Listen, God Save the Queen has been played in Lansdowne every other year since the dawn of time - is it that people are surprised that the same mix of northern unionists, southern unionists, pseudo nationalists and corporate event attenders who typically follow rugby in Ireland weren't turned into a bunch of rabid republicans, GSTQ booers by the experience of planting their arses on the seats of the Hogan Stand.
Yeah, lads, reach around and give yourself a nice pat on the back
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Listen, God Save the Queen has been played in Lansdowne every other year since the dawn of time - is it that people are surprised that the same mix of northern unionists, southern unionists, pseudo nationalists and corporate event attenders who typically follow rugby in Ireland weren't turned into a bunch of rabid republicans, GSTQ booers by the experience of planting their arses on the seats of the Hogan Stand.
Yeah, lads, reach around and give yourself a nice pat on the back
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Cooper stated that indeed, GSTQ was not played in Croker at the Special Olympics.
The truth and facts won out yesterday lads, plain and simple.People power, the minority who made sure their voice was heard, put this jock myth to bed. Eddie O'Sullivans hollow words as he lied to the nation, will forever ring in my ears.
Incidentally, soon after Cooper revealed the truth, The Today FM news bulletin carried a piece including Eddies "GSTQ was played at Croker before" interview in it, a pitiful attempt by the pro-jock media to mask over the good work of the SFI!
I had to correct wikipedi's entry on this. FFS.
Here's my correction:
February 11th 2007 saw the first Rugby Union international to be played there. Ireland were leading France in a Six Nations clash, but lost 17-20 after conceding a last minute (converted) try.
A second match between Ireland and England on 24th February 2007 caused controversy - partially because of the singing of the British National Anthem God Save the Queen. Some spoke out against it - including family of Joe Barrett who withdrew the player's significant medal collection from the museum at the venue as a mark of protest. Many people, including Irish rugby coach Eddie O'Sullivan, incorrectly pointed out that it had already been sung at the venue, at the Special Olympics opening ceremony, and attracted no comment or protest then[2]. However, this repeated assertion has since been proven to have no basis in truth. Anthems for every individual competing nation in the Special Olympics were not aired, as confirmed by the GAA's Information Officer, Feargal Mc Gill. When this was brought to the attention of popular radio host Matt Cooper of the Lastword (who had repeated the myth many times on his show) on the eve of the match, he had researcher look into the matter for him, and found that indeed the anthem had not been played, and that he, along with many others had been mistaken in stating otherwise. Ultimately the anthem was sung without interruption or incident, and applauded by both sets of supporters at the game, which Ireland won by 43-13 (their largest ever win over England, in rugby).
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