don't need to use it.
Good. So care to explain why they tried to?
But I could argue that public funding of GAA facilities is discriminating against other sports because you have rule 42. Note no-one ever actually has. You choose to retain your rule banning other sports in publically funded facilities while simultaniously demanding access to other sports publically funding facilities. Even you can see that paradox.
In fact, you could argue that funding cancer wards discriminates against those without cancer because they will never get to use them. Its the logical continuation of your idea that all publically funded projects should by definition be open to all.
The GAA is a mess, its a disgrace. I don't mean the honest & enthuastic people all over the country that love to get involved in their traditional games. No, I refer to the little thugs that reside in every town & village in Ireland, the small men carry on like mafia, thinking the GAA is something to be controlled and politicised. Shame on you. When called Kerry home I loved both soccer & gaelic football. I still do. But the local GAA pitch was for GAA only & god help you if you were caught kicking the ball around on the ground. This was built out of taxpayer money and continous support & donations from the local community. The GAA expects local communities to bend over backwards to support them, but won't return that support. The GAA is a selfinterested monster that abandons & damages community the moment their interests appear diverge.
I don't like speaking bad of the GAA, but its dominated & hijacked by selfish muppets.
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"But I could argue that public funding of GAA facilities is discriminating against other sports because you have rule 42. "
Rule 42 is our business and only ours.
"You choose to retain your rule banning other sports in publically funded facilities while simultaniously demanding access to other sports publically funding facilities. Even you can see that paradox."
If you get help from public funds to buy your home, you are nevertheless entitled to refuse others entry to your home.
"Its the logical continuation of your idea that all publically funded projects should by definition be open to all."
I never made any such a case. Now please stop twisting. Facilites part funded by the tax-payer or lottery player are not the same as facilities owed and entirely financed from public funds.
Then why do you read them?
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"But the local GAA pitch was for GAA only .. "
What was wrong with that? What is wrong with that?
"This was built out of taxpayer money and continous support & donations from the local community. "
Just as your home was built at least in part by taxpayers' money - yet you decide who may live in it.
"The GAA expects local communities to bend over backwards to support them, but won't return that support."
Nobody has to support the GAA. Why should the GAA help people to promote games which are in competition with the GAA?
"The GAA is a self interested monster"
The people who built the GAA were not self-interested. They made great sacrafices for the GAA. And the GAA as an organisation has a right and a duty to confine itself entirely to promoting its own interests.
"that abandons & damages community the moment their interests appear diverge."
What is wrong with that? The GAA has a duty to promote gaelic games. It has no other duties.
"I don't like speaking bad of the GAA, but its dominated & hijacked by selfish muppets."
Who allowed it to be so hi-jacked? What have you done for the GAA?
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