Allianz and the GAA

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Saval GAA in Down have submitted a motion for Down hurling and football teams to be withdrawn from the Allianz Leagues. Another nine counties have passed motions objecting to having Allianz as a sponsor.

Jarlath Burns spoke about it before Christmas and made some good points -

• The GAA need the cash
• It'd be very hard to find another major insurer without links to Israel
• If they dropped Allianz, it could create reputational damage that would make it difficult to attract sponsorship in the future

So what happens? If Down pull out, do the GAA back the county or the sponsor?

As well intended as players are on Gaza, are they really going to want to sit out the leagues and preparation for the Championship?

I can't see anything happening really but it's definitely going to be loud over the next while.

Saval motion calls for Down exit from Allianz backed National leagues

Donegal’s Ulster SFC quarter-final against Down on April 26 will be staged at Letterkenny’s O’Donnell Park as Ballybofey’s MacCumhaill Park continues to undergo reconstruction.

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[Hallbopping]

Saval GAA in Down have submitted a motion for Down hurling and football teams to be withdrawn from the Allianz Leagues. Another nine counties have passed motions objecting to having Allianz as a sponsor.

Jarlath Burns spoke about it before Christmas and made some good points -

• The GAA need the cash
• It'd be very hard to find another major insurer without links to Israel
• If they dropped Allianz, it could create reputational damage that would make it difficult to attract sponsorship in the future

So what happens? If Down pull out, do the GAA back the county or the sponsor?

As well intended as players are on Gaza, are they really going to want to sit out the leagues and preparation for the Championship?

I can't see anything happening really but it's definitely going to be loud over the next while.

Saval motion calls for Down exit from Allianz backed National leagues

Donegal’s Ulster SFC quarter-final against Down on April 26 will be staged at Letterkenny’s O’Donnell Park as Ballybofey’s MacCumhaill Park continues to undergo reconstruction.

www.irishexaminer.com

Virtue signalling nonsense from that club. There’s no hope at all this will go anywhere.

 

[TonyCork80]

The thing about this is it's never ending. Where do you stop? If you get rid of allianz then you'll have to get rid of all financial institutions sponsoring as none of them couldn't be linked back to Israeli government bonds. And Allianz insure all gaa properties, pretty much every other blue chip insurance company is linked to them too so overnight the games become uninsurable and have to stop. If that would put an end to the suffering in Gaza you'd do it in the morning but it wouldn't and everyone knows it would'nt.

There are a great many people who are rightly appalled by the genocide in Gaza. But there are another group for whom nothing that is done in support of the Palestinians will ever be enough because it isn't about Palestine, it's about them.

 

[junior footballer]

As Tony says, once you start it never ends, it is absolute virtue signal nonsense from a club no one ever heard of, if the club in question and the other concerned recently gaa interested people could point to an insurer with zero links to Israel I would be interested

 

[Megelus]

The difference in reaction to Mayo attempting to put lbgt stuff on their jersey is fascinating

 

[jimmym]

Fellas will boycott league matches which they have no interest in anyway, but come summer and championship the boycott will be quickly forgotten,
Im happy Gaa took the decision to stick with allianz

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Fellas will boycott league matches which they have no interest in anyway, but come summer and championship the boycott will be quickly forgotten,
Im happy Gaa took the decision to stick with allianz

Zionist

 

[outdagap]

Congratulations to Kilbrittain, fantastic comeback !

 

[Megelus]

Zionist

Hes from Albert Road you know

 

[RossiRebel]

point to an insurer with zero links to Israel I would be interested

And the money and willingness to invest in the GAA