leighton said:There was other sports open to Croke Park over the years it has hosted College Football American Football and also had a Ali fight in the stadium as well. So it was always opened to other sports at times over the years as 1 offs.
law74 said:leighton said:There was other sports open to Croke Park over the years it has hosted College Football American Football and also had a Ali fight in the stadium as well. So it was always opened to other sports at times over the years as 1 offs.
L, other sports may have been allowed in the past, but "garrison games" were banned from all GAA grounds for a long time, likewise people were banned from playing "non gaelic games" for years.
Te GAA rightly deserve plaudits for moving in the right direction, but while they allow clubs to name their grounds after murderers and to have kids completions in "honour" of murderers they will always have a problem to be perceived as a sporting organisation.
Happy to meet and discuss these points in Clontarf when Ireland play Sri Lanka.
leighton said:law74 said:leighton said:There was other sports open to Croke Park over the years it has hosted College Football American Football and also had a Ali fight in the stadium as well. So it was always opened to other sports at times over the years as 1 offs.
L, other sports may have been allowed in the past, but "garrison games" were banned from all GAA grounds for a long time, likewise people were banned from playing "non gaelic games" for years.
Te GAA rightly deserve plaudits for moving in the right direction, but while they allow clubs to name their grounds after murderers and to have kids completions in "honour" of murderers they will always have a problem to be perceived as a sporting organisation.
Happy to meet and discuss these points in Clontarf when Ireland play Sri Lanka.
Law dont be daft you will have your views. GAA have members and they put it to the members on rule changes the lot. So the game only moves on when the members of the county boards say so. Yes some rules were stupid but in the end they sorted it.
The GAA put huge amounts of money back into the grass roots year after year. They put back in up to 80 % of the money earned every year back into the running of the sport at grass roots. Name me another sport or governing body around the world that do that??? I hand on hearth cant name that at all. Naming stadiums after murderers really??? Some of the stadiums are named after many Irish repubican figures from way way back when Ireland were trying to get all 32 counties from british rule but thats another thing. I dont think we will agree on everything about this. I take the stance of what happens in the past stays in the past. Obliviously you have been affected by the trobles up there more than we have but its a negative stance to have against something positive and theres no links to the GAA and IRA at all. But each to there own lawman also any day you want whens the cricket game?
Carver said:A point to note, the 'Bloody Sunday' referred to in previous posts is the 1920 Bloody Sunday, not the 1972 Bogside massacre, also referred to as Bloody Sunday.
Questions have been asked about Gaelic games being insular. There have been international cross code matches of Gaelic Football vs Aussie Rules and Hurling vs Shinty matches.
You will notice on the video posted that when the vote to allow other sports at Croke Park was being taken one of the GAA members mentions that non-GAA sports are 'the competition'. In my time living in Ireland I found this most intriguing. Hardened GAA men were quite often of the opinion that they were competing with non-GAA sports for young talent to develop. There were archaic rules about having to play for your parish team, even if you wanted to be on the same team as your mates who lived over the border in the next parish. Players were snubbed for playing soccer (as it's called in Ireland) and not allowed into GAA teams if they did so. To me, and many other people that enjoy most sports they didn't grip the concept that they weren't facing a battle with youngsters playing foreign sports, they were in fact facing a battle with youngsters that were not interested in playing sport full stop. It wouldn't sink in that in wet and windy Ireland kids wanted to stay indoors in front of computer games rather than run around in a muddy field.
There was me thinking that the best idea was to give kids the opportunity to play all sports and let them choose one that they enjoy. People choose which sport to play for different reasons, there would be plenty that would have wanted to go back to Gaelic Football from soccer because they would never make it as a professional in England and would rather play Gaelic and represent their county than play Irish league soccer.
Does the same mentality exist or has the GAA evolved a little bit more in the last 10 years?
The Pope said:Just looks too weird for me, a cross between football, golf, rugby and baseball !
And for that reason I'm oot!