Soccer Pitch ploughed during night on instrutions of GAA Club

[b.a. baracus]

Its a nasty org which personifies the petty perochialism of the republic.

They got land given in my area, they dug up the tennis court on the land, which was free to the community.

Anyway outside catholics in Ireland no ones intrested in it anyway.

You are a pathetic troll. Move along.

[The_SR]

Yes. It appears that the Leinster league is riddled with racism.
I wouldn't like to be a non-national playing in the leinster league.

There was one incident and the club in questionwas expelled from the league. The complaint is that the FAI were too firm in fact.

I could dig up a number of similar incidents within the GAA that were not dealt with despite the GAA being a member of the SRTRC campaign, but thats what the mod wants to avoid. If you want to discuss it, do so on the other thread.

[oscartango]

I could dig up a number of similar incidents within the GAA

Har-de-har.

[The_SR]

I could dig up a number of similar incidents within the GAA

Har-de-har.

I was hoping someone would twig that one....

[FrankSpeaks]

The Kerry County Board and the local club should apologies immediately to the local community and pay for the immediate restoration of the pitch. If the courts decide that the GAA was wrong then those people who sanctioned the ploughing of the pitch should resign their positions immediately.

[meriwether2]

There was one incident and the club in questionwas expelled from the league. The complaint is that the FAI were too firm in fact.

I could dig up a number of similar incidents within the GAA that were not dealt with despite the GAA being a member of the SRTRC campaign, but thats what the mod wants to avoid. If you want to discuss it, do so on the other thread.

I know its one incident, but Ive decided to extrapolate minor things to paint an entire organisation in this light, which is your tactic.

Its not as fun as I thought it would be though. I feel strangely unfulfilled, and intellectually, in retreat.

Its been a terrfiying insight into your world.

[The_SR]

The Kerry County Board and the local club should apologies immediately to the local community and pay for the immediate restoration of the pitch. If the courts decide that the GAA was wrong then those people who sanctioned the ploughing of the pitch should resign their positions immediately.

Agreed, but this is GAA policy. The instruction came from Croke Park and fits into a pattern of targetting football facilities and making them unfit for purpose.

Now this club have to rent pitches elsewhere for the foreseeable future and cancel their easter kids camp. It could be fatal for them.

The nationals need to run this and highlight the link betwen the DG's comments last week and this action on the ground. If the FAI had any balls they should immediatly pull the plug on renting Croker in protest.

[The_SR]

I know its one incident, but Ive decided to extrapolate minor things to paint an entire organisation in this light, which is your tactic.

Its not as fun as I thought it would be though. I feel strangely unfulfilled, and intellectually, in retreat.

Its been a terrfiying insight into your world.

The local GAA man very clearly states he is acting on instruction from Croke Park.

Duffy, the incoming DG of the GAA, was out in the press last week talking about the GAA ratchiting up their campaign to get use of soccer facilities.

The GAA has tried (and failed) to muscle into every major recent football facility in Ireland over the past few years for free. Landsdowne Road, Abbotstown, Tallaght and currently Lusk.

There is a clear and identifyable policy of the GAA targetting football facilites.

If you want to compare that negatively to the FAI coming down like a ton of bricks on a club, knock yourself out.

[alonso]

Yes. It appears that the Leinster league is riddled with racism.
I wouldn't like to be a non-national playing in the leinster league.

meri for ********************s sake, Soccer in ireland has always been inclusive right back to my own schoolboy playing days where one of the few places you saw black people In Ireland was on the football pitch.

Once again the difference between football and GAA are highlioghted. An nasty incident occurs at a soccer game - the club is banned. A GAA Club destroys a 20 year old soccer pitch and they are congratulated.

What a shower of sh1te!!!!

[meriwether2]

No, Im extrapolating the racist incident - the alleged xenophobia and assault on a Latvian, to say that all soccer players and FAI members are the same.

Gordon Bennett.