Soccer Pitch ploughed during night on instrutions of GAA Club

[The_SR]

If the football pitch is owned by the GAA, it is an internal GAA matter.

The local football club had been using it for 20 years.

Last week the GAA decided they owned the pitch on instruction from Croke Park.

The matter is before a court of law

Its not an internal GAA matter.

[Glennshane]

The local GAA club had already arranged it, and they refused to be bullied by Croke Park as it was a democratic decision taken at club level.

Not true. Any such disobedience would have had the club expelled and the GAA would have used the courts to prevent the match taking place.

[The_SR]

It is and your Prod friends, those fellow Irishmen of the Protestant tradition, "as you Staters describe them" would not allow the Gaelic football match to proceed. Do you approve of these soccer supporters preventing a council pitch being uses for a gaelic football match?

There was a similiar incident in Maghera, Co Derry in the autumn of 1969.

My fellow Prods?

I don't believe for one second that this happened, but for the record I unequivacolly do not approve of any of these sort of activities and condemn them.

Do you condemn what happened in Kerry?

[Glennshane]

"Sought use of" is key.

You must be a severe headcase if asking can Omagh Town use a GAA stadium for a fundraiser for the bomb victims in 98 be equated to ploughing up a football pitch in order to stop footballers using it.

We ask. You steal.

You accused the GAA of a lot more than asking for use of Lansdowne Road, Lusk and Tallaght.

And in the case of Tallaght and Lusk, you are talking about municipal property.

[Glennshane]

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"I don't believe for one second that this happened,"

Why not?

"Do you condemn what happened in Kerry?"

If the GAA owns the pitch, I do not condemn it. If the GAA does not own the pitch, I most certainly condemn it.

[The_SR]

You accused the GAA of a lot more than asking for use of Lansdowne Road, Lusk and Tallaght.

And in the case of Tallaght and Lusk, you are talking about municipal property.

Yes, they asked about changing the plans to accomodate a senior GAA pitch at significant extra cost they refused to contriute to and in the case of Tallaght went to court to try and have this enforced. In all three cases teh GAA did not engage in the planning or objection process.

But thats for another thread.

[alonso]

Not true. The GAA Central Council refused permission and Sean Kilfeather in the Irish Times nearly had a fit about the refusal.

Yeh but it happened - Groningen vs Galway Utd, I believe. I saw the documentary a few years ago. It was very heartening to see such a big match played in such an environment, one of cooperation between the codes.

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[The_SR]

If the GAA owns the pitch, I do not condemn it. If the GAA does not own the pitch, I most certainly condemn it.

Thats a perfectly resonable stance. Lets leave it there.

[The_SR]

Yeh but it happened - Groningen vs Galway Utd, I believe. I saw the documentary a few years ago. It was very heartening to see such a big match played in such an environment, one of cooperation between the codes.

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I remember that. The local GAA offered the use of the pitch to Galway United while Terryland was being done up.

Some rat in the Galway County board objected and Croke Park ordered the local club to cancel the arrangement. Two fingers went up and the game went ahead.

I have anecdotally heard that that club haven't received a call up to any county panel or committee since.

[meriwether2]

did he get endless mileage out of the incident or out of the official response from the GAA? One off incidents pass and don't generally reflect the tone of a team/sport/governing body, but the manner in which it is dealt with perseveres and does reflect an attitude.

The incident itself.

Thats the level he operates at, consistently.