A pitch used by Castlemaine United AFC in Kerry has been ploughed on the instructions of a local GAA club and it appears a retaliatory digging has occurred in the GAA field. Local groups dispute the ownership of the field.
These people need to get sense and come together are sort their differences before resorting to these childish actions.
Sounds like a land grab by the GAA
An awful lot of skullduggery & stealing of land (land grabbing) went on in 1922-1940. If this land was given over for general trust: shame on the GAA."The property belongs to the GAA and there's no debate about ownership as there is documentation there," Mr Conway stated, adding: "Of course the field was ploughed by the GAA".
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The group argues that the sportsfield was originally handed over to the general community by the Spring Walker family in 1936, had always been a community field and had merely been placed in the trust of the GAA. They point to carnivals, community fairs, sheep shearing, dog shows, tennis and basketball events held in the sportsfield to support their claim.
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The actions mean that local soccer club Castlemaine United are now without a home ground, despite having used the pitch since their inception two decades ago. The suspension of GAA's Rule 42, banning soccer from the association's pitches, does not apply outside Croke Park.
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"Yawn , am I alive yet ?"
and the land seemed to be given over to the community by a protestant family.
Lads, can ye not see that this was just a harmless bit of night ploughing practice in preparation for the coming Dark Ages Budget ?
At least they didn't spread broken glass over it, which is what the GAA in Kerry used to do to football pitches.
Its progress I suppose.
The GAA in Kerry. I suppose Micko oversaw the entire campaign of terror? What a twat. The next time your scobie mates start fighting some other howyiz's can we claim that the FAI were involved?Originally Posted by The_SR
At least they didn't spread broken glass over it, which is what the GAA in Kerry used to do to football pitches.
Its progress I suppose.
I'm not a member of the FAI, nor are these so called 'scobies'. The guys spreading broken glass with a view to maiming football playing children are members of the GAA.
Long and the short of it is members of the GAA in Kerry have a long and proud tradition of vandalising football facilities with a view to intimidating the players. If you wan't to claim that its spontanious action from individuals over generations, good for you. No-one will believe you though.
Hmm...documentation to prove it? I wonder if that would legal documentation like deeds or stuff with the land registry or just some minutes of a GAA meeting from 40 years ago "we gratefully accept full title to this land"
I had Jerome Conway as a teacher and he is a fierce man to rely on that booming voice of his. Once you get passed that it's another matter.
Dan Sullivan. I was back but we still couldn't all have a vote.
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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.
This dovetails into the Tallaght/Lusk debate nicely. The GAA is applying political pressure and using the courts to be 'included' in football facilities.
Here is another example of when they get involved in a commnity based project that they throw the rattle and act the lout.
Would you groundshare with these people?
"We have been given a directive by Croke Park to use the property according to the rules and that's what we are doing,"
Indeed.
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